Fellows 2022-2023

Miranda Alksnis

Position title: Hourly Graduate Assistant (2022-2023)

Miranda is a Ph.D. Candidate in the English Department at UW–Madison. She studies the intersection of early modern English drama, early modern reproductive biology, and genre theory. She earned her B.A. from the University of…

Anna Vemer Andrzejewski

Position title: Resident Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Professor of American Art and Architecture, Department of Art History, UW–Madison

Building Paradise: The Creation of South Florida’s White, Middle-Class Retirement and Vacation Landscape

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…

Mou Banerjee

Position title: Resident Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Assistant Professor, Department of History, UW–Madison

Strange Intimacies: Changing perceptions of Afghanistan in the South Asian Imaginary, 1816-1930

Luis F. Bernabé Pons

Position title: Ciplijauskaité Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Professor, Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Alicante

Literature of (With, By, For, and With Regard To) The Moriscos

Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki

Position title: Hourly Graduate Assistant (2022-2023)

Marina is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Her research focuses on bucolic poetry and its reception in Antiquity and idealized descriptions of the countryside. She earned an…

David R. Como

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Professor of Early Modern British History, History, Stanford University

New Model Politics: Armies, Regicide, and the English Revolution

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

Agata Fijalkowski

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Reader, Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University

Visual Imagery of the War Crimes Trials in Poland, 1944-1948

Barbara Galindo

Position title: ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity [ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow], 2022-2024

Address:
Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles

Tortured Zones, Orphanized Lives: Cultural Representations of Mining Terror in South America

Max Harris

Position title: emeritus fellow (2018--)

Address:
Independent Scholar

The Creative Cult of Saint Anthony: Relics, Paintings, Plays, Puppets, and Fiestas

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

Katherine Jensen

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Department of Sociology UW–Madison

The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil

Jennifer Jordan

Position title: UW-System Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Before Craft Beer: Lost Landscapes of Forgotten Hops

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

Young Kim

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
PhD Candidate, Art History, UW–Madison

Imaging Auspiciousness in High Qing China

Helen M. Kinsella

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Associate Professor of Political Science & Law, Department of Political Science; Affiliate Faculty, Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs; the Human Rights Center; and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Settler Empire and the Laws of War

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: honorary fellow (2022-2025)

Address:
PhD, 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

Aisha Motlani

Position title: ACLS Resident Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Lecturer in Art History, Theory, Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Darshan and Disenchantment: Painting Worship in India, 1861-1947

Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué

Position title: Resident Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Associate Professor, African Cultural Studies, UW–Madison

Diasporas in Africa

Carolyn A. Nadeau

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Byron S. Tucci Professor of Spanish, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Illinois Wesleyan University

Artistic Voices of the Columbian Exchange

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…

Rebecca Nesvet

Position title: UW-System Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Associate Professor of English, English and Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Blood Relations: James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family

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

Jaime M. Pensado

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

The German Connection in the Inter-American Cold War: Adveniat and the Radicalization of Latin American Catholic Students during the Global Sixties

Randall Todd Pippenger

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Lecturer in History, Department of History, Princeton University

Left Behind: Veterans, Widows, and Orphans in the Era of the Crusades

Brenda Gayle Plummer

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Merze Tate Professor of History, Department of History and Department of Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison

Jim Crow Flies

Nicole D. Pulichene

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research/Collections Specialist Fellow, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"One Whose Name was Writ in Wax:" Reflections on the Medieval Reuse of Consular Diptychs

Aragorn Quinn

Position title: UW-System Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Avatar: Disembodied Performance in Modern Japan

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

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Associate Professor, Theology, Marquette University

The Temple of the Greedy Belly: Gluttony’s Tale

Shan J. Sappleton

Position title: UW-System Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Associate Professor of Political Science, Criminal Justice and Social Sciences, Univerisity of Wisconsin–Platteville

Beyond Formal Institutions: Ethnic Politicization in sub-Saharan Africa—a Comparative Perspective

Justin Steinberg

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College

Spinoza’s Moral Psychology: An Interpretation and Defense

Adam Y. Stern

Position title: Resident Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
Assistant Professor, German, Nordic, and Slavic+; Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, UW–Madison

No Hands: An Archaeology of Emancipation

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

Charlotte Whatley

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2022-2023)

Address:
PhD Candidate, Department of History, UW–Madison

Property and Power: Legal Performance and Legitimacy in the Reign of Edward III