Current Fellows

Christy Anderson

Fellow 2025–26

University of Toronto

Project: Castles of the Sea

Discipline: History of Art and Architecture

Candace Bailey

Fellow 2025–26; 2019–20

North Carolina Central University

Project: Locating the Self in Black Opera: Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane, ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan

Discipline: American Studies

Alison L. Beringer

Fellow 2025–26

Montclair State University

Project: Virgil as Sculptor: Premodern Literary Perceptions of the Art of Sculpting

Discipline: Medieval Studies

Alejandra Bronfman

Fellow 2025–26

University at Albany

Project: Afterlives of a Voice: History and Memory in Sonic Archives

Discipline: Caribbean Studies

Cara Caddoo

Fellow 2025–26

Indiana University Bloomington

Project: Early Native American Filmgoing and Exhibition

Discipline: History

Jasmine Nichole Cobb

Fellow 2025–26

Duke University

Project: The Pictorial Life of Harriet Tubman

Discipline: African American Studies

Signe Cohen

Fellow 2025–26

University of Missouri

Project: “No Other World Than This”: A History of Atheism in South Asia

Discipline: Religious Studies

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Fellow 2025–26

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Project: The Vivian: Black Mothering and Daughtering Amidst Movements

Discipline: African American Studies

Kathleen DuVal

Fellow 2025–26; 2008–09

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Project: Yorktown: The American Revolution and the Making of the United States

Discipline: History

Asa Eger

Fellow 2025–26

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Project: Erased Archaeology: The 19th/20th Century Settlement of Bosnians at Caesarea, Israel

Discipline: History

Adam Ewing

Fellow 2025–26

Virginia Commonwealth University

Project: Blacklands: The Global Fight for African Freedom

Discipline: Africana Studies

Jiren Feng

Fellow 2025–26

University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo

Project: The Imperial Song (960–1279) Architectural Culture: Ritual Order, Political Demand, and Religious Concerns

Ruiying Gao

Fellow 2025–26

Wake Forest University

Project: Collating Nature: Illustrated Bencao Books in Ming China

Discipline: History of Art and Architecture

Grace Elizabeth Hale

Fellow 2025–26; 2002–23

University of Virginia

Project: They Don’t Own Us: Harlan County, Kentucky and the Fight for the Future of the American Working Class

Discipline: American Studies

CJ Jones

Fellow 2025–26

University of Notre Dame

Project: Binding Ritual: Enclosed Women, Cultural Authority, and Liturgical Books in Late Medieval Germany

Discipline: Medieval Studies

Chong-Fuk Lau

Fellow 2025–26

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Project: The Abstract Kant: Rethinking the Grounds of Transcendental Philosophy

Discipline: Philosophy

Mireya Loza

Fellow 2025–26

Georgetown University

Project: A Century of Guest Workers: Exploitation and Inequality on American Farms

Discipline: History

Patrick McKelvey

Fellow 2025–26

University of Notre Dame

Project: Supporting Actors: A Disability History of Theatrical Welfare

Discipline: Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

Ghassan Moazzin

Fellow 2025–26

The University of Hong Kong

Project: A Business History of Modern China, c. 1800 to the Present

Discipline: History

Young Kyun Oh

Fellow 2025–26

Arizona State University

Project: The King’s Press: Typography and Printing in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910)

Discipline: History of the Book

Travis W. Proctor

Fellow 2025–26

Wittenberg University

Project: Multispecies Perspectives on Jesus in Early Christianity (ca. 50–200 CE)

Discipline: Religious Studies

Charles Samuelson

Fellow 2025–26

University of Colorado Boulder

Project: Sexual Consent in High Medieval French Literature

Discipline: Medieval Studies

Claire Seiler

Fellow 2025–26

Dickinson College

Project: The Narrative Lives of Polio

Discipline: Languages and Literature

Benjamin Sommer

Fellow 2025–26

Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Project: Psalms as Ritual, Psalms as Torah: Religious Experience and the Psalter

Discipline: Religious Studies

Sarra Tlili

Fellow 2025–26

University of Florida

Project: From Sanctity to Rights: Animal Ethics in Islam

Discipline: Religious Studies

Emine Hande Tuna

Fellow 2025–26

University of California, Santa Cruz

Project: Imaginative Resistance

Discipline: Philosophy

Carina Venter

Fellow 2025–26

Stellenbosch University

Project: Playing at/against power: Histories of Trauma and Abuse in South African Music-Pedagogical Spaces

Discipline: Music History and Musicology

Ronald Williams II

Fellow 2025–26

Independent Scholar

Project: Black Embassy: TransAfrica and the Struggle for Foreign Policy Justice

Discipline: African American Studies

Terrion L. Williamson

Fellow 2025–26

University of Illinois Chicago

Project: The Unreckoned: Black Women, Serial Murder, and the Decline of the All-American City

Discipline: African American Studies

Jerry C. Zee

Fellow 2025–26

Princeton University

Project: Faultlines: Geopolitics, Geophysics, and the Sino-American Pacific

Discipline: Anthropology

Karin L. Zipf

Fellow 2025–26

East Carolina University

Project: Field Ghosts: The Vanishing American Farmworker and the New Slavery

Discipline: History

Dan Cohen

Resident Associate 2025–26

Independent Scholar

Project: Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Changing Brain: Exploring the Rise of Religion

Discipline: Religious Studies

Jonathan Sarris

Resident Associate 2025–26

North Carolina Wesleyan University

Project: The Birth of an Empire: The United States Debates Philippines Annexation 1898–1900

Discipline: History

Cotten Seiler

Resident Associate 2025–26

Dickinson College

Project: White Care: The Impact of Race on American Infrastructure

Discipline: American Studies

Nobuko Senoo

Resident Associate 2025–26

Independent Scholar

Project: The Assimilation of Exotic Cultures in Tang China: Cultural Connotations of the Ceramics and Gold-and-Silver Wares with Persian Styled Design

Discipline: Archaeology

Mario Juan Valdés Navia

Resident Associate 2025–26; 2024–25; 2023–24

Duke University

Project: Counterpoint between Civilism and Militarism in Cuba with Emphasis on the Period called the Revolution in Power

Discipline: Latin American Studies