Ashley L. Cohen
Associate Professor of English, USC
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Fall 2026
Project Title:
England’s Heretical Radicalisms: Sectarianism, Antinomianism, and Non-Domination in the Long 18th Century
EMSI Faculty Fellows
in reverse chronological order
University Professor and Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Fall 2025
Project Title:
The Virtue of Capitalism: Prudence and the Quest to Create a Philosophy of Good Wealth
Garrett and Anne Van Hunnick Chair in European History, USC
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025
Project Title:
The Nova Zembla Expedition & Dutch Identity
Assistant Professor of History, USC
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025
Project Title:
Gender, Debt, and Decolonization in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands
Daniela Bleichmar
Art History and History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Spring 2024
Project Title:
Women of Art and Science in the Early Modern World
Mengxiao Wang
East Asian Languages and Cultures
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Fall 2023
Project Title: Buddhism and Theatricality in Early Modern China
Frederic Clark
Classics
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Spring 2023
Project Title: Dividing Time: The Invention of Historical Periods in Early Modern Europe
Amy Powell
Art History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Fall 2022
Project Title: Picture Box: A Small History of the Easel Painting
Daniela Bleichmar
Art History and History
EMSI Summer Faculty Fellow, 2022
Project Title: The Painted Book: A Mexican Codex on the Move in the Early Modern World
Rebecca Lemon
English
EMSI Summer Faculty Fellow, 2021
Project Title: States of Emergency in Shakespeare’s England
Sharon Lloyd
Philosophy and Law
EMSI Summer Faculty Fellow, 2021
Project Title: The Happy Hobbesian Commonwealth: Agency, Motivation, and Responsibility in Civil Society
Hilary Schor
English, Comparative Literature and Law
EMSI Summer Faculty Fellow, 2020
Project Title: Bound by Law: The Making of Persons in the Victorian Novel
Natania Meeker
French and Comparative Literature
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2020-2021
Project Title: Illusion Without Error: The Matter of Gender in Eighteenth-Century France
Kelsey Moss
Religion
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2020-2021
Project Title: On Earth as it is in Heaven: Spiritual Racialization in the Colonial Americas
Edgardo Pérez Morales
History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2019-2020
Project Title: Unraveling Abolition: Legal Culture and Gradual Slave Emancipation in Colombia
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2015-2016
Project Title: Corresponding Republics: Secrecy, Epistolarity and Revolutionary Politics, 1765-1804
Emily Hodgson Anderson
English
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2014-2015
Project Title:
The Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare: Memory and Canon Formation
Joseph Boone
English, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2014-2015
Project Title: The Melville Effect: Meditations on Multimedia
Lori Meeks
Religion and East Asian Languages and Culture
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2013-2014
Project Title: The Cult of the Blood Bowl Sutra: Gender and Ideology in Early Modern Japan
Daniela Bleichmar
Art History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2012-2013
Project Title: Collecting the World: Latin American Nature and Art in Global Circulation, 1492–1820
Karen Halttunen
History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2012-2013
Project Title: New England Groundwork: Nature, History, and Local Place, 1790-1860
Rebecca Lemon
English
EMSI Summer Faculty Fellow, 2012-2013
Project Title: Addiction in Early Modern England
Alexander Marr
Art History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2011-2012
Project Title: Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe
Bruce R. Smith
Dean’s Professor of English and Professor of English and Theatre
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2011-2012
Project Title: Cambridge World Shakespeare Project
Sherry Velasco
Spanish and Portuguese and Gender Studies
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2010-2011
Project Title: Cervantes on Cinema
Antónia Szabari
French and Comparative Literature
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2010-2011
Project Title: French in Turkish Clothes: Writing the Ottoman Empire in Early Modern France
Judith Bennett
History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
Sean Roberts
Art History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
Cynthia Herrup
History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2008-2009
Heather James
English and Comparative Literature
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2007-2008
Maria Elena Martinez
History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2006-2007
Joseph Boone
English, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2006-2007
Natania Meeker
French and Comparative Literature
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2006-2007
Project Title: The Female Libertine and the Making of Modern Thought in Ancient Regime France
Emily Hodgson Anderson
English
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2005-2006
Project Title: Staging the Passions: Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Narrative and Performance
Megan Hibler Reid
Religion
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2005-2006
Karen Pinkus
Comparative Literature
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2005-2006
Karen Lang
Art History
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2004-2005
Heather James
English and Comparative Literature
EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2003-2004
Project Title: Audacious Forms: Ovid in Renaissance Poetry and Political Thought
