People

Director

Mark Ravina
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Chair in Japanese Studies, and Professor of History

Faculty Research Fellows

Tatjana Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of History
Project: Blurred Boundaries, Intimate Victims: Intermarried Families and the Holocaust in the Bohemian Lands

Monica Muñoz Martinez, Associate Professor of History
Project: Restorative Histories for Communities Impacted by Gun Violence—Uvalde, Texas

Cristina Soriano, Associate Professor of History
Project: Imperial Ruptures: Colonial Experiments in Trinidad During the Age of Revolutions

Internal Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Isabelle Headrick
Project: A Family in Iran: Networks of Love, Learning and Labor, 1908-1978

Jesse Ritner
Project: Making Snow: Climate and Technology in the U.S. Ski Industry, 1934-present

Graduate Research Assistant

Gabrielle Esparza
Doctoral Candidate in History; M.A., University of Texas at Austin; and B.A., Illinois College

Visiting Research Affiliates

Juan Chiva Beltran, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History University of Valencia (Spain)
Project: Art, Sainthood and Miraculous Images in the Missions of Northern New Spain, 1683–1821

Marta Kane, Ph.D.
Research Associate in History & French Studies
University of Montpellier | Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences & Humanities (France)
Project: Franco-American Exchanges in Humanities, Social Sciences and Economics from 1870 to 1932

Lydia Pyne, Ph.D.
Writer and Historian
Project: The First Color: The Story of Ochre

Past Fellows and Affiliates by Year

- 2023-24
- 2022-23
- 2021-22
- 2020-21
- 2019-20
- 2018-19
- 2017-18
- 2016-17
- 2015-16
- 2014-15
- 2013-14
- 2012-13
- 2011-12
- 2010-11
- 2009-10
- 2008-09