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President White Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus

Matthew Evangelista's current teaching and research interests focus on the relationship between gender, nationalism, and war; ethical and legal issues in international affairs (particularly just war theory and international humanitarian law); transnational relations; and separatist movements.

IES Director's Fellow 2024-2025

Matt Finck is a historian of Modern Europe with a focus on intellectual and cultural history. His research explores the political culture of revolutionary socialism.

IES Director's Faculty Fellow, 2025-26; Assistant Professor, History
Cristina Florea’s research revolves around nationalism, empire, statehood, war, and regime change in nineteenth and twentieth-century Eastern Europe.
Professor, Classics

Michael Fontaine is a Latinist whose latest work is on the effective use of humor in diplomacy. His research ranges across Latin literature, classical Roman and Greek society, and the Renaissance.

LACS Graduate Fellow '25-'26; IES Graduate Fellow 2026-27

Aisha Fuenzalida Butt is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology and a CIAMS affiliate. Her research examines marine waste and plastic, conservation, tourism and heritage in the Canary Islands.

Evangelista Fellow Spring 2027; IES Graduate Fellow 2026-27

Filip Galić studies the evolving relationship between capitalist ideology post empire — as read through transnational circuits of capital, expertise, and architectural production — and the articulations of national consciousness and sovereignty in post-Ottoman Non-Aligned geographies throughout t

Associate Professor, Public University of Navarra

Sergio García Magariño holds a PhD in sociology with an international mention and is a specialist in education and social development.

IES Graduate Fellow 2026-27

Thomas Gareau-Paquette is a PhD student specializing in American Politics.

PhD, Affiliated Scholar

Jennifer Germann has published widely on art and material culture and women, gender, and race in the eighteenth century.

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture

Maria Goula is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Her research focuses on coastal tourism, especially coastal dynamics and the interpretation and reinvention of leisure patterns.