Sunka Simon
Project Lead; Professor of German, Film and Media StudiesSunka Simon (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, M.A. Universität Hamburg, Germany) is a Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA. Simon is the author of "Mail-Orders. The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture" (SUNY Press 2002) and the forthcoming "German Crime Drama from Network TV to Netflix" (Bloomsbury Press). She is the co-author of Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities (Routledge 2015).
Alexander Rojavin
Project Lead; Policy AnalystAlexander Rojavin (J.D., M.S. Temple University, B.A. Swarthmore College) is an intelligence, policy, and media analyst specializing in information warfare. A native speaker of English and Russian, he is a published translator (Slavica Publishers, Routledge, and forthcoming Academic Studies Press) and the co-author of two Russian language reference books (both Routledge 2019). Currently, he is editing a book framing modern Russian cinema as a battlefield in the Kremlin's larger information war. At Middlebury’s School of Russian, he teaches a seminar on post-Soviet information warfare and media consumption.
Bob Rehak
Associate Professor of Film and Media StudiesBob Rehak is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College, where his research and teaching focus on special effects, animation, videogames, and media fandom. His book "More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects in the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise" was published in 2018 by NYU Press, and he is co-editor, with Dan North and Michael S. Duffy, of "Special Effects: New Theories/Histories/Contexts" (BFI: 2015). His scholarship has appeared in "Film Criticism," "Cinema Journal," "Science Fiction Film and Television," and the "Journal of Fandom Studies," and he has contributed chapters to "The Video Game Theory Reader," "Videogame/Player/Text," "The Cybercultures Reader," "Spreadable Media," "The Routledge Companion to Media Studies," and the Screen Decades and Behind the Silver Screen series.
Josh Brody
Associate Professor of Computer ScienceJoshua Brody (Ph.D. Dartmouth College, MS New York University, BS Carnegie Mellon University) is an Associate Professor of computer science at Swarthmore College, where he teaches Algorithms, Theory of Computation, and introductory courses. His research concentrates on understanding the limits of computation, with a particular focus on proving lower bounds in communication complexity and in using communication lower bounds to understand limits of computation in other areas, including data structures, streaming algorithms, and property testing. He is also coach of Swarthmore College's ICPC competitive programming team, which has recently won medals at the 2021 ICPC North American Championships and the 202 ICPC World Finals Invitational.