Faculty Directory

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Dr. Cyrenne is a Political Scientist and Executive Director and Assistant Dean, MA Programs in the Social Sciences. He teaches courses in the history of political thought, with a particular focus on the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as seminars in contemporary political philosophy. For more information, please visit his homepage.

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Tori Gross is the Assistant Senior Instructional Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Director of MAPSS. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University, an MA in Religious Studies, and a BA in Sociology and Religion both from McGill University. Tori's research interests include the politics of affect and emotion, performative hierarchy and masculinity, and parastate sovereignty in the context of India’s young democracy. She currently focuses on caste-based political movements that demonstrate the generative tensions between community and nation-state, and between yearning for the glories of the imagined past and living with the perpetual disappointments of unfulfilled desires borne by global capitalism. For more information, please visit her homepage.

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Dr. Lee is an Assistant Senior Instructional Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, teaching undergraduate courses in principles of microeconomics and intermediate microeconomics. Min Lee holds a BA in economics from the University of Cambridge (UK), and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

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Dr. Hannah R. Hamilton is an Assistant Instructional Professor of Psychology. Her research explores the relations among the need to belong, interpersonal interactions, health behaviors (such as alcohol consumption), and relationship functioning.

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Dr. McCallum is the Earl S. Johnson Instructor in History. His broader research interests include moral sentiments and violence, total war, human rights, the United States in 20th century global history, and the history of democracy and the state. For more information, visit his homepage.

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Andrew Proctor is an Assistant Instructional Professor of Political Science. His research draws on interdisciplinary perspectives and methods to advance our understanding of inequality in the United States and its intersections with the politics of sexuality, gender, race, and class. He studies how interactions between social movements and political parties constitute and mobilize groups and how institutionalized inequalities affect the politics of marginalized communities. His work is motivated by an interest in explaining how power and marginalization shape and are shaped by politics. Dr. Proctor uses qualitative and quantitative approaches and observational and experimental methodologies in his research. You can learn more about his work on his website: www.atproctor.com.

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Dr. Gugwor is an MA Teaching Fellow of Comparative Human Development (CHD). He earned his MA in comparative human development in 2016, his MA in the social sciences from MAPSS in 2013, and his BA in psychology from Northeastern Illinois University in 2012. His research interests focus on identity and action across political/educational contexts and through the use of quantitative and qualitative methods he is able to demonstrate both the breadth and depth of these identity processes. For more information, please visit his homepage.

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Dr. Slupek is an MA Teaching Fellow in Political Science. She recently completed her PhD (2022) in Political Theory at the University of Chicago, where she also received her MA. Agatha’s research interests include feminism and feminist political theory, 20^th-century continental philosophy, legal theory, and the place of emotions, rhetoric, and voice in democratic life. Her dissertation critically examined the gendered features of the liberal tradition’s exclusion of vengeance from political life.

Dr. Borges is the former Faculty Director of MAPSS and Associate Professor of History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College. Professor Borges is a historian of Latin America, specializing in modern Brazilian social and cultural history. He is the author of The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945. He works on nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American culture and ideas. For more information, please visit his homepage.