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
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
Fabian Debora
Hector Reyes
Immersive Raphael Project
Frederic Clark
Andreas Kratky
Lisa Pon
Playing/Play on Buxtehude
Malachai Bandy
Oliver Mayer
Reconstructing Music of the Missions
Adam Gilbert
Classical Chinese-Latin Translation
Lucas Hershenroeder
Stephano Rebeggiani
Teaching Medieval History in Prisons Today
Luke Fidler
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
Matthew Petterson
Postdoctoral Scholar in Religion, USC Dornsife
Peterson studies the reception and transformation of religious concepts in modern European philosophy
Stefano Rebeggiani
Associate Professor of Classics, USC Dornsife
Roman epic, Lucretius, Roman art and archaeology, political culture of the Roman empire
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