BOLLI Digital Fellows

BOLLI engages talented graduate students and faculty as Digital Fellows to lead lecture series and study groups online.

This teaching has enriched the BOLLI program inestimably, and from all reports, the intellectual life of the Fellows as well. Our Digital Fellows have brought us courses on classical and popular music, Jewish studies, and art history and the list grows.

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BOLLI is grateful to count these talented individuals as part of its Brandeis community.

Bennett Comerford
Bennett Comerford
Fall 2022

PhD Candidate, Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion

Ruth Ezra
Ruth Ezra
Spring 2021 — Fall 2021

PhD, Art History, Harvard University

"I learned to stay true to what I wanted to accomplish and couldn’t please everyone. Overall I feel a lot more confident about teaching online in the future and I am glad to have had an opportunity to try out an ambitious course with supportive staff."

Simon Friedland
Simon Friedland
Fall 2023

PhD, University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies

Sam Gee
Sam Gee
Spring 2023

PhD Candidate, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

Akram Haddad
Akram Haddad
Spring 2022 — Present

Composer and Pianist

Gil Harel
Gil Harel
Winter 2011 — Present

Assistant Professor of Music, Naugatuck Valley Community College

"Leading a BOLLI course is always a tremendously rewarding experience, as it affords me a chance to prepare material and present to intellectually curious 'students' who invariably broaden my horizons in return."

Matt Kamm
Matt Kamm
Spring 2022 — Present

Conservation Outreach Coordinator at Franklin Park Zoo

Yun Ha Kim
Yun Ha Kim
Fall 2022 — Present

PhD Candidate in Germanic Studies, University of Chicago

Amy King
Amy King
Fall 2021 — Present

PhD, Italian Studies, University of Bristol

Lindsay King
Lindsay King
Spring 2020, Fall 2020

PhD, Modern Jewish History, UCLA

"Teaching at BOLLI has been an opportunity for me to think about why it is important to study history at all ages and stages of life."

Steven J. Klein
Steven J. Klein
Fall 2022 — Present

Senior Editor, Haaretz English Edition and Adjunct Instructor, Tel Aviv University

David Kretz
Spring 2022 — Fall 2022

PhD Candidate, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago

Talia Kwartler
Talia Kwartler
Spring 2023

PhD, History of Art, University College London

Jessica Landau
Jessica Landau
Fall 2022 — Present

Assistant Instructional Professor, MA Program in the Humanities & Art History, University of Chicago

Emily Leifer
Emily Leifer
Fall 2022 — Present

PhD Candidate, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

Agnes Malinowska
Agnes Malinowska
Spring 2023

Assistant Instructional Professor, MA Program in the Humanities and English, University of Chicago

Scott McKnight
Scott McKnight
Spring 2021 — Present

PhD, International Relations, University of Toronto

Jacob Meskin
Jacob Meskin
Summer 2021

Senior Lecturer in the Me’ah Program at Hebrew College

Julian Moreen
Julian Moreen
Fall 2021 — Fall 2022

Pianist and singer-songwriter

Julia Mueller
Spring 2023

Independent Writer and Scholar

PhD from The Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

Hankus Netsky
Hankus Netsky
Spring 2021 — Present

Chair of New England Conservatory's Contemporary Improvisation Department

Keith Preble
Keith Preble
Fall 2022

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Miami University (2022-23 academic year)

Ben Railton
Spring 2023

PhD, Professor of English and American Studies, Fitchburg State University

Jared Redmond
Jared Redmond
Spring 2020 — Present

Lecturer in Music Composition and Theory, Seoul National University

"Teaching at BOLLI is always an opportunity for me to dive deeper into music which I thought I already knew very well, and then, unfailingly, to be challenged, surprised, made curious and enriched by the broad knowledge and experience of the lovers of music and culture in my courses."

Leah Rumsey
Leah Rumsey
Fall 2022

PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University

Rachel Stephens
Rachel Stephens
Spring 2021 — Fall 2021

Professor of Art and Art History, University of Alabama

Jimmy White
Jimmy White
Spring 2023

PhD Candidate, Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago

Charmaine Willis
Charmaine Willis
Fall 2022

PhD Candidate, Political Science, University at Albany (SUNY)

Rev. Michael Woolf, ThD
Rev. Michael Woolf, ThD
Fall 2022

ThD, Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School

Adjunct Theology Professor, Lewis University

Yiyang Zhuge
Yiyang Zhuge
Fall 2023

PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at Boston College

Athanasios Grammenos
Athanasios Grammenos, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki