Staff

Fares portraitFarès el-Dahdah
Director
Professor of Architecture
fdahdah@rice.edu
x4754, Herring Hall 302
 

 

MBMelissa Bailar
Associate Director
Professor in the Practice of Humanities
melba@rice.edu
x5968, Herring Hall 303   

Projects: Budget, Grants and Proposals, Special Projects, New Programming  

 

 

LKLauren Kleinschmidt
Assistant Director
laurenk@rice.edu
x2770, Herring Hall 304   

Projects: Conferences, Humanities Innovation Fund, Marketing, Public Humanities, Rice Seminars, Specialized Lecture Series, Undergraduate Programs, Website 

 

AdamsCarolyn Adams
Program Coordinator
 cla1@rice.edu
x4227, Herring Hall 306   

Projects: Collaborative and Individual Faculty Fellows, External Faculty Fellows, Conferences, Humanities Innovation Fund, Graduate Student Fellows, Faculty Advisory Panel, Workshops  

 

 Graduate Assistants

AnaMariaAnaMaria Seglie
Doctoral Candidate, Department of English
ats3@rice.edu 
x3021, Herring Hall 305

Projects: Rice Seminars, Our Americas Archive Partnership 
 
 

Kattie colorKattie Basnett
Doctoral Candidate, Department of English
kattie.m.basnett@rice.edu
x3021, Herring Hall 305

Projects: 2012-2014 Mellon Postdoctoral Search    
  
 

 

KarenKaren Rosenthall
Doctoral Student, Department of English
karen.m.rosenthall@rice.edu
x3021, Herring Hall 305

Projects: Public Humanities, including the Civic Humanists Program

Faculty Advisory Panel 

The HRC Faculty Advisory Panel is made up of ten panelists and the director. Panelists serve three-year staggered terms, and provide intellectual guidance for the center's programs. They also review the center's many applicants for fellowships and funding.     

Farès el-Dahdah
Director of the Humanities Research Center      
Professor of Architecture
2012 - present     

      

Melissa Bailar
Associate Director
Professor in the Practice of Humanities      

Carl Caldwell
Samuel G. McCann Professor of History
2010 - present     

      

Joseph Campana
Assistant Professor of English
2012 - present     

Leo Costello
Assistant Professor of Art History
2012 - present    

      

April DeConick
Isla Carroll & Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies
2010 - present      

Melinda Fagan
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
2010 - present    

      

Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan
Lee Hage Jamail Professor of Latin American Studies
2012 - present     

Scott McGill
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
2008 - present     

      

Alexander Regier
Associate Professor of English
2012 - present    

John Sparagana
Professor of Visual and Dramatic Arts
2012 - present    

      

Kerry Ward
Associate Professor of History
2012 - present
      

External Advisory Board 

The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce that its external advisory board has merged with that of the Rice University School of Humanities. This change allows the HRC to benefit from the insight of a larger group of prominent alumni and others invested in the growth of the humanities at Rice. In addition, it solidifies the role of the HRC as the research arm of the School of Humanities, an important step as the Center seeks to grow its recognition locally among Rice faculty and students as well as on the national and international scale. The first meeting of this new board, currently comprised of twenty members, took place in April 2012. The Center benefited from significant feedback from members previously unconnected to it, as well as suggestions from those members who had already served on the Center’s smaller board and were aware of its recent period of growth. Much of their advice will be incorporated into the structure of the Center and its programs over the coming year, and the Center looks forward to further conversations with them. The full board can be found  here .