Eric Wertheimer Eric Wertheimer writes cultural history and poetry and works to implement the curricular and research possibilities of the digital humanities. He is currently Associate Dean for Graduate Initiatives and faculty director of ASU’s Digital Humanities Initiative. He is the founder and past Director of ASU’s Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies, serves…
Robert Townsend Robert Townsend oversees the Washington office of the American Academy and day-to-day work on the Humanities Indicators. Prior to the Academy, he spent 24 years at the American Historical Association, in positions ranging from editorial assistant to deputy director. He is the author of History’s Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in…
Kathryn Temple Kathryn Temple, JD, PhD, and English Department chair at Georgetown from 2009 to 2015, is completing a book on the poetics of eighteenth-century law that focuses on the relationship between affect and institutional structures. She is the recent recipient of a year-long NEH fellowship. As the primary investigator on the Mellon Foundation grant…
Amanda Jeanne Swain Amanda Jeanne Swain is Associate Director of the UC Irvine Humanities Commons. She is responsible for graduate professionalization activities that serve the School of Humanities, as well as for research development mentoring with individual graduate students. Amanda co-leads Humanities Out There Public Fellows, an internship program for humanities PhD students. She is…
Emily Swafford Emily Swafford is manager of academic affairs at the American Historical Association, where she coordinates the Mellon-funded Career Diversity for Historians initiative. She also staffs the AHA’s Teaching Division and supports their work on history education at the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate level. She earned a PhD in 20th-century US history at the…
Sabrina Smith Sabrina Smith is the UCHRI summer PhD intern/fellow and a doctoral candidate in History at UCLA where she works on colonial Latin American history as it relates to the African diaspora to the Americas. She has a BA in Anthropology and Spanish from UC Santa Barbara, and has professional experience working as a…
Chadwick T. Smith Chadwick T. Smith currently teaches in the German department at New York University and has previously taught at Rutgers University and Barnard College. His research focuses on 19th and 20th century German literature; science, technology and society; and media studies, publishing widely on Vilém Flusser and Friedrich Kittler. From 2013-15, Chadwick Smith…
Chris Sheehan Chris Sheehan’s particular strengths lie at the intersection of teaching and learning and educational technology. Chris was formerly a K-12 teacher and instructional coach with an emphasis in technology implementation. After transitioning full time to higher education, Chris has continued his work as a technologist with a primary task of researching, evaluating, and…
Justin Quam Justin Quam is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of German at Georgetown University. He received his BA in Political Science from Yale University in 2010; since graduation, he has taught English through the Fulbright Commission in Bruck an der Mur, Austria, and worked as a grade school assistant at the German International…
Nicoletta Pireddu Nicoletta Pireddu is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Georgetown University, and the current director of the FLL Hager Scholars Program Colloquium. Her research focuses on European literary and cultural relations, critical theory, translation studies, interdisciplinary approaches to literature, and questions of borders, national and transnational identities, Her articles have appeared in…