Visiting Speakers

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

Hisham Matar is a Libyan author whose debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

Lisa McGirr specializes in the history of the 20th century United States.

Samuel Moyn is professor of law and history at Harvard University. He earned a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 2001.

Projit Mukharji is primarily interested in the Histories of Medicine in South Asia -- both the vernacularized forms of 'western' medicine, as well as the region's various 'indigenous' medical traditions.

Mae M. Ngai, Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies, is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism.

Michalis Psalidopoulos, one of Greece's leading economists, is Visiting Professor at the The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Joan Richardson is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her work reflects an abiding interest in the ways that philosophy, natural history, and science intersect with literature.