People

Regional Fellows

  • Pardis Dabashi

    Associate Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College

    Project: Quran as Method: Islam and the Making of Criticism

    Pardis Dabashi is Associate Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. She is a scholar of comparative modernist aesthetics and disciplinary history, with an emphasis on narrative form and histories of criticism in... (more)

  • Julia Domínguez

    Professor of Spanish, Director of the Center for Global and Area Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Delaware

    Project: Practicing Memory: Mnemonic Marvels in the Early Modern Hispanic World

    Julia Domínguez is Professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware. Her research explores the intersections of memory studies, early modern Hispanic literature, Renaissance science, and the history of knowledge,... (more)

  • Elise Mitchell

    Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College

    Project: Remedies and Relations: Medicine, Slavery, and Freedom in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

    Dr. Elise A. Mitchell is an assistant professor of History at Swarthmore College. Her current projects examine the histories of the body, medicine, and epidemic disease in the context of the early modern Atlantic... (more)

  • Deniz Türker

    Associate Professor, History of Art, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

    Project: Yıldız Moran and the Anatolian Lens

    Deniz Türker is a historian of Islamic art and architecture specializing in late Ottoman visual and material culture. Her research explores how modern forms of sovereignty and identity were fashioned through... (more)