Past members
Alina Cherry
Associate Professor, French
Alina Cherry received her Ph.D. from New York University in 2009, with a dissertation on the treatment of time, history, and memory in the novels of Claude Simon. Her current research and teaching interests include contemporary French and Francophone fiction, mobilities studies, geocriticism, space and place, Claude Simon studies, temporality and narrative, intersections of philosophy and literature. Her book, Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present was published in 2016 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Christine D'Arpa
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
Christine D'Arpa joined the School of Information Sciences faculty as Assistant Professor in August 2017. Her research focuses on the history of libraries; the role of the federal government in information provision; and public libraries and community engagement. She has presented her research at regional, national, and international conferences including SHARP, Library History Seminar, i-Schools Conference, Digital Library Federation, Society of American Archivists, Midwest Archives Conference, ALISE, AERI, and ASIS&T. D'Arpa has designed and taught a range of courses in LIS including Community Archives, Digital Public History, Administration and Use of Archival Materials, Community Engagement, Administration of Cultural Heritage Organizations, Organization of Information, and Race, Gender, and Information Technology.
Elizabeth Evans
Associate Professor, English
Elizabeth works on British and Anglophone literature with special attention to modernism and mobility. She's the author of Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which examines gendered identities and transitional spaces in British and colonial narratives from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s. In this book, Elizabeth argues that writing of the era (from B. M. Malabari to Virginia Woolf) was shaped by widespread debates about women's increasing public presence as workers and pleasure seekers in the city. She continues her study of gender, race, and urban space in two ongoing projects. One examines the role of urban green spaces in the work of early twentieth-century immigrants of color, particularly Markino Yoshio, a Japanese artist and writer, and the Egyptian editor, writer, and anti-imperial activist Duse Mohamed Ali. The other, carried out in partnership with the NEH-sponsored Textual Geographies project, uses computational methods to map the past two centuries of British cultural geography across a corpus of over 20,000 digitized literary texts.
Michael Fuhlhage
Associate Professor, Communication
Michael Fuhlhage joined the Wayne State journalism faculty in 2014. A specialist in the cultural history of journalism and media, Fuhlhage is the author of Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War. The American Journalism Historians Association has selected him for the 2020 National Award for Excellence in Teaching, and he has co-authored several journalism and media history projects with graduate students.
Matthew Larson
Associate Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice
Matt is an Associate Professor who completed his Ph.D. in Criminology & Criminal Justice at Arizona State University in 2013. Prior to his graduate training, he was part of the U.S. Department of Education's McNair Scholars Program, a federal initiative centered on increasing the attainment of PhDs by students from historically underrepresented groups. In general, his research focuses on life-course criminology, violence, and the intersection of mental illness and criminal justice policy. His research has appeared in journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Journal of Youth & Adolescence, and his work has received funding from the National Institute of Justice and National Science Foundation.
Monique Oldfield
Librarian III
Specializing in Social Work, Sociology, Gerontology, Foundation Center, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
Joshua Wilburn
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Philosophy
Joshua's research focuses on Ancient Greek Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Race and Racism.
Steven L. Winter
Walter A. Gibbs Distinguished Professor of Consitutional Law
Steven L. Winter joined Wayne State University Law School in 2002 as the Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law. In May 2017 he was promoted to distinguished professor - the highest rank awarded by the university. In 2021, Winter was elected to the WSU Academy of Scholars - the highest recognition that can be bestowed upon WSU faculty members by their peers.