Visiting Speakers

Morris Dickstein

Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre
City University of New York

Morris Dickstein is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and senior fellow of its Center for the Humanities, which he founded in 1993.

David Engerman

Professor of History
Brandeis University

David Engerman teaches courses in modern American diplomatic and intellectual history as well as historiography. His current research focuses on superpower aid competition in India during the Cold War.

Wendy Faris

Professor of English
University of Texas at Arlington

Wendy B. Faris is Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has a BA from Stanford in Spanish and an MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard.

Brian Fitzgerald

Professor
The College of Saint Mary Magdalen

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.

Duncan Foley

Leo Model Professor of Economics
The New School

Duncan K. Foley graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1964, and received the Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1966. He has taught at M.I.T., Stanford, Barnard College of Columbia University, and since 1999 has been Leo Model Professor at the Economics Department of the New School for Social Research. He is an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Peter Galison

Joseph Pellegrino University Professor
Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Harvard University

Peter Galison is a Harvard professor of the history of science and of physics, author of several books about twentieth century physics, and winner of the the Max Planck Prize given by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Humboldt Stiftung.

Julian Go

Associate Professor
Boston University

Julian Go is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Previously he was an Academy Scholar at the Academy for International and Area Studies of Harvard University and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois. At BU, he is also a Faculty Affiliate in Asian Studies and the American Studies/New England Studies program.

Simon Goldhill

Professor
University of Cambridge

Professor Simon Goldhill is Professor in Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College.