Fellows 2024-2025

Mercedes Alcalá-Galán

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Senior Fellow (2023-2027)

Address:
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…

Elizabeth Athens

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Associate Professor, Art + Art History, University of Connecticut

Early Modern Anatomies and the Arboreal Body

Karen Britland

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Senior Fellow (2024-2028)

Address:
Halls-Bascom Professor, Religious Studies Program, UW–Madison

Possession: A Story of Gods, Goods and Greed

Margaret Butler

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Professor, Musicology Area, Mead Witter School of Music, UW–Madison

Operatic Women: Celebrity Culture and the Seria Stage, 1750–1790

Jill H. Casid

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Senior Fellow (2024-2028)

Address:
Professor of Visual Studies, Department of Art History; Department of Gender and Women's Studies, UW–Madison

Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene

Lisa H. Cooper

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Senior Fellow (2023-2027)

Address:
Professor, English, UW–Madison

The Poetics of Practicality in Late Medieval England

Daniel Davies

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Assistant Professor, English, University of Houston

Under Siege: Perpetual Warfare and Late-Medieval Literature

Ainehi Edoro-Glines

Position title: UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Vilas and Mellon Morgridge Assistant Professor of English, Department of English; African Cultural Studies Department (joint appointment), UW–Madison

Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think

Isaiah Ellis

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Assistant Professor of Urban Religions, Department of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University

Apostles of Asphalt: Race, Empire, and the Religious Politics of Infrastructure in the American South

Esther Fernández

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Independent Scholar

A Drama in Transition: The Democratization of Spanish Classical Theater

Kuhelika Ghosh

Position title: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
PhD Candidate, English, UW–Madison

Cultivating Caribbean Voices: Multispecies Gardens, Care, and Food Justice in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Allyson Gross

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
PhD Candidate, Communication Arts, UW–Madison

Of Even Vaster Promise: Material Preservation and the Rhetoric of the Future

Andrea Harris

Position title: UW–Madison open-topic Senior Fellow (2023-2027)

Address:
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--)

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

Thomas Leek

Position title: Universities of Wisconsin Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Associate Professor, Department of World Languages and Literatures, UW–Stevens Point

Aligning Vectorized Ancient Language Corpora: Towards a Translingual Search Function

Josephine Lovejoy

Position title: Project Assistant (2024--)

Josephine (Jojo) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Philosophy at UW–Madison. She received her B.A. in philosophy and mathematics from Vassar College. Jojo specializes in metaphysics, feminist philosophy, and social philosophy, and is…

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

Darshana Sreedhar Mini

Position title: UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Arts; Teaching Faculty, Center for South Asia; Affiliate Faculty, Center for Visual Cultures; Affiliate, Gender and Women's Studies, UW–Madison

Telegeographies of Indian Migration: Media as Transregional Homemaking

Junko Mori

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison

Cultural Diplomacy, Linguistic Capital, and Raciolinguistic Dynamics: The History of K-12 Japanese Language Education in Wisconsin

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...

Simon P. Newman

Position title: honorary fellow (2020-2026)

Address:
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

Lindsay Palmer

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW–Madison

Defending Our Colleagues: The Committee to Protect Journalists and Global Press Freedom (1981-2021)

Allison M. Prasch

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Nancy Obin Sukenik Professor and Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts, UW–Madison

Plot Lines: The Rhetorical Construction of Washington, D.C.

Mark John Radomski

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Dissertation Fellow in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture (2024-2025)

Address:
PhD Candidate, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UW–Madison

Exploring Seville's Cosmopolitanism: Literary Perspectives and the Guadalquivir River in the Early Modern Era

Lucas Richert

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Professor and George Urdang Chair in Pharmacy History, Social and Administrative Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW–Madison

Chain Reaction: The Rise of Big Pharmacy, Corporate Health, and American Capitalism

Liina-Ly Roos

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

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

The Not-Quite Child: Rethinking Whiteness and Colonial Histories in Sweden through Images of Childhood

Sarah Schaefer

Position title: Universities of Wisconsin Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Associate Professor, Art History, UW–Milwaukee

Tolkien's Art Histories

Brandon Smith

Position title: Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC) Fellow (2024-2026)

Address:
Instructor, Department of Philosophy, McGill University

Early Modern Eudaimonism

Emma Snowden

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Assistant Professor, History, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Colonial Mythmaking: Narrating Conquest and Dispossession in Medieval Iberia and North Africa

Jack Stetter

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
PhD, Philosophy, Université Paris 8

Spinoza and the Philosophy of War

Daniel Stolz

Position title: UW–Madison resident fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Kemal H. Karpat Associate Professor of History, Department of History, UW–Madison

The Long Debt: The Ottoman Loans and Economic Governance in the Twentieth Century

Sherry Velasco

Position title: Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellow in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture (2024-2025)

Address:
Professor, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures; Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Southern California

Listening in the Age of Cervantes: Moriscas and Gendered Sounds from Spain to Algiers

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

Ying Wang

Position title: Universities of Wisconsin Fellow (2024-2025)

Address:
Associate Professor, Art History, UW–Milwaukee

LungShar Incident of 1934—a Failed Attempt to Modernize Tibet

Viacheslav Zahorodniuk

Position title: Birutė Ciplijauskaitė Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2026)

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