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.
PhD Candidate, Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion
PhD Candidate, Nineteenth Century Queer Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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."
PhD, University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies
PhD Candidate, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Composer and Pianist
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."
Conservation Outreach Coordinator at Franklin Park Zoo
PhD Candidate, Slavic Studies, Brown University
PhD Candidate in Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
PhD, Italian Studies, University of Bristol
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."
Senior Editor, Haaretz English Edition and Adjunct Instructor, Tel Aviv University
PhD Candidate, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
PhD, History of Art, University College London
Assistant Instructional Professor, MA Program in the Humanities & Art History, University of Chicago
PhD Candidate, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
Independent Sondheim scholar, MA Performance Studies, NYU, BA Drama University of California at Berkeley
Assistant Instructional Professor, MA Program in the Humanities and English, University of Chicago
PhD, International Relations, University of Toronto
Senior Lecturer in the Me’ah Program at Hebrew College
Pianist and singer-songwriter
Independent Writer and Scholar
PhD from The Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Chair of New England Conservatory's Contemporary Improvisation Department
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Miami University (2022-23 academic year)
PhD, Professor of English and American Studies, Fitchburg State University
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."
PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University
Professor of Art and Art History, University of Alabama
PhD Candidate, Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
PhD Candidate, Political Science, University at Albany (SUNY)
ThD, Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School
Adjunct Theology Professor, Lewis University
PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at Boston College