Emily Cook
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics
Emily Cook studies higher education in the U.S. using methods from labor economics and industrial organization. Her research focuses on how federal and state higher-education policies affect market outcomes, including applications, admissions, tuition, and financial aid. Cook earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia and her B.A. in economics from the University of Maryland–College Park. She also holds a B.M. in violin performance from the University of Maryland.
Jerome Dent
Assistant Professor,
Department of Communication,
Africana Studies Program
Jerome Dent Jr.’s work centers on visual and cultural studies. Dent was born in Los Angeles, received a B.A. in comparative literature and African American studies from the University of California–Irvine, and a M.A. in humanities from Mount St. Mary’s University. In 2020, Dent received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, where he was awarded the Provost Fellowship and Slattery Fellowship in 2014, and the Celeste Hughes Bishop Award in 2016. He was also awarded a Flaherty Fellowship in 2016 and a Black Film Center/Archive Research Fellowship in 2018.
Gary Hoover
Professor,
Department of Economics
and Executive Director, Murphy Institute
Gary Hoover’s research focuses on the intersection of economics, race, and public policy. Since 2012, Hoover has been co-chair of the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession. He is also the current and founding editor of the Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, past vice president of the Southern Economic Association, and a fellow of CESifo Group Munich. Hoover received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and has previously held faculty and leadership positions at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Alabama.
Mélanie Lamotte
Assistant Professor,
Department of French & Italian,
Africana Studies Program
Mélanie Lamotte is a historian of race, ethnicity, and colonialism in the early modern period. Her work covers the French colonial world with a focus on Louisiana, Guadeloupe (in the Caribbean), Senegal, Isle Bourbon (in the Southwest Indian Ocean), and French India. Lamotte received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge in 2016, where she was a junior research fellow. Her research projects have been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom, and the Library of Congress, among others.
Golan Moskowitz
Assistant Professor,
Department of Jewish Studies
Golan Moskowitz is a literary scholar, cultural historian, and visual artist with a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. Moskowitz has worked as a research consultant and editor for the Anti-Defamation League and as assistant to the executive director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry. He has published writing on gendered and queer approaches to the study of post-Holocaust family and memory. Moskowitz has taught courses at Smith College, Tufts University, and the University of Toronto.
Lisa Wade
Associate Professor,
Department of Sociology,
Gender and Sexuality Studies Program,
and the Newcomb Institute
Lisa Wade’s research explores how gendered ideas about the body inform sexual attitudes and behaviors and sexuality-related discourse and policy. She is the author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus and a forthcoming introductory text titled Terrible Magnificent Sociology. She is also the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions and co-editor of Assigned: Life with Gender. Wade received an M.A. in Human Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Life Education from New York University and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin.