Pembroke Center

Meet The 2025-26 Pembroke Seminar Fellows

The Pembroke Seminar is a unique learning and research community. It comprises 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 Civic Work of Monuments,” the Pembroke Seminar for 2025-26, is led by Juliet Hooker, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science.

This year's Faculty Fellows are Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro, and Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Hieyoon Kim. 

This year's Postdoctoral Fellows are Eliana Chavkin, Nancy L. Buc ’65 LLD’94 hon Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD, History, University of Minnesota, 2025); Rahma Haji, Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland College Park, 2025); María Camila Palacio, Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD, Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University, 2025); and Míša Stekl, Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, 2025). 

Joining the Seminar as this year's Graduate Student Fellows are Looghermine Claude (American Studies), Shannon Constantine (Theatre Arts and Performance Studies), Monaye Johnson (Africana Studies), Sam Washington (History), and Amelle Zeroug (History). 

Undergraduate Fellows for 2025-26 are Samantha Ho (English and Global Arts and Politics) and Jenny Hu (Classics, International and Public Affairs).

Learn more about “The Civic Work of Monuments.”