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
Ignacio Arellano-Torres
Position title: Birutė Ciplijauskaitė Fellow in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture (2025–2026)
Address:
Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Adelphi University
Self-Representation and Burlesque Portraiture in Golden Age Spanish Poetry: A Study of Identity, Irony, and Social Commentary
Robert Asen
Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Senior Fellow (2025–2029)
Address:
Stephen E. Lucas Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture and Daniel C. Brouwer Professor of Communication and Democracy, Department of Communication Arts, UW–Madison
Professing Equality, Protecting Inequality: Anti-Woke Publics, Race, and Education
Steffani Michelle Bennett
Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Resident Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Assistant Professor and Joan B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art, Department of Art History, UW–Madison
Profession of the Brush: Sesshū Tōyō and the Artist in Medieval Japan
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
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
Chase Castle
Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
University of Pennsylvania (PhD, 2024)
The Gospel in Black and White: Race and Popular Culture in American Hymns
Stewart Cole
Position title: Universities of Wisconsin Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Professor, Environmental Studies Program and Department of English, UW–Oshkosh
The Haunted and the Hunted: Human and Nonhuman Animals in British Literature between the Wars
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
Thomas E. A. Dale
Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Senior Fellow (2025–2029)
Address:
Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Simona and Jerome Chazen Distinguished Chair in Art History, Department of Art History, UW–Madison
Visualizing Race & Cultural Encounter in Medieval Venice
Jamie de Moya-Cotter
Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Dissertation Fellow in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture (2025–2026)
Address:
PhD Candidate, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UW–Madison
Entangled Narrations of an Extractive Anthropocene: Eco-Storytelling from the Andes and Amazonia
Grace Delmolino
Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Assistant Professor of Italian, Department of French and Italian, UC Davis
Medieval Consent: Law, Gender, and Power in Gratian's Decretum and Boccaccio's Decameron
Brittney M. Edmonds
Position title: UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Resident Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, UW–Madison
Who’s Laughing Now?: Black Experimental Satire and the Aesthetics of Decipherment
Natalia Egorova
Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
PhD Candidate, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison
Marketing Cosmetics across Woodblock Media in Early Modern Japan
Caroline Gottschalk
Position title: UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Senior Fellow (2025–2029)
Address:
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, English, UW–Madison
Mending Rivers
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
Michelle Karnes
Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Professor, English Department and History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
The Mirroring Seas
Paul Joseph Lennon
Position title: Birutė Ciplijauskaitė Fellow in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture (2025–2026)
Address:
Associate Professor, School of Modern Languages, University of St. Andrews
Petrarchan Wives: Conjugal Love in Early Modern Luso-Hispanic Poetry
Michael Martoccio
Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Resident Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Assistant Professor, Department of History, UW–Madison
Leviathan for Sale: The Market for City-States in Renaissance Italy
James Messina
Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Resident Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Professor, Department of Philosophy, UW–Madison
Hidden Dimensions: Kant on the Nature and Grounding of Space
Benjamin Mier-Cruz
Position title: UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Resident Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Assistant Professor, German, Nordic, and Slavic+; Gender & Women's Studies, UW–Madison
Documenting Embodied Fictions
Michelle Mouton
Position title: Universities of Wisconsin Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Professor, Department of History, UW–Oshkosh
Kriegskinder: German Children from the Second World War to the Cold War 1944–1955
Simon P. Newman
Position title: honorary fellow (2020-2026)
Address:
Sir Denis Brogan Professor of History (Emeritus), School of Humanities, University of Glasgow
Freedom-Seekers 1776
Samm Newton
Position title: Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
PhD Candidate, Department of History, UW–Madison
Halfway Across the Oceans: Deep-Sea Values and Knowledge in Negotiating the Limits of the Commons
Domenica Romagni
Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University
“Rationalist Aesthetics”: Consonance and Perfection in 17th Century Philosophy
Sierra Rooney
Position title: Universities of Wisconsin Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Associate Professor, Art, UW–La Crosse
Monumental Women: Gender, Representation, and the Heroic Ideal in the United States
Aijie Shi
Position title: Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
PhD Candidate, Department of History, UW–Madison
Experimenting with Aquatic Productivity: The Life History of Aquatic Science in Modern China (1910–1960)
Brandon Smith
Position title: Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC) Fellow (2024-2026)
Address:
Instructor, Department of Philosophy, McGill University
Early Modern Eudaimonism
Maya Soifer Irish
Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Associate Professor, Department of History, Rice University
The Politics of Antisemitism in Medieval Spain and the Riots of 1391
Katerina Somers
Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Resident Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Associate Professor, German, Nordic, and Slavic+, UW–Madison
Translation, Prose, and the Literization of German in the Middle Ages
Katie Tardio
Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Assistant Professor, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Bucknell University
Feeding Tarraco: The Animal Economy of Hispania Tarraconensis
Sarah Thal
Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Senior Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
David Kuenzi and Mary Wyman Professor of History, Department of History, UW–Madison
Ways of the Samurai: Masculinity, Violence, and National Character in Turn-of-the-Century Japan
KD Thompson
Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Resident Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities, Religious Studies Program, UW–Madison
Women, Voice, and Muslim Radio in Tanzania
Michael Weinstein-Reiman
Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Resident Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Assistant Professor, Mead-Witter School of Music, UW–Madison
The Art of Touch: Musical Learning, Keyboards, and the Modern Self
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk
Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2026)
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
Louise Zamparutti
Position title: Universities of Wisconsin Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
Associate Professor, English, UW–La Crosse
Monument in Motu: The Positionality of Place
Mélanie Zappulla
Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2025–2026)
Address:
PhD, Philosophy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Spinoza and the Wisdom of the Ancients: Ethics as a Way of Living