People

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Kinga Araya

  Independent Scholar

  Art History, Visual Arts

  Concordia University

  Project: Walking in Exile

• John Ghazvinian

  Contract Author, Harcourt Trade Publishers

  History

  Oxford University

  Project: “A certaine tickling humour”: Passport Records and the Re-Fashioning of English Foreign Travel, 1560–1660

• Susan Lepselter

  Instructor, Social Anthropology, New York University

  University of Texas at Austin

  Project: The Abduction of Memory: American Stories of Captivity, Travel, and Conversion

• Neil Safier

  Assistant Professor, History, U Michigan

  History

  Johns Hopkins University

  Project: From Brazilian Bioprospector to Masonic Revolutionary: The Extraordinary Transatlantic Career of Hipólito José da Costa (1774–1823)

• Edlie Wong

  Assistant Professor, English, Rutgers

  University of California, Berkeley

  Project: Fugitive and Foreigner: Cultures of Travel in the Black Atlantic, 1830–1865