Current Fellows
The Center annually welcomes up to forty scholars from all fields of the humanities. Individually, the Fellows pursue their own research and writing. Together, they create a stimulating intellectual community.
The National Humanities Center appointed 31 Fellows for the 2024–25 academic year. Chosen from 492 applicants, they represent humanistic scholarship in African American studies; Africana studies; American studies; anthropology; Chicana/o studies; disability studies; East Asian studies; gender and sexuality studies; history; indigenous studies; studies of languages and literature; Latinx studies; medieval studies; music history and musicology; philosophy; religious studies; and Slavic studies. Each Fellow will work on an individual research project and will have the opportunity to share ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences at the Center.
Project disciplines and home institutions are noted for each Fellow.
Music History and Musicology, The University of Hong Kong
Soft Technologies of the Virtual: Music and Temporal Perspective
American Studies, North Carolina State University
Big Yellow Bus: The Essential American History of a Disappearing Public Good
African American Studies, Independent Scholar (United States of America)
Baldwin: A Love Story
Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
The Age of Mitigation: Global Shipping and a River on Life Support
History, Colorado State University
The Mountains are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park
History, University of Kentucky
Witchcraft and Contraband in the Early Modern Caribbean
Medieval Studies, Arizona State University
From Alexander the Great to Tamerlane: World Dominion in the Medieval French Imagination
History, Indiana University Bloomington
“To Rival the Temple of Solomon”: Splendid Churches and Bishops in Early Christianity
LatinX Studies, Spelman College
Dramas and Horrors of Immigration in Latinx Cinema
Languages and Literature, University of Massachusetts Boston
Divest from English: Eco-Translation and Translingual Repair
Anthropology, Independent Scholar (Canada)
Crafting Freedom from Confinement in the Canadian Prairies
Religious Studies, Cornell University
Crossing the River of Fire: Apocalypse, Transformation, and the Elements in Late Antiquity
Religious Studies, Florida State University
Christianity and the Book in the Cherokee Diaspora, 1821–1861
Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Nevada, Reno
AIDS and Abolition: A History of Care Work against the Carceral State
Languages and Literature, Duke University
Enslaved Childhoods: Survival and Storytelling in the Atlantic World
Africana Studies, Smith College
Bewildering Coloniality: Austin Clarke and the Twentieth Century Black Atlantic World
Gender and Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies, Syracuse University
Dignity Archives: Accompanying the Dead and Posthumous Care
Anthropology, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Land as Archive: An Indigenous Landscape History of the Rappahannock People of Tidewater Virginia
History, North Carolina State University
Unsettling Claims: Natives and Newcomers in the US-Dakota War
Indigenous Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Visualizing Native American Survivance: A Photographic History of the Ho-Chunk Nation, 1879–1960
History, Cornell University
Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Imperialism in the Red Sea Basin and the Horn of Africa at the End of the 19th Century
Languages and Literature, Duke University
The Untold South-South: Greater Mexico, African Decolonization, and Latin-African Solidarity (1956–2008)
Philosophy, Manhattan College
The Moral Philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe: Forgotten Anglo-Irish Philosopher and Women’s Rights and Animal Welfare Activist
Languages and Literature, University of Liverpool
John McGahern: A Writing Life
History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Captive’s Tale: Venture Smith and the African Roots of the American Republic
Chicana/o Studies or Latinx Studies, American University
Days of Futures Past: Latinx Science Fiction and Speculative Futurity
Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Intersectional Justice Denied: Warring Masculinity, Violence, and Peacemaking in Post-Accords El Salvador
Religious Studies, Duke University
Beyond Imperial Piety: Black Study, the Opaque Sacred, and World De-formation
East Asian Studies, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Chinese Poetics of Tactility and Modern Love
Food Studies, Syracuse University
Fermenting Stories: Exploring Ancestry, Embodiment, and Place
Rhetoric, Emory University
De/Composing Carnality: US Popular Representations of Argentine Nuevo Tango Composer Astor Piazzolla
Slavic Studies, Arizona State University
Noble Rot: Corruption, Civil Society, and Literary Elites in Russia
Religious Studies, Florida State University
Making a Buddhist State in Early Modern Tibet
History, University of Kentucky
Beijing at War: Negotiating Crises of Environment, Economy, and Security, 1850–1860
History of Ideas, Duke University
Counterpoint between Civicism and Militarism in Cuban History with Emphasis on the Period of Revolution in Power
Current Fellows by the Numbers
Disciplines 2024-25
- African American Studies 1
- Africana Studies 1
- American Studies 1
- Anthropology 4
- Chicana/o Studies or Latinx Studies 1
- East Asian Studies 1
- Food Studies 1
- Gender and Sexuality Studies 1
- Gender and Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies 1
- Geography 1
- History 7
- History of Ideas 1
- Indigenous Studies 1
- Languages and Literature 4
- LatinX Studies 1
- Medieval Studies 1
- Music History and Musicology 1
- Philosophy 2
- Religious Studies 4
- Rhetoric 1
- Slavic Studies 2