Susan Abraham is a Ph.D. student in the department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia.
Susan Abraham
Tina Barouti
Tina Barouti received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. Specializing in modern and contemporary African art, Tina is a Lecturer in the department of Art History, Theory, Criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2015, she received her M.A. from Boston University, where she focused on photography during Algeria’s civil war of the nineties. In 2017-2018, Barouti conducted fieldwork in Morocco for her dissertation “A Critical Chronology: L’Institut National des Beaux-Arts in Tétouan from 1957 to the Age of Mohammed VI,” with the support of a U.S. Student Fulbright Fellowship, a Boston University Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship, and a Boston University Arts Initiative Graduate Arts Research Grant. Currently, Barouti serves as archival researcher for an upcoming exhibition on Moroccan art at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Peter Kitlas
Peter Kitlas is an Assistant Professor of History at the American University of Beirut. His research interests include the eighteenth century Mediterranean, early modern state developments, and Moroccan-Ottoman diplomatic relations.
Liz Matsushita
Liz Matsushita is a historian of Morocco, North Africa, and French Empire in the 20th century. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College. Her research focuses on musicology and musical policy in North Africa and its connections to race, gender, and identity in the colonial and post-colonial periods.
Lubna Safi is completing a doctoral degree in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation unpacks concepts of visuality in Andalusī and Moroccan poetry. She is the author of Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems (Texas Tech University Press, 2022).
Lubna Safi
Aaron Stamper is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Princeton University. In his research he explores the lived experience of moriscos and judeoconversos in 16th-century Granada, Spain. Aaron holds a dual BA in Spanish and Religious Studies as well as a dual MA in Religious Studies and History. As such, his methods in the archives and later – in writing – borrow from critical and linguistic theory as well as cultural, social, and religious history. The blossoming sub-discipline of sensory history has allowed him ample breathing room to combine these approaches along with disability, gender, and soundscape studies. As such, he works toward genuine inter-disciplinarity through the vibrant lives of religious converts in Early Modern Spain and the wider Mediterranean world.