Institute Past Participants

2023 Participants

Jessica Austin, University of Colorado Boulder

Vinisha Basnet, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Lisa Boelinger, Georg-August-Universität Gottingen

Amanda Cortez, Clatsop Community College & University of Connecticut

Dominic Dongilli, University of Iowa

Richard Fadok, University of Pennsylvania

Lexi Garay, Saybrook University

Jack Harrison, University of Warsaw

John Hawkins, Loyola University Chicago & Adler University

Yuping Hsu, Nagoya University 

Magdalena Jagodzka, University of Rzeszow

Sara Kaufman, Manchester University

Andrea Knörr, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule

Mo O'Neill, University of Sheffield

Lindsay Palmer, The Pennsylvania University

Catriona Paul, University of Limerick

Kat Poje, Harvard University

Valentina Romanzi, University of Turin & University of Verona

Guillem Rubio-Ramon, University of Edinburgh

Ali Ryland, University of Strathclyde

Ondine Sherman, University of Sydney

Deirdre Smith, University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Museum of Natural History

2022 Participants

The 2022 Institute was canceled due to ongoing COVID restrictions. In lieu of the week-long in-person program, participants were invited to a special private screening of Gunda, an asynchronous lecture by Professor Pete Porter (East Washington University), and a live q&a session with Professor Porter.

Vinisha Basnet, University of Illinois

Amanda Cortez, Clatsop Community College

Alexis Garay, Saybrook University

Yuping Hsu, Nagoya University

Neil Humphrey, Ohio State University

Magdalena Joagodzka, University of Rzeszów

Rajlakshmi Kanjilal, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Lindsay Palmer, Pennsylvania State University

Guillem Rubio-Ramon University of Edinburgh

Sonakshi Srivastava, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprasthra University

Linzi Williamson, University of Saskatchewan

Weijie Zhao, Kyoto University

2021 Participants

The 2021 Institute was conducted virtually due to COVID restrictions.

Thomas Aiello, University of Exeter

Tanya Bailey, University of Minnesota

Liza Bauer, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen

Karima Wolfe Borni, Middlebury College

Kathleen Durkin, George Mason University

Erin Frick, Eckerd College

Jesann Gonzalez-Cruz, University of Illinois

Sarah Marks Mininsohn, University of Illinois

Adewale Oluwole Owoseni, University of Ibadan

Caitlin Scarano, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Samentha Sepúlveda, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Anna Segner, Iowa State University

Henrique Tereno, University of Lisbon

2020 Participants

The 2020 Institute was canceled due to COVID.

2019 Participants

Hallie Abelman, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Danielle Alesi, University of Nebraska/Lincoln

Pablo Castello, Royal Holloway, University of London

Alessia Cecchet, UC Santa Cruz

Limor Chen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Genevieve Cottraux, Saybrook University

Paula D'Amico, National Research Council Argentina

Alice DiConcetto, Harvard Law School

Anderson Hagler, Duke University

Laure Hoenen, Université de Strasbourg

Gabriela Jarzebowska, University of Warsaw/Wesleyan

Alexandra Kimbo, University of Essex

Katarzyna Łogoźna-Wypych, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Katharine Mershon, Whitman College

Cara Miller, Gallaudet University

Mariana Olsen, University of Montana

Mira Reyes, University of Pardubice

Peter Sands, University of Sheffield

Francisco Santiago-Avila, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mihaiela Swift, King's College London

Georgitta Valiyamattam, Gitam University

Kevin Wienke, Marquette University

Drew Winter, Rice University

2018 Participants

Anat Ben Yonatan, Bar-Ilan University

Maria Lux, Whitman College

Sarah Bezan, University of Sheffield

Ashleigh Day, Wayne State University

Rebecca Delker, Columbia University

Matthieu Dubeau, University of Washington

Silke Feltz, Michigan Technological University

July Hazard, University of Washington

Orit Hirsch-Matsioulas , Haifa University

Kris Hiuser, McMaster Divinity College

Ina Linge, University of Exeter

Louise Logan, University of Strathclyde

Martha Mariana Martin-Yanez, Autonomous University of Yucatan

Mariana Olsen, Montana State University

Jonathan Osborn, York University

Marcel Sebastian, University of Hamburg

Doroty Simnett, Nova Southeastern University

Matthew Sutton, Rhodes College

Elizabeth Tavella, University of Chicago

Maisie Tomlinson, University of Manchester

2017 Participants

Katherine Altizer, Indiana University

Anat Ben-Yonatan, Bar-Ilan University

Hailey Burgess, Universityof Washington

Ruth Burke, University of Michigan

Simon Coughlan, Australian Catholic University

Beth Fields-Hoesly, Colorado State University

Michelle Granden, University of West Georgia

Sara Granovetter, California Institute of Integral Studies

Teresa Greppi, University of Illinois

Katherine Hayward, University of Illinois

Karen Krob, University of Northern Colorado

Jessica Landau, University of Illinois

Katheryn Lawson, University of Iowa

Ying Liu, University of Warwick

Teresa Lloro-Bidart, California State Polytechnic University

Seven Mattes, Michigan State University

Miranda Niittynen, University of Western Ontario

Brittany Roberts, University of California Riverside

Ike Sharpless, University of California San Diego

Martha Sherrill, University of Illinois

Hayley Singer University of Melbourne

Jonathan Sparks-Franklin, Indiana University

Valerie Stevens, University of Kentucky

Karissa Tang, University of Illinois

Paula Tarankow, Indiana University

Aviva Vincent, Case Western Reserve University

Cameron Whitley, Michigan State University

Silke Zeller, University of Landau in der Pfalz