Ada Ferrer, EMSI Distinguished Lecturer 2024
Master Class
Thursday, April 18, 2024
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Public Lecture: “Cuba: An American History”
Friday, April 19, 2024
11:00 am – 12:00 noon
Congratulations to our 2024-2025 EMSI Fellows!
EMSI Fellows, 2024–2025
We are proud to present the EMSI Faculty Fellows & Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow for the upcoming academic year.
Anne Goldgar
Garrett and Anne Van Hunnick Chair in European History, USC
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025
Project Title:
The Nova Zembla Expedition & Dutch Identity
Ketaki Pant
Assistant Professor of History, USC
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025
Project Title:
Gender, Debt, and Decolonization in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands
Daisy Reid
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, USC
EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow, 2024–2025
Dissertation Title:
On Vegetables and Vermin: The Politics of Insect-Plant Encounters from the Early Modern to the Anthropocene
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