Current Fellows

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, Texas A & M University

Ho Chi Minh’s Cult in Vietnamese Statehood

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

Religion, Duke University

Islamic Theocracy in the Secular Age

History, Arizona State University

Re-Enchanting the Eurasian Steppe: Eco-Nationalism and Eschatology in Tatar Literature, 1960-Present

Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Aristotle's Material Elements

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

History, Claremont McKenna College

Endless Bondage: Old Age in New World Slavery

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, University of Kansas

Reading Keats in America

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