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