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Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Chris Halsted

    History

    University of Virginia, 2021

    Project: Imagining a World Gone Wrong: Truth, Identity, and Fear in Early Medieval Europe

    Chris Halsted is a historian of early medieval Europe, focusing on borders, boundaries, and the creation of ethnic identity in the ninth and tenth centuries. His research explores subjects including connectivity and... (more)

  • Delbar Khakzad

    Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies

    University of Toronto, 2022

    Project: The Celestial Language: The Search for Esoteric Universal Truth and the Enchantment of Modern Science in 19th-Century Iran

    Delbar is a social historian of science and religion in the Indo-Persianate world and the Middle East, focusing on how the entanglement of science and religion, particularly Shi‘i Islam and Zoroastrianism, shaped the... (more)

  • Ana Lolua

    Eastern European History, History of Knowledge

    Georg-August University of Goettingen; Ilia State University, 2025

    Project: Between Imperial and Anti-Imperial: The Case of the Georgian State Museum from the Early Bolshevik Period to Perestroika

    Ana Lolua holds an MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe (Warsaw, Natolin) and a second MA in Nationalism Studies from Central European University (Budapest). She is currently completing... (more)

  • Jennifer Sierra

    Linguistic Anthropology; Digital Media

    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2025

    Project: Bateria Keyotai Kaman (’Til the Battery Dies): The (Im)Possible Digital Life of Shipibo-Konibos in the Peruvian Amazon

    Jennifer Sierra’s research explores human-machine relationships among Shipibo-Konibo people (who refer to themselves as “Shipibo”), an Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. Drawing on insights from... (more)

  • Spencer Small

    Russian and East European Studies

    Yale University, 2024

    Project: The Ethical Pact in Russophone Wartime Writing

    Spencer Small is a scholar of Soviet and Post-Soviet literature, culture, and digital media. He earned his PhD from Yale University in Slavic Languages and Literatures. His research investigates the relationships... (more)