2015 - 2016

Konstanze Baron studied Modern History and Modern Languages (French) at the Queen’s College, Oxford University (BA 2000, MSt 2001) and at Université Denis Diderot Paris VII (DEA 2002) before moving on to Konstanz, where she obtained her PhD in 2010 after...

Charrise Barron is a PhD Candidate in African American Studies, with a primary field of concentration in religion and secondary in ethnomusicology. Her research interests center on African American history, religion, and sacred music. She also studies...

Matthew H. Baxter received a PhD (2013) in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation titled, "For SubContinental Political Theory: On the Non-Brahmin Self-Respect Critique of Gandhian Self-Rule." This work focuses...

Nils Bock is Lecturer in Medieval History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. He studied history and archaeology at the Universities of Trier (Germany), Bologna (Italy), and Toulouse (France). He received his doctorate in medieval...

Emily Harrison is a PhD candidate in the History of Science at Harvard University, where her work is oriented on health sciences. Her current project focuses on infant mortality to analyze globalized interactions at the intersection of health and...

Zain Lakhani holds a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania, granted in 2014. Her current project, "Becoming Sexual Subjects: Rape and the Political Meaning of Violence in the Age of Human Rights," explores the relationship between sexual...

Quentin (Trais) Pearson received a PhD in History from Cornell University in 2014. His current project, “Politics of Dismemberment: Siam and Its Subjects,” is a study of law, medicine, and sovereignty in semi-colonial Siam (Thailand). Based on neglected...

Mónica Salas-Landa received a PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University in 2015. Her project "Living among a Field of Ruins: (In)Visible Residues of Violence and Revolution" combines an archival approach with ethnographic research and examines the...

Mira Rai Waits holds a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching focus on spatial and post-colonial theory, modern architecture and urbanism, visual culture studies, and human...