People

Regional Fellows

  • Paloma Checa-Gismero

    Assistant Professor of Art History, Swarthmore College

    Project: “Curating Slow Revolutions: Socially Engaged Art in the Contemporary Art Institution”

    Paloma Checa-Gismero is a historian of global contemporary art. An assistant professor of art history at Swarthmore College, her teaching revisits the history of North Atlantic modernisms from a transnational lens... (more)

  • Stephanie Doktor

    Assistant Professor of Music Studies, Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance

    Project: Reconstructing Whiteness: Racial Economies of Early Jazz

    Steph Doktor is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Temple University, and her research and teaching ask, “How can we hear inequality?” Her current book project, Reconstructing Whiteness: Race in the Early Jazz... (more)

  • Sylvia Houghteling

    Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

    Project: “Perishability, the Industrial Revolution, and the Duration of Materials”

    Sylvia Houghteling is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College where she teaches courses on early modern visual and material culture, the history of textiles, South Asian art... (more)

  • Ahmad Qais Munhazim

    Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Thomas Jefferson University, East Falls

    Project: Queer Afghanistan: Everyday Politics from Home to Diasporas

    Ahmad Qais Munhazim (they/them), a murat Afghan, Muslim and perpetually displaced, is an Assistant Professor of Global Studies at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. As an interdisciplinary scholar, de/... (more)