Dr. Marco Cabrera Geserick, the Latin American Studies Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Humanities, was recently invited as a keynote speaker for the Napoleonic Historical Society conference this year, which was held in Mexico City at the Gran Hotel Ciudad de Mexico. The event began at the Mexico City campus of the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (the Mexican version of MIT), where speakers were welcomed by masked students (pictured below). 
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Faculty Research
Dr. Gulacsi Sabbatical Lecture on October 31st
Professor of Art History and Asian Studies, Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi will be sharing her sabbatical research she conducted as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, NJ in Spring 2024 on Thursday, October 31st at 4:30pm in Liberal Arts room 136. The lecture is entitled “Sacred Waste along the Medieval Silk Roads: Buddhist, Christian, and Manichaean” and will uncover Dunhuang’s story through religious art and text from the Tang China period. This event is free and… Read more
Congrats to Dr. Murtaugh Coleman on her recent publication!
Associate Teaching Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, Dr. Diana Murtaugh Coleman recently published her article “Suspended in al Barzakh” in the August volume of Sargasso: A… Read more
Dr. Murtaugh Coleman chaired a panel and presented on human rights in Austria this summer
Dr. Diana Murtaugh Coleman presented a paper and chaired a panel at the Second Graz/Puerto Rico International Conference on Human rights from an Inter-American Perspective: Camps, Carceral Imaginaries, and Critical Interventions at the University of Graz in Austria this summer. Her… Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Cabrera Geserick on his latest publications!
Assistant Professor of Humanities Dr. Cabrera Geserick recently published his articles “Mercenaries and Filibusters in 19th-Century Latin America” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (June, 2024) and “Cultural Imperialism in Latin… Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Jelesijevic on her recent publication!
Assistant Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently published the chapter essay “The Serpent Dancer: Multiple Identities and Competing Rituals in Noh Play Dōjōji” in the anthology Premodern Monsters: A Varied Compilation of Pre-modern Judeo-Christian and Japanese Buddhist Monstrous Discourses (Vernon Press,… Read more