ACADEMIC YEAR |
NAME |
DEPARTMENT |
RANK AT TIME OF AWARD |
RESEARCH PROJECT |
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 |
Professor |
Arab-Judaica: More Than Objects, The Colonial Termination of Arab-Jewish Life in Algeria |
2022-2023 |
Candace Rice |
Archaeology |
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 |
Professor |
Pneumatopolitics: An Archaeology of Conspiring |
2022-2023 |
Rachel Wetts |
Environment and Society |
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 |
Associate Professor |
Moving Bodies of the Avant-Garde |
2021-2022 |
Scott Frickel |
Sociology |
Professor |
Ground Truth: A Historical Sociology of Urban Soils |
2021-2022 |
Andrew Laird |
Classics |
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 |
Professor |
Seeking the Gods: The Spiritual Landscape of Late Antiquity |
2020-2021 |
Esther Whitfield |
Comparative Literature |
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 |
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 |
Professor |
Augustus and Egypt: The Poetics of Empire |
2019–2020 |
Mary Louise Gill |
Classics |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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