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Summer Residents of the National Humanities Center, 2018–2024
Summer Residents, 2024
- Elaigwu P. Ameh, St. Olaf College
Performing Black Fatherhood: Fabrication, Silence, Repair - Betsy Bolton, Swarthmore College
Romantic Women Writers, Celebrity and Interiority - Shakoya C. Brown, Johnson C. Smith University
Echoes of Resiliency: Unveiling HBCU Activism In North Carolina - Cecily Cai, Hamilton College
The Age of Dissonance: Exile and Late Style in Modern European Literature - andré carrington, University of California, Riverside
Audiofuturism - John P. Casellas Connors, Texas A&M University
The Nature of Guns: Firearms, Taxes, and Identity in American Conservation - Keyne Cheshire, Davidson College
The Ibis Project - Christopher Chowrimootoo, University of Notre Dame
Staging Religious Affect in Bernstein’s ‘Mass’ - Alanna E. Cooper, Case Western Reserve University
Disposing of the Sacred: America’s Jewish Congregations in the 21st Century - Burak Erdim, North Carolina State University
Warsaw, New York, Raleigh, Chandigarh: Intersections of Housing, Race, Migration, and Citizenship in the Postwar World - Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez, The University of Texas at San Antonio
The Slave-Trading Mafia: Foundation and Growth of the Cuban-based Transatlantic Slave Trade - Tatiana Filimonova, Dartmouth College
New Russia’s Geopolitical Novel - Wilfredo Flores, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Virulent Rhetorics: HIV and the Politics of Digital Sexual Health - Darci L. Gardner, Appalachian State University
Leveraging Irrationality: How Storytellers Exploit Cognitive Biases - Tiffany Jasmin González, The University of Kansas
Representation of Change: How Chicana Transformed the American Political Process in the Late 20th Century - Kimberly Ann Harris, University of Virginia
The Truth of Race: The Metaphilosophy of W. E. B. Du Bois - Leandra H. Hernandez, The University of Utah
Feminist News Framing: The Role of Journalism Ethics in News Coverage of Reproductive Feminicides - Victoria Hesford, Stony Brook University
Artificial Women: the 1970s, Mass Culture, and Feminism - Amy Hodges, The University of Texas at Arlington
A Scoping Review of Technical and Professional Writing in the MENA Region
- Brandon Hogan, Howard University
A Contextualist Theory of Criminal Punishment - Jennie C. Ikuta, University of Missouri
White Losses: Moral Psychology and the Demands of Racial Justice - Nathaniel Isaacson, North Carolina State University
Repressed Modernities of Sinophone Science Fiction Cinema - Heidi Kim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Very Short Introduction to Asian American Literature - Amy K. King, Tuskegee University
Haunted/Haunting Whiteness in Atlanta, Season 3 - C. Libby, The Pennsylvania State University
Engendering Feeling: Religious Affect, Transphobia, and Historicity - Ladrica Menson-Furr, University of Memphis
August Wilson’s South: Revisiting Wilson’s Dramatic Renderings of the South and Southern Culture - Ernest Julius Mitchell, Yale University
Biography of Claude McKay - Shirley Moody-Turner, The Pennsylvania State University
“Courageous Revolt”: Anna Julia Cooper, An Interpretive Biography - Christy L. Oxendine, The University of Oklahoma
Schooling in the Pines: The Historical Landscape of Lumbee Public Schools in Robeson County North Carolina, 1885–1940 - Daniel Paul, Brigham Young University
Representations of Disability in Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television - fabian romero, The Ohio State University
Insurgent Kinship - Joseph Tanke, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
The Nervous System: Neoliberalism and Anxiety - Elizabeth E. Tavares, The University of Alabama
Playing the Repertory before Shakespeare - Emine Hande Tuna, University of California, Santa Cruz
Imaginative Resistance - Bryan M. Vandevender, Bucknell University
Afterlives: Musical Theatre Repertoire, Revival, and Capital - Margaret B. Wan, The University of Utah
Transmission, Access, and Individual Agency in Chinese Vernacular Short Stories - Rebecca Wanzo, Washington University in St. Louis
Civil Rights Temporalities - Judith Williams, Furman University
Maître Divas and Misogynoir: The Everyday Lives of Black Female Front of the House Restaurant Workers
Summer Residents, 2023
- William Arcé, California State University, Fresno
Latinx/Chicanx 20th Century Travel Narratives: Crossing Boundaries - Christopher T. Bonner, Texas A&M University
Unsettled Accounts: Transatlantic Literary Representations of the Haitian Independence Debt - Alison Bory, Davidson College
Difficult Dance: Engaging Emotion in Contemporary (Dance) Performance - Gwen Bradford, Rice University
Uniqueness - Hugh Cagle, The University of Utah
Anatomy of Empire: Colonialism, Dissection, and the Making of Modern Human–Animal Relations - Sumita Chakraborty, North Carolina State University
Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene - Paloma Checa-Gismero, Swarthmore College
The Early Biennial Boom and the Making of Global Contemporary Art - Dawan Coombs, Brigham Young University
Engaging the Aesthetic in Adolescent Literacy Learning - Carolyn A. Day, Furman University
Uncovering the Invalid: The Social, Medical, and Personal Responses to the Illness of Princess Amelia (1783–1810) - Jennifer L. Derr, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Organ that Traveled the World: Medicine, Capitalism, and the History of Liver Disease in Egypt - Selena A. Dickey, Furman University
Expanding the Network Backbone: Live Network Television and the Metroplex - Michal Beth Dinkler, Yale University
How to Do Things with Stories: Early Christian Narrative as Rhetoric - Alexei Kamran Ditter, Reed College
Making Memories Together: Collaborative Remembering in Late Medieval China, 600–900 - Esther Fernández, Rice University
A Drama in Transition: The Democratization of Spanish Classical Theater - Leslie Clement Gutierrez, Johnson C. Smith University
The Dauntless Dobbs Sisters: Historical Black Family Legacies, Radical Black Feminists Politics and Desegregating Global Diasporic Spaces - Eric Herschthal, The University of Utah
Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change - Sarah T. Hines, The University of Oklahoma
Mother of the Waters: The Life and Death of the Glaciers of Bolivia’s Cordillera Real - Peter R. Kalb, Brandeis University
Beyond Apprehension: Artists Respond to Apollo - Matthew Kilbane, University of Notre Dame
The Ends of Poetry: Writing Unreadable Archives
- Chanté Mouton Kinyon, University of Notre Dame
The Transatlantic Gesture: The Irish and African American Cultural Exchange - Heather Miyano Kopelson, The University of Alabama
Speaking Objects: Indigenous Women and the Materials of Dance in the Americas, 1500–1700 - Susanna Michele Lee, North Carolina State University
Unsettling Claims: Natives and Newcomers in the US–Dakota War - Amy Lonetree, University of California, Santa Cruz
Visualizing Ho-Chunk History: Cultural Performance, Tourist Encounters, and Native Survivance, 1879–1960 - Nina Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pretentious Cities: How Progressive Local Politics Can Recreate Inequities - Robert O. McDonald, The University of Kansas
How Economists Argue: The Discursive Economies of Consent - Hugo Méndez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gospel Truth: The Biblical Books of John as a Chain of Pseudo-Historical Texts - Cassie Osei, Bucknell University
Professional Defiance: Black Women’s Labor Aesthetics & Discourses in Modern Brazil - Aysha Pollnitz, Rice University
Indigenous Polities and Democratic Thought in the Americas, pre-1700 - Gina Stamm, The University of Alabama
Malcolm de Chazal: Mauritius and Mystic Phenomenology - Sara Phenix, Brigham Young University
Maternity à la mode: Fashion, Fertility, and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France - Stephanie Z. Pilat, The University of Oklahoma
The Cultivation of Creativity: Pedagogies and Practices of the American School of Architecture - Alejandro Quin, The University of Utah
Los agrimensores: tierra, literatura y demarcación en América Latina [The Surveyors: Land, Literature, and Border-Making in Latin America] - Jacob D. Rawlins, Brigham Young University
Welsh Publishing in the Nineteenth Century - Alexander Regier, Rice University
Awkwardness: The History and Use of Unease - Marsha W. Rhee, Johnson C. Smith University
Global Kinships: A Beginners’ Community-Based Research Guide - Franziska Schweiger, Hamilton College
Social Fabrics: Atlas Silk and the Making of the Bourgeoisie in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks - Sam Shuman, Davidson College
Of Mice and Hasidic Men: Populist Masculinity & the Revival of a 20th-Century Jewish Saint
Summer Residents, 2022
- Kristen Alff, North Carolina State University
Levantine Joint-stock Companies and Global Capitalism, 1830–1930 - Douglas Ambrose, Hamilton College
Burying the Founders: Public Commemorations and Nation Building in the Early American Republic - Belle Boggs, North Carolina State University
Nothing But the Truth: 150 Years of Testimony in a Small Southern Town - Tyler Bunzey, Johnson C. Smith University
Fugitive Aesthetics: Hip-Hop Expression in Relation - Tracie Canada, University of Notre Dame
Tackling the Everyday: Race, Family, and Nation in Big-Time College Football - Yinghong Cheng, Delaware State University
“Two Lives for One Mile”: African-American Soldiers Building the Burma Road - Kathryn Desplanque, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Inglorious Artists: Art-World Satire and the Market Economy for Art, 1750–1850 - Marc Dudley, North Carolina State University
Black Masculinity in Toni Morrison’s Sula - Sarah Ellenzweig, Rice University
Verse, Rhyme, and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century - La Donna L. Forsgren, University of Notre Dame
Black Girlhood on the Musical Theatre Stage - Frederico Freitas, North Carolina State University
Concrete Tropics, an Environmental History of Brazil’s Modernist Capital - Megan Gallagher, The University of Alabama
The Lost Passions of Republican Political Thought: Politics and Emotions in the French Enlightenment - Will Guzmán, Prairie View A&M University
Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine - Eva C. Hageman, University of Maryland
“Relatable Meets Remarkable”: Crafting Race in the Reality Television Industry - Ayesha K. Hardison, The University of Kansas
Specters of Black Freedom Struggles in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination - T. D. Harper-Shipman, Davidson College
Suturing Reproduction and Capitalism: Race, Population, and Development in the U.S., Ghana, and Senegal - Tace Hedrick, University of Florida
The Cosmic Race: Sexuality, Esoteric Spirituality, and Race in Latin/x American Work, 1968–2021 - Jaya Jha, Davidson College
On Being Human—Disciplinary Reflections
- Tugce Kayaal, Furman University
Sexual Outcasts: Love, Intimacy, and Youth Sexuality in the Late Ottoman Empire (1800–1923) - Fen Kennedy, The University of Alabama
Horizontality, Affect, Technique: A Dancer’s Guide to Choreopolitical Analysis - Eunice Kim, Furman University
Formula for a Murder: An Odyssean Take - Peter Krentz, Davidson College
Fatal to Liberty: The Battle of Chaironeia - Yi Yi Mon Kyo, Davidson College
Chen Danqing’s Tibet Series: A Return to Realism in the Post-Mao Era - Neil Lerner, Davidson College
A History of Sound and Music in Pinball - Juan Meneses, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Peripheries of the Impolitical - Sujata S. Mody, North Carolina State University
Hindi Historical Fiction: Literary Engagements with the Past - Sangina Patnaik, Swarthmore College
What We Owe: Reparations in Literature and Law - Alix Pierre, Spelman College
Cultivating a Transnational Diasporan Art Consciousness - Wanda S. Pillow, The University of Utah
Troubling Intimacies: Sacajawea and York as American Subjects, 1806–2006 - Patricia L. Reilly, Swarthmore College
Triumphalist Painting in the Age of the Italian Wars - Jennifer Saltzstein, The University of Oklahoma
Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History - Tanya L. Shields, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Women Who Owned: Gendered Race, Place and Power on Female-Owned Plantations - Debra F. Terrell, Johnson C. Smith University
Religiosity, Changes in Religiosity, and Well-Being among College Students - Cindi Textor, The University of Utah
Japanese White Supremacy - Georgina White, The University of Kansas
Cicero’s Philosophical Translations - Kimberly Wieser, The University of Oklahoma
“War Began to Kindle and Was Cruelly Fought”: Historical Poems from The DeSoto Chronicles, The Journal of Rodrigo Rangel - Faye Xiao, The University of Kansas
The Hen Cackles in the Morning: Gendered Soundscape and Female Leadership in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Summer Residents, 2019
- Rilla Askew, The University of Oklahoma
Their Lives - Anne Baker, North Carolina State University
Dear Wanderer: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Susanna Rowson - Manuel R. Cuellar, The George Washington University
Performances of a Festive Mexico: Queer Embodiments and Dancing Histories of a Nation - Gregory Dawes, North Carolina State University
Democratic Cross Resonances: Whitman and Neruda - Mariam Durrani, Hamilton College
Unruly Mobility: Muslim Youth Coming of Age in the 21st Century - Ira Dworkin, Texas A&M University
“Imperfectly Known”: Nicholas Said and the Routes of African American Narrative - Julie Fette, Rice University
Gender in Contemporary French Children’s Literature - Erin Frost, East Carolina University
Feminist Technical Communication - Daniel Giberman, The University of Texas at Arlington
Concrete Particulars - Anne F. Hyde, The University of Oklahoma
Half-Breed: A History of Mixing Blood in North America, 1600–1940 - Susan Jarosi, Hamilton College
Inside the Glass Cube: The Ideology of Vitrines - Blair L. M. Kelley, North Carolina State University
Black Folk: The Promise of the Black Working Class - Jonathan T. King, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Enacting Intimacy, Channeling Wildness, and Performing Bluegrass in Japan - Daniel Layman, Davidson College
Locke among the Radicals - Janaka Bowman Lewis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Black Girlhood and Narratives of Play - Lisa Lipinski, The George Washington University
The Pensive Photography of Sally Mann - Jorge Marí, North Carolina State University
Environmental Cultural Studies, Film, and Spanish Teaching - Scott McGill, Rice University
Beyond Deceit: Forgery, Value, and Ancient Rome - Melissa Lynn Miller, University of Notre Dame
The Russian Medical Humanities
- Alexander Morgan, Rice University
From Mindlessness to Mentality: On the Origins of Subjectivity - Ed A. Munoz, The University of Utah
Constructing Latinx Identity: The Hispanic Mexican Mestizo Influence in the Intermountain West, 1650–2020 - Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. Smith University
In Their Own Words: Blackness, Race and Ethnicity in the Works of Pre-Colonial West African Scholars - Rekha Nath, The University of Alabama
The Injustice of Fat Stigma - Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University
From Toundi Ondoua to Jende Jonga: 60 Years of Dreams Deferred? - Mairin Odle, The University of Alabama
Skin Deep: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America - Joshua M. Paiz, The George Washington University
Queer Coming of Age Narratives in Sri Lankan English Literature - Jennifer Garcia Peacock, Davidson College
Latinx Landscapes: Art and the Environment in Latinx America, 1898–2001 - Keri Petersen, Johnson C. Smith University
Industrial Slavery and the Economic Development of North Carolina - Nicholas F. Radel, Furman University
Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition: Richard II - William Revere, University of North Carolina at Asheville
The Mutualities of Conscience: Satire, Community, and Individual Agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern England - David S. Roh, The University of Utah
Mediating Empire: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions - Margaret Simon, North Carolina State University
Books and Things: Theorizing Multi-Materiality In the English Renaissance - Michele Speitz, Furman University
Technologies of the Sublime and the Mechanical Supernatural - J. Michael Terry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dialectal Difference and Educational Achievement - Trysh Travis, University of Florida
“Lee Was a Gentleman”: Understanding Women’s Polite Racism in the Confederate Monument Controversy - Jennifer Wells, The George Washington University
Prelude to Empire: State Building in the Early Modern British World
Summer Residents, 2018
- Jaime Ahlberg, University of Florida
Schooling and Disability: Philosophical Perspectives on a Contemporary Policy Debate - Scott L. Baugh, Texas Tech University
Youth, Sexuality, Identity, Politics & Y Tu Mamá También - Masha Belenky, The George Washington University
Engine of Modernity: the Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris - Emily Burrill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gender at the Crossroads: Mobility and Belonging in a Francophone West African World, 1945–70 - Andre Cavalcante, University of Virginia
Life in Purple: Young, Queer, and Connected in the Changing American South - James A. Crank, The University of Alabama
Race and New Modernisms - Huiling Ding, North Carolina State University
Global Media Construction of AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero: Artificial Intelligence, Risk Communication, and the New AI Arms Race - Esther Fernández, Rice University
The Making of Illusions: Material Performances in Early Modern Spain and Their Contemporary Legacies - Barbara Hahn, Texas Tech University
Technology in the Industrial Revolution - Shoko Hamano, The George Washington University
Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Structural Layering of Sound-Symbolic Vocabulary and Its Implications for the Study of Language Evolution - Avery E. Holton, The University of Utah
Exploring Genetic Testing Discourses and Networks - Nathaniel Isaacson, North Carolina State University
Science Crosstalk (kexue xiangsheng) and Socialist Realism - Héctor Jaimes, North Carolina State University
Times of Rupture: The Contemporary Mexican Novel - Blair L. M. Kelley, North Carolina State University
The Execution of Corrine Sykes: Race, Place, and Remembrance in World War II Philadelphia - Min-Joo Kim, Texas Tech University
When and Why English Demonstratives Require Relative Clauses
- Petrus Liu, Boston University
Thinking Gender in the Age of the Beijing Consensus - Gordon K. Mantler, The George Washington University
“We Have Won”? Harold Washington and Multiracial Politics in the Age of Reagan - Jorge Marí, North Carolina State University
Environmental Debates & Environmental Activism in Contemporary Spain: Theory and Praxis - Brian McFadden, Texas Tech University
Monsters, Vikings, and Monks: The Tenth-Century Context of the Beowulf Manuscript - Celeste Day Moore, Hamilton College
Soundscapes of Liberation: Race, Music, and the Making of the Twentieth-Century Atlantic World - Jennifer Nolan, North Carolina State University
Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and the Fashioning of Authorial Identity: Ernest Hemingway, 1936 - Kwame Edwin Otu, University of Virginia
Scrambled Palimpsests: Making Christian Heteromonogamous Subjects in Postindependent Ghana (1965–75) - Iván A. Ramos, University of Maryland
Sonic Negations: Sound, Affect, and Unbelonging Between Mexico and the U.S. - Jeremy Rosen, The University of Utah
Genre Bending - K. Merinda Simmons, The University of Alabama
1) Race and New Modernisms; 2) Sourcing Slave Religion: Theorizing Experience in the American South - Pavitra Sundar, Hamilton College
Listening to Bollywood: Sound, Speech, and Song - Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University
The Legal Foundations of American Empire - Noel Mellick Voltz, The University of Utah
Chapter 4 (“The Storeroom” of My Manuscript: The Sword in Her Hands: Louisiana’s Free Women of Color and their Sexual Negotiation for Freedom) - Jung Yun, The George Washington University
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