People
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Alessandra Amin
Art History and Middle East Studies
University of California, Los Angeles, 2022
Project: Mother Figure: Art and the Palestinian Dream-State, 1965-1982
Alessandra Amin is a historian of modern art in the Arab world, specializing in Palestinian painting and graphic arts during the second half of the twentieth century. Her work explores the aesthetic and philosophical... (more)
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José Carlos Díaz Zanelli
Language and Culture Studies
Rutgers University, 2022
Project: Insurgent Veins: Indigenismo, Indigenous Literature, and Decolonial Cracks
José Carlos is a Latin Americanist specializing in Indigenous Studies and Environmental Humanities. He received his Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Culture from Rutgers University in 2022. His research focuses... (more)
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Alex Kreger
Religious Studies
University of Texas at Austin, 2023
Project: "Nurhak, The Sun Will Never Rise Upon You": Revolutionary Ethics and Messianic Sufism in Rural Southeast Turkey
Alex Kreger is an anthropologist of religion, secularism, and sound. He earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation, “The Stringed Qur’an: Post-Islamic Reform and... (more)
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Timothy Malone
Cultural Studies, Abolition Studies, Critical Carceral Studies
Claremont Graduate University, 2022
Project: The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contagion and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison
Timothy Malone is a formerly incarcerated scholar who spent eight years inside of various California carceral sites. Upon release, he earned his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University in Cultural Studies. His... (more)
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Melissa Reynolds
History
Rutgers University, 2019
Project: Looking Elsewhere: Bodily Encounters in the Early Modern World
Melissa Reynolds is a historian of early modern European medicine and science. She received her PhD in History from Rutgers in 2019 and was the Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at... (more)