BOLLI Instructors
BOLLI engages talented graduate students and faculty as Instructors to lead lecture series and study groups online and in-person.
This teaching has enriched the BOLLI program inestimably, and from all reports, the intellectual life of the Instructors as well. Our Instructors have brought us courses on classical and popular music, Jewish studies, and art history and the list grows.
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BOLLI is grateful to count these talented individuals as part of its Brandeis community.
![Bennett Comerford](../images/people/digital-fellows/bennett-comerford.png)
PhD Candidate, Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion
![Tyler Clark](../images/people/digital-fellows/clarktyler.jpg)
PhD Candidate, Nineteenth Century Queer Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
![Ruth Ezra](../images/people/digital-fellows/ruth-ezra.png)
PhD, Art History, Harvard University
"I learned to stay true to what I wanted to accomplish and couldn’t please everyone. Overall I feel a lot more confident about teaching online in the future and I am glad to have had an opportunity to try out an ambitious course with supportive staff."
![Simon Friedland](../images/people/digital-fellows/simon-friedland.jpg)
PhD, University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies
![Sam Gee](../images/people/digital-fellows/sam-gee.png)
PhD Candidate, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
![Akram Haddad](../images/people/digital-fellows/akram-haddad.png)
Composer and Pianist
![Gil Harel](../images/people/digital-fellows/gil-harel.png)
Assistant Professor of Music, Naugatuck Valley Community College
"Leading a BOLLI course is always a tremendously rewarding experience, as it affords me a chance to prepare material and present to intellectually curious 'students' who invariably broaden my horizons in return."
![Matt Kamm](../images/people/digital-fellows/matt-kamm.png)
Conservation Outreach Coordinator at Franklin Park Zoo
![Olivia Kennison](../images/people/digital-fellows/olivia_kennison.jpg)
PhD Candidate, Slavic Studies, Brown University
![Yun Ha Kim](../images/people/digital-fellows/yun-ha-kim.png)
PhD Candidate in Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
![Amy King](../images/people/digital-fellows/amy-king.png)
PhD, Italian Studies, University of Bristol
![Lindsay King](../images/people/digital-fellows/lindsay-king.png)
PhD, Modern Jewish History, UCLA
"Teaching at BOLLI has been an opportunity for me to think about why it is important to study history at all ages and stages of life."
![Steven J. Klein](../images/people/digital-fellows/steven-klein.png)
Senior Editor, Haaretz English Edition and Adjunct Instructor, Tel Aviv University
PhD Candidate, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
![Talia Kwartler](../images/people/digital-fellows/talia-kwartler.png)
PhD, History of Art, University College London
![Jessica Landau](../images/people/digital-fellows/jessica-landau.png)
Assistant Instructional Professor, MA Program in the Humanities & Art History, University of Chicago
![Emily Leifer](../images/people/digital-fellows/emily-leifer.png)
PhD Candidate, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
![Gail Leondar-Wright](../images/people/digital-fellows/gail_wright.jpg)
Independent Sondheim scholar, MA Performance Studies, NYU, BA Drama University of California at Berkeley
![Agnes Malinowska](../images/people/digital-fellows/agnes-malinowska.png)
Assistant Instructional Professor, MA Program in the Humanities and English, University of Chicago
![Scott McKnight](../images/people/digital-fellows/scott-mcknight.png)
PhD, International Relations, University of Toronto
![Jacob Meskin](../images/people/digital-fellows/jacob-meskin.png)
Senior Lecturer in the Me’ah Program at Hebrew College
![Julian Moreen](../images/people/digital-fellows/julian-moreen.png)
Pianist and singer-songwriter
Independent Writer and Scholar
PhD from The Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
![Hankus Netsky](../images/people/digital-fellows/hankus-netsky.png)
Chair of New England Conservatory's Contemporary Improvisation Department
![Keith Preble](../images/people/digital-fellows/keith-preble.png)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Miami University (2022-23 academic year)
PhD, Professor of English and American Studies, Fitchburg State University
![Jared Redmond](../images/people/digital-fellows/jared-redmond.png)
Lecturer in Music Composition and Theory, Seoul National University
"Teaching at BOLLI is always an opportunity for me to dive deeper into music which I thought I already knew very well, and then, unfailingly, to be challenged, surprised, made curious and enriched by the broad knowledge and experience of the lovers of music and culture in my courses."
![Leah Rumsey](../images/people/digital-fellows/leah-rumsey.png)
PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University
![Rachel Stephens](../images/people/digital-fellows/rachel-stephens.png)
Professor of Art and Art History, University of Alabama
![Jimmy White](../images/people/digital-fellows/jimmy-white.png)
PhD Candidate, Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
![Charmaine Willis](../images/people/digital-fellows/charmaine-willis.png)
PhD Candidate, Political Science, University at Albany (SUNY)
![Rev. Michael Woolf, ThD](../images/people/digital-fellows/michael-woolf.png)
ThD, Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School
Adjunct Theology Professor, Lewis University
![Yiyang Zhuge](../images/people/digital-fellows/yiyang-zhuge.png)
PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at Boston College