Fellows 2021-2022

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