Faculty Associates

Distinguished Associate Professor of Economics and Globalization. Dr. Allen has conducted field work in the Philippines, India, and Mexico. His recent publication is “Universal Gravity,” co-authored with Costas Arkolakis and Yuta Takahashi published in the Journal of Political Economy  (2019). 

Sujin Eom is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages Program. A scholar of urban studies whose research is anchored in a historical inquiry into migration and the built environment, Eom is currently completing her first book manuscript, Traveling Chinatowns: Migration, Proximity, Violence in the Transpacific Asias, which situates “Chinatown” as an imaginative and material space within the transpacific history of migration and violence. Eom earned her PhD in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies.

Assistant Professor of Music.

Assistant Professor of Religion. Dr. Ayubi is a scholar of women and gender in premodern and modern Islamic ethics.  She specializes in feminist philosophy of Islam and has published on gendered concepts of ethics, justice, and religious authority, and on Muslim feminist thought and American Muslim women’s experiences. She is the author of  Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society (Columbia, 2019).

Senior Lecturer in Religion, Assistant Dean of Faculty for Special Projects & Pre-Major Advising, and Director of the Humanities Living Learning Community.

Assistant Professor of Music.

Assistant Professor of Religion and African and African American Studies. Dr. Booker focuses on the historical study of twentieth-century African American religions. His is the author of the upcoming book, Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century (New York: New York University Press, July 2020).

Professor of Philosphy and the Eunice & Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics & Human Values.

Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of the Program in African and African American Studies.

Assistant Professor of Government.

Assistant Professor of Government.

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Affiliate Faculty in the Program in Asian Societies, Culture, and Language, and Affiliate Faculty in the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Professor of History. Dr. Delmont’s research focus centers on African-American History and U.S. History. He is the author of  Making Roots: A Nation Captivated(University of California Press, 2016); Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (UC Press, 2016); and The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia (UC Press, 2012). 

Visiting Associate Professor of German Studies.

Director of Institute for Writing and Rhetoric and Assistant Professor in English & Creative Writing.

Professor of Geography. Dr. Domosh is cultural-historical geographer who focuses on urban historical geography, cultural geograph, critical development studies, feminist theory, and postcolonialism. She is the author of the publication titled “Race, Biopolitics, and Liberal Development from the Jim Crow South to Postwar Africa,” published in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 

Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies

Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing and Affiliate Faculty in African and African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.  Dr. Garrison is a scholar of eighteenth century British and Anglophone literature and critical theory.  She specializes in marginal stories, early British women’s fiction, and decolonizing literatures of the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.

Senior Lecturer in Psychological & Brain Science and Writing & Rhetoric.

Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College and a faculty member in the Religion Department, Middle Eastern Studies Program, and WGSS. She is the author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany, and Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung, and she and Umar Ryad have just co-edited, The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism. She has also edited On Being a Jewish Feminist; Insider/Outsider: Multiculturalism and American Jews; and Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel. She is currently writing a book, together with Sarah Imhoff, on Jewish Studies and the Woman Question. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has held year-long fellowships at the National Humanities Center and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She has received four honorary degrees and held research grants from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. 

Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Program in Quantitative Social Science Program.

Rebecca Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Program in Quantitative Social Science, affiliated with Sociology. Her research focuses on the ethics and law of how government bureaucracies (e.g., housing authorities; K-12 schools) use a mix of data and discretion to decide who deserves help, and how that prioritization impacts racial and class inequality.

Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Sociology. Dr. Keaton’s research centers on the constructs and lived experiences of race, racialization, racism and their intersections in France, continental Europe, and the U.S. She is the author of Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion (Indiana, 2006); Black Europe and the African Diaspora (co-edited; Illinois, 2009); and Black France-France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness (co-edited; Duke, 2012).

Assistant Professor of Sociology.

Assistant Professor in Film & Media Studies.

Professor of Government and Director of Program in Politics & Law.

Assistant Professor of Geography. Dr. Lopez’s research focuses on the impact of U.S. foreign policy on the unfolding of international health and development projects in Haiti over the past 100 years. Her current projects center on the role and accessibility of health citizenship.

Associate Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Faculty in the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Dr. McCabe’s work centers on gender, youth, education, social problems, and research methods. She is the author of  book Connecting in College: How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success (The University of Chicago Press).

Assistant Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty in the Program in Latin-American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies.

Professor of History, Faculty Affiliate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Faculty Affiliate in Latin American, Latinx, & Caribbean Studies.

Senior Lecturer, Women’s and Gender Studies

Assistant Dean of Pluralism and Leadership.

Associate Professor of Theater.

Assistant Professor of History. Dr. Nikpour researches modern Iranian political and intellectual history, with a particular interest in the history of law, incarceration, and rights. She is the author of “Claiming Human Rights: Iranian Political Prisoners and the Making of a Transnational Movement, 1963-1979.” Published in the issue of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 9, no. 3 (Winter 2018), 363-388.

Senior Lecturer in Writing and African & African American Studies.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Professor of History.

Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Language & Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Faculty Affiliate of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.

Professor of English and Comparative Literture, and Chair of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program. Dr. Pease’s work focuses on 19th- and 20th-century American literature and literary theory and founder/director of the Futures of American Studies Institute. His most recent publication is Theodor Seuss Geisel (2010).

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Affiliate Faculty in the Program in Latin-American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies..

Lecturer in the Department of Religion. His research focuses on religion and politics in the post-World War II era. Dr. Sabella is author of An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story.

Associate Professor of History. Dr. Sackeyfio-Lenoch’s areas of expertise include 20th Century African history,  Modern African history, Ghana, West Africa, Social and Political History, and the African Diaspora. She is the author of The Politics of Chieftaincy: Authority and Property in Colonial Ghana, 1920-1950.

Assistant Professor of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages. Dr. Schmidt-Hori’s research centers on how  gender, sexuality, corporeality, and power are represented and negotiated in pre-seventeenth-century Japanese narratives and illustrations.

Assistant Professor of Geography.

Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing in the Department of English & Creative Writing. Sharlet is a literary journalist whose work often concerns intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and religion. His books include The Family, adapted into a Netflix documentary series, Sweet Heaven When I Die, and This Brilliant Darkness.

Lecturer in Religion.

Associate Professor of Religion. Dr. Singh’s researches questions of religion and politics, religion and economics, secularization, sociology of markets and money, and race & coloniality in relation to religion. He is the author of Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West(Stanford, 2018).

Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. Dr. Spitta’s expertise includes the following areas: Contemporary Latin American and US Latino Literature and Culture, Hemispheric Americas Studies, Material Culture, Border Writing and Culture, Photography and Archives, and Indigenismo. She is the author of Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas(Houston: University of Texas Press, July 2009).

Associate Professor of French. Dr. St. Clair is a scholar focusing on 19th century French poetry and prose, cultural genealogies of the long nineteenth century, psychoanalysis, and theory and pragmatics of the literary. He is the author of Poetry, Politics, and the Body in Rimbaud: Lyrical Material (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Professor of Classical Studies.

Assistant Professor of English. Dr. Stuelke’s work centers on 20th and 21st century hemispheric literature, photography, and popular culture, particularly in relation to histories of US imperialism, racial capitalism, gender and sexuality, and US and Latin American social movements. Her recent publication is “Horror and the Arts of Feminist Assembly,” Contemporaries at Post-45. April 2019.

Associate Professor of Sociology. Dr. Walton is a scholar of race who focuses on consequences of this demographic transition and racial disparities and inequality in the United States. She is the author of  “Habits of Whiteness: How Racial Domination Persists in Multiethnic Neighborhoods.” Published in the Journal of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

Professor in Comparative Literature.

Professor of Geography and Public Affairs. Dr. Wright’s researches labor markets and housing markets in the US. His previous research has examined the effects of Great Recession and anti-immigrant legislation on migration. He is co-author of the publication, “The instability of highly racially diverse residential neighborhoods in the United States.” (2018).

Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture. Dr. Xie’s work focuses on literature from borderlands of East Asia Manchuria, Japan, Korea, and Russia to find how boundaries form and dissolve at the same time in the frontier and how it shapes human experience via creative and critical forms.

Associate Professor of English. Dr. Zeiger’s areas of expertise include Victorian literature, elegy, Immigrant Writing, Feminist Theory, Politics of the Love Lyric, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, etc. Her most recent publication is “‘Less Than Perfect’: Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels” (2012).