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Professor, Comparative Literature

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.

Assistant Professor, Wells College

Leslie Rogne Schumacher is a scholar of Europe and the Middle East. He currently holds positions at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Additionally, Dr.

Assistant Professor, Government

Bryn Rosenfeld's research interests include political behavior, development and democratization, protest, post-communist politics, and survey methodology.

Senior Lecturer, Biology and Science Communication

Mark A. Sarvary is a senior lecturer in biology and science communication at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. His research focuses on evidence-based teaching practices and student-centered pedagogical methods in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning
Stephan Schmidt's research interests concern land-use policy, patterns, and processes.
IES Graduate Fellow 2024-2025

Priyanka Sen is a Ph.D. candidate in the HAUD program.

Associate Professor, Science and Technology

Suman Seth works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of science and medicine. His interests include the history of medicine, race, and colonialism, the physical sciences (particularly quantum theory), & gender and science.

Associate Professor, German Studies

Elke Siegel's research is in German literature from 1900 to the present, literary theory, and psychoanalysis.

IES Graduate Fellow 2024-2025

Nora Siena's dissertation, “Inoperative Brevitas: The Contamination of Short Literary and Philosophical Forms and the Twentieth-century Italian Racconto,” identifies a paradigmatic mode of twentieth-century European poeti

Professor of Practice, Systems Engineering

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.