2009 - 2010

Jean-Philippe Belleau is a Latin Americanist and a social anthropologist working on Brazil. Prior to joining UMass Boston, he worked for a decade in human rights and development with the OAS, the United Nations, ADF, UNDP and various NGOs, including Viva...

Andreas Fischer received a Ph.D. from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2005. After serving on the faculty of the History Department of the Technische Universität Berlin from 2004 to 2006, he became Assistant Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, where...

Nirvana Tanoukhi’s current scholarship and pedagogy asks: How does a work of literature like a novel, especially one from or about a "distant" place, establish a sense of context to ground an interpretation? On what scale – geographic, social, linguistic...

Detlef von Daniels is Academic Coordinator of the research group "International Justice and Institutional Responsibility" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He studied Philosophy, History of Art, and Public Law and holds an M.A...

Christina Wald is Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz, Germany. During the 2009-10 academic year, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University where she also taught in...