Fellows 2023-2024

Ayodeji Adegbite

Position title: Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2023-2024)

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Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, UW–Madison

Africa’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa

Tolulope Akinwole

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2023-2024)

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Ph.D. Candidate, English, UW–Madison

Vehicular Articulations: Public Buses, Cityness, and Cultural Aesthetics in Postcolonial Africa

Mercedes Alcalá-Galán

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2023-2027)

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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

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…

Joel Berkowitz

Position title: UW System Fellow (2023-2024)

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Professor of English, UW-Milwaukee

In These Days of Job: Yiddish Drama After the Holocaust

Brandon Bloch

Position title: Resident Fellow (2023-2024)

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Assistant Professor, Department of History, UW-Madison

Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Origins of Post-Nazi Democracy

Miren Boehm

Position title: UW System Fellow (2023-2024)

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Associate Professor, Philosophy, UW–Milwaukee

Empiricism and Intelligibility in Hume's Philosophy

Jeremy Phillip Brown

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2023-2024)

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Jordan H. Kapson Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Theology, University of Notre Dame

A World of Piety is Built: The Pietism of Medieval Castilian Kabbalah

Emily Callaci

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2023-2024)

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Professor, History Department, UW–Madison

Planning the African Family: Reproductive Politics in the Era of Decolonization

Lisa H. Cooper

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2023-2027)

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Professor, English, UW–Madison

The Poetics of Practicality in Late Medieval England

Samuel England

Position title: Resident Fellow (2023-2024)

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Associate Professor of Arabic, African Cultural Studies, UW–Madison

Diwan in the Darkroom: The Literary Life of Arab Photography

Sarah Ensor

Position title: Resident Fellow (2023-2024)

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Assistant Professor, English, UW–Madison

Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care at Future's End

Esther Fernández

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025)

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Independent Scholar

A Drama in Transition: The Democratization of Spanish Classical Theater

Barbara Galindo

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

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

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

Louis Gerdelan

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2023-2024)

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Haas Postdoctoral Fellow, Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, Science History Institute

Catastrophic Inquiries: Making Disaster Knowledge in the British, French and Spanish Atlantic Worlds, c.1605- 1755

Maksim Hanukai

Position title: Resident Fellow (2023-2024)

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Assistant Professor, German, Nordic, and Slavic+, UW–Madison

Zones of Indistinction: Cultural Biopolitics after Communism

Andrea Harris

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2023-2027)

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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--)

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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)

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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

Ruth Llana Fernández

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Dissertation Fellow (2023-2024)

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Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UW–Madison

Radical Alterities and Nonhuman Textualities: Critical Forms of Life in the Luso-Hispanic Literature

B. Venkat Mani

Position title: UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity senior fellow (2021-2025)

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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)

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PhD, Medieval Literature, Purdue University

Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade

Matthew Leigh Murray

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2023-2024)

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Instructional Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mississippi

Archaeological Landscapes of Central Europe

Steven Nadler

Position title: Director (2018--)

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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…

Quincy D. Newell

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2023-2024)

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Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Humanistic Studies, Religious Studies Department, Hamilton College

Marginal Mormons: African Americans and Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Simon P. Newman

Position title: honorary fellow (2020-2025)

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Sir Denis Brogan Professor of History (Emeritus), School of Humanities, University of Glasgow

Freedom-Seekers 1776

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

Marla A. Ramírez

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2023-2024)

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Assistant Professor, History; Chican@ & Latin@ Studies, UW–Madison

Banished Women: A Hidden History of Mexican Repatriation

Caroline Seymour-Jorn

Position title: UW System Fellow (2023-2024)

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Professor of Comparative Literature and Global Studies, Department of Global Studies, UW–Milwaukee

Arab Literary Selves in the Global Arena

Amanda Mingail Shubert

Position title: ACLS Resident Fellow (2023-2024)

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Teaching Faculty, English, UW–Madison

Seeing Things: Virtual Aesthetics in Victorian Culture

Rebecca Shumway

Position title: UW System Fellow (2023-2024)

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Associate Professor, History, UW–Milwaukee

West African Roots of Pan-Africanism

Chelsea Silva

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2023-2024)

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Assistant Professor, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Bedwritten: Middle English Medicine and the Ailing Author

Walter C. Stern

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2023-2024)

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Vilas Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies; Affiliate, Department of History, UW–Madison

A Legal Lynching in Louisiana: Gary Tyler and The Criminalization of Black Students during Desegregation

Anne C. Vila

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic senior fellow (2021-2025)

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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)

Jess Waggoner

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2023-2024)

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Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and English, UW–Madison

Cripping Afro-Modernisms: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness, 1900-1950

Justine Walden

Position title: honorary fellow (2020-2025)

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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

Nancy Wicker

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2023-2024)

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Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Mississippi

Art Before and During the Viking Age in Scandinavia and Beyond

D. David Williams

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2023-2024)

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Ph.D., Department of Classics and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

“Addressing Clouds”: Aristophanes and the Attic Enlightenment

Daniel Williford

Position title: Resident Fellow (2023-2024)

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Assistant Professor, History Department, UW–Madison

Concrete Futures: Technology and the Uncontrollable in Modern Morocco

Chris Yogerst

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2023-2024)

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Associate Professor, Arts & Humanities, UW-Milwaukee

The Cantankerous Cagneys

Viacheslav Zahorodniuk

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025)

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