New and Returning IRH Fellows for 2019-2020
Senior Fellows
(Incoming)
Daniel Kapust. Political Science, UW–Madison. The Tragedy of the Imperial Republic: Narrative, Exceptionalism, and the Fate of Republican Self-Rule
Laura Mcclure. Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, UW–Madison. Reimagining the Chorus: H.D. and Greek Tragedy
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. History, UW–Madison. The American Ways of Wisdom
(Continuing)
Guillermina De Ferrari. Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison. Community under Duress: Moral Luck and the Caribbean Novel
Steven Hutchinson. Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison. Imagining Africa: Early Modern Iberian Textual Cartographies
Lea Jacobs. Communication Arts, UW–Madison. John Ford in the Hollywood Studio System: Case Studies from the Sound Period
Stephen Kantrowitz. History, UW–Madison. Citizenship and Civilization: A Ho-Chunk History
Lawrence Shapiro. Philosophy, UW–Madison. Abusing Science: How Scientists and Christians have Misused Science to Answer the Big Questions
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. (Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Senior Fellow.) Sally Mead Hands-Bascom Professor of English, UW–Madison. Mapping Blackness: An Intimate Cartography of the Archipelagic Diaspora
UW Resident Fellows
Andrea Harris. Dance, UW–Madison. The Roots of Dance Therapy
Jenell Johnson. Communication Arts, UW–Madison. On Behalf of Life: Bioidentification and Bioethics
Elizabeth Lapina. History, UW–Madison. Knightly Culture on Crusades and in the Latin States
Kathryn McGarr. School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW–Madison. The Washington Consensus: Journalism and the Making of the Postwar World Order
Annie Menzel. Gender and Women’s Studies, UW–Madison. Birthing Paradox: Race, Colonization, and Radicalism in U.S. Politics
Jelena Todorovic. French and Italian, UW–Madison. Textual Authority and the History of Dante’s “Vita Nova:” Revisiting Editorial Objectivity in the Era of ‘Fake News’
Sarah Ann Wells. Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies, UW–Madison. The Labor of Images: Work and Its Discontents in Brazilian Cinema, 1975 to the Present
UW Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellows
Nandini Pandey. Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, UW–Madison. Diversity and Difference in Ancient Rome
Gloria Whiting. History, UW–Madison. Belonging: An Intimate History of Family and Slavery in Early New England
Solmsen Fellows
Joseph Mansky. Literature, Bard College. Seeds of Sedition: Libels, Plays, and the Early Modern Public Sphere
Simon Newman. History, University of Glasgow. The Invention of Runaway Slaves in the Seventeenth Century English Atlantic World
Richard Taylor. Philosophy, Marquette University. Aquinas and “the Arabs”: Classical Arabic Philosophy and Its Importance for the Thought of Thomas Aquinas
Justine Walden. Art and Science of the Image, Yale Peabody Museum. What Price Souls: Capuchin Mission in Congo, Mercantilism, and Antislavery
Kingdon Fellows
Nan Goodman. English; Jewish Studies, University of Colorado. Sabbatai Sevi Comes to America
Timothy Wright. Guest Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Rituals of the Reborn: Ascetic Protestantism and Alternative Christianities in the Atlantic World, 1680-1780
Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellow
Ignacio López Alemany. Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Vihuelists and Courtly Performance of Poetry in Early Modern Spain
Dissertation Fellows
Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellows
Jessica Cooley. Art History, UW–Madison. Crip Materiality: Disability, Plasticity, and the Art Institution after the Americans with Disabilities Act
Galen Poor. History, UW–Madison. The Four Great Inventions: A Global History of Modern China
Michael E. Promisel. Political Science, UW–Madison. Paragons of Political Leadership
Madeline Doran Dissertation Fellow
Erica Kanesaka Kalnay. English, UW–Madison. Objects of Enchantment: Oriental Intimacies and Fin-de-Siècle Children’s Culture
Robert J. Reinhold Dissertation Fellow
Rebecca Moorman. Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, UW–Madison. Engrossing the Reader: Functions of Disgust in Lucretius, Persius, and Apuleius
UW System Fellows
Rachel Ida Buff. History, UW-Milwaukee. A is for Asylum: A Historical Glossary of the Words We Use for People on the Move
Kimberly DeFazio. English, UW-La Crosse; Director, Center for 21st Century Studies. Datamediation
Jennifer Keefe. Politics-Philosophy-Law (Philosophy), UW-Parkside. Nineteenth Century Scottish Idealism
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece. English; Film Studies, UW-Milwaukee. Movies Under the Influence: Substances and Cinema
Honorary Fellows
Ana Aparicio. Anthropology; Latina and Latino Studies, Northwestern University. Suburban Latinidades: Race, Politics, and New American Landscapes
Alainya Kavaloski. English; Humanities, State University of New York at Canton. The In/Security of Digital Form: Palimpsest, Procedure, Code
Jonathan Pollack. History, Madison Area Technical College; Honorary Scholar, George L. Moss/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. Success from Scrap and Second-hand Goods: Jewish Business in the Midwest, 1890-1930
Travis Proctor. Humanities, Northland College. Multispecies and Posthuman Perspectives on the Body of Jesus in Early Christianity (ca. 50-300 CE)