Francine Hirsch (History, UW–Madison), “Enemies, A Love Story: An Entangled History of Russia and America”
Mario Ortiz-Robles (English, UW–Madison), “Future Anterior: How Nineteenth-Century Institutions Framed the Future of Animals”
Anne Vila (French and Italian, UW–Madison), “Convulsive Enlightenment: Lives and Afterlives of the Convulsionnaires in French Culture and Theory (18th to 21st Centuries)”
Incoming Senior Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity (REI) Fellow (2021-2025):
B. Venkat Mani (German, Nordic, Slavic, UW–Madison), “No Forwarding Address: The Global Novel in the Age of Refugees”
Continuing Senior Fellows (various terms):
Guillermina De Ferrari (Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison), “Community under Duress: Moral Luck and Caribbean Culture”
Lea Jacobs (Communication Arts, UW–Madison), “John Ford at Work: the Films in their Production Context, 1934-1950”
Dan Kapust (Political Science, UW–Madison), “The Tragedy of the Imperial Republic: Narrative, Exceptionalism, and the Fate of Republican Self-Rule”
Laura McClure (Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, UW–Madison), “Re-imaging the Chorus: Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, H.D., and Greek Tragedy”
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (History, UW–Madison), “The American Ways of Wisdom”
Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity (REI) Fellows 2021-2022:
Laila Amine (English, UW–Madison), “Return Travel: The African Diaspora Across Genres of Mobilities”
Chad Goldberg (Department of Sociology, UW–Madison), “Cultural Pluralism and American Democracy”
Kasey Keeler (Civil Society & Community Studies; American Indian Studies, UW–Madison), “Tribal Capitalism: The Politics of American Indian Land, Property, and Identity”
Resident Fellows 2021-2022:
Claus Elholm Andersen (German, Nordic, and Slavic, UW–Madison), “The Very Edge of Fiction: Karl Ove Knausgaard and the Post-Fictional Turn”
Katherine Bowie (Anthropology, UW–Madison), “Muzzled Memories: Saint Srivichai and the Formation of Modern Thailand”
Thomas Dale, (Art History, UW–Madison), “Race and Cultural Encounter in Medieval Venice after the Fourth Crusade”
Patrick Iber (History, UW–Madison), “Poverty of the Imagination: The Ford Foundation, Social Science, and the Politics of Poverty and Inequality in Cold War Latin America”
Viren Murthy (History, UW–Madison), “Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution”
Sunny Yudkoff (German, Nordic, and Slavic, UW–Madison), “Against Jewish Humor: Toward a Theory of Yiddish Joy”
Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellow in Spanish Literature of the Iberian Peninsula 2021-2022:
Julia Dominguez (Iowa State University, World Languages and Cultures), “The Arts of Mnemosyne: Expressions of Mnemonic Culture in Renaissance Spain”
Kingdon Fellows 2021-2022:
Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Religious Studies), “Jerusalem Through the Ages”
Emma Wasserman (Rutgers University, Religion), “Towards a History of Religious Polemic: The Jewish Law in the New Testament”
Solmsen Fellows 2021-2022:
Katarzyna Lecky (Bucknell University, English), “England’s Weedy Renaissance”
Adrian McClure (Ph.D. Purdue University, Medieval Literature), “Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade”
James Pilgrim (Johns Hopkins University, History of Art), “Jacopo Bassano and the Environment of Painting”
Michael Walkden (Folger Institute, Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Folger Shakespeare Library), “Eating the Inedible: Food, Medicine, and Othering in the Early Modern World”
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity [Emerging Voices Fellowship] 2021-2022:
Baligh Ben Taleb (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, History), “Reckoning with the Legacy of U.S. Settler Colonialism: Treaty Claims and the Western Shoshone Quest for Justice”
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Fellow 2021-2022:
Moe Taylor (History, UW–Madison), “North Korea and Latin America in the ‘Era of Independence,’ 1971-1985”
UW-System Fellows 2021-2022:
Douglas Scott Haynes (UW–Oshkosh, English), “Learning in the Age of Loneliness: Reimagining Education for the Anthropocene”
Anne Widmayer (UW–Milwaukee at Washington County, Arts & Humanities), “Raging Women and Crying Men: Taboo Gendered Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
Chris Yogerst (UW–Milwaukee, Arts & Humanities), “The Warner Brothers: How an Immigrant Family Came to Hollywood and Changed America”
Dissertation Fellows
William Coleman Fellow in History of Science 2021-2022:
James R. Barnes (History, UW–Madison), “Histories Written in the Margins: Early Modern Scientific Print Cultures and Practices in the Work of Christopher Borri”
Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellows 2021-2022:
Karma Palzom (History, UW–Madison) “Political Transformations in the Tibetan Freedom Movement: Resettlement and Political Activism in the United States”
Josiah Stork (Asian Language and Cultures, UW–Madison), “Reading the Dragons of the Tàipíng Guǎngjì: A Queer Ecocritical Approach”
Andrew Thomas (English, UW–Madison), “Intimate Wars: Afro-Asian Cultural Responses to Civil Conflict in the ‘American Century'”
Madeleine Doran Fellow in English 2021-2022:
Iseult Gillespie (English, UW–Madison), “Biological Imaginaries: Disability, Difference, and the New Genres of the Body in the Twenty-first Century”
Robert J. Reinhold Fellow in Classics 2021-2022:
Amie Goblirsch (Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, UW–Madison), “Time, Architect, and Principate in the De Architectura of Vitruvius”
Madison Area Technical College/Madison College (MATC) Fellow 2021-2022:
Kevin Piper (Madison College, English), “Overcoming Antiracist Resistance: Teaching Race with Student Feedback in World Indigenous Literature”
Honorary Fellows
Simon P. Newman (University of Glasgow, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of History (Emeritus)), “The Invention of Runaway Slaves in the Seventeenth Century English Atlantic World”
Justine Walden (Ph.D., History and Renaissance Studies, Yale University), “What Price Souls: Capuchin Mission in Congo, Mercantilism, and Antislavery”
Emeritus Fellow
Max Harris (Independent Scholar), “Battling Demons: The Temptation of Antony in Art, Theater, Fiction, Film, and Fiestas”
