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.
Aleksandra Hernandez (Philosophy) Hermann Beck (History) 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 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 Iran2023-2024 Faculty Fellows
Valuing Animal Life: A Pragmatist Approach
The German Revolution: Popular Enthusiasm and Violence in the Nazi Takeover in 1933
2023-2024 Dissertation Fellows
Gabrielle Cornish (Musicology) Max Fraser (History) 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 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)2022-2023 Faculty Fellows
Socialist Noise: Sound and Soviet Identity After Stalin
The Hillbilly Highway: Transappalachia and the Making of a White Working Class
2022-2023 Dissertation Fellows
Susanna Allés-Torrent (Modern Languages and Literatures) Pamela Geller (Anthropology) 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 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"2021-2022 Faculty Fellows
The Reception of Italian Life Writing in Early Modern Iberia
Your Obedient Servant: The Sociopolitics of the Samuel G. Morton Crania Collection
2021-2022 Dissertation Fellows
Richard Chappell (Philosophy) Christina Civantos (Modern Languages and Literatures) John Funchion (English) Insurgent Fictions: Partisans and the Art of Information Warfare in Early U.S. 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 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)2020-2021 Faculty Fellows
Bleeding-Heart Consequentialism
Confined Solidarity: A Connected Cultural History of Cuba, Spanish North Africa, and Morocco
Literature
2019-2020 Dissertation Fellows
Michael Bernath (History) Anjan Chakravartty (Philosophy) Evelina Galang (English) Beautiful Sorrow, Beautiful Sky Erica Moiah James (Art and Art History) Decolonizing Time: Haitian Portaiture and Epistemologies of Vision 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) Paige Miller (English- Spring Fellow)2019-2020 Faculty Fellows
In a Land of Strangers: Nothern Teachers in the Old South
Scientific Disagreement, Rationality, and Society
2019-2020 Dissertation Fellows
Heroes of their Own Lives: Warfare and Identity in the Portuguese Atlantic, 1624-1668
Multilingual Modernisms: Beyond English in James Joyce, G.V. Desani, Samuel Beckett, and Jean Rhys
Brit Brogaard (Philosophy) Rebecca Doran (MLL) Mark Rowlands (Philosophy) Allison Schifani (MLL) Gill Mozer (English - Fall) Anne Schmalstig (English - Fall)2018-2019 Faculty Fellows
Character as Constituent of Personality
The Embodied Anomaly: The Emergence and Option of Fuyao
What is a Mental Content?
Imagining the City Burning: Speculative Urban Practice and Play in the 21st Century Americas2018-2019 Dissertation Fellows
Writing Transgender Across Genre: Nonbinary and Trans Influences on Narrative Forms (1968-2018)
Slow Resilience: Narrative Resistance to Climate Crisis in Environmental Speculative Fictions
Juan Chattah (Musicology) Tracy Devine-Guzman (MLL) Brenna Munro (English) Dominique Reill (History) Lindsay Thomas (English) Sarah Cash (English - Fall)Inharmonic Resonsance: The Temporality of Music in Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century Hadassah St. Hubert (History - Fall)2017-2018 Faculty Fellows
Film Music: From Cognition to Interpretation
Transcontinental Indigeneities: Americas and the Global South
Writing Sexuality in Transnational Times: The Queer Nigerian Present
Rebel City: Fiume's Challenge to Wilson's Europe
Training for Catastrophe: Fiction, Preparedness, and the Management of the Future2017-2018 Dissertation Fellows
Visions of a Modern Nation: Haiti at the World's Fairs
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) 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) Jessica Rosenberg (English) Robyn Walsh (Religious Studies) Ashli White (History) Alok Amatya (English - Fall) Framing Resource Conflicts: Indigenous Rights in Environmental Justice Literatures of the Global South Allison Harris (English - Fall) Drewry Wofford (History - Spring) History at the Speed of Sound
Atlantic Crossings: Literature and Immigration in the Age of Globalization
Botanical Publics: Horticulture and Textual Culture in Early Modern England
The Beginnings of Gospel Literature
Object Lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Cartographies of Social Death: Abjection and the American Dispossessed
The Intersection of National and Transnational Histories: a Case Study
Listen to the podcasts: Stephen Di Benedetto (Theatre Arts) Amina Gautier (English) Joel Nickels (English) The Imaginary International: Literature and Nonstate Space Justin Ritzinger (Religious Studies) Guido Ruggiero (History) Hugh Thomas (History) Valerie Chamorro (History - Fall) Occupied France: Local Experience and National Authority Under Foreign Rule in the Nineteenth Century Nihel Hsien-Chieh Jhou (Philosophy- Fall) Jennifer Garcon (History - Spring) Transnational Politics of the Haitian Press, 1971-19862015-2016 Faculty Fellows
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2016
The Actuation of the Playful Performance (Design)
Even Bearing Gifts
Anarchy in the Pure Land: Tradition, Modernity, and the Reinvention of the Cult of Maitreya in Republican China
Ever Green: Love and Emotions in Boccaccio and the Italian Renaissance
A Social and Cultural History of the Court of King John, 1199-1216
2015-2016 Dissertation Fellows
Reviving the Transient Present in a Relativistic Universe: a Novel Approach
ANNUAL HUMANITIES FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM 2014 - 2015 Humanities Fellows Symposium Poster Download the Podcasts: Part 1 - Sessions 1 & 2 (February 12, 2016)2014-2015 Faculty Fellows
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2016 & THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2016
Framing Doubt: Photography, Conceptual Art, and Contemporary Uncertainty
The Archaeology of Common Sense: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Antiquity
Food Culture and the Literary Imagination in Renaissance Italy
Charlotte’s Web: Incest, History, and the Literary Imagination
Revealing Screens: The Film Music of Alberto Ginastera2014-2015 Dissertation Fellows
Gulf Oil Corporation, the Black Protest Movement, and Portuguese Africa, 19561988
Writing on the Soil: Literature's Influence on African Land Rights
2013-2014 Faculty Fellows
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014
The Mirror of Al-Andalus: Modern Uses of Medieval Spain in the Arab World and Beyond
Christian and Muslim Masculinities: Robert Burns of Scotland and Mirza Ghalib of India
Guardians of Idolatry: Conserving Gods, Angels and Demons in Colonial Mexico
The Novel 1960s: Form and Sensibilities in Caribbean Literary Culture
The Life and Times of Elizabeth and Henry Drinker
France and its Waterways
The Hysterical Muse: Art, Science & Theatre in fin-de-siècle Vienna and Munich2013-2014 Dissertation Fellows
Shifting Creole Identities: Representations of Creole Figures in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Transatlantic Literature
“El batey es una casa sola”: Kinship, Community and Resistance in the Dominican Sugar Industry, 1915-1990
Purpose-Relativity and Ontology
Defeat, Civic Values, and the Intronati of Siena after 1555
2012-2013 Faculty Fellows
Africa in Cuba/Cuba in Africa: A Trans-Atlantic Relationship in the Crucible of Slavery, Revolution and Decolonization
Stories of Sexual Metamorphosis from Ovid
Kinepoetics: Dance, French Modernity, and the Poetics of Lyric Mobility: Balzac, Mallarmé, Valéry
Between Commedia dell'arte and Theater of the Enlightenment: The Querelle between Carlo Gozzi and Carlo Goldoni
The Quest for Power: European Imperialism and the Evolution of Chinese Statecraft, 1850-1911
Realism in Quantum Mechanics
Thick-Witted Minerva: Stupidity in the Philosophical Culture of the Ancient Roman World
2012-2013 Dissertation Fellows
Contrapuntal Poetics: Mourning and Critical Engagement in Caribbean Artistic Expression
Plantation Economies, Gender Politics, and the Eighteenth Century Atlantic: The World of Eliza Pinckney
Interrogating Violence and Sexuality in South African Literature and Culture
2011-2012 Faculty Fellows
Before the Holocaust: The Reaction of German Society to Anti-Semitic Attacks during the Nazi Seizure of Power
Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun
Making Objects and Events: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach to Metaphysics
The Anonymous Interlocutor of Roman Satire: A Biography
Sites that Speak: Miami Through its Spanish Performing Arts Spaces
The Postcolonial Politics of Stigma: Sexuality, Nation and Diaspora in Contemporary Nigerian Writing
Colonialism and Magic in the French and British Empires, 1750-19002011-2012 Dissertation Fellows
The Structure of Sensory Imagination
French-German Encounters in Early Modern Alsace 1648-1789
ANNUAL FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM 2010 2011 Humanities Fellows Symposium2010-2011 Faculty Fellows
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011
Northern Teachers in the Old South and the Emergence of American Sectional Identity, 1793-1860
Divisible Pasts: Nostalgia and the Struggle to Imagine U.S. Culture, 1848-1929 2010-2011 Dissertation Fellows
A Journey through Reality towards an Anthropo-Semiotics of Travel Representation: Literature, Photography, Cinema
The Politics of Motherhood: Gender, Court, and Political Culture during the Regency and Exile of Queen Mariana of Austria, 1665-1680
Strangers at Home: Threshold Identities in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing
Gender, Utopia, and Temporality in Women’s Science Fiction
Pragmatist Empiricism: An Exposition and Defense
Annual Fellows Symposium2009-2010 Faculty Fellows
Friday, October 1, 2010
Consuming Dignity: The Politics of Citizenship and Consumption in Peronist Argentina
Democratization, Social Identities, & Youth-Gang Violence in Haiti
Perilous Strai(gh)ts: Immigration, Sexuality and Race in Contemporary Spanish Culture
Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in Jamaican Popular Culture
Between Earth and Heaven: English Secular Clerics and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance 2009-2010 Dissertation Fellows
Gender, Labor, and Virtue in Eighteenth-Century Georgia
The Reform of Popular Piety in the Closing Years of the Venetian Republic: 1770-1797
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