Full-Time Faculty

	Pamela Beattie Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities Chair of the Department of Comparative Humanities Education: PhD, University of Toronto Research Interests: Medieval studies with a primary focus on thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century religious and intellectual history; medieval literature; medieval Iberia; Ramon Llull; interfaith dialogue and polemic; crusade and mission Office: Bingham Humanities 303B Phone: (502) 852-8336 Email Professor Beattie
	Simona Bertacco Professor of Comparative Humanities Education: PhD, Universitá degli Studi di Genova Research Interests: Global humanities; postcolonialism; women’s and gender studies; translation and multilingual literatures Office: Bingham Humanities 303A Phone: (502) 852-7161 Email Professor Bertacco
	Hilaria Cruz Assistant Professor of Comparative Humanities (Linguistics) Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin Research interests: San Juan Quiahije Chatino, an endangered Zapotecan language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico; automatic speech recognition for endangered languages; verb morphology; language documentation; verbal art; language variation Office: Bingham Humanities 201B Phone: (502) 852-8820 Email Professor Cruz
	Mike Hagan Associate Professor (Term) of Comparative Humanities Education: PhD, University of Louisville Research Interests: Pop music and culture; postmodern and poststructuralist Philosophy; Deleuze; comparative philosophy (East–West) Office: Bingham Humanities 200D Phone: (502) 852-6045 Email Professor Hagan
	Felicia Jamison Assistant Professor of Comparative Humanities and History Education: PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst Research Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American history; public history; public humanities Office: Bingham Humanities 214A and Gottschalk 103A Phone: (502) 852-3620 Email Professor Jamison
	Michael Johmann Associate Professor (Term) of Comparative Humanities Education: PhD, Indiana University Research Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American culture, with particular focus on literature, film, crime, sports, and popular culture Office: Bingham Humanities 302D Phone: (502) 852-6230 Email Professor Johmann
	Katie Kleinkopf Assistant Professor of Comparative Humanities Education: PhD, University of Tennessee Research Interests: Late antique Christianity; early Syrian and Egyptian Christianity; asceticism; new materialism; women and gender studies; landscape studies Office: Bingham Humanities 330D Phone: (502) 852-0489 Email Professor Kleinkopf
	Michael Brandon McCormack Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities and Pan-African Studies Chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies Education: PhD, Vanderbilt University Research Interests: Black religion and cultural studies; the prophetic tradition in black religion; black moral panic; cultural productions of the hip-hop generation; African American religion; religions of the African diaspora Office: Strickler 438 Phone: (502) 852-5505 Email Professor McCormack
	Maryam Moazzen Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities Director of Undergraduate Studies Education: PhD, University of Toronto Research Interests: Islamic intellectual and cultural history; classical through modern Middle Eastern literature; Shi‘ism; Sufism; and Shi‘ite higher learning from 1800 to the early twentieth century Office: Bingham Humanities 303D Phone: (502) 852-3054 Email Professor Moazzen
	Ranen Omer-Sherman Professor of Comparative Humanities Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies Education: PhD, University of Notre Dame Research Interests: Diasporic and transnational identities in literature; the literature of “passing”; graphic novels, memoirs, and comics; ethnic American Literature; Jewish American literature; Holocaust narrative; Israeli and Palestinian literature; utopianism and the kibbutz movement Office: Bingham Humanities 203B Phone: (502) 852-6842 Email Professor Omer-Sherman
	Natalie Polzer Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities Education: PhD, University of Cambridge Research Interests: Jewish religion and culture; women in religion; feminist theology; theory of religion; Bible and biblical Judaism; rabbinic texts and culture; Holocaust commemoration and ritual pilgrimage Office: Bingham Humanities 200E Phone: (502) 852-3406 Email Professor Polzer
	Patrick Pranke Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities Vice Chair of Comparative Humanities Education: PhD, University of Michigan Research Interests: Burmese Buddhist history and popular religious traditions; Hinduism and Indian folk traditions Office: Bingham Humanities 200F Phone: (502) 852-7140 Email Professor Pranke
	Thomas Stewart Associate Professor (Term) of Comparative Humanities (Linguistics) Education: PhD, Ohio State University Research Interests: Linguistic morphology (word structure and word relationships) and its interactions with other components of grammar; how languages change over time, on their own and through influence from other languages; Scottish Gaelic Office: Bingham Humanities 203A Phone: (502) 852-0610 Email Professor Stewart
	Karl Swinehart Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities (Linguistics) Director of Graduate Studies Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania Research Interests: Linguistic diversity in popular culture, verbal art and performance, media studies, language politics, semiotics, Indigenous languages of the Americas (Aymara and Quechua), race and (anti)racism, gender and sexuality studies. Office: Bingham Humanities 213B and 200G Phone: (502) 852-1298 Email Professor Swinehart