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Penn Faculty Fellows

  • Oscar Aguirre Mandujano

    Assistant Professor of History

    Project: The Afterlives of Choice: Regret, Defiance, and Morality among Early Modern Ottoman Bureaucrats

    Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies early modern Ottoman intellectual history, and its connections to literature, poetry, and bureaucracy... (more)

  • Julia Alekseyeva

    Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies

    Project: Choice and Style in Documentary Arts: Between Fiction and Non-Fiction

    Julia Alekseyeva is an Assistant Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches the interactions between global media and radical leftist politics. Her... (more)

  • Shira Brisman

    Assistant Professor of the History of Art

    Project: The Goldsmith’s Debt: Property, Intellectual Property, and the Rhetoric of Choice

    Shira Brisman is an Assistant Professor in the History of Art department at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of early modern art focusing on the period of 1400-1800, her current teaching and research... (more)

  • Ashley Brock

    Assistant Professor of Romance Languages

    Project: Gender and Agency on the Frontier in the Americas

    Ashley Brock is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on modern Latin American literature and culture. Her research interests include the... (more)

  • Ian Fleishman

    Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures and Cinema & Media Studies

    Project: Counterfeit Identities: Camp Abjection from André Gide to Xavier Dolan

    Ian Fleishman is an Assistant Professor of German and Cinema & Media Studies and the Graduate Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is... (more)

  • Glenda Goodman

    Assistant Professor of Music

    Project: Strategic Sounds: Native American Music in the Era of Colonial Conquest

    Glenda Goodman is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. She works on the social and material history of early American music. She is the author of Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in... (more)

  • Nancy Hirschmann

    Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences; Political Science; and Gender, Sexuality & Women Studies

    Project: Freedom, Power, and Disability

    Nancy J. Hirschmann is Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science at The University of Pennsylvania. She has served as Director of the Program on... (more)

  • Lisa Mitchell

    Associate Professor of South Asia Studies

    Project: Choosing Elections, Choosing Choice? Indian Democracy in Translation

    Lisa Mitchell is an anthropologist and historian of southern India. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include intellectual history and the movement of globally-circulating... (more)

  • Melissa Teixeira

    Assistant Professor of History

    Project: Constitutional Choices and Dictatorship: Portugal and Brazil following the Great Depression

    Melissa Teixeira is an Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches on economic, legal, and intellectual history with a focus on Brazil and Latin... (more)

  • Jolyon Thomas

    Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

    Project: Religion and the Segregationist Origins of the School Choice Movement

    Jolyon Thomas is an assistant professor of religious studies who specializes in the religions of Japan and the United States. His research investigates how religion intersects with media, law, politics, education,... (more)