People
Penn Faculty Fellows
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)