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Visiting Faculty

  • Caroline Frank (Visiting Lecturer) will receive her Ph.D. this year from the Department of American Civilization, having completed a dissertation on Chinese porcelain in colonial America. As an early American historian, she has tried to get out of the archives and out of the Atlantic.
  • Caroline Boswell, Visiting Instructor
  • Thomas Jundt, Visiting Instructor
  • Keren McGinity (Visiting Assistant Professor). McGinity’s recently completed book, Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America, is forthcoming from NYU Press. This work analyzes the meaning and representation of interfaith marriage across the twentieth century. Her scholarship on gender and religion has appeared in numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is advising undergraduate honors students and teaching a seminar, Ethnic Women’s Histories.
  • John Delury (Visiting Assistant Professor) is a specialist on Qing and modern China with wide interests in intellectual history and political thought. He is currently revising his dissertation, a detailed study of Ming-Qing dynastic transition scholar Gu Yanwu (1613-82). Supervised by Jonathan Spence, Delury's dissertation won the 2007 Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for the best Yale dissertation on a topic outside Europe and the U.S. Delury is also working on an edited volume, under the direction of UC Berkeley's Orville Schell, on reformist thinking in China in the late 1980s.
  • Konstantinos Kornetis is Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Greek and Balkan History. 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.
  • Adrián López Denis (Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Humanities) is writing a book about the impact of epidemics on the articulation of modern sanitary practices in Cuba during the long nineteenth century. Combining insights coming from the historiography of slavery, science, and colonialism, this work is an attempt to explain the emergence of hybrid forms of both healing and policing the body of the nation.