Cogut Institute Faculty Fellows

ACADEMIC YEAR	NAME	DEPARTMENT	RANK AT TIME OF AWARD	RESEARCH PROJECT
2025–2026	Dana Gooley	Music	Professor	The Theater of Musical Performance
2025–2026	Ainsley LeSure	Africana Studies Political Science	Assistant Professor	The Tricky Business of the Human
2025–2026	Amy Remensnyder	History	Professor	Working Together in a Sea of Danger: A Deserted Island, Mediterranean Pirates, and Fugitive Slaves
2025–2026	Christelle Alvarez	Egyptology and Assyriology	Assistant Professor	Knowledge, Writing, and Tradition in Challenging Times: The Last Inscribed Pyramid of Egypt (2350–2150 BCE)
2025–2026	Shelley Lee	American Studies History	Professor	Out of Status: Race, Bureaucracy, and Being “Undocumented” in America
2025–2026	Gretel Rodríguez	History of Art and Architecture	Assistant Professor	Water Sanctuaries of the Roman World: Architecture, Ritual, and Aquatic Landscapes
2024–2025	Lindsay Caplan	History of Art and Architecture	Assistant Professor	Artificial Life: Art, Abstraction, and Analogies between Humans and Machines
2024–2025	Mahasan Chaney	Education	Assistant Professor	Disciplining Opportunity: Antiblack Paternalism and Making School Punishment
2024–2025	Mark Ocegueda	History	Assistant Professor	Sol y Sombra: Mexicans, Race, and Culture in the Making of San Bernardino and the Inland Empire
2024–2025	Marc Redfield	English Comparative Literature	Professor	Literary Prayer: Celan, Lispector
2024–2025	Patricia Rubertone	Anthropology	Professor	Unsettling Providence: Politics of Erasure and Indigenous Persistence in a Settler Colonial City
2024–2025	Amy Russell	Classics History	Associate Professor	POPVLVSQVE: Citizenship, sovereignty, and the state in ancient Rome
2024–2025	Prerna Singh	Political Science Watson Institute	Associate Professor	Moral Vaccination: Ideas and Institutions in the Control of Contagion in China and India
2024–2025	Daniel Vaca	Religious Studies	Associate Professor	Paying for the Future: A Religious History of Taxes
2023–2024	Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman	American Studies English	Associate Professor	Critical Race Theory and the Politics of Literary Form
2023–2024	Faiz Ahmed	History	Associate Professor	America in the Ottoman Gaze: The Late Ottoman Empire and the Early United States, 1730–1923
2023–2024	Christopher Grasso	History	Professor	The Chisolm Massacre: Reconstruction and the Politics of Violence
2023–2024	Jessaca Leinaweaver	Anthropology	Professor	Familiar Figures: Counting Children, Discounting Kin
2023–2024	Katherine A Mason	Anthropology	Associate Professor	Journaling the Pandemic: A Grassroots Collaborative Ethnography of COVID-19
2023–2024	Ravit Reichman	English	Associate Professor	Possessive Cases: The Propertied Imagination in Modern Times
2022–2023	Ariella Aïsha Azoulay	Modern Culture and Media Comparative Literature	Professor	Arab-Judaica: More Than Objects, The Colonial Termination of Arab-Jewish Life in Algeria
2022–2023	Candace Rice	Archaeology Classics	Assistant Professor	Beyond Connectivity: the Economic Landscape of Roman Lycia
2022–2023	Mark Suchman	Sociology	Professor	The New Corporate Personhood: Morality, Authenticity, and the Ideology of Entrepreneurship
2022–2023	David Wills	French and Francophone Studies	Professor	The Saturated Slate of the Rothko Chapel
2022–2023	Benjamin P. Hein	History	Assistant Professor	The Migrant’s Spirit. Industrial Revolution in the German Lands
2022–2023	Stephen Houston	Anthropology	Professor	Vital Signs: The Visual Culture of Maya Writing
2022–2023	Peter Szendy	Comparative Literature Cogut Institute	Professor	Pneumatopolitics: An Archaeology of Conspiring
2022–2023	Rachel Wetts	Environment and Society Sociology	Assistant Professor	Climate Politics as Status Struggle: Class, Gender, and the Politics of Symbolic Worth
2021–2022	Rebecca Louise Carter	Anthropology	Associate Professor	Towards the Literature, Literacy, and Lives of Black Children: An Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Study
2021–2022	Michelle Clayton	Hispanic Studies Comparative Literature	Associate Professor	Moving Bodies of the Avant-Garde
2021–2022	Scott Frickel	Sociology Environment and Society	Professor	Ground Truth: A Historical Sociology of Urban Soils
2021–2022	Andrew Laird	Classics Cogut Institute	Professor	Humanism and Experience in Post-Conquest Mexico: The Early Writings of Fray Cristóbal Cabrera (1530–1545)
2021–2022	Timothy Bewes	English	Professor	Recents Experiments in American Fiction
2021–2022	Emily Owens	History	Assistant Professor	Belated: Lesbians Out of Time
2021–2022	Andrew Scherer	Anthropology	Associate Professor	War, Violence, and the Morality of Killing in Ancient Maya Society
2020–2021	Stephen Kidd	Classics	Associate Professor	Living Life as Fiction: Lucian of Samosata and the Nature of Disbelief
2020–2021	Michael Satlow	Judaic Studies Religious Studies	Professor	Seeking the Gods: The Spiritual Landscape of Late Antiquity
2020–2021	Esther Whitfield	Comparative Literature Hispanic Studies	Associate Professor	The New No-Man’s Land: Guantánamo’s Literary Life
2020–2021	Jennifer Johnson	History	Associate Professor	State Building After Empire: Health Care, Family Planning, and International Aid in North Africa
2020–2021	Jennifer Lambe	History	Associate Professor	The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba, 1959–1980
2019–2020	Bathsheba Demuth	History Environment and Society	Assistant Professor	The Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, 1848–1988
2019–2020	Paja Faudree	Anthropology	Associate Professor	In the Shadow of Genius: Paul Erdős, Collaboration, and the Hidden Labor of Care
2019–2020	Tim Harris	History	Professor	Britain’s Century of Revolutions, 1603–1691
2019–2020	Joseph Reed	Classics Comparative Literature	Professor	Augustus and Egypt: The Poetics of Empire
2019–2020	Mary Louise Gill	Classics Philosophy	Professor	God of the Greek Philosophers
2019–2020	Daniel Hirschman	Sociology	Assistant Professor	The Costs of Climate Change
2019–2020	Daniel Smith	Anthropology	Professor	Every Household Is Its Local Government: Infrastructural Deficiency, State Complicity, and Entrepreneurial Citizenship in Nigeria
2019–2020	Deborah Weinstein	American Studies	Associate Professor	Human Nature at War: Culture and Conflict in Modern America
2018–2019	Faiz Ahmed	History	Assistant Professor	Ottoman Americana, 1730–1923
2018–2019	Laurel Bestock	Egyptology and Assyriology	Associate Professor	Invisibility in Egyptian Art: Context, Function, and Meaning of the Unseeable Aesthetic
2018–2019	Leon Hilton	Theatre Arts and Performance Studies	Assistant Professor	Collective Drift: Disability Aesthetics, Performance, and the Politics of Neurological Difference
2018–2019	Jeffrey Moser	History of Art and Architecture	Assistant Professor	Buddhist Geoaesthetics
2018–2019	Rolland Murray	English	Associate Professor	Market Culture, Institutionalization, and African American Literature
2018–2019	Lukas Rieppel	History	Assistant Professor	Objects of Organization
2018–2019	Ellen Rooney	Modern Culture and Media	Professor	The Reading Effect and the Persistence of Form
2018–2019	Parker VanValkenburgh	Anthropology	Assistant Professor	Building Subjects: The Archaeology of Reducción and Forced Urbanism
2017–2018	Tamara Chin	Comparative Literature	Associate Professor	The Silk Road Idea
2017–2018	Sharon Krause	Political Science	Professor	Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom
2017–2018	Christine Montross	Psychiatry and Human Behavior	Associate Professor	Acquainted with the Night: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons
2017–2018	Rebecca Nedostup	History	Associate Professor	Living and Dying in the Long War: Tales of Displacement in China and Taiwan, 1937–1959
2017–2018	Marc Perlman	Music	Associate Professor	Traditional Culture, the Public Domain and the Westphalian Illusion: The New Aporias of International Intellectual Property Law
2017–2018	Richard Rambuss	English	Professor	Kubrick’s Men
2017–2018	Felipe Rojas Silva	Archaeology and the Ancient World	Assistant Professor	RealFake
2016–2017	Susan Bernstein	Comparative Literature	Professor	The Other Synaesthesia
2016–2017	Johanna Hanink	Classics	Associate Professor	Classical Debts: Why Antiquity Matters in an Era of Crisis
2016–2017	Nancy Jacobs	History	Professor	The Transnational History of African Grey Parrots
2016–2017	Nancy Khalek	Religious Studies	Associate Professor	Visions of Islamic Community: Alternatives to “Sectarianism” Through Islamic Biographical and Hagiographical Literature
2016–2017	Kristina Mendicino	German Studies	Assistant Professor	News, History, Ad Infinitum: Scripting the New in Heine, Baudelaire, Blanqui, Nietzsche, and Benjamin
2016–2017	Ourida Mostefai	French Studies Comparative Literature	Professor	Emigrés and Exiles in Post-Revolutionary European Fiction
2016–2017	Itohan Osayemwese	History of Art and Architecture	Assistant Professor	Designers as Transnational Experts
2016–2017	Ravit Reichman	English	Associate Professor	Lost Properties of the Twentieth Century
2015–2016	Jo Guldi	History	Professor	International Squatterdom and the Fall of Global Housing Policy, 1946–1989
2015–2016	Bonnie Honig	Political Science Modern Culture and Media	Assistant Professor	Public Things
2015–2016	Joshua Tucker	Music	Assistant Professor	Andean Sounds, Indian Selves
2015–2016	Andre Willis	Religious Studies	Assistant Professor	Afro-theism and Post-democracy: A Progressive Philosophy of Black Spirituality
2015–2016	David Wills	French Studies	Professor	The Temporal Technology of the Death Penalty
2014–2015	Timothy Bewes	English	Professor	The Emergence of Postfictional Aesthetics
2014–2015	Mark Cladis	Religious Studies	Professor	Religion Secularization and British Romanticism
2014–2015	David Estlund	Philosophy	Professor	Utopophobia: On the Limits (if Any) of Political Philosophy
2014–2015	Lynne Joyrich	Modern Culture and Media	Professor	Tubular Vision: The Ins and Outs of Television Studies
2014–2015	Kiri Miller	Music	Associate Professor	Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Digital Culture
2014–2015	Ralph Rodriguez	American Studies	Associate Professor	Of Oranges and Origami: Confounding the mimetic in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper
2014–2015	Kenneth Sacks	History	Professor	Who Markets Ideas? Elite and Non-Elite of Culture and Technology
2014–2015	Janine Sawada	Religious Studies East Asian Studies	Professor	Popular Japanese Religion
2013–2014	Stephen Bush	Religious Studies	Assistant Professor	Democratic Individuality in William James
2013–2014	Caroline Castiglione	Italian Studies	Associate Professor	Souls Held by Teeth: Childhood Illness and Medicine in Early Modern Rome
2013–2014	E. Tamar Katz	English	Associate Professor	Urban Memory: New York City in Photography and Architectural Criticism in the Early 20th Century
2013–2014	Saul Olyan	Judaic Studies	Professor	Friends and Family
2013–2014	Kerry Smith	History	Associate Professor	Writing 3.11 into History
2013–2014	Anthony Vidler	History of Art and Architecture	Professor	The Brutalist Epoch: Postwar Culture and Society, 1945–1975
2012–2013	Gianpaolo Biocchi	Sociology	Associate Professor	Democracy in Motion
2012–2013	Linda Cook	Political Science	Professor	Russia’s Fragmented Welfare State: Access to Health Care in Migrant Moscow and Rural Karelia
2012–2013	Ann Dill	Sociology	Associate Professor	Problems, Privatization and Professionalism: Boundary Negotiations by Health Care and Disability NGOs in Croatia
2012–2013	Ömür Harmanşah	Archaeology and the Ancient World	Assistant Professor	Place, Memory, Healing: Towards an Archaeology of Hittite Spring Monuments
2012–2013	Ross Kraemer	Religious Studies	Professor	Coercion and the Conversion of Jews in Late Antique Christian Accounts
2012–2013	Eng-Beng Lim	Theatre Arts and Performance Studies	Assistant Professor	Tropic Spell: Performance in the Queer Asias
2012–2013	Michal Oklot	Slavic Languages	Assistant Professor	Physiology of Essences: Writing Pain in Polish and Russian Modernism
2012–2013	Melinda Rabb	English	Professor	The Stretch of Human Brain: Minding Small Stuff in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Material Culture
2011–2012	Nancy Khalek	Religious Studies	Assistant Professor	Politics and Authority in Islamic Law and Society
2011–2012	Harold Cook	History	Professor	Difficulties in Sharing Medical Knowledge: Chinese Medicine in Early Modern Europe
2011–2012	Paja Faudree	Anthropology	Assistant Professor	“Following the Thing” in the Land of the Magic Mushroom: Text, Talk, and the Politics of Ethnic Authorship
2011–2012	Thomas Lewis	Religious Studies	Associate Professor	Beyond Comparative Religious Ethics
2011–2012	Thangam Ravindranathan	French Studies	Assistant Professor	Animal Alibi: Chevillard, Poe, etc.
2010–2011	Sheila Bonde	History of Art and Architecture	Professor	Ethics and the Humanities
2010–2011	Jay Baruch	Emergency Medicine	Assistant Professor	Humanities as a Medical Instrument
2009–2010	Marcy Brink-Danan	Judaic Studies Anthropology	Assistant Professor	Local News, Global Jews (or Vice-Versa?): A Comparative Ethnography of Jewish Journalism
2009–2010	Hervé Vanel	History of Art and Architecture	Assistant Professor	The Aesthetics of Social Engineering: Muzak and the Arts in the 1960s
2009–2010	Esther Whitfield	Comparative Literature	Assistant Professor	Diasporic History and Nationalist Revival
2009–2010	Omer Bartov	History German Studies	Professor	Testimonies as Historical Documents: Interethnic Relations at a Time of Genocide
2009–2010	Barrymore Bogues	Africana Studies	Professor	And What About the Human? The Literature and Politics of Freedom in Anti-Colonial Thought
2009–2010	Thalia Field	English Literary Arts	Associate Professor	Experimental Animals
2009–2010	Gretchen Schultz	French Studies	Associate Professor	Les pères saphistes: Patrimonial Discourses of Lesbian Desire in France, 1850–1900
2008–2009	Matthew Garcia	American Studies	Associate Professor	Nature’s Candy: Labor, Protest and Grapes in California, 1940–1980
2008–2009	Philip Rosen	Modern Culture and Media	Professor	Marxism and the Idea of Film: Materialism in Film Theory from the Era of Montage to the Era of Global Media
2008–2009	Michael Vorenberg	History	Associate Professor	American by War: The Invention of Citizenship during the American Civil War
2008–2009	Vazira Zamindar	History	Assistant Professor	Ruined Histories: Archaeology, Islam and the Making of Gandhara Art in Divided South Asi
2008–2009	Elizabeth Bryan	English	Associate Professor	Vernacular Text Production in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England and Spain
2008–2009	Dana Gooley	Music	Assistant Professor	Sounding Sideways: Improvisational Aesthetics in 19th Century Music
2008–2009	Timothy Harris	History	Professor	A Cultural History of Prejudice in Early Modern England
2008–2009	Ethan Pollock	History	Assistant Professor	Without the Bania We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
2007–2008	Peter Andreas	Political Science	Associate Professor	Black Markets and Blue Helmets: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Sarajevo
2007–2008	Susan Harvey	Religious Studies	Professor	Teaching Women: Biblical Women and Women’s Choirs in Syriac Tradition
2007–2008	Mark Swislocki	History	Assistant Professor	Culinary Nostalgia: Food and Cultural Memory in Shanghai
2007–2008	Mary Ann Doane	Modern Culture and Media	Professor	Desire, Absorption, and the Close-Up
2007–2008	Karl Jacoby	History	Professor	Shadows at Dawn: The Camp Grant Massacre and the Borderlands of History
2007–2008	David Konstan	Classics	Professor	Cartesian Solitude and the Nature of Reading: The View from Classical Antiquity
2007–2008	Kurt Raaflaub	Classics	Professor	Thinking About, Conceptualizing, and Theorizing Peace in the Ancient Greek World
2007–2008	Michael Satlow	Judaic Studies	Associate Professor	Charity and Piety in Late Antique Judaism
2006–2007	Olakunle George	English	Associate Professor	Pagans and Patriots: Conversion and the Text of Africa
2006–2007	Mary Gluck	History Comparative Literature	Professor	The Function of the Jewish Joke in Late Nineteenth-Century Budapest
2006–2007	Daniel Kim	English	Associate Professor	The Dematerialized Zone: American Cultural Representations of the Korean War
2006–2007	Stanley Stowers	Religious Studies	Professor	The Power of Disinterestedness, the Interests of Powerlessness, at the Beginnings of Christianity
2006–2007	Patricia Ybarra	Theatre Arts and Performance Studies	Assistant Professor	Performing Conquest: Theatre, History and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico, 1538–2003
2006–2007	Timothy Bewes	English	Assistant Professor	Shame After Colonialism: Aesthetic and Ethical Quandaries in Late Twentieth-Century Writing
2006–2007	Bernard Reginster	Philosophy	Associate Professor	Intersubjectivity and Identity
2006–2007	Zachary Sng	German Studies	Assistant Professor	Corrupting the Fountains of Knowledge: Language and Error from Locke to Romanticism
2005–2006	Corey Brettschneider	Political Science	Assistant Professor	Democratic Rights
2005–2006	Stephen Houston	Anthropology	Professor	Yayax Bon: A History of Color Among the Ancient Maya
2005–2006	Maud Mandel	Judaic Studies History	Associate Professor	Beyond Antisemitism: Muslims and Jews in Contemporary France
2005–2006	Ravit Reichman	English	Assistant Professor	The Affective Life of Low: Postwar Justice and the Literary Imagination
2005–2006	Joseph Rovan	Music	Associate Professor	Studies in Movement
2005–2006	Lewis Seifert	French Studies	Associate Professor	Masculinity and Marginality in Seventeenth-Century France

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