2025-2026 Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Each year the Society admits up to five postdoctoral fellows, who are appointed for two-year terms during which they pursue research and teach three courses over four semesters, with one semester for full-time research.

Onur Arslan
2025–2027, Anthropology

Kristine Ericson
2025–2027, Architectural History and Theory

Magdalena Grüner
2025–2027, Art History

David Helps
2024–2026, History

Kangni Huang
2024–2026, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Alyssa James
2024–2026, Anthropology

Jeongin Lee
2025–2027, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Alana Mailes
2024–2026, Musicology

Adelaide Mandeville
2025–2027, History

Jasmine A. Moore-Strickland
2024–2026, English
Faculty Fellows
Each year the Society selects tenured professors who represent the highest level of scholarly excellence and achievement in the humanities and humanistic social sciences as faculty fellows. Fellows are appointed for two-year terms.

Andrea Ballestero
2024–2026, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Daniela Bleichmar
2020–2023 & 2024–2027 Director, Professor of Art History and History

Joan Flores-Villalobos
2025–2027, Associate Professor of History

Nancy Lutkehaus
2025–2027, Professor of Anthropology and Political Science

Maya Maskarinec
2024–2026, Associate Professor of History

Lori Meeks
2024–2026, Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures

Scott Spencer
2025–2027, Assistant Professor of Musicology

Antonia Szabari
2025–2027, Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Karen Tongson
2023–2024 & 2025–2026, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, English and American Studies and Ethnicity

Aro Velmet
2025–2027, Associate Professor of History

Lisa Cooper Vest
2024–2026, Associate Professor of Musicology
Levan Graduate Scholars
Starting in Fall 2025, the Society includes USC doctoral candidates. Graduate scholars are appointed for one-year terms with the option to renew for a second year.

Shaibal Dev Roy
2025–2026, English

Ana Iwataki
2025–2026, Comparative Literature

Nisarg Patel
2025–2026, Comparative Literature

Maxwell Shiller
2025–2026, Classics

Fernanda Soria-Cruz
2025–2026, Communication
