Current Fellows

African American Studies, North Carolina A&T State University

Is Poverty Always Poverty?: Understanding Black Capitalism in 19th Century Baltimore

English Language and Literature, Tulane University

Romantic Botany: Time, Empire, and Ineffability in British Literature, 1750-1830

Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Xenophon’s Women

African American Studies, Spelman College

The Other Douglass: Frederick C. Douglass, A Black Freedom Fighter in the Post-Reconstruction South

Environmental Studies, North Carolina State University

Water in the Lumbee World: Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, and the Transformation of Home

Latin American Studies, Spelman College

The Pablo Escobar Mixtape

History, University of Oregon

Finance and Fortune: Economics, Calculation, and the Fate of the Chinese Republic

African American Studies, Independent Scholar

The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: Biography as Ceremony

Asian Studies, Macalester College

Contentious Conversations: Masters, Disciples, and the Culture of Yulu Literature in Late Ming China

Rhetoric, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Training the Brain: Rhetoric, Neuropolicy, and Education

Medieval Studies, Purdue University

The Reading Nation in the Age of Chaucer: English Books, 1350–1500

East Asian Languages and Literature, The University of Hong Kong

Creative Writing and the Semiotics of Crisis in Contemporary Hong Kong

History, Duke University

The Slow Death of Sagon Penn: State Violence and the Twilight of Civil Rights

Film and Media Studies, The University of Hong Kong

Language Crimes in the Digital Age

African American Studies, Arizona State University

Who Wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X?

Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Bloodborne: Invasion and the Politics of Disease

Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University

The Virtue of Agency: Sôphrosunê and Selfhood in Ancient Greece

Philosophy, King’s University College at Western University Canada

Plato’s Twofold Dialectic of Pleasure: Critical Dialogue with Hedonists and Critical Analysis of Pleasure

Postcolonial Studies, Florida State University

Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom

History, University of Texas at Austin

Global Eisenstein: Immersion in Nature, Art, and the World

English Language and Literature, Makerere University, Uganda

Spaces, Subjectivities and Textualities: Towards a Postcolonial Spatial Theory

History, University of Michigan

The Time of the Antechamber: A History of Waiting (1500–1800)

History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

Marks She Made: The Art and Architecture of Begum Samru, 1803–1836

History, Duke University

Purebred: Making Meat and Eugenics in the Modern United States

History, The Pennsylvania State University

America’s Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners’ Quest for Graduate Education in the Age of Jim Crow

Legal History, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Fear of the False: Forensic Science in Colonial India

Comparative Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Genre of Korean Adoption Autobiographies

Theatre‚ Dance‚ and Performance Studies, Smith College

The Avant-garde Imagination: Transatlantic Visions of Ballet

English Language and Literature, Duke University

We the Platform: Contemporary Literature after Web 2.0

English Language and Literature, Howard University

Material as Evidence: Crime and Identity in American Literature, 1894–1968

History of Art and Architecture, Drury University

Architecture, Mobility, Segregation: The Everyday Spatial Practices of Women in Early Modern Venice

History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Spellbound Nation: Charisma in American History