Fellows and Their Projects, 2018–2019

The National Humanities Center appointed 38 Fellows for the academic year 2018–19. These leading scholars come to the Center from 15 US states, as well as from Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Chosen from 556 applicants, they represent humanistic scholarship in African diaspora studies; American literature; anthropology; Asian studies; classics; English language and literature; environmental humanities; ethnomusicology; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; film and media studies; history; history of art and architecture; indigenous studies; philosophy; and religion. 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.

• Joni Adamson
  Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University
  Desirable Futures: Cosmovisions, Climate Fiction and Film, and New Constellations of Practice in the Environmental Humanities
  Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation
• Audrey L. Anton
  Philosophy, Western Kentucky University
  Aristotle’s Vice
  Philip L. Quinn Fellowship
• Weihong Bao
  Film and Media Studies, University of California, Berkeley
  Background Matters: Set Design and the Art of Environment in Modern China
  Allen W. Clowes Fellowship
• Juliana Barr
  History, Duke University
  La Dama Azul: A Native Story of Colonialism
  Duke Endowment Fellowship
• Andrea Brady
  English Language and Literature, Queen Mary University of London
  Poetry and Bondage: A New History of Lyric
  Trustees’ Fellowship
• Lisa Earl Castillo
  African Diaspora Studies, Independent Scholar Between Memory, Myth and History: Atlantic Voyages in the Rise of an Afro-Brazilian Temple (Bahia, Brazil, 1810–1910)
  Fellows’ Fellowship
• James Chappel
  History, Duke University
  Old Volk: The Invention of Old Age in a Global Germany
  Delta Delta Delta Fellowship
• Lanlan Du
  Feminist‚ Gender‚ and Sexuality Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  Affective Dimensions of Precarity in Contemporary Chinese and English Fiction
  Luce East Asia Fellowship
• Bart Ehrman
  Religion, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  The Invention of Heaven and Hell
  Henry Luce Fellowship
• Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
  History, University of California, Santa Barbara
  An Ambiguous Past: Fascism, the Resistance and “Structures of Feeling” in Italy (1943–1945)
  Archie K. Davis Fellowship
  Public Lecture: “Remembering Mussolini: Fascism, Representation, and Memory in Post-War Italy”
• Mia Fuller
  Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
  Mussolini Threshing Still: Inertia Memoriae, Italy, and Fascist Monuments
  NEH Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
  Public Lecture: “Remembering Mussolini: Fascism, Representation, and Memory in Post-War Italy”
• Paul Fyfe
  English Language and Literature, North Carolina State University
  The Age of Transmission: From Victorian Media Cultures to the Digital Humanities
  ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship
  Conference Panelist: “Digital Humanities Nuts and Bolts: From Idea to Sustainable Project”
• Rebecca Anne Goetz
  History, New York University
  Captive Archipelagos: Native Enslavement in the Greater Caribbean, 1492–1792
  NEH Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
• Trudier Harris
  American Literature, University of Alabama
  Ungraspable?: Depictions of Home in African American Literature
  John Hope Franklin Fellowship
• Frances S. Hasso
  History, Duke University
  Palestinian Perinatal and Young Child Death during the British Mandate
  Delta Delta Delta Fellowship
• Mar Hicks
  History, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Queer Users and the Digital State: A Prehistory of Algorithmic Bias
  Founders’ Fellowship
• Meta DuEwa Jones
  English Language and Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Black Visionary Alchemy: How Poets & Artists Map Diaspora Memory
  John E. Sawyer Fellowship
• Tait Keller
  History, Rhodes College
  A Global Environmental History of the First World War
  ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship
• Claudia Leal
  History, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
  National Parks in Colombia: A History of Territorial State Building, 1940–2010
  Donnelley Family Fellowship

• Eleanor Courtemanche
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Fragile Capitalism: Concepts of Economic Crisis in the Nineteenth Century
• Matt ffytche
  University of Essex
  Lost Words: Outsider Writing in the Twentieth Century