Faculty Advisory Committee

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Research Interests:

Religion, ritual and healing; shamanism, gender and sexuality; discourses and practices of power, tradition and modernity; identity politics; local intersections with nationalism, transnationalism and global culture; social memory and alternative histories; performance; person-centered ethnography; indigenous highland South America, Chile, Mapuche

Carrie Tirado Bramen
Associate Professor of English
Acting Executive Director, Humanities Institute

Research Interests:

Nineteenth-century American literature; U.S. Latino/a literature; cultural history; critical race theory; transatlantic and intellectual history

Galen Brokaw
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature

Research Interests:

Colonial Latin American studies; historiography; Nahuatl language and culture; Indigenous writing; Indigenismo; the Andean khipu

Janina Brutt-Griffler
Professor and Director of Polish Studies

Affiliated Faculty, Department of Linguistics

Research Interests:

Language use in society; multilingualism; contemporary dialogue on heritage languages; language maintenance

Dr. Brutt-Griffler has been voted Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics, published in cooperation with the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA). She was recently awarded an annual research grant by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy to carry out a research project titled, "Forms of Multilingualism: EU language policy, national language and English." This study will examine the societal impact of the implementation of the European Union’s language policy in Poland, the largest of its new member states.

Tim Dean
Professor of English
Director, Humanities Institute

Research Interests:

Queer theory; psychoanalysis; poetry and poetics; modernism; LGBT studies; literary theory; cultural studies

Dr. Dean's new book titled, Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections On The Subculture Of Barebacking, was recently released.

Gregory Dimitriadis
Professor and Acting Chair of Educational Leadership & Policy

Graduate School of Education

Research Interests:

Critical ethnography; urban education; educational policy; popular culture and cultural studies; postcolonial music, art, and literature

Christian Flaugh
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Research Interests:

Bodies and normality in the work of Tahar Ben Jelloun, Maryse Conde and Jacques Godbout; conceptions of dis/ability in early Negritude writings; revolutions of the body in twentieth-century Francophone theater

Keith Griffler
Associate Professor and Chair of African & African American Studies

Research Interests:

African American and African Diaspora history; race and labor; the Underground railroad

Hal Langfur
Associate Professor of History

Research Interests:

Colonial and post-independence Brazil; early modern Atlantic world; race relations; comparative indigenous history; cross-cultural encounters; cultures of violence

Carine Mardorossian
Associate Professor of English

Research Interests:

World literature; Postcolonial and Caribbean studies; Feminist theory

Teresa A. Miller
Professor, Law School

Research Interests:

Prisons and the policies of mass incarceration; the increasing number of people incarcerated in the United States; immigration and detention

Susan Muchshima Moynihan
Assistant Professor of English

Research Interests:

Asian American literature and culture; autobiography studies

David A. Patterson
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work

Research Interests:

Effectiveness of treatment for clients with substance abuse roblems

Erik R. Seeman
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies of History

Research Interests:

Colonial North America; religion, Indians, African Americans and death rituals

Dennis Tedlock
Distinguished Professor, McNulty Chair in the Poetics Program
Research Professor of Anthropology

Research Interests:

Indigenous languages, verbal arts, writing systems, and religions of the Western Hemisphere

Gwynn Thomas
Assistant Professor of Global Gender Studies

Research Interests:

Feminist thought; gendered theories of nationalism and citizenship; women in Latin America; international feminist movements

Hilary N. Weaver
Professor, School of Social Work

Research Interests:

Multicultural social work; Occupational social work; Social welfare policy

Hershini Young
Associate Professor of English

Research Interests:

Contemporary black diasporic literature; black female sexuality; Queer studies

Jason Young
Assistant Professor of History

Research Interests:

Black Atlantic; slave culture and religion; pre-colonial Kongo