Class of 2018

Assistant Professor
Department of Visualization/Department of Architecture
College of Architecture

As an art historian with expertise in modern and contemporary American art in an international context, Susanneh Bieber studies the relationship between art, architecture, and the built environment, addressing the social role of art within the broader field of visual and material culture.

Assistant Professor
Department of International Affairs
Bush School of Government and Public Service

As a scholar of politics, Erin Snider conducts research on the international and comparative politics of the Middle East, foreign assistance, the political economy of development, and democratization.

Assistant Professor
Department of Performance Studies
College of Liberal Arts

A scholar working in the fields of critical race theory, gender, sexuality, and queer theory, media and performance studies, ethnomusicology, dance studies, and popular music studies, Rumya S. Putcha is affiliated with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program as well as the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute. As an Indian classical dancer trained in both the Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi styles, she has conducted many years of ethnographic research on dance and yoga in India as well as the United States.

Associate Professor
Department of English
Women’s and Gender Studies
College of Liberal Arts

Vanita Reddy specializes in South Asian diasporic literatures and cultural production, 20th and 21st century multi-ethnic and postcolonial literatures, visual and material cultures, fashion and beauty, transnational feminist thought and queer theory, and critical race studies. Reddy’s current research puts scholarship in comparative race studies into conversation with recent work in feminist and queer cultural studies of affect and intimacy in order to examine political possibilities and limitations for anti-imperial, cross-racial political alliances between racialized populations. Ultimately, this research seeks to de-center heterosexual and male genealogies of cross-racial alliance.

Associate Professor
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts

The scholarship of historian Evan Haefeli concentrates on the colonial period of American History. He has studied the North American frontier between New France and New England, early Native American history, the Salem witchcraft trials, political revolts in seventeenth-century New York, captivity narratives and the nature of book publishing in colonial America, and the politics of religious toleration in the Dutch empire, especially in New Netherland. His latest book, Pluralism by Accident: English Expansion and the Failure of American Religious Unity, 1497-1662, will be published next year by the University of Chicago Press.

Professor
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

The author of four scholarly books on medieval and early modern religious cultures, Nancy Warren specializes in medieval and early modern literature and culture; female spirituality; transnational approaches to literature (especially England, France, and Spain); and intersections of gender, religion, and nationality.