
The CHAT Advisory Board works with the directors to shape the future of the Center. Board members also evaluate all of CHAT's fellowship and grant applications.
The spirited discussions at its bi-annual meetings have forged most of CHAT's current slate of programs, making the Advisory Board the heart and soul of the Center.
Advisory Board
Dr. Hilary P. Dick
2008-10 External Humanities Fellow
Fields of Interest: Anthropology, Linguistics
Dr. Kristen Gjesdal
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Fields of Interest: German Idealism, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
Mr. Alex Holzman
Director, Temple University Press
Fields of Interest: Scholarly Publication in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, History, History of Science.
Dr. Richard Immerman
Professor of History
Fields of Interest: History of U.S. Foreign Relations, International History, History of Intelligence
Dr. Priya Joshi
Associate Professor of English
Fields of Interest: Imperialism, History of the Book, Narrative and Postcolonial Theory, Bollywood Film, Nationalism
Dr. Rita Krueger
Assistant Professor of History
Fields of Interest: Modern Europe, Eastern Europe and Habsburg history, European Gender, War and Society, Comparative Nationalism
Dr. Augusto Lorenzino
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Fields of Interest: Pidgin and Creole Languages, Languages in Contact, Hispanic Dialectology
Dr. Michael Ryan
Professor of Film and Media Arts
Fields of Interest:
Film Studies, Cultural Studies
Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Associate Professor of Political Science
Fields of Interest: Political Theory, History of Political Thought
Dr. Noah Shusterman
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of History
Fields of Interest: 18th-Century French History and Literature, Philosophy
Dr. Paul Taylor
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Fields of Interest: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Culture, Africana Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Social and Political Philosophy
Dr. Lawrence Venuti
Professor of English
Fields of Interest: Translation Theory and History, Early Modern Literature, World Poetic Traditions, Literary Translation
Center for the Humanities
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