Who We Are
Susan Derwin
Director
T: (805) 893.8538
Office: 6046A HSSB
derwin@ihc.ucsb.edu
Erin Nerstad
Associate Director
T: (805) 893.3137
Office: 6046B HSSB
nerstad@ihc.ucsb.edu
Ceanna Bowman
Business Officer
T: (805) 893.8727
Office: 6050 HSSB
ceanna@ihc.ucsb.edu
Adam Morrison
Academic Coordinator
Program and Events Coordinator
T: (805) 893.2004
Office: 6038 HSSB
morrison@ihc.ucsb.edu
Brandon Fastman
Associate Director of Research Development for the Humanities, Fine Arts, and Education
T: (805) 893.4539
Office: 2714 Ellison Hall
fastman@research.ucsb.edu
Courtney Richardson
Contracts and Grants Coordinator
T: (805) 893.5073
Office: 6036 HSSB
richardson@ihc.ucsb.edu
Kathryn Lunger
Payroll and Administrative Assistant
T: (805) 893.3907
Office: 6046 HSSB
kathrynlunger@ihc.ucsb.edu
Paula Schaefer
Senior Artist
T: (805) 893.4315
Office: 6046C HSSB
pschaefer@ihc.ucsb.edu
Department Financial Assistant
T: (805) 893-5541
Office: 6054 HSSB
Ellen Anderson
Director of Isla Vista Arts
T: (805) 893.4809
Office: 6034 HSSB
eanderson@ihc.ucsb.edu
DJ Palladino
Director of Magic Lantern Films
djpalladino@ihc.ucsb.edu
Advisory Board
Maurizia Boscagli, English and Comparative Literature
José Cabezón, Religious Studies
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, History
Tim Cooley, Music
George Legrady, Media Arts & Technology and Art
Ross Melnick, Film and Media Studies
Eric Prieto, French and Italian
Elisabeth Weber, Germanic and Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature
Current Fellows
Faculty Fellows
Jeannine DeLombard, English
Lisa Jacobson, History
Laila Shereen Sakr, Film and Media Studies
Dissertation Fellows
Bianka Ballina, Film and Media Studies
Anna Bax, Linguistics
Yanitsa Buendia de Llaca, Religious Studies
Thomas Franke, History
John Schranck, Comparative Literature
Graduate Teaching Fellows
Nicole Dib, English
Michael Fiddler, Linguistics
Andrew Johnson, Political Science
Daniel Martini, Comparative Literature
Patricia Morland, History
Anita Raychawdhuri, English
Clint Terrell, English
Giorgia Troiani, Linguistics
Jordan Tudisco, Comparative Literature
Shawn Van Valkenburgh, Sociology
Lauren Vanderlinden, Ethnomusicology
Keelan Overton