HUMANITIES - Key Persons
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Professor, French
Alina Cherry received her Ph.D. from New York University in 2009, with a dissertation on the treatment of time, history, and memory in the novels of Claude Simon. Her current research and teaching interests include contemporary French and Francophone fiction, mobilities studies, geocriticism, space and place, Claude Simon studies, temporality and narrative, intersections of philosophy and literature. Her book, Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present was published in 2016 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Professor of French
Anne E. Duggan is Professor of French in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University. Working between the French early modern tale tradition and twentieth- and twenty-first century French fairy-tale film, her most recent books include the second revised edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France (2021), the edtied volume A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century (2021), and the coedited and translated work, Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales, with Julie Koehler, Shandi Wagner, and Adrion Dula (2021). With Cristina Bacchilega, Professor Duggan is co-editor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies and she is series editor of The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies at Wayne State University Press.
Ariel was born and raised in the city of Detroit. She attended Cass Technical High School and graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. Ariel loves to paint and care for houseplants in her free time.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
Christine D'Arpa joined the School of Information Sciences faculty as Assistant Professor in August 2017. Her research focuses on the history of libraries; the role of the federal government in information provision; and public libraries and community engagement. She has presented her research at regional, national, and international conferences including SHARP, Library History Seminar, i-Schools Conference, Digital Library Federation, Society of American Archivists, Midwest Archives Conference, ALISE, AERI, and ASIS&T. D'Arpa has designed and taught a range of courses in LIS including Community Archives, Digital Public History, Administration and Use of Archival Materials, Community Engagement, Administration of Cultural Heritage Organizations, Organization of Information, and Race, Gender, and Information Technology.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Director of the Humanities Center at Wayne State University
Jaime Goodrich is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Wayne State University. She is also Series Editor of The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. She specializes in early modern literature, with a particular focus on early modern women writers and religion, especially Catholicism. In recovering the neglected and lost voices of marginalized female authors, she aims to extend the boundaries of the canon and to demonstrate the value of early modern women's writings for our contemporary era.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Professor, English
Elizabeth works on British and Anglophone literature with special attention to modernism and mobility. She's the author of Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which examines gendered identities and transitional spaces in British and colonial narratives from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s. In this book, Elizabeth argues that writing of the era (from B. M. Malabari to Virginia Woolf) was shaped by widespread debates about women's increasing public presence as workers and pleasure seekers in the city. She continues her study of gender, race, and urban space in two ongoing projects. One examines the role of urban green spaces in the work of early twentieth-century immigrants of color, particularly Markino Yoshio, a Japanese artist and writer, and the Egyptian editor, writer, and anti-imperial activist Duse Mohamed Ali. The other, carried out in partnership with the NEH-sponsored Textual Geographies project, uses computational methods to map the past two centuries of British cultural geography across a corpus of over 20,000 digitized literary texts.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Professor and Director of the Counseling Psychology
- Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
Dr. Pernice is an associate professor and director of the Counseling Psychology M.A. program in the Division of Theoretical and Behavioral Foundations located in the College of Education. She instructs graduate courses in the area of adult psychopathology, ethics, and educational psychology. She serves as advisor for PhD students in the School Psychology PhD Concentration and Learning and Instructional Sciences PhD concentration within the department of Educational Psychology.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Professor
- Professor of History and the Director of Cohn - Haddow Center for Judaic Studies
Howard Lupovitch is professor of history and director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies. He specializes in modern Jewish History, specifically the Jews of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy. He recently completed a history of the Jews of Budapest and is currently writing a history of the Neolog Movement, Hungarian Jewry's progressive wing.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Department Chair, Philosophy
Joshua's research focuses on Ancietn Greek Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Race and Racism.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Steering Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Steering Committee
- Professor Emeritus
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director
- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Associate Professor
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice
Matt is an Associate Professor who completed his Ph.D. in Criminology & Criminal Justice at Arizona State University in 2013. Prior to his graduate training, he was part of the U.S. Department of Education's McNair Scholars Program, a federal initiative centered on increasing the attainment of PhDs by students from historically underrepresented groups. In general, his research focuses on life-course criminology, violence, and the intersection of mental illness and criminal justice policy. His research has appeared in journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Journal of Youth & Adolescence, and his work has received funding from the National Institute of Justice and National Science Foundation.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Professor, Communication
Michael Fuhlhage joined the Wayne State journalism faculty in 2014. A specialist in the cultural history of journalism and media, Fuhlhage is the author of Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War. The American Journalism Historians Association has selected him for the 2020 National Award for Excellence in Teaching, and he has co-authored several journalism and media history projects with graduate students.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Librarian III
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Member of the Steering Committee
Job Titles:
- Student Research Assistant
Samyak Kabure is pursuing his master's degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University. He has completed his bachelor's from Walchand college of Engineering in CSE. He aspires to become a Software Engineer. His goal is to use his skills to make an impact. Samyak appreciates how the Humanities Center provides unique opportunities for participants and promotes excellence in research through its various programs.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Assistant Professor of Vocal Music Education at Wayne State University
- Vocal Music Education
Shannan Hibbard serves as Assistant Professor of Vocal Music Education at Wayne State University. She teaches undergraduate music education courses and coordinates student teaching experiences in vocal and general music. Prior to her appointment at Wayne State, she served as adjunct faculty for graduate and undergraduate music education courses at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan-Flint, respectively. A classroom music teacher for over two decades, Dr. Hibbard taught general, vocal, and instrumental music in public, charter, and private schools in the city of Detroit. At the end of her tenure with the Detroit Public Schools Community District, she was the recipient of the Coleman A. Young Foundation's 2022 Fred Martin Detroit Educator of the Year Award.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
Steven L. Winter joined Wayne State University Law School in 2002 as the Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law. In May 2017 he was promoted to distinguished professor - the highest rank awarded by the university. In 2021, Winter was elected to the WSU Academy of Scholars - the highest recognition that can be bestowed upon WSU faculty members by their peers.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Distinguished Professor of Consitutional Law
Steven L. Winter joined Wayne State University Law School in 2002 as the Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law. In May 2017 he was promoted to distinguished professor - the highest rank awarded by the university. In 2021, Winter was elected to the WSU Academy of Scholars - the highest recognition that can be bestowed upon WSU faculty members by their peers.
Born in Guyana, South America, Dr. Edwards earned a BA in English at the University of Guyana. He continued his education in England, earning an MA in Linguistics in English Language Teaching at University of Lancaster, England, and his Ph.D. in Language and Linguistics at University of York, England. At Wayne State University Dr. Edwards teaches several courses in linguistics. His research interests and publications include Guyanese Creole studies, African American Vernacular English, the sociolinguistics of rap lyrics and language and culture.