Visiting Fellows
2025-26
Professor Jeremy Tame
Visiting 01 Sept - 30 Nov 2025
Nominator: Professor David Roper, School of Life Sciences
Jeremy Tame is a Professor of Biochemistry in the Graduate School of Medical Life Sciences at Yokohama City University.
The Tame group uses interdisciplinary approaches, from basic microbiology to molecular structure determination by X-ray crystallography, to relate protein structure and function. His research encompasses traditional biophysical approaches and modern drug discovery. The Tame group is particularly well-known for its work into the structure and evolution of haemoglobin (Hb), recently revealing the unique properties of crocodile Hb that allow these animals to remain submerged underwater for hours at a time.
Several years after completing his PhD in the UK, he was a awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and during this period he took sabbatical leave in Kyoto, Japan. He was then offered a position at the newly founded campus in Tsurumi, Yokohama, equipped with state-of-the-art apparatus for a variety of techniques to study large molecules.
Dr Tania Saeed
Visiting 24 Nov - 07 Dec 2025
Nominator: Professor Virinder Kalra, Sociology
Dr. Tania Saeed is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. She has expertise in citizenship and education in the context of Pakistan and the South Asian diasporas.
Dr Saeed's most recent project as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow focused on diaspora networks of political parties from India and Pakistan, examining their operations in UK and US. Dr Saeed is visiting Warwick to collaborate in establishing a Diaspora Centre between LUMS and Warwick. The first of its kind for the British Pakistani community, the Centre will strengthen research networks and scholarship between Pakistan and its diasporas.
Dr Dmytro Chumachenko
Visiting 06 - 16 Jan 2026
Nominator: Professor Ram Gopal, Social Sciences
Dr. Dmytro Chumachenko is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technologies, and an Associate Professor of the Mathematical Modelling and Artificial Intelligence department at National Aerospace University “Kharkiv Aviation Institute”. Dmytro also serves as a Chair of the “AI + Education & Science” subgroup of the Expert Committee on AI sphere development under the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and as Chair of the Board/President of the Ukrainian Scientific and Educational IT Society – the biggest community of computer science academics in Ukraine.
Dmytro earned his Ph.D. in Systems and Means of Artificial Intelligence in 2017 in Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (Ukraine). He has done his postdoc at the Ubiquitous Health Technology Lab at the University of Waterloo (Canada)
Professor Mario Telò
Visiting 22 - 28 February 2026
Nominator: Professor Victoria Rimell, Classics and Ancient History
Mario Telò is Professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, Rhetoric, and Comparative Literature at the University of California Berkeley. His scholarship seeks to place antiquity in dialogue with modernity, defamiliarizing and destabilizing widely accepted critical positions by exploring the emancipatory potential of textual and visual form.
Recent books include Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy (Ohio State University Press 2020), Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis (Tangent, Punctum Books 2023), and Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler (Bloomsbury 2024).
The planned events of the Fellowship relate to the development of a new project, Edward Said and the Late Animal: the Queer Politics of Graeco-Roman Style, and also to an edited volume in progress on Jean-Luc Nancy’s Exscripted Antiquities, where Telò will explore a newer interest in contemporary sculpture.
Dr Shota Ogawa
Visiting 05 May - 29 June 2026
Nominator: Professor Alistair Phillips, Film & TV Studies
Shota Ogawa is an international film scholar specializing in the history of imperial and post imperial Japanophone cinema. His present research explores the contested model of “the witness” in contemporary documentary arts practices and theories in East Asia. Under the banners of the archival, the nonhuman, and the forensic turn, artists and researchers have problematized the normative androcentric model of “the witness,” making room for imagining the material, the spectral, and the ecological witness. During his visit to Warwick, Shota plans to develop a new interdisciplinary network by co-organizing various events that address this change within an evolving comparative transnational framework.
Professor Robert Cramer
Visiting 05 - 15 January 2026
Nominator: Dr Kimberley Wade
Professor Cramer’s research spans suicide prevention, violence prevention, legal decision-making, and personality and individual differences. He will engage the Warwick community in several ways. First, in partnership with host Professor Wade, he will launch collaborative legal decision-making research to foster links between Warwick’s Centre for Operational Police Research (COPR) and UNC Charlotte Violence Prevention Center. Second, he will provide talks to IAS fellows and the wider Warwick community with a focus on translating scholarly research into practice. Third, he will invite researchers working at all levels in Warwick Psychology and the Warwick Medical School to engage in suicide prevention training.
Jessica Riddell
Visiting 23 February - 23 March 2026
Nominator: Dr Bryan Brazeau
Dr Jessica Riddell is the founder of Hope Circuits Institute, a think tank dedicated to systems re-wiring and renewal in the post-secondary sector and is an award-winning educator and scholar.
She is a Full Professor of Early Modern Literature in the English Department at Bishop’s University (Quebec, Canada). She holds the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence; in this capacity, she focuses on systems-change in higher education that fosters human flourishing; in her research, teaching, leadership, and administration, she participates in a wide range of conversations at the national and international levels about how universities fulfil the social contract to a broader society.
Stephen Henighan
Visiting 02 - 27 February 2026
Nominator: Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Stephen Henighan is a prolific researcher on the Spanish American novel who in recent years has developed a strong interest in Lusophone African fiction. He explores concepts of the nation, as they are framed by novels; he is also a novelist and translator. During his time at Warwick, Henighan will be speaking on topics related to the literatures of Spanish America and Lusophone Africa, as well as the practice of literary translation. He will be pursuing research on how conceptions of masculinity and of natural resources as national attributes shape the vision of the nation in the Spanish American novel.
Dr Illeana Sasu
Visiting 27 April - 03 July 2026
Nominator: Associate Professor Aysu Dincer Hadjianastasis
Dr Ileana Sasu’s research explores the multilingual transmission of medieval texts, with a focus on vernacular psalters, saintly cults, and the history of translation. As lead investigator of Mapping the Etheldrediana, she combines philology, codicology, and digital humanities to trace the cult of Saint Audrey across Europe. During her time at Warwick, she will deepen this work through academic exchange, a seminar on her current findings, and the development of interdisciplinary teaching and public engagement activities. These include planning a summer school and leading a hands-on workshop on medieval medical recipes and manuscript-making.
Hugh Wilford
Visiting 02 - 27 February 2026 and 04 - 23 May 2026
Nominator: Professor Susan Carruthers
Hugh Wilford joined the CSULB History Department in 2006, having taught previously at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Trained in the U.K. as a U.S. intellectual historian, he has published widely on such topics as the New York Intellectuals, the history of the American left, Americanization and anti-Americanism in Europe, and the “Cultural Cold War.” His most recent works concern the role of the CIA in shaping Cold War American and western culture, and the role of culture in shaping the Cold War operations of the CIA. The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America (Harvard University Press, 2008) examines the relationship between the CIA and various apparently private U.S. citizen groups the Agency secretly funded in the Cold War “battle for hearts and minds.” America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East (Basic Books, 2013) tells the surprising story of a group of pro-Arab operatives in the early CIA, locating them in longer traditions of American missionary and British imperial engagement with the Arab world.
Dr. Wilford published The CIA: An Imperial History in June 2024 with Basic Books. Building on the idea of “covert empire” conceptualized by Priya Satia in her 2008 Spies in Arabia, the book explores how generations of CIA officers tried but ultimately failed to transcend the gravitational pull of western imperial history.
Dr Luciana
Nominator: Professor Celia Lury
During her stay at the University of Warwick, the fellow will engage in research collaboration, methodological training, and academic exchange to strengthen interdisciplinary work on science, communication, and society. Working with scholars at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies and the Institute for Advanced Study, she will explore how sociological and discursive approaches can be combined with computational methods to analyse public debates on climate and global ecological issues. Activities include seminars, workshops, and a public event on epistemic communities. The visit will also support institutional cooperation within the EUTOPIA Alliance, fostering doctoral collaboration, joint publications, and future European research initiatives.