Staff Location: Remote

Dr. Marios Falaris is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose work considers the effects of militarization in everyday life. As a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Dr. Falaris is currently developing an oral history and public humanities initiative at the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center, entitled Stories of Displacement. They have a PhD in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University and have previously worked on the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s podcast AnthroPod. Dr. Falaris is also working on the book, Vulnerable Intimacies: Securing the Everyday in Indian-Occupied Kashmir, which traces the effects of military occupation in the lives of young men in Kashmir.

Education

• PhD., Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 2024
• MA., Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 2021
• MSc., Anthropology and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2016
• BA., Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Political Science, Yale University, 2014

Public Humanities Experience

• 2024-Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, KSAS Society of Fellows, Tabb Center, Johns Hopkins University
• 2022-2023: Public Humanities Graduate Fellow, Tabb Center, Johns Hopkins University
• 2017-2019: Section Editor, AnthroPod, Podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology

Teaching Experience

Course Design and Instructor

• Reintroduction to Writing: Love in the Time of War, University Writing Program, Johns Hopkins University
• Love in the Time of War, Department of Culture and Politics, Georgetown University
• Kinship Reconsidered, co-taught with Veena Das, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
• Podcasts and Ethnography, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
• Reading Ethnography, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Teaching Assistant

• Invitation to Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
• Sheltering in Places: Architecture and Anthropology in Conversation, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
• Sex, Law and Islam, Departments of History and Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
• Home and Belonging, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Milan Terlunen, PhD (Columbia University, Comparative Literature) specializes in public and digital humanities, with a particular emphasis on podcasting. Dr. Terlunen is the co-founder of the Humanities Podcast Network and the host of the “How To Read” podcast, which aims to disseminate academic research to a broad audience. His public humanities projects, such as “Speaking of Spirituality,” engage diverse communities in meaningful dialogues, bridging academic and local perspectives. His innovative pedagogical approaches integrate digital storytelling and social justice, guiding students in the creation of literary-historical projects. Dr. Terlunen’s work has been supported by multiple grants, including two year-long Public Humanities Fellowships at Columbia University’s Center for the Humanities and a Heyman Center Fellowship.