The Core Program Team
B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Edmond Johnson has served as Director of Advising since 2015. In this capacity, he works closely with both students and faculty members to ensure that students have the guidance they need to make the most of their academic experience. He also...
Brian Bartell studies the intersection of technology, aesthetics, politics, and race and social difference in the twentieth and twenty-first century United States.
Alex Bolyanatz is a psychological anthropologist who investigates the evolutionary origins of morality and other human belief systems. He has conducted fieldwork among the Sursurunga people of Papua New Guinea since 1989.
Jackie Elam's areas of specialization include death studies, critical theory, genre studies (esp. horror and sci-fi), film noir, 19th and 20th-century British literature, Los Angeles, and all things "Žižek."
Devin Fromm studies theories of modernization and the cultures of modernity, with a particular focus on detective fiction.