Current IRH Fellows

Mercedes Alcalá-Galán

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2023-2027)

Address:
Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UW–Madison

Uncovering Black African Female Slavery in Early Modern Spain: Voices from the Archives and Portrayals in Art and Literature

Elizabeth Athens

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Assistant Professor, Art + Art History, University of Connecticut

Early Modern Anatomies and the Arboreal Body

Karen Britland

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2024-2028)

Address:
Halls-Bascom Professor, Religious Studies Program, UW–Madison

Possession: A Story of Gods, Goods and Greed

Margaret Butler

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Professor, Musicology Area, Mead Witter School of Music, UW–Madison

Operatic Women: Celebrity Culture and the Seria Stage, 1750–1790

Jill H. Casid

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2024-2028)

Address:
Professor of Visual Studies, Department of Art History; Department of Gender and Women's Studies, UW–Madison

Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene

Lisa H. Cooper

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2023-2027)

Address:
Professor, English, UW–Madison

The Poetics of Practicality in Late Medieval England

Daniel Davies

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Assistant Professor, English, University of Houston

Under Siege: Perpetual Warfare and Late-Medieval Literature

Ainehi Edoro-Glines

Position title: UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Vilas and Mellon Morgridge Assistant Professor of English, Department of English; African Cultural Studies Department (joint appointment), UW–Madison

Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think

Simeon D. Ehrlich

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Fulbright Israel/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem—Institute of Archaeology

Time of Death in the Roman Empire: Tombstones, Timekeeping, Astrology, and Afterlife among Pagans and Christians

Isaiah Ellis

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Assistant Professor of Urban Religions, Department of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University

Apostles of Asphalt: Race, Empire, and the Religious Politics of Infrastructure in the American South

Esther Fernández

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025)

Address:
Independent Scholar

A Drama in Transition: The Democratization of Spanish Classical Theater

Kuhelika Ghosh

Position title: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
PhD Candidate, English, UW–Madison

Cultivating Caribbean Voices: Multispecies Gardens, Care, and Food Justice in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Allyson Gross

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
PhD Candidate, Communication Arts, UW–Madison

Of Even Vaster Promise: Material Preservation and the Rhetoric of the Future

Andrea Harris

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2023-2027)

Address:
Professor, Dance, School of Education, UW–Madison

The Body is an Instrument: Science, the Therapeutic Worldview, and the Beginning of Modern Dance

Max Harris

Position title: emeritus fellow (2018--)

Address:
Independent Scholar

The Creative Cult of Saint Anthony: Relics, Paintings, Plays, Puppets, and Fiestas

Francine Hirsch

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2021-2025)

Address:
Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Distinguished Chair of Russian History, Department of History, UW–Madison

Enemies, A Love Story: An Entangled History of Russia, America, and Germany

Thomas Leek

Position title: Universities of Wisconsin Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Associate Professor, Department of World Languages and Literatures, UW–Stevens Point

Aligning Vectorized Ancient Language Corpora: Towards a Translingual Search Function

B. Venkat Mani

Position title: UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity senior fellow (2021-2025)

Address:
Evjue-Bascom Professor of the Humanities, German, Nordic, and Slavic+; Affiliate Faculty, English; Research Faculty, Center for German and European Studies; Teaching Faculty, Center for South Asia / Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS); Affiliate Faculty, Center for the History of Print and Digital Cultures; Member, L&S Faculty Honors Committee, UW–Madison

Tales of Unsettlement: The Global Novel in the Age of Refugees

Adrian McClure

Position title: honorary fellow (2022-2025)

Address:
PhD, Medieval Literature, Purdue University

Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade

Darshana Sreedhar Mini

Position title: UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Arts; Teaching Faculty, Center for South Asia; Affiliate Faculty, Center for Visual Cultures; Affiliate, Gender and Women's Studies, UW–Madison

Telegeographies of Indian Migration: Media as Transregional Homemaking

Junko Mori

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison

Cultural Diplomacy, Linguistic Capital, and Raciolinguistic Dynamics: The History of K-12 Japanese Language Education in Wisconsin

Simon P. Newman

Position title: honorary fellow (2020-2025)

Address:
Sir Denis Brogan Professor of History (Emeritus), School of Humanities, University of Glasgow

Freedom-Seekers 1776

Mario Ortiz-Robles

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2021-2025)

Address:
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Nancy C. Hoefs Professor of English, English, UW–Madison

Future Anterior: How Nineteenth-Century Institutions Framed the Future of Animals

Lindsay Palmer

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW–Madison

Defending Our Colleagues: The Committee to Protect Journalists and Global Press Freedom (1981-2021)

Allison M. Prasch

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts, UW–Madison

Plot Lines: The Rhetorical Construction of Washington, D.C.

Mark John Radomski

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Dissertation Fellow in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture (2024-2025)

Address:
PhD Candidate, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UW–Madison

Exploring Seville's Cosmopolitanism: Literary Perspectives and the Guadalquivir River in the Early Modern Era

Lucas Richert

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Professor and George Urdang Chair in Pharmacy History, Social and Administrative Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW–Madison

Chain Reaction: The Rise of Big Pharmacy, Corporate Health, and American Capitalism

Liina-Ly Roos

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Assistant Professor, German, Nordic, and Slavic+, UW–Madison

The Not-Quite Child: Rethinking Whiteness and Colonial Histories in Sweden through Images of Childhood

Sarah Schaefer

Position title: Universities of Wisconsin Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Associate Professor, Art History, UW–Milwaukee

Tolkien's Art Histories

Brandon Smith

Position title: Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC) Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Instructor, Department of Philosophy, McGill University

Early Modern Eudaimonism

Emma Snowden

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Assistant Professor, History, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Narrating Conquest and Colonization in the Medieval Western Mediterranean

Jack Stetter

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
PhD, Philosophy, Université Paris 8

Spinoza and the Philosophy of War

Daniel Stolz

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Kemal H. Karpat Associate Professor of History, Department of History, UW–Madison

The Long Debt: The Ottoman Loans and Economic Governance in the Twentieth Century

Sherry Velasco

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellow in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture (2024-2025)

Address:
Professor, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures; Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Southern California

Listening in the Age of Cervantes: Moriscas and Gendered Sounds from Spain to Algiers

Anne C. Vila

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2021-2025)

Address:
Professor of French, Department of French & Italian, UW–Madison

Convulsive Enlightenment: Lives and Afterlives of the Convulsionnaires in French Culture and Theory (18th to 21st Centuries)

Justine Walden

Position title: honorary fellow (2020-2025)

Address:
Harvard Villa I Tatti Berenson Fellow (2023-2024); Lecturer, Department of History, UW–Madison (2020-2023).

What Price Souls: Enslavement, Evangelism, and Profit in the Early Modern Atlantic; and Naming Race in the Renaissance

Ying Wang

Position title: Universities of Wisconsin Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Associate Professor, Art History, UW–Milwaukee

LungShar Incident of 1934—a Failed Attempt to Modernize Tibet

Viacheslav Zahorodniuk

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025)

Address:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto; Assistant of the Chair of Philosophy and Methodology of Science, Department of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Early Childhood in the Early Modern: Locke's Accounts on Children Perception