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

Mackenzie Maynard
Business Officer
T: (805) 893.8727
Office: 6050 HSSB
mackenzie@ihc.ucsb.edu

Christoffer Bovbjerg
Assistant Director
T: (805) 893.2004
Office: 6038 HSSB
cbovbjerg@ihc.ucsb.edu

Paula Schaefer
Senior Artist
T: (805) 893.4315
Office: 6046C HSSB
pschaefer@ihc.ucsb.edu

Payroll and Financial Assistant
T: (805) 893.5541
Office: 6054 HSSB

Carole Strehlow
Contracts and Grants Coordinator
T: (805) 893.5073
Office: 6036 HSSB
carole@ihc.ucsb.edu

Jarred Pelayo
Administrative Assistant
T: (805) 893.3907
Office: 6046 HSSB
jarred@ihc.ucsb.edu

Anna Jensen
Director of Isla Vista Arts
T: (805) 893.4809
Office: 6034 HSSB
akjensen@ihc.ucsb.edu

Advisory Board

Janet Afary, Religious Studies
Stephanie Batiste, English
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, History
Tim Cooley, Music
William Davies King, Theater and Dance
Christina Vagt, Germanic and Slavic Studies

Current Fellows

Faculty Fellows
Allison Caplan, History of Art and Architecture
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Global Studies
Giuliana Perrone, History

Dissertation Fellows
Nicole de Silva, History
Jonathan Dickstein, Religious Studies
Julie Johnson, History
Somak Mukherjee, English
Mesadet Sözmen, Global Studies

Graduate Teaching Fellows
Deena Al-halabieh, English
Michael Fiddler, Linguistics
Margaret Fisher, English
Grace Kimball, Theater and Dance
Celeste McAlpin-Levitt, English
Chris Morales, Religious Studies
Nicole Rehnberg, History
Madeleine Roepe, English
Emmanuela Schoinoplokaki, Classics
Megan Sheard, History of Art and Architecture
Maite Urcaregui, English
Lauren Vanderlinden, Ethnomusicology
Ian Waller, Sociology

Public Humanities Graduate Fellows
Please see the complete list of Fellows here