Co-Directors

Katherine L. Bergren, is an Associate Professor of English whose fields of interest include British Romantic poetry, 19th century British literature, postcolonial literature and theory, the transatlantic, and ecocriticism. Since arriving at Trinity, she has completed a monograph, The Global Wordsworth: Romanticism Out of Place (Bucknell University Press, May 2019), and has published three articles in peer-reviewed journals or edited books, as well as two book reviews. Bergren earned a Ph.D. and M.A. at University of California-Los Angeles and a B.A. at Wellesley College. Before coming to Trinity, she won the UCLA English Department Teaching Excellence Award.

Isaac Kamola is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. His teaching and research examines the intersection of international political economy, African politics, and the politics of higher education. In the classroom he strives to challenge students to think critically about their own positionality as political and economic actors, and what this practice might mean for the project of engaging the world differently.  Isaac’s written work is published in a number of edited volumes and journals, including British Journal of Politics and International Relations, International Political Sociology, Journal of Higher Education in Africa, Third World Quarterly, and Polygraph. Before coming to Trinity, Isaac spent a year as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University and two years as an American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellow at Johns Hopkins. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota in 2010.

Advisory Board

Arianne Bazilio, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Chemistry

Lin Cheng, Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of Engineering

Hasan Comert, Assistant Professor of Economics

Tamsin Jones, Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Mark Silk, Director, Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Professor of Religion in Public Life

Vince Tomasso, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies

Maurice Wade, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus