Patricia White
Director, Aydelotte Foundation
Centennial Chair and Professor of Film and Media Studies and coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies
An expert on feminist and LGBTQ+ cinema, White is the author of five field-defining books on cinema and women’s studies, including Rebecca (Bloomsbury Press, 2021); Women’s Cinema/World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (Duke University Press, 2015); and Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (Indiana University Press, 1999).
She earned a B.A. in film studies from Yale University and received a Ph.D. in the history of consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. White serves on the boards of Women Make Movies, of which she is a former board chair, and Film Quarterly. She is also a member of the editorial collective of Camera Obscura.
Farha Ghannam
Eugene M. Lang Research Professor, Sociology & Anthropology
Ghannam’s areas of expertise include anthropological theories, globalization, urban life, embodiment and gender, food and taste, and class politics in the Middle East. She is the author of the books Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt and Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo. Her research has also been published in several academic journals, including The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, and American Ethnologist.
Rosaria Munson
J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor, Classics
Rosaria Munson is the J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor of Classics. She began to study Classics in Liceo in Italy, and has a Laurea from the Università degli Studi of Milan and a PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Perhaps because she has moved between two worlds and likes both, Munson is interested in different peoples’ representations of themselves and foreigners.
She is the author of numerous articles on Herodotus and two books: Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus (2001) and Black Doves Speak. Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians (2005). She has edited the Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Herodotus, Vol. 1 (Herodotus and the Narrative of the Past) and Vol. 2 (Herodotus and the World). She is currently co-authoring a commentary to Book I of the Histories to be published by Cambridge University Press. Besides Greek and Latin at all levels, she regularly teaches Greek History and historiography.
She is also a member of the Medieval Study Program Faculty and offers a biennial course on the Divine Comedy, which explores Dante’s appropriation and re-reading of the Classical poets.
Cat Norris
Associate Dean of the Faculty for Academic Programs and Research
Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
Bio forthcoming
