Past Fellows

2024-2025 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

2024-2025 Dissertation Fellows

Michael Sacks (English) Fall 2024

The Portrayal of Urban and Rural Areas in the Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Sinclair Lewis

Eukene Franco Landa

(Modern Languages and Literatures) Spring 2025

Authenticity and Language Ideologies among Basque Speakers: A Comparative Study between the US Basque Diaspora and the Basque Country

2023-2024 Fellows

2023-2024 Faculty Fellows

	Aleksandra Hernandez (Philosophy) Valuing Animal Life: A Pragmatist Approach
	Hermann Beck (History) The German Revolution: Popular Enthusiasm and Violence in the Nazi Takeover in 1933
	Krista Goff (History) Deportees and Settlers: World War Two and its aftermath in the Caucasus and Central Asia
	Nebil Husayn (Religious Studies) Reimagining Islam: Modernists between Faith and Doubt Fellow: Fall 2023 and Spring 2025
	Tim Watson (English) The Mango: A Florida Cultural History
	Traci Ardren (Anthropology) Wild Plant Kinship in the Coastal Cultures of Indigenous South Florida
	Patoimbasba Nikiema (Modern Languages and Literatures) Rethinking Exile: The Imaginary of the Return in Caribbean and African Francophone Literatures

2023-2024 Dissertation Fellows

Kate M. Albrecht (English)

Reformation Women Writers and Their Mediators: 1540-1650

Mauro Cazzolla (Modern Languages and Literatures)

Annie Ernaux, Edouard Louis and the craft of translating contemporary French autosociobiography

Yasamin Rezai (Modern Languages and Literatures)

Poetics of Platforms: A Study of Popular Performative Poetry on Social Media in Iran

2022-2023 Fellows

2022-2023 Faculty Fellows

	Gabrielle Cornish (Musicology) Socialist Noise: Sound and Soviet Identity After Stalin
	Max Fraser (History) The Hillbilly Highway: Transappalachia and the Making of a White Working Class
	Gema Pérez-Sánchez (Modern Languages and Literatures) Transnational Queer Affects and Activism: Literary and Visual Public Interventions in Spanish Culture in the 1970s and 2000s
	Kate Ramsey (History) Haitian Vodou Objects and Museum Collecting During and Following the U.S. Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934)
	Suja Sawafta (Modern Languages and Literatures) The Dialectic of the Sea and the Desert: Exile, Commitment, and Dissent in the Novels of Abdulrahman Munif

2022-2023 Dissertation Fellows

Preston Taylor Stone (English)

Ghosts Coalition: Spectrality and Protest in Multiethnic American Cultures

Nicole Sintes (History)

Space, Networks, and Strategies of Power in Queen Isabel of Portugal's Household (1526-1539)

2021-2022 Fellows

2021-2022 Faculty Fellows

	Susanna Allés-Torrent (Modern Languages and Literatures) The Reception of Italian Life Writing in Early Modern Iberia
	Pamela Geller (Anthropology) Your Obedient Servant: The Sociopolitics of the Samuel G. Morton Crania Collection
	Ager Gondra (Modern Languages and Literatures) The Effects of Language Revitalization and Standardization on the Identity of Minority Language Speakers: The Case of Basque
	Marina Magloire (English) We Pursue Our Magic: Vodou Feminism from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Girl Magic
	Chrissy Arce (Modern Languages and Literatures) Mulattas in the Vortex of the Mexican Inquisition: The Case of Antonia de Soto.
	Henry Green (Religious Studies) The Sephardi Voices Archives: Arab Jews and Human Rights
	Cae Joseph-Masséna (Modern Languages and Literatures) The Eziliphonic Text: Voice, Vodou and Afrosonic Feminism in Contemporary Haitian Women Writers’ Fiction

2021-2022 Dissertation Fellows

Jacob Brannum (History)

The Power of Negotiation: Authority and Social Organization in Fourteenth-Century Venice (1348-1381)

Monica Faust Figueroa (Modern Languages and Literatures)

Confederates and Brazilian Self-Fashioning in Brazil's Nineteenth-Century Discourse on Race and Abolition

Tiffany L. Fajardo (English)

"A Modernism of One's Own: Speculative Sexuality in Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, and Djuna Barnes, 1928"

2020-2021 Fellows

2020-2021 Faculty Fellows

	Richard Chappell (Philosophy) Bleeding-Heart Consequentialism
	Christina Civantos (Modern Languages and Literatures) Confined Solidarity: A Connected Cultural History of Cuba, Spanish North Africa, and Morocco
	John Funchion (English) Insurgent Fictions: Partisans and the Art of Information Warfare in Early U.S. Literature
	Karl Gunther (History) The Courtier's Commentaries: Belief and the Bible in the Early English Reformation
	Scott Heerman (History) Carried Back: Black Kidnapping and State Formation, 1750-1870
	Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel (Modern Languages and Literatures) Overseas Archipelagoes: Comparative Insular and Colonial Studies
	Marysol Quevedo (Musicology) Cuban Music Counterpoints: Classical Music Networks Before and During the Cold War
	Patricia Saunders (English) Social Death and Haptic Visuality: Ebony Patterson's Three King's Weep (2018)
	Helen Yetter-Chappell (Philosophy) Realist Idealism: A World of Sensation

2019-2020 Dissertation Fellows

Gabriella Faundez-Rojas (History)

Conquest and Hagiography: Rewriting Saints After the Norman Conquest

Dainerys Machado-Vento (Modern Languages and Literatures)

The International Mediatization of Cuban Literature (2006 - 2018)

2019-2020 Fellows

2019-2020 Faculty Fellows

	Michael Bernath (History) In a Land of Strangers: Nothern Teachers in the Old South
	Anjan Chakravartty (Philosophy) Scientific Disagreement, Rationality, and Society
	Evelina Galang (English) Beautiful Sorrow, Beautiful Sky
	Erica Moiah James (Art and Art History) Decolonizing Time: Haitian Portaiture and Epistemologies of Vision

2019-2020 Dissertation Fellows

	Lorella Di Gregorio (Modern Languages and Literatures- Fall Fellow) The Global Journey of Mexican and Southern Italian Cultural Products in the Time of Flows
	Lilianne Lugo Herrera (Modern Languages and Literatures - Spring Fellow) Mediated Archipelagoes: Theater, Women, and Media
	Nelson Marques (History- Spring Fellow) Heroes of their Own Lives: Warfare and Identity in the Portuguese Atlantic, 1624-1668
	Paige Miller (English- Spring Fellow) Multilingual Modernisms: Beyond English in James Joyce, G.V. Desani, Samuel Beckett, and Jean Rhys

2018-2019 Fellows

2018-2019 Faculty Fellows

Brit Brogaard (Philosophy)
Character as Constituent of Personality

Rebecca Doran (MLL)
The Embodied Anomaly: The Emergence and Option of Fuyao

Eduardo Elena (History)

Conquering Distance: Argentina and the Fortunes of Steam-Age Globalization, 1860-1910

Catherine Newell (Religious Studies)

Darwin’s Diet and St. Francis’s Menagerie: Religion, Science, and Spiritual Enlightenment Through Food

Mark Rowlands (Philosophy)
What is a Mental Content?

Allison Schifani (MLL)
Imagining the City Burning: Speculative Urban Practice and Play in the 21st Century Americas

2018-2019 Dissertation Fellows

Gill Mozer (English - Fall)
Writing Transgender Across Genre: Nonbinary and Trans Influences on Narrative Forms (1968-2018)

Anne Schmalstig (English - Fall)
Slow Resilience: Narrative Resistance to Climate Crisis in Environmental Speculative Fictions

Anna Bennett (History - Spring)

From Stregheria to Sortilegui: The Materiality of Magic in Baroque Venice

2017-2018 Fellows

2017-2018 Faculty Fellows

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Juan Chattah (Musicology)
Film Music: From Cognition to Interpretation

Tracy Devine-Guzman, Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow 2017-2018

Tracy Devine-Guzman (MLL)
Transcontinental Indigeneities: Americas and the Global South

Simon Evnine - photo for BookTalk at Books & Books

Simon Evnine (Philosophy)

A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Batman Memes and their Parerga!

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Catherine Judd (English)

Irish Poverty and the Irish Famine: Literary Representations of the 'Irish Question' and the Great Hunger 1825-1890

Brenna Munro (thumbnail) Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow 2017-2018

Brenna Munro (English)
Writing Sexuality in Transnational Times: The Queer Nigerian Present

Dominique Reill, Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow 2017-2018

Dominique Reill (History)
Rebel City: Fiume's Challenge to Wilson's Europe

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Lindsay Thomas (English)
Training for Catastrophe: Fiction, Preparedness, and the Management of the Future

2017-2018 Dissertation Fellows

Sarah Cash, Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellow 2017-2018

Sarah Cash (English - Fall)Inharmonic Resonsance: The Temporality of Music in Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Hadassah St. Hubert (thumbnail photo), Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellow 2017-2018

Hadassah St. Hubert (History - Fall)
Visions of a Modern Nation: Haiti at the World's Fairs

Stephanie Skenyon, Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellow 2017-2018

Stephanie Skenyon (History - Spring)

Local Boundaries, Cloistered Communities, and Inner Selves: Monastic Identities in Twelfth-Century England

2016-2017 Fellows

2016 - 2017 Humanities Fellows Symposium Program

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Kathryn Freeman (English)

Linking gender, creativity, and epistemology in Coleridge’s poetics, “The New Moon with the Old Moon in her Arms”: Phases of the Poetic Imagination in Coleridge

John Kirby (Classics)

Comparative Classics East and West

Karen Mathews (Art & Art History), 2016-2017 Humanities Faculty Fellow

Karen Mathews (Art & Art History)

Mapping, Materiality, and Merchant Culture in Late Medieval Italy

Martin Nesvig (History)

The Promiscuity of Power: Imperial Designs and Local Factionalism in Colonial Western Mexico

Aleksandra Perisic (MLL)
Atlantic Crossings: Literature and Immigration in the Age of Globalization

Jessica Rosenberg (English)
Botanical Publics: Horticulture and Textual Culture in Early Modern England

Robyn Walsh (Religious Studies)
The Beginnings of Gospel Literature

Ashli White (History)
Object Lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic

2016-2017 Dissertation Fellows

Alok Amatya (English), 2016-2017 Humanities Dissertation Fellows

Alok Amatya (English - Fall)

Framing Resource Conflicts: Indigenous Rights in Environmental Justice Literatures of the Global South

Allison Harris, 2016-17 Humanities Dissertation Fellow

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Allison Harris (English - Fall)
Cartographies of Social Death: Abjection and the American Dispossessed

Drewry Wofford (History), 2016-17 Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellow

Drewry Wofford (History - Spring)

History at the Speed of Sound
The Intersection of National and Transnational Histories: a Case Study

2015 - 2016 Fellows

2015-2016 Faculty Fellows

ANNUAL HUMANITIES FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2016

2015 - 2016 Humanities Fellows Symposium Program

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Stephen Di Benedetto (Theatre Arts)
The Actuation of the Playful Performance (Design)

[Thumbnail Photo] Amina Gautier, 2015-16 Humanities Faculty Fellow

Amina Gautier (English)
Even Bearing Gifts

Thumbnail Photo - Joel Nickels, 2015-2016 Humanities Faculty Fellow.

Joel Nickels (English)

The Imaginary International: Literature and Nonstate Space

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Justin Ritzinger (Religious Studies)
Anarchy in the Pure Land: Tradition, Modernity, and the Reinvention of the Cult of Maitreya in Republican China

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Guido Ruggiero (History)
Ever Green: Love and Emotions in Boccaccio and the Italian Renaissance

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Hugh Thomas (History)
A Social and Cultural History of the Court of King John, 1199-1216

2015-2016 Dissertation Fellows

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Valerie Chamorro (History - Fall)

Occupied France: Local Experience and National Authority Under Foreign Rule in the Nineteenth Century

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Nihel Hsien-Chieh Jhou (Philosophy- Fall)
Reviving the Transient Present in a Relativistic Universe: a Novel Approach

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Jennifer Garcon (History - Spring)

Transnational Politics of the Haitian Press, 1971-1986

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2014-2015 Fellows

2014-2015 Faculty Fellows

ANNUAL HUMANITIES FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2016 & THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2016

2014 - 2015 Humanities Fellows Symposium Poster

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Heather Diack (Art & Art History)
Framing Doubt: Photography, Conceptual Art, and Contemporary Uncertainty

Pamela Geller (Anthropology)
The Archaeology of Common Sense: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Antiquity

Laura Giannetti (Modern Languages and Literatures)
Food Culture and the Literary Imagination in Renaissance Italy

Sallie Hughes (Communications)

Mediated Belonging and the Security of Home

Mary Lindemann (History)
Charlotte’s Web: Incest, History, and the Literary Imagination

Deborah Schwartz-Kates (Musicology)
Revealing Screens: The Film Music of Alberto Ginastera

2014-2015 Dissertation Fellows

Ashley Marie Mateiro (History - Fall)

Lubricating the Wheels of Colonialism and Capitalism:
Gulf Oil Corporation, the Black Protest Movement, and Portuguese Africa, 19561988

Ng'ang'a Muchiri (English - Fall)
Writing on the Soil: Literature's Influence on African Land Rights

Alisa Be (English - Spring)

Women’s Participation in the Political Public Sphere: Redefining the Form of Narrative Satire, 1790-1880

Rina Tzinman (Philosophy - Spring)

Essays on the Body and the Self

2013-2014 Fellows

2013-2014 Faculty Fellows

ANNUAL HUMANITIES FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

2013-14 Fellows Symposium Poster

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‌Christina Civantos (Modern Languages and Literatures)
The Mirror of Al-Andalus: Modern Uses of Medieval Spain in the Arab World and Beyond

‌Amanullah De Sondy (Religious Studies)
Christian and Muslim Masculinities: Robert Burns of Scotland and Mirza Ghalib of India

‌‌Viviana Díaz Balsera (Modern Languages and Literatures)
Guardians of Idolatry: Conserving Gods, Angels and Demons in Colonial Mexico

‌Donette Francis (English)
The Novel 1960s: Form and Sensibilities in Caribbean Literary Culture

‌Richard Godbeer (History)
The Life and Times of Elizabeth and Henry Drinker

‌Michael Miller (History)
France and its Waterways

‌Nathan Timpano (Art History)
The Hysterical Muse: Art, Science & Theatre in fin-de-siècle Vienna and Munich

2013-2014 Dissertation Fellows

‌Claudia Amadori (English - Fall)
Shifting Creole Identities: Representations of Creole Figures in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Transatlantic Literature

‌Amelia Hintzen (History - Spring)
“El batey es una casa sola”: Kinship, Community and Resistance in the Dominican Sugar Industry, 1915-1990

‌Nurbay Irmak (Philosophy - Spring)
Purpose-Relativity and Ontology

‌Carolyn Zimmerman (History - Fall)
Defeat, Civic Values, and the Intronati of Siena after 1555

2012-2013 Fellows

2012-2013 Faculty Fellows

ANNUAL FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

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‌Edmund Abaka (History)
Africa in Cuba/Cuba in Africa: A Trans-Atlantic Relationship in the Crucible of Slavery, Revolution and Decolonization

‌Jane Alison (English)
Stories of Sexual Metamorphosis from Ovid

‌Suzanne Braswell (Modern Languages and Literatures)
Kinepoetics: Dance, French Modernity, and the Poetics of Lyric Mobility: Balzac, Mallarmé, Valéry

‌Maria Galli Stampino (Modern Languages and Literatures)
Between Commedia dell'arte and Theater of the Enlightenment: The Querelle between Carlo Gozzi and Carlo Goldoni

‌Stephen Halsey (History)
The Quest for Power: European Imperialism and the Evolution of Chinese Statecraft, 1850-1911

‌Peter Lewis (Philosophy)
Realism in Quantum Mechanics

‌Wilson Shearin (Classics)
Thick-Witted Minerva: Stupidity in the Philosophical Culture of the Ancient Roman World

2012-2013 Dissertation Fellows

‌Marta FernandezCampa (English - Spring)
Contrapuntal Poetics: Mourning and Critical Engagement in Caribbean Artistic Expression

‌Megan Hatfield (History - Fall)
Plantation Economies, Gender Politics, and the Eighteenth Century Atlantic: The World of Eliza Pinckney

‌Stephanie Selvick (English - Spring)
Interrogating Violence and Sexuality in South African Literature and Culture

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2011-2012 Fellows

2011-2012 Faculty Fellows

Annual Fellows Symposium
Friday, October 19, 2012

‌ 2011 2012 Humanities Fellows Symposium

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‌Hermann Beck (History)
Before the Holocaust: The Reaction of German Society to Anti-Semitic Attacks during the Nazi Seizure of Power

‌June Teufel-Dreyer (Political Science)
Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun

‌Simon Evnine (Philosophy)
Making Objects and Events: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach to Metaphysics

‌Jennifer Ferriss-Hill (Classics)
The Anonymous Interlocutor of Roman Satire: A Biography

‌Lillian Manzor (Modern Languages and Literatures)
Sites that Speak: Miami Through its Spanish Performing Arts Spaces

‌Brenna Munro (English)
The Postcolonial Politics of Stigma: Sexuality, Nation and Diaspora in Contemporary Nigerian Writing

‌Kate Ramsey (History)
Colonialism and Magic in the French and British Empires, 1750-1900

2011-2012 Dissertation Fellows

‌Nick Wiltsher (Philosophy - Fall)
The Structure of Sensory Imagination

‌Stephen Lazer (History - Spring)
French-German Encounters in Early Modern Alsace 1648-1789

2010-2011 Fellows

2010-2011 Faculty Fellows

ANNUAL FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011

2010 2011 Humanities Fellows Symposium

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‌Christine B. Arce (Modern Languages & Literatures)
Troping Mexico's Historical No-Bodies

‌Michael Bernath (History)
Northern Teachers in the Old South and the Emergence of American Sectional Identity, 1793-1860

‌John Funchion (English)
Divisible Pasts: Nostalgia and the Struggle to Imagine U.S. Culture, 1848-1929

‌Karl Gunther (History)
The Ideological Origins of English Puritanism

‌Mark Rowlands (Philosophy)
Good Dogs, Friends, and other Moral Subjects

‌Amie Thomasson (Philosophy)
The Descent of Metaphysics

‌Tim Watson (English)
Literature, Anthropology, and Empire in the 1950s

2010-2011 Dissertation Fellows

‌‌Benoît Mauchamp (Modern Languages & Literatures)
A Journey through Reality towards an Anthropo-Semiotics of Travel Representation: Literature, Photography, Cinema

‌Silvia Mitchell (History)
The Politics of Motherhood: Gender, Court, and Political Culture during the Regency and Exile of Queen Mariana of Austria, 1665-1680