Advisory Committee

Susanna Alles Torrent

Associate Professor
Associate Chair

(305) 284-9275

Krista A. Goff

Associate Professor

(305) 284-3660 x6406
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 based at Howard University...

Kelly Baker Josephs

Professor

(305) 284-2183
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...

Lillian Manzor

Professor
Faculty Director of UParis

(305) 284-5585

Allison M Schifani

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies


Lindsay Thomas

Associate Professor

(305) 284-2182
Personal Web Page  Lindsay Thomas's research and teaching focus on the contemporary US literature, cultural studies, and the digital humanities. She is the author of Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). From 2017-2021, she was co-director...

Affiliated Faculty

Robin Faith Bachin

Assoc. Professor
Assistant Provost for Civic and Community Engagement

(305) 284-1047
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...

Eduardo Elena

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-4231
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...

John R. Funchion

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-5607
Personal Web Page John Funchion’s essays have appeared in Early American Literature, Modern Language Quarterly, Modernist Cultures, and The Henry James Review. He recently completed a series of final revisions on his first book, States of Nostalgia: the Aesthetics of Antagonism in the Nineteenth-Century...

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
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...

Ashli C White

Professor
Chair of History Department

(305) 284-5005
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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