Advisory Committee

Susanna Alles Torrent

Associate Professor
Associate Chair

sxa985@miami.edu

(305) 284-9275

Krista A. Goff

Associate Professor

kag86@miami.edu

(305) 284-3660 x6406
Krista Goff is a historian of Soviet and post-Soviet history, with a particular interest in the North and South Caucasus.  In her research and teaching she explores the historical formation of minorities and the experience of minoritization in these historical contexts, as well as interrelated themes of nationalism, citizenship, empire,...

Kelly Baker Josephs

Professor

k.josephs@umiami.edu

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

Assoc. Professor
Faculty Director of UParis

lmanzor@miami.edu

(305) 284-5585

Allison M Schifani

Asst. Professor_MLL Digital Humanities
Director of Graduate Studies

ams611@miami.edu


Lindsay Thomas

Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

lxt308@miami.edu

(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

rbachin@miami.edu

(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

edelena@miami.edu

(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

jfunchion@miami.edu

(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...

Karl A Gunther

Assoc. Professor

k.gunther@miami.edu

(305) 284-4151
Karl Gunther is Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy and History from Wheaton College (IL) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University. Before joining the History Department at the University of Miami in 2008, he taught for one year as a Lecturer in History at Rice...

Mitsunori Ogihara

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

mogihara@miami.edu

(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

Assoc. Professor

acwhite@miami.edu

(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...