Visiting Speakers

Professor Hadas is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and translations.

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann is currently an assistant professor in the history department at Cornell University. She specializes in United States political and social history after World War II, more specifically, she explores the ways that politics and public policy intersect with gender, race and class inequality. In 2010-2011, Professor Kohler-Hausmann was a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies fellow. It was during this same time that she was a visiting scholar here at the Heyman Center for Humanities.

Hagar Kotef is Assistant Professor, Gender Studies at  Bar Ilan University and an affiliate of the Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University. She works on political theory, specializing in feminist theory, early liberal philosophy, women’s activism and contemporary continental philosophy.

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program.

Sato Makoto is an award-winning documentary filmmaker.

Greil Marcus is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic.

Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award.

Walter Benn Michaels is an American literary theorist at the University of Illinois at Chicago.