RESEARCH
TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. , April 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Humanities Center
(NHC) is pleased to announce the appointment of 31 Fellows for the
2024–25 academic year. These leading scholars will come to the
Center from universities and colleges in 16 US states and the
District of Columbia as well as
Canada, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. Chosen from 492 applicants,
they represent humanistic scholarship in African American studies;
Africana studies; American studies; anthropology; Chicana/o
studies; disability studies; East Asian studies; gender and
sexuality studies; history; indigenous studies; studies of
languages and literature; Latinx studies; medieval studies; music
history and musicology; philosophy; religious studies; and Slavic
studies. 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.
These leading scholars come from 16 US
states and the District of
Columbia, Canada,
Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.
These newly appointed Fellows will constitute the forty-seventh
class of resident scholars to be admitted since the Center opened
in 1978. "We are extremely pleased to be able to support the
exciting work of these exceptional scholars," said Robert D. Newman, president and director of the
National Humanities Center. "They were selected from a highly
competitive group of applicants representing institutions from
across the globe. We look forward to their arrival in the fall as
they each contribute their individual brilliance to creating a
lively intellectual community."
The National Humanities Center will award approximately
$1,500,000 in fellowship grants to
enable the selected scholars to take leave from their normal
academic duties and pursue research at the Center. This funding is
provided from the Center's endowment and by grants and awards from
the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the
National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as contributions
from alumni and friends of the Center.
NHC Fellows and Their Projects, 2024–25
Project disciplines and home institutions are parenthetically
noted for each Fellow.
- Giorgio Biancorosso
(Music History and Musicology, The University
of Hong Kong) Soft Technologies of the Virtual: Music and
Temporal Perspective in Narrative Cinema
- Belle Boggs (American Studies, North Carolina State University) Big Yellow Bus:
The Essential American History of a Disappearing Public
Good
- Nicholas Boggs (African American Studies,
Independent Scholar) James
Baldwin: A Love Story
- Edyta Bojanowska (Slavic
Studies, Yale University) Empire and
the Russian Classics
- Ashley Carse (Anthropology, Vanderbilt University) The Age of Mitigation:
Global Shipping and a River on Life Support
- Michael Childers (History, Colorado State University) The Mountains are
Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park
- Joseph M.H. Clark (History, University of Kentucky) Witchcraft and
Contraband in the Early Modern Caribbean
- Mark Cruse (Medieval
Studies, Arizona State University)
From Alexander the Great to Tamerlane: World Dominion in
the Medieval French Imagination
- Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis (History,
Indiana University Bloomington) "To
Rival the Temple of Solomon": Splendid
Churches and Bishops in Early Christianity
- Gabriel Andrés Eljaiek-Rodríguez (Latinx
Studies, Spelman College) Dramas and
Horrors of Immigration in Latinx Cinema
- Isabel C. Gómez (Languages and Literature,
University of Massachusetts Boston)
Divest from English: Eco-Translation and Translingual
Repair
- Brendan Griebel (Anthropology, Independent Scholar)
Crafting Freedom from Confinement in the Canadian
Prairies
- Kim Haines-Eitzen (Religious Studies, Cornell University) Crossing the River of Fire:
Apocalypse, Transformation, and the Elements in Late
Antiquity
- Sonia Hazard (Religious
Studies, Florida State University)
Christianity and the Book in the Cherokee Diaspora,
1821–1861
- Emily K. Hobson (Gender and Sexuality Studies,
University of Nevada, Reno) AIDS and
Abolition: A History of Care Work against the Carceral
State
- Annette
Joseph-Gabriel (Languages and Literature,
Duke University) Enslaved
Childhoods: Survival and Storytelling in the Atlantic
World
- Aaron Kamugisha (Africana Studies, Smith College) Bewildering Coloniality:
Austin Clarke and the Twentieth
Century Black Atlantic World
- Eunjung Kim (Gender
and Disability Studies, Syracuse
University) Dignity Archives: Accompanying the Dead and
Posthumous Care
- Julia A. King
(Anthropology, St. Mary's College of
Maryland) Land as Archive: An Indigenous Landscape
History of the Rappahannock People of Tidewater Virginia
- Susanna Lee (History,
North Carolina State University)
Unsettling Claims: Natives and Newcomers in the US-Dakota
War
- Amy Lonetree (Indigenous Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Visualizing Native American Survivance: A Photographic History
of the Ho-Chunk Nation, 1879–1960
- Mostafa Minawi (History,
Cornell University)
Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Imperialism
in the Red Sea Basin and the Horn of
Africa at the End of the 19th Century
- Sarah M. Quesada (Languages and Literature,
Duke University) The Untold
South-South: Greater Mexico,
African Decolonization, and Latin-African Solidarity
(1956–2008)
- Sarah Scott (Philosophy,
Manhattan College) The Moral
Philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe:
Forgotten British Philosopher and Women's Rights and Animal Welfare
Activist
- Frank Shovlin (Languages and Literature,
University of Liverpool)
John McGahern: A Writing
Life
- Angela Sun (Philosophy,
Washington and Lee University) The
Ethics of Reporting Wrongdoing
- John Wood Sweet (History,
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill) The Captive's Tale: Venture Smith and the African
Roots of the American Republic
- David J. Vázquez (Latinx Studies, American University) Days of Futures Past:
Latinx Science Fiction and Speculative Futurity
- R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada (Anthropology,
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign) Intersectional Justice Denied: Warring
Masculinity, Violence, and Peacemaking in Post-Accords El
Salvador
- Joseph Winters (Religious
Studies, Duke University) Beyond
Imperial Piety: Black Study, the Opaque Sacred, and World
De-formation
- Shengqing Wu (East
Asian Studies, The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology) The Chinese Poetics of Tactility
and Modern Love
About the National Humanities Center
The National
Humanities Center is the world's only independent institute
dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the
humanities. Through its residential fellowship program, the Center
provides scholars with the resources necessary to generate new
knowledge and to further understanding of all forms of cultural
expression, social interaction, and human thought. Through its
education programs, the Center strengthens teaching on the
collegiate and pre-collegiate levels. Through public engagement
intimately linked to its scholarly and educational programs, the
Center promotes understanding of the humanities and advocates for
their foundational role in a democratic society.
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Don Solomon
dsolomon@nationalhumanitiescenter.org
919-406-0120
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