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Rebecca A. Adelman
Rebecca A. Adelman completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2009 and was formerly Professor and Chair of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.…
Zeynep Aydoğdu
Zeynep Aydoğdu completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University in 2019. After graduating, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of…
Cristina Benedetti
Starting in 2019, Cristina worked as a Folk & Traditional Arts specialist with the Ohio Arts Council. In 2021 she began working predominantly on the partnership with the Central …
Lindsay Bernhagen
After graduating with a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2013 and spending the next few years working as an instructional consultant at the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Ohio…
Damon Berry
Damon Berry completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2014 and joined St. Lawrence University in northern New York in the Department of Religious Studies as a visiting professor that same year.…
Kay Clopton
Kay Clopton is an Assistant Professor and Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian at OSU where she is the librarian for the Departments of History, Philosophy, Anthropology, and the John Glenn…
Ricky Crano
Ricky Crano received his Ph.D. in 2014, with a dissertation, directed by Philip Armstrong and Brian Rotman, on the role of postwar neoliberal social thought in the formation and maintenance of late…
Andrew Culp
Andrew Culp (MA 2009, Ph.D. 2013) is a Professor of Media History and Theory and Program Director of the MA Aesthetics and Politics program (starting Spring 2023) in the School of Critical Studies…
Kate Dean-Haidet
Kate Dean-Haidet has worked since graduation in 2012 as an Integrative Mental Health Advanced Practice Provider at OhioHealth Hospice & Palliative Care, an end-of-life care program and practice…
Dan DiPiero
Dan DiPiero is a musician and about to start a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, in their Conservatory of Music and Dance. Previously, he taught as a…
Kati Fitzgerald
Kati Fitzgerald is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wittenberg University. She recently completed a postdoc at Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music, where she worked on developing her book…
Nicholas Flores
Nicholas Flores who goes by "Nic", graduated with a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from OSU in 2019. Nic’s dissertation titled, “PrEParing and Producing the Queer Medical Subject: An Ethnographic…
Seth Gaiters
Seth Gaiters (2021) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion & Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Most recently, it was announced that Seth received a…
Sandra Garner
Sandra Garner graduated with her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2010 and joined the American Studies program at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) that year. She is a past Heanon Wilkins fellow at…
Amy Welling Gregg
Amy Welling Gregg completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2017 and is a proud alumna and faculty member of The Ohio State University. She has taught in the Department of Comparative…
Saeed Honarmand
Saeed Honarmand is a senior lecturer and coordinator of the Persian department in The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. Previously…
Seth Josephson
Seth Josephson (2018) is Adjunct Faculty in Comparative Studies at OSU and works as an Information Services Specialist at the Whetstone branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. In 2022, his first…
Bishal Karna
Bishal Karna has been working since graduation as an Assistant Professor for the Department of Religious Studies at Nazareth College of Rochester, New York. Bisjal is grateful that he gets to study…
Alana Kumbier
As Alana was completing her doctoral work in Comparative Studies, she started her first job as a librarian, and she has been pursuing a career in librarianship since that time. She now works as a…
Drew Lyness
After completing his Ph.D. in 2014, Drew moved to British Columbia and took an academic teaching position on the small satellite campus of Thompson Rivers University in the town of Williams…
Ilana Maymind
Ilana Maymind completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2011. Since 2015, Ilana has been a lecturer at Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Religious Studies,…
Michael McVicar
Michael McVicar is an Associate Professor in the Religion Department at Florida State University. In 2015, he published his first book (based on his dissertation Comparative Studies), Christian…
Brian Michael Murphy
Brian Michael Murphy is dean at Bennington College, and the author of We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World (The University of North Carolina Press, 2022). His poems and essays…
Eleanor Paynter
Eleanor Paynter works in critical refugee studies, focusing on Africa-Europe mobilities and precarious migration to and through Italy, and work that puts the Mediterranean region in conversation with…
RaShelle R. Peck
RaShelle R. Peck (Ph.D.) (she/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She was a Postdoctoral Associate in the…
Gabriel Piser
After defending his dissertation, “Appalachian Anthropocene: Conflict and Subject Formation in a Sacrifice Zone”, Gabriel accepted a position with the Prison Ecology Project where he helped…
Peggy Reynolds
Peggy Reynolds is an artist/philosopher whose work explores issues related to posthumanism, affect, and mediology. Since receiving her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Studies, she has…
Afsane Rezaei
Afsane Rezaei completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2020 and joined the Department of English at Utah State University as Assistant Professor of Folklore and American Studies. Her…
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She continues to explore issues pertaining to ethnicity,…
Joanna Spanos
Joanna Spanos received her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2013. Since then, she has worked as an Academic Advisor in Ohio State’s Arts and Sciences Honors Program and is now serving as the program’s…
Caroline Toy
Caroline is currently Learning Experience Designer in the Center for Learning & Teaching and Adjunct Professor in the Core Division at Champlain College in Burlington, VT. Her move into faculty…
Rita Trimble
Rita Trimble teaches at Ohio Wesleyan University, where she has been since graduating. Her program, Women's and Gender Studies, has merged with the Black World Studies program. As of this year,…
Rachel Wortman Morris
Rachel Wortman Morris is the Director of the Future Skill Initiative–Talent & Employability program at Microsoft. She was one of the creators behind the Microsoft Learn for Educators program and…