Emerging Areas in the Humanities Fellows
In January 2015, the Mellon Foundation awarded a grant of $2,050,000 to HRI to support the development of emerging areas in the humanities.
The funds support fellowships for Illinois faculty and graduate students, and undergraduate interns, as well as post-doctoral fellows, creating robust research groups in three areas: Bio-Humanities, Environmental Humanities, and Legal Humanities.
Legal Humanities
- Faculty Fellows
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2021-22
Colleen Murphy (Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Acting Executive Director of the Illinois Global Institute)
2020-21
A. Naomi Paik (Asian American Studies)
- Post-Doctoral Fellows
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2020-22
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” - Pre-Doctoral Fellows
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2021-22
Claire Branigan (Anthropology)
“Ineffective Laws, Active Citizens: Creating Justice in the aftermath of Femicidio in Argentina"
Ian Toller-Clark (History)
"Carceral Democracy: Race, Prisons, and the Realignment of Politics in Wisconsin, 1940–1972”
Brenda Garcia (Anthropology)
2020-21
“NecroSecurity: Youth, Death and Life in the State of Right"
Silvia Escanilla Huerta (History)
"A Fragmented Sovereignty. Indigenous People, War and Political Change in the Process of Independence in the Viceroyalty of Peru (1783–1828)” - Undergraduate Interns
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2021-22
Thomas Ballard, Political Science and Economics
Alice Lee, Political Science and Psychology
Alex Wellman, Economics and Political Science2020-21
Buthania Hattab, Political Science
Maria T. Martinez, English
Adem Osmani, Political Science
Environmental Humanities
- Faculty Fellow
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2018-2020
Bob Morrissey (History)
- Post-Doctoral Fellows
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2018-20
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” - Pre-Doctoral Fellows
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2018-19
Samantha Good (Spanish and Portuguese)
“Negotiated Ecologies: Indigeneity and Ecocriticism in 19th-Century Bolivia and Chile”
Alexandra Paterson (English)
“Geological Bodies: The Earth and Narratives of the Self in Romantic-Period Britain, 1784–1820”2019–20
Douglas Jones, History
“The Cult of the Yankee Mining Engineer: Engineering Nature, Race, and Labor in the US, Canada, and South Africa, 1886–1922”
Jessica Landau, Art History
“‘Critical Habitat’: Picturing Conservation, Extinction, and the American Animal in the Long Twentieth Century” - Undergraduate Interns
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2019-20
Alaina Bottens, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences / Gender & Women’s Studies
Sarah Gediman, History / Earth, Society & Environmental Sustainability
Amanda Watson,English / Political Science2018–19
Juan Martin Luna Nunez (Urban Studies and Planning)
Clara Pokorny (Urban Studies and Planning)
April Wendling (Geography and Earth Society & Environmental Sustainability, minor in Integrative Biology)
Bio-Humanities
- Faculty Fellow
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2016–2018
Samantha Frost (Political Science / Gender and Women's Studies)
- Post-Doctoral Fellows
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2016–2018
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” - Pre-Doctoral Fellows
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2016–17
Lydia Crafts (History)
“Empire’s Laboratory: Race, Ethics, and Medical Experimentation in Guatemala during the Cold War”
Rebecah Pulsifer (English)
“Signifying Nothing: Intelligence and Intellectual Disability in British Modernism”2017–18
Robert Rouphail (History)
Michael Uhall (Political Science)
“Disastrous Kinships: Nature, Gender, and Resilience in Moder Mauritius, 1892–1980”
“Companion Ecologies” - Undergraduate Interns
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2016–17
Sneha Adusumilli (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Miranda Dawson (Bioengineering)
Sana Khadri (English and Integrative Biology)
2017–18
Victoria Halewicz (Psychology, minor in Communication)
Hyun Park (Psychology and English)
Henry Yeary (English)