Steering Committee

Steven Fred Butterman

Professor

butterman@miami.edu

(305) 284-4858
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Sumita Chatterjee

Lecturer

s.chatterjee@miami.edu

(305) 284-4916
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Sumita Chatterjee specialises in South Asia and its diaspora in the United States and the English Caribbean. Her research and teaching interests focus on women’s work, the role of gender, race, caste, and religious identities in shaping discourses around migration and the South Asian diaspora. She has a M.A. and M.Phil. in Modern...
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Louise K. Davidson-Schmich

Professor

davidson@miami.edu

(305) 284-2143
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Louise K. Davidson-Schmich is Professor of Political Science. Davidson-Schmich came to UM in 2000 after receiving her PhD and MA in political science from Duke University and completing her undergraduate degree in international relations at Brown University. In 2016 she was a New Zealand Fulbright US Scholar at the Victoria University of...
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Pamela L. Geller

Associate Professor

p.geller@miami.edu

(305) 284-5091
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Dr. Geller is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Miami. She is strongly committed to transdisciplinarity; her research interests include bioarchaeology, feminist and queer studies, materiality of identity, bio-politics and the body, and the socio-politics of the past. She has conducted fieldwork in Israel,...
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Robert J Johnson

Professor

rjohnson@miami.edu

(305) 284-4973
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Brenna M Munro

Assoc. Professor

bmunro@miami.edu

(305) 284-5574
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Brenna Munro specializes in queer and postcolonial studies, Anglophone African literature, and queer global writing and cinema. Her first book, South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2013, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in LGBT...
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Suja Sawafta

Asst. Professor

srs366@miami.edu

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Suja Sawafta is an Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami.  Her research focuses on exile and ecocriticism at the Franco-Arab intersection.  She is currently working on her first book project which examines the impact of exile, intellectual...
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