New Hires
Elizabeth Cohen
Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship, Political Science
“While I am the daughter of an immigrant, my interest in membership and human movement was spurred by observing very early movements toward the hardened borders that are now quite apparent in the EU and US. Then and now, state attempts to exclude people always end poorly. A good portion of my career has been dedicated to explaining why this is so.”
Andree Cunningham
Anthropology, Archaeology, and African American & Black Diaspora Studies
“As an Afro-Caribbean woman, I’ve long had an interest in learning about Black biological and cultural histories. I see bioarchaeology—the study of human remains in archaeological contexts—as a unique way to study the past. Especially in the case of the slave trade, archaeological information at burial sites is at times one of the only types of data that are accessible.”
Micah Goodrich
English
“As a scholar of medieval literature and transgender studies, I revel in the unexpected encounters of the body across time. Rarely do we look to the past to understand the future of gender, but that is what I aim to do with my research. Premodern studies is important because it can help us understand and learn from the genealogies of thought that continue to cause harm in our present moment.”
Eran Tromer
Computer Science
“Growing up, I saw computers changing and then becoming my daily environment. To understand and shape this world, I couldn’t be a passive consumer of opaque technological miracles: I had to understand how these systems work, what could go wrong, and how to improve them. This led me to study information security, which is the ideal discipline for cultivating deep curiosity about the inner workings of the digital world, and using this understanding to build innovative systems that robustly protect people’s cherished data.”