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Visiting and Affiliated Faculty, 2009-2010

  • Shiva Balaghi is a historian of the modern Middle East, with special interests in the interrelated histories of colonialism, nationalism, gender, and visual culture. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities at the Cogut Center for the Humanities (2009-11), she will be completing a book on the cultural history of Iran from the mid-nineteenth century through the present. She is the Vice-President of the American Institute of Iranian Studies and an editor of MERIP. Her publications include Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East (co-edited, 1994), Picturing Iran: Art, Society, and Revolution (co-edited, 2002), and Saddam Hussein: A Biography (2005). She has published numerous articles on Iranian intellectual history and visual culture, and her writing has been translated into Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. She has taught History and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, the University of Vermont, and New York University.
  • Kelly Ricciardi Colvin, Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall '09), currently teaches classes on the history of modern Europe, with particular emphases on women's and gender history and French history. She recieved her PhD in May 2008 from Brown University. Her dissertation, which she is currently revising for publication, focuses on how gender was central to the reconstructioo of definitions of citizenship in France immediately following the Second World War. In her spare times, she enjoys jogging, hiking, and eating good food wherever it might be found.
  • Konstantinos Kornetis is Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Greek and Balkan History (2009-10). His research interests include the history of European authoritarian regimes and social movements in the 20th century, political cinema, as well as the analysis of oral testimonies. He holds a BA from the Universities of Munich (LMU) and King's College London, an MA degree in Balkan History from the School of Slavonic Studies in London and a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute of Florence. He has spent research periods in Madrid, Paris and New York and has worked extensively on the history and memory of the 1960s, the methodology of oral history and the use of film as a source for social and cultural history. His most recent publication is in "1968 in Europe" (Palgrave 2008), edited by Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth. He is currently revising for publication his thesis on the Greek and Spanish student movements under the regimes of the Colonels and Franco.
  • Jane Lancaster , Visiting Assistant Professor Fall ’09, received her PhD in history from Brown University. Interested in women and gender she has published a biography: Making Time, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, a Life Beyond Cheaper by the Dozen (Northeastern, 2004), which won a Popular Culture Association book prize; an institutional history: Inquire Within: A Social History of the Providence Athenaeum Since 1753 (2003), and an annotated edition of Emily Post’s only travel book By Motor to the Golden Gate (McFarland 2005). She has also published many articles on local history, including work on African American activists and artists, Victorian gymnasts, militiamen and philanthropic organizations. Her work on a group of teenage girl diarists from the Early Republic led to an award from the American Association for State and Local History. She is currently completing a biography of the notorious Madame Jumel, and working on two local diaries—one from 1799 and the other from the Great Depression.
  • Stephen Lassonde, Deputy Dean of the College and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale in 1994. He has taught courses on the history of childhood, education, and family life in North America, on family life and sexuality in the postwar United States, and on U.S. urban policy. He is associate editor of Children and Childhood: In History and Society, a three-volume encyclopedia of the history of childhood (2004) and author of Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940 (Yale 2005). He is currently collaborating with a child psychiatrist on a cultural history of a longitudinal study that examines the lives of several children growing up during the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. He recently contributed a chapter to a book on childhood in the United States since 1945, and is writing a history of children's perceptions of authority in the United States over the course of the 20th century.
  • Mo Moulton is Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern European History (2009-10). She defended her dissertation, "Private Irelands: The Legacies of the Anglo-Irish War in Interwar England," in Brown's History Department in August 2009. She will be teaching courses on modern Britain and Ireland. Research interests include minority cultures, both ethnic and sexual; identity formation; and empire and postcolonial theory. She is currently revising her dissertation for publication and developing a second project dealing with queer subcultures in twentieth-century Britain.
  • Leela Sami , Visiting Lecturer in South Asian History
  • Dan Wewers is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Political Theory Project at Brown University (2009-2010). He received his A.B. in History from Princeton University in 1998 and his A.M. and Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2002 and 2008, respectively. Dan’s research interests lie in the political, intellectual, and cultural history of Revolutionary and early national America. His completed dissertation, entitled “The Specter of Disunion in the Early American Republic, 1783-1815,” examines the problem of union in early American political thought. While at Brown, Dan plans to revise his dissertation for publication and teach a capstone seminar on the American founding (History 1973H) in the History Department.