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Kim Morabito

Fiscal Manager in the CLAS Shared Services Center Kim Morabito manages the daily operations of the fiscal team and the budgets for 21 partners units within the college.  She has been at the University of Florida for 12 years. In Spring 2020, Kim will be working extra closely with the Humanities Center to assist with […]

Nancy Pinzón

Graduate Intern Nancy is from Bogotá, Colombia but has been in States for about 20 years. She lived in Montana and considers it home. She is a PhD candidate in Latin American literature in the department of Spanish and Portuguese. She will be graduating in summer 2020. Her dissertation focuses on humor and its different […]

Kristen Galvin

Assistant Director for Graduate Engagement (2019-2021) (Photo Credit: Justin Chan) As the Assistant Director for Graduate Engagement from 2019-2021, Dr. Kristen Galvin created and managed a new suite of programs and resources titled, Envision Humanities: A Graduate Student Toolkit for the 21st Century. This effort includes events, reading groups, and workshops; an annual public humanities […]

Bob Hatch

Professor of History Interim Director, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, 2005-2008 Bob Hatch was Interim Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere from 2005-2008.  During the earliest years, he served as Chair of the Executive Board, and was an ongoing member of the Humanities Working Group (University Faculty […]

Natalie Hagler

Imagining America Working Group Coordinator Natalie Hagler is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Florida, College of Education. She currently serves as an Instructional Coach for pre-service teachers enrolled in the SITE program at UF and is the Graduate Student At-Large Board member for FATE (Florida Association of Teacher Educators) . Her current research […]

Vickie Machado

Humanities and the Sunshine State Coordinator Vickie Machado is a third generation South Floridian who received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Florida. Upon graduation, she returned to Fort Lauderdale to work as an environmental organizer, where she became the state organizer for a D.C.-based NGO in 2014, primarily focusing her efforts on […]

Lauren Burrell Cox

Program Coordinator Email: lbcox@ufl.edu Office: Walker Hall 200 Office Hours: Humanities Center faculty and staff are currently available through email Lauren Burrell Cox is the Program Coordinator at the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. She is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in feminist film and media studies. Her hybrid dissertation project “Reactivating the […]

Danielle Barrientos

Intersections Program Coordinator Email: dbarrientos13@ufl.edu Office: Walker Hall 202 Office Hours: Humanities Center faculty and staff are currently available through email Danielle Barrientos graduated from the University of Florida with her BA in History in 2017. She is currently a graduate student in the UF Department of History working towards her Masters with a focus on […]

Ken Chitwood

Program Coordinator Curriculum Vitae Ken serves as Program Coordinator for the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. He is a Ph.D. candidate with UF’s Department of Religion. His current research interests include global Islam, Islam in the Americas, American religion, the Puerto Rican Muslim community, Christian-Muslim relations, Muslim cosmopolitanism, globalizing the study of […]

Maddie Collins

Program Coordinator Maddie Collins earned their BA in History from Mount Holyoke College  in 2014 with a focus in Medieval Studies and a minor in English. They are currently a Master’s student in the Department of History at the University of Florida specializing in medieval European history and working towards completing a certificate in museum studies. […]