Andy Hines
Interim Director, Aydelotte Foundation
Andy Hines is the Interim Director of the Aydelotte Foundation. He is the author of Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University and the editor of University Keywords. His writing on the political economy of higher education, race, and disciplinarity appears in PMLA, American Quarterly, Protean Magazine, and Public Books, among other venues.
He is currently working on two new book projects. One traces the history of socialist and communist institutions of adult education in the United States. The other theorizes productive and reproductive labor by examining the linked historical development of universities and academic medical centers.
He earned his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2015.
Vasanta Chaganti
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Vasanta Chaganti is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Swarthmore College. Her work focuses on Internet Measurement and Policy, AI security, and privacy-preserving systems. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Comcast Innovation Fund, and AALAC (Associated Colleges of the Liberal Arts and Sciences). Students in her research lab have published work at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference and IEEE Security and Privacy. At Swarthmore, Vasanta has served as the Sigma Xi President, and leads the Critical AI panel. She is on the steering committee for the A4NE (Artificial Intelligence for Network Education) workshop and the Cybersecurity and Privacy AALAC workshop.
Ellen Magenheim
Centennial Professor, Economics
Ellen Magenheim is Centennial Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College. Her teaching includes microeconomic theory, health economics, and the economics of the family. The primary focus of her research is health behavior and health policy. Her research has been published in the Journal of Economic Organization and Behavior, Econometrica, Labour Economics, Health Affairs Scholar, and Social Science and Medicine. She has published opinion pieces on a variety of topics including incentivizing vaccinations and public policy implementation.
Olivia Sabee
Associate Dean of the Faculty for Academic Programs and Research
Associate Professor, Dance
Olivia Sabee is an Associate Professor of Dance and currently serves as Associate Dean of the Faculty for Academic Programs and Research. She is the author of Theories of Ballet in the Age of the Encyclopédie (Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment, 2022), the co-editor, with Hanna Roman, of Cultural Transmission and the French Enlightenment: Repurposing the Past (Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment, 2025), and is currently at work on a monograph tentatively entitled Dancing Liberty: The Forgotten History of How Ballet Became American.
She earned a BA at the University of Chicago and a PhD at Johns Hopkins University, both in French, and holds a high school diploma in ballet from North Carolina School of the Arts (now UNC School of the Arts). She is a current board member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
