Faculty and Dissertation Fellows

The Research Fellowships bring together faculty and advanced graduate students (writing dissertations) in order to enable scholarly exchanges that cross departmental and disciplinary boundaries. Fellows participate in a research colloquium, chaired by the Center's Director that meets regularly throughout the academic year; each meeting focuses on the project of one of the fellows.

2024-2025 Faculty Fellows

	Edmund Abaka (History) "The Enslaved Do Not Cast Shadows:” The Slave Forts and Dungeons of the Gold Coast (Ghana), the Atlantic Slave Trade and European Activities in Ghana
	Etana Dinka (History) Balagär, Balabbat, and Ba’id: A History of Local Conflicts, Bargains and State Construction in Imperial Ethiopia (ca. 1880s–1974)
	Amina Gautier (English) Indeterminate States of Being: Character, Convention, and Context in the Novels of Charles Chesnutt
	Nebil Husayn (Religious Studies) Reimagining Islam: Modernists between Faith and Doubt Fellow: Fall 2023 and Spring 2025
	Allannah Karas (Classics) Sweet Violence at the Roots of Rhetoric: Coping with Peithō in Ancient Greece
	Marlon Moore (English) Cripping R&B: Black Queer Disability and Popular Culture
	Martin Nesvig (History) The Xolotl Rite
	Justin Ritzinger (Religious Studies) Enchanting Modernism: Humanistic Buddhism from Below in Bade, Taiwan