Advisory Committee

Susanna Alles Torrent

Susanna Alles Torrent

Associate Professor
Associate Chair

(305) 284-9275
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Susanna Allés-Torrent is Associate Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies and Digital Humanities at the University of Miami. Her research focuses on 15th-century Iberia, with particular attention to life writing, translation, and the Peninsula’s cultural connections with the Mediterranean. She specializes in...
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Krista A. Goff

Krista A. Goff

Associate Professor

(305) 284-3660 x6406
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Krista Goff is an award-winning scholar who serves as an associate professor of history at the University of Miami. She is also co-editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and co-director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian (REEES) Think Tank, which is a national program for undergraduate students. In 2023, Goff...
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Kelly Baker Josephs

Kelly Baker Josephs

Professor
Director, Africana Studies Program

(305) 284-2183
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Kelly Baker Josephs specializes in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities. She is author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Lit­erature(University of Virginia Press, 2013), co-editor of The Digital Black Atlantic (University of...
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Lillian Manzor

Lillian Manzor

Professor
Faculty Director of UParis

(305) 284-5585
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Ludovic Vetea Mompelat

Ludovic Vetea Mompelat

Asst. Professor

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Ludovic Mompelat is an Assistant Professor of French, Creolistics, and Computational Linguistics at the University of Miami. His research focuses on promoting Creole languages within the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Formal Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics. His most recent publications such as “Simple Morphology,...
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Affiliated Faculty

Robin Faith Bachin

Robin Faith Bachin

Assoc. Professor
Assistant Provost for Civic and Community Engagement

(305) 284-1047
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Robin F. Bachin is the Charlton W. Tebeau Associate Professor of History, Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, and Founding Director of the Office of Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) at the University of Miami (UM). She received her B.A. from Brandeis University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, with Highest Honors...
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Alberto Cairo

Alberto Cairo

Professor
Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, School of Communication
Director, Visualization, Data Communication & Information Design, IDSC

(305) 284-5350
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Alberto Cairo joined the School of Communication in January 2012. He holds a BA in Journalism (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), and a Masters degree and a PhD from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). He teaches courses on infographics, data visualization, and data journalism. Cairo has been described by Microsoft...
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Eduardo Elena

Eduardo Elena

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-4231
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Eduardo Elena specializes in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, with a particular interest in the societies of the South Atlantic region. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he grew up in the United States and was educated at the University of Virginia (B.A.) and Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.). Professor Elena teaches...
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Sarah Marie Fischer

Sarah Marie Fischer

Asst. Professor

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Sarah Fischer is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies at the University of Miami. She earned her PhD from Indiana University and completed her undergraduate education at the University of Florida. Her research and teaching center around digital rhetorics, multimodal composition, and embodiment.
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Lindsay Grace

Lindsay Grace

Professor

(305) 284-4661
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Lindsay is Knight Chair in Interactive Media and program director for the Interactive Media Master of Fine Arts. He is Vice President for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance and the 2019 recipient of the Games for Change Vanguard award. Lindsay's book, Doing Things with Games, Social Impact through Design, is a well-received guide to...
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Ben Lauren

Ben Lauren

Assoc. Professor
Chair of Writing Studies

(305) 248-1087
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Ben Lauren is an Associate Professor and serves as Chairperson of the Department of Writing Studies. He is also Director of the Innovation and Society Co-major. His scholarly training is in professional writing and user experience and focuses on intersections of rhetorical theory; community, institutional, and organizational innovation; design;...
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Karen R Mathews

Karen R Mathews

Associate Professor

(305) 284-2542
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Karen Rose Mathews is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Miami where she teaches classes on ancient art, medieval art, Spanish art, and Islamic art. Her research interests address the material culture of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean as well as the use of digital technologies in art historical pedagogy and...
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Mitsunori Ogihara

Mitsunori Ogihara

Professor
DIRECTOR OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION, IDSC
Secondary app'ts ECE, MMI, CoA, HGG
Director of Graduate Studies

(305) 284-2268 x2308
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Dr. Mitsunori Ogihara joined the University of Miami in 2007 as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and as Program Director of the Big Data Analytics & Data Mining Program for the Center for Computational Science (now IDSC). More recently, he served as...
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Ashli C White

Ashli C White

Professor
Chair of History Department

(305) 284-5005
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Ashli White earned a BA from the University of Virginia, an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.  She specializes in early American history, with particular attention to the connections between North America and the Atlantic World.  To date, most of her research has...
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