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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 31 Fellows for the 2024–25 academic year. Chosen from 492 applicants, they represent humanistic scholarship in African American studies; Africana studies; American studies; anthropology; Chicana/o studies; disability studies; East Asian studies; gender and sexuality studies; history; indigenous studies; studies of languages and literature; Latinx studies; medieval studies; music history and musicology; philosophy; religious studies; and Slavic studies. 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.

Project disciplines and home institutions are noted for each Fellow.

Giorgio Biancorosso, 2024–25

Music History and Musicology, The University of Hong Kong

Soft Technologies of the Virtual: Music and Temporal Perspective in Narrative Cinema

Belle Boggs, 2024–25

American Studies, North Carolina State University

Big Yellow Bus: The Essential American History of a Disappearing Public Good

Nicholas Boggs, 2024–25

African American Studies, Independent Scholar (United States of America)

Baldwin: A Love Story

Edyta M. Bojanowska, 2024–25

Slavic Studies, Yale University

Empire and the Russian Classics

Ashley Carse, 2024–25

Anthropology, Vanderbilt University

The Age of Mitigation: Global Shipping and a River on Life Support

Michael Childers, 2024–25

History, Colorado State University

The Mountains are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park

Joseph M. H. Clark, 2024–25

History, University of Kentucky

Witchcraft and Contraband in the Early Modern Caribbean

Mark Cruse, 2017–18; 2024–25

Medieval Studies, Arizona State University

From Alexander the Great to Tamerlane: World Dominion in the Medieval French Imagination

Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, 2024–25

History, Indiana University Bloomington

“To Rival the Temple of Solomon”: Splendid Churches and Bishops in Early Christianity

Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez, 2024–25

LatinX Studies, Spelman College

Dramas and Horrors of Immigration in Latinx Cinema

Isabel C. Gómez, 2024–25

Languages and Literature, University of Massachusetts Boston

Divest from English: Eco-Translation and Translingual Repair

Brendan Griebel, 2024–25

Anthropology, Independent Scholar (Canada)

Crafting Freedom from Confinement in the Canadian Prairies

Kim Haines-Eitzen, 2024–25

Religious Studies, Cornell University

Crossing the River of Fire: Apocalypse, Transformation, and the Elements in Late Antiquity

Sonia Hazard, 2024–25

Religious Studies, Florida State University

Christianity and the Book in the Cherokee Diaspora, 1821–1861

Emily K. Hobson, 2024–25

Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Nevada, Reno

AIDS and Abolition: A History of Care Work against the Carceral State

Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, 2024–25

Languages and Literature, Duke University

Enslaved Childhoods: Survival and Storytelling in the Atlantic World

Aaron Kamugisha, 2024–25

Africana Studies, Smith College

Bewildering Coloniality: Austin Clarke and the Twentieth Century Black Atlantic World

Eunjung Kim, 2024–25

Gender and Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies, Syracuse University

Dignity Archives: Accompanying the Dead and Posthumous Care

Julia A. King, 2024–25

Anthropology, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Land as Archive: An Indigenous Landscape History of the Rappahannock People of Tidewater Virginia

Susanna Lee, 2024–25

History, North Carolina State University

Unsettling Claims: Natives and Newcomers in the US-Dakota War

Amy Lonetree, 2024–25

Indigenous Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Visualizing Native American Survivance: A Photographic History of the Ho-Chunk Nation, 1879–1960

Mostafa Minawi, 2024–25

History, Cornell University

Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Imperialism in the Red Sea Basin and the Horn of Africa at the End of the 19th Century

Sarah M. Quesada, 2024–25

Languages and Literature, Duke University

The Untold South-South: Greater Mexico, African Decolonization, and Latin-African Solidarity (1956–2008)

Sarah Scott, 2024–25

Philosophy, Manhattan College

The Moral Philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe: Forgotten Anglo-Irish Philosopher and Women’s Rights and Animal Welfare Activist

Frank Shovlin, 2024–25

Languages and Literature, University of Liverpool

John McGahern: A Writing Life

Angela Sun, 2024–25

Philosophy, Washington and Lee University

The Ethics of Reporting Wrongdoing

John Wood Sweet, 2011–12; 2024–25

History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Captive’s Tale: Venture Smith and the African Roots of the American Republic

David J. Vázquez, 2024–25

Chicana/o Studies or Latinx Studies, American University

Days of Futures Past: Latinx Science Fiction and Speculative Futurity

R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada, 2024–25

Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Intersectional Justice Denied: Warring Masculinity, Violence, and Peacemaking in Post-Accords El Salvador

Joseph R. Winters, 2024–25

Religious Studies, Duke University

Beyond Imperial Piety: Black Study, the Opaque Sacred, and World De-formation

Shengqing Wu, 2024–25

East Asian Studies, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The Chinese Poetics of Tactility and Modern Love

Michael Gill

Food Studies, Syracuse University

Fermenting Stories: Exploring Ancestry, Embodiment, and Place

Olivia Hendricks

Rhetoric, Emory University

De/Composing Carnality: US Popular Representations of Argentine Nuevo Tango Composer Astor Piazzolla

Hilde Hoogenboom, 2000–01

Slavic Studies, Arizona State University

Noble Rot: Corruption, Civil Society, and Literary Elites in Russia

Ian MacCormack

Religious Studies, Florida State University

Making a Buddhist State in Early Modern Tibet

Emily Mokros

History, University of Kentucky

Beijing at War: Negotiating Crises of Environment, Economy, and Security, 1850–1860

Sara Safransky

Geography, Vanderbilt University

Memories for the Future

Margaret Thompson

Vernacular Photography in Canadian Carceral Institutions

Current Fellows by the Numbers

Disciplines 2024-25

Ranks 2024-25