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Graduate Student Associates

Lina Alam

PhD, History of Art 

Research interests: Painting, film & photography in 20th century art; Marxism, critical theory & Black Studies; art of the African and Asian diasporas

Regional interests: Germany, France, UK

Julianne Angeli

Romance Languages and Literatures-French PhD

Research interest: Salon history and culture, literature, postcolonial studies

Regional interest: France, Türkiye, the Mediterranean region

Erina Baci

PhD, Anthropology

Research Interests: prehistory of Kosovo and Albania, geographic information system (GIS), settlement pattern analysis 

Regional Interests: Eastern Europe

Ciara Barrick

Comparative Literature PhD

Research interest: geopolitics, cultural and literary products, archives

Regional interest: Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean

Clarisse Baudraz

PhD, Sociology and Public Policy

Research interests: Migration and asylum law and policy, forced displacement and refugees, asylum eligibility, politics of membership and citizenship, postcolonial feminist socio-legal theory

Regional interests: Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, France

Anna Brotman-Krass

PhD, Spanish

Research Interests: Migration and diaspora population in Spain, politics of care, feminist labor activism, collaborative filmmaking

Regional interest: Spain

Grace Bruce

JD, Law

Research Interests: EU integration, development finance, transatlantic relations

Regional Interests: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland

Luiza Duarte Caetano

PhD, Comparative Literature

Research Interests: revolution and violence, the Terror, European romanticism, aesthetics and politics, historical literature

Regional Interests: France, Germany, Britain

Luci Cook

PhD, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Research interests: Việt Nam in German literature, film, and culture 1960-1978; aesthetics and historicization of political movements, protest, and activism; German memory culture and the carceral state

Regional interests: Germany, East Germany, Vietnam

Spencer Cook

Sociocultural Anthropology PhD

Research interest: political economy, mobility, logistics, geopolitics

Regional interest: Cyprus

Azhar Dyussekenova

Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD

Research interest:Race, gender, and sexuality studies, Post-Soviet literatures, Post-/decolonial Central Asian literature and visual art, Queer-feminist writing from non-Russian contexts

Regional interest: Central Asia, Caucasus, Siberia

Maria Ferreiro

PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures

Research Interests: Memory, politics, law, justice, literature, film studies

Regional Interests: Spain

Lena Grimm

Comparative Literature PhD

Research interest: 20th and 21st century poetry, multilingualism & experimentalism, translation & translational poetics

Regional interest: Germany, Switzerland

Anna Halstenbach

PhD, Political Science

Research Interests: Finance of political parties

Regional Interests: Western Europe, Germany

Nils Neumann

PhD, Sociology

Research Interests: social, economic, and political foundations of economic inequalities, with a particular focus on wealth

Regional Interests: European Union, Germany, France

Gala Patenkovic

PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures, French 

Research interest: Comic books, graphic novels, visual arts, museum studies

Regional interest: France, Belgium

Diego Peña Ranz 

Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish), PhD

Research interest: imperial ideologies and its legacies, fascism, postcolonial, subaltern, biopolitics. Literary studies in Spanish both in the Iberian Peninsula and Equatorial Guinea, archival studies.

Regional interest: Iberian Peninsula (Europe), Equatorial Guinea (Africa)

Deborah Pomeranz

History PhD 

Research interest: Cultural history; Race, gender, sexuality, and nation; Memory; Performance

Regional interest: Germany, Central Europe

Julian Schultz

PhD, Anthropology

Research Interests: Balkan prehistory, Neolithic - Bronze Age transition

Regional Interests: Balkans

Tanya Silverman

PhD, Slavic Languages and Literature

Research Interests: Czech film, Czech literature, Central European Jewish literature, visual cultures

Regional Interests: Czechia, Central Europe

Abigail Skalka

PhD, Sociology

Research interest: Religion, Nationalism, Democracy
Regional interest: Poland

Eryn Talevich

PhD, Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests: Textiles and dress, magic and religion of performance/material culture, semiotics of clothing, "traditionality" in folk-costume and drag, queer studies, identity folklore, textile education

Regional Interests: France, Western Europe

Iride Tomazic

PhD, Anthropological Archaeology

Research Interests: Late Copper age/Bronze age transition, Balkans, mortuary archaeology, osteology, metallurgy, health in prehistory, social identity, environmental pollution

Regional Interests: South-Eastern Europe, Carpathian Basin

Clayton Van Woerkom

Anthropology PHD 

Research interest: ethics and morality; identity and belonging; Imazighen; Islam; kinship; multilingualism; social interaction; transnational migration

Regional interest: France & Morocco

Yipeng Zhou

History PhD 

Research interest: History of metal mining in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union; history of capitalism and socialism

Regional interest: Russia, Central Asia, the South Caucasus