Who We Are
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
Tahna Hekhuis
Business Officer
T: (805) 893.8727
Office: 6050 HSSB
tahna@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
Irene D. Ramirez
Senior Artist
T: (805) 893.4315
Office: 6038 HSSB
idramirez@ihc.ucsb.edu
Janice Strobach
Administrative Coordinator
T: (805) 893.3907
Office: 6046 HSSB
jstrobach@ihc.ucsb.edu
Selena Sweeney
Department Financial Assistant
T: (805) 893-5541
Office: 6054 HSSB
sweeney@ihc.ucsb.edu
Rachel Levinson-Emley
Program and Events Coordinator
T: (805) 893.2004
Office: 6046C HSSB
rlevinsonemley@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
Dick Hebdige, Film & Media Studies and Art Studio
Nuha Khoury, History of Art and Architecture
Anne Torsiglieri, Theater and Dance
Elisabeth Weber, Germanic and Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature
Current Fellows
Faculty Fellows
Jennifer Holt, Film and Media Studies
erin Khuê Ninh, Asian American Studies
Eric Prieto, French and Italian
Predoctoral Fellows
Kashia Amber Arnold, History
Stephanie Choi, Music
Laura Hooton, History
Travis Seifman, History
Shawn Van Valkenburgh, Sociology
Recent-PhD Fellow
Xingyue “Inez” Zhou, Comparative Literature