HRI Campus Fellows
Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowship awards have been at the center of HRI since its inception, with application guidelines published in the fall of the academic year prior to the fellowship year, and an announcement date in late winter.
The fellowship program typically revolves around an annual topic, and the fellowship provides an opportunity for faculty and graduate student fellowship recipients to develop research related to the theme in all of its many broad interpretations. Since fall 1998, HRI has awarded faculty fellowships and graduate student fellowships to U of I scholars in more than 40 departments.
2022-23: Un/Doing
Faculty Fellows
Janett Barragán Miranda (Latina/Latino Studies)
“Hungering for Equality: The Community of Mexican-Origin from Post-WWII to Civil Rights”
Yuridia Ramírez (History)
“Indigeneity on the Move: Transborder Politics from Michoacán to North Carolina”
Deena Rymhs (American Indian Studies)
“Putting back together: re-worldings in annie ross’s Pots and Other Living Beings”
R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada (Latina/Latino Studies)
“Intersectional Justice Denied: Racist Warring Masculinity, Negative Peace and Violence in Post-Peace Accords El Salvador”
Emma D. Velez (Gender and Women’s Studies)
“Orienting Historias: Unraveling the Coloniality of Gender through Las Tres Madres”
Damian Vergara Bracamontes (Gender and Women’s Studies)
“The Administration of Illegality and Mexican Migrant Life”
Graduate Fellows
Dilara Çalışkan (Anthropology)
“World and Kin Making: Family, Time and Memory among Trans Mothers and Daughters in Turkey”
Nicole Cox (Anthropology)
“Re/Moving the State: Multiple Productivities of Embodied Practice in Indian Diplomacy”
Daniel DeVinney (Communication)
“The Post-Racial Imaginary: Visual Logics of Race in the Obama and Early Trump Eras”
Kadin Henningsen (English)
“Biblionormativity and Trans* Capacity: Gender, Race, and the Material Book in Nineteenth Century America, 1840–1910”
Jessennya Hernandez (Sociology)
“Mycorrhizal Assemblages: Everyday Latinx Strategies and Embodied Feminist Knowledge”
Lingyan Liu (History)
“Just Call It the Noise: Chinese Opera and the Sounds of China in Race-Making and Modern Citizenship, 1850s–1930s”
Amanda Smith (French and Italian)
“21st Century Black Beauty Resistance: Collectivism, Individuality, and In/Visibility in Black French Women’s Body and Hair Representations”
- 2021-22: Symptoms of Crisis
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Faculty Fellows
- John Levi Barnard, Comparative and World Literature
“The Edible and the Endangered: Food, Empire, Extinction” - Anne Burkus-Chasson, Art History
“The Oddity of Chen Hongshou: A Telling Sign of Seventeenth-Century China?” - Eleanor Courtemanche, English
“Fragile Capitalism: The Long Afterlife of Victorian Crisis” - Carolyn Fornoff, Spanish and Portuguese
“Mexican Culture in the Era of Climate Change” - Bruce Rosenstock, Religion
“Flesh of One’s Flesh: A Black Hebrew Theology of Kinship” - Sandra Ruiz, Latina/o Studies / English
“Minoritarian Pedagogy: Psychoanalytic Affections in the Space of Aesthetics” - Emily E. LB. Twarog, Labor and Employment Relations
“Hands Off: A History of Sexual Harassment Resistance in the US Service Industry, 1936–2020”
Graduate Student Fellows
- Joseph Coyle, Anthropology
“Queer Pentecostal World-Making in an Uncertain Brazil” - Megan Gargiulo, Spanish and Portuguese
“Race, Gender, and Recogimiento: Discursive Representations of Space, Sexuality, and Productivity in Late Colonial Mexico” - Erin Grogan, English
“Cruising Dystopia: Queer Futurity and Toxic Temporalities in the Anthropocene” - LeiAnna X. Hamel, Slavic Languages and Literatures
“Undisciplined Bodies: Deviant Female Sexuality in Russian and Yiddish Literatures, 1877–1929” - Lilah Leopold, Art History
“Countering Apocalypses Then, Now, and Tomorrow: Land Use, Resource Extraction, and Contemporary Art” - Sarah Marks Mininsohn, Dance
“Performance Nests: Choreographing Frameworks for Instability and Contamination” - Jessica Witte, English
“The Fasting Girl: A Literary, Digital, and Medical History of Anorexia from the Novel to the Clinic (1740–1900)”
- John Levi Barnard, Comparative and World Literature
- 2020–21: The Global and Its Worlds
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Faculty Fellows
- Zsuzsa Gille, Sociology
“The New Globals: Anthropocene and Capitalocene” - Wail S. Hassan, Comparative and World Literature / English
“Arab Brazil: Literature, Culture, and Orientalism” - Harriet Murav, Comparative and World Literature / Slavic Languages and Literatures
“Archive of Violence: The Literature of Abandonment and the Russian Civil War (1917-1922) - Carl Niekerk, Germanic Languages and Literatures
“Enlightenment Anthropology” - Gian Piero Persiani, East Asian Languages and Cultures
“Locating the Global: Vernacularization and Sino-Japanese Cultural Diglossia in Japan 900-1100 CE” - Makoto Harris Takao, Music
“Of Mission and Music: Japanese Christianity and Its Reflection in Early Modern Europe” - Robert Tierney, East Asian Languages and Cultures / Comparative and World Literature
“Importing Democracy to East Asia”
Graduate Student Fellows
- Olivia Hagedorn, History
“‘Call me African’: Black Women and Diasporic Cultural Feminism in Chicago, 1930-1980” - Ji Hyea Hwang, Comparative and World Literature
“Transcolonial Nationhood: Global Interplay in Irish and Korean National Theatre” - Elizabeth Matsushita, History
“Disharmony of Empire: Race and the Making of Modern Musicology in Colonial North Africa" - Gonzalo Pinilla Gomez, Art History
“Public Aesthetics and Collaborative Studio Practices in South America, 1960s-1970s” - Nubras Samayeen, Landscape Architecture
“‘An Architecture of the Land’—The National Assembly Building Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh” - Jeongsu Shin, Anthropology
“Worldly Ecologies: Landscape, History, and Environmental Politics on Jeju Island” - Naomi Taub, English
“Distant Proximities: Whiteness and Worldedness in Contemporary Jewish Literature”
- Zsuzsa Gille, Sociology
- 2019–20: Themeless
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Faculty Fellows
- Claudia Brosseder, History
“Redefining Andean Religion: Andean Self-Christianization in the Colonial Norte Chico Region of Peru (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)”
- Andrew Gaedtke, English
“Writing Brains: Disability, Neuroculture, and Personhood”
- Eduardo Ledesma, Spanish and Portuguese
“Blind Cinema: Visually Impaired Filmmakers and Technologies of Sight”
- Ghassan Moussawi, Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology
“Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut”
- Ramón Soto-Crespo, English
“Hemispheric Trash: Literary Circulation, Decapitalized Fiction, and the White Trash Menace”
- Dustin Tahmahkera, American Indian Studies
“Becoming Sound: Sonic Quests of Healing in Indian Country”
- Nikki Usher, Journalism
“The Where of News”
Graduate Fellows
- Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza, Anthropology
“The Promise of Intimacy: Gay Filipino Men on Mobile Digital Media in Manila and Los Angeles”
- Katie Bruner, Communication
“Seeing Systems: A Rhetorical History of Vision at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1931–1969”
- Morgan L. Ridgway, History
“This Feeling of Being Together With Your Own: Competing Indigeneities in Late 20th Century Philadelphia”
- Amir Habibullah, Landscape Architecture
“Islamic Gardens and Cultural Identity in a Globalized World”
- Helen Makhdoumian, English
“A Map of this Place: Resurgence and Remembering Removal in Armenian, Palestinian, and American Indian/First Nations Literatures”
- Diana Sacilowski, Slavic Languages and Literatures
“Strategies of Silence: Representations of Jewish Poles in Polish Literature since the 1980s”
- Peter Thompson, History
“Grasping for the Mask: German Visions of Chemical Modernity, 1915–1938”
- Claudia Brosseder, History
- 2018–19: Race Work
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Faculty Fellows
- Verena Höfig, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Vikings, Vinland, and White Nationalism - Maryam Kashani, Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies
Kinship by Faith: Race, Displacement, and Islam in the Bay Area - Natalie Lira, Latina/Latino Studies
The Pacific Plan: Race, Disability, and Sterilization in California Institutions for the Feebleminded, 1920s–1950s - Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Comparative and World Literature, and Religion
Mens Hierarchicus: Race’s Intellectual Labor and the Global Right - John Murphy, Communication Protean
Texts of Civil Rights: Baldwin, Hamer, and King - Krystal Smalls, Anthropology and Linguistics
The Pot and the Kettle: Young Liberians and the Semiotics of Anti/Blackness in the Making of Contemporary Black Diaspora - Andrea Stevens, English
Racial Masquerade and the Caroline Court, 1625–1649
Graduate Student Fellows
- Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian, Music
Performing Samba: Aesthetics, Transnational Modernisms, and Race - Heather Freund, History
A Negotiated Possession: Law, Race, and Subjecthood in the Ceded Islands, 1763–1797 - John Marquez, History
Freedom’s Edge: Slavery, Manumission, and Empire in Rio de Janeiro, 1761–1808 - Erica Melko, English
Literatures of Decolonial Love: Intimacy and the Colonial Entanglements of Race and Indigeneity - Juan Suarez Ontaneda, Spanish and Portuguese
Mobilizing the Stage(s): Race, Gender, and Performance in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru (1940–2000) - Megan White, History
Rice Empires: Japanese rice, the USDA and the Inter-Imperial Development of the Gulf Coast Rice Industry, 1880–1924 - Rea Zaimi, Geography and GIS
Afterlives of Disinvestment: Revitalization and Infra-Structural Labor in Chicago
- Verena Höfig, Germanic Languages and Literatures
- 2017–18: Paradigm Shifts
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Faculty Fellows
- Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Classics
Other Natures: Ecocultural Change in Ancient Greek Historiography - Amanda Ciafone, Media and Cinema Studies
Growing Old in a Mediated Age - Jenny L. Davis, Anthropology
Speaking with Two Spirits: Indigenous Language, Gender, and Sexuality in the Two Spirit Movement - George Gasyna, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature
A Time for the Province: Palimpsest and Contact in Twentieth-Century Polish Borderland Literature Lindsay - Lindsay Rose Russell, English
Women and Dictionary Making: Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography - Eleonora Stoppino, French and Italian
Ugly Beast, Talking Monkey: Contagion and Education in Medieval and Early Modern Culture - David Wright, English
That Nigger Wild, a Novel
Graduate Student Fellows
- Marilia Correa, History
Unusual Suspects: Persecuted Soldiers Under Military Rule in Brazil, 1964–1985 - Brandon Jones, English
Green Hopes: Ecology and Utopia in Postwar American Fiction - Joshua Levy History
Eating Empire, Going Local: Food, Health, and Sovereignty on Pohnpei: 1898-1986 - Carolina Ortega, History
De Guanajuato to Green Bay: A Generational Story of Labor, Place, and Community - Zachary Riebeling, History
After Meaning, After Trauma: The Crisis of History in Postwar German Thought, 1945–1987 - Michael Shetina, English
Are They Family? : Queer Parents and Queer Pasts in Contemporary American Culture - Augustus Wood, III, History
Island of Fire in the Neoliberal City: The Black Working Class in Struggle in Atlanta, 1970–2000
- Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Classics
- 2016–17: Publics
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Faculty Fellows
- Tim Dean, English
Public Women and Public Men: A Genealogy of Sex Work - Luisa-Elena Delgado, Spanish and Portuguese
The Transparent Heart: Visceral Truths in the Public Sphere - Tyler Denmead, Art Education, Art + Design
Youth in the Creative City - Daniel Gilbert, Labor and Employment Relations
Public Works: A Cultural History of Public Sector Labor - A. Naomi Paik, Asian American Studies
Insecure Empire: Legal Quandaries and the Outsourcing of U.S. Security - Terri Weissman, Art History, Art + Design
This is What Democracy Looks Like: Freedom, Action, and Revolutionary Dreams
Graduate Student Fellows
- Raquel Escobar, History
Reconcile the Indian, Reconcile the Nation: Transnational Indian Reform in the Era of Inter-American Politics - Christine Hedlin, English
Novel Faiths: A New Secular Theory of the Nineteenth-Century American Novel - Anca Mandru, History
Making Socialists: Literature and Science in the Service of the Romanian Le (1880–1914) - Anita Mixon, Communication
Rupturing the Boundaries of Public and Private Spheres: A Rhetorical History of Women’s Work in Black Chicago, 1919–1939 - Mark Sanchez, History
Recapturing a Lost Democracy: Philippine Exile Politics and International Opposition to Ferdinand Marcos, 1965–1986 - Maggie Shelledy, English
Against Social Death: Rhetorical Resilience at the Intersection of Higher Education and the Prison - Kerry Wilson, Institute of Communications Research
Black Motherhood in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter
- Tim Dean, English
- 2015–16: Intersections
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Faculty Fellows
- Ikuko Asaka, History
Geographies of Black Freedom: Race, Intimacy, and Empire in the Anglo-American World, 1775–1879 - Eric Calderwood, Comparative and World Literature
‘The Daughter of Granada and Fez’: Al-Andalus in Spanish Colonial Morocco (1859–1956) - Anita Chan, Media and Cinema Studies and Institute of Communication Research
Civic Technoscience, Digital Pedagogies, and Intersectional Research Practice Beyond Innovation Centers - Rana Hogarth, History
Blackness in Transit: Medicine and the Making of Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840 - Mimi Nguyen, Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies
The Promise of Beauty - John Randolph, History
When I Served the Post as a Coachman: Empire and Enlightenment in Russia’s Eighteenth Century - Maria Todorova
History Life in the Times of Utopia: The Lost World of Early Socialists at Europe’s Margins
Graduate Student Fellows
- S. Moon Cassinelli, English—
We are Here Because You were There’: Kinship and Loss in 20th- and 21st-Century Korean American Narratives - Bryce Henson, Institute of Communications Research
Beauty in the Dark: Racial Politics in Brazilian Hip-Hop - Milos Jovanovic, History
Bourgeois Balkans: World-building in Belgrade and Sofia (1840–1912) - John Musser, English
Radiant Divas: In Pursuit of the Queer Sublime - Stephanie Rieder (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*), Sociology
Missions of Biomedicine: Transnational Conflicts of Morality, Technology, and Care - Zachary Sell, History
Slavery Beyond Slavery: The American South, British Imperialism, and the Circuits of Capital, 1833–1873 - Devin Smart (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*), History
Exchanging Meals: Capitalist Culture, Labor Migration and Food History in Kenya since the Nineteenth Century
- Ikuko Asaka, History
- 2014–15: Themeless
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Faculty Fellows
- Teresa Barnes, History and Gender and Women’s Studies
Apartheid’s Professor: AH Murray, Freedom and Complicity in South Africa, 1948–85 - Ruth Nicole Brown, Gender and Women’s Studies and Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership
Black Girl Genius: Something Better Than Status Quo - José B. Capino
Marcos and Melodrama: Figures of the Authoritarian State - Ellen Moodie, Anthropology
Middle-Class Political Action and Generational Consciousness in Urban Central America - Dana Rabin, History
Under Rule of Law: Britain and Its Outsiders, 1750–1800 - Sandra Ruiz, Latina/o Studies and English
Ricanness: The Performance of Time, Bodily Endurance, and Policy
Graduate Student Fellows
- Benjamin Bascom, English
State Affects and Republican Properties: Feeling Wrongly in the Early US - Yoonjung Kang (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*), Anthropology
Beyond the Reproductive Body: The Politics of Postpartum Care Practices in Contemporary South Korea - Eileen Lagman, English
Literacy, Capital, and Intimacy: Economics of Learning in the 'Brain Drain' of Filipino Labor - Kyle Mays (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*), History
And We Shall Remain: Reclaiming Detroit as an Indigenous Space, 1837–1994 - Patryk Reid, History
Managing Nature, Constructing the State: The Material Foundation of Soviet Empire in Tajikistan, 1917–37 - Ariana Ruiz, English
Traversing Latinidades: Spatiotemporal Disruptions in Latina Art and Literature - Monica FA W. Santos, Anthropology
Re-imagining Colonialism: Class, Nation and Classical Ballet in the Philippines
- Teresa Barnes, History and Gender and Women’s Studies
- 2013–14: The Body/Bodies
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Faculty Fellows
- Andrew Gaedtke, English
The Machinery of Madness: Mind, Body, and Disability - Craig Koslofsky, History
Skin in the Early Modern World, 1450–1750 - Jennifer Monson, Dance
Live Dancing Archive: Recording Indeterminate Systems Through and With the Body - Fiona Ngô, Asian American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies
Structures of Sense - Robert A. Rushing , Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and Comparative and World Literature
Descended from Hercules: A Peplum Century - John R. Senseney, Architecture
Tools, Machines, and the Body in Greek and Roman Architecture - Roderick Wilson, History and East Asian Languages and Cultures
Waterbodies: The Reengineering of Rivers and Communities in the Formation of Modern Japan, 1868–1945
Graduate Student Fellows
- Megan Condis, English (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*)
The Politics of Gamers: Bodies and Identity in Digital Culture - Corey Flack, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
True Flesh: The Body as Nexus of Community, Identity, and Salvation in Dante’s Commedia - In Hye Ha, English
The Poetics of Logistics: The Making of British Subjects and Knowledge, 1660-1800 - Emily Pope-Obeda
‘When In Doubt, Deport!: U.S. Deportation and the Local Policing of Global Migration during the 1920s - T.J. Tallie, History
Limits of Settlement: Racialized Masculinity, Sovereignty, and the Imperial Project in Colonial Natal, 1850–1897 - Jennifer Thomas, Landscape Architecture
Madness, Landscape and State-Craft: The Nineteenth-Century Insane Asylum System of New York State - Pui-Sze Priscilla Tse, Musicology (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*)
Queering the Body: Musical Gendering of Cross-dressing Performance in Cantonese Opera, and Cultural, Sexual, and Identity Politics in Contemporary Hong Kong
- Andrew Gaedtke, English
- 2012–13: Revolution
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Faculty Fellows
- Catharine Gray, English
Unmaking Britain: War Poetry and News Culture, 1638–1665 Bonnie Mak, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Implications of a Digital Revolution - Faranak Miraftab, Urban and Regional Planning
Between Homeland and Heartland: How Migrants and their Families in Mexico and Togo Revitalize the American Midwest - Kathryn Oberdeck, History
Solution for Revolution?: Urban Blight, Domestic Hygiene, and Transnational Politics of Sanitation in Chicago, Illinois and Durban, South Africa, 1910s–1960s - Anke Pinkert, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Transforming the Humanities through Higher Education in Prison - David Roediger, History
Oh, Freedom: The Revolutionary Dreams of Emancipation, 1861–1877 - Matthew Thibeault, School of Music (Music Education) and Education (Affiliate)
Spinning Sounds: 20th Century Revolutions in Music from Performance to Recording to Data
Graduate Student Fellows
- Jill Fitzgerald, English (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*)
Rebel Angels: Political Theology and the Fall of the Angels Tradition in Old English Literature - Diana Georgescu, History (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*)
“Ceauescu’s Children:” The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist Generation (1965–2005) - David Greenstein, History
Between Two Worlds: How Americans and Soviets Connected, Collided, and Made Each Other after the Bolshevik Revolution - Holly Holmes, School of Music (Musicology)
“Sou do mundo, Sou Minas Gerais [I am of the world. I am Minas Gerais]”: Popular Music, Politics and Regionalism in Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Aimee Rickman, Human and Community Development
Living docility and dissent: U.S. small town girls’ social media use within social marginalization - Stephanie Seawell, History
The Black Freedom Movement and Community Planning in Urban Parks in Cleveland, Ohio 1945–1977
- Catharine Gray, English
- 2011–12: Borders
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Faculty Fellows
- Shao Dan, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Law and Society in Chinese History - Stephanie Hilger, Germanic Languages and Literatures/Comparative and World Literature
Liminal Bodies in Literature and Medicine - Justine S. Murison, English
Fever and Captivity in the Age of Revolutions - John T. Newcomb, English
American Cinema and the Modern Cityscape - Leslie J. Reagan, History
War, Society, Politics, and Culture: Vietnam - Andrea Stevens, English
Topics In 17th-Century Drama: 1637
Graduate Student Fellows
- Tutin Aryanti, Architecture
(Un-)Breaking the Wall, Preserving the Barrier: Gender, Space, and Power in Contemporary Mosque Architecture in Java, Indonesia - Matthew Crain, Institute of Communications
Research Border Trouble: Reconfiguring Cultural Production in the Era of Digital Media Convergence - Heidi Dodson, History (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*)
Constructing the Missouri Delta: Space and Place in African American Community Development and Activism, 1923-1978 - Annaliese Jacobs, History
Companions: Knowledge, Intimacy, and Empire in British Arctic Exploration, 1818-1859 - Miriam Kienle, Art History
Return to Sender: Ray Johnson and the New York Correspondence School, Mapping ‘Community at a Distance' - Alexandra Mobley, Institute of Communications Research
A Secret History of Volleyball: American Team Sport and Rhetorics of Counter-Insurgency - Kathryn Walkiewicz, English (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*)
Wide Open Spaces: Place, Empire, and U.S.-Indigenous Relations, 1817-1907
- Shao Dan, East Asian Languages and Cultures
- 2010–11: Themeless
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Faculty Fellows
- Timothy Reese Cain, Educational Organization and Leadership
Faculty Unions before their “Abrupt Appearance”: Professors, Instructors, and Graduate Students in the AFL and CIO - Tamara Chaplin, History
French Kiss: Mediating Sex in Postwar France (1945-2000) - Ryan Griffis, Art and Design
Regional Inquiry Studio - Bruce Levine, History
The Second American Revolution: The Destruction of Slavery and Slave Society in the U.S. - Erik S. McDuffie, Gender and Women’s Studies/African American Studies
Garveyism in the Urban Midwest: The Making of Diaspora in the American Heartland - Audrey Petty, English
High-Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing
Graduate Student Fellows
- Nile Blunt, History
The Chapel and the Chamber: Ceremonial Dining and Religious Ritual at the Court of King Charles I - Nicholas Brown, Landscape Architecture (IPRH/Nicholson Fellow*)
Landscape, Justice, and the Politics of Indigeneity: Mapping White Possession and Settler Indigeneity in Alberta/Montana - Urmitapa Dutta, Psychology
The Margins Strike Back: Contested Identities, Everyday Violence and Tribal Youth in India’s North-east - Sarah Frohardt-Lane, History
Race, Public Transit, and Automobility in World War II Detroit - Elizabeth M. Hoiem, English
Creating Humans: Autonomy and Mechanism in British Education, 1760-1860 - Cory Spice Holding, English
The Rhetoric of Gesture in British Elocution - Kwame Holmes, (IPRH/Nicholson Fellow*)
From the Black Metropolis to the Rainbow City: Black and Gay Community Development in Post-Riot Washington, D.C.; 1968-1985
- Timothy Reese Cain, Educational Organization and Leadership
- 2009–10: Representation
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Faculty Fellows
- Jane Desmond, Anthropology/Gender and Women’s Studies
When the Artist is an Ape: Visual Arts, the Challenge of Representation, and Political Subjectivity - Clarence Lang, African American Studies/History
The Black Working-Class Public and the Urban Midwest: African American Nationality and Cultural Representation in the Late Industrial Period - Esther Kim Lee, Theatre/Asian American Studies
Performative Representation and Diplomacy During and After Commodore Perry’s Expedition to China and Japan - Lori Humphrey Newcomb, English
Representing Shakespeare’s Popular Audience: The Vernacular of Performance, 1576-1642 - Richard T. Rodríguez, English/Latina and Latino Studies
Subject to Fantasy: Sexuality, Space, and the Politics of Latino Male Representation - Spencer Schaffner, English (Center for Writing Studies)
[Unintelligible]: the Art of Writing Beyond Meaning - Oscar E. Vázquez, Art History – IPRH/FAA Fellow
Graffiti’s Palimpsests: A brief moment in the history of representation (1970-2008)
Graduate Student Fellows
- Jennifer Baldwin, Anthropology/College of Medicine
“Society Saw Me as Expendable”: Representing the Experience of War-Acquired Disability and the Politics of Caring for Wounded Veterans - Leïla Ennaïli, French
Representation of Foreigners and Immigrants in 20th Century French Literary and Filmic Narratives - Susan N. Johnson-Roehr, Architecture
(Il)legible Landscapes: Representations of Knowledge and Power at the Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II, 1721-1743 - Jennifer L. Lieberman, English (Nicholson/IPRH Fellow*)
Power Lines: Electric Body Politics in American Literature and Culture, 1889-1953 - Sara D. Luttfring, English
Designing Women: Representing the Female Reproductive Body in Early Modern England, 1600-1660 - Melissa Rohde, History
Working America’s Enchanted Lands: American Indian Tourism Labor, 1900-1950 - Martha Althea Webber, English (Center for Writing Studies) (Nicholson/IPRH Fellow*)
Crafting Citizens, Sewing Subjects: Democratic Action, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Transnational Craft Literacy - Chia-rong Wu, Comparative and World Literatures
Encountering Spectral Traces: Ghost Narratives in Chinese American and Taiwanese Fiction and Film
- Jane Desmond, Anthropology/Gender and Women’s Studies
- 2008–09: Disciplinarity
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Faculty Fellows
- Jodi Byrd, American Indian Studies / English
Colonial Cacophonies, Postcolonial Worlds: American Indian Studies and the Frontiers of Disciplinarity - Melissa Littlefield, Kinesiology and Community Health / English Disciplining
Forensics: A Textbook Rhetoric of Literary Boundaries - Feisal G. Mohamed, English
Historicism, Formalism, and How Practitioners of English Read Milton - Sarah Projansky, Gender and Women’s Studies / Cinema Studies
Feminist Girls’ Studies as Emerging Discipline - Gabriel Solis, School of Music, Musicology
Performing Genre and the Self: Tom Waits, Masculinity, Americana, and Rock at the end of “The American Century” - Sharra Vostral, Gender and Women’s Studies / History
Producing an Epidemic: Rely Tampons, Toxic Shock Syndrome, and Conflicting Disciplinary Expertise
Graduate Student Fellows
- Patrick W. Berry, English, Writing Studies
Making Teachers, Making Literacy: Negotiating the Rhetoric of Crisis and Myth - Anne Brubaker, English
Literature in the Age of Mathematics: Science, Gender, and the Multiplicity of Modernity - Peter Craft, English (Nicholson-IPRH Fellow*)
Warfare, Trade, and “Indians” in English Literature, 1652-1719 - Kevin Healey, Institute of Communications Research
The Spirit of Networks: New Media and the Changing Role of Religion in American Public Life - Luis Eduardo Herrera, Ethnomusicology
Politics of Creation/Creation of Politics: Music Making, Political Repression, and Cold War Strategies in Dictatorial Argentina - Jeff Kyong-McClain, History (Nicholson-IPRH Fellow*)
Excavating the Nation: The Discipline of Archaeology and Control of the Past in Republican Southwest China - Rebecca Nickerson, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Shaping the Body Domestic: Gender, Race, and Physical Culture in Imperial Japan - Sarah L. Rasmusson, Institute of Communications Research
Whiteness, Girl Studies, and the Age of American White Womanhood
- Jodi Byrd, American Indian Studies / English
- 2007–08: Rupture
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Faculty Fellows
- Jonathan Ebel, Program for the Study of Religion
Faith in the Fight: The Great War and the Religion of the American Soldier - Jed Esty, Department of English
Tropics of Youth: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity - Ellen Moodie, Department of Anthropology
Democracy and Security after the Cold War: Shifting Meanings of Violence in Postwar El Salvador - Lisa Nakamura, Institute of Communications Research / Asian American Studies Program
Interfaces of Identity: Telematic Profiling and Cultural Difference in Digital Visual Media - Marc D. Perry, Department of Anthropology / African American Studies Program
Critical Blackness and the State: Hip Hop in Late Socialist Cuba - Renee R. Trilling, Department of English / Program in Medieval Studies
Unto the Breach: Rupture, Continuity, and the Anglicization of Norman History
Graduate Student Fellows
- Kevin Coe, Department of Speech Communication (Nicholson-IPRH Fellow*)
Why We Fight: Presidential Justifications for War from WWII to Iraq - Melissa Free, Department of English
Elsewhere England: Late Colonial South Africa, British Identity, and the Authorial Informant - William Hope, Department of Anthropology
“Donde nace lo cubano”: Aesthetics, Nationalist Sentiment, and Cuban Music Making - Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Department of History (Nicholson-IPRH Fellow*)
The Rise of a Punishing Logic: The Punitive Turn in American Criminal and Social Welfare Policy, 1968-1980 - Jin-kyung Park, Institute of Communications Research
Constructing Racial “Backwardness”: Colonial Governance, Medicine, Female Reproductive Physiology, and Conjugality in Colonial Korea - Victor Pickard, Institute of Communications Research
Media Democracy Deferred: Rupture and Resolution in U.S. Communications Policy, 1945-1949 - James H. Warren, Department of History
Empire and Anxiety: Colonial Revolutions, Public Men, and the Idea of Authority in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain - Hui Xiao, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Rupturing Modernity, Engendering Interiority: Divorce in Post-Mao Chinese Literature and Culture
- Jonathan Ebel, Program for the Study of Religion
- 2006–07: Beauty
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Faculty Fellows
- Brett Kaplan, Comparative and World Literature
Landscape and Holocaust Postmemory - Richard Mohr, Philosophy
Beauty, Goodness, Love, and Sexuality in Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus - Isabel Molina, Institute of Communications Research
Consuming Latina Bodies and the Racialized Politics of Beauty - Ned O’Gorman, Speech Communication
Catastrophic Vistas: Discourse about Disaster in Cold War America and the American Sublime - Deke Weaver, Art and Design
The Palimpsest Project - Yutian Wong, Asian American Studies/Dance
Choreographing Asian America: Club O’ Noodles and Other Mis-Acts
Graduate Student Fellows
- Sarah Dennis, English
- Prose for Art’s Sake: Creating and Documenting an American Aesthetic, 1820-1900
- Aisha Durham, Institute of Communications Research
- Beauty as the Beast: Un/Desirable Iconic Black Female Bodies in Popular Culture
- Danielle Kinsey, History
- Modern Imperial Beauty: Diamonds and the Production of Taste in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Anthony Perman, Musicology
- Hearing an Ndau Past: The Semiotics of Music, History, and Affect in Ndau Drumming Styles in Zimbabwe
- Julia Sienkewicz, Art History
- Planting Ancient mores on an “untouched” land: Charles Willson Peale’s citizen-building project at Belfield
- Polyxeni Strolonga, Classics
- The Perils of Beauty and the Aesthetics of Exchange in Greek Poetry
Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow
- Elizabeth B. Boyd (Ph.D., American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2000)
Southern Beauty: Performing Region on the Feminine Body
- Brett Kaplan, Comparative and World Literature
- 2005–06: Belief
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Faculty Fellows
- Thomas Albrecht, Art + Design
Extremities: Bodies and Belief Making - Peggy Miller, Speech Communication and Psychology
Self-Esteem in Folk Theory and Practice: How American Parents Embrace and Personalize a Cultural Ideal - Andrew Pickering, Sociology
Cybernetics, Spirituality and Technologies of the Self - Junaid Rana, Asian American Studies
Islamophobia and Racism: An Ethnographic Study of Muslims in Chicago - Bruce Rosenstock, Program for the Study of Religion
Germans, Jews, and the Theologico-Political Question - Gillen D. Wood, English
Sacred Music, Sacred Nation: Handel, George III, and the Making of British National Culture
Graduate Student Fellows
- Teresa Gale, Art + Design
Stories of Truth, Stories of Fiction: Shifting Realities in Sound and Image - Robin E. Jensen, Speech Communication
Challenging Beliefs about Sex: The Gendered Rhetoric of Sexual Education Campaigns During the Progressive - Era Tzu-kai Liu, Anthropology
Text, Power and Personhood: Engaging Minority Identities in Post-Socialist China - David McDonald, Musicology
My Voice is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance - Kate Roark, Theatre
Yankee Theatre: Republican Beliefs and Racial Ideology - Michael Rosenow, History
Casualties in the United States’ Industrial Army: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death among Workers, 1877-1918
Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellows
- Erica Lehrer (Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2004)
“Shoah-business,” Holocaust Culture, and Salvage Ethnography in a Post-Jewish Landscape: An Inquiry into the Ethnic Self after Genocide - Robert A. Yelle (Ph.D. History of Religions, University of Chicago, 2002)
Legal Fictions: Genealogies of Law, Religion, and Rhetoric
- Thomas Albrecht, Art + Design
- 2004–05: Difference
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Faculty Fellows
- Shefali Chandra, History / Gender and Women’s Studies
Gender and ambivalence in the English ecumene - Frances Gateward, Cinema Studies / Comparative and World Literature
A Different Image: African American Women Film Makers - Dianne Harris, Landscape Architecture
Constructing Identity: Race, Class, and the Ordinary Postwar House, 1945-60 - Nichole T. Rustin, Institute of Communications Research / Afro-American Studies
Beyond Category: Jazz, Masculine Difference, Race, and the Emotions in 1950s America - Christian Sandvig, Speech Communication
Within and Without Wireless Internet: Visual Narratives of an Activist Subculture
Graduate Student Fellows
- Brett Boutwell, Musicology
Receptive Dissonance: Arbitrating Artistic Meaning in the New York Schools of Music and Painting - Jeremy Engels, Speech Communication
“we can never count with certainty on its tranquil submission”: Or, How Violence Produced and Destroyed Difference in Early America - Marina Levina, Institute of Communications Research
Re-imagining the genetic body: Human Genome Project and the Narratives of Difference in Popular and Scientific Discourses - Daniel Tracy, English
The Circulation of Culture and the Culture of Circulation: Disseminating and Differentiating Modernist Identities - Li-Lin Tseng, Art History
The Difference between the Development of the Silent Films of D.W. Griffith and Zheng Zhengqiu in the 1920s - Kerry Wynn, History
The Embodiment of Citizenship: Sovereignty and Colonialism in the Cherokee Nation, 1880-1920
Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellows
- Becky Conekin (Ph.D., History, University of Michigan, 1998)
Taste Matters: A History of the Notion of Taste in 19th and 20th Century Britain and the United States - R. Jonathan Moore (Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, 2003)
The Devil Went Down to Hoopeston: Pagans, Cornjerkers, and American Identity
- Shefali Chandra, History / Gender and Women’s Studies
- 2003–04: Violence
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Faculty Fellows
- Ravinder Bhavnani, Political Science
Repeat After Me: Communal Violence and the Politics of Rumors - Andrea Goulet, French / Robert Rushing, Comparative Literature (joint project)
Bloody Crimes and Bloodless Fictions: The Erasure and Return of Violence in Modern European Detective Narratives - Philip Graham, English
Dreaming the Towers: The Interior Landscapes of 9/11 - Stephen Hartnett, Speech Communication
Executing Democracy: Arguing About Capital Punishment in America, 1683-1845 - Michael Rothberg, English
W.E.B. DuBois in Warsaw: The Holocaust, Colonialism, and the Legacies of Violence
Graduate Student Fellows
- Jennifer C. Edwards, History
Communal Bodies: Engendering Violence in the Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers - Stephen Hageman, History
“This Is a Terrible Thing”: Violence, Class, Gender, Sex, and Racial Integration in Chicago, 1960-1970 - Jin-hee Lee, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Collective Violence, Competing Narratives: Re-Membering the Colonized in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in the Japanese Empire - Joseph L. Swenson, Philosophy
Violence and its Vicissitudes: Towards a New Theory of Sublimation - Jeffrey S. Sychterz, English
“Not Always Carrion”: Representing the Battlefield Corpse in Twentieth-Century War Poetry - Joy Sather-Wagstaff, Anthropology
Sites/Sights of Violence: Trauma Tourism and the (Re)Production of Memory and Identity in the Age of Photographic Hyperproduction
Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellows
- Lisa Marie Cacho (Ph.D. Latina/o Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2002)
Telling Ghost Stories: Knowing Ourselves Through Others’ Historical Hauntings - Darren Mulloy (Ph.D. American Studies, University of East Anglia, UK, 2002)
Violence and the American Militia Movement
- Ravinder Bhavnani, Political Science
- 2002–03: The South
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Faculty Fellows
- Nancy Castro, English
A Southern Problem Writ Large: The Caribbean as U.S. Laboratory - S. Max Edelson, History
Developing Plantation America: The Politics of Territorial Expansion in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica, 1607-1776 - Zsuzsanna Fagyal, French
Assimilation or clash? Contemporary Parisian French in contact with immigrant languages from the South - Lauren M.E. Goodlad, English
Victorian Literature and Liberal Internationalism: British Encounters with the South - Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Diagonal Australity: Southern Identities in Argentine Culture - Shannon O’Lear, Geography
Environmental and Human Security in “The South”: The Case of Azerbaijan
Graduate Student Fellows
- Jonathan Coit, History
Racial Boundaries, Racial Violence: Chicago, 1916-1922 - Sherita Lavon Johnson, English
To Speak and Be Heard: Representing Black Southern Women in American Literature - Samuel Martland, History
Southern Progress: Constructing Urban Improvement in Valparaìso, Chile, 1840-1918 - Giovanna Micarelli, Anthropology
The Development of Industry and Indigenous Processes of Cultural Reaffirmation in Colombian Amazonia - Phoebe Wolfskill, Art History
The Lure of the South in Paintings by Archibald Motley, Jr.
Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellows
- Elizabeth Duquette (Ph.D. English, New York University, 1998)
Successful Conversions: The Problems of Moral Allegiance in Postbellum America - Sophia Mihic (Ph.D. Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1999)
The American South as Ghetto, The Politics of “Race” in the United States as Problem
- Nancy Castro, English
- 2001–02: The Means of Reproduction
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Faculty Fellows
- Richard Burkhardt, History
Reproducing in Captivity - David O’Brien, Art History
Colonial Reproduction: Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century French Painting and Photography - Leslie J. Reagan, History
Ambiguous Motherhood: The Impact and Investigation of Miscarriage in Twentieth-Century America - Simona Sawhney, Comparative Literature
The Path of Work: Sanskrit Literature and Modernity - Lawrence R. Schehr, French
Gay Reproduction
Graduate Student Fellows
- Joshua Eckhardt, English
Poetics of Social Reproduction in Early Modern England - Ruth L. Fairbanks, History
Pregnant Workers: Women’s Jobs, Women’s Bodies, Welfare and Equality, 1940-1993 - Stacey A. Jocoy, Musicology
Decoding Musical Resistance: Popular Music in England’s Civil Wars and Commonwealth - Elizabeth Klett, English
Re-producing Shakespeare, Engendering Anxiety: Contemporary Women’s Performances of Male Shakespearean Roles - Jesook Song, Anthropology
South Korean “Productive Welfarism” 1997-2000: The Reproduction of Heteronormative Familism
- Richard Burkhardt, History
- 2000–01: Cities
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Faculty Fellows
- Sharon Irish, Architecture
Intimacy and Monumentality in Urban Public Spaces Alejandro Lugo, Anthropology Urban Order, Death, and the Possibility of Counter-Surveillance in a Border City - William Maxwell, English / Joseph Valente, English (joint project)
Metrocolonial Capitals of Renaissance Modernism: Dublin’s “New Ireland” and Harlem’s “Mecca of the New Negro” - Robert Ousterhout, Architecture
Constantinople and the Construction of Medieval Urbanism - Helaine Silverman, Anthropology
Urban Space and Place in an Imagined Past: A Study of Tourist Cities in Peru - Mark D. Steinberg, History
St. Petersburg, Fin-de-Siècle
Graduate Student Fellows
- Rebecca Bryant, Musicology
Shaking Big Shoulders: Popular Music and Dance Culture in Chicago, 1910-1925 - Sace Elder, History
Murder Scenes: Violence in the Public Culture and Private Lives of Weimar Berlin - Serife Genis, Sociology
The Making of a Global City and Its Discontents: Globalization in Istanbul and Changing Discourses on Squatters - Jane T. Kuntz, French
AuthentiCity: Assia Djebar’s Women in Algiers - Shawn Miklaucic, Institute of Communications Research
Images of the Simulated City: Virtual Real(i)ty, Sim City, and the Production of Urban Hyperspace - Gretchen Soderlund, Institute of Communications Research
Sex Panics and City Papers: “White Slavery” and Journalistic Objectivity in New York, 1910-1920
- Sharon Irish, Architecture
- 1999–2000: Institutions of the Visual
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Faculty Fellows
- James Hay, Speech Communication
Articulated Places: Screen Media and Social Space - Anne D. Hedeman, Art History
Notarial and Secretarial Culture, 1365-1483 - Armine Kotin Mortimer, French
Paradise on TV: Philippe Sollers and Video Art - Cary Nelson, English
The Visual Discourses of the Spanish Civil War - Julia Saville, English
Bathing Boys: An Aesthetics of the Male Nude in Victorian Poetry, Painting, and Photography - Linda Scott, Advertising
Commercial Canon
Graduate Student Fellows
- Jason G. Karlin, History
Representing the Nation: Taste, Nostalgia, and Aestheticism in Imperial Japan - Niranjan S. Karnik, Sociology/Medicine
International Humanitarian Organizations and Fundraising Depictions of Children - Guisela M. Latorre, Art History
Indians in Mexican Photography: The Rise and Expansion of Post-Revolutionary Discourses on Indigenism - Lynnea Magnuson, History
“The Advance Picket of Civilization”: Gender, Expansionism, and the American Frontier (1830s-1840s)
- James Hay, Speech Communication
- 1998–99: Diaspora, Identity, and Expressive Culture
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Faculty Fellows
- Brenda M. Farnell, Anthropology
Postindian Strategies of Survival in Native American Performance Arts - Matt Garcia, History
“A World of Its Own”: Intercultural Relations in the Citrus Belt of Southern California, 1900-1960 - Zine Magubane, Sociology
The Diaspora Writes B(l)ack: The Influences of African American Aesthetics in South African Cultural Production, 1880-Present - Joseph Squier, Art and Design
Artists and the Digital Diaspora: Community, Identity, and Expression in the Electronic Age - Zohreh Sullivan, English
Postcolonial Narratives of Diaspora - Angharad N. Valdivia, Institute of Communications Research
Will the Real Salsera/os Please Stand Up! The Local Side of Identity and Diaspora
Graduate Student Fellows
- Kevin Carollo, Comparative Literature
Literary Homelessness and Ambivalent Homelands - Gregory Diethrich, Music
“When the Drums Speak, We Know Who We Are”: Music and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora of Trinidad - Sascha L. Goluboff, Anthropology
Jewish Others and Other Jews: The Performance of Ethnicity Among Mountain, Russian, Georgian, and Bukharan Jews of the Moscow Choral Synagogue - Dana E. Katz, Art History
The Visual Rhetoric of Jews and Despots in Fifteenth-Century North Italian Painting - Kathleen A. Mapes, History
Defining the Boundaries: Land, Labor, Capital, and Community in the Midwestern Sugar-Beet Industry 1898-1945
- Brenda M. Farnell, Anthropology
*The Nicholson Endowment is a gift of Grace W. Nicholson, who pursued undergraduate studies in LAS, and Professor Emeritus John A. Nicholson, a faculty member in the Philosophy Department at Illinois for 33 years. The Nicholson Endowment, which was established in 1999, provides support for the academic programs in LAS and excellence in the study of the humanities on campus.