Nathan Lenssen (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Climate Impacts on Humans in NYC
Aaron Mendon-Plasek (History) Calculating Power: Knowledge, Technology, and Risk in the United States after 1900
Diana Newby (English and Comparative Literature) Contagion and the Victorian Novel
Federica Pinelli (Psychology) Motivation Science
Anne Potter (Theatre) Critical Histories of American Musical Theatre
Andrew Richmond (Philosophy) Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence
Anna Kirstine Schirrer (Anthropology) Ethos of Care: Reparations and Repair
Vera Senina (Slavic Languages) Resistant Minds: Colonial Power, Optics, Narrative
Stefanie Siller (Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology) Hormones and Behavior: Introduction to Behavioral Endocrinology
Guy St Amant (Religion) Deep Tantra: Sex, Violence, Ritual
Ami Yoon (English and Comparative Literature) American Extinctions: The Making of the New World
Academic Year 2020-2021
Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman (Latin American and Iberian Cultures) The End of Monuments
Catherine Ambler (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Islamic Central Asia
Katharina Blank (Anthropology) Together or Not? Collective Life and its Discontents
Richard Booth (Philosophy) Language and Society
Sandra Chiritescu (Germanic Languages) “Do You Read Jewish?”: From Yiddish, to Yinglish, to Yiddler in the U.S.
Olivia Clemens (Art History and Archaeology) Medieval Revival: Collecting, Copying, and Co-opting the Past
Maria Fantinato Deo de Siqueria (Music) Sensing the Amazon: Song, Sound, and Image
Samyak Ghosh (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Courtly Cultures and Aesthetics in History, 350-1750
Julia Hamilton (Music) Singing Against Slavery: Five Centuries of Resistance
Michael Hammett (Religion) Aaahhh Real Monsters! – Critical Monster Studies
David Haziza (French and Romance Philology) Witches, Fairies, and Female Vampires in French Literature and Art
Adam Horn (English and Comparative Literature) Despair and Apocalypse in Medieval Literature
Yanjie Huang (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Discovering Everyday Life in Modern China
Milica Ilicic (Slavic Languages and Literature) Thinking Bodies: Literature, Film, and Performance
Tal Ish-Shalom (Classical Studies) Ethnicity, Power, and Resistance in Ancient Empires
David Jamieson (English and Comparative Literature) Desire and Disgust in the Eighteenth Century
Elleza Kelley (English and Comparative Literature) Counterarchives: Contemporary Black Historical Fiction
Benjamin Kindler (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Chinese Revolution, Asian Revolution, World Revolution: Revolution and Radicalism in the Long Twentieth Century
Sarina Kuersteiner (History) From Oracles, Fortune, and Gifts from God to Mathematics: The History of Risk Before the Probability Calculus c. 1350 CE–1660 CE
Yanchen Liu (Religion) In the Margins of the Middle Ages: Religious Minorities in the Medieval Latin West
Beatrice Mazzi (Italian) Against Fiction? Committed Narratives in the 21st Century
Diana Mellon (Art History and Archaeology) Mediterranean Maps
Benjamin Mylius (Political Science) Humans, Nature, and the Future: An Introduction to Environmental Political Theory
Carly Peltier (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Glacial Geomorphology
Jonathan Reeve (English and Comparative Literature) Introduction to Computational Literary Analysis
Matthew Sisco (Psychology) Behavioral Data Science
Deborah Sokolowski (Classical Studies) Beyond City Limits: Considering the Countryside in the Ancient Roman World
Kevin Windhauser (English and Comparative Literature) Renaissance England and the Poetry of Experiment
Academic Year 2019-2020
Santiago Acosta (Latin American and Iberian Cultures) Latin American Anthropocene
Jonathan Auerbach (Statistics) Statistics for Activists
Nandini Benerjee-Datta (Music) Shades of Brown: Music in the South Asian Diaspora
Jeff Benjamin (Anthropology) Principles of Art in Archaeological Practices
Massimilano Delfino (Italian) Terrorism in Literature and Film
William Dougherty (Music) Reimagining Resistance: Sound as Subversion in 20th and 21st Century American Experimentalism
Danielle Drees (Theatre) U.S. Theatre in the 21st Century
Erica Drennan (Slavic Languages) Crime, Punishment, and Redemption: Russian Literature on Trial
Ibrahim Elhoudaiby (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Cannabis and Culture: Hashish, Law, and Social History in Egypt
Chloe Estep (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context
Michael Gluck (Slavic Languages) Realists and Romantics, Reactionaries and Reformers: The Literature of the Thaw
Sayori Goshal (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Religion in Modern South Asia: Concepts and Histories
Kathleen Griesbach (Sociology) Work, Life, Space, and Time: From the Factory to the Gig Economy
Xan Holt (Germanic Languages) Culture at the Margins: Literature and Film of the German Borderlands
Velia Ivanova (Music) Curating Popular Music: From Song Pluggers to Spotify
Amanda Lowe (English and Comparative Literature) Snake Oil: Con Artists of American Fiction
Adam Matthews (History) Pre-Colonial Mesoamerican Societies and Cultures, ca. 1200 BCE – 1600 CE
Micah McElroy (History) The History of Philanthropy in the United States from the Gilded Age to Present
Wallace Scot McFarlane (History) Rivers, Politics, and Power in the United States
Bernadette Myers (English and Comparative Literature) Environmental Crisis on the Shakespearean Stage
Andrew Quebbeman (Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology) Statistical Analyses of Complicated Data
Ebadur Rahman (Religion) Modern Islamic Thought
Aline Rogg (French and Romance Philology) Blanchite: Thinking Whiteness in French
Joshua Schwartz (History) History of American Middle Class
Julia Sirmons (English and Comparative Literature) True Crime Fact and Feeling, 1927 – Present
Jeremy Stevens (English and Comparative Literature) Poetry and Catastrophe
Leah Werier (Art History and Archaeology) Contemporary Queer Art Practices: Subculture, Sexuality, and the Politics of Performance
Katherine Zee (Psychology) Stress in an Interpersonal Context
Academic Year 2018-2019
Sadegh Ansari (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) The Ancient Sciences in Medieval Islamic World
Carlo Arrigoni (Italian) On Drugs: A History of Psychoactive Substances Through Their Literary & Cultural Representations
Eamonn Bell (Music) Techniques and Tools for the Critique of Digital Music
Katherine Bergevin (English and Comparative Literature) Jane Austen and the Enlightenment Mind
Allison Bernard (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Theater Traditions of China and Japan
Simon Brown (Philosophy) The Nature and Significance of Animal Minds
Isaia Crosson (Classics) The Artist and the Dictator: Roman Writers under Nero
Sierra Eckert (English and Comparative Literature) Bad Research and the Victorian Novel
Joseph Fisher (Religion) Religion and Media in America
Joss Greene (Sociology) Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Punishment
Marc Hannaford (Music) Beyond Boundaries: Radical Black Experimental Music
Alma Igra (History) Political Animals: Humans, Animals and Nature in Modern European History
Katharine Jackson (Political Science) Seminar in Political Theory: The Political Theory of the Business Corporation
Warren Kluber (English and Comparative Literature) War Plays
Stephen Koeth (History) Religion and Politics in Postwar America
Peter Lagerqvist (Anthropology) Stockholm Syndrome: Terror, Sympathy, Love
Franziska Landes (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Environmental Geochemistry and Health in New York City
Christopher Peacock (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Minority Literature in Modern China
Philip Polefrone (English and Comparative Literature) Speculative Fiction and the Environment in 20th-Century America
Tiana Reid (English and Comparative Literature) Hauntings: American Poetry in the 1980s
Eliza Rose (Slavic Languages) Red Planet: Science Fiction and Fictions of Science in the Eastern Bloc
Maya Rossignac-Milon (Psychology) Interpersonal Cognition Seminar: Close Relationships, Identity, and Memory
Jenna Schoen (English and Comparative Literature) Fantasy in Medieval Romance
Daniella Wurst (Latin American and Iberian Cultures) Gender, Performance, and Memory: Activism in the Americas
Ye Yuan (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Women in Early Modern China and Japan
Academic Year 2017-2018
Valerio Amoretti (English and Comparative Literature) The Logic of Secular Confession
Elizabeth Bowen (English and Comparative Literature) Animal Modernisms
Kate Brassel (Classics) Hercules: Hero, Murderer, Philosopher, Buffoon
Sonia Coman-Ernstoff (Art History and Archaeology) Diplomacy by Ceramics: Introduction to the Soft Power of One Medium Across World Cultures
Mark Conley (Psychology) Field Experimentation Methods for Social Psychology
Lindsay Cook (Art History and Archaeology) Gotham City Gothic
Lindsey Dayton (History) Food and Inequality in the Twentieth-Century U.S.
Nolan Gear (English and Comparative Literature) Cinematic Modernism
Paula Harper (Music) Divas, Monsters, Material Girls- Women in Music Video
Miguel Ibañez-Aristondo (Latin American and Iberian Cultures) Global Dis-Orientations: Travels, Exchanges, and Interactions Across the Early Modern World (1492-1808)
Aaron Landau (Philosophy) Political Realism and Social Justice
Andrew Macomber (Religion ) Buddhism in East Asian Medical Cultures
Laura Martin (Philosophy) The Public and the Private
Holly Myers (Slavic Languages) Fact and Fiction- The Document in American and Russian Literature
Rachel Newman (History) Mexico and the United States: Migration, Politics, and Culture
Jay Ramesh (Religion ) Space, Narrative and Religion in India
Elliot Ross (English and Comparative Literature) Modern African Drama
Stephanie Schwartz (Political Science) Seeking Refuge: The Politics of Forced Migration
Meredith Shepard (English and Comparative Literature) Memoir and Social Justice
Rachel Staum Mei (East Asian Languages and Cultures) The Supernatural in Japanese Literature: Monsters, Ghosts, and Science
Kimberly Takahata (English and Comparative Literature) Temporal Relocations: Narrations of Time and Body in Early American Literature
Ralph Whyte (Music) Film Music: The History and Aesthetics of the Hollywood Film Score
Academic Year 2016-2017
George Aumoithe (History) Healthcare and the Welfare State
Daniel Barulli (Psychology) Lifespan Development: Theory and Methods
Manuel Alejandro Bautista Gonzalez (History) Slavery and Finance in Nineteenth-Century America
Irene Bulla (Italian) Anatomy of Fantastic Fiction: The Uncanny, the Monstrous and the Other in Modern and Contemporary Italy
Glenda Chao (East Asian Languages & Cultures) Death in Chinese Society and Culture
Jae Won Chung (East Asian Languages & Cultures) Modern Korea: Inside Out
Anna Danziger Halperin (History) Childhood and Social Policy in Modern Europe and the United States
Elizabeth Dolfi (Religion) Evangelicalism: Sex, Media, and Religion in America
Jonathan Fine (Philosophy) Contests Between Tragedy and Philosophy
James Finley (Philosophy) The Potential and Actual Infinite
Mary Freeman (History) Politics of Slavery and Antislavery in the United States
Roni Henig (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature: The Emergence of Modernism in Hebrew Prose
Orit Hilewicz (Music) Music in Multimedia: Analytical and Critical Approaches to Music in Songs, Dance, Drama, Film, and Video Games
Nicole Hughes (Latin American and Iberian Cultures) Theaters of the World: Spectacular Vision & Early Modern Iberian Expansion
Evan Jewell (Classical Studies) Youth in Ancient Rome
Daniel Gunnar Kressel (History) Fascism, post-fascism, neo-fascism: the Latin American Right in the Cold War
Peng Liu (East Asian Languages & Cultures) The Supernatural in East Asia
Benjamin Lussier (Slavic Languages) (Russian) Literary Playgrounds: Adventures in Textual Paichnidology
William Mason (Music) Music and Technology in Critical Perspective
Nicholas Mayer (English & Comparative Literature) The American Civil War in Literature and Culture
Matthew Mayers (Chemistry) Computational Methods in Chemical Physics
Katherine McIntyre (English & Comparative Literature) Open Form: Poetry, Race, and Ecology in the Americas
Mie Mortensen (Slavic Languages) Russian Literature: A Travel Guide
Sarah Myers (French) Paris in 19th Century French Literature
Luise Papcke (Political Science) Individual Autonomy in the 21st Century
Erica Richardson (English & Comparative Literature) Black Drama
Aled Roberts (English & Comparative Literature) Diabolical Drama of the Middle Ages
Elia Rudoni (Classics) Poetry as neurosis: Lucan's Bellum Civile
Joshua Schlachet (East Asian Languages & Cultures) The Culture of Food and Health in Historical Context: Eating Right in Japan
Max Shmookler (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Literary Modernities: The Arabic Novel and Its Others
Foad Torshizi (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Contemporary Art and Visual Cultures in Iran
Zachary Ulgonik (Religion) I and We in the Christian East
Summer 2016
Mary Grace Albanese (English and Comparative Literature) Law and Fiction: Black Lives in Antebellum U.S Literature
Sarah Arkebauer (English and Comparative Literature) The Turn to Language: Close Reading Contemporary Poetry and Rap Music
Molly Rose Avila (Slavic Languages) On Chekhov's Stage: The Plays in Context
Nicole Gervasio (English and Comparative Literature) The Politics of Representing Violence in Postcolonial Fiction
Robyn Jensen (Slavic Languages) Picturing the Self: Visual Representation in Autobiography
Jacob Kopas (Political Science) The Politics of Rights
Leah Pires (Art History and Archaeology) Museums, Interrupted
Trevor Reed (Music) Indigenous Musics of the United States and Canada
Aled Roberts (English and Comparative Literature) Chaucer in New York
Sarah Sachs (Sociology) Organizing Innovation
Nathalie Schmidt (Political Science) Religious Liberty in the United States
Jocelyn Shu (Psychology) The Psychology of Emotion: Theories, Functions, & Regulation
Academic Year 2015-2016
Ashraf Ahmed (Political Science) Why Private Property?
Hadas Aron (Political Science) Social Movements - From Political Protest to Insurgency
Jose Tomas Atria (Sociology) Contemporary Theory and Methods in Historical Sociology
Megan Cattau (Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology) Quantitative Methods in Biodiversity and Conservation
Abigail Coplin (Sociology) State-Society Relations in Post-Socialist China: Through the Lens of Social Theory
Thomas Gaubatz (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Reading the City in Early Modern Japan: Urban Space in Edo-Period Literature, Thought, and Culture
Kathleen Gemmill (English and Comparative Literature) Transgressive Women in 18th-Century British Fiction
Max Hayward (Philosophy) Epistemology: Investigation, Experimentation and Value
Rebecca Jayne Hildebrand (English and Comparative Literature) Victorian Sciences and Science Fiction
Cristina Perez Jimenez (Latin American and Iberian Cultures) Latino New York: Cultural Identities and Expressions
Katherine Johnston (History) A History of the Body in the Atlantic World
Jonathan Kief (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Transnational Worlds in Modern Korean Culture: Literature, Film, History
Peng Liu (East Asian Languages and Cultures) The Fantastic in Pre-modern China: Ghosts, Animals, and Other Worlds
Melissa Morris (History) The Roots of Empires: Plants and European Expansion, 1400-1850
Nathaniel Mull (Political Science) Church and State in Medieval and Modern Thought
Vivek Pal (Mathematics) The Magic of Numbers
Sophie Pinkham (Slavic Languages) The Poetics of Censorship After the Thaw
Alessandro Poletto (Religion) Pre-modern Korean Buddhism in East Asian Context
Casey Primel (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Empire and Ecology in the Anthropocene: An Environmental History of the Middle East
Cara Rock-Singer (Religion) Atoms and Eve: Exploring Science and Religion in America
Christine Susienka (Philosophy) Hard Cases, Moral Questions
Kenan Tekin (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Science,Religion and Politics in the Ottoman Empire
Valeria Tsygankova (English and Comparative Literature) The Lives of Things in American Literature
Lucie Vagnerova (Music) Sexing Sound Art
Victoria Wiet (English and Comparative Literature) Melodrama: Race, Gender, Sexuality, 1850-Present
Seth Williams (English and Comparative Literature) Spectacular City: Performance on and beyond the Early Modern Stage
Summer 2015
Elizabeth Angell (Anthropology) Unnatural Disasters: Culture, Society, and Catastrophe
Daniel Barulli (Psychology) The Dynamic Brain: Plasticity from Birth to Old Age
Omar Farahat (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Shari'a as a Legal System
Alison Fernandes (Philosophy) Time Travel, Free Will and Causation
Jonathan Fine (Philosophy) Beauty and Love, Ancient and Modern
Orit Hilewicz (Music) Avant-garde Composers of NYC: From John Cage to John Zorn
Nicholas Juravich (History) Public Education in the US
Matthew Margini (English and Comparative Literature) Victorian Animals After Darwin
Zachary Roberts (English and Comparative Literature) Literary Impressionism, 1874-1925
Michael Schwam-Baird (Political Science) Money and Influence in American Politics
Academic Year 2014-2015
Lindsay Gail Gibson (English and Comparative Literature) The Novel and the University
Emily Hainze (English and Comparative Literature) Reading the Women’s Prison
Arden Hegele (English and Comparative Literature) Frankenstein: The Genesis and Afterlife of the Romantic Novel
Maria John (History) Modern American Indian Social and Political History
Brian Lander (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Environment and Society in Chinese History
Johanna Magin (French) Philosophy as Practice in Early Modern France
Laura McTighe (Religion) Religion on the Move
Samuel McVane, (Philosophy) Ancient Philosophy in Greek and Latin: The Stoics
Oliver Murphey (History) The U.S. and Latin America in the Cold War and Beyond: Revolution, Globalization and Power
Emma O’Loughlin (English and Comparative Literature) Medieval Women Adventurers
Andrew Ollet (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Introduction to Indian Philosophy
Michael Paulson (English and Comparative Literature) Reading the Modern Body, 1660-1800
Casey Primel (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) The Anatomy of Development
Matthew Sanger (Anthropology) Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Rachel Stein (Latin American and Iberian Cultures) A Disruptive Technology: The Impact of Printing on Early Modern Hispanic Cultures around the Globe
Simon Stevens (History) Frankenstein: The Genesis and Afterlife of the Romantic Novel
Ariel Stilerman (East Asian Languages and Cultures) The Tea Ceremony: Understanding Japanese Culture through the History and Practice of Tea
Anand Venkatkrishnan (Religion) Language and Religion in South Asia
Christine Webb (Psychology) Primate Social Psychology
Summer 2014
Alexandra Cirone (Political Science) Contemporary European Politics
Daniel del Nido (Religion) Leaving to Live Well in Philosophy and Religion
Irina Denischenko (Slavic Languages) The Archive and the Creative Writer
Bruce Dore (Psychology) Psychology & Neuroscience of Positive Emotion
Kevin Elliott (Political Science) Political Theory and American Politics
Max Hayward (Philosophy) Experimentation and Discovery in Ethics
Suzanne Kahn (History) The Development of the American Welfare State: From Family Care to Obamacare
Francine Kershaw (Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology) Introduction to Molecular Ecology
Dory Kornfeld (Urban Studies) Food and the City
Kinga Reka Makovi (Sociology) Social Network Analysis
Fatima Mojaddedi (Anthropology) War and Society
Cara Rock-Singer (Religion) Atoms and Eve: Exploring Science and Religion in America
Graham Sack (English and Comparative Literature) Introduction to the Digital Humanities: Computational Methods for Literary and Cultural Criticism
Timothy Shenk (History) Origins of the Economy
Daniel Souleles (Anthropology) Violence, Prophecy, and Salvation: Writing about God in America
Drew Thomases (Religion) Religion on Tour: Travel, Pilgrimage, and the Religiongious Imagination
Maxwell Uphaus (English and Comparative Literature) Hobbits, "Old Things," and Once and Future Kings: Modernism, Fantasy, and Medievalism in Britain, 1906-1941
Lucie Vagnerova (Music) Critical Approaches to Music Technologies: From the Record to Auto-Tune
Vivian Valencia (Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology) Ecological Perspectives on Food Production
Lorenzo Vigotti (Art History and Archaeology) Architecture and Propaganda
Miranda Yaver (Political Science) Law and Public Policy
Academic Year 2013-2014
Stephen Boyanton (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Three Moments in Chinese Medical History
Ljubica Chatman (Psychology) The Self In Social Context
Irina M. Denischenko (Slavic Languages) Fairy Tales Reloaded
Jason T. Fitzgerald (English and Comparative Literature) American Theater & Radical Pol After 1989
Alexander G. Rocca (English and Comparative Literature) Paranoid Postmodernism
Gal Gvili (East Asian Languages and Cultures) Revolution in Modern China
Tobias Harper (History) Victorian Worlds: British Society
Ana Julia Del Palacio Langer (History) History Of Latin American Pop Culture
Lucy L. Sheehan (English and Comparative Literature) 19th Century Novel The Brontes
Joshua Swidzinski (English and Comparative Literature) Rhyme & Reason in the 18th Century
Audrey Walton (English and Comparative Literature) Apocalypse in Medieval Literature
Heather Wolfgang Cleary (Latin American and Iberian Cultures) New Authors, New Texts
Summer 2013
Joseph Blankholm (Religion) Atheism
Liane Carlson (Religion) Religion and Literature: Evil in Modern Thought
James Cornwell (Psychology) Introduction to Moral Psychology
Jeff Craw (Psychology) Social Relationships & Health
Timothy Donahue (English and Comparative Literature) Borderlands: The North American West in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature
Kevin Elliott (Political Science) Public Opinion and Democratic Theory
Kirk Fiereck (Anthropology) Sexual Ideologies and Epistemologies
Katherine Fink (Journalism) Fundamentals of Radio Journalism
Robert Fucci (Art History and Archaeology) Van Eyck to Bruegel: Netherlandish Art in the New York Collections
Aimee Genell (History) The History of Occupation from Napoleon in Europe to the US in Iraq
