Visiting Speakers

Rosalind O’Hanlon is Professor of Indian History and Culture, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

Amy Offner (Ph.D. Columbia University) has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the United States and the Cold War within NYU’s Tamiment Library, and has received fellowships and grants from institutions including the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, the Inter-American Foundation, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Duke University Center for the History of Political Economy.  Before beginning graduate studies, she worked as a union organizer and an editor at Dollars & Sense, a magazine and book publisher analyzing economic affairs.  In 2008, she worked for the Landmine Survivor Network in Bogotá, Colombia

Julia Ott is Assistant Professor of History at the New School's Eugene Lang College. Her interests include 20th century American history, financial and business history, political conservatism, consumer culture, and women's and gender history.

Cóilín Parsons was educated at the National University of Ireland, Syracuse University, and Columbia University, where he earned his PhD in English and Comparative Literature. Before coming to Georgetown he taught at Columbia University, New York University, and the University of Cape Town (South Africa). His research interests include Irish literature, Modernism, theories of geography and space, cartography, Victorian studies, and postcolonial literature and theory.

Prabhat Patnaik is one of India’s most eminent economists

Gustav Peebles received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Chicago and is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Social Sciences, Bachelor’s Program, at The New School for Public Engagement.

Robert Pollin is an economist and activist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute (PERI).

Mary Poovey is Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English. Her primary scholarly work focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, history, and culture, although she has also published on eighteenth-century British literature and culture, the history of literary criticism, feminist theory, and economic history.