Philippa Levine (Chair)
Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas Professor Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin, Global Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
Philippa Levine is a historian of the British Empire, gender, race and science. She has spent most of her career in the United States and has been Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities (2010–17) and Walter Prescott Webb Professor in History and Ideas (since 2017) at the University of Texas at Austin. Levine was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in 1994, and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (FRAI) in 2014.
Marie Favereau
Associate Professor of History, Paris Nanterre University
Marie Favereau is Associate Professor of History at Paris Nanterre University. She has been a member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a research associate at Oxford University for the major project Nomadic Empires. Her book The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World was a finalist for the 2021 Cundill History Prize.
Adam Gopnik
Author and Writer, The New Yorker
Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986, publishing more than a million words in the magazine. He is also the author of eleven books, including most recently The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery (Liveright, 2023). His many literary awards and honors include an honorary doctorate from McGill University, his alma mater, awarded in 2011. Most recently, he was named an officier in the Légion d’honneur by the French republic in 2021. He previously served on the Cundill History Prize jury in 2010.
Eve M. Troutt Powell
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Eve M. Troutt Powell is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies who teaches the history of the modern Middle East. As a cultural historian, she emphasises the exploration of literature and film in her courses. She is the author of Tell This in my Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2012), A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain and the Mastery of the Sudan (University of California, 2003) and the co-author, with John Hunwick, of The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (Princeton Series on the Middle East, Markus Wiener Press, 2002). Troutt Powell received her B.A, M.A and PhD from Harvard University. Prior to coming to Penn she taught for ten years at The University of Georgia. She has received fellowships from the American Research Centre in Egypt and the Social Science Research Council, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2003 she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. In 2020 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sol Serrano
Vice Chancellor for Research, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Sol Serrano studied at the Pontificia University Católico de Chile, where she obtained her Bachelor’s and Doctorate in History, and has carried out a large part of her teaching. She completed a Master of Arts at Yale University (USA), and has been a visiting researcher and associate member of institutions such as El Colegio de México, Saint Antony’s College of Oxford, the Erasmus Institute of the University of Notre Dame, the Sorbonne and the David Rockefeller Centre for Latin American Studies of Harvard. After the 2010 Chile earthquake, together with a team, she began a project to safeguard its historical documents in an educational establishment in the Maule Region. This laid the foundations of the School Archives Program, which currently supports the heritage recovery of archives in dozens of establishments nationwide. Her research has focused on education. She is the author of the book El Liceo: Relato, Memoria, Política (Taurus, 2018) and co-author of the three volumes of Historia de la Educación en Chile (1810-2010), also published by Taurus. One of her most renowned publications is Universidad y nación: Chile en el siglo XIX, her doctoral thesis. In 2018 she obtained the National History Award, the first woman to obtain such recognition.
Coll Thrush
Killam Teaching Laureate, University of British Columbia
Coll Thrush is professor of history and Killam teaching laureate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and faculty associate with UBC’s Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. He is the author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (2007/2017), co-editor of Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American History & Culture (2011), and founding co-editor of the Indigenous Confluences series at the University of Washington Press. Professor Thrush’s most recent book is Indigenous London: Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire (2016). During the 2013-2014 academic year, he was the Eccles Centre Fellow in North American Studies at the British Library. Coll’s current projects include Wrecked: Navigating Colonialism in the Graveyard of the Pacific, a critical cultural history of shipwrecks in the Pacific Northwest, and a co-edited project with Daniel Heath Justice entitled Minding the Bones: Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Family Histories and Futures.
