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
Samantha Oglesby
Business Officer
T: (805) 893.8727
Office: 6050 HSSB
samantha@ihc.ucsb.edu
Christoffer Bovbjerg
Assistant Director
T: (805) 893.2004
Office: 6038 HSSB
cbovbjerg@ihc.ucsb.edu
Paula Schaefer
Senior Artist
T: (805) 893.4315
Office: 6046C HSSB
pschaefer@ihc.ucsb.edu
Jarred Pelayo
Payroll and Financial Assistant
T: (805) 893.5541
Office: 6054 HSSB
jarred@ihc.ucsb.edu
Carole Strehlow
Contracts and Grants Coordinator
T: (805) 893.5073
Office: 6036 HSSB
carole@ihc.ucsb.edu
Gabby Reyna
Administrative Assistant
T: (805) 893.3907
Office: 6046 HSSB
gabbyreyna@ihc.ucsb.edu
Anna Jensen
Director of Isla Vista Arts
T: (805) 893.4809
Office: 6034 HSSB
akjensen@ihc.ucsb.edu
Advisory Board
Julie Carlson, English
Alenda Chang, Film and Media Studies
William Davies King, Theater and Dance
Xiaorong Li, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
Rose MacLean, Classics
Jenni Sorkin, History of Art and Architecture
Christina Vagt, Germanic and Slavic Studies
Current Fellows
Faculty Fellows
Heidi Amin-Hong, English
Charmaine Chua, Global Studies
Raquel Pacheco, Anthropology
Elana Resnick, Anthropology
Dissertation Fellows
Christopher Erdman, Classics
Addison Jensen, History
Nicky Rehnberg, History
Isabella Restrepo, Feminist Studies
Reem Taha, Comparative Literature
Graduate Teaching Fellows
Nicole de Silva, History
Margaret Fisher, English
Yiming Ma, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
Celeste McAlpin-Levitt, English
Nicole Rehnberg, History
Em Roalsvig, Classics
Emmanuela Schoinoplokaki, Classics
Kristen Thomas-McGill, History
Ian Waller, Sociology
Public Humanities Graduate Fellows
Please see the complete list of Fellows here