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…
Elizabeth Athens
Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2024-2025)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Professor, English, UW–Madison
The Poetics of Practicality in Late Medieval England
Daniel Davies
Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2024-2025)
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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)
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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)
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Independent Scholar
A Drama in Transition: The Democratization of Spanish Classical Theater
Kuhelika Ghosh
Position title: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow (2024-2025)
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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)
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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)
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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--)
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)
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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)
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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
Darshana Sreedhar Mini
Position title: UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity fellow (2024-2025)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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