Julia Chang is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies, a member of the core faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Southeast Asia Program. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Language and Literatures with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Chang has also taught courses at Brown University and San Quentin State Prison with the Prison University Project (currently Mount Tamalpais College).

Mari Jarris works across German- and Russian-language literature and theory, primarily in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their research areas include feminist and queer theory, transnational socialisms, and Critical Theory. They are currently completing a book manuscript, Utopia as Revolution: Marxism’s Queer Pasts and Futures.

Maria C. Taylor is a historian and theorist of landscape design, environmental relations and international urban planning. Taylor was awarded her PhD at University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), where she received the Distinguished Dissertation in Architecture Award for her 2019 dissertation on Soviet urban environmental design. Taylor also earned a Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington and a MA in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University.

Sophie Pinkham’s research focuses on post-Soviet and post-socialist literature, culture, and politics, primarily in Russia and Ukraine. Her current project is a history of the forest in the Russian imagination.

Semida Silveira is a Professor of Practice in the Systems Engineering Program and a member of the CEET Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition. Her goal is to contribute to science-based societal transformation, a global low-carbon circular economy, and sustainable development through transdisciplinary research, education, and actions with impact. She has three decades of experience working with sustainability, particularly energy and climate policy in the European and developing countries' context.

Cristobal Young is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology. He works in the overlapping fields of economic sociology, stratification, and quantitative methodology. His research has examined religion and economic growth in Europe, the effects of the Schengen Agreement on European migration, and comparisons of social capital in the U.S. and Europe.

Jean Bernard Cerin is a multifaceted artist and scholar who produces and performs in projects ranging from film, recital, oratorio, opera, and folk music. Praised for his “burnished tone and focused phrasing” (Chestnut Hill Local). Cerin performs extensively as a baritone with leading early music ensembles across the United States. He founded the Lisette Project in 2021, a research and performance platform focusing on early Haitian classical music, beginning with the oldest song in Haitian Creole, Lisette quitté la plaine. 

Jennifer Kuo’s research focuses on how people learn linguistic sound patterns, and how cognitive biases influence this learning process. She draws heavily on insights from Austronesian languages, including the Formosan languages of Taiwan. 

David Cortright is professor emeritus of the practice at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, Cortright was the director of policy studies at the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and director of the institute’s Peace Accords Matrix project, the largest existing collection of implementation data on intrastate peace agreements.

Shaoling Ma is an interdisciplinary scholar and critical theorist of global Chinese history, literature, and media. At the broadest level, she is drawn to historical periods when geopolitical, socio-economic, and technological developments appear to provide external vantage points from which to navigate the landscape of cultural production, while, in fact, being resolutely embedded in the latter. Ma's teaching and research interests include late nineteenth-century to contemporary Chinese and Southeast Asian cultural productions, media studies, and critical theory.