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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.

Associate 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 Galic is a PhD candidate in architectural history whose research examines how architectural ideology shifted as transformations in the transnational political economy and conflicts reshaped the conditions of architectural practice between Europe and post-Ottoman Non-Aligned geographie

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.

Professor, Landscape Architecture

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

IES Graduate Fellow 2025-26

Spencer Hadley (he/him/his) is a PhD candidate in the Department of German Studies.

Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature

Gail Holst-Warhaft is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, and Near Eastern Studies. Her research interests include translation, modern Greek literature and music, Greek literature from antiquity to the present, water, and culture.