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
Katie Kasperian
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
Research interest: Contemporary Yugoslav film, nationalism, memory studies, museum studies, perpetrator studies, visual studies, transitional justice
Regional interest: Eastern Europe, former Yugoslavia, the Balkans
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
