Sharrona Pearl ‘91 is the Andrews Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies in The John V. Roach Honors College at TCU. A historian and theorist of the face and body, Pearl earned her PhD from Harvard University in 2005. Pearl’s most recent book is Mask, published with Bloomsbury Academic in 2024.

She also recently published Do I Know You? From Face Blindness to Super Recognition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) following Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other (University of Chicago Press, 2017) and About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Harvard University Press, 2010). Pearl maintains an active freelance practice, with bylines in The Washington Post, The Conversation, Real Life Magazine, Aeon, Wellcome Collection, Tablet, Lilith, Kveller, and other publications available on her website.

Sharonna recalls her experience at Associated (referenced in the introduction to Mask). “AHS nurtured my love of learning and deep community to building Jewish community. I am so grateful for the education and support I received.”