Visiting Speakers

Moshe Sluhovsky is the Vigevani Professor of European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in early modern and modern religious history. He is currently a Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaboration at the Graduate Center of CUNY, where he is finishing a book tentatively titled Practices of the Self: Acquiring Subjecthood in Early Modern Catholicism.

Jacob Soll is a professor of History and Accounting at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D from Magdalene College at Cambridge University, in 1998.  

Vítězslav Sommer joined Sciences Po in 2013 as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC project “A political history of the future: knowledge production and future governance 1945–2010 – FUTUREPOL." His research explores transformations of Czechoslovak future studies from the “scientific and technological revolution” (STR) research project in the 1960s and 1970s to prognostika (economic forecasting) in the perestroika period.

Scott Spector continues his studies in the cultural history of modern Central Europe. His varied research and teaching interests revolve around problems of the relations between ideology and culture, approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. 

David Stark is the Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University. His book The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life examines alternative ways to establish value as a measure of economic worth. His current research looks at large sets of data as he searches for the social origins of creativity. He receieved his PhD in Sociology from Harvard University in 1982.

Samuel R. Thomas, performer and ethnomusicologist, holds a Masters of Music (Ethnomusicology) from CUNY, and is currently a Ph.D Candidate in Ethnomusicology at CUNY, Graduate Center. Thomas is a woodwindist, composer and bandleader of Asefa. His academic work centers on Sephardic studies, diaspora studies, musical traditions of the Middle East and North Africa, Jewish music research, jazz and popular musics of the non-Western world as well as interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and history.

Nellie Thompson, PhD, is an historian and member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Her research interests include the role of women in the psychoanalytic movement, both as institutional actors and contributors to psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, and the contributions of émigré analysts to psychoanalysis in America. 

Rodrigo Toscano is currently at work on an epic poem, titled, “Explosion Rocks Springfield.” His latest book is Deck of Deeds (Counterpath Press, 2012). Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books) was a 2007 National Poetry Series Selection. He was the recipient of a New York State Fellowship in Poetry and his poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Against Expression, Diasporic Avant Gardes, and Poetic Voices Without Borders, and Best American Poetry.