Please welcome the Tenenbaum faculty tutors! Our faculty of world-class researchers are interested in guiding sophomores in independent research as part of the Tenenbaum Tutorials in the Liberal Arts program. Students have weekly meetings with their tutors and a budget to spend as they dive into literatures, observe new fields, and generate new analyses. These experiences are what make the School of Liberal Arts a crossroads for personalized learning and dedicated research exploration.
Students will choose among these faculty to find an interlocutor and tutor for their research interests. The faculty meet with students weekly to listen, guide, and suggest new paths based on their own areas of expertise and training. These tutorials will be registered as independent studies in the faculty’s home department under a title that fits their shared pursuit of new knowledge and lifelong learning as befits the liberal arts. Students interested in participating in Tenenbaum Tutorials should see our Tenenbaum Tutorials overview page.
Moisés Arce
Moisés Arce is an expert in Environmental politics, conflict processes, democratic governance, and comparative political economy.
Kate Baldwin
Kate Baldwin is an expert in 20th century U.S. literature and culture, Cold War culture and literatures, girlhood and motherhood studies, African American literature, feminist theory and media, Russian literature, fiction and creative non-fiction writing.
Casey Beck
Casey Beck is an expert on documentary film production and cinematic techniques, with a focus on the ethics of film production, the representation of historically marginalized groups of people, and environmentalism.
Ryan Boehm
Ryan Boehm is an expert on ancient Mediterranean urbanism, ancient empires, and interaction between Greece and the Near East. His training is in archaeology, epigraphy, and Greek language and literature.
Brad Bolman
Brad Bolman is an expert in the history of science, environmental history, and the history of capitalism.
Brian Brox
Brian Brox is an expert on American Government, Political Parties, Campaigns & Elections, and Political Behavior.
Michael Brumbaugh
Michael Brumbaugh is an expert in Greek and Roman literature and its legacies from antiquity to the present, ancient political thought, literary criticism, papyrology, canon formation, history of writing and of the book.
Dan Burnston
Dan Burnston is an expert in the philosophy and sciences of the mind. His areas of tutorial interest are: Decision-making, mental health and disease, perceptual experience, motivation and attention.
Krystal Cleary
Krystal Cleary is an expert in critical disability studies, intersectional feminist and queer theory, and media studies with a particular focus on disability in media and reality television.
Alexis Culotta
Alexis Culotta is an expert in the role of collaboration and exchange among artistic and architectural networks across the Italian Renaissance era; she is equally engaged in digital humanities investigations of how to visualize the data related to these networks of makers.
Clare Daniel
Clare Daniel is an expert in reproductive justice; reproductive politics in Louisiana and the United States (sex education, contraception, pregnancy, adolescent pregnancy, abortion, and birth); childhood and the media; feminist pedagogy and epistemologies.
M. Kathryn Edwards
Kathryn Edwards is an expert in modern France, colonialism and decolonization, the histories of immigration and identity-formation, commemoration and historical remembrance. She has training in cultural and social history,and the historical analysis of literature/film, and race/gender/sexuality.
Allison Emmerson
Allison Emmerson is an expert in Roman archaeology and the ancient Mediterranean. She is particularly interested in the “marginal” aspects of ancient cites, not only literal city edges and the activities they attracted, such as waste management and the treatment of the dead, but also the people who have been marginalized both in ancient life and in modern reconstructions of it, including women, the enslaved, and the subelite.
Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban
Edo’s research examines the role of fan’s quotidian pedestrian mobility in the construction of transmedia environments, industries, and products. They are interested in the reconstruction of inclusive transmedia histories, looking at city space as point of convergence between diverse perspectives on animated media, storytelling, media production, and even activism.
Fayçal Falaky
Fayçal Falaky is an expert on The impact of the Enlightenment on modern political thought, including cultural and political intersections between the Arab world and Europe philosophical and societal shifts from stillness to motion and in the role of automatons in Enlightenment thought, as well as examining concepts of alienation and agency within the context of emerging modernity.
Bouchaib Gadir
Bouchaib Gadir is an expert in Middle East and North Africa popular culture and politics, Arabic language and literature, Identity and Exile in the Arab Diaspora and multiculturalism.
Leslie Geddes
Leslie Geddes is an expert in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, the history of medical illustration, maps and cartographic history, and the representation of the natural world.
Amy George
Amy George is an expert in translation studies with a specialization in Mesoamerican Linguistics, particularly the analysis of the transfer of 16th century European astronomical and astrological concepts in 18th century Mayan manuscripts.
Antonio Gómez
Antonio Gómez is an expert in Latin American culture, literature and film, documentary film, New Argentine Cinema, and the relationship between politics and culture, with a focus on the Southern Cone in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Brian Jay Horowitz
Brian Horowitz is an expert in modern Jewish history, historiography, historians. Jewish idea of rights, acculturation, integration, assimilation. Antisemitism in Europe and the USA. Russian-Jewish history.
Chara Kokkiou
Chara Kokkiou is an expert in Medical Ethics (Clinical and Research Ethics), AI, Ethics, Ancient Philosophy (Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle), Philosophy of Emotions (e.g. Compassion), Aesthetics.
Katharine Lee
Katharine Lee is an expert in biocultural approaches to human biology; human variation; menstruation; bone health; physical activity; gender/sex in health research.
Jana Lipman
Jana Lipman is an expert on refugees, migration, labor, transnational movements, 20th century US history, and US foreign relations, particularly in Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
F. Thomas Luongo
F. Thomas Luongo’s areas of tutorial expertise are the history of Christianity, saints and mystics in the Middle Ages, the life and writings of Dante Alighieri, relations between Judaism and Christianity in the Middle Ages, and other topics in the history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Italy.
Laura Helen Marks
Laura Marks is an expert in Pornography Studies, Sex Work, Film Genre, Sexuality Studies, Masculinity Studies, Gothic/Horror Fiction, True Crime Media.
Scott Nolan
Scott Nolan is an expert in American politics, with emphasis on courts, law, social movements, civil rights and liberties, criminal justice, healthcare, LGBTQ people and issues.
Thomas Oatley
Thomas Oatley is an expert in International relations, political economy, climate change, energy politics.
Scott Oldenburg
Scott Oldenburg’s expertise is in Shakespeare and 16th and 17th century British literature and culture. He has published books and articles on stage properties, immigration, race, nationhood, religion, labor, and popular protest in the early modern period as well as the field of critical pedagogy.
Mauro Porto
Mauro Porto is an expert on the relationship between media and democracy in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil.
His areas of Tutorial Interest are: Political communication; Latin American politics and history; the rise of the far right; and critical whiteness studies
John “Ray” Proctor
John “Ray” Proctor is an expert in the semiotics of performance, theatre, Shakespeare, casting, and the intersection of race and performance, with a focus on contemporary African American and African Diaspora Theatre and African American Theatre History.
Ana Sánchez-Rojo
Ana Sánchez-Rojo Areas of Tutorial Interest: Cinema, documentary film, Latin American cultural studies, Latin American literature, memory studies, and exile studies
Aidan Smith
Aidan Smith is an expert in the American presidency, particularly gendered and heteronormative representations of claims to executive office. Aidan also explores maternal politics, particularly in pursuit of elected office.
Ferruh Yilmaz
Ferruh Yilmaz is an expert in Communication with training and research interests in the politics of immigration, race & ethnicity, discourse and rhetorical analysis, the reality-mind relationship, moral panics & crisis, populism, and populist themes in popular culture.
Lidia Zhigunova
Lidia Zhigunova is an expert in Russian and Post-Soviet Studies (literature, arts, history, politics), with a special focus on the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as Russia’s ethnic minorities and the history of Russia as a multiethnic empire.