Below you'll find Fellows sharing a little about how they were inspired to pursue the subjects they study, insights they've gained through their research, and how their work contributes to their disciplines and to our understanding of the human experience.
Why does involuntary servitude persist in the United States? How might we challenge emergent and long-standing antivaccination sentiments? What can we learn from the experiences of exploited migrant workers? This month, we highlight the research of 2025–26 Fellows whose projects examine how our methods to characterize and tell stories about human rights and public policy issues impact our opinions.
Highlighting the research of 2025–26 Fellows whose projects examine how media technologies—printing, typography, and sonic archives—have been harnessed and adapted to reflect distinctive identities, preserve cultural elements or memories, and help foster community.
This month we highlight the research of 2025–26 Fellows whose projects raise questions about how we categorize and interpret constructed objects—ships, buildings, and works of art.
This month we highlight the research of 2025–26 Fellows whose projects foreground neglected and other marginalized perspectives within well-trodden historical narratives.
This month we highlight the research of 2025–26 Fellows whose projects examine the ways communities (created through proximity or shared experience) are formed and transformed in response to crisis.
This month we highlight the research of 2024–25 Fellows whose projects examine social groups with shared experiences of the world, based on racial identity or personal ideology, and their capacities to imagine alternative realities.
This month we highlight the research of 2024–25 Fellows whose projects examine imperial ambitions and the roles imagination played in myriad colonial endeavors.
This month we highlight the research of 2024–25 Fellows whose projects examine private and public forms of correspondence—from letters of enslaved children to street graffiti—and reveal how these forms of communication not only illuminate different understudied perspectives but also can invoke political change.
This month we highlight the research of 2024–25 Fellows whose projects examine the capacity to care and public discourses surrounding bodies and illness. These projects challenge us to think about how we might address deficits of compassion—whether instigated by fear of illness or ableism—to expand the scope of human dignity.
This month we highlight the research of 2024–25 Fellows whose projects explore accountability as an ongoing process of revision, and how the pursuit of serving and tending to ourselves reveal new insights concerning discrimination, surveillance, and peacekeeping.