Laila Amine
Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Associate Professor of English, English, UW–Madison
Return Travel: The African Diaspora Across Genres of Mobility
Claus Elholm Andersen
Position title: Resident Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Paul and Renate Madsen Assistant Professor, German, Nordic, and Slavic+, UW–Madison
The Very Edge of Fiction: Karl Ove Knausgaard and the Post-Fictional Turn
Katie Elizabeth Apsey
Position title: Associate Director (2021--)
Katie covers the administrative and program management needs of the Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH) and serves as assistant to the IRH Director. She received her PhD in Art History from the University…
James R. Barnes
Position title: William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Dissertator, Department of History, UW–Madison
Histories Written in the Margins: Early Modern Scientific Print Cultures and Practices in the Work of Christopher Borr
Baligh Ben Taleb
Position title: ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity [Emerging Voices Fellowship] (2021-2022)
Address:
Ph.D., History and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Reckoning with the Legacy of U.S. Settler Colonialism: Treaty Claims and the Western Shoshone Quest for Justice
Katherine Bowie
Position title: Resident Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Department of Anthropology, UW–Madison
Muzzled Memories: Saint Srivichai and the Formation of Modern Thailand
Thomas E. A. Dale
Position title: Resident Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture, Department of Art History, UW–Madison
Race and Cultural Encounter in Medieval Venice
Guillermina De Ferrari
Position title: Senior Fellow (2018-2023)
Address:
Halls-Bascom Professor of Spanish and Art History, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Department of Art History, UW–Madison
Broken Tropics, Arts of Contingency
Julia Domínguez
Position title: Ciplijauskaité Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Associate Professor of Spanish, World Languages and Cultures, Iowa State University
The Arts of Mnemosyne: Expressions of Mnemonic Culture in Renaissance Spain
Iseult Gillespie
Position title: Madeline Doran Dissertation Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Dissertator, English, UW–Madison
Biological Imaginaries: Disability, Difference, and the New Genres of the Body in the Twenty-First Century
Amie Goblirsch
Position title: Robert J. Reinhold Dissertation Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Dissertator, Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, UW–Madison
Time, Architect, and Principate in the De Architectura of Vitruvius
Chad Alan Goldberg
Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, UW–Madison
Cultural Pluralism and American Democracy
Max Harris
Position title: emeritus fellow (2018--)
Address:
Independent Scholar
The Creative Cult of Saint Anthony: Relics, Paintings, Plays, Puppets, and Fiestas
Douglas Haynes
Position title: UW-System Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Professor of English, English Department, UW–Oshkosh; Affiliate Faculty, Sustainability Institute for Regional Transformations, UW–Oshkosh; Regional Faculty Associate, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, UW–Milwaukee
Learning in the Age of Loneliness: Reimagining Education for the Anthropocene
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
Patrick Iber
Position title: Resident Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Associate Professor of History, Department of History, UW–Madison
Poverty of the Imagination: The Ford Foundation, Social Science, and the Politics of Poverty and Inequality in Cold War Latin America
Lea Jacobs
Position title: Senior Fellow (2018-2022)
Address:
Mae D. Huettig Professor of Communication Arts and Vilas Distinguished Professor, Department of Communication Arts, UW–Madison
John Ford at Work: the films in their production context, 1927-1945
Daniel J. Kapust
Position title: Senior Fellow (2019-2023)
Address:
Professor and Judith Hicks Stiehm Chair in Political Theory, Department of Political Science, UW–Madison
The Tragedy of the Imperial Republic: Narrative, Exceptionalism, and the Fate of Republican Self-Rule
Kasey Keeler
Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Tuolumne Me-Wuk & Citizen Potawatomi; Assistant Professor, Civil Society & Community Studies (SoHE) and American Indian Studies, UW–Madison
Tribal Capitalism: The Politics of American Indian Land, Property, and Identity
Katarzyna/Kat Lecky
Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Surtz Professor of English, Department of English, Loyola University Chicago (beginning Fall 2022)
England's Weedy Renaissance
Jodi Magness
Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Kenan Distinguished Professor, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jerusalem Through the Ages
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: Solmsen Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Ph.D., Medieval Literature, Purdue University
Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade
Laura McClure
Position title: Senior Fellow (2019-2023)
Address:
Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Literature, Mellon Morgridge Professor in the Humanities, Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (CANES); Affiliate, Gender & Women's Studies and Department of Art History, UW–Madison
Re-imaging the Chorus: Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, H.D., and Greek Tragedy
Viren Murthy
Position title: Resident Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Associate Professor of History, Department of History, UW–Madison
Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution
Steven Nadler
Position title: Director (2018--)
Address:
Vilas Research Professor and William H. Hay II Professor, Department of Philosophy, UW–Madison
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...
Elizabeth Ann Neary
Position title: Project Assistant (2020-2024)
Elizabeth is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UW–Madison. She specializes in cultural exchanges between Christians and Muslims on the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th and 17th centuries. Her dissertation…
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
Barbara Obrist
Position title: Honorary Fellow (2003-2023)
Address:
Directeur de recherche émérite, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Laboratoire SPHERE, Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire), Université Paris Diderot
La cosmologie médiévale. Textes et images II: le XIIe siècle
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
Karma Palzom-Pasha
Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Dissertator, Department of History, UW–Madison
Political Transformations in the Tibetan Freedom Movement: Resettlement and Political Activism in the United States
James Pilgrim
Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Ph.D., History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
Jacopo Bassano and the Environment of Painting
Kevin Piper
Position title: MATC Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
English Department, Madison College
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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Position title: Senior Fellow (2019-2023)
Address:
Merle Curti and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of History, Department of History, UW–Madison
The American Ways of Wisdom: A History
Katherine M. Reinhart
Position title: Honorary Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Insitute for Art History in Rome
Images for the King: Art, Science, and Power in Louis XIV's France
Josiah J. Stork
Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Dissertator, Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison
Reading the Dragons of the Tàipíng Guǎngjì: A Queer Ecocritical Approach
Andrew Thomas
Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Dissertator, English, UW–Madison
The Weird Magic of History: Global Civil War and the Afro-Asian Imagination After the American Century
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
Emma Wasserman
Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Professor, Department of Religion, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Towards a History of Religious Polemic: The Jewish Law in the New Testament
Anne F. Widmayer
Position title: UW-System Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Professor, Arts & Humanities Department, UW–Milwaukee at Washington County
Raging Women and Crying Men: Taboo Gendered Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Chris Yogerst
Position title: UW-System Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Associate Professor of Communication, Arts & Humanities Department, UW–Milwaukee at Washington County
The Warner Brothers: How an Immigrant Family Came to Hollywood and Changed America
Sunny Yudkoff
Position title: Resident Fellow (2021-2022)
Address:
Assistant Professor, German, Nordic, and Slavic+; Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, UW–Madison
Against Jewish Humor: Toward a Theory of Yiddish Joy