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Name Dr. Anthony Shenoda
Office The Bridge, Room A1
email a.g.shenoda@luc.leidenuniv.nl
PhONe 070 800 9328
academic exPertise Anthropology of religion and theology, Transnationalism, Diaspora,
Social theory, Memory and materiality
cOurses Academic Writing • Comparative Worldviews • Politics of Religion • Introduction
to Area Studies • Comparative Worldviews
BiOgraPhy Anthony Shenoda a sociocultural anthropologist with a focus on the anthropology
of religion and the Middle East. His research and theoretical interests
include The Anthropology of Christianity; materiality; miracles, visions, and
dreams; Muslim-Christian relations; social memory; hope; prayer; and the
anthropology of death and dying. Specifically, he works on Coptic Orthodox
Christians in Egypt. What is novel in his approach is that he uses miracles as
the lens through which to examine tensions, paradoxes, and cultural politics
of all sorts. Anthony holds a PhD in Social Anthropology & Middle Eastern
Studies from Harvard University (2010). At Leiden University College, he will
be teaching courses on Religion, the Middle East, and anthropology.
Name Dr. Corina Stan
Office Coach House, Room 2.1
email c.m.stan@luc.leidenuniv.nl
PhONe 070 800 9351
academic exPertise English and European Literature, Twentieth-Century Comparative Literature,
Critical Theory
cOurses Academic Writing • Gender and Literature • Language and Politics •
Culture and Civilisation • Political Drama
BiOgraPhy Corina Stan joined LUC in the fall 2011 as Assistant Professor of Comparative
Literature, after receiving her Ph.D. in comparative literature and critical theory
from Duke University (USA), and other degrees from German, Romanian and
French universities. Currently working on a book-length project on the ethics of
everyday life in the twentieth century, tentatively entitled The Art of Distances or,
A Morality for the Everyday, she is also interested in intersections between literature
and philosophy, gender studies, and the politics of writing. At LUC she
primarily teaches courses related to academic writing and comparative literature.
Name Dr. Daniela Vicherat Mattar
Office The Bridge, Room C1
email d.a.vicherat.mattar@luc.leidenuniv.nl
PhONe 070 800 9537
academic exPertise Urban Culture, Social Justice, Citizenship
cOurses Introduction to Diversity and Integration • Sources of Unity and Diversity •
Foundations of Social Theory • Introduction to Area Studies • Diversity and
Integration: Solutions and Case Studies
BiOgraPhy Originally formed as sociologist in Chile, Daniela Vicherat Mattar has been trained
academically in the University of Warwick (MA), European University Institute in
Florence (MA and PhD) and University of Edinburgh (Marie Curie postdoctoral
fellow), developing her expertise across various social-science fields, with particular
focus in the interface between social, political and urban theory. In exercising the
professional practice of sociology she has worked as a policy researcher and advisor
in the public sector and international organizations, committed to various projects
ranging from Latin American governance and development policies to the promotion
and implementation of gender equality programmes and youth empowerment
policies. At LUC she is Assistant Professor of Urban Sociology and Tutor; she
teaches mainly in the social science components of the programme.
Name Dr. Ann Marie Wilson
Office Coach House, Room 1.1
email a.m.wilson@luc.leidenuniv.nl
PhONe 070 800 9355
academic exPertise Social, Cultural, and Political History, Transnational Social Movements,
Histories of Human Rights and Globalization, Women's and Gender History
cOurses Academic Writing • Transnational History • Movement of Ideas & People:
Feminism in History • Historiography • Transnational History • Globalisation
and Modernity: Histories of Human Rights
BiOgraPhy Ann Marie Wilson is a historian specializing in modern United States and
transnational history. She completed her PhD at Harvard University in 2010
and is now at work on a study of American involvement in international humanitarian
campaigns during the long nineteenth century. As Assistant Professor
of History and Tutor at LUC, she primarily offers courses in the major of
Human Interaction. Born in Chicago, she has lived in many different cities,
including Boston, San Francisco and Caen, France.
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