Visiting Faculty

Faculty members visiting the Folklore Program

Peter Tokofsky

Visiting Professor (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
Folklore

Alessandro Testa

Visiting Professor (Spring 2025)
Folklore

Alessandro Testa is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. Prior to this, he was Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct at the University of Vienna (2015-2019).

He studied history, ethnology, and religious studies at several Italian and French universities, receiving his PhD in social anthropology in 2013. He is interested in a variety of themes in religious studies and in the historical and cultural anthropology of European societies, themes about which he has published and lectured extensively.

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Justin Chiu-tat Wong

Visiting Professor
Folklore

Justin Chiu-tat Wong is a London-based comics artist and scholar whose work bridges political satire, visual storytelling, and cultural research. He began his career in 2007 as a political cartoonist and illustrator, gaining wide recognition for his long-running daily column Gei Gei Gaak Gaak in the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao. Alongside his editorial work, he has published a number of comics series in Hong Kong, Taiwan and France, including Lonely Planet, Hello World, This City / That City, New Hong Kong, Big...