PhD, Tulane University (Department of History) Owner, Broad Street Cider, New Orleans

Marissa Henry received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2022. She studies food and animals in archaic Greek poetry.

Naomi DeCelles is a film historian and award-winning translator who teaches film studies at Tulane in her role as Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication. Her areas of interest include feminist and queer historiography, film theory, and public humanities; recent and currently active research projects have been focused on the relationships between historiography and power and on the ethics and poetics of reading the alternative archives and traces of historically marginalized people and communities.

Co-Captain Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc, artist, and community event coordinator

Justin’s research focuses on understanding long running, persistent patterns in economic growth and development. In doing so, he has examined historical, cultural differences that are observed in the genes of contemporary populations—a prime example being lactose tolerance. And his current work focuses on understanding the persistence of populations and economic output from the historical locations of past civilizations. Recent work also explores the aggregate impacts of redistributive policies, particularly in India. 

James Bliss is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University. He is currently completing his first manuscript project, ‘In a Field of Static: Missed Encounters with Black Feminism.’ His work has appeared in Palimpsest, Signs, Mosaic, Feminist Formations, and Feminist Studies. 

I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Tulane University. Prior to starting at Tulane, I worked at the World Bank in the Development Research Group. I obtained my PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2019 and my Bachelor of Science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2011.

Joshua Basseches’ research and teaching focus on energy and climate politics and policymaking in the U.S. states, where most of the action in these policy areas has taken place thus far. He examines the roles of business interests, environmental and consumer advocacy organizations, and state-level policymakers in shaping the content and design of the policies that have emerged.

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Gaia Gianni received her PhD from Brown University with a dissertation titled “Fictive Kinship and Roman Childhood: A Social History.” She works primarily on the Roman family, Latin epigraphy and Roman social history. Before joining the Department of Classical Studies at Tulane, Gianni taught at the University of Alabama and Brown University. She is currently working on a book, Children in Ancient Rome: Social Relations and Familial Networks.