The National Humanities Center (NHC) is pleased to announce the appointment of 40 scholars for the 2026 Select Summer Residency Program, marking the first time NHC summer residents have undergone a competitive application process. These leading humanists will come to the Center from universities and colleges in 19 US states and India. They represent a variety of public research institutions, private universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and liberal arts colleges.
Each summer resident will work on an individual humanities-related research project in a private office in the Center’s secluded, light-filled building, and participate in the Center’s storied intellectual community. They will also have access to professional development seminars and lectures, the Center’s library services, and daily meals prepared on site.
These scholars constitute the seventh class of summer residents since the NHC initiated the program in 2018. “We are so excited to welcome these incredible scholars to our halls,” said Martha Kelly, vice president for scholarly programs at the Center. “We look forward to their arrival in June, and to the community they will foster as they discuss their diverse intellectual interests.”
“I am honored to welcome my first class of summer residents as director and president of the National Humanities Center,” said Blair LM Kelley. “Having been a summer resident myself in the past, I know well how much these scholars will gain from their time together here.”
2026 Select Summer Residents
- Susanneh Bieber, Texas A&M University
- Jacqueline M. Burek, George Mason University
- Aparna Chaudhuri, Ashoka University
- Randall Childree, Furman University
- Kylie Fisher, Furman University
- Jennifer Flaherty, Duke University
- Na’Imah H. Ford, Florida A&M University
- Amy Frishkey, The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Denva Gallant, Rice University
- Óscar F. Gil-García, University at Buffalo
- Bradford Garvey, Brandeis University
- Tamara Harvey, George Mason University
- Eduardo Herrera, Indiana University Bloomington
- Sarah J. Cullinan Herring, The University of Kansas
- Jennifer Iverson, The University of Chicago
- Lauren V. Jarvis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Vivian A. Laughlin, Wake Forest University
- Susan Laxton, University of California, Riverside
- Devoney Looser, Arizona State University
- Yolanda Mackey-Barkers, Stony Brook University
- Sophia Mao, Bryn Mawr College
- Deonnie Moodie, The University of Oklahoma
- Richa Nagar, Smith College
- Caitlyn Olson, Bucknell University
- Rachel Catherine Patt, University of Notre Dame
- Cary Peñate, Syracuse University
- John R. Pippen, Colorado State University
- Sonya Y. Ramsey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Sitara Sadler, Johnson C. Smith University
- Linsey Sainte-Claire, Rice University
- Matt Sakakeeny, Tulane University
- Rico Self, North Carolina State University
- Shelby M. Sinclair, University of Virginia
- Jennifer Suchland, The Ohio State University
- Justin Tackett, North Carolina State University
- Noël Valis, Yale University
- Ninon Vessier, Davidson College
- Joel Winkelman, Hamilton College
- Blaire Zeiders, Augusta University
- Tamar Zinguer, The University of Oklahoma
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