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Cogut Institute Graduate Fellows

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Cogut Institute Graduate Fellowship

Apply to join the cross-disciplinary community of the Fellows Seminar and its exciting group of faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate fellows!

ACADEMIC YEARNAMEGRADUATIONDEPARTMENTRESEARCH PROJECT
2025–2026Ahmad Abu AhmadN/AComparative LiteratureThe Poetics and Politics of Death in Palestinian Literature and Film
2025–2026Andrew ClarkN/AFrench and Francophone StudiesUnlived Experience in the French Novel, 1830–1997
2025–2026Max Foley-KeeneN/APolitical ScienceAn Eco-Socialist-Civic Virtue: Democracy, Ethics, and Ecological Emancipation
2025–2026Celia SternN/AReligious StudiesRitual and the Politics of Failure
2024–2025Arnav AdhikariN/AEnglishAmorphous Empires: Literature, Media, and Politics in Cold War South Asia
2024–2025Lee GilboaN/AMusicListening for More: A Study of Heardness
2024–2025Nomaan HasanN/AAnthropologyExperiments in Collective Selfhood on the Last Days of Democracy
2024–2025Amanda Macedo MacedoN/ATheatre Arts and Performance StudiesUnraveling Resistance: Aesthetic Interventions in the Face of Imperial Violence
2024–2025Katharina WeygoldN/AAmerican StudiesAfrican American Women and Haiti from the U.S. Occupation to the Duvalier Regime, 1915–1986
2023–2024Devon CliftonN/AEnglishPsychoanalytics: Towards a Black Object Study
2023–2024Brianna EatonN/AAfricana StudiesEverywhere Black Folks Went: Examining Transnational Diasporic Dialogues in Media
2023–2024Itamar LevinN/AClassicsCenotaphs and the Politics of Commemoration: Civic Ideology in the Greek Polis
2023–2024Goutam PiduriN/AEnglishOwning Renunciation: Studies in the Authority of Non-possession
2022–2023Sam CorenN/AAmerican StudiesWatershed Metropolis: A Partial History of the Providence River and Its Lifeworlds
2022–2023Marah NagelhoutN/AEnglishCritique of Extractive Reason: Time and the Environmental Antiblackness of Racial Capital
2022–2023Ayantu Israel-MegerssaN/APolitical ScienceImpossible Objects: Democratic Pessimism and a Politics of Contamination
2022–2023Kiran Saili2024EnglishIdentification After Disillusionment: The “Minor” Idioms of Diasporic Life
2021–2022Lubabah Chowdhury2023EnglishCaribbean Women’s Writing and Afro-Asian Intimacies, 1948–2001
2021–2022Christina Gilligan2023EnglishReaderly Identification in the Realist Novel from Austen to Hardy
2021–2022Irina Kalinka2023Modern Culture and MediaUser Democracy: A Political Theory of Digital Logics
2021–2022Baoli YangN/AComparative LiteratureThe Literary Strata of Imperial Borders: Sinoscript Literature and its Encounters in the Tang Era
2020–2021Tanvir Ahmed2021Religious StudiesRadical Shadows of God: Popular Resistance in Persianate Islam, 1200–1550 C.E.
2020–2021Gregory Hitch2022American StudiesThe Forest Keepers: An Environmental History of the Menominee Nation from Colonization to Climate Change
2020–2021Allison Pappas2024History of Art and Architecture“Considered only in its ultimate nature”: Photography between Object and Idea
2020–2021Kelly Nguyen Sutherland2021ClassicsVercingetorix in Vietnam: Classical Reception in French Colonial and Postcolonial Vietnamese Communities
2019–2020Claire Grandy2021EnglishDocumentary Poetry and the Photographic Record from Wordsworth to Lewis
2019–2020Dennis Hogan2022Comparative LiteratureLa Reina de dos mundos: Crisis and Creation in the Central American Transit Zones, 1848–1914
2019–2020Brigitte Stepanov2020French StudiesIn-Human: Visions of Cruelty in 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Texts
2018–2019Daniel Byrne2024EnglishUntimely Form: Late Modernism and the Persistence of Aesthetic Autonomy
2018–2019Michael Gastiger2021EnglishModel Cities: American Literature and the Urban Design Imagination, 1890–1980
2018–2019Morris Karp2021Italian Studies“A Time of Actual Genius”: Leopardi Interprets the Renaissance
2018–2019Anna Thomas2020EnglishForms of Rearrangement: Habit, Injury, and Mourning in African American and Caribbean Literature
2017–2018Rajeev Kadambi2019Political SciencePathologies of Cosmopolitan Radicalism: M.N. Roy on Politics and Ethics
2017–2018Lakshmi Padmanabhan2018Modern Culture and MediaThe Impassive Image
2017–2018Michelle Rada2024EnglishThere is No Textual Relation: Sex, Reading, and the Surface of Form
2017–2018Noga Rotem2021Political Science“Full of Fear and Full of Resistance:” Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Daniel Paul Schreber, and the Politics of Paranoia
2016–2017Wuming Chang2017Italian StudiesVirgil as Horatian Discretio in the Commedia
2016–2017Ferris Lupino2020Political ScienceRalph Ellison and the Democratic Use of Sacrifice
2016–2017Megan McBride2017Religious StudiesOn ISIS, or the Islamic State
2016–2017Frances Tanzer2019HistoryRe-Imagining Vienna in the Aftermath of Genocide: Cultural Reconstruction and Representations of Jewish Absence
2015–2016Benjamin Brand2016German StudiesCherry Trees on the Highest Towers: Johann Peter Hebel’s In-Difference Towards the Opposition of Nature and Man’s Cultural Mandate
2015–2016Nicholas Friesner2017Religious StudiesEmerson’s “Religion” Problem
2015–2016David Hollingshead2018EnglishCharles Chesnutt, the Rise of Negligence, and Nonhuman Liability
2015–2016Patrick McKelvey2017Theatre Arts and Performance StudiesRon Whyte’s Prosthetic Disemployment
2015–2016Apollonya Porcelli2020SociologyTowards a Sociology of Climate Precarity: An Ethnography of Expertise in Peru’s Anchovy Fishery
2014–2015(Anna) Fannie Bialek2015Religious StudiesA Vulnerability and Asymmetry in Feminist Power Critique
2014–2015Karida Brown2016SociologyTurning the Screw of Interpretation on the Archive
2014–2015Anja Jovic2015Comparative LiteratureBlack and Balkan: A Comparison of Caribbean, African, African-American, and Balkan History, Theory, and Art
2014–2015Sara Matthiesen2016American StudiesFertile Ground: Alternative to Abortion and Maternal Health
2014–2015Yana Stainova2016AnthropologyA Sonorous Silence: The Polyphonous Politics of Classical Music in Venezuela
2013–2014Nicolas Bommarito2014PhilosophyVirtuous and Vicious Anger
2013–2014Meghan Kallman2016SociologyBureaucratized Morality: Institutionally-Mediated Idealism in the Peace Corps
2013–2014Sean Keck2015EnglishLiterary Regionalism and Mark Twain’s Telephone
2013–2014Coleman Nye2014Theatre Arts and Performance StudiesBiological Properties: Gene Patenting and the Theatrical Laws of Nature
2012–2013Andrea Allgood2014Religious StudiesSome Reflections on Exile, Homeland, and Purity in the Hebrew Bible
2012–2013Jeffrey Neilson2014EnglishYusef Komunyakaa at the Jazz Workshop
2012–2013Jacob Richman2013MusicThe (Unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery
2012–2013Steven Swarbrick2016EnglishMilton and the Movement-Image: A Natural
2011–2012Sohini Kar2013AnthropologyThe Reluctant Moneylender: Microfinance Loan Officers and the Ethical Risk of Commercialized Debt
2011–2012Aniruddha Maitra2013Modern Culture and MediaWhy Fanon Was Never “Black Lacan,” but Lacanian Before Lacan: Race as Language in Black Skin White Masks
2011–2012Clint (Michael Clinton) Bruce2013French StudiesThe Atlantic, Obliquely: Eugène Sue’s Atar-Gull, a 19th-Century Novel of the Sea, Slavery, and Transoceanic Revenge
2011–2012Chiwook Won2013PhilosophyMaking Sense of Ourselves
2010–2011Pauline de Tholozany2011French StudiesClumsy and Clumsier: la maladresse from Rousseau to Jean-Jacques
2010–2011Thomas Devaney2011HistoryKnights, Magi, and Muslims: Miguel Lucas de Iranzo and the People of Jaén
2010–2011Jonathan Gentry2015HistoryThe Nietzschean Politics of Musical Modernism
2010–2011Malgorzata Rymska-Pawlowska2012American CivilizationLogics of Preservation and Reenactment: Historicity in the 1970s
2009–2010Sophia Beal2010Portuguese and Brazilian StudiesBrazil under Construction: Literature, Public Works, and Progress
2009–2010David Bering-Porter2011Modern Culture and MediaUndead: On Vital Indices and the Uncanny Life of Media
2009–2010Kevin Patton2011MusicThe Performance and Orchestration of Gestural Computer Music Instruments
2009–2010Oded Rabinovitch2011HistoryViry, or the Perraults in the Countryside: Literary Sociability and Textual Representation in the 17th Century
2008–2009Kelley Kreitz2009Comparative LiteraturePainting Modern Life, or the Burden of Journalism
2008–2009Sarah Moran2010History of Art and ArchitectureThe Vita of Anna van Schriek: Gender, Print Culture, and Teresian Spirituality in 17th-Century Flanders
2008–2009Kathryn Rhine2009AnthropologySupport Groups, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity among HIV-Positive Women in Northern Nigeria
2008–2009Sarah Wald2009American CivilizationRemapping Imperial Geographics and Reclaiming National Identities in Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart and Galarza’s Strangers in Our Fields
2007–2008Pannill Camp2008Theatre, Speech and DanceLe Premier Cadre: Theatre Architecture and Objects of Knowledge in 18th-Century France
2007–2008Robert Newcomb2008Portuguese and Brazilian StudiesCounterposing Nossa and Nuestra América
2007–2008Emily Steinlight2010EnglishMass Man and the Future of the Social in 19th-Century Literature
2007–2008Amy Vegari2008Comparative LiteratureViolence, Immediately: Representation and Materiality in 20th-Century Literature, Film, and Theory
2006–2007Jessica Barr2007Comparative LiteratureIn the Absence of Authority: Satirizing the Visionary Tradition in Chaucer's House of Fame
2006–2007Christine Evans2008Theatre, Speech and DanceThe Library in the Desert of the Real

Cogut Institute Graduate Fellowship

Apply to join the cross-disciplinary community of the Fellows Seminar and its exciting group of faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate fellows!