Summer Faculty Fellows

HRI’s Summer Faculty Fellowships are designed to help faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign maximize the summer in service of their ongoing professional development.

Past Summer Faculty Fellows

2023–24

  • John Levi Barnard, Comparative and World Literature, English
    “The Edible and the Endangered: Food, Empire, Extinction”
     
  • Eric Calderwood, Comparative and World Literature
    “Babel’s Bounty: Multilingual Arts in the Mediterranean”
     
  • Salvatore Callesano, Spanish and Portuguese
    “The Comment Section: Multimodal sentiment analyses and ‘no sabo kids’ on TikTok”
     
  • Pilar Martínez-Quiroga, Spanish and Portuguese
    “The Utopia of a Feminist Nation: The Case of Catalonia”
     
  • Anna Mendoza, Linguistics
    “Language Use and Investment in a French-English Dual Immersion School”
     
  • Lindsay Rose Russell, English
    “Sex & Lex”
     
  • Blair Ebony Smith, Art Education and Gender and Women’s Studies
    “Love a(n)d Loops: Memory, Sound, Freedom, and Black Girlhood”
     
  • Lou Turner, Urban and Regional Planning
    “The Harold (Hal ) M. Baron Digital Archival, Research, and Publication Project”
     
  • Mirelsie Velázquez, Latina/Latino Studies
    “Space, Place, and Homemaking: Black and Indigenous Oklahoma, 1865-1925”

2022–23

  • Nir Ben-Moshe, Philosophy
    “Idealization and the Moral Point of View: An Adam Smithian Account of Moral Reasons”
     
  • Eda Derhemi, French and Italian
    “Endangered Arvanitika in Zeriki, Greece”
     
  • David O’Brien Art History, Art and Design
    “The Cult of Napoleon in Material Culture, 1815–1848”

2021–22

  • Christopher Kempf, English
    “All These Ithacas” and Local Color
     
  • Magdalena Novoa, Urban and Regional Planning
    “Wounded Landscapes: Race, gender, and grassroots preservation in Wallmapu”
     
  • Andrea Stevens, English
    “Racial Masquerade and the Caroline Court, 1625-1649”

2020–21

  • Jose Atiles, Sociology
    “Puerto Rico is Open for Business: Exceptionality, Financialization and Colonialism”
     
  • Honaida Ahyad, Linguistics / Translation Studies
    Translation of Manahil Sindi’s novel Nisf Estiwa (Half-Cooked), from Makkan into English
     
  • Carolyn Fornoff, Spanish and Portuguese
    “Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Culture in the Era of Climate Change”
     
  • Craig Koslofsky, History
    “The Deep Surface: Skin in the Early Modern World, 1450-1750”

2019–20

  • Tamara Chaplin, History
    Desiring Women: Female Same-Sex Intimacy and the French Public Sphere

2018–19

  • Justine S. Murison, English
    American Hypocrisy: The Politics of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature
     
  • Anke Pinkert, Germanic Languages and Literatures
    Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest and Assembly
     
  • Carol Symes, History
    Mediated Texts and Their Makers in Medieval Europe

2017–18

  • Jessica Greenberg, Anthropology
    Ghosts in the Machine: Rights, Sovereignty and (post)Institutional Crisis in Europe
     
  • Junaid Rana, Asian American Studies
    The Life of Dada Amir Haider Khan
     
  • Emmanuel Rota, French and Italian
    Laziness: A Modern Myth