Cogut Institute for the Humanities
2025–26 Fellows Seminar
2025–26 Fellows Seminar
Cogut Institute Fellows Seminar
The seminar gathers fellows from all ranks, as well as visiting scholars, across the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Participants meet every week to share work-in-progress and then lunch. The composition of the seminar varies from year to year, based on application submissions, the review process, and award acceptance.
2025–26 Participants
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Ahmad Abu Ahmad
2025–26 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative LiteratureProject: “The Poetics and Politics of Death in Palestinian Literature and Film” -
Christelle Alvarez
Spring 2026 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Egyptology and AssyriologyProject: “Knowledge, Writing, and Tradition in Challenging Times: The Last Inscribed Pyramid of Egypt (2350–2150 BCE)” -
Amanda Anderson
Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities -
Camille Blanco
2025–26 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in Classics and History of Art and ArchitectureProject: “Caesar and the Gauls: Mapping Roman Provincial Identity Through the Funerary Monuments of Roman Gaul, 50 BCE to 486 CE” -
Andrew Clark
2025–26 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in French and Francophone StudiesProject: “Unlived Experience in the French Novel, 1830-1997” -
Brendan Fleig-Goldstein
2025–27 Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Departments of Philosophy and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Normative Commitments and the Foundations of Rational and Moral Agency in Artificial Intelligence” -
Max Foley-Keene
2025–26 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Political ScienceProject: “An Eco-Socialist-Civic Virtue: Democracy, Ethics, and Ecological Emancipation” -
Dana Gooley
Fall 2025 Faculty Fellow, Professor of MusicProject: “The Theater of Musical Performance” -
Martina Herman
2025–26 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in Comparative Literature and Literary ArtsProject: “Choreographies of Power: Dance, Policing, and Political Agency Across the Post-Modern Tradition” -
Namrata Kanchan
2024–26 International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Power Play in Leisure Gardens: Royal Turco-Mongol Women and Their Visual Displays of Autonomy” -
Shelley Lee
Spring 2026 Faculty Fellow, Professor of American Studies, Professor of HistoryProject: “Out of Status: Race, Bureaucracy, and Being ‘Undocumented’ in America” -
Ainsley LeSure
Fall 2025 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Africana StudiesProject: “The Tricky Business of the Human Question” -
Tarisa Little
2024–26 Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Departments of History, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Students of Aataentsic” -
Damien Mahiet
Director of Academic Programs at the Cogut Institute, Lecturer in Humanities -
Aubrie Miller
2025–26 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in Comparative Literature, English, and History of Art and ArchitectureProject: “‘I will be free… in words’: Viewing Gender through a Bibliographic Lens in Shakespeare’s Plays” -
Indigo Mudbhary
2025–26 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in Ethnic Studies and HistoryProject: “Unsettling the Remote/Mobile Binary in Nepal” -
Catherine Nuckols
2025–27 International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Departments of History of Art and Architecture and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Full-Figure Glyphs: Iconicity, Figuration, and Tz’ihb in Ancient Maya Inscriptions” -
Adi Ophir
Visiting Professor of Humanities and Middle East Studies -
Amy Remensnyder
Fall 2025 Faculty Fellow, Giancarlo Family Provost's Professor of HistoryProject: “Working Together in a Sea of Danger: A Deserted Island, Mediterranean Pirates, and Fugitive Slaves” -
Gretel Rodríguez
Spring 2026 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of History of Art and ArchitectureProject: “Water Sanctuaries of the Roman World: Architecture, Ritual, and Aquatic Landscapes” -
Talia Sherman
2025–26 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in English and LinguisticsProject: “The Work of Language: Political, Productive, and Paradoxical Operations” -
Lou Silhol-Macher
2025–27 International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Departments of German Studies and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Of Goo and Dust: Aesthetic Theories of Formlessness” -
Celia Stern
2025–26 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Religious StudiesProject: “Ritual and the Politics of Failure” -
Adela Zhang
2025–27 Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Departments of Anthropology and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Normalization: Managing Life with Metals in the Peruvian Andes”