ALICE KAPLAN INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES

Corey Byrnes

Associate Professor, Humanities; Department of Asian Languages and Cultures; and Program in Comparative Literary Studies

Research Interests
Environmental Humanities, Animal Studies, modern and contemporary Chinese cultural studies

Recent Work

“A Cheaper Machine for the Work,” in Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour (Verso, 2022)

“Transpacific Maladies,” Social Text 38.3 (2020)

“Chinese Landscapes of Desolation,” Representations 147.1 (2019)

Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges (Columbia, 2019)

• American Comparative Literature Association, Harry Levin Prize, 2020 - Honorable Mention
• Columbia University, Weatherhead East Asian Institute First Book Award
  

Steven Epstein

Professor, Department of Sociology; John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests
Social and Cultural Studies of Health, Science, and Biomedicine; Sexuality Studies and LGBTQ Studies; Social Movements

Recent Work

“COVID-19 and the Politics of Knowledge,” ASA Footnotes Special Issue on Sociologists and Sociology During COVID-19, May-June 2020

 “Governing Sexual Health: Bridging Biocitizenship and Sexual Citizenship.” In Happe, Johnson, and Levina (eds.), Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power (2018)

“The Proliferation of Sexual Health: Diverse Social Problems and the Legitimation of Sexuality” (with Laura Mamo). In Social Science & Medicine (2017)

(Photo of Steven Epstein by Tony Rinaldo.)

Ann Gunter

Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities; Professor, Department of Art History; Professor, Department of Classics

Research Interests
Ancient Near Eastern art and Anatolian archaeology

Recent Work

Greek Art and the Orient (2009)

James J. Hodge

Associate Professor, Humanities and Department of English

Research Interests
Digital Media, Film and Media Studies, Critical Theory

Recent Publications

Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art (2019)

Doug Kiel

Assistant Professor, Humanities and Department of History

Research Interests
Native American History and Politics, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, 20th Century U.S. History

Recent Work

Advisor and Co-Curator, Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories, The Field Museum, opened May 2022

“Histories of Indigenous Sovereignty in Action: What is it and Why Does it Matter?” co-authored with Christine DeLucia, Katrina Phillips, and Kiara Vigil in The American Historian, 2021

“Foreword: Queer Heartlands” in Ryan Schuessler and Kevin Whiteneir, Jr., eds., Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America (Cleveland: Belt Publishing, 2020)