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.

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