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

EMSI Faculty Fellows

in reverse chronological order

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