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Cheryl Narumi Naruse
2024-25 Farley Scholar

An associate professor of English at Tulane University, Naruse's research and teaching interests include contemporary Anglophone literatures and cultures (particularly those from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands), diasporic Asian and Asian American literature, postcolonial theory, cultures of capitalism, and genre studies. Recent courses she has taught include "Literatures of Tourism", "Race, Empires, and Asian America", "Asian Diasporic Literature", "Love and Capitalism", "Postcolonial and Diasporic Southeast Asian Literature", "Literary Investigations", and "Postcolonial Theory". In 2022, she was awarded a Faculty Appreciation Award by the Graduate Studies Student Association for excellence in mentoring and teaching. 

Through readings of contemporary literature and state-sponsored cultural productions from Singapore, Naruse���s first book, Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore, analyzes the dynamics of Global Asia���an alluring location ideal for economic flourishing���in the context of Singapore���s cultural history of "postcolonial capitalism". 

Naruse earned her PhD and MA degrees in English from the University of Hawai妡i at M��noa, with a certificate in international cultural studies from the East-West Center. Her research has been supported by a postdoctoral fellowship with the Global Asia research cluster at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (2015-16). Naruse served as the inaugural chair of Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Diasporic Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Forum (2018-19). As former chair of the MLA Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee (2018-19), she led the delegate assembly through a discussion on power differentials in graduate education. 

Adrian De Leon
2023-24 Farley Scholar

An award-winning multidisciplinary writer and public historian, De Leon is a renowned expert in the history of U.S.-Philippine relations and Asian American politics as well as an advocate for the literary arts in his hometown of Scarborough, Ontario.��烈rior to joining 間眅埶AV, De Leon worked as an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC) and after completing his term with us as Farley Scholar, he is set to join New York University as an assistant professor of U.S. history.���

Besides being an academic scholar, De Leon also wrote and hosted two shows with PBS Digital Studios���A People���s History of Asian America, a four-part miniseries which addresses the increase in hate crimes and anti-Asian sentiment in the United States; and Historian���s Take, which explores history through the lens of pop culture, and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a Daytime Emmy.

Ferenc Csirk矇s
2022-23 Farley Scholar

Dr. Ferenc Csirk矇s holds a PhD in Islamic history and civilization from the University of Chicago, and he is currently an assistant professor of history at Sabanc覺 University in Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests include Iranian history, Ottoman history, Ottoman Turkish literature, Persian literature, cultural history, Central Asian history, and Central Asian literature. As a Farley scholar, he is completing a book manuscript with the working title Sons of Japheth and Ali: Turkic Language and Ideology in the Medieval and Early Modern Persianate World, which focuses on the politics of language in Safavid Iran, discussing such topics as vernacularization, confessionalization, and state building.

Read more about Csirk矇s' research, teaching, and public outreach activity during his time as Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar.

Linda Morra
2021-22 Farley Scholar

A full professor of English at Bishop���s University in Quebec, Dr. Linda Morra is an award-winning instructor and researcher who teaches in the areas of women���s archives, theories of affect, and women���s writing in Canada. Morra holds a PhD in Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies from University of Ottawa. In addition to holding a post-doctoral fellowship with the Department of Gender and Women���s Studies at the University of British Columbia, Morra has also held visiting appointments at University College, Dublin and University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on women's archives, women's writing in Canada and archival theories. Morra���s  includes the book, Unarrested Archives: Case-Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women���s Authorship (University of Toronto Press, 2014) and numerous edited or co-edited books. This includes the 2021 collection co-edited with 間眅埶AV���s Dr. Sarah Henzi:  (Wilfred Laurier Press, 2021) which earned the Canadian Studies Network . 

Read more about Morra's plans, and activities during her time as Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar.

Holly M. Karibo
2020-21 Farley Scholar 

Dr. Holly Karibo is currently an  of Comparative Borderlands History at Oklahoma State University. Her research focuses on the history of vice, labor, and sexuality in transnational urban spaces from the late-19^th century to the present. Her first book, UNC Press 2015), examines the history of illegal economies in the Great Lakes border region during the post-World War II period. Sin City North received the Michigan State History Book Award in 2016.

Lynnell L. Thomas
2019-20 Farley Scholar

Dr. Lynnell Thomas' research interests include New Orleans tourism, African American history and culture, and Black popular culture. A native of New Orleans, Lynnell Thomas is part of the post-Katrina diaspora, which informs her teaching and scholarship.  Her research is also concerned with the diverse backgrounds and experiences that constitute and contest American identity and values.  Her most recent scholarship has examined the distortion of African American history and culture in New Orleans��� tourism narrative, the negative impact of this narrative on policy decisions following Hurricane Katrina, and the ways that African Americans and others have attempted to resist and revise this narrative. 

Katrina Jagodinsky
2018-19 Farley Scholar 

Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky is a legal historian and the Susan J. Rosowski . She holds a PhD in History and MA in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on women���s creative and critical uses of the law in the long nineteenth century as they countered the expansion of empire, misogyny, and racial hierarchies in personal and political contexts throughout the North American West. In addition to many articles, she is author of the award-winning book, , and co-editor of Beyond the Borders of Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West.