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

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