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 38 Fellows for the academic year 2019–2020. Chosen from 647 applicants, these Fellows represent humanistic scholarship in African studies; American studies; Asian studies; classics; comparative literature; East Asian languages and literature; English language and literature; environmental studies; ethnic studies; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; film and media studies; history; history of art and architecture; Latin American studies; music history and musicology; philosophy; religion; and rhetoric. 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.
Music History and Musicology, North Carolina Central University
Women, Music, and the Performance of Gentility in the Mid-Nineteenth Century South
Environmental Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Edible and the Endangered: Food, Empire, and the Biopolitics of Extinction
History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Assisted Emigrants: Irish Female Migration Projects and the British Empire
History, University of Manchester
A History of Innocence: Erle Stanley Gardner, the Court of Last Resort, and the Pursuit of Wrongful Conviction in Cold War America
Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law
History of Art and Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Art and Political Visuality in Late Medieval England
History, Nanyang Technological University
Global Pandemic, Local Politics: Disease and Social Restructuring in Mao’s China
Comparative Literature, Northwestern University
Into Steam: The Global Imaginaries of Maritime Modernism
Music History and Musicology, Columbia University
Music and Mind in the Renaissance
Latin American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Passing as Open Secret: Race and Fictions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Film and Media Studies, North Carolina State University
Leftover Ladies: Ursula Parrott and the Emergence of the Modern Woman
History, Arizona State University
Re-Enchanting the Eurasian Steppe: Eco-Nationalism and Eschatology in Tatar Literature, 1960-Present
History of Art and Architecture, University of Maryland
Memento Mauri: The Afterlife of the Great Mosque of Cordoba
History, National University of Singapore
Revolutions at the Canteens: Labor, Energy, and the Politics of Eating in Industrial China
Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lila Affects: Power, Masculinity, and Sociality in a Vernacular Theatre
American Studies, Saint Louis University
Modern Lovers: Margery Latimer, Jean Toomer, and Race in American Culture
History, North Carolina State University
"Possibility Thinkers": Rural Black Power and Women's Liberation Politics after 1965
History, College of William & Mary
The Price of the People: Money and Power in Early America
Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sappho and Homer: A Reparative Reading
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Zimbabwe
Bodies and/as Texts: Queer Representations in African Screens
African Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Archival Mutations: Decomposing Aesthetics of Atrocity in Congo
English Language and Literature, New York University
Item: Lists and the Poetics of Reckoning in Late Medieval England
Music History and Musicology, University of Dar es Salaam
Musical Literary Imagination: Musical Figures, Swahili Literature and Postcolonial Social Life in Tanzania
East Asian Languages and Literature, The Pennsylvania State University
Cold War and Sinophone Literature at the Borders
History, The Pennsylvania State University
Slavery after the Civil War: The Slow Death and Many Afterlives of Bondage
Ethnic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
#FreeDany: Dreaming and Detention in Dixie
Classics, University of Missouri-Columbia
Monumental Verse: Poetry, Cityscape, and Authority in Late Ancient Rome
History of Art and Architecture, University of Missouri-Columbia
The Social Production of Otto Dix
English Language and Literature, Nanyang Technological University
Imagining Cultural Asia: Art Exhibitions, Popular Culture, and a Regional Contemporary
English Language and Literature, Howard University
Intimate Cities: Black Women’s Literature and Urban Segregation
Philosophy, Howard University
Black Death: Racial Justice, Priority-Setting, and Care at the End of Life
History, University of Manchester
Rise of the Rentier: France and the Making of Financial Modernity, 1830-1930
Classics, Yale University
Commentary on Odyssey Book 9; Interformularity: A New Perspective on Homeric Repetition
Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Apocalyptic Religion and Race in Russia and the American West: The Challenge of Russian Spiritual Christianity
History, Penn State University
Empire without Bounds: How the United States Conquered the Louisiana Purchase
A Prosopography of the Plains: California-Oregon Trail Emigration Patterns and Social Networks in 1849
Current Fellows by the Numbers
Disciplines 2019-20
- African Studies 1
- American Studies 1
- Asian Studies 1
- Classics 3
- Comparative Literature 1
- East Asian Languages and Literature 1
- English Language and Literature 4
- Environmental Studies 1
- Ethnic Studies 1
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 1
- Film and Media Studies 1
- History 12
- History of Art and Architecture 3
- Latin American Studies 1
- Music History and Musicology 3
- Philosophy 2
- Religion 1
- Religious Studies 1
- Rhetoric 1