Marc Van De Mieroop studies the ancient history of the Middle East/Near East and his research engages with the last three millennia BCE. He was trained at the University of Louvain in Belgium and at Yale University in the U.S., where he obtained his Ph.D. He has taught at Yale, the University of Oxford, and
Ann Taves is a scholar of religion whose research has focused for some time on how people, both historical and contemporary, interpret unusual, seemingly involuntary experiences in which people’s usual sense of self is disrupted by anomalous perceptions or sensations. She is best known for two award winning books: Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion
Karen Sullivan is Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Culture and Literature at Bard College. A native of Boston, she studied comparative literature at Bryn Mawr College and the University of California, Berkeley, before coming to Bard. She works on the clash between the conception of truth held by the “clerics” (clerici), or learned men of
Jacqueline Stevens writes about political theories and practices of membership since antiquity. Her current studies of deportation law enforcement engage the quotidian of government documents revealing contemporary illegalities, including the unlawful deportation of United States citizens from the United States. She is the author of Reproducing the State (Princeton UP, 1999) an
Carla Mazzio, a scholar of early modern literature and culture, earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She teaches in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and has special research interests in literature in relationship with the history of science (particularly medicine and mathematics), the history
M. Rahim Shayegan is associate professor of Iranian, and director of the Program of Iranian Studies at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) at UCLA, where he was the inaugural holder of the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian (2005–2009). He received his B.A. from the University of Cologne, Germany, and his
Daniel J. Sharfstein is a professor of law at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches American legal history, property law, and the legal history of race in the U.S. His book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White (Penguin Press, 2011), explores the history of race through the multigenerational
David A. Scott is a Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Founding Director (2003–2011) of the UCLA/Getty Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation Program. After graduating from the University of Reading, UK, with an honors B.S. degree in chemistry, he worked in industry for a while before returning to take an
Leigh Eric Schmidt is the Edward C. Mallinckrodt University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis where he is part of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. He is currently working on a project entitled “Public Atheism: An American History,” which examines the legal and political debates that atheists and nonbelievers have
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker. She is also chair of Harvard’s History and Literature Program as well as a Harvard College Professor, an honor granted in recognition of distinction in undergraduate teaching. During her Guggenheim Fellowship term,
Susan Rotroff is a classical archaeologist whose research focuses on ancient Greek ceramics, from the 6th through the 1st centuries B.C.E. Educated at Bryn Mawr (B.A., 1968) and Princeton (M.A., 1972; PhD., 1976), she began her academic career at Mount Allison University in Canada. Subsequently she moved to Hunter College in New York City, and
Sophia Rosenfeld is an intellectual and cultural historian at the University of Virginia. Her work focuses largely on the eighteenth century and the long afterlife of Enlightenment and revolutionary modes of thought. She is especially interested in revealing the histories behind the basic (and often little noticed) assumptions and attitudes that structure contemporary life, particularly
Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, SUNY, and a Senior Fellow of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics. Her pioneering work interjecting questions of care and disability (especially cognitive disability) into philosophy, and her work in feminist theory have garnered a number of honors
Richard Roberts is the Frances and Charles Field Professor in the History Department at Stanford University, where he has taught African history since 1980 and served as director of the Center for African Studies for nearly two decades. His research has probed elements of social, economic, and legal change in French West Africa from the
Born and educated in the United Kingdom, I have researched and taught the literatures of medieval France in universities in Britain and the United States, including at Cambridge, Princeton, and now New York University. My work ranges over the centuries and genres of medieval literature, including heroic poetry, troubadour lyric, courtly literature, hagiography, and didactic
Leah Price is Professor of English at Harvard University, where she teaches the novel, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, gender studies, and the history of books and reading. In 2006 Price was awarded a chai
James Johnson is a cultural historian at Boston University who writes and teaches about modern and early modern Europe. His research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, the history of Venice, and music history. His work aims to capture the inner experience of people in the past. Johnson’s book Listening in Paris: A Cultural History
Eric T. Jennings is a professor of history at the University of Toronto. He is a fellow at Victoria College and specializes in modern French colonialism. His study of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon under Free French rule, entitled La France libre fut africaine, was published by Perrin in 2014, and will appear in English
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