Cogut Institute for the Humanities

ACADEMIC YEAR

NAME

CLASS

CONCENTRATION

RESEARCH PROJECT

2024-2025 Kayleigh Danowski 2025 HIAA, Psychology Domestic Labor and Artistic Pursuits: Finding Female Agency in the Early 20th Century United States
2024-2025 Eric Gottlieb 2025 History, Egyptology, Applied Math Egyptian Christianization from the Manichaean Perspective: Evidence from Medinet Madi, 300-599 CE
2024-2025 Daniel Newgarden 2025 Archaeology and the Ancient World (Egyptian and Near Eastern Archaeology Track); Egyptology and Assyriology (Assyriology Track) (Re)Constructing the Past: Archaeophilia and Dynastic Aggrandizement in Late Hellenistic North Syria
2024-2025 Samuel Schwartz 2025 History, Slavic Studies Nikolai Bukharin -- The Worm Which Sickens the Rose
2024-2025 Amir Tamaddon 2025 History Political Theology of "Authenticity": Messianic Self-Craft and Identity-Formation in Revolutionary Iranian Thought
2023-2024

Maru Attwood

2024 History Through the Fence: An Environmental History of Nsikazi, South Africa
2023-2024 Lucia Kan-Sperling 2024 Modern Culture and Media, English Reading Digitally: Technology, Language, and the Poetics of Digital Subjectivity
2023-2024 James Langan 2024 Comparative Literature, Anthropology Rereading Modernity: Specters of Cannibalism in the Caribbean Avant-Garde
2023-2024 Andrew Lu 2024 Literature, History of Art and Architecture Devouring Stone: Rethinking the Monstrous in Romanesque Monastic Sculpture
2023-2024 Grace Xiao 2024 History of Art and Architecture (Dis)location, Diaspora, and the Camera Image: Contemporary Women Artists of the South Asian Diaspora

2022-2023

Alexander Avila

2023

Sociology

Legitimate and Illegitimate Resistance in Pandemic Times

2022-2023

Mia Barzilay Freund

2023

English

A Recovered Canon: Tracing a Lineage of Women's Literary Invention from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen

2022-2023

Chong Jing Gan

2023

Comparative Literature

Islands in Migration: Singaporean (Trans)national Identity in Diasporic Literature

2022-2023

Ren L[i]u

2023

Ethnic Studies
Science, Technology, and Society

Towards Crip-of-Color Transsexual Erotics: Trans, Disabled Poetics as Technologies of Understanding Third World Othering and Belonging”

2022-2023

Catherine Nelli

2023

Comparative Literature
International and Public Affairs

Investigating Indology: Divergences between Colonial French and English and Contemporary Sanskrit Reception of Classical Indian Texts

2021-2022

Kaitlan Bui

2022

English
East Asian Studies

(Re-)Imagination: The Shaping of Memory in Postwar Vietnamese Diasporic Literatures & Communities

2021-2022

Yara Doumani

2022

History
Environmental Studies

“Let this be a WARNing”: Pan-Tribal and Transnational Indigenous Women’s Activisms, 1970s-1980s

2021-2022

Jane Freiman

2022

American Studies
Comparative Literature

Vagrant Desires and Dangerous Disguises: New York’s Anti-Mask Law

2021-2022

Connor Jenkins

2022

History
Africana Studies

“Fear gave speed to our steps”: Slavery’s Hauntings and the Long Lives of Plantation Geographies in Edenton, North Carolina from 1850 to 1880

2021-2022

Diego Rodriguez

2022

IC Philosophical Inquiry Through Creative Forms
Neuroscience

Between the Poetic Languages of Matos Paoli and Rita Indiana: Remembrance and Insanity as Political Philosophy for the Caribbean

2020-2021

Amanda Brynn

2021

Archaeology and the Ancient World
Egyptology
Modern Culture and Media

Pornography and Plunder: Colonialism, Sexuality, and the British Museum's "Secret Museum" 

2020-2021

Marysol Fernandez

2021

Comparative Literature Economics

Translation: A Politics of Exchange

2020-2021

Matthew Marciello

2021

American Studies Gender and Sexuality Studies

Not Biologically Male, Not Biologically Female: The Intersex Rights Fight Against Intersex Genital Surgery, 1960s-Present

2020-2021

Karis Ryu

2021

History and East Asian Studies 

A Way of Life: Remembering the U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan of the Cold War

2020-2021

Nicole Yow Wei

2021

History

Knowing about Knowing: Nineteenth-Century Colonial Libraries of the Straits Settlements

2019–2020

Zarah Asghar

2020

Behavioral Decision Sciences
Middle East Studies

Dialogue under Humanitarian Governance: The Creation of Water and Sanitation Networks in Zaatari

2019–2020

Aliosha Bielenberg

2020

Archaeology and the Ancient World
Independent Concentration in Critical Thought and Global Social Inquiry

Postcolonialism, Pragmatism, and the Khoi-San of South Africa

2019–2020

Isaac Leong

2020

History

Contested Justice: Law and Ritual in Postwar Singapore

2019–2020

Tabitha Payne

2020

Development Studies

The Khmer Queer and Incarceration: LGBT People and Prisons in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2018–2019

Makedah Hughes

2019

Comparative Literature

Black Francophone Identity: dans la vie et dans les livres

2018 (Fall)

Victoria Huynh

2019

Ethnic Studies

Roots of Resilience: Vietnamese community gardening in Camden, NJ

2018–2019

Asey Koh

2019

English

Narratives of Liminality: Queerness and Monstrosity

2018–2019

Ryan Miller

2019

History of Art and Architecture

Engaging Urban Space: Public Art as Spatial Inquiry and Intervention

2018–2019

Kyle Tildon

2019

Africana Studies

Black Diversity in Education: The Results of Nationality and Ethnicity on Black Experiences in Academia

2017–2018

Iván Hofman

2019

History
Comparative Literature

Rethinking the Modern Self: Critical Conversations

2017–2018

Grace Monk

2018

Classics
Comparative Literature

Memorias del Territorio, Graffiti and Public Space, Alberto Fuguet, Popular Perception of Classics

2017–2018

Edward Tie

2018

Science and Technology Studies
Program in Liberal Medical Education

Recollecting the American Carceral State: Queer Cultural Memory and the Testimonies of Gay Pulp Fiction

2017 (Fall)

Shannon Frampton

2018

Africana Studies

Exploring the Permeance of Blackness in Today’s China

2016–2017

Victor Bramble

2016

Modern Culture and Media

 

2016–2017

Ximena Carranza Risco

2017

Environmental Studies

Settling for Disaster: The Construction and Governance of Climate-related Urban Vulnerability in Lima’s Informal Settlements

2016–2017

Noah Fields

2017

Literary Arts

 

2016–2017

Dolma Ombadykow

2017

Medical Humanities

Exploring the Medical Encounter: Systemic Inequality and Conceptions of Chronicity through Language

2016–2017

Joseph Zappa

2017

French Studies

 

2015–2016

Grant Meyer

2016

Modern Culture and Media

 

2015–2016

Aanchal Saraf

2016

Geography

 

2015–2016

Maya Sorabjee

2016

History of Art and Architecture

 

2015 (Fall)

Margaret Livingstone

2016

American Studies
Urban Studies

 

2014–2015

Leila Blatt

2015

Africana Studies

 

2014–2015

Patricia Ekpo

2015

Gender and Sexuality
American Studies

 

2014–2015

Alexander Jusdanis

2015

Music

 

2014–2015

Bartosz Zerebecki

2015

Postcolonial Studies

 

2013–2014

David Adler

2014

Development Studies
Economics

 

2013–2014

David Borgonjon

2014

English

 

2013–2014

Valeria Fantozzi

2014

Development Studies
Architectural Studies

 

2013–2014

Saudi Garcia

2014

Anthropology

 

2012–2013

Berit Goetz

2013

Music
Comparative Literature

 

2012–2013

Peter Johnson

2013

Egyptology & Ancient Western Asian Studies

 

2012–2013

Zack Mezera

2013

Religious Studies
Public Policy

 

2012–2013

Catharine Savage

2013

History

 

2011–2012

Elizabeth Caldwell

2012

History

 

2011–2012

Gabriella Ferrari

2012

Classics
Slavic Studies

 

2011–2012

Juan Ruiz-Toro

2012

History

 

2011–2012

Sabrina Skau

2012

Anthropology

 

2010–2011

Benjamin Hyman

2011

Comparative Literature
International Relations

 

2010–2011

Dylan Nelson

2011

Music
Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments (MEME)

 

2010–2011

Isabel Parkes

2011

German Studies
Hispanic Studies

 

2010–2011

Janet Zong

2011

English
International Relations