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The National Humanities Center appointed 30 Fellows for the 2026–27 academic year. Chosen from 453 applicants, they represent humanistic scholarship in African American studies; African studies; American studies; Anthropology; Archaeology; Classics; Education studies, Food studies; History; History of Art and Architecture; Indigenous studies; Languages and Literature; Linguistics; Middle East studies; Music History and Musicology; and Philosophy. 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.

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453

Scholars applied for the Fellowship in 2026

30

Fellows appointed for the 2026–27 academic year

Disciplines represented in 2026-27

  • African American studies
  • African studies
  • American studies
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Classics
  • Education studies
  • Food studies
  • History
  • History of Art and Architecture
  • Indigenous studies
  • Languages and Literature
  • Linguistics
  • Middle East studies
  • Music History and Musicology
  • Philosophy

National Humanities Center Fellows 2026–27

Fellows 1978–2026
  • Current Fellows

    Mike Amezcua

    Fellow 2026–27

    Georgetown University

    Project: Dinero: A History of Latino Capitalism in America

    Discipline: History

  • Robin Brooks

    Fellow 2026–27

    University of Pittsburgh

    Project: Death Proximity: Grief and Emotional Wellness Stories in Black Communities 

    Discipline: English

  • Current Fellows

    Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom

    Fellow 2026–27

    Brandeis University

    Project: Monks as Makers: A Material History of Monasticism

    Discipline: Archaeology

  • Current Fellows

    Mónica Díaz

    Fellow 2026–27

    University of Kentucky

    Project: Indigenous Spaces: Education and Religion in Colonial Mexico

    Discipline: History

  • Current Fellows

    Kevin Escudero

    Fellow 2026–27

    Brown University

    Project: Imperial Unsettling: Indigenous and Immigrant Activism toward Collective Liberation

    Discipline: American Studies

  • Current Fellows

    Douglas Flowe

    Fellow 2026–27

    Washington University in St. Louis

    Project: American Darkness: Black Men in New York’s Jim Crow Prisons

    Discipline: History

  • Current Fellows

    Dave Fossum

    Fellow 2026–27

    Arizona State University

    Project: Remembered Innovation: A History of Creativity in Turkmen Music

    Discipline: Music History and Musicology

  • Sarah Godsell

    Fellow 2026–27

    University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Project: Historical Feeling: Affective Knowledge as Historical Knowledge

    Discipline: Education Studies

  • Current Fellows

    Alexis Pauline Gumbs

    Fellow 2026–27; 2020–21

    Languages and Literature

    Project: Love is Lifeforce: June Jordan and Fannie Lou Hamer Solve the Energy Crisis

    Discipline: Languages and Literature

  • Current Fellows

    Olabode Ibironke

    Fellow 2026–27

    Rutgers University–New Brunswick

    Project: The Republic of Laughter: Television and the Affective Archives of Postcolonial Nigeria

    Discipline: African Studies

  • Current Fellows

    Peter R. Kalb

    Fellow 2026–27

    Brandeis University

    Project: Apollo’s Gift: An Art History of the Moon Landing

    Discipline: History of Art and Architecture

  • Current Fellows

    Danielle L. Kellogg

    Fellow 2026–27

    University of Cincinnati

    Project: Mobility, Citizenship, and the Athenian Democracy

    Discipline: Classics

  • Current Fellows

    Emil’ Keme

    Fellow 2026–27

    Emory University

    Project: Abiayala: A Trans-Hemispheric Indigenous Manifesto

    Discipline: Indigenous Studies

  • Current Fellows

    Kate L. Lindsey

    Fellow 2026–27

    Boston University

    Project: A Speaker-Focused Grammar of Ende, a Language of Papua New Guinea

    Discipline: Linguistics

  • Current Fellows

    S. M. Love

    Fellow 2026–27

    Georgia State University

    Project: Freedom from the Market: A Kantian Account of Socioeconomic Rights

    Discipline: Philosophy

  • Current Fellows

    Allie Martin

    Fellow 2026–27

    Dartmouth College

    Project: Sampling for Black Life

    Discipline: Music History and Musicology

  • Current Fellows

    Sarah Milov

    Fellow 2026–27

    University of Virginia

    Project: Damned Women: Sex and Sterilization at an American Factory

    Discipline: History

  • Current Fellows

    Eric Debrah Otchere

    Fellow 2026–27

    University of Cape Coast, Ghana

    Project: From Nets to Notes: A Multi-Modal Analysis of Knowledge Translation in Ghanaian Artisanal Fishing Communities

    Discipline: Music History and Musicology

  • Current Fellows

    Vanessa Pérez-Rosario

    Fellow 2026–27

    Queens College; City University of New York

    Project: Las Girlfriends: A Cultural History of Latina Feminist Writing from 1980 to 1994

    Discipline: American Studies

  • Current Fellows

    Bianca Premo

    Fellow 2026–27

    Florida International University

    Project: Peru’s Youngest Mother in the World and the Ethics of History

    Discipline: History

  • Current Fellows

    Isaias Rojas-Perez

    Fellow 2026–27

    Rutgers University–Newark

    Project: After “Never Again”: The Dead, Forensic Exhumations, and Percolations of Justice in Postwar Andean Peru

    Discipline: Anthropology

  • Current Fellows

    Susanna L. Sacks

    Fellow 2026–27

    Howard University

    Project: A World of Debt: African Literature in the Wake of Structural Adjustment

    Discipline: Languages and Literature

  • Current Fellows

    Kathryn Vomero Santos

    Fellow 2026–27

    Trinity University

    Project: Mischiefs Manifold: A Cultural History of Sycorax

    Discipline: Languages and Literature

  • Current Fellows

    Orin Starn

    Fellow 2026–27; 2001–02

    Duke University

    Project: Love Yourz: Battling Amazon in Too Late America

    Discipline: Anthropology

  • Current Fellows

    Rebecca L. Stein

    Fellow 2026–27

    Duke University

    Project: How to Unsee Gaza: Israeli Visual Politics in a Time of Genocide

    Discipline: Anthropology

  • Current Fellows

    Despina Stratigakos

    Fellow 2026–27

    University at Buffalo

    Project: Ghost Gardens

    Discipline: Environmental Studies

  • Current Fellows

    Kyla Wazana Tompkins

    Fellow 2026–27

    University at Buffalo

    Project: Acquired Tastes

    Discipline: Food Studies

  • Current Fellows

    James Van Cleve

    Fellow 2026–27; 2011–12; 1990–91

    University of Southern California

    Project: Roderick Chisholm and Philosophy in America, 1950–2000

    Discipline: Philosophy

  • Current Fellows

    Joshua M. White

    Fellow 2026–27

    University of Virginia

    Project: Of Free Origin: Slavery and Freedom Suits in the Ottoman Empire, 1550–1840

    Discipline: History

  • Current Fellows

    Nadia Yaqub

    Fellow 2026–27

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Project: Alternative Cinema in the Arab World

    Discipline: Middle East Studies

Resident Associates

  • Current Fellows

    Mawukplorm Harriet Abla Adjahoe

    Resident Associate 2026–27

    University of Cape Coast, Ghana

    Project: The Scenography of Sovereignty: Orality, Gender, and the Decolonization of Ghanaian Performance Space

    Discipline: Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

  • Current Fellows

    Kyrill Kunakhovich

    Resident Associate 2026–27

    University of Virginia

    Project: The Old Town: Warsaw, UNESCO, and the Polish Origins of World Heritage

    Discipline: History

  • Claudia Strauss

    Resident Associate 2026–27

    Pitzer College

    Project: How to Analyze Interviews and Other Speech for Cultural and Psychological Complexity

    Discipline: Anthropology