Cogut Institute for the Humanities

ACADEMIC YEAR

NAME

DEPARTMENT

RANK AT TIME OF AWARD

RESEARCH PROJECT

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