CHARM Principal Investigators
![Lisa Pon](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/lisa.p.jpg)
Lisa Pon
PI, Professor of Art History, USC Dornsife
Pon specializes in early modern European art, architecture, and material culture
![Lisa Bitel](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/lisa.b.jpg)
Lisa Bitel
Co-PI, Professor of Religion and History, USC Dornsife
Bitel analyzes the social, cultural, and religious history of medieval Europe
![Frederic Clark](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/fred.c.jpg)
Frederic Clark
Co-PI, Associate Professor of Classics, USC Dornsife
Clark specializes in the afterlife of classical antiquity in medieval and early modern Europe
![Adam Gilbert](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/adam.g.jpg)
Adam Gilbert
Co-PI, Professor, Chair of Musicology and Director of Early Music Program, USC Thornton
Gilbert studies fifteenth-century European music’s symbolism and compositional processes
![Andreas Kratky](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/andreas.k.jpg)
Andreas Kratky
Co-PI, Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts; Associate Dean of Research of the School of Cinematic Arts, USC
Kratky focuses on human-computer interaction in cinema and digital humanities, and is co-PI of the Bibliotheca Iulia Instaurata project recreating the experience of Pope Julius II’s library
![Sonya Lee](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/sonya.l.jpg)
Sonya Lee
Co-PI, Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages, and Cultures and Religion, USC Dornsife
Lee is a specialist in religious art and architecture of China and Central Asia
CHARM Project Leaders
![Cara de Vago](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cara2.jpg)
Cara de Vago
Fabian Debora
Hector Reyes
![Immersive Raphael Project](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/immers2.jpg)
Immersive Raphael Project
Frederic Clark
Andreas Kratky
Lisa Pon
![Playing/Play on Buxtehude](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/buxte2.jpg)
Playing/Play on Buxtehude
Malachai Bandy
Oliver Mayer
![Reconstructing Music of the Missions](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/music.jpg)
Reconstructing Music of the Missions
Adam Gilbert
![Classical Chinese-Latin Translation](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/friendship-1.jpg)
Classical Chinese-Latin Translation
Lucas Hershenroeder
Stephano Rebeggiani
![Teaching Medieval History in Prisons Today](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/medeival.teach_.jpg)
Teaching Medieval History in Prisons Today
Luke Fidler
CHARM Members
![Alejandro Acosta](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/alehandro.a.jpg)
Alejandro Acosta
Guitarist and Lutenist
![David Albertson](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/david.a.jpg)
David Albertson
Associate Professor of Religion, USC Dornsife
Albertson studies the history of Christian thought in medieval and early modern Europe
![Malachai Bandy](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/malachia.b.jpg)
Malachai Bandy
Assistant Professor of Music, Pomona College
Bandy studies the religious and secular music of the German Baroque
![Amy Buono](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/amy.b.jpg)
Amy Buono
Assistant Professor, Chapman University
Buono is a specialist in the visual and material cultures of colonial Latin America and the Atlantic world
![Courtney Carter](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/courtney.c.jpg)
Courtney Carter
Graduate student at USC Dornsife
Carter studies Modern European and American art and visual culture; History and theory of photography; Horror and the weird (literature and cinema)
![Becky Cerling](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/becky.c.jpg)
Becky Cerling
Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife
Cerling’s research centers on the role of children in medieval monasticism
![Kristen Collins](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/kristen.c.jpg)
Kristen Collins
Curator of Manuscripts, JP Getty Museum
Exhibitions curated include: “Balthazar: A Black African King…,” “Canterbury and St. Albans;” “Holy Image, Hallowed Ground”
![Susan Dackermann](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/susan.d.jpg)
Susan Dackermann
Museum Professional and Scholar
![Amberdeen Dadabhoy](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/amberdeen.d.jpg)
Amberdeen Dadabhoy
Associate Profesor of Literature, Harvey Mudd College
![Chanchal Dadlani](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/chanchal.d.jpg)
Chanchal Dadlani
Professor of Art History, Pomona Collage
![Lynn Dodd](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/lynn.d.jpg)
Lynn Dodd
Professor of the Practice of Religion and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife
![Lauren Dodds](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/lauren.d.jpg)
Lauren Dodds
Postdoctoral research assistant for CHARM
Dodds studies the history of collecting and Italian Renaissance art
![William Deverell](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/william.d.jpg)
William Deverell
Professor of History, Spatial Sciences and Environmental Studies; Director, Institute on California and the West, USC Dornsife
Deverell specializes in the nineteenth and twentieth century American West
![Claire Farago](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/claire.f.jpg)
Claire Farago
Professor Emerita of Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder
the materiality of the sacred; global art history
![Jarred Hamilton](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/jared.h.jpg)
Jarred Hamilton
PhD student in Christian Studies, USC Dornsife
![Luke Fidler](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/luke.f.jpg)
Luke Fidler
Assistant Professor, USC Dornsife
Fidler specializes in the art of early- and high-medieval Europe
![Anne Goldgar](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/anne.g.jpg)
Anne Goldgar
Garrett and Anne Van Hunnick Chair in European History, USC Dornsife
![Teddy Hamstra](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/teddy.b.jpg)
Teddy Hamstra
PhD Candidate, English, USC Dornsife
Hamstra studies Mysticism ; 19th & 20th C. American religious + spiritual history ; yoga ; shamanism ; psychedelics ; sensory studies
![Lucas Herchenroeder](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/lucas.h.jpg)
Lucas Herchenroeder
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Classics, USC Dornsife
Herchenroeder studies late classical and Hellenistic literature and intellectual life
![Henry Jenkins](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/henry.j.jpg)
Henry Jenkins
Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, USC
![Josh Kun](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/josh.k.jpg)
Josh Kun
Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication, USC
Kun works on the intersection of arts, culture, and politics
![Rebecca Lemon](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/rebecca.l.jpg)
Rebecca Lemon
Professor of English, USC Dornsife
![Jenny Lin](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/jenny.l.jpg)
Jenny Lin
Director of the MA in Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere and Associate Professor of Critical Studies, USC Roski USC
Lin explores relations between twentieth and twenty-first century art and design and social phenomena such as urbanization, globalization, and decolonization
![Jessica Marglin](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/jessica.m.jpg)
Jessica Marglin
Associate Professor of Religion, Law and History, USC Dornsife
Marglin works on the history of Jews and Jewish-Muslim relations in modern North Africa and the Mediterranean
![Maya Maskarinec](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/maya.m.jpg)
Maya Maskarinec
Associate Professor of History, USC Dornsife
Maskarinec studies late antique/early medieval Rome, Europe and the Mediterranean
![Erin Maynes](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/erin.m.jpg)
Erin Maynes
Assistant Curator at LACMA
Maynes works on art and theories of value in 20th century Germany
![James McHugh](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/james.m.jpg)
James McHugh
Professor of Religion, USC Dornsife
![Lori Meeks](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/lori.m.jpg)
Lori Meeks
Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC Dornsife
![Monica Mitri](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/monica.m.jpg)
Monica Mitri
Doctoral Student, Religion, USC Dornsife
![Erica Camisa Morale](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/erica.m.jpg)
Erica Camisa Morale
Fellow, Slavic Language & Literature, USC Dornsife
Camisa Morale specializes on the emergence of early modern East Slavic lyric, with occasional forays on the origins of modern dance in Russia and on the relationship between Nabokov’s prose & cinema
![Alaina Morgan](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/alaina.m.jpg)
Alaina Morgan
Assistant Professor of History, USC Dornsife
Morgan studies the historic utility of religion in racial liberation and anti-colonial movement
![Doug Morino](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/douglas.m.jpg)
Doug Morino
Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC
![Laura Nelson](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/laura.n-2.jpg)
Laura Nelson
Lecturer, History & Literature, Harvard
Nelson is interested in rituals and spaces of gathering, looking to histories of educational / artistic communities in which people aimed to build other worlds through the formation of alternative institutions
![Sophia Nuñez](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/sophia.n-1.jpg)
Sophia Nuñez
Visiting Assistant Professor, USC Dornsife, Domincan University
Nuñez studies early modern Spanish literature, book history, gender and sexuality studies, and race in the early modern Iberian world
![Alison Locke Perchuk](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/alison.p.jpg)
Alison Locke Perchuk
Professor of Art History, California State University Channel Islands
Alison Locke Perchuk specializes in Medieval European and Mediterranean art & architecture; Rome & Italy; monasticism; Apocalypse
![Veronica Peselmann](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/veronica.p.jpg)
Veronica Peselmann
Assistant Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Peselmann specialises in Modern and Contemporary art with a particular focus on material culture. Current book project on handling artists’ books
![Stefano Rebeggiani](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/rebeggini.jpg)
Stefano Rebeggiani
Associate Professor of Classics, USC Dornsife
Roman epic, Lucretius, Roman art and archaeology, political culture of the Roman empire
![Hector Reyes](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/hector.r.jpg)
Hector Reyes
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Art History, USC Dornsife
Reyes specializes in French art theory from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries
![Margaret Rosenthal](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/margaret.r.jpg)
Margaret Rosenthal
Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, USC Dornsife
![Steven J. Ross](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/stephen.r.jpg)
Steven J. Ross
Dean's Professor of History and Director, Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, USC Dornsife
Steve’s most recent book is Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America (Bloomsbury Press)
![Jay Rubenstein](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/jay.r.jpg)
Jay Rubenstein
Professor of History, USC Dornsife
Rubenstein studies the Crusades, monasticism, biblical exegesis and prophetic thought
![Ronah Sadan](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ronah.jpg)
Ronah Sadan
PhD student in Art History
Rohan Sadan is a PhD student in Art History at Aarhus University
![Kylie Uyeda](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/kylie.u.jpg)
Kylie Uyeda
Administrative Assistant at the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC
![Jason Webb](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/jason.w.jpg)
Jason Webb
Associate Director, Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, and Associate Professor of Comp Literature, USC Dornsife
Webb specializes in Japan’s seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries: the reception of Chinese texts in the archipelago
![Gloria Williams](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/gloria.w.jpg)
Gloria Williams
Curator, Norton Simon Museum
Williams oversees the Norton Simon’s collection of Old Master paintings, works on paper, and photographs
![Richard Wood](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/richard.w.jpg)
Richard Wood
President of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC
Dr. Wood’s research and writing focus on the areas of religion, faith-based community organizing and global sociology
![Jessica Zu](https://charm.havencreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/jessica.z.jpg)
Jessica Zu
Associate Professor of of Religion, USC Dornsife
Zu studies 19-20th century Buddhist Philosophy and global Buddhism