ISH Directory: Full Listing
Program Director
Gregory Freidin
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Administration
Monica Moore
Program Administrator, Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Steering Committee
R. Lanier Anderson
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Jean-Marie Apostolides
Professor, French & Italian
Keith Baker
Professor, History
Vincent Barletta
Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Helen Brooks
Senior Lecturer, Emerita, ISH/English
Marton Dornbach
Professor, German Studies
Al Duncan
Ph.D. candidate, Classics
Gregory Freidin
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Monika Greenleaf
Associate Professor, Slavic Languages & Literature, Comparative Literature
Thomas Grey
Professor, Music
Morten Steen Hansen
Professor, Art & Art History
Blair Hoxby
Associate Professor, English, Drama
Branislav Jakovljevic
Assistant Professor, Drama
Joshua Landy
Associate Professor, French & Italian
Steven (Gene) Lee
Ph.D. candidate, German Studies
Pavle Levi
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History, Film Studies
Hilton Obenzinger
Associate Director for Honors Writing, Program in Writing & Rhetoric, PWR/English
Conner Peretti
Honors Essay: "One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression: William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Reader Response Criticism"; Tutor: Helen Brooks, Engish/ISH
Rush Rehm
Professor, Drama/Classics
Brent Sockness
Professor, Religious Studies
Alice Staveley
ISH Program Coordinator, English
Carlyn Sylvester
Honors Essay: Now That's Funny!: An Exploration of Racial Humor in Popular Culture as Explained by Classic Theories of Humor and Race; Tutor: Gregory Freidin, Slavic Lang/Lit
Affiliated Faculty
R. Lanier Anderson
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Jean-Marie Apostolides
Professor, French & Italian
Keith Baker
Professor, History
Vincent Barletta
Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Karol Berger
Professor, Music
Russell Berman
Professor, German Studies
Carl Bielefeldt
Professor, Religious Studies
Philippe Buc
Professor, History
Scott Bukatman
Professor, Art & Art History
Terry Castle
Professor, English
Dan Edelstein
Professor, French & Italian
Lazar Fleishman
Professor, Slavic Languages & Literature
Charlotte Fonrobert
Professor, Religious Studies
Gregory Freidin
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Hester Gelber
Professor, Religious Studies
Denise Gigante
Professor, English
Monika Greenleaf
Associate Professor, Slavic Languages & Literature, Comparative Literature
Thomas Grey
Professor, Music
Sepp Gumbrecht
Professor, Comparative Literature
Heather Hadlock
Professor, Music
Morten Steen Hansen
Professor, Art & Art History
Robert Harrison
Professor, French & Italian
Ursula Heise
Professor, English
Blair Hoxby
Associate Professor, English, Drama
Branislav Jakovljevic
Assistant Professor, Drama
Joshua Landy
Associate Professor, French & Italian
Pavle Levi
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History, Film Studies
Henry Lowood
Professor, German Studies
Saikat Majumdar
Professor, English
Liisa Malkki
Professor, Anthropology
Marsh McCall
Professor, Classics
Kurt Mueller-Vollmer
Professor Emeritus, Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Andrea Nightingale
Professor, Classics
Hilton Obenzinger
Associate Director for Honors Writing, Program in Writing & Rhetoric, PWR/English
Josiah Ober
Professor, Classics and Political Science
David Palumbo-Liu
Professor, Comparative Literature
Linda Paulson
Academic Research and Program Officer, Continuing Studies
Bissera Pentcheva
Professor, Art & Art History
Robert Polhemus
Professor, English
Alice Rayner
Professor, Drama
Rush Rehm
Professor, Drama/Classics
Joan Resina
Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Jessica Riskin
Professor, History
Paul Robinson
Professor Emeritus, History/Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Christopher Rovee
Senior Lecturer, English
Jorge Ruffinelli
Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Richard Saller
Professor/Dean of School of Humanities & Sciences, Classics/History
Priya Satia
Professor, History
Walter Scheidel
Professor, Classics
Walter Scheidel
Professor, Classics
Jeffrey Schnapp
Professor, French & Italian
Michael Shanks
Professor, Classics
James Sheehan
Professor, History
Thomas Sheehan
Professor, Religious Studies
Carol Shloss
Consulting Professor, English
Brent Sockness
Professor, Religious Studies
Helen Stacy
Senior Fellow, Law School
Peter Stansky
Professor, History
Alice Staveley
ISH Program Coordinator, English
Blakey Vermeule
Professor, English
Alex Woloch
Professor, English
Allen Wood
Professor, Philosophy
Rega Wood
Professor Research, Philosophy
Yiqun Zhou
Professor, Asian Languages
Graduate Students
Zachary Ashby
Ph.D. candidate, Spanish & Portuguese
Liila Balint
Ph.D. candidate, German Studies
Alex Chen
Humanities MA Co-terminal student, GPH
Matthew Daube
Ph.D. candidate, Drama
Markian Dobczansky
Ph.D. candidate, History
Ileana Drinovan
Ph.D. candidate, Drama
Al Duncan
Ph.D. candidate, Classics
Cosana Eram
Ph.D. candidate, French & Italian
Rhonda Goodman
Ph.D. candidate, Art & Art History
Randall Harp
Ph.D. candidate, Philosophy
Nigel Hatton
Ph.D. candidate, Modern Thought & Literature
Douglas Jones
Ph.D. candidate, Drama
Foivos Karachalios
Ph.D. candidate, Classics
Rebecca Katz
Ph.D. candidate, Education
James Kierstead
Ph.D. candidate, Classics
Erinn Knyt (Losness)
Ph.D. candidate, Music
Connie Lau
Ph.D. candidate, Music
Steven (Gene) Lee
Ph.D. candidate, German Studies
Joshua Lobert
Ph.D. candidate, History
Anndretta Lyle
Humanities MA Coterminal Student, GPH
Todd Mack
Ph.D. candidate, Spanish & Portuguese
Aida Mbowa
Ph.D. candidate, Drama
William McPherson
Ph.D. candidate, History
Derek Miller
Ph.D. candidate, Drama
Matthew Moore
Ph.D. Candidate, Drama
Ian Morgan
Ph.D. candidate, German Studies
Ronmel Navas
Ph.D. candidate, Modern Thought & Literature
Heather Otto
Ph.D. candidate, History
Ugur Pece
Ph.D. candidate, History
Jenna Reback
Humanities MA Co-terminal student, Graduate Program in Humanities
Megan Rowe
Humanities MA Co-terminal student, Graduate Program in Humanities
Sebastian Salvado
Ph.D. candidate, Music
Joseph Sargent
Ph.D. candidate, Music
Stephanie Schmidt
Ph.D. candidate, Spanish & Portuguese
Michael St. Clair
Ph.D. candidate, Drama
Christopher Stroop
Ph.D. candidate, History
Kelly Summers
Ph.D. candidate, History
Peter Woodford
Ph.D. candidate, Religious Studies
Undergraduate Students
Pradip Chandrasoma
Honors Essay: I Dreamt for Miles, and Walked to Myself; Tutor: Alex Woloch, English
Alexandra Esparza
Honors Essay: Ignatian Influence and a Religious Equilibrium within Donne's Holy Sonnets; Tutor: Helen Brooks, English/Humanities
Collette Harris
Honors Essay: A Critical Analysis of the Nature of Humanitarian Healthcare Relationships in Africa and the Caribbean from the Physician's Perspective; Tutor: Don Barr, Sociology
David Israelachvili
Honors Essay: "Radical Psychoanalysis, Critques of Modernity and the Search for a Sane Society: the Social Criticism of Erich Fromm Reconsidered"; Tutor: Paul Robinson, History
Maneesha Limaye
Honors Essay: The Aesthetics of Gender in Anna Karenina; Tutor: Monika Greenleaf, Slavic Lang/Lit
Tina Mayers
Honors Essay: Transfiguring Coming-of-Age: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the TranscendentalMoment; Tutor: Franco Moretti, English
Vaughan Meyer
Honors Essay: Gender in Elizabeth Haydon's The Symphony of Ages and Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy; Tutor: Ursula Heise, English
Conner Peretti
Honors Essay: "One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression: William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Reader Response Criticism"; Tutor: Helen Brooks, Engish/ISH
Carlyn Sylvester
Honors Essay: Now That's Funny!: An Exploration of Racial Humor in Popular Culture as Explained by Classic Theories of Humor and Race; Tutor: Gregory Freidin, Slavic Lang/Lit
Alumni
Joanna Chin
Honors Thesis: Embodying and Inspiring Change: The Common Threads of Art, Quilting, and Memorialization in the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Tutor: J.P. Daughton, History
Megan Christofferson
Honors Thesis: Variations in 'Fine Eyes': Gendered Identities in Film Adaptations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Tutor: Carol Shloss, English
YunXiang Chu
Honors Thesis: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe: Studies on the Anti-Redemptive Countermonument in Germany. Tutor: Russell Berman, German Studies
Carrie Denning
Honors Thesis: The New York Stock Exchange: Physical Space in the Digital Age. Tutor: Tom Beischer, Art History
Georgia Duan
Honors Thesis: Divulging the Commedia: The Hybridity of Text and Speech in Public Performance. Tutor: Robert Harrison, French & Italian
Jessica Lin
Honors Thesis: "Nerves of the Novel": the Aesthetics of Camouflage in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Tutor: Monika Greenleaf, Slavic Lang/Lit
Margarita Liptsin
Honors Thesis: Capturing Complexity: Is there a contradiction in the ambition of scientists of nanotechnology to create complexity and control it? Tutor: J.P. Dupuy, French & Italian
Anne Schiff
Honors Thesis: Afterlives of the Greek Bible: Reception of the Septuagint in Jerome and Rabbinic Midrash. Tutor: Charlotte Fonrobert, Religious Studies
Alyssa Tonelli
Honors Thesis: "Fat and Beautiful": The Real Women in Real Women Have Curves. Tutor: Helen Brooks, English/ISH
Alexander Williamson
Honors Thesis: Separating the Strands: Chogyam Trungpa's Buddhist and Shambhala Teachings. Tutor: Carl Bielefeldt, Religious Studies
Anne Wyman
Honors Thesis: I Think of You Often: A History of International PEN as seen through the organization's relationship with the writers Miguel de Unamuno, Ernst Toller and Vaclav Havel. Tutor: Tobias Wolff, English