Current Fellows Spring 2015
Faculty Fellows
Claudia Tatinge Nascimento
Associate Professor of Theater
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Research Interests:
Intercultural and avant-garde performance; ritual and performance; performance studies; Brazilian theatre.Scholarly Keywords:
Experimental Theatre; Foreignness and the politics of intercultural performance; Brazilian Theatre of the post-dictatorship; Dance.
Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Acting Conservatory Degree, Casa das Artes de Laranjeiras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)Academic Associations:
International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT)
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)Grants:
2007: Consulate of Brazil in New York, for the production "Pornographic Angel," based on short stories by Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues.Publications:
http://www.routledgeperformance.com/books/Crossing-Cultural-Borders-Through-the-Actors-Work-isbn9780415988872
Olga Sendra Ferrer
Assistant Professor of Spanish
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Stephanie Ponsavady
Assistant Professor of French
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Mark Slobin
Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music
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Research Interests:
music of afghanistan and central asia music of eastern european jews in europe and north america general theory of ethnomusicology ethnomusicology of filmScholarly Keywords:
ethnomusicologyLeadership Positions:
former president, Society for Ethnomusicology, Society for Asian Music, former editor "Asian Music" journal
Andrew W. Mellon Fellows
Rosa Ficek
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
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Rosa Ficek has a B.A. in Anthropology from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research brings together perspectives from postcolonial studies, science and technology studies, and environmental anthropology to consider the ways Latin American landscapes are shaped by capitalist and colonialist histories. She is currently preparing a book manuscript on the Pan American Highway that understands Latin American integration through the lens of mobility and encounter, based on fieldwork in Panama, Mexico, and the United States. Her research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Mellon Mays Program, and the Ford Foundation.
Jordan Kraemer
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jordan Kraemer is an anthropologist of media and technology who studies how social and mobile media are reshaping everyday life. She received her PhD in cultural anthropology from UC Irvine in 2012 and has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin. Her work has also been supported by a DAAD fellowship, Intel, and the Institute for European Studies at UC Berkeley. She writes at the intersection of anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and emerging media studies on implicit norms and inequalities in technology design, material infrastructure, normative understandings of mobility and sociality, transnationalism, and the production of space, place, and scale.
Research Fellow and Visiting Professor
Sinkwan Cheng
Research Fellow and Visiting Professor
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Over the past decade and a half, Sinkwan Cheng has been awarded ten (inter-)national fellowships in various countries in Europe and North America, including a European Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship, an IAS Fellowship at Durham University, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and a DAAD Fellowship.
She has given faculty seminars and lectures in the U.K., the U.S., the Netherlands, Germany, China, South Korea, Macau, and Hong Kong.
She is the editor of Law, Justice, and Power: Between Reason and Will (Stanford University Press). Contributors to this volume include Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Žižek, J. Hillis Miller, Alain Badiou, Nancy Fraser, and Ernesto Laclau. Her writings can also be found in the MLN, Cardozo Law Review, Law and Literature, Literature and Psychology, American Journal of Semiotics, and refereed venues in the U.K., France, Germany, Canada, and Spain.
She was the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award in a campus-wide competition at SUNY Buffalo.
Student Fellows
Andrew Heimowitz
Sophia Massey
Kelsey Henry
Jill Jie'en Tan