Former Fellows

Dr Althea Greenan works in Special Collections and Archives at Goldsmiths University of London curating the Women’s Art Library (WAL) collection. She programmes artistic research supporting artists, students and academics working with the wide range of materials and archives in the WAL. This work is the subject of a film by Holly Antrum commissioned by the Art360 Foundation titled “Yes to the Work!: The Women’s Art Library”.

Additional roles include co-curating the Animating Archives and advisory to “Feminist Art Making Histories” (an oral history, digital humanities project, funded by the Irish Research Council and the AHRC), and “Women in Revolt” (Tate Britain 2023-24, curated by Linsey Young).

She has written on the work of women artists since the 1980s and her doctoral research on the 35mm slide collection features in the anthology “Of Other Spaces” (edited by Sophia Hao, Sternberg Press 2019) and special issue of the journal “Women: a cultural review” (edited by Dr Victoria Horne, Taylor and Francis 2019). Writing on the Women’s Art Library includes a chapter in “Feminism and Museums”, volume 1 (edited by Dr Jenna C Ashton, MuseumsETC 2017) and the forthcoming article “We’re in the Library!: welcoming creative practices, sharing responsibilities of access” in Art Libraries Journal July 2024.

Althea Greenan will begin her fellowship at the College in November 2024.

Patrício Langa is a sociologist and Professor of Comparative Higher Education, Policy, and Innovation Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University (U.E.M.), Mozambique, where he formally advised the Rector on strategic planning. Langa has been a research fellow and visiting higher education and science studies professor at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, University of Bonn, Germany, and the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He also collaborates with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) and Autonomous University of Lisbon (Portugal), and formerly collaborated with the Danube University Krems (Austria).

Professor Langa served as the first executive director for external evaluation in the National Council on Higher Education Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Mozambique (CNAQ), and continues to serve on the board of non-executive directors. He is the founding president of the Mozambican Sociological Association (A.M.S.). and established the African Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (ACHER).

Patrício Langa holds a BA in Social Sciences, a BA Hons in Sociology from U.E.M., a MEd in Higher Education Studies and a PhD in Sociology and Education from the University of Cape Town. His research interest is in the intersection of sociology, higher education and science studies.

Zintombizethu Matebeni, popularly known as zethu, holds the National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa Research Chair in Sexualities, Genders and Queer Studies at the University of Fort Hare. With a background in sociology and ethnographic methods, Matebeni has been a catalyst of African queer studies, working at the intersections of race, class, gender diversity, and sexuality in post-colonial Africa. Collaborating with activists, scholars, and artists, they have produced innovative research and interventions on queer issues, critical race studies, and decolonisation, including the #RhodesMustFall Movement and #AlternativeInclusivePride.

Matebeni’s notable works include "Reclaiming Afrikan: Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Identities" (2014), "Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism"(2018), "Beyond the Mountain: Queer Life in 'Africa's Gay Capital'" (2020), and “Nongayindoda” (2021) in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Zethu Matebeni has been Visiting Professor at the Women’s Gender and Sexualities Studies (WGSS) Department at Yale University and at the Marie Jahoda Centre for International Gender Studies at Ruhr University Bochum.

Website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zethu_Matebeni

Imke Meyer is Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her research is focused on 19th-21st century German-language literature, film and thought. She has particular expertise in 19th-century realism, Viennese Modernism, Kafka, and post-WWII literature and film. Her research frequently engages narrative theory, gender and queer theory, critical theory, and visual culture.

Imke Meyer has published two monographs: „Jenseits der Spiegel kein Land: Ich-Fiktionen in Texten von Franz Kafka und Ingeborg Bachmann“ (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2001) and „Männlichkeit und Melodram: Arthur Schnitzlers erzählende Schriften“ (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010) as well as numerous articles on a diverse range of authors and filmmakers, including Ludwig Tieck, Franz Grillparzer, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Elfriede Jelinek, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Haneke, Barbara Albert, and Arthur Schnitzler.

Imke Meyer is the recipient of a DAAD grant for research in contemporary literature. She has held a visiting professorship at the University of Pennsylvania and was the Helen Herrmann Chair at Bryn Mawr College before moving to the University of Illinois, Chicago. She has served as president both for the Austrian Studies Association and for the Pacific Modern and Ancient Literature Association. She is the founding and current editor of the book series “New Directions in German Studies”, published by Bloomsbury Press.

Website

https://german.uic.edu/profiles/meyer-imke

Irven M. Resnick (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is a professor of Philosophy and Religion and has held the Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (USA) since 1990. Resnick has received numerous grants and awards, including a DAAD Research Visit Grant to Germany. He has been a Corresponding Fellow at the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University (Israel), and from 2003 to 2018 he was a Senior Associate at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (UK), where he also directed four National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes for university faculty. From 2006 to 2008, he was an associate of the sub-faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University’s Oriental Institute. For fall semester 2006, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.

Irven Resnick has published nineteen volumes (as author, translator, or editor) and more than sixty academic journal articles.

Website

https://utc.academia.edu/IrvenResnick/CurriculumVitae

Ahmad H. Sa’di is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University. He has served as a visiting professor at the universities of Columbia (USA), Waseda (Japan), and the National University of Singapore.
He is the co-editor of “Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory” (with Lila Abu-Lughod), the author of “Thorough Surveillance: The Genesis of Israeli Policies of Population Management, Surveillance and Political Control towards the Palestinians”, as well as the co-editor of “Decolonizing the Study of Palestine: Indigenous Perspectives and Settler Colonialism After Elia Zureik” (with Nur Masalha).

His academic research has been published in eight languages including English, German, Japanese, and Portuguese.

Heidi Schlipphacke is Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where she also holds an affiliate appointment in Classics and Mediterranean Studies. She has published widely on German, European, and American literature, film and thought, with particular attention to aesthetic form and its ability to uniquely reflect on social and political structures that are often camouflaged in the real world. Thematically, her scholarship has focused on gender and sexuality, on kinship, on queer aesthetics, on affect, on the aesthetics and ethics of the nation-state, on intermediality, and on temporality.

Heidi Schlipphacke has published the monographs “Nostalgia After Nazism: History, Home, and Affect in German and Austrian Literature and Film” (Bucknell UP, 2010) and “The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century” (Bucknell UP, 2024) as well as a co-edited volume on the global cultural resonance of Elisabeth of Austria. She has edited and co-edited journal issues on topics including “Habsburg Nostalgia” (Journal of Austrian Studies, 2014); “Lessing, The European Enlightenment, and the First Sexual Revolution” (Lessing Yearbook, 2017); and “Queer German Studies: A Forum” (The German Quarterly, 2024), and has published numerous articles on related topics.

She is the recipient of grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Fulbright Foundation, and the UIC Institute for the Humanities. She will serve as president of the Goethe Society of North America beginning in 2025.

Website

https://german.uic.edu/profiles/schlipphacke-heidi

Foluke O. Unuabonah is a professor at the English Department, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria. Her main areas of research include (corpus) pragmatics and discourse analysis. She has published articles on (borrowed) discourse-pragmatic features in Nigerian English as well as borrowed discourse-pragmatic features in Ghanaian, Kenyan, South African and Tanzanian Englishes. She has also investigated social semiotic resources in multimodal texts such as memes and posters, and has explored discourse-pragmatic items in quasi-judicial public hearings.

Foluke Unuabonah has just completed a research project on different speech acts (requests, offers, apologies, refusals, and thanking) in Nigerian English, in a joint project with colleagues at the University of Münster, Germany, and has also compiled the Historical Corpus of English in Nigeria with other colleagues in Redeemer’s University. In her present project, she is carrying out a comparative study of English discourse-pragmatic features, including pragmatic markers, intensifiers and quotatives in Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Ugandan Englishes.

She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Münster, under the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as well as the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa.

Stephen Brown is a professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, where he is also affiliated with the School of International Development and Global Studies. His research focuses mainly on the intersection of domestic and international politics. He has published on democratisation, political violence, peacebuilding and transitional justice/rule of law in Angola, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Rwanda. He has conducted research on foreign aid in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Mongolia, and Peru, as well as on global COVID-19 vaccine inequities. He is now primarily carrying out research on international LGBTQI+ rights. He is completing a research project on international actors’ efforts to defend the rights of sexual and gender minorities in the Global South. His latest project is on how people in some African countries, such as Botswana, Mauritius, and Kenya, use domestic courts to try to force their governments to decriminalise homosexuality. He has been a visiting scholar at universities and research institutes in Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

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https://stephenbrown.xyz

Sule Egya is professor of African Literature and Environmental Humanities at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria. His research interests include literature and environment, African migration writing, knowledge production in Africa, and decolonial discourse. His current research examines environmental imagination in African 20th century literature. His monographs include:

• “Nation, Power and Dissidence in Third Generation Nigerian Poetry in English” (NISC, 2014, 2019)
• “Niyi Osundare: A Literary Biography” (SevHage, 2017)
• “Power and Resistance: Literature, Regime, and the National Imaginary” (SevHage, 2019)
• “Nature, Environment and Activism in Nigerian Literature” (Routledge, 2020)

Sule Egya has co-edited “Studies in Scientific and Cultural Ecology” (SevHage, 2021) and “Orality, Textuality, Society: New Perspectives on Nigerian Literature and Culture” (SevHage, 2023). He also writes fiction and poetry under the pen-name E. E. Sule. He is the author of the novels “Sterile Sky” (winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize Africa Region, 2013) and “Makwala” (ANA Prose Prize, 2019) and the poetry collection “What the Sea Told Me” (winner of the ANA Gabriel Okara Prize, 2009).

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Mila Ganeva is Professor of German and affiliate member of the Film Studies programme at Miami University in Ohio. She is the author of Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933 (Camden House, 2008) and Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin: Between Nazism and Cold War, 1945-1953 (Camden House, 2018) as well as numerous articles on fashion history and German film. Her essay on fashion photographers in Berlin of the 1920s was included in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition “The New Woman Behind the Camera” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (July 2021-January 2022). Most recently she published about the costumes and set designs in the popular German TV-series “Babylon Berlin” and is completing an article “Dressing Babylon Berlin for a Global Audience: Extravaganza, Glamour, and Grit” forthcoming in 2024. She is currently writing a book-length study on “Cabaret and Film: Synergy and Competition in the Weimar Republic.”

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https://miamioh.edu/profiles/cas/mila-ganeva.html

Marta García Morcillo is an Ancient Historian, currently Research Fellow at Durham University and UK Principal Investigator of the AHRC-DFG collaborative project “Twisted Transfers: Discursive Constructions of Corruption in Ancient Greece and Rome” (2020-24). Previously, she worked as Senior Lecturer and Lecturer at the Universities of Roehampton (London), Wales TSD, Leicester and Dresden; and was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Heidelberg and Potsdam. Her research revolves around the study of ancient economies, with a particular interest in Roman financial activities, economic mentality and motivation, and the relationship between markets and ideas of value. She also works on the reception of antiquity in modern visual cultures, with a special interest in cinema, advertising and printed media. Marta is cofounder of the international networks "Imagines: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts" and "Engendering Ancient Economies".

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https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marta-garcia-morcillo

M. Erdem Özgür is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir. Previously, he was employed by Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, where he had served as vice director of the Maritime Business School. He received his PhD degree from George Mason University in 2005, and his MSc and BSc degrees from Middle East Technical University. His research interests include economic history and history of economic thought with a specific focus on the 19th century. He has papers presented at various professional conferences on his research interests. He has published articles and book chapters as well as co-edited books on the economic history of and history of economic thought in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Europe, and the US. The courses he taught include history of economic thought, institutional economics, economic history, and principles of economics.

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https://debis.deu.edu.tr/akademik/index.php?cat=3&akod=20120252

Manuel Souto-Otero is a Professor of Education Policy and Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University (UK), where he is Director of Research and Head of the Education Research Group. He has published widely on the link between education and work (in particular digitalisation, the future of work and its implications for skills development), social stratification and inequalities, and non-formal education. He has recently completed a project on “Digital Disruption and the Future of Work: reimagining education, skills and employ-ability” for Skills Futures Singapore, and has also undertaken a large number of research projects for international organisations (European Commission, European Parliament, Cedefop, UNESCO, OECD), national governments (Belgium, Spain, Estonia, UK), and think tanks and third sector organisations (including the European Youth Forum and the Institute for Public Policy Research). He is an executive editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Associate Editor of the Journal Education and Work, and Advisory Board Member for the Journal of Education Policy.

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Małgorzata Sugiera is Professor and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies. She was a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, DAAD, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, the American Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research concentrates on performativity theories, environmental and decolonial studies, particularly in the context of the history of science. She published twelve scholarly books in Polish, translates scholarly books and co-edited several books in English and German, most recently with Dorota Sajewska for “Crisis and Communitas: Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics” (Routledge 2022).

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https://performatyka.polonistyka.uj.edu.pl/psugiera

Christina Vagt is Associate Professor of European Media Studies, German, and Comparative Literature at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research intersects media theory with European philosophy and the history of science and technology. Selected publications: Impossible-Possible Machines (communication +1, 2022), Action at A Distance (Minnesota, 2020); Design as Aesthetic Education: On the Politics and Aesthetics of Learning Environments (History of the Human Sciences, 2020), Geschickte Sprünge. Physik und Medium bei Martin Heidegger (Diaphanes, 2012).

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https://www.gss.ucsb.edu/people/christina-vagt

Douglas Wegner is a professor of the Professional Master in Administration at Fundação Dom Cabral, a business school in Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is currently co-leader of the track on “Interorganizational and Interpersonal Relations” at Anpad, the National Association of Graduate Programs and Research in Administration, and member of the research group Collab4Good, which focuses on grand challenges, collaborative governance, innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurial ecosystems, social innovation, and inter organisational cooperation. His current research interests include collaborative strategies and networks, network governance, and network orchestration. He also works as associate editor of Revista Base for the topics of Collaboration and Interorganisational Relations. Besides the academic activities, Douglas worked as a business consultant, forming and developing strategic networks in Brazil. Douglas Wegner holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2011), Brazil. He was a visiting researcher at TU Dortmund University (2019) and the University of Sevilla (2016) and published various articles in peer reviewed journals.

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https://www.fdc.org.br/en/aboutfdc/faculty/douglas-wegner

Peter Woelert is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Research) at the Faculty of Education of the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has published on issues such as universities’ internal responses to national research funding settings, the politics of research evaluation, and the unintended effects of national policy reform on institutional diversity. His current programme of research is focused on exploring new forms of bureaucratisation within universities and their ramifications.

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https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/219058-peter-woelert