Post-Doctoral Fellows
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Humanities as Social Practice
2023–24
Divya Nair (PhD, English, University of Pennsylvania, 2021)
“Classical Reception and the Problem of the Color Line in Early Modern English Literature: A Du Boisian Historiography”
Mellon Emerging Areas Post-Doctoral Fellows
In 2015, HRI (then IPRH) received a grant of $2,050,000 from the Mellon Foundation to support the development of emerging areas in the humanities (EAH). The grant sponsored 4 faculty, 6 post-doctoral, and 12 pre-doctoral fellowships, as well as 18 undergraduate internships, to form three research groups that ran consecutively from 2016 to 2022.
2020–22: Legal Humanities
- Sabeen Ahmed (PhD, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 2020)
“Coloniality and the Racial Ontopolitics of Law: Foucault's Juridical Power Reconsidered"
- Beverly Fok (PhD, Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2020)
"Kinship of Territories”
2018–20: Environmental Humanities
- Leah Aronowsky (PhD, History of Science, Harvard University, 2018)
“Configuring the Planetary Environment as a Scientific Object”
- Pollyana Rhee (PhD, Architecture, Columbia University, 2018)
“Designing Natural Advantages: Environmental Visions, Civic Ideals, and Architecture for Community, 1920–1970”
2016–18: Bio-Humanities
- Rosine Kelz (PhD, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 2014)
“Beyond the human?': Concepts of Humanity, Responsibility, and Agency in Political Theory and Biotechnology”
- Daniel Liu (PhD, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016)
“Vision and Calculation of Living Matter”
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows
In December 2009, HRI (then IPRH) was awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support post-doctoral fellowships in the humanities; in fall 2010, we welcomed the first two Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities. The Mellon grant will provide funding for post-doctoral fellowship awards through 2015-16.
2015–17
- Nili Belkind
Music in Conflict: Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Cultural Production
2014–16
- Chunghao Pio Kuo
Animal Matters: Epidemic Diseases, Public Hygiene, and Food Safety in China (1700–1900) - Jeannie N. Shinozuka
Biotic Borderlands: Constituting Race in Transnational Public Health and Agriculture, 1880–1945
2013–15
- Aaron Carico
The Free Plantation: Slavery’s Institution in America, 1865–1940 - Onni Gust
Pedagogies and Peripheries: the Governess at the Margins of Empire, c.1760-1860
2012–14
- Carla Hustak
Planting Rhythms: Plant Eugenics, Organic Farming, and Experimental Gardens, 1890-1930 - Ahalya Satkunaratnam
Feminist Movement: Bharata Natyam Dance Practice After Sri Lanka’s Civil War
2011–13
- Karoline Cook
Forbidden Crossings: Moriscos and Muslims in Spanish America, 1492-1650 - Duncan Keenan-Jones
Water, Society and Environment in Ancient Rome and its Hinterland
2010–12
- Patricia Goldsworthy-Bishop
Colonial Negatives: Muslims and Minorities in Colonial Moroccan Photography - Kristine Nielsen
Reframing Memory and the Inglorious Monuments of the Past in Postwar German Cultural Politics
IPRH Post-Doctoral Fellows in Digital Humanities
In 2009–10 and 2010–11, IPRH awarded Digital Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships in conjunction with the Illinois Informatics Institute.
2010–11
- Jeff Drouin
The Ecclesiastical Proust Archive
2009–10
- Kristen C. Uszkalo
Throwing Bones: A Semi-supervised Classification and GIS-based System for Early Modern Witchcraft Trial Documents
LAS Post-Doctoral Fellows
Between fall 2002 and spring 2007 IPRH awarded 9 external post-doctoral fellowships supported by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
2006–07
- Elizabeth B. Boyd
Southern Beauty: Performing Region on the Feminine Body
2005–06
- Erica Lehrer
“Shoah-business,” Holocaust Culture, and Salvage Ethnography in a Post-Jewish Landscape: An Inquiry into the Ethnic Self after Genocide - Robert A. Yelle
Legal Fictions: Genealogies of Law, Religion, and Rhetoric
2004–05
- Becky Conekin
Taste Matters: A History of the Notion of Taste in 19th and 20th Century Britain and the United States - Jonathan R. Moore
The Devil Went Down to Hoopeston: Pagans, Cornjerkers, and American Identity
2003–04
- Lisa Marie Cacho
Telling Ghost Stories: Knowing Ourselves Through Others’ Historical Hauntings - Darren Mulloy
Violence and the American Militia Movement
2002–03
- Elizabeth Duquette
Successful Conversions: The Problems of Moral Allegiance in Postbellum America - Sophia Mihic
The American South as Ghetto, The Politics of “Race” in the United States as Problem