Harris Feinsod, Ralph S. and Becky G. O’Connor Associate Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University

Harris Feinsod is a literary and cultural historian of the United States, Latin America, and the Atlantic world.

Sabine Mohamed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Sabine Mohamed is a political, urban, and economic anthropologist. Her research focuses on urban anthropology, empire and infrastructure, blackness, race, violence, capitalism, borders and migration, ports and trade, postcolonial and feminist/queer theory, Afrofuturism; Ethiopia, Eritrea, East Africa, and Germany

Nadia Nurhussein, Professor, Mary Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Nadia Nurhussein is Professor in English and Africana Studies and Chair of the Department of English. She specializes in African American literature and culture.

Maya Gomes, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Maya Gomes studies stable isotope geochemistry, geobiology, biogeochemical cycling, Earth history, and carbonate sedimentology. Her research uses modern lakes, microbial mats, and coastal environments as natural experimental systems to explore how sulfur isotope and other geochemical signals record environmental information in sediments.

Jared Hickman, Associate Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University

Jared Hickman is a scholar of American literature in Atlantic/world context, religious and secular studies, critical race studies, and indigenous and settler colonial studies.

Lijing Jiang, Assistant Professor, History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University.

Lijing Jiang is a historian of modern life sciences. Her research focuses on the history of biology and biotechnology; China, Japan, and Asia; Model Organisms; and Environomental History. She has written extensively on the history of aquaculture.

Jane Freiman, Graduate Student, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University

Jane Freiman’s work focuses on poetry and poetics, 20th and 21st century American literature, and Visual studies.

Corey Byrnes, Associate Professor of Chinese Culture, Northwestern University

Corey Byrnes is a scholar of the environmental humanities; 19^th-21^st century Sinophone literature, film, and visual culture; animal studies; and landscape and spatial studies. Byrnes co-leads Northwestern’s Buffett Institute Shifting Shorelines Global Working Group, which studies changes in historical and present-day interfaces between land and water.

Margaret Rorison, Fllmmaker

Margaret Rorison is filmmaker, projectionist, and curator from Baltimore, MD. She has served previously as the Baltimore Museum of Art’s in-house filmmaker, and she directed the experimental film series Sight Unseen Screening Series (2012–22). Her short films are available through The Canyon Cinema Foundation.

Sophia Segerstrom ’26, English and Writing Seminars

Tidewater Project: “Women’s Marine Work in Midcentury Journalism”

Jacquelyn Kelley ’28, Writing Seminars and Philosophy

Tidewater Project TBA

Anna Simms ’29, Public Health Studies

Tidewater Project TBA

Stephen Ramos, Professor, College of Environment + Design, University of Georgia

Stephen Ramos (1970–2026) was a founding member and key partner in the Tidewater initiative. An international scholar of urban planning and design. His research focused on port cities, energy transition, logistics, and planning history.