CES - Key Persons
Alan Jacobs works on comparative public policy and political economy of advanced industrialized democracies and on qualitative and mixed-method methodology. Read more about Alan Jacobs here.
Dr Fisher's interests include German music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, ritual contexts for sacred music in the early modern era, sound studies, and aspects of music, soundscape, and religious identity in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
Alexei Kojevnikov is currently Co-Director of Science, Technology, and Society Program: https://sts.arts.ubc.ca/about-sts/program-officers/ Current projects include: Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution; Biosocial Boundaries and Cross-Cultural Encounters
Alexia Bloch is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on mobility and immobility, with particular emphasis on gender, families, and citizenship in contemporary Eurasia. Read more about Alexia Bloch here.
Alicia Barker-Åström is a student in the Dual Degree between Sciences Po Paris and the University of British Columbia. She got her first Bachelor's in Politics and Government with a Middle East and North Africa specialization from Sciences Po Campus de Menton. She is currently pursuing an Honours degree in Political Science and International Relations at UBC. Alicia's research interests include the state of Swedish segregation and the connections between government policy and increasing crime rates. Beyond the national level, she is interested in how the national issue of segregation relates to the international political climate and is affected by multilateral organizations.
Allen Sens is engaged in research on international security, teaching and learning, and knowledge mobilization.
Anna Casas Aguilar is a literary and cultural studies scholar, and her research explores the intimate connections between gender, nationalism, and regionalism in modern Spanish and Catalan literature and visual culture. Read more about Anna Casas Aguilar here.
Anne Salamon specializes in philology and history of Romance languages. Her research focuses primarily on medieval French-language texts, from the point of view of ecdotics, codicology and material philology.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Antje Ellermann 's Research Focuses on the Politics of Migration and Citizenship. Read More about Antje Ellermann Her
Antje Ellermann's research focuses on the politics of migration and citizenship. Read More about Antje Ellermann here.
Ayasha Guerin is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and professor of Black Diaspora Studies in the Department of English Language and Literatures. This year Dr. Guerin will be prioritizing manuscript writing, art creation and curatorial work for the Liberated Planet Studio.
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- Başak Kale's Research Focuses on Turkey - EU Relations, EU 's Enlargement, Europeanization of Migration Policies, and Syrian Refugee Protection and Burden Sharing.
Biography
Başak Kale's research focuses on Turkey-EU relations, EU's enlargement, Europeanization of migration policies, and Syrian refugee protection and burden sharing.
Benjamin Bryce is a historian of migration in the Americas. Among his major projects, two deal with German emigration and transatlantic connections to Germany. At UBC, he teaches "History 356: Twentieth Century Germany." He is a co-editor of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Bernard is an activist/advocate Indigenous anthropologist. His academic training is interdisciplinary and aims to transcend disciplinary boundaries to serve his commitment to Indigenous community-based research and advocacy.
Bonnie Effros teaches and conducts research on the history of archaeology, antiquarianism, and collecting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; late antique and early medieval history and archaeology; and gender history and archaeology.
Braden (he/him) is a fourth year PhD candidate in Germanic Studies at UBC in the Department for Central Eastern and Northern European Studies. He is currently writing his dissertation on queer Jewish cultural production in contemporary Germany.
In his role as the CES Project Assistant, Braden enjoys being part of a diverse and brilliant community of scholars, students and colleagues.
Byron Arthur Clark is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UBC. His work uses semiotic analysis to understand and describe symbolic communication at Neo-Pagan sacred places, particularly in the village of Glastonbury in England. Byron is originally from Cape Town, South Africa. He has a BA Honours cum Laude in Philosophy from Stellenbosch University (completed on exchange at the University of Amsterdam) and was awarded a Chevening Scholarship to do an MSc in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Byron has also worked as an intellectual property specialist in the publishing industry (for Penguin Random House and Macmillan) and has had an extensive theatre and musical career.
Caroline Lebrec is a specialist of the forms of writing under constraints and gender-inclusive writing. Her research interests include French literature from 1900 to the present, especially avant-gardes and Oulipo (Workshop for Potential Literature) and inclusive pedagogy.
Caroline Schultz is interested in the implementation and effects of migration policies, migration and development, and labour market integration policies.
hagwil hayetsk (Charles Menzies) studies resource dependent communities in western Canada and Western Europe (Donegal & Brittany). His approach includes film and ethnographic methods.
Charli Brown (she/her) is taking on the role of Senior Program Assistant. In this role, she'll be handling the Centre's event planning, day-to-day admin, and general communications.
Charli graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English from Washington & Lee University last spring. There, she studied how literary works (especially canonical fairy tales) construct gender and sexuality for young-adult readers. Charli is currently pursuing her M.A. in Children's Literature here at UBC.
In her role as the CES Senior Program Assistant, Charli hopes to help build an accessible and welcoming learning community for all.
Chase Foster studies comparative politics and public policy in Europe and North America.
Claudio Vellutini is a music historian whose research focuses on the dissemination of Italian opera in Europe and beyond during the 19th century. His current book project examines opera exchanges between Austria and the Italian states in the post-Napoleonic era and their intended function in promoting an imperial and supernational cultural identity.
Dr. Booker specializes in early medieval Europe, and his research interests include Carolingian intellectual and cultural history, historiography, literacy and textual criticism, and Latin philology.
David Bosse's research examines the influence of transnational environmental advocacy networks on recent Canadian foreign policy. He is interested in international relations theory, Canadian politics, foreign and security policies, international climate politics, interest groups, and norms research.
Prof. Gramling's (he/they) research explores linguistics, intersectionality, and cultural communications in Europe. Gramling is a proud member of the AHRC Translating Cultures Theme Researching Multilingually at Borders, the American Literary Translators Association, and is the Translations section editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke University Press).
Dennis Britton researches and teaches early modern English literature, with a focus on the history of race, critical race theory, Protestant theology, and the history of emotion.
Dr. Elizabeth S. Lagresa-González obtained her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. Her area of specialization is early modern Hispanic literature and culture, which she addresses at the intersection of gender, visual and material studies.
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- Historian of Late Antiquity
Dr. Josh Timmermann is an historian of Late Antiquity and early medieval Europe, in particular the Carolingian era (ca. 751-888 C.E.) and with emphases on intellectual, cultural, and reception history. His forthcoming book is concerned with perceptions and applications of the texts, ideas, and famous writers of the Christian past - especially the "Church Fathers" […]
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- Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence
Dr. Julen Etxabe is Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights and joined Allard Law as Assistant Professor in July of 2019. His current research combines legal and literary theory to identify a new model of dialogical judgment emerging in the area of human rights, especially through the jurisprudence of the European Court of
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- Assistant Professor
- Chairman
Dr. Sara Ann Knutson (she/ her) is Assistant Professor of Teaching, chair of Medieval Studies, and a historian and anthropological archaeologist specializing in premodern Afro-Eurasia, including the Islamic World and Scandinavia, and contemporary cultural heritage. Her research and teaching examine topics including global history, race and ethnicity, diasporas, the Digital Humanities, materiality, museum anthropology and […]
Eagle Glassheim is a historian whose current research focuses on the environmental history of Eastern and Central Europe. Read more about Eagle Glassheim here.
Elif Sari is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on transnational sexualities, migration/asylum, humanitarianism, and queer and critical race theory with a specific focus on the Middle East and its diasporas.
Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam is an Assistant Professor and settler scholar in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she works, learns, and lives on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She is currently completing her book manuscript
Erik Kwakkel's research interests include the history of the book, book design and communication, digital humanities, the digitization of cultural heritage, and the dissemination of information. Read more about Erik Kwakkel here.
Ernest Mathijs researches cult film, genre cinema, David Cronenberg, and European horror.
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- Director
- Associate Professor of German Studies
Ervin Malakaj, Associate Professor of German Studies, works on queer German studies with a special focus on visual culture. He is the recipient of, among other, the DAAD Grimm Prize for advancement in German studies. ervin.malakaj@ubc.ca
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia
章杲恆 Gaoheng Zhang is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is a humanities scholar of migration, mobilities, multiculturalism, media, rhetoric, ethics, and masculinity. His recent research seeks to provide a road map for analyzing cultural mobilities concerning contemporary Italy's and Europe's global networks with Asia, America, and Africa, which are
Georgios Makris specializes in Byzantine art and archaeology. His work lies at the intersection of art history, archaeology, and cultural history.
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- Gregory Mackie 's Research Emphases Are Drama, Book History, and Queer Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
Gregory Mackie's research emphases are drama, book history, and queer studies at the turn of the twentieth century.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Ian Beacock is a historian of modern Europe and Germany. His current research investigates the relationship between emotions and democracy in the Weimar Republic (1918-1933).
Dr. Muradov has been a faculty member in the Department of International Relations and Audit at Dnipro University of Technology since 2020. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) in 2019. His research interests cover armed conflicts in former Soviet republics, particularly Ukraine.
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- Assistant Professor
- Member of the Advisory Board
Igor Drljaca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia. He completed his Master's in Film Production at York University in 2011. He is the recipient of the Ontario Art Council's K.M. Hunter artist award for media arts in 2014. His work has been supported by dozens of organizations including Telefilm Canada, Eurimages, Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Ontario Creates, and the Ontario Arts Council.
Ilinca Iurascu's research focuses on intersections between literature and media theory, histories of material culture and technology in German and comparative studies, 18th-early 20th c.
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- Current Research Involves Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Educated at Rutgers and Cornell, Ira Nadel has concentrated on the Victorians and Moderns, while pursuing the critical and practical matters of biography.
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- Dr Ayan 's Research and Teaching Interests Include Translation, Interpreting, Gender Studies, As Well As the Sociology and ( Auto ) Ethnography of Translation and Interpreting.
Dr Ayan's research and teaching interests include translation, interpreting, gender studies, as well as the sociology and (auto)ethnography of translation and interpreting.
Isabelle Avakumovic-Pointon (she/her) is a first-year PhD student in History at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research examines ideas and experiences of disability in Bosnia and Serbia at the turn of the twentieth century. Isabelle's work engages with a wide range of subdisciplines, including disability history, history of the body, history of medicine,
Jaleh Mansoor teaches modern and contemporary art history with an emphasis on Post WWII European Art. Her areas of interest, in addition to art and its histories, include Formalism, Marxist Feminism, Frankfurt School Theory and art as technology.
Jason Lieblang is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies specializing in German Studies. He works at the intersection of crisis, culture, and masculinities, especially in Germanic contexts.
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- Jessica Hanser 's Research Explores Connections, Relationships and Interactions Between Britain and China from 1600 until the First Opium War ( 1839 - 1842 ) .
Jessica Hanser's research explores connections, relationships and interactions between Britain and China from 1600 until the First Opium War (1839-1842).
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- Visiting International Research Student, Department of Education and Psychology, `Futures Studies´ ( M.a. ) at Freie Universität Berlin
Johanna Schick is a visiting scholar from Freie Universität Berlin. Her current research focuses on the role of civil society and social movements in a sustainability transition. Johanna's research interests include sustainability transitions, sustainable consumption and production, and circular economy.
John Christopoulos researches areas include early modern Europe, the history of pre-modern medicine and the social and cultural history of early modern Italy.
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- Jonathan Hall 's Research Utilizes Field Experiments, Surveys, and Mixed - Methods to Study the Impact of War and Displacement on Individuals' Political Psychology.
Jonathan Hall's research utilizes field experiments, surveys, and mixed-methods to study the impact of war and displacement on individuals' political psychology.
Dr. Monteyne teaches the art history and media cultures of Renaissance Italy and Northern Europe, of Counter-Reformation Rome, 16 th and 17 th century Spain and Spanish America, and the Northern European urban and courtly cultures of the 17 th century.
Joy Dixon's research currently focuses on gender, sexuality, and the body in Modern Britain, as well as how this relates to the history of religion and human sciences. In 2022-2024 she will be teaching the Arts One Program at UBC.
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger research focuses primarily on the Enlightenment and its legacies, the literature and culture of the French Revolution, and the circulation and transmission of knowledge in eighteenth-century France.
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- Associate Professor in Modernist
Judith Paltin is an Associate Professor in Modernist studies. Her current research focuses on the politics of British and Irish modernism and on modern and contemporary theories of collective identification and action.
Katharina Piechocki specializes in early modern French and Romance literature, in particular theatre, opera, cartography, medicine, gender, affect, and translation studies. Having studied French, Italian, and Portuguese as well as Theater, Film, and Media Studies, she has completed two doctorates, in Romance Studies (University of Vienna) and in Comparative Literature (NYU).
Kyle Frackman is a film and literature scholar whose research focuses primarily on representations of gender and sexuality in German and Scandinavian culture and history. Read more about Kyle Frackman here.
Lance Pederson is a PhD student who studies power, masculinity, and homosexuality in France and its colonial empire from 1660-1815. He obtained his BA [Hons] from Hamline University where he majored in History with a double minor in French and Mandarin Chinese. He completed the first year of his PhD program at the University of […]
Lance Pederson is a Ph.D. student who studies power, masculinity, and homosexuality in France and its colonial empire from 1660-1815. He obtained his B.A. from Hamline University where he majored in History with a double minor in French and Mandarin Chinese. He completed the first year of his Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign before following his advisor, Dr. Clare Haru Crowston, to the University of British Columbia. He is an affiliate and a graduate student fellow at UBC's Center for European studies. His current research project focuses on rumors, poison, and the concept of male homosexuality as an "Italian vice" in the court of Louis XIV. More broadly, he aims to develop new approaches to studying queer experiences in the early modern period. His teaching philosophy is centered on presenting historical topics in straightforward and engaging ways that highlight how studying the past is crucial to understanding the world we currently live in.
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom's research focuses on transnational activism and NGO politics, particularly involving Russian civil society. She is also the leader of the SSHRC-funded network Activists in International Courts (ActinCourts), which connects researchers and human rights practitioners to build knowledge on the roles of nongovernmental activists in international human rights courts and tribunals, including the European Court of Human Rights. Network Leaders | ActInCourts (ubc.ca)
Ljiljana Biukovic is an international law scholar whose research focuses on trade and investment issues of international economic integration and on the impact of international trade law on national regulatory governance. Read more about Ljiljana Biukovic here.
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- Senior Assistant Professor ( Privatdozent ), Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Dr. Havil. and Venia Legendi in Political Science 2001
Biography
In 2016 the German Federal Cross of Merit was awarded for Lutz Mez's achievements on federal, regional and EU level in the scientific field of energy transition and the development of a sustainable energy policy in recent decades.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Merje Kuus is a political geographer who investigates the workings of expertise in policy-making processes. She examines how national and transnational institutions, such as government agencies, international organizations, or civil society groups, know what they know, how they have come to know what they know, and how they persuade themselves and others that this is so.
Dr. Pareles's teaching interests include animal studies, Old and Middle English literature, translation, and Jewish-Christian relations. Ze is a member of the Oecologies collective.
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- Associate Professor of Spanish
Mónica López Lerma is Associate Professor of Spanish and Humanities at Reed College. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Film Studies from the University of Michigan. She also holds a Law degree from the University of Valencia (Spain) and a LL.M. in Jurisprudence from the European Academy of Legal Theory (Belgium). At Reed she teaches a variety of interdisciplinary courses in film theory, political documentaries, law and violence, justice and the senses, and cinema and human rights. She has also taught both graduate seminars and undergraduate courses at the Faculty of Law of the University of Helsinki, the Peter A. Allard School of Law of the University of British Columbia, and the School of International Relations of the Kyrgyz State National University.
Mónica's research interests include contemporary Spanish film and literature, with particular emphasis on film theory, gender, aesthetics, politics, memory, and law and humanities. She is the author of Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and the co-editor of Rancière and Law (Routledge, 2018). She is currently working on a new book project tentatively titled Documentaries Against the Law: Evidence, Affect, and Reflexivity and editing a book entitled Espacios y límites de la (in)justicia en la España contemporánea.
From 2012 to 2017, Mónica was editor-in-chief of No-Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and currently is a member of its editorial board. She also serves on the Executive Committee on 20th and 21st Century Spanish and Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures (2019-2024).
Mónica's research has been funded by numerous fellowships, such as the Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant, the Jean Monnet Graduate Fellowship, and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Research Fellowship.
Nancy Frelick specializes in French Renaissance Literature and visual culture, as well as post-structuralist psychoanalytic criticism and gender studies, among others. She is currently completing two book projects: one on mirror motifs; and the other on the reception of women writers.
Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk is a Holocaust scholar active in the field of public history and memory politics. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at Rivne State University for the Humanities in her hometown of Rivne, Ukraine. She co-founded and manages the NGO "Mnemonics'' devoted to citizenship education and the memory of the multicultural history of the Rivne region. Thanks to all the sponsors supporting the program scholar-at-risk at UBC, Dr. Ivchyk is joining the Department of History as a visiting scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Nikki Georgopulos is an historian, curator, and educator specializing in European art of the nineteenth century. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses primarily on realism and its intersections with histories of science, philosophy, and cultural constructs
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- Specialist of Medieval French
Patrick Moran is a specialist of medieval French literature. His research interests include medieval literature, 12th and 13th century narrative genres, codicology and material philology, literary theory and cognitive poetics, modern fantasy fiction and modern medievalism.
Psyfun Mustary is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She has an MA in English from UBC, prior to which she received her BA Honours and MA in English Literature from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her doctoral dissertation reads representations of colonial
Ramesh Mallipeddi's areas of expertise include restoration and eighteenth-century English literature; the early novel; historiographies of colonialism and slavery; sentimentalism; transatlantic studies; critical theory; postcolonial literature and criticism.
Raúl Álvarez Moreno specializes in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, culture, and language. His current research focuses on the connections between economic thought and medieval/early modern sources. He also has a particular interest in how the relation between language and reality articulates ideology.
Renisa Mawani works in the fields of critical theory and colonial legal history and has published widely on law, colonialism, and legal geography.
Richard Johnston is starting work on a comparative study of campaigns and elections with European and North American cases. He is also continuing his collaborative work on immigration, diversity, multiculturalism, and the welfare state. Read more about Richard Johnston here.
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- Ross King 's Research Interests Include History of Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cultural Sphere, Korean Historical Linguistics, and Korean Dialectology.
Ross King's research interests include history of language, writing and literary culture in the Sinographic cultural sphere, Korean historical linguistics, and Korean dialectology.
Ryan Sun (he/him) a 5th PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. I completed my undergraduate at the University of Toronto specializing in History and double minoring in German and English. I also spent a summer abroad at Akita International University studying Japanese. I moved to Vancouver to pursue my MA in History at UBC. Throughout my PhD, I was fortunate enough to secure various opportunities to expand my academic and professional horizons. In May 2020, I helped organized an online workshop on Hong Kong History. In February 2022, I spent a month at the Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research of the University of South California as the Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow. In June 2022, I was selected to participate in the Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Royal Holloway University. During this same time, I interned as a Digital Projects Coordinator for the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. I've also worked for the City of Vancouver conducting research into their Green Rainwater Infrastructure. I am currently the Junior Editor for the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.
A recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, SSHRC, Fulbright and Hewlett fellowships, and an honorary Fellow of the American Folklore Society, she has published on religion, folklore, foodways, festival and witchcraft in Europe and North America, and is a leading authority on the modern Pagan movement.
Salgirli's research includes early Ottoman and Islamic art and architecture, medieval Mediterranean art and architecture, architectural history.
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- Specialist in 19th - Century French
Sima Godfrey is a specialist in 19th-century French literature and cultural history. Her current research interests include discourse of fashionability in modern French culture (19th-20th century) as well as 19th century French cultural memory. Read more about Sima Godfrey here.
Simen Hennum (he/him) is currently pursuing an MA in Geography at the University of British Columbia, where I also completed a BA in Honours in Geography in 2022. My research interests lie primarily with the fields of geographical political economy, economic geography, and labor geography. I am particularly interested in social and political responses to forms of precariousness engendered by changing forms of work. I am also interested in questions of uneven development as theorized in geography and related disciplines, with a particular interest in how so-called national ‘models' or ‘varieties' of capitalism are constructed and positioned in relation to processes taking place elsewhere and ‘outside' of those geographical areas.
Sriharsha Madireddy is a third-year undergraduate student pursuing a double major in political science and philosophy. My academic focus centers on political philosophy and the historical development of political thought, with a particular fascination for continental philosophy and the Frankfurt School. Thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, and
Stefan Bickel is a visiting scholar from the IT Department of Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). He is currently working in security information and event management (SIEM).
Stephen Guy-Bray specializes in Renaissance poetry, queer theory, and queer poetics. His most recent monograph is Shakespeare and Queer Representation (2020).
Susanna Cassisa (she/her), is originally from Oxford, Mississippi, she earned her B.A. in International Studies and German from the University of Mississippi in 2021. She is currently pursuing a Master's in German Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include modern queer history in Germany and the United States and the ways that narrative tropes-especially narratives of violence and crime-inform our understanding of the world around us. Susanna is committed to producing accessible public scholarship, and her work has been featured on multiple platforms, including the Washington Post. After completing her M.A., she plans to pursue a career in journalism.
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- Thomas Kemple 's Research Advances European and North American Traditions of Classical and Contemporary Social Theory from the Late 18th Century to the Present.
Thomas Kemple's research advances European and North American traditions of classical and contemporary social theory from the late 18th century to the present.
Tim Frandy's work involves traditional culture, decolonization, environments, education, and cultural revitalization, having conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous reindeer herders, salmon fishermen, birchbark canoe builders, ceremonial leaders, musicians, artists, activists, educators, and more.
Tracey Heatherington is an environmental anthropologist whose research explores the cultural politics of nature, climate and biodiversity in the context of Italy and the European Union.
Dr. Nardizzi specializes in English Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare. He also has research interests in ecotheory, plant studies, queer studies, and disability studies.
Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire works on French and Francophone literatures from 1945 to the present, with a particular focus on the spatial invention and representation of post-conflict and post-industrial environments.
William Brown is both a scholar and a maker of films, with work spanning fiction, documentary, the video-essay and hybrids of all three.
Yves Tiberghien is a comparative political economist with interest in both European and Asian political economy, as well as a particular interest in French politics. His research focuses on comparative economic policies in the context of globalization, climate politics, and the changing framework of global governance.