Linda A. Shkreli holds a PhD in communication studies from Louisiana State University, with an area focus in performance studies. She specializes in stagecraft composition, performance pedagogy and consumer consciousness. Her teaching philosophies focus on creative empowerment, mental wellness and building classroom communities. Her current research interests include interdisciplinary oral history and designing performance-based strategies for the writing classroom.
Karl Schmid joins the Tulane philosophy department from Emory University, where he was recently an American Council of Learned Societies Robert H.N. Ho Foundation dissertation fellow. He has taught courses on Buddhism at Emory College, on Sanskrit at Candler School of Theology, and on philosophy of science at Sera Mey Monastery in India, as part of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative. His research focuses on Buddhist theories of meditation and how they relate to contemporary philosophy of mind, ethics and epistemology.
Katie Nunnery completed her PhD at the University of Connecticut in May 2020. Her research specializes in late Victorian literature, children's literature and childhood studies, and gender and sexuality studies. Her dissertation, "Fin-de-Siècle Decadent Writing and the Queerness of Childhood," traces the representations and queer resonances of the figure of the child in Decadent writing of the late 19th century in Britain.
Kelsey Cummings studies new media and identity. Her research has been published in the journals Television and New Media, Feminist Media Studies, Social Media + Society and Studies in the Fantastic. Cummings is currently working on a book project about whiteness and social media design. She earned her PhD in film and media studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020.
Jerome P. Dent Jr. was born in Los Angeles, attended the University of California–Irvine and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature and African American studies. He also attended Mount St. Mary’s University and graduated with a Master of Arts in humanities. He began his doctoral studies in visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester in 2014. He was awarded the Provost Fellowship and Slattery Fellowship in 2014, and the Celeste Hughes Bishop Award in 2016.
Golan Moskowitz joins the Jewish Studies Department as assistant professor and Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Faculty Fellow. He is a literary scholar, cultural historian and visual artist with a PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. Moskowitz has worked as a research consultant and editor for the Anti-Defamation League and as assistant to the executive director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry. He has published on gendered and queer approaches to the study of post-Holocaust family and memory.
Ned Randolph is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Communication and the Environmental Studies Program. A former journalist and speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans, Randolph investigates intersections of power, social justice and the environment, particularly in the Gulf South. Randolph received his PhD in communication from the University of California–San Diego and teaches courses on political communication, cultural studies, the public sphere and environmental journalism.
Emily Cook studies higher education in the United States using methods from labor economics and industrial organization. Her research focuses on how federal and state higher-education policies affect market outcomes, including applications, admissions, tuition and financial aid. Cook earned her PhD in economics from the University of Virginia and her BA in economics from the University of Maryland–College Park. She also holds a BM in violin performance from the University of Maryland.
David Colaco is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy. He studies the history and philosophy of science, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of neuroscience.
Denise Crochet, CI, CT, is a visiting assistant professor and has been actively working in the interpreting field for twenty-five years. She has been trained in American Sign Language from sign-language institutes, mentorships with deaf individuals, including interpreting for a Fulbright Scholar. Crochet's work has included educational, medical, mental health, theatrical, minimal language skills, legal and video-relay interpreting.
