Name and title: Imane Terhmina, Assistant Professor, Romance Studies Academic focus: Francophone African literature and culture, postcolonial theory, affect theory, political philosophy, petrofictions/eco-topias, Afropolitanism Current research project:
Name and title: Erin Stache, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Academic focus: Polymer chemistry and sustainability Current research project: Depolymerization of commodity polymers Previous positions:
Name and title: Jason Simms, Assistant Professor, Performing & Media Arts Academic focus: Design in performing and media arts Current research project: The Hive, a social distancing performance and gathering venue Previous positions:
Name and title: Casey Schmitt, Assistant Professor, History Academic focus: Early American and Caribbean history, slavery, labor, and human trafficking Current research project: My book manuscript titled: "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking, Colonization, and Trade in the Greater Caribbean, 1530-1690"
Name and title: Natasha Raheja Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Documentary, ethnographic film, migration, borders, bureaucracy, nationalism, South Asia Current research project:
Name and title: Isabel M. Perera, Assistant Professor, Government Academic focus: Health, labor and social policy, in comparative and historical perspective Current research project:
Name and title: Kelly Presutti, Assistant Professor, History of Art & Visual Studies Academic focus: 19th-century European art, landscape, environmental history Current research project: A book on landscape representation and the changing politics of land use in post-Revolutionary France
Name and title: Juno Salazar Parreñas, Assistant Professor, Science & Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Academic focus:
Name and title: Noah Tamarkin, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Social politics of genetics, race, citizenship and belonging, South Africa Current research project:
Name and title: Barum Park, Assistant Professor, Sociology Academic focus: Political sociology, social networks, social mobility Current research project:
Name and title: Laura Niemi, Assistant Professor, Psychology Academic focus: Moral psychology, social psychology, cognitive science, psychology of language Current research project: I study how people judge each other, make morally relevant decisions, and live out their values.
Name and title: Alex Nading, Associate Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Medical anthropology, environmental studies, science and technology studies, labor Current research project:
Name and title: Nicholas Mulder, Assistant Professor, History Academic focus: European and international history from 1870 to the present, with a particular focus on the interwar period (1914-1945) and on questions of political economy. I am also interested in international organizations, international law and the history of war.