Visiting Speakers

Siddhartha Deb is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, and currently teaches at the New School.

James Delbourgo is a historian of early modern science and the Atlantic world.

Michael S. Dodson is a historian of British imperialism in South Asia, focusing particularly upon the intellectual and cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Fa-Ti Fan's research centers on the history of science, modern East Asia, nationalism, and imperialism.

Brian FitzGerald currently teaches at The College of Saint Mary Magdalen. He received both his Master of Studies and his Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford in Medieval Studies and History, respectively. Additionally, he holds degrees from Fordham and Princeton. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, he taught for six years at a private Catholic high school in New York. He is a medievalist, a historian, and a Latinist.

Benedetto Fontana's research interests include ancient, medieval and modern political theory, as well as contemporary political and social theory.  Currently he is working on Antonio Gramsci’s political thought, on Machiavelli and his Romans, and on the relation between politics and rhetoric.

Justin Fox is editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group and author of The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street.

Cathy Gere is primarily interested in the history of the human sciences, especially archaeology and neuroscience, and she teaches classes in the histories of medicine, medical ethics, evolutionary theory and biology.