IRH Director Steven Nadler is pleased to announce the full cohort of incoming and returning IRH Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Later in the summer, IRH will be sharing information on each fellow’s project.
Senior Fellows
- Guillermina De Ferrari (Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison), “Community under Duress: Moral Luck and Caribbean Culture”
- Daniel J. Kapust (Political Science, UW–Madison), “The Tragedy of the Imperial Republic: Narrative, Exceptionalism, and the Fate of Republican Self-Rule”
- B. Venkat Mani (Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Senior Fellow) (German, Nordic, Slavic, UW–Madison), “No Forwarding Address: The Global Novel in the Age of Refugees”
- 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”
- 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 C. Vila (French and Italian, UW–Madison), “Convulsive Enlightenment: Lives and Afterlives of the Convulsionnaires in French Culture and Theory (18th to 21st Centuries)”
Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity (REI) Fellows:
- Katherine Jensen (Sociology; International Studies, UW–Madison), “The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil”
- Brenda Gayle Plummer (History; Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison), “Jim Crow Flies”
Resident Fellows:
- Anna Vemer Andrzejewski (Art History, UW–Madison), “Building Paradise: The Creation of South Florida’s White, Middle-Class Retirement and Vacation Landscape”
- Mou Banerjee (History, UW–Madison), “Strange Intimacies: Changing perceptions of Afghanistan in the South Asian Imaginary, 1816-1930”
- Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué (African Cultural Studies, UW–Madison), “Diasporas in Africa”
- Adam Y. Stern (German, Nordic, and Slavic+, UW–Madison), “No Hands: An Archaeology of Emancipation”
Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellow in Spanish Literature of the Iberian Peninsula 2022-2023:
- Luis F. Bernabé Pons (Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Alicante), “Literature of (With, By, For, and With Regard To) The Moriscos”
- Carolyn Nadeau (World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Illinois Wesleyan University) “Artistic Voices of the Columbian Exchange”
Kingdon Fellows:
- Jaime M. Pensado (History, University of Notre Dame), “The German Connection in the Inter-American Cold War: Adveniat and the Radicalization of Latin American Catholic Students during the Global Sixties”
- Nicole Pulichene (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art), “One Whose Name was Writ in Wax:’ Reflections on the Medieval Reuse of Consular Diptychs”
Solmsen Fellows:
- David R. Como (History, Stanford University), “New Model Politics: Armies, Regicide, and the English Revolution”
- Randall Pippenger (Paul Mellon/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize Fellow, American Academy in Rome), “Left Behind: Veterans, Widows, and Orphans in the Era of the Crusades”
- Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent (Theology, Marquette University), “The Temple of the Greedy Belly: Gluttony’s Tale”
- Justin Steinberg (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center; Brooklyn College (CUNY)), “Spinoza’s Moral Psychology: An Interpretation and Defense “
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity:
- Barbara Roberta Galindo Rodrigues Marcos (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles), “Orphan Lives, Tortured Cities, and Ecosocial Human Rights: Cultural Representations of Mining Terror in the Andes”
UW-System Fellows:
- Jennifer Jordan (Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), “Before Craft Beer: Lost Landscapes of Forgotten Hops”
- Rebecca Nesvet (Humanities, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay), “Blood Relations: James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family”
- Aragorn Quinn (Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), “Avatar: Disembodied Performance in Modern Japan”
- Shan J. Sappleton (Criminal Justice and Social Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Platteville), “Beyond Formal Institutions: Ethnic Politicization in sub-Saharan Africa—a Comparative Perspective”
Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellows:
- Young Kim (Art History, UW–Madison), “Imaging Auspiciousness in High Qing China”
- Charlotte Whatley (History, UW–Madison), “Property and Power: Legal Performance and Legitimacy in the Reign of Edward III”
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Postdoctoral Fellow Resident:
- Aisha Motlani (Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), “Darshan and Disenchantment: Painting Worship in India, 1861-1947”
Honorary Fellows:
- Agata Fijalkowski (Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University), “Visual Imagery of the War Crimes Trials in Poland, 1944-1948”
- Helen M. Kinsella (Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), “Settler Empire and the Laws of War”
- Adrian McClure (Ph.D., Medieval Literature, Purdue University), “Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade”
- Simon P. Newman (School of Humanities, University of Glasgow), “The Invention of Runaway Slaves in the Seventeenth Century English Atlantic World”
- Barbara Obrist (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Laboratoire SPHERE, Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire), Université Paris Diderot) “A History of Twelfth-Century Cosmology”
- Justine Walden (History, UW–Madison), “What Price Souls: Race and Religion from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic” and “Naming Race in the Renaissance”
Emeritus Fellow:
- Max Harris (Independent Scholar), “Battling Demons: The Temptation of Antony in Art, Theater, Fiction, Film, and Fiestas”