Past Faculty Fellows

2024

Spring

Heather DeHaan (History)

"Myths of Collective Life: Neighborhood Imagination in Soviet Baku"

Mateo Duque (Philosophy)

"Acting Out Philosophy: Socrates Becoming Diotima in Plato's Symposium"

Monika Mehta (English)

"'Spreadable' Censorship and Networked Cultures"

Shay Rabineau (Judaic Studies)

"Dead Sea Walking"

Katherine Reinhart (Art History)

"'Sic Itur Ad Astra': The Politics of Architecture and the Construction of the Paris Observatory"

2023

Fall

Jeroen Gerrits (Comparative Literature)

"Herzog Revisited, or: What Becomes of Things on the Web"

Praseeda Gopinath (English)

“'Broken Steps of the Step-Well': Assertive Dalit Masculinities”

Kent Schull (History)

"Providing for the Mormon-Armenian Community: Carpets, Agriculture & the Mormon Coloby Scheme in the Late Ottoman Empire"

Hebatalla Taha (Israel Studies)

"Atoms for Peace in the Middle East: Reactors, Borders, and US Nuclear Diplomacy"

Alexis Wang (Art History)

"Mirrors, Rainbows, and the Catoptric Image in the Arena Chapel"

Spring

BrieAnna Langlie (Anthropology)

"Taming Nature: The History of Farming and the Future of Food"

Carl Gelderloos (German)

“Modernization, Modernism, and Science Fiction in Bernhard Kellermann’s The Tunnel (1913)”

Omid Ghaemmaghami (MEAMS)

"Exploring the Kitáb-i-Aqdas of Bahá’u’lláh: History and Significance of a Nineteenth Century Text"

Ekrem Karakoc (Political Science)

"Agency and Context in Communal Violence"

Benjamin Fordham (Political Science)

"Race, Globalization, and the Demise of Southern Support for Multilateralism, 1945-1965"

2022

Fall

Elizabeth DiGangi (Anthropology)

"What Are You?: Being Multiracial in the 21st Century"

Elisa Camiscioli (History)

"Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations"

Mary Youssef (MEAMS)

"Together from Womb to Tomb: Sisters and Brothers of the Nation-State"

Nate Andrade (History)

"Syrian Diasporas of the Ancient Roman and Iranian Worlds"

Seden Akcinaroglu (Political Science)

"A Battle to Lose? Impact of Government Concessions on Electoral Outcomes"

Spring

Elizabeth Casteen (History)
Title: “‘Rape through Force and Violence’: The Case against Fontfroide Abbey, 1321-1322”
Dina Danon (JUST)
Title: "Negotiating Modernity: The Marketplace of Matchmaking, Marriage, and Divorce in the Ottoman Sephardi World"
Joshua Reno (Anthropology)
Title: "Playing for Something: A Study of Gaming in and as Practice"
Olga Shvetsova (Political Science)
Title: "How Political Incumbents Redesigned Their National Institutions During the Pandemic"
Lisa T. Yun (AAAS and English)
Title: "Digital for Ourselves: Your Story, Our Story"

2021

Fall

McDonough, Tom (Art History): “Images in Crisis”
Rojas, René (CCPA-Human Development): “Parsing the Paradox of Local Reaction"
Scholtz, Andrew (CNES): “Race for Glory: Competition and Its Discontents in the Roman East”
Stoever, Jennifer Lynn (English): “Making Parking Ramps Dance and Department Stores Tremble: Re-Sounding Community Via Artistic Encounter with the 哔咔漫画 Historical Soundwalk Project”
White, Kenneth (Cinema): “Hyperventilation Syndrome: Media Cultures, Control Societies—circa 1970”

Spring

Danberg, Robert (Writing Initiative): "Hope Is A Navigator/How to Survive in the Woods: What To Do When Writing Is Difficult"
Kleinberg, Katja (Political Science): "Gender, Structural Discrimination, and Attitudes toward Globalization"
Parkinson, Robert (History): "The Heart of American Darkness"
Shamma, Tarek (Comparative Literature/TRIP): "Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation"
Strippoli, Roberta (AAAS): "Tokiko, a 12th Century Japanese Woman in History, Legend, and Monuments"
Wheeler, Leigh Ann (History): "Anne Moody's Global Citizenship During the Late Cold War"

2020

Fall

Garcia, Oscar Gil (Human Development): “Legacies of Forced Migrations”
Havard, John (English): “Radical Reformer: The First Modern Politician”
Karnein, Anja (Philosophy): "Human Death and Future Generations"
Reeder, Jessie (English): “Who Witnesses the Apocalypse?”

Spring

Brown, David (English): “Code Black: Whiteness and Unmanliness in Shakespeare’s Hamlet”
Chronopulos, Tina (CNES): “Incomprehensibility in the Greek Passion of St. Katherine of Alexandria”
Libman, Lior (Judaic Studies): “The Politics of Signification in Early Israeli Literature”
Tessman, Lisa (Philosophy): “Moral Injury and Moral Failure”
Wilson, Thomas (Anthropology): “Brexit and Europeanization in the Northern Ireland Borderlands”

2019

Fall

Bisaha, David (Theatre): “The Show Must Go On: Disciplining Theater Professionals”
Kirschen, Bryan (Romance Languages, Linguistics): “Welcome to La Amerika: Linguistic Assimilation of the Sephardim”
Moore, Jason (Sociology): “Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism”
Smart, Pamela (Art History): “The Technical Production of Affect: Renovating the Rothko Chapel”
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew (Anthropology): “The Colony Within: Excremental Medicine and the Politics of Race in the United States”

Spring

Cheng, John (AAAS): “Unnatural Citizens: The Precarity and Persistence of Asian American Racial Formation”
Gates, Leslie (Sociology): “Anticapitalist Populism and Populist Capitalists: The Politics of Oil and Neoliberalism in Mexico and Venezuela (1935-2000)”
Moore, Alexandra (English): “Ghost Detainees and State Power Across the Thresholds of Detectability”
Rasmussen, Birgit (English): “American Beowulf: Native American Literature 901 AD”

2018

Fall

Akcinaroglu, Seden (Political Science): "Forcing Government's Hand: Ethnic Terrorism, Constituency Reforms, and Improvement in Minority Rights"
Becker, Hilary (CNES): "Commerce in Color"
Dey, Arnab (History): "Unkempt Edens: Tea Cultures in Eastern India, 1840-1940"
Gerk, Sara (Music): "Famine, War, and the Music that Binds: Irish Methods of Coping with Trauma and the US Civil War"
Mathews, Nathaniel (Africana Studies): "Race, migration and citizenship in colonial Zanzibar"
Walker, Julia (Art History): "'Form is nothing but emptiness, emptiness nothing but form': Brigitte D'Ortschy and Frank Lloyd Wright in Germany, America, and Japan"

Spring

Gelderloos, Carl (German and Russian Studies): "Doing and Suffering in Paul Scheerbart's 'Lesabéndio'"
Gerrits, Jeroen (Comparative Literature): "Doing and Suffering in Paul Scheerbart's 'Lesabéndio'"
Patterson, Jeanette (Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Translation): "Cultivating the Reader in the Bible historiale"
Skopyk, Brad (History): "Colonial Cataclysms: Climate, Culture, and Landscape during Mexico's Little Ice Age"
Wang, Yi (History): "Merchants, Monetization, and Networking: Chinese Commercial Expansion in Qing Mongolia"

2017

Fall

Bosworth, Yulia (Romance Languages): "Public perception of politician language use in Quebec: At the crossroads of linguistic norm and sociolinguistic identity"
Candela, Ana Maria (Sociology): "How the World Came Home: Migration and the Deepening Global Color Line In Early 20th Century China"
Dement, Sidney (German and Russian Studies): "Banyas, Liminality, and the Otherworld in M.A. Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita'"
Norwood, Dael (History): "Developing '哔咔漫画's Business': Local Histories of Capitalism Using DH Tools"
Parekh, Surya (English): "Black Enlightenment: The Case of Ignatius Sancho"

Spring

Iser, Mattias (Philosophy): “Fighting without a Chance”
Leja, Meg (History): "Penance as Medicine: Intersecting Genres in Early Medieval Thought"
Montenegro, Giovanna (Comparative Literature): "German Bankers and the Conquest of Venezuela: Cultural Memory of 'Heretic' Capital and Colonization"
Stoever, Jennifer (English): "Hip Hop's Living Room DJs: Black Women and Latinas Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s New York"
Whearty, Bridget (English, Medieval and Renaissance Studies): "Necromancing the Archive"

2016

Fall

Danon, Dina (Judaic Studies): "Social Stratification in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora: The Case of Ottoman Izmir"
Dunwoody, Sean (Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History): "Passions and the Peaceable Kingdom: Religious and Civic Emotions in Early Modern Augsburg"
Karein, Anja (Philosophy): "Duties of Beneficence, Obligatory Aid, And What Any of This has to do with Helping the Global Poor"
Reeder, Jessie (English): "The Problem of Progress in 1810"

Spring

Barzman, Karen-edis (Art History): "Soft Architecture and the ‘Movable City’ – Military Camps in Europe's Early Modern Borderlands”
Ghaemmaghami, Omid (CNES): "‘And like that, he's gone!’: Confession, Contention, and the Hidden Imam in Twelver Shi'i Islam”
Hatch, Kevin (Art History): "‘Being Gone’: Chris Burden's B.C. Mexico (1973)”
Karp, Jonathan (History, Judaic Studies): “Jewish-Owned Venues for Black Music in Twentieth-Century New York”
Kim, Sonja (AAAS): “The Birth of the T'omangmin (土幕民): Affect, Science, and Medicine in Management of the Urban Poor in 1930s and 1940s Korea”
Wall, Wendy (History): “Neo-Malthusianism and the Immigration Act of 1965”
Weintraub, Michael (Political Science): "Vigilante Mobilization and Local Order: Evidence from Mexico"

2015

Fall

Casanova-Vizcaino, Sandra (Romance Languages): "‘The Killer Among Us’: Serial Killing in Contemporary Puerto Rican Narrative"
Cope, Robyn (Romance Languages): "Americanness, Caribbeanness and Creoleness in Lakshmi Persaud's Butterfly in the Wind and Sastra"
Gopinath, Praseeda (English): "Ranveer Singh's ‘Chichorapan’: Habitus, Masculinity, and Stardom"
Wall, Wendy (History): "‘A Gauge of Our Faithfulness': Religion and the Politics of Immigration Reform"
Youssef, Mary (CNES): “Reimagining Migration and Gender in Brooklyn Heights and Chicago”

Spring

Cheng, John (AAAS): "When (East) Indians Were White, Then Not: Racial Formation and Naturalization Law in the Early 20th-Century United States"
Dement, Sidney (German and Russian Studies): "'Pushkin' is our Everything: Delimiting the Referentiality of the Monument in Tatyana Tolstaya's Slynx"
McConn, Mathew (Education): "History of Literary Appreciation in the United States"
Moore, Jason (Sociology): "Cheap Food and Bad Climate: From Surplus-Value to Negative-Value in the Capitalist World-Ecology"
Reeves, Anthony (Philosophy): "Human Rights, Risk, and Responsibility"
Starks, John (CENS): "Lysioidia: 'Transgendering' Actresses/Actors in Hellenistic Greek and Roman Republican Theater"

2014

Fall

Candela, Ana Maria (Sociology): "The Coolie Specter: A Ghost of Primitive Accumulations Past, Present and Futures"
Chronopoulos, Tina (CENS): "Ganymede in the Twelfth-century Classroom: Two Odes by Horace"
Holmes, Douglas (Anthropology): "Making a Public Currency/Call it Fascism"
Massey, Drew (Music): "Thomas Adès and the Dilemmas of Musical Surrealism"
Newberry, Jay (Geography): “Determinants of Somali Secondary Migrations in the United States”
Pavlovskis-Petit, Zoja (Comparative Literature)
Youseff, Mary (CNES): "Historical Transformations and the Rise of a New-Consciousness Novel in Egypt"
Yun, Lisa (English, AAAS): "Testimonies and Debates of Coolie Trafficking: The Colonial Past and the Global Present"

Spring

Chronopoulos, Tina (CENS): “Aetas Horatiana: Reading Horace's Odes in Twelfth-Century England and France”
Friedman, Randy (Judaic Studies): “Gods of Becoming”
Holmes, Olivia (English, Medieval and Renaissance Studies): "From Demons to Ducklings: Travels of the Buddha in Medieval Tuscany"
O’Hearn, Denis (Sociology): "Exilic Spaces and the World-Economy: Territorial and Structural Escape"
Schleuse, Paul (Music): "Identity, Alterity, and Abstract Opera: Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach (1976–2012)"

2013

Fall

Abou El Haj, Barbara (Art History): "Lordship and Commune: A Comparative Study of Building and Decorating in Reims and Amiens"
Dehaan, Heather (History): "In the Neighborhood of Empire: Baku Communities in the Interwar Period"
Hassoun, Nicole (Philosophy): "Access to Essential Medicines: Why We Should Support the Global Health Impact Campaign"
Laats, Adam (Education, History): "Democracy" and American Education, 1930-1960”
Wall, Wendy (History): "‘To Wage the Peace': The 1965 Immigration Act and the Cold War Politics of Immigration Reform"

Spring

Glick, Douglas (Anthropology, Linguistics): "The Social Production of Meaning: Parallelism as a Semiotic Principle"
MacKenney, Richard (History): "The Renaissance: Inter-Disciplinary Approaches"
Stoever, Jennifer (English): "The Sonic Color-Line: Race and The Cultural Politics of Listening in America"
Tomich, Dale (Sociology): "Sugar, Slavery and Landscape in 19th Century Cuba: A Visual History"

2012

Fall

Guay, Robert (Philosophy): "Nietzsche on Truth and Politics"
Henkel, Scott (English): "Censorship and Cooperation in Salt of the Earth"
Keith, Joseph (English): "Islands of the Rational: Race, Decolonization and the Dialogics of Modernity in Richard Wright's late work"
Morewedge, Rosmarie (German and Russian Studies): "Herzog Ernst B: An Experiment in Narration and Nation Building"
Rosenberg, Liz (English): "House of Dreams: The Story of L. M. Montgomery, author of ‘Anne of Green Gables’"
Walkling, Andrew (Art History, English, Theatre): "From Pole to Pole Resounding: Epideictic, Performativity, and Musical Rhetoric in John Dryden's "Albion and Albanius"

Spring

Henkel, Scott (English): "Sedition and the Slave Narrative"
Kinney, Kelly (English): "Process Gives Way to Product: A Theory of Grading Student Writing"
Lee, Yoonkyung (Sociology): "From Regionalism to Programmatic Competition: Korean Political Parties Under Transformation"
Nzegwu, Nkiru (Africana Studies): "Critically Theorizing African Heterosexuality"
Starks, John (Classics): "vox feminae, vox populi (A Woman's Voice, The People's Voice): Demand for Actresses in the Roman World
Wall, Brian (Cinema, Art History): "The Object of and in Film Theory: The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
Yun, Lisa (English, AAAS): "The Other Side of Abolition"

2011

Fall

Mehta, Monika (English): "DVD Compilations of Hindi Film Songs: (Re) Shuffling Sound, Stardom and Cinephilia"
Pages, Neil Christian (German and Russian Studies): "Kafka and His Readers"
Tessman, Lisa (Philosophy): "Moral Failure"
Wall, Brian (Cinema, Art History): "‘A deeper breath’: From Body to Spirit in Kiss Me Deadly" (1955)
Zils, Harald (German and Russian Studies): "Ernst Jünger's Total Moment: 'Das Abenteuerliche Herz' and 20th century European Aesthetics"
Yun, Lisa (English, AAAS): "From Coolies to Model Minorities: Retelling the Pacific Passage"

Spring

Gates, Leslie (Sociology): "Corruption Politics and Neoliberalism"
Henkel, Scott (English): "Sedition and the Slave Narrative"
Martinek, Wendy (Political Science): "Judicial Identity and Judicial Choice."
Polachek, Dora (Romance Languages): "The Animal/Human Divide: Brant?me’s Dames Galantes and the Woman Question"
Ros, Ana (Romance Languages): "Postmemory and Reconciliation in Argentine Postdictatorship"
Roth, Benita (Sociology): "Gender and Sexuality in an Anti-AIDS Organization: An Intersectional Perspective."
Willson, Thomas (Anthropology): “The Europeanization of a Rural Irish County”

2010

Fall

Brinker-Gabler, Gisela (Comparative Literature): “Nachtrauer: Lou Andreas-Salome's Rilke Book”
Friedman, Randy (Judaic Studies): “Reading Rosenzweig Reading Torah”
Gopinath, Praseeda (English): “The Middle-Grade Civil Servant: Masculinity, Englishness, and James Bond”
Moreira, Luiza (Comparative Literature): “The Journalism of Cecília Meireles: Debates on Education in the thirties and forties”
Pettid, Michael (AAAS): “Rural Life, Economics, and Women in Chos?n Korea (1392-1910): Relative Equality and Empowerment in a Confucian Society?”
Ros, Ana (Romance Languages): “On Mourning, Inheritance, Arts and Politics: Films by/on Sons and Daughters of Disappeared Prisoners During the Argentine Dictatorship”
Roth, Benita (Sociology): “The Messiness of Activist Spaces”
Schleuse, Paul (Music): "'A Tale Completed in the Mind': The Theatrical Origin and Recreational Function of Orazio Vecchi's L'Amfiparnaso (1597)."

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