Pembroke Center
          
        Past Postdoctoral Fellows
Past Postdoctoral Fellows
2024-25 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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                Patricia Ekpo
Nancy L. Buc ’65 LLD’94 hon Postdoctoral Fellow - 
      
                Sarah Richter
Adjunct Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies - 
      
                María Gloria Robalino
Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow - 
      
                Eda Tarak
Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Postdoctoral Fellow 
2023-24 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Sareh Afshar
Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow - 
      
Amira Lundy-Harris
Nancy L. Buc ‘65 ‘95 LLD hon Postdoctoral Fellow - 
      
Emily Mitamura
Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Postdoctoral Fellow 
2022-23 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Melanie Abeygunawardana '16
Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Postdoctoral Fellow - 
      
Megan Finch
Nancy L. Buc ’65 Postdoctoral Fellow - 
      
Marianna Hovhannisyan
Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow 
2021-22 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Erica Kanesaka
Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Postdoctoral Fellow - 
      
Bernabe Mendoza
Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow - 
      
Allison Puglisi
Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow 
2020-21 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Hannah Frydman
Shauna M. Stark ’76, P ’10 Postdoctoral Fellow - 
      
Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez
Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow - 
      
Sa Whitley
Nancy L. Buc ’65 Postdoctoral Fellow 
2019-20 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Nasrin Olla
Inaugural Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Postdoctoral Fellow, English Literature, Cornell University, 2019 - 
      
Leah Pires
Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow, Art History, Columbia University, 2019 - 
      
Dominik Zechner
Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow, German, New York University, 2019 
2018-19 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Nicole Gervasio
Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2018 - 
      
Erin Reitz
Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow, Art History, Northwestern University, 2017 - 
      
Christopher Roberts
Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow, Africology and African American Studies, Temple University, 2018 
2017-18 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Diego A. Millan
2016 - 2018 Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, English Literature, Tufts University, 2016 - 
      
Anjuli Gunaratne
Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow, English and The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, Princeton University, 2017 - 
      
Thomas Levi Thompson
Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, 2017 - 
      
Talya Zemach-Bersin
Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow, American Studies, Yale University, 2015 
2016-17 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Megan Gallagher
Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2014 - 
      
Pinar Kemerli
Government, Cornell University, 2015 - 
      
Anne Mulhall
Comparative Literature, King's College London, 2015 
2015-16 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Azeen A. Khan
PhD: English, Duke University - 
      
Ramsey McGlazer
PhD: Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley - 
      
Soyoung Yoon
PhD: Art History, Stanford University 
2014-15 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Hannah Freed-Thall
PhD: Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley - 
      
Carolyn L. Kane
PhD: Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University - 
      
Abigail Zitin
PhD: English, University of Chicago 
2013-14 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Xiao Liu
PhD: Modern Chinese Literature and Film, University of California, Berkeley - 
      
Duy Lap Nguyen
PhD: Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine - 
      
Lilia Topouzova
PhD: History, University of Toronto 
2012-13 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Meredith A. Bak
PhD: Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara - 
      
Amber J. Musser
PhD: History of Science, Havard University - 
      
Nadine R. Boljkovac
PhD: Film-Philosophy, University of Cambridge 
2011-12 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Crystal Biruk
PhD: Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania - 
      
Joseph J. Fischel
PhD: Political Science, University of Chicago - 
      
Poulomi Saha
PhD: English, University of Pennsylvania 
2010-11 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Arnulf Becker Lorca
SJD: Law, Harvard Law School - 
      
Laura Heffernan
PhD: English, University of Pennsylvania - 
      
Sophia Roosth
PhD: History and Anthropology of Science, MIT 
2009-10 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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David Machledt
PhD: Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz - 
      
Anita Starosta
PhD: History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz - 
      
Sonja van Wichelen
PhD: Social Sciences (Anthropology & Sociology) University of Amsterdam 
2008-09 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Sandy Alexandre
PhD: English, University of Virginia - 
      
Jason Lindquist
PhD: English Lit/Victorian Studies, Indiana University - 
      
Astrid Schrader
PhD: History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz - 
      
Lisa Uddin
PhD: Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester 
2007-08 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Elisabeth Anker
PhD: Political Theory, Univerisity of California, Berkeley - 
      
Lara Kelingos
PhD: German Studies, Cornell University - 
      
Elana Weiner
PhD: Psychology, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology 
2006-07 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Jennifer Boyle
PhD: English, University of California, Irvine - 
      
Eden Osucha
PhD: English, Duke University - 
      
Alanna Thain
PhD: Literature, Duke University 
2005-06 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Lori Allen
PhD: Anthropology, University of Chicago - 
      
Sharika Thiranagama
PhD: Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh - 
      
Donna Trembinski
PhD: History, University of Toronto 
2004-05 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Janelle Blankenship
PhD: German Studies, Duke University - 
      
Jane Elliott
PhD: English, Rutgers University - 
      
Adam Gutteridge
PhD: Archaeology, Cambridge University - 
      
Rama Mantena
PhD: History, University of Michigan 
2003-04 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Timothy Bewes
Professor of English, PhD: English Literature, University of Sussex - 
      
Dicle Kogacioglu
PhD: Sociology, SUNY/Stonybrook 
2002-03 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Greg Downey
PhD: Anthropology, University of Chicago - 
      
Gayle Salamon
PhD: Rhetoric, University of California - 
      
Deborah Weinstein
PhD: History of Science, Harvard University 
2001-02 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Athena Athanasiou
PhD: Social Anthropology, New School for Social Research - 
      
Richard Benjamin
PhD: Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University - 
      
Aden Evens
PhD: Cultural Theory and Philosophy, McGill University - 
      
Ursula Frohne
PhD: Art History, Freie Universität Berlin 
2000-01 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Rogaia Abusharaf
PhD: Anthropology, University of Connecticut - 
      
Marianne Janack
PhD: Philosophy, Syracuse University - 
      
Margherita Long
PhD: East Asian Studies, Princeton University 
1999-00 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Lara Kriegel
PhD: History, Johns Hopkins University - 
      
Mary Ann O’Donnell
PhD: Anthropology, Rice University - 
      
Andrea Volpe
PhD: History, Rutgers University 
1998-99 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Alexander Des Forges
PhD: Chinese Literature, Princeton University - 
      
Monique Roelofs
PhD: Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park - 
      
Ann Seaton
PhD: English and American Literature, Harvard University 
1997-98 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Geraldine Heng
PhD: English, Cornell University - 
      
Jody Lester
PhD: American Studies, Yale University - 
      
Alys Eve Weinbaum
PhD: English, Columbia University 
1996-97 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Teresa Barnes
PhD: African Economic History, University of Zimbabwe - 
      
Katherine Rudolph-Larrea
PhD: Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University - 
      
Charles Shepherdson
PhD: English, Vanderbilt University 
1994-95 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Kate Baldwin
PhD: Comparative Literature, Yale University - 
      
Sarah Currie
PhD: Classics, Cambridge University - 
      
Pamela Haag
PhD: History, Yale University 
1993-94 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Lara Korobkin
PhD: English, Harvard University - 
      
Janaki Nair
PhD: History, Syracuse University - 
      
Sylvia Schafer
PhD: History, University of California, Berkeley 
1992-93 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Lisa Bloom
PhD: History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz - 
      
Lisa Cartwright
PhD: American Studies, Yale University - 
      
Karin Cope
PhD: Comparative Literature, Johns Hopkins University - 
      
May Joseph
PhD: Theater Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara 
1991-92 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Leslie Camhi
PhD: Comparative Literature, Yale University - 
      
Brian Cooper
PhD: Economics, Harvard University - 
      
Jennifer Terry
PhD: History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz 
1990-91 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Keya Ganguly
PhD: Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - 
      
Mary M. Childers
PhD: English Literature, State University of New York, Buffalo - 
      
Katherine Williams
PhD: English, City University of New York 
1988-89 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Kristie McClure
PhD: Political Theory, Princeton University - 
      
Valentine Moghadam
PhD: Sociology, American University - 
      
Afsaneh Najmabadi
PhD: Sociology, University of Manchester - 
      
Christine Ward Gailey
PhD: Anthropology, New School for Social Research 
1987-88 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Ana Maria Alonso
PhD: Anthropology, University of Chicago - 
      
Katherine Platt
PhD: Anthropology, London School of Economics and Politics - 
      
Jenny Sharpe
PhD: Comparative Literature, University of Texas, Austin - 
      
Kathleen Zane
PhD: Linguistics and Literature, City University of New York 
1986-87 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Rey Chow
PhD: Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University - 
      
Shahla Haeri
PhD: Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles - 
      
Kari Weil
PhD: Comparative Literature, Princeton University - 
      
Mimi White
PhD: Communications Studies, University of Iowa 
1984-85 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Marnia Lazreg
PhD: Sociology, New York University - 
      
Denise Riley
PhD: Philosophy, University of Cambridge - 
      
Diana Vélez
PhD: Spanish American Literature, Columbia University - 
      
Jerome Wakefield
PhDs: Social Welfare and Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley 
1983-84 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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Françoise Basch
PhD: History - 
      
Janice Doane
PhD: English, State University of New York, Buffalo - 
      
Yasmine Ergas
JD: Columbia Law School - 
      
Harriet Whitehead
PhD: Anthropology, University of Chicago 
1982-83 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
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James Ault
PhD: Sociology, Brandeis University - 
      
Anne Norton
PhD: Political Science, University of Chicago - 
      
Mary Lou Ratté
PhD: History, University of Massachusetts - 
      
Kaja Silverman
PhD: English, Brown University