Who We Are

Staff

Advisory Board | Current Fellows

Susan Derwin
Director
T: (805) 893.8538
Office: 6046A HSSB
derwin@ihc.ucsb.edu

Erin Nerstad
Associate Director
T: (805) 893.3137
Office: 6046B HSSB
nerstad@ihc.ucsb.edu

Ceanna Bowman
Business Officer
T: (805) 893.8727
Office: 6050 HSSB
ceanna@ihc.ucsb.edu

Adam Morrison
Academic Coordinator
Program and Events Coordinator
T: (805) 893.2004
Office: 6038 HSSB
morrison@ihc.ucsb.edu

Brandon Fastman
Associate Director of Research Development for the Humanities, Fine Arts, and Education
T: (805) 893.4539
Office: 2714 Ellison Hall
fastman@research.ucsb.edu

Courtney Richardson
Contracts and Grants Coordinator
T: (805) 893.5073
Office: 6036 HSSB
richardson@ihc.ucsb.edu

Kathryn Lunger
Payroll and Administrative Assistant
T: (805) 893.3907
Office: 6046 HSSB
kathrynlunger@ihc.ucsb.edu

Paula Schaefer
Senior Artist
T: (805) 893.4315
Office: 6038 HSSB

Selena Sweeney
Department Financial Assistant
T: (805) 893-5541
Office: 6054 HSSB
sweeney@ihc.ucsb.edu

Ellen Anderson
Director of Isla Vista Arts
T: (805) 893.4809
Office: 6034 HSSB
eanderson@ihc.ucsb.edu

DJ Palladino
Director of Magic Lantern Films
djpalladino@ihc.ucsb.edu

Advisory Board

Maurizia Boscagli, English and Comparative Literature
José Cabezón, Religion
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, History
Tim Cooley, Music
George Legrady, Media Arts & Technology and Art
Ross Melnick, Film and Media Studies
Eric Prieto, French and Italian
Elisabeth Weber, Germanic and Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature

Current Fellows

Faculty Fellows
Jeannine DeLombard, English
Lisa Jacobson, History
Laila Shereen Sakr, Film and Media Studies

Dissertation Fellows
Bianka Ballina, Film and Media Studies
Anna Bax, Linguistics
Yanitsa Buendia de Llaca, Religious Studies
Thomas Franke, History
John Schranck, Comparative Literature

Graduate Teaching Fellows
Nicole Dib, English
Andrew Johnson, Political Science
Daniel Martini, Comparative Literature
Anita Raychawdhuri, English
Clint Terrell, English
Giorgia Troiani, Linguistics
Jordan Tudisco, Comparative Literature
Shawn Van Valkenburgh, Sociology