Faculty and Staff
Director
Daniel Erique Perez
(775) 784-4447
dperez@unr.edu
Office: Thompson Building, Room 103
Daniel Enrique Pérez is an associate professor of Chicanx and Latinx studies in the Department of World Languages and Literatures and the director of the Core Humanities program at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is also a faculty associate of the Gender, Race and Identity program.
Lecturers
(775) 784-4447
Office Location: Thompson Building, room 102C
Bretton Rodriguez completed a Ph.D. in Literature at the University of Notre Dame. He is a specialist in the literature, history, and culture of medieval and early modern Iberia. His research focuses on the development of historical narratives - chronicles as well as ballads, biographies, and history plays - in medieval Europe. Using skills of both literary criticism and historical inquiry, he examines the way that medieval histories evolved into sophisticated literary texts as well as into political propoganda that supported specific rulers, dynatsies, communities, and ideas.
Adriana Varga
(775) 682-6674
Lecturer
avarga@unr.edu
Office Location: Thompson Building 102B
Ariana Varga earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Indiana University-Bloomington and her Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College. She specializes in British and American literature and culture, global Anglophone literatures, postcolonial and globalization theories, gender studies, modernism in a transnational context, postmodernism, diaspora and immigrant studies, inter-art studies, and translation. She is a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation recipient. In Core Humanities, she teaches ancient and medieval cultures, and the modern world.
Stephen Lazer
Postdoctoral Fellow
(775) 682-6472
slazer@unr.edu
Office location: Thompson Building 102A
Stephen Lazer received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Miami in 2014. His research focuses on 17th- and 18th-century political and institutional history, specifically the interplay of French and German political cultures in early modern Alsace, and has an article coming out in the June 2016 volume of the "Journal of Early Modern History."
Staff
Nicholas-Martin Kearney
Administrative Assistant
(775) 784-4447
mkearney@unr.edu
Office: Thompson Building, Room 102
Nicholas-Martin Kearney is a former general studies student at University of Nevada, Reno, who joined the Core Humanities Program as a temporary office assistant in February 2016. He was hired as the program's full-time administrative assistant in May 2016. Previously, he has worked in the nonprofit arts administration field and is Deputy Director of The Nevada LGBT Archives.
Karen Akre and Sidney Thomas
Office Support Student Workers
(775) 784-4447
Office:Thompson Building, Room 102