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		Fields of Interest
	Bruce Ackerman Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science bruce.ackerman@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0065 Website	Political philosophy; Constitutional law; Public policy
	Julia Adams Margaret H. Marshall Professor of Sociology julia.adams@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0741 Website	Comparative and Historical Sociology; Culture/Knowledge; Family/Gender/Sexuality; Global, Regional and Transnational Sociology; Political Sociology and Social Movements
	Jennifer Allen Associate Professor of History jennifer.allen@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-6149 Website	Modern German history; cultural history of modern Europe; theories and practices of memory; grassroots activism; the politics of space; Europe after the Cold War
	Marnix Amand marnix.amand@yale.edu	international trade; European Union; economics
	Sergei Antonov Assistant Professor sergei.antonov@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1378 Website	Russia after 1800 and Soviet Union; Russian and comparative legal history; Russian serfdom; global history of capitalism and credit; crime & criminal justice; secret political police; elites & power
	Paris Aslanidis Lecturer in Hellenic Studies and Political Science paris.aslanidis@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-8157 Website	Populism and its nexus with social mobilization; Greek politics and history
	Jonathan Bach Professor, Global Studies Program, The New School, New York jonathan.bach@yale.edu Website	Contemporary Germany, post-socialist Europe, memory politics, urban space, post-Mao China, social change
	Lauren Benton Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law lauren.benton@yale.edu	Comparative empires; history of international law; Atlantic history; global and international history; British and Iberian empires
	Dirk Bergemann Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics and Computer Science dirk.bergemann@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-3592 Website	Game Theory, Industrial organization, Learning and information acquisition in markets, Dynamic contracts
	Paola Bertucci Associate Professor of History and History of Medicine paola.bertucci@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1397 Website	Enlightenment; cultural history of technology in the early modern world, cultures of collecting and display; artisanal knowledge, the early modern body, scientific travel, material culture
	R Howard Bloch Sterling Professor of French howard.bloch@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-4912 Website	Medieval literature and social history; legal, economic, familial, and political institutions; humor and the fabliaux; gender and the rise of Western romantic love; the history of the discipline of Medieval Studies
	Edyta Bojanowska Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Chair of the European Studies Council edyta.bojanowska@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1301 Website	19th century Russian literature and intellectual history, empire and nation in Russian culture, post-colonial and settler colonialism studies, history of globalization, ideology, travel writing, theories of the spatial turn, Central European literatures, especially Polish
	Marijeta Bozovic Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Film and Media Studies; Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies marijeta.bozovic@yale.edu Phone: +1 917 887 5197 Website	20th- and 21st-century Russian and East European literatures and cultures; avant-gardes, politics, and poetics; diasporas and transnational cultures; translation and remediation; Danube and Black Sea studies; digital humanities, new media, and cultural networks
	David Bromwich Sterling Professor of English david.bromwich@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0855 Website	Romantic criticism and poetry; eighteenth-century politics and moral philosophy
	Molly Brunson Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; History of Art molly.brunson@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-7023 Website	Modern Russian culture; the literature and visual art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on the recurrent realisms that emerged in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
	Paul Bushkovitch Reuben Post Halleck Professor of History paul.bushkovitch@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1351 Website	Russia to 1800; Russian foreign policy, Orthodoxy, and empire
	Francesco Casetti Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies francesco.casetti@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0671 Website	Semiotics of film and television, in particular about genres, intertextuality, and enunciation
	Jinyi Chu Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures 304 Elm Street, Arnold Hall B33 jinyi.chu@yale.edu	Russo-Chinese cultural relations; Russian modernist culture; comparative socialist culture; globalization and cosmopolitanism; geography and empire-building; World Literature; poetry and poetics; historical fiction; science fiction; memory and narrative; translation studies.
	Katerina Clark B.E. Bensinger Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures katerina.clark@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0712 Website	Russian, European and Eurasian film, literature, performing arts, art, architecture and literary theory; cultural interactions; world literature; art and ideology
	Carolyn J. Dean Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French carolyn.dean@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1394 Website	Cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe; history of gender and sexuality; genocide studies and the Holocaust of European Jewry
	Irina Dolgova Senior Lector II in Slavic Languages and Literatures irina.dolgova@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1307 Website	Applied linguistics, second language acquisition
	Marcela Echeverri Associate Professor marcela.echeverri@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-6218 Website	History of social sciences, gender and nationalism; political theory and state formation; Spanish empire and Atlantic world; Revolutionary Age, race and ethnicity; slavery and abolition; twentieth-century Latin American social thought
	Carlos Eire T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies carlos.eire@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1357 Website	Early modern Europe; Intellectual, social, cultural & religious history; Protestant Reformation; Catholic Reformation (Spain, France, Germany)
	Fatima El-Tayeb Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies fatima.el-tayeb@yale.edu	Race, Migration, Nationalism, Memory, Gender & Sexuality, Art & Activism, Comparative Diasporas, African Diaspora, Muslim Diaspora, Roma & Sinti, Colonialism, Black Mediterranean. Europe comparative, Northwest Europe, Germany, Netherlands
	Marcel Elias Assistant Professor of English marcel.elias@yale.edu	the literature and history of medieval England and Europe more generally, often within a broader Mediterranean context.
	Emily Erikson Associate Professor and Joseph C. Fox Director of the Fox International Fellowship 493 College St, Room 401, New Haven, CT 06511-8907 emily.erikson@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-6332 Website	Social Networks, Economic Development, Comparative Historical Sociology, Theory, Globalization
	Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez Assistant Professor of Economics 27 Hillhouse Ave., Room 38 jose-antonio.espin-sanchez@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0890 Website	Economic history, Industrial organization, Environmental economics, Economic theory, Political economy
	Paul Franks Robert F. and Patricia Weis Professor of Philosophy and Judaic Studies, and Professor of Religious Studies paul.franks@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1683 Website	Kant, German Idealism, Post-Kantian Analytic Philosophy, Neo-Kantianism and Phenomenology, Jewish Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophy of the Human Sciences
	Paul Freedman Chester D. Tripp Professor of History paul.freedman@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1399 Website	Medieval social history, the history of Catalonia, comparative studies of the peasantry, trade in luxury products, and the history of cuisine
	Bryan Garsten Professor of Political Science and Humanities bryan.garsten@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 436-3696 Website
	John Geanakoplos James Tobin Professor of Economics john.geanakoplos@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-3397 Website	Mathematical economics; microeconomic theory; economic theory; social security
	Marion Gehlker Senior Lector II in German marion.gehlker@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-8106 Website	Yale Advanced German Courses Coordinator, Yale German Study Abroad Coordinator
	Harvey Goldblatt Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures harvey.goldblatt@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1305 Website	The Cyrillo-Methodian tradition, the literary patrimony of Slavia Orthodoxa; medieval Balkan Slavic literature; poetics of medieval and premodern East Slavic literary civilization; Church Slavonic language speculation; Slavic language questions; the Igor´ Tale.
	Bruce Gordon Titus Street Professor of Divinity and Professor of History and of Religious Studies bruce.gordon@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-5355 Website	Early German Reformation; History of Christianity; European religious cultures of the late-medieval and early modern periods; the Reformation
	Philip Gorski Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies philip.gorski@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-3730 Website	European religious cultures of the late-medieval and early modern periods, with a particular interest in the Reformation and its reception
	Timothy Guinnane Philip Golden Bartlett Professor of Economics and Institution for Social & Policy Studies timothy.guinnane@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-3616 Website	Comparative and Historical Sociology; Culture/Knowledge; Methods; Political Sociology and Social Movements; Religion; Theory
	Samuel Hodgkin Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature samuel.hodgkin@yale.edu	Central Eurasian Languages and Literatures; Cultural History; Literary Theory; Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures; Modernism; Poetry; Russian and Slavic Studies; Translation.
	Krystyna Illakowicz Senior Lector I in Slavic Languages and Literatures krystyna.illakowicz@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 444-8986 Website	Polish language and culture in the global context; theatre and language acquisition; theatre; film; Polish and European modernity; Polish women and history
	Maria Kaliambou Senior Lector in Hellenic Studies maria.kaliambou@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 436-4194 Website	Folk narrative (with a specialization in folktales); popular literature; history of books; history and theory of folklore studies; Southeast European cultural studies; European philhellenism
	Alice Kaplan Sterling Professor of French alice.kaplan@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-4907 Website	Specialist of 20th century France. She works at the intersection of literature and history, using a method that allies archival research with textual analysis. Her teaching and research have focused on the Second World War, the Liberation, and the Algerian War, and on the writers Céline, Proust, and Camus
	Paul Kennedy J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History; Director, International Security Studies paul.kennedy@yale.edu Phone: +1 432-6242, 432-6244 Website	Great power relations, 19th & 20th centuries; Military & naval history; British foreign & imperial history; Contemporary global security issues; United Nations history
	Ruth Koizim Senior Lector and Language Program Director in French 82-90 Wall St, Rm 319 ruth.koizim@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-4904 Website	Language acquisition theory and language-teaching methodologies, images of the German Occupation period in literature and film, Elsa Triolet and other 20th century women writers
	John MacKay Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Film and Media Studies john.mackay@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-7202 Website	Russian, English, German, French, and Spanish literature; history and theory of cinema; interpretive methodologies; Russian and Soviet film; media studies; Marxism and Marxist theory; non-fiction and experimental film; Russian and Soviet culture; theories of kinship; comparative slavery studies
	Lawrence Manley William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English lawrence.manley@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-2249 Website	The poetry, prose, and drama of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, with emphasis on literature and society; theater history and performance studies; intellectual history; the classical foundations of the English literary and critical traditions
	Ivan Marcus Frederick P. Rose Professor of History and Professor of Religious Studies ivan.marcus@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1379 Website	History of the Jews in medieval Europe; History of Jewish culture; Jewish-Christian relations; Jewish mysticism & pietism; The Jews & Islam
	Millicent Marcus Professor of Italian Language and Literature millicent.marcus@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0599 Website	Italian culture from the interdisciplinary perspectives of literature, history, and film
	Isabela Mares Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science 115 Prospect St, Room 420 isabela.mares@yale.edu Website	comparative politics and political economy, including democratization, clientelism and corruption, taxation and fiscal capacity development, social policy reforms in both developed and developing countries
	Stefanie Markovits Professor of English stefanie.markovits@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-2259 Website	English literature of the long Nineteenth Century, both Romantic and Victorian, both poetry and the novel; German classical literature (especially Goethe and Schiller), aesthetic theory, war and literature, and genre theory
	Alan Mikhail Chace Family Professor of History HGS 238 (DUS); RKZ 440 alan.mikhail@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1353 Website	Middle East, Early Modern Muslim World, Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Environmental History, Early Modern History, History of Medicine
	Feisal Mohamed Professor of English feisal.mohamed@yale.edu
	Samuel Moyn Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History samuel.moyn@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-7819 Website	International law, human rights, the law of war, and legal thought, 20th-century European moral and political theory
	Constantine Muravnik Senior Lector II in Slavic Languages and Literatures constantine.muravnik@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0995 Website	Second language acquisition and multimedia teaching materials; Nabokov’s art and thought; Philosophical aspects of literature; Russian poetry
	Isaac Nakhimovsky Associate Professor of History and Humanities isaac.nakhimovsky@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-1396 Website	Intellectual history of Europe since the 17th century; history of political thought; historiography of international law and political economy
	William Nordhaus Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies william.nordhaus@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-3598 Website	Macroeconomics, Environmental economics, Resource economics
	Paul North Professor of German paul.a.north@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0782 Website	Literature and other media, continental philosophy, literary and critical theory
	Cormac O'Dea Assistant Professor of Economics cormac.odea@yale.edu Website	Household wealth, saving and pension policy; Taxes, benefits and the distributional impact of spending on public services; Living standards
	Giulia Oskian Assistant Professor of Political Science 115 Prospect Street, Rosenkranz Hall giulia.oskian@yale.edu Phone: 1(475) 209-0697 Website	Democratic Theory; Political Philosophy; History of Political Thought
	Mark A. Peterson Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History mark.a.peterson@yale.edu Phone: +1(203)-432-5807 Website	Early North America and the Atlantic world
	David Quint Sterling Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature david.quint@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-2229 Website	Literature of the European Renaissance; epic poetry; literary theory; theory of genres; history of the classical tradition
	Ayesha Ramachandran Associate Professor of Comparative Literature ayesha.ramachandran@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-2745 Website	Early modern European literature and cultural history; Renaissance poetry; history of science and technology (sixteenth and seventeenth century); cartography and literature; early modern empires and international law; history of philosophy; Europe and the Indo-Islamic world
	Bill Rankin Associate Professor EM 110 william.rankin@yale.edu	The physical and earth sciences since the mid-19th century; military, industrial, and governmental science; history of cartography; science and architecture; visual studies; environmental history
	Carolyn Roberts Assistant Professor carolyn.roberts@yale.edu	Medicine and slavery in the Atlantic world; race, medicine, and science; history of medicine in Africa and the African diaspora; health and protest in African American history; non-Western medicine and global health.
	Douglas Rogers Professor of Anthropology 10 Sachem Street, Room 311 doug.rogers@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-8046 Website	Political and economic anthropology; natural resources (especially oil) and energy; the anthropology of religion and ethics; cultural production; historical anthropology; and socialist societies and their postsocialist trajectories
	Claire Roosien Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures claire.roosien@yale.edu	Modern Russian and Eurasian History and Culture, Islamic History and Culture, Medieval and Modern Central Asia, Modern Middle East, Gender History and Theory.
	Pierre Saint-Amand Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French pierre.saint-amand@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-4997 Website	research interests in the literature of the eighteenth-century, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and literary criticism and theory
	Maurice Samuels Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French maurice.samuels@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-5046 Website	The literature and culture of nineteenth-century France and in Jewish Studies
	Marci Shore Associate Professor of History marci.shore@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-6792 Website	European cultural & intellectual history
	Timothy Snyder Richard C. Levin Professor of History timothy.snyder@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-7662 Website	Modern Eastern Europe
	Peter Swenson Charlotte Marion Saden Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies peter.swenson@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-5677 Website	Comparative political economy of labor markets and social welfare in Europe and the United States
	George Syrimis Lecturer, Hellenic Studies and Religious Studies george.syrimis@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-9342 Website	Music and national identity; religion and literature; cultural studies; reception studies; gender and sexuality
	Julia Titus Senior Lector II in Slavic Languages and Literatures julia.titus@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0996 Website	Second language acquisition, heritage learners’ language development, multimedia teaching materials, Russian theater and music
	Katie Trumpener Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English katie.trumpener@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-7674 Website	The history of the British and European novel; anglophone fiction (especially Scotland, Ireland, Canada); European film history; literature’s relationship to social and cultural history, visual culture and music; nationalism, regionalism and traditionalism’; literature/culture of WWI, WWII and the Cold War; history of children’s literature 18th C-present; women novelists
	Jesús Velasco Professor of Spanish, Department Chair jesus.velasco@yale.edu	Law and culture; Manuscript Studies and book history; Mediterranean Studies; Contemporary Critical Thought.
	Miroslav Volf Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology, and Founding Director, Yale Center for Faith & Culture miroslav.volf@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-5332 Website	Systematic Theology; Political Theology; Community Organizing; Ecclesiology; Interfaith dialogue; Globalization.
	Karen von Kunes Senior Lector I in Slavic Languages and Literatures karen.vonkunes@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0390 Website	Czech language, lexicography, modern Czech and Central European literatures, Czech film, relation of literature and film to social psychology, and more.
	Kirk Wetters Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures kirk.wetters@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-0789 Website	The intertwined genealogies of literary and critical theory in connection to questions of method in the humanities and social sciences
	James Whitman Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law james.whitman@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-8392 Website	Comparative law, criminal law, and legal history
	Fabrizio Zilibotti Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics fabrizio.zilibotti@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-9561 Website	Development Economics; Macroeconomics; Political Economy; Economic Development of China; Economic Growth; Human Capital, Parenting and Education.