Current Fellows

Music History and Musicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Writing Opera, Singing Blackness in the United States

Religious Studies, The Ohio State University

A Religion of the Books: The New Testament and Other Early Christian Scriptural Practices

Environmental Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Chinese Eco-Images in The Planetary Age: The Multispecies World of Humans, Animals, and Plants

Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

Trans-American Orientalism: The Asia-Pacific Encounters of Transgender Pioneer Christine Jorgensen, 1961–1969

Languages and Literature, National University of Singapore

Living on after Failure

Middle East Studies, Duke University

Legal and Affective Archives of Atrocity: Allied Occupied Istanbul (1918–23) and the Armenian Genocide

Interdisciplinary Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

One Generation, Two Loyalties?: Evening Chats in Hong Kong

African American Studies, Furman University

The Columbia Seven: The Life and Times of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

African American Studies, Hampton University

Black Girls Write the Future: A Scholarly Investigation of Speculative Fiction by or about Women and Girls of African-Descent

History, The University of Sydney

Captive Consumers: Prison Food in the Era of Mass Incarceration

History, North Carolina State University

Black Folk: The Promise of the Black Working Class

Slavic Studies, University of Missouri

How to Be a Russian Icon: The Post-Soviet Public Life of Poet Olga Sedakova

Environmental History , University of South Carolina

“Conservation by Slaughter”: Wildlife Utilization and the African Origins of Sustainable Development, 1959–1980

Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Facts, Evidence, and Observation: Aristotle’s Natural Scientific Study of Women and Motherhood

History, McGill University

Greek to the Soul: George Ives and Homosexuality from Wilde to Wolfenden

Latinx Studies, Bucknell University

Staging Activism in US Latinx Theater

Languages and Literature, Montclair State University

Gender, Sugar, and the Afterlives of Abolition

Languages and Literature (Cultural Studies), Stellenbosch University

Representing Discontent: South Africa in Words and on Screen

History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University

Rivals on the Fenway: Isabella Stewart Gardner, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Destiny of the American Art Museum

Languages and Literature, North Carolina State University

Backlash Blues: Nina Simone and Langston Hughes

Philosophy, Bowdoin College

The Economic Justice Project: Thought Experiments, Intuitions, Counterexamples, and Logic

History, University of Cincinnati

Becoming “Vulgar”: Caste Domination and Normative Sexuality in Modern India

History, Universidad de Costa Rica

Rebellious People: Patterns of Social Revolt and Collective Violence in Central America, 1920–1954

Indigenous Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, Plenary Power, and the U.S. Constitution

History of Art and Architecture, Virginia Commonwealth University

The Shadow Museum: A History of the British Institution, 1805–1867

History of Art and Architecture, Tuskegee University

Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, 1996 and Revelations from Bearing Witness, 2026

Philosophy, Brandeis University

Sensibilia: An Account of Sensory Perception and its Objects

East Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong

The Matrilocal Husband: Chinese-style Neoliberal Masculinities in the Digital Era

History, Montana State University

Pictures of Conscience: Central American Refugees and International Human Rights Campaigns, 1979–2019

Languages and Literature, University of Oklahoma

Spook(ed): African American Literature, National Security, and the Fictions of Statecraft

History, Stony Brook University

A History of the Modern Infodemic

African American Studies, University of California, Irvine

‘I Meant for You to be Free’: Winnie Mandela’s Love Letter to and Pedagogies for Young South Africans, the Post-1994 Generation

History, Illinois State University

Sympathy for the Devil: The Criminal in the American Imagination, 1870–1940