Faculty and Research Partners

The Lifespan Project

Benedicte Boisseron

PI

Professor, Afroamerican and African Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures

Megan Sweeney

Associate Professor, Afroamerican and African Studies; English; Women’s and Gender Studies

Mirelle Roddier

Associate Professor, Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning

Reparative AI, 2024

Germaine Halegoua

PI

Associate Professor, Communication & Media and Digital Studies

Mathew Bui

Assistant Professor, School of Information

Ellie Abrons

Associate Professor, Taubman College of Urban Planning and Architecture; Director, Digital Studies Institute

Tung-Hui Hu

Associate Professor, English Language and Literature

Apryl Williams

Assistant Professor, Communication & Media and Digital Studies

Nishnaabe Languages, 2024

Cherry Meyer

PI

Assistant Professor, American Culture and Linguistics

Robin Queen

Sarah G. Thomason Collegiate Professor of Linguistics; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Professor of Linguistics, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and English Language and Literature

Phill Cameron

Adjunct Lecturer, School of education and Language Resource Center

Kayla Gonyon

Lecturer I, American Culture

Ethriam Brammer

Assistant Dean, Horace H Rackham School of Graduate Studies

Alphonse Pitawanakwat

Lecturer, American Culture

Barbra Meek

Professor, Anthorpology and Linguistic; University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, LSA.

Portal to the Ancient City of Teotihuacan, 2024

Robert Adams

PI

Associate Professor of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Dawn Gilpin

Lecture IV in Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Joyce Marcus

Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished Professor of Social Evolution. Curator, Latin American Archaeology Museum

Tiffany Fryer

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology. Assistant Curator of Historian and Contemporary Archaeology

Black Washtenaw County, 2021-2023

Jennifer Jones

PI Year1

Assistant Professor of History and Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

Claire Zimmerman

PI Year 2

Associate Professor, History of Art / Architecture Program

Matthew Countryman

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Associate Professor of History

Robert Goodspeed

Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Michael Steinberg

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Law School

Stephen Ward

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Associate Professor in the Residential College

Centering the Northern Realms, 2021-2023

Alicia Ventresca Miller

PI Year 1

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Juhn Ahn

PI Year 2

Associate Professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

Miranda Brown

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures

Pär Cassel

Associate Professor of History

Bryan Miller

Lecturer I in History of Art and Lecturer I in Asian Languages and Cultures

Sangseraima Ujeed

Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures

Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections, 2021-2023

Deirdre de la Cruz

PI Year 1

Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures and Associate Professor of History

Ricky Punzalan

PI Year 2

Associate Professor of Information, School of Information

Kerstin Barndt

Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Director, Museum Studies Program, Horace Rackham Graduate School

Nancy Bartlett

Archivist and Associate Director, Bentley Historical Library

Martha O’Hara Conway

Director, Special Collections Research Center, University Library

Jim Moss

Collections Manager, Museum of Archaeological Anthropology

Singing Justice, 2021-2023

Naomi André

PI Year 1

Professor Emerita, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Residential College, and Women’s and Gender Studies

Louise Toppin

Co-PI

Professor of Music (Voice), School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Stephen Berrey

Co-PI Year 2

Associate Professor of American Culture and Associate Professor of History

Mark Clague

Associate Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Collaborations and Partnerships, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Caroline Helton

Clinical Associate Professor of Music (Performing Arts), School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Ambivalence Project, 2020-2022

Valerie Traub

PI

Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor, Adrienne Rich Distinguished University Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies

Lisa Harris

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical School

Sara McClelland

Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Psychology

Cecilia Morales

Engaged Scholarship Manager, Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning

Ava Purkiss

Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women’s and Gender Studies

Cathy Sanok

Professor of English Language and Literature and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

Narrating Nubia: The Social Lives of Heritage, 2020-2022

Yasmin Moll

PI

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Geoff Emberling

Co-PI

Associate Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Intermittent Lecturer in Middle East Studies

Amal Hassan Fadlalla

Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Professor of Anthropology

Michael Fahy

Lecturer in Educational Studies, School of Education

Documenting Criminalization and Confinement, 2019-2021

Matthew Lassiter

Co-PI

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History; Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Heather Thompson

Co-PI

Professor of History; Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies; Professor, Residential College Social Theory and Practice Program

Melissa Burch

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Professor of History, Professor of American Culture and Associate Chair, Department of American Culture

Nora Krinitsky

Lecturer I in Residential College; Michigan-Mellon postdoctoral Fellow in Egalitarianism and the Metropolis

William D. Lopez

Faculty Director of Public Scholarship at the National Center for Institutional Diversity and Assistant Clinical Professor at the School of Public Health

Ashley Lucas

Co-PI Year 2

Associate Professor of Theatre and Drama; Associate Professor in the Residential College; Associate Professor of English Language and Literature; and Associate Professor of Art and Design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design

Ruby Tapia

Associate Professor of English Language and Literature; Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Chair, Department of Women’s Studies

Expanding the Reach of the Global Feminisms Oral History Archive, 2019-2021

Abigail Stewart

PI

Chair, Gender and Feminist Psychology; Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies

Sueann Caulfield

Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor in the Residential College

Abigail Dumes

Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies

Elisha Renne

Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies

Wang Zheng

Associate Professor, Women’s Studies; Associate Scientist, Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Making African Art, 2018-2020

Laura De Becker

Co-PI

Helmut and Candis Stem Curator of African Art, Museum of Art

Raymond Silverman

Co-PI

Professor of History of Art and Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies

Kelly Askew

Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies

Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo

Professor of Art and Design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design

Sensing Algorithms, 2018-2020

Christian Sandvig

PI

Professor of Digital Media, Professor of Information, School of Information

William A. Calvo-Quiros

Assistant Professor of American Culture and Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design

Catie Newell

Associate Professor of Architecture, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Sophia Brueckner

Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information

John Granzow

Assistant Professor of Music, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Book Unbound, 2017-2019

Nicola Terrenato

PI

Ester B. Van Deman Collegiate Professor of Roman Studies and Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classical Studies

Anne Ruggles Gere

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Gertrude Buck Collegiate Professor of Education, Professor of English Language and Literature and Director Academic Program, Sweetland Writing Center

David Stone

Digital Field Data Coordinator, Associate Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Lecturer I in Classical Studies

Naomi Silver

Sweetland Writing Center Associate Director and Lecturer IV in Sweetland Writing Center

Charles Watkinson

Associate University Librarian for Publishing and Director of the University of Michigan Press

Kentaro Toyama

W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information and Professor of Information, School of Information

From Africa to Patagonia, 2017-2019

Nick Henriksen

PI

Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Associate Professor of Linguistics

Andries W. Coetzee

Director of Academic Program, African Studies Center, International Institute and Professor of Linguistics

Lorenzo García-Amaya

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Ryan Szpiech

Associate Director of CMENAS; Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Associate Professor of Judaic Studies

Precarity Lab, 2016-2019

Lisa Nakamura

PI

Professor of American Culture and Screen Arts, Professor of Film, Television and Media, Professor of English Language and Literature, Professor of Women’s Studies and Director, Digital Studies Institute

Anna Watkins Fisher

Assistant Professor of American Culture

Silvia Lindtner

Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information and Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design

Hyecho’s Journey, 2016-2018

Donald Lopez

PI

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Chair, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

Carla Sinopoli

Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Curator Emerita, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Kevin Carr

Associate Professor of History of Art

Keiko Yokota-Carter

Librarian, Library Research – Asia, University Library