Principal Investigator
Michael Lynch
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Humanities Institute
General Research Interests: Truth, democracy, public discourse and the ethics of technology
Co-Principal Investigator
Brendan Kane
Associate Professor of History and Assistant Director for Public Humanities
Research Interests: Early modern British and Irish history
Public Outreach Director
Anke Finger
Professor of German Studies, Media Studies and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Assistant Director of Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Research Interests: Modernism, media studies, digital humanities, literature and other arts/interart communication, contemporary aesthetics, and interculturality.
Financial Assistant
Nasya Al-Saidy
Fiscal Officer to the Templeton grant.
Economics PhD Student, UConn Storrs
Current Project: My most recent thesis explored the cost-effectiveness of implementing phytoremediation in low-income urban areas, focusing on marginalized communities in the Boston area.
General Research Interests: Environmental economics, sustainable development, economic disparities.
Project Manager
Jo-Ann Waide
Program Assistant of the Humanities Institute
Communications Co-ordinator
Megan Morariu
Communications Coordinator for the UConn Humanities Institute
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Sandra Sirota
EdD, International and Comparative Education program, Columbia University Teachers College, 2017
Current Project: Human Rights Education and Intellectual Humility Among High School Students
General Research Interests: Human Rights, Education, Social Movements, and Intersectional Activism in the United States, Southeast Asia, and South Africa
Project Research Assistant
Hanna Gunn
Philosophy PhD Student, UConn Storrs
Current Project: Dissertation, "Communicative Injustice and Epistemic Injustice"
General Research Interests: Social epistemology, internet epistemology and ethics, political epistemology
Project Research Assistant
Nathan Sheff
Philosophy PhD Student, UConn Storrs
Current Project: Dissertation, "Thinking Together"
General Research Interests: Social ontology and epistemology
Project Research Assistant
Matthew Guariglia
History PhD Student, UConn Storrs
Current Project: Currently working on my dissertation currently titled, "Learning to Police: Knowledge, Power, and Law Enforcement in Multiracial New York City, 1895-1920"
General Research Interests: State building and power, bureaucracy, history of technology, racial and gender formation.
Project Research Assistant
Dana Miranda
Philosophy PhD Student, UConn Storrs
Current Project: My current work investigates the philosophical significance of suicide, depression and well-being for members of the Africana Diaspora.
General Research Interests: My general research is in political philosophy, Africana philosophy, and 19th century and contemporary European thought.