Current IRH Fellows

Writing the Museum: Pictorial Imagination in Baroque Fiction of the Spanish Empire

A is for Asylum: A Historical Glossary of the Words We Use for People on the Move

Crip Materiality: Disability, Plasticity, and the Art Institution after the Americans with Disabilities Act

Community under Duress: Moral Luck and Caribbean Culture

Everyone is a Materialist Now: New Materialism and Cultural Hermeneutic

Virtually White: The Crisis of Whiteness, Racial Rule, and Affect in the Digital Age

Songs and Stones: Postclassical Greek Chorality

Sabbatai Sevi Comes to America

Structuring Vision: A History of Videotape

The Roots of Dance Therapy

Battling Demons: The Temptations of Antony in Fine Arts, Theater, and Fiestas

Imagining Africa: Early Modern Iberian Textual Cartographies

John Ford at Work: the Films in their Production Context, 1934-1950

On Behalf of Life: Bioidentification and Bioethics

Looking-Glass Worlds: Oriental Intimacies and Fin-de-Siècle Children’s Culture

Citizenship and Civilization: A Ho-Chunk History

The Tragedy of the Imperial Republic: Narrative, Exceptionalism, and the Fate of Republican Self-Rule

Nineteenth-Century Scottish Idealism

Knightly Culture on Crusades and in the Latin States

Vihuelists and Courtly Performance of Poetry in Early Modern Spain

Seeds of Sedition: Libels, Plays, and the Early Modern Public Sphere

Re-imaging the Chorus: H.D. and Greek Tragedy

The Washington Consensus: Journalism and the Making of the Postwar World Order

The Impractical Anarchist: James Joyce and the Aesthetics of Autonomy

Birthing Paradox: Race, Colonization, and Radicalism in U.S. Midwifery

Engrossing the Reader: Delight and Disgust in Latin Literature

Steven Nadler has been teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1988. He has been a Senior Fellow at the IRH (2013-2017), and twice a Resident Fellow...

The State of the Individual: Biometrics, Politics, and the Common Man in India

The Invention of Runaway Slaves in the Seventeenth Century English Atlantic World

A History of Twelfth-Century Cosmology

Slipping Sideways; Or, Alternate Histories, Contemporaneity, and the Practice of Digital Posthumanities

Diversity and Difference in Ancient Rome

Success from Scrap and Second-hand Goods: Jewish Business in the Midwest, 1890-1930

The Four Great Inventions: A Global History of Modern China

Paragons of Prudence: Political Leadership in Classical Political Thought

The American Ways of Wisdom

The Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey after the First World War

Neither Science Nor Religion: Why Philosophy Matters for Answering the Big Questions

Interlapping Blackness: An Intimate Cartography

A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science

Movies Under the Influence: Substances and Cinema

Aquinas and "the Arabs": Classical Arabic Philosophy and Its Importance for the Thought of Thomas Aquinas

Textual Authority and the History of Dante's 'Vita Nova:' Revisiting Editorial Objectivity in the Era of 'Fake News'

Evolution in Times of Revolution: Darwinism, Nature, and Society in the Soviet Union

What Price Souls: Capuchin Mission in Congo, Mercantilism, and Antislavery

The Labor of Images: Work and Its Discontents in Brazilian Cinema, 1975 to the Present

Belonging: An Intimate History of Family and Slavery in Early New England

Rituals of the Reborn: Ascetic Protestantism and Alternative Christianities in the Atlantic World, 1680-1780