Past Speakers and Chairs

Elisabeth Anker
Associate Professor, American Studies and Political Science, George Washington University

Joshua A. Bell
Curator of Globalization, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History

Jane Bennett
Professor, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Makeda Best
Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard University Art Museums

Andrew Bickford
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University

Christopher Bonner
Associate Professor, History, University of Maryland

Alan C. Braddock
Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies, The College of William and Mary

Warren T. Byrd, Jr.
Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Principal, Nelson Byrd Woltz, Landscape Architects

Amy Chazkel
Bernard Hirschhorn Associate Professor, History, Columbia University

Sylvia Shin Huey Chong
Associate Professor, English and American Studies, University of Virginia

Martin Collins
Curator, Space History, National Air and Space Museum
Editor, History and Technology

Ben Cowan
Associate Professor, History, University of California, San Diego

Michael Denning
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies and English, Yale University

Nicholas Diakopoulos
Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Northwestern University

Simon During
Professor at the Center for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland

Dana R. Fisher
Professor, Sociology, University of Maryland
Director, Program for Society and the Environment, University of Maryland

Melissa S. Fisher
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University

Stefanos Geroulanos
Professor, History, New York University

Lisa Gitelman
Professor, English and Media, Culture & Communication, New York University

Thomas Guglielmo
Associate Professor, American Studies, The George Washington University

Jeffrey C. Herf
Distinguished University Professor, History, University of Maryland

Robin Kelsey
Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography and Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University

Joel Kuipers
Professor, Anthropology and Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

T.J. Jackson Lears
Board of Governors Professor, History, Rutgers University

Sam Lebovic
Associate Professor, History, George Mason University

Steven S. Lee
Associate Professor, English, University of California, Berkeley

Thomas Malaby
Professor and Chair, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Patchen Markell
Associate Professor, Government, Cornell University

Reinhold Martin
Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University
Director, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

Eve Meltzer
Associate Professor, Visual Studies, New York University

Kalyani Devaki Menon
Associate Professor, Religious Studies, DePaul University

Linda Monahan
Doctoral Candidate, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary

Robyn Muncy
Professor, History, University of Maryland

Christopher Nealon
Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University

Bibiana Obler
Associate Professor, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University

Paul Outka
Associate Professor of English, University of Kansa

Uta G. Poiger
Professor of History and Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University

Theodore Porter
Distinguished Professor of History and Peter Reill Chair in European History, University of California, Los Angeles

Sangeeta Ray
Professor, English, University of Maryland

Ana Patricia Rodríguez
Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, University of Maryland

Joshua Shannon
Professor, Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland

Mick Smith
Professor and Queen’s National Scholar, School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University

Ashwini Tambe
Professor, Women’s Studies, University of Maryland
Editorial Director, Feminist Studies

Heidi Tworek
Associate Professor, International History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Jason Weems
Associate Professor, Art History, University of California, Riverside

R. John Williams
Associate Professor, English, Yale University

Joel Wolfe
Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst