Andrew Casper is Professor of Art History. He specializes in Renaissance and Baroque art of southern Europe and its transatlantic intersections, especially religious imagery in Italy in the late 1500s and early 1600s. He is the author of Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy (Penn State 2014) and An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy (Penn State 2021), which won the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society. His research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, Fulbright Program, Howard Foundation at Brown University, National Endowment for the Humanities, and others.

Nathan S. French is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Religion and an affiliate to the faculty in International Studies, as well as Middle East, Jewish, and Islamic Studies in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies. He is the author of And God Knows the Martyrs: Martyrdom and Violence in Jihadi-Salafi Thought (Oxford University Press, 2020) and his work has appeared in Religion Dispatches, the Conversation, and the Journal of Religion and Violence.

Andrew Hebard, Associate Professor of English, studies late-nineteenth-century American literature. He has published articles in American Quarterly; Law, Culture, and the Humanities; African American Review; and Arizona Quarterly. He has a chapter on science and aesthetics in the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism (2019). His book, The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910 (Cambridge, 2013), examines how American literature conventionalized legal forms of sovereignty and administration. His current book project examines the relationship between literary aesthetics and corruption in the Progressive Era state.

Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr. is Associate Deanof the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, feminist epistemology, and the work of the later Wittgenstein.  She has published articles in Hypatia, Feminist Philosophical Quarterly,Philosophical Papers, Social Epistemology, and Social Philosophy Today. She is co-editor of Intersectional Epistemologies (a special2023 issue of Hypatia) and The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice (2017). She is currently a Senior Research Associate of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at theUniversity of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Nya Hodge is a junior creative writing and history major. She is chief of staff for Miami’s student body president and vice-president and a contributor to Miami’s archive of Black student life in King Library.  Her research explores the rise of authoritarianism in democracies and the role of propaganda in American culture. 

Anastasija Mladenovska is a junior honors student from North Macedonia majoring in political science, accountancy, and Russian, East European and Eurasian studies and minoring in philosophy and law. Her research interests include literary and political exile, European migration, political philosophy, and the intersections between business and foreign policy. She hopes to work in political risk consulting or business law.

Caitlin Spyra is a senior from Dublin, Ohio with majors in comparative religion and computer science. She is a member of student government and the Miami classics club. Her research interests include the effects of new technologies on religiosity and neopagan movements.

Sumit Tripathi is a senior honors student majoring in physics, mathematics, and philosophy. A former Undergraduate Summer Scholar and undergraduate teaching assistant, his research interests include the philosophy of physics, quantum theory, and the physical basis of consciousness.

Millie West is a senior art and architecture history major with a co-major in arts management. As a 2024 Miami Undergraduate Summer Scholar, she did independent research in Washington D.C. Her undergraduate thesis explores the art and activism of the Nigerian artist Peju Alatise.

Marlow Zuch is a junior history and creative writing major and a current participant in the OhioLINK Luminaries program. Their research interests include medieval literature, information science, and queer history. 

Sarah Chang is Assistant Professor of History. She studies the history of socialist factories in China from the 1950s to the present, with a focus on urbanization, gender, and everyday life. Her current book project examines the rise and fall of two state-owned steel mills in Chengdu, China, and considers how the politics of state socialism and later capitalism transformed urban space and the identities of industrial workers, staff, and their families.

Rodney D. Coates is a sociologist and professor of critical race and ethnic studies. Over three decades, he has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters, and collections of essays.  He is the recipient of the Association of Black Sociologists Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Sociological Association Career Award in Scholarship and Service, and the Society of the Study of Social Problems Outstanding Career Award in Scholarship and Teaching. He was the 2021 College of Arts and Science Distinguished Educator. His recent publications include The Matrix of Race (Sage 2021) and Critical Race Theory and the Search for Truth (Bristol 2024).

Mark Dahlquist is a humanities and social sciences librarian and a scholar of sixteenth and seventeenth-century early modern British literature. He holds a Ph.D. and Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois. His research interests include the English Reformation, information literacy and creativity, and educational and information infrastructures. His work has appeared in journals including College & Research Libraries, English Literary History, and Shakespeare Quarterly.

Katie Johnson is Professor of English and Affiliate inGlobal and Intercultural Studies. She is author of Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America (Cambridge 2006); Sex for Sale: Six Progressive-EraBrothel Drama Plays (Iowa 2015); and Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway(Michigan 2023). She is the recipient of two NEH Summer Fellowships, a Getty Research Grant, the Outstanding Article Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Gerald Kahan Prize from the American Society forTheatre Research.

Jeff Kruth is an assistant professor of architecture.  His research interests include the social and material legacies of the industrial city and their effects on power and expertise in the contemporary city. He works closely with the Center for Community Engagement in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati and is currently studying housing and infrastructure programs associated with the US New Deal.

Luis Iñaki Prádanos is Professor of Spanish. He is the author of Postgrowth Imaginaries. New Ecologies and Counterhegemonic Culture in Post-2008 Spain (Liverpool UP, 2018) and the editor of A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies (Tamesis, 2023). His research and teaching interests include environmental humanities, political ecology of technology, critical energy and infrastructure studies, and regenerative design. His current research explores the changing cultural understandings of design in the time of energy decline, technological acceleration, and ecological breakdown.

Drew S. Burk is an M.A. student in French. He has translated over a dozen works of French philosophy and literature. His current areas of research include the philosophy of time and the relation of human and non-human intelligence. His MA thesis explores the work of the French novelist Antoine Volodine.

Laurel Myers is an M.A. student in history.She received her B.A. in history and American studies with a minor in museum studies from Miami University. Her research interests explore the social, cultural, and labor history of the early 20th century United States.

Alexander Nebbergall is an M.A. student in philosophy.  They have a B.A. in philosophy and a B.S. in computer science from Ohio State University. Their research interests are in dynamic realism,Foucault, Hegelian-Marxism, ecofeminism, and the Marxist tradition.