Meet the People at The Leslie Center

Director
Rebecca Elizabeth Biron
- Director of Leslie Center for the Humanities
- Professor, Spanish and Portuguese. Joint Title in Comparative Literature
view profile

Director of Humanities 1 & 2
Laura Edmondson
- The Helman Family Distinguished Professor
- Professor of African and African American Studies
view profile

Advisory Committee
Nicola Camerlenghi
- Chair, Department of Art History
- Associate Professor
view profile
Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro
- Associate Professor of Spanish
view profile
Ayo A. Coly
- Class of 1925 Professorship
- Professor, Comparative Literature & African and African American Studies
view profile
Jennifer J. Natale
- Head of Research and Learning for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
view profile
Peter M. Orner
- Dartmouth Professorship in English and Creative Writing
- Chair, Department of English and Creative Writing
view profile
Devin Singh
- Associate Professor of Religion
view profile
Andrea Tarnowski
- Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
- Director, Humanities 1 & 2
view profile

Humanities Grant Support
Hailey LaVoy
- Assistant Director, Humanities & Interdisciplinary Studies Grant Support
view profile

Leslie Center Crewe Fellows
Eng-Beng Lim
- Chair, Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
view profile
Petra S. McGillen
- Associate Professor of German Studies
view profile

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows
Winnie W. C. Lai
- Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2026)
- Research Associate B
view profile
Henrique Yagui Takahashi
- Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
- Research Associate
view profile

Staff
Mary Fletcher
- Operations and Finance Manager
- Humanities Sequence Administrator
view profile