2019 - 2020

Akif Ercihan Yerlioğlu is a PhD candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He is interested mainly in the fields of history of medicine and social history of healing practices in the early modern era. In his dissertation...

Yi Lu is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. A historian of modern China, he is interested in the nexus of information, authority, and memory. His dissertation, “The Dustbin of History: Archival Politics in Modern China,”...

Brian Van Wyck received his PhD in History from Michigan State University in 2019. His book project, currently titled Turkish Teachers and Imams in Postwar Germany: Race, Islam, and Belonging,examines two groups tasked with seeing to the education and...

Andreea S. Micu is a performance practitioner and teacher and holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. Her research examines the intersection of aesthetics, migration, and contemporary anti-austerity activism in the south of Europe...

Pelin Kivrak received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2019. Her dissertation, “Imperfect Cosmopolitans: Representations of Responsibility and Hospitality in Contemporary Near Eastern Literatures, Film and Arts,” brings into...

Hollyamber Kennedy received her PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Columbia University in 2019. She also holds an MA in Modern Art, Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archeology. Kennedy’s...

Javiela Evangelista is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at New York City College of Technology, one of the campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on nationalism, racialization, citizenship...

Liliana Carrizo received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018. Her dissertation, “Exiled Nostalgia and Musical Remembrance: Songs of Grief, Joy, and Tragedy among Iraqi Jews,” examines the private song of...