Liam Olson-Mayes holds a PhD in rhetoric and public Cculture from Northwestern University. His research interests are firmly rooted in the humanities and include the conceptual and representational history of poverty, social and economic inequality, and the fantasy of meritocracy.
Stefan Hock is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of History. His research focuses on the history of gender and sexuality in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. His research has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Journal of the History of Sexuality and has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.
Ruoning Han received her PhD in economics at the University of Kansas in 2020. Her research engages the intersection of financial economics with other fields such as monetary economics, applied microeconomics, and/or household finance. The majority of her research concentrates on how financial frictions arise and their implications for financial economics. She is also passionate about teaching. During her PhD study, she has taught Money and Banking as an instructor since 2017.
Mélanie Lamotte received a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge in 2016, where she then became a junior research fellow. In 2017, she joined the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the Humanities Center of Stanford University as a postdoctoral Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in History. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of French and Italian and the Africana Studies Program at Tulane. Lamotte is a historian of race, ethnicity and colonialism in the early modern period.
Lin Zhu, professor of practice in the Department of Asian Studies at the School of Liberal Arts, earned her MA in applied linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and is pursuing her PhD in second language studies at the University of Mississippi. Prior to coming to Tulane, she taught at the Chinese Flagship Program at the University of Mississippi for six years, and she served as the resident director for the study abroad program at Ole Miss–Shanghai University.
Lisa Wade is a visiting scholar at Tulane University, officially joining the faculty in 2021 as an associate professor with appointments in sociology, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Newcomb Institute. Her research explores how gendered ideas about the body inform sexual attitudes and behaviors and sexuality-related discourse and policy. She is the author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus and a forthcoming introductory text titled Terrible Magnificent Sociology.
