MEMBERS | CHARM

CHARM Principal Investigators

Lisa Pon

PI, Professor of Art History, USC Dornsife

Pon specializes in early modern European art, architecture, and material culture

Lisa Bitel

Co-PI, Professor of Religion and History, USC Dornsife

Bitel analyzes the social, cultural, and religious history of medieval Europe

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

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

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

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 Members

Alejandro Acosta

Guitarist and Lutenist

David Albertson

Associate Professor of Religion, USC Dornsife

Albertson studies the history of Christian thought in medieval and early modern Europe

Malachai Bandy

Assistant Professor of Music, Pomona College

Bandy studies the religious and secular music of the German Baroque

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

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

Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife

Cerling’s research centers on the role of children in medieval monasticism

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

Museum Professional and Scholar

Amberdeen Dadabhoy

Associate Profesor of Literature, Harvey Mudd College

Chanchal Dadlani

Professor of Art History, Pomona Collage

Lynn Dodd

Professor of the Practice of Religion and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife

Lauren Dodds

Postdoctoral research assistant for CHARM

Dodds studies the history of collecting and Italian Renaissance art

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

Professor Emerita of Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder

the materiality of the sacred; global art history

Jarred Hamilton

PhD student in Christian Studies, USC Dornsife

Luke Fidler

Assistant Professor, USC Dornsife

Fidler specializes in the art of early- and high-medieval Europe

Anne Goldgar

Garrett and Anne Van Hunnick Chair in European History, USC Dornsife

Teddy Hamstra

PhD Candidate, English, USC Dornsife

Hamstra studies Mysticism ; 19th & 20th C. American religious + spiritual history ; yoga ; shamanism ; psychedelics ; sensory studies

Lucas Herchenroeder

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Classics, USC Dornsife

Herchenroeder studies late classical and Hellenistic literature and intellectual life

Henry Jenkins

Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, USC

Josh Kun

Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication, USC

Kun works on the intersection of arts, culture, and politics

Rebecca Lemon

Professor of English, USC Dornsife

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

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

Associate Professor of History, USC Dornsife

Maskarinec studies late antique/early medieval Rome, Europe and the Mediterranean

Erin Maynes

Assistant Curator at LACMA

Maynes works on art and theories of value in 20th century Germany

James McHugh

Professor of Religion, USC Dornsife

Lori Meeks

Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC Dornsife

Monica Mitri

Doctoral Student, Religion, USC Dornsife

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

Assistant Professor of History, USC Dornsife

Morgan studies the historic utility of religion in racial liberation and anti-colonial movement

Doug Morino

Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC

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

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

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

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

Hector Reyes

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Art History, USC Dornsife

Reyes specializes in French art theory from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries

Margaret Rosenthal

Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, USC Dornsife

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

Professor of History, USC Dornsife

Rubenstein studies the Crusades, monasticism, biblical exegesis and prophetic thought

Ronah Sadan

PhD student in Art History

Rohan Sadan is a PhD student in Art History at Aarhus University

Kylie Uyeda

Administrative Assistant at the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC

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

Curator, Norton Simon Museum

Williams oversees the Norton Simon’s collection of Old Master paintings, works on paper, and photographs

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

Associate Professor of of Religion, USC Dornsife

Zu studies 19-20th century Buddhist Philosophy and global Buddhism