Seminar Participants

Principal Investigators

Jane Kamensky

Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization, Department of History, Brandeis University

Susan S. Lanser

Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Women’s and Gender Studies

Guests of the Seminar

Marty Blatt

Chief of Cultural Resources/Historian, Boston National Historical Park and Boston African American National Historic Site, National Park Service

Christopher L. Brown

Professor of History, Columbia University

Howard G. Brown

Professor of History, SUNY Binghamton

Marlene Daut

Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies, Claremont College

Suzanne Desan

Vilas-Shinners Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Julia Douthwaite

Professor of French, University of Notre Dame

Laurent Dubois

Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History, Duke University

Kathleen A. DuVal

Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina

Ada Ferrer

Professor of History, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University

Amy Freund

Assistant Professor of Art History, Texas Christian University

Doris L. Garraway

Associate Professor of French, Northwestern University

Malick W. Ghachem

Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Eliga Gould

Professor of History, University of New Hampshire

Philip Gould

Professor of English, Brown University

Edward G. Gray

Professor of History, Florida State University

Erica Hirshler

Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts

Marie-Hélène Huet

M. Taylor Pyne Professor of French and Italian, Princeton University

Lynn A. Hunt

Distinguished Professor Emerita of History & Eugen Weber Endowed Chair in Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles

Deborah Jenson

Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University

James H. Johnson

Associate Professor of History, Boston University

Jill Lepore

David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard University

Trish Loughran

Associate Professor of English and History, University of Illinois

Mary Ashburn Miller

Assistant Professor of History and Humanities, Reed College

Jeffrey L. Pasley

Professor of History, University of Missouri

Mark Peterson

Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

Eric Hanson-Plass

Park Guide, Boston National Historical Park, National Park Service

Jeremy D. Popkin

T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Professor of History, University of Kentucky

Sophia Rosenfeld

Professor of History, University of Virginia

Emma Rothschild

Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Harvard University/Cambridge University

Nathaniel Sheidley

Historian, Bostonian Society / Revolutionary Boston

Ashli White

Associate Professor of History, University of Miami

Inez Wolins

Chief, Interpretation and Education, Boston National Historical Park, National Park Service

Seminar Members

Julia Gaffield, Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor of History, Georgia State University

John Hannigan, Predoctoral Fellow

PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University

Jeanna Kadlec, Predoctoral Fellow

PhD Student in English, Brandeis University

Cassandra N. Berman

PhD Student in History, Brandeis University

Richard D. Brown

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Connecticut

Charlotte Daniels

Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Bowdoin College

Malick W. Ghachem

Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Geraldine Gudefin

PhD Student in History, Brandeis University

Thomas A. King

Associate Professor of English, Brandeis University

Haram Lee

PhD Student in English, Brandeis University

Martha McNamara

Director of New England Arts & Architecture Program, Wellesley College

Michael Randall

Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University

Jeffrey S. Ravel

Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Marjorie Salvodon

Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultural Studies, Suffolk University

Faith Smith

Associate Professor of English, African and Afro-American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies, Brandeis University

Nagmeh Sohrabi

Assistant Professor of Middle East History, Brandeis University

Ibrahim Sundiata

Professor Emeritus of History and African and Afro-American Studies, Brandeis University

Bernard Yack

Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy, Brandeis University