#  People 

 



### The staff coordinates all aspects of the Mahindra Humanities Center’s programs and events. The Center currently hosts six postdoctoral fellows and one dissertation completion fellow. Our seminars are convened by faculty members from Harvard and other colleges and universities in the Boston area.



 

 

 

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 Staff Current Fellows Seminar Chairs 

## Staff

 

 

  [### Steven Biel

 ](/people/steven-biel)Executive Director

 

 

 

      ![Steven Biel](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/steve_biel.png?itok=pq_aOn9f) 

 

 

 

   [### Lisa Brown

 ](/people/lisa-brown)Assistant to the Director

 

 

 

      ![Lisa Brown](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/lisa_24-25.png?itok=PoaHRE1m) 

 

 

 

   [### Suzannah Clark

 ](/people/suzannah-clark)Director

 

 

 

      ![Suzannah Clark](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/suzie_24-25.png?itok=BkH06d7w) 

 

 

 

   [### Julia Corso

 ](/people/julia-corso)Communications & Design Coordinator

 

 

 

      ![Julia Corso](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/julia_corso.png?itok=H-MZsa3Q) 

 

 

 

   [### Lindsay Froess

 ](/people/lindsay-froess)Project Coordinator

 

 

 

      ![Lindsay Froess](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/lindsay_froess_-_headshot.jpg?itok=YSTbBCLL) 

 

 

 

   [### Mary MacKinnon

 ](/people/mary-mackinnon)Events Coordinator

 

 

 

      ![Mary Mackinnon](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/mary_24-25.png?itok=FdKHf57f) 

 

 

 

   [### Gerta Uruci-Limani

 ](/people/gerta-uruci-limani)Financial Administrator

 

 

 

      ![Gerta Uruci-Limani](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/gerta_24-25.png?itok=EIk61Egu) 

 

 

 

   [### Charlotte M. Wittmann

 ](/people/charlotte-m-wittmann)Programs & Events Assistant

 

 

 

      ![Charlotte Wittmann](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/charlotte_24-25.png?itok=-X4UVR58) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

## Current Fellows

 

 

  [### Oliver Aas

 ](/people/oliver-aas)Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Oliver Aas](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Aas_photo.jpg?h=55eec6c2&itok=dHZCtJF7) 

 

 

 

   [### Lama Elsharif

 ](/people/lama-elsharif)Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Lama Elsharif](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Elsharif.png?itok=DHWPdLEy) 

 

 

 

   [### Pujita Guha

 ](/people/pujita-guha)Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Pujita Guha](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Untitled%20design%20%2825%29.png?itok=oWGuIOxx) 

 

 

 

   [### Manuela Luengas Solano

 ](/people/manuela-luengas-solano)Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Manuela Luengas Solano](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/MLS%20Photo-bio.jpg?h=3d15bd83&itok=zgw0TKpB) 

 

 

 

   [### Cana McGhee

 ](/people/cana-mcghee)Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Cana McGhee](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/mcghee.jpg?h=522d6e6a&itok=k3hA8x1v) 

 

 

 

   [### Julia Mead

 ](/people/julia-mead)Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Julia Mead](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Mead_Headshot_2025.jpg?h=a73f94f9&itok=8uHNYCeJ) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

## Seminar Chairs

 

 

  [### Latifeh Aavani

 ](/people/latifeh-aavani)Lecturer, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Latifeh Aavani headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Latifeh%20Aavani%20copy.jpg?itok=cQQF93mF) 

 

 

 

   [### Kiku Adatto

 ](/people/kiku-adatto)Scholar In Residence and Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Kiku_Adatt0](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/kiku_adatto_photo_portrait_copy_0.jpg?itok=sYr3G5HW) 

 

 

 

   [### Samuel Alexander 

 ](/people/samuel-alexander)Assistant Professor of English, Endicott College

 

 

 

      ![Samuel Alexander](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/samuel_alexander.jpg?itok=T0A7Q-H4) 

 

 

 

   [### Nicole Aljoe

 ](/people/nicole-aljoe)Professor of English and Africana Studies, Northeastern University

 

 

 

      ![Nicole Aljoe headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/eng-aljoe-web-600x800-c-default.jpeg?itok=yOVUNk2O) 

 

 

 

   [### Sari Altschuler

 ](/people/sari-altschuler)Associate Professor of English, Northeastern University

 

 

 

      ![Sari Altschuler](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/sari_altschuler_1.jpg?itok=5HNbu6LQ) 

 

 

 

   [### Charrise Barron

 ](/people/charrise-barron-0)Assistant Professor of Music, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Charrise Barron headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/barron-may2016-blkandwht-1024x895.jpg?itok=LAAbGvEb) 

 

 

 

   [### Soha Bayoumi

 ](/people/soha-bayoumi)Lecturer in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Soha Bayoumi](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/soha_bayoumi.jpg?itok=PeUD1ASm) 

 

 

 

   [### Ann Blair

 ](/people/ann-blair)Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Ann Blair](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/ann_blair_1.jpg?itok=zMU3SKo8) 

 

 

 

   [### Amy Boesky

 ](/people/amy-boesky)Professor of English, Boston College

 

 

 

      ![Amy Boesky](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/amy_boesky.jpg?itok=XHpvbH--) 

 

 

 

   [### Vincenzo Bollettino

 ](/people/vincenzo-bollettino)Director of Program on Resilient Communities, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Vincenzo Bollettino](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/vincenzo_bollettino.jpg?itok=ULRCz8VB) 

 

 

 

   [### Nicholas Boylston

 ](/people/nicholas-boylston)Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Nicholas Boylston headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/img_3423.jpg?itok=hfml3eG5) 

 

 

 

   [### Peter Burgard

 ](/people/peter-burgard)Professor of German, Harvard University

Chair of German Studies: New Perspectives Seminar

 

 

 

      ![Peter Burgard headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/unknown_05.jpeg?itok=TwChL7G1) 

 

 

 

   [### William Carroll

 ](/people/william-carroll)Professor of English, Boston University

 

 

 

      ![William Carroll](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/william_carroll.jpg?itok=jTBYkm_5) 

 

 

 

   [### Tom Conley

 ](/people/tom-conley)Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Tom Conley](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/tom_conley.png?itok=ndHDkzmK) 

 

 

 

   [### Alex Csiszar

 ](/people/alex-csiszar)Associate Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Alex Csiszar](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/alex_csiszar_01.jpg?itok=rH-G6o2M) 

 

 

 

   [### Philip Deloria

 ](/people/philip-deloria)Professor of History, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Philip Deloria](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/philip_deloria.jpg?itok=Xi5EwA_e) 

 

 

 

   [### Sari Edelstein

 ](/people/sari-edelstein)Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston

 

 

 

      ![Sari Edelstein](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/cla_engl_sariedelstein_photo.jpg?itok=lWxmgIXB) 

 

 

 

   [### Jose Falconi

 ](/people/jose-falconi)Lecturer in Fine Arts, Brandeis University

 

 

 

      ![Jose Falconi](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/jose_falconi.jpg?itok=R5muRGd9) 

 

 

 

   [### Stephanie Frampton

 ](/people/stephanie-frampton)Associate Professor of Literature, MIT

 

 

 

      ![Stephanie Frampton headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/StephanieFrampton.jpg?itok=aWjMFZB2) 

 

 

 

   [### Kyle Frisina

 ](/people/kyle-frisina)Assistant Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross

 

 

 

      ![Kyle Frisina headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/frisina_headshot.jpeg?itok=pj5xZ3C9) 

 

 

 

   [### Hannah Frydman

 ](/people/hannah-frydman)Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Hannah Frydman headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/hfrydman_photo_4.jpg?itok=XUXDgs2m) 

 

 

 

   [### Sean Gilsdorf

 ](/people/sean-gilsdorf)Lecturer on Medieval Studies and Administrative Director of the Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Sean Gilsdorf](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/sean_gilsdorf.jpg?itok=N_22GwoM) 

 

 

 

   [### Eric Gordon

 ](/people/eric-gordon)Professor and Director of the Engagement Lab, Emerson College

 

 

 

      ![Eric Gordon](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/eric_gordon.jpg?itok=MmsX6dKk) 

 

 

 

   [### Emily Greenwood

 ](/people/emily-greenwood)Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Emily Greenwood headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/greenwood_headshot.jpg?itok=8G9rr7gv) 

 

 

 

   [### Janet Gyatso

 ](/people/janet-gyatso)Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Janet Gyatso](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/janet_gyatso.jpg?itok=YD09ernj) 

 

 

 

   [### Fawwaz Habbal

 ](/people/fawwaz-habbal)Senior Lecturer on Applied Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

 

 

 

      ![Fawwaz Habbal headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/habbal_200x300.jpeg?itok=Y401qDdp) 

 

 

 

   [### Jeffrey F. Hamburger

 ](/people/jeffrey-f-hamburger)Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![Jeffrey F. Hamburger](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/hamburger_bw.jpg?itok=IGlCe_4q) 

 

 

 

   [### John Hamilton

 ](/people/john-hamilton)William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Harvard University

 

 

 

      ![John Hamilton](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/jhamilton_1.jpg?itok=w8DjB4wR) 

 

 

 

   [### Houman Harouni

 ](/people/houman-harouni)Lecturer on Education

 

 

 

      ![Houman Harouni headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/houman-harouni-86150.jpeg?itok=YmFEUwbN) 

 

 

 

   [### Alani Hicks-Bartlett

 ](/people/alani-hicks-bartlett)Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies, Brown University

 

 

 

      ![Alani Hicks-Bartlett headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/img_3965.jpg?itok=N732Dv2z) 

 

 

 

  

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