Meet This Year’s Pembroke Seminar Fellows

The Pembroke Seminar is a unique learning and research community comprising an intergenerational group of scholars — undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, visiting scholars, and guests — who together pursue a set of critical questions in weekly meetings over the course of a year.

The 2024-25 Pembroke Seminar, “Unwriting the Anthropocene: A Call to Experiment” is led by Macarena Gómez-Barris, Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Chair of Modern Culture and Media.

This year’s Faculty Fellows are Xan Chacko, Lecturer in Science, Technology, and Society; Jeremy Lehnen, Senior Lecturer of Language Studies, Associate Director of the Center for Language Studies, and Director of the Brazil Initiative; and Eleni Sikelianos, Professor of Literary Arts.

The 2024-25 Postdoctoral Fellows are Patricia Ekpo ’15, Nancy L. Buc ’65 LLD’94 hon Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. 2024, American Studies, Yale University); Sarah Richter, Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. 2024, Performance Studies, New York University); María Gloria (M.G.) Robalino, Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. 2024, Comparative Literature, Stanford University); and Eda Tarak, Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. 2024, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz).

The Graduate Fellows for 2024-25 are Istifaa Ahmed (American Studies); Isaac Essex (American Studies); Ana Gonzalez San Martin (Archaeology and the Ancient World); and JD Stokely (Theatre Arts and Performance Studies).

The 2024-25 Undergraduate Fellows are Rachel Kamphaus (English and Classics) and Jo Ouyang (Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program, Ethnic Studies and Painting).

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