In the Winter Term 2020/21, the Culture Department welcomes four new visiting scholars to the John F. Kennedy Institute. Click on the names to learn more about the respective projects and research interests.

Sanders Isaac Bernstein

Stipendiat der Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses Berlin

Project: "American (Proto)fascism, 1914-1933" (Dissertation)

David Getsy

Terra Visiting Professor, Goldabelle McComb Distinguished Professor of Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Research Interest: Queer Studies; Transgender Studies; Art and performance in the U.S. since 1950; Nineteenth-century British and French art; Sculpture Studies; Performance Studies; Game Studies

Michael Thomas

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Susquehanna University

Project: "Race and Reality: The Aesthetic Experience of Blackness"

Myka Tucker-Abramson

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Assistant Professor in American Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick

Project: "On the Road To Collapse: the Road Novel and the Sub/Urban Sensorias of Empire"