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Cogut Institute Undergraduate Fellows

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Cogut Institute Undergraduate Fellowship

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

ACADEMIC YEARNAMECLASSCONCENTRATIONRESEARCH PROJECT
2025–2026Camille Blanco2026Classics
History of Art and Architecture		Caesar and the Gauls: Mapping Roman Provincial Identity through the Funerary Monuments of Roman Gaul, 50 BCE to 486 CE
2025–2026Martina Herman2026Comparative Literature 
Literary Arts		Choreographies of Power: Dance, Policing, and Political Agency across the Post-Modern Tradition
2025–2026Aubrie Miller2026Comparative Literature 
English 
History of Art and Architecture		“I will be free … in words”: Viewing Gender through a Bibliographic Lens in Shakespeare’s Plays
2025–2026Indigo Mudbhary2026Ethnic Studies 
History		Unsettling the Remote/Mobile Binary in Nepal
2025–2026Talia Sherman2026English 
Linguistics		The Work of Language: Political, Productive, and Paradoxical Operations
2024–2025Kayleigh Danowski2025History of Art and Architecture 
Psychology		Domestic Labor and Artistic Pursuits: Finding Female Agency in the Early 20th Century United States
2024–2025Eric Gottlieb2025History 
Egyptology 
Applied Mathematics		Egyptian Christianization from the Manichaean Perspective: Evidence from Medinet Madi, 300-599 CE
2024–2025Daniel Newgarden2025Archaeology 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
2024–2025Samuel Schwartz2025History 
Slavic Studies 
Literary Arts		Nikolai Bukharin: The Worm Which Sickens the Rose
2024–2025Amir Tamaddon2025HistoryPolitical Theology of “Authenticity”: Messianic Self-Craft and Identity-Formation in Revolutionary Iranian Thought
2023–2024Maru Attwood2024HistoryThrough the Fence: An Environmental History of Nsikazi, South Africa
2023–2024Lucia Kan-Sperling2024Modern Culture and Media 
English		Reading Digitally: Technology, Language, and the Poetics of Digital Subjectivity
2023–2024James Langan2024Comparative Literature 
Anthropology		Rereading Modernity: Specters of Cannibalism in the Caribbean Avant-Garde
2023–2024Andrew Lu2024Literature 
History of Art and Architecture		Devouring Stone: Rethinking the Monstrous in Romanesque Monastic Sculpture
2023–2024Grace Xiao2024History of Art and Architecture(Dis)location, Diaspora, and the Camera Image: Contemporary Women Artists of the South Asian Diaspora
2022–2023Alexander Avila2023SociologyLegitimate and Illegitimate Resistance in Pandemic Times
2022–2023Mia Barzilay Freund2023EnglishA Recovered Canon: Tracing a Lineage of Women’s Literary Invention from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen
2022–2023Chong Jing Gan2023Comparative LiteratureIslands in Migration: Singaporean (Trans)national Identity in Diasporic Literature
2022–2023Ren L[i]u2023Ethnic Studies
Science, Technology, and Society		Towards Crip-of-Color Transsexual Erotics: Trans, Disabled Poetics as Technologies of Understanding Third World Othering and Belonging
2022–2023Catherine Nelli2023Comparative Literature
International and Public Affairs		Investigating Indology: Divergences between Colonial French and English and Contemporary Sanskrit Reception of Classical Indian Texts
2021–2022Kaitlan Bui2022English
East Asian Studies		(Re-)Imagination: The Shaping of Memory in Postwar Vietnamese Diasporic Literatures & Communities
2021–2022Yara Doumani2022History
Environmental Studies		“Let this be a WARNing”: Pan-Tribal and Transnational Indigenous Women’s Activisms, 1970s–1980s
2021–2022Jane Freiman2022American Studies
Comparative Literature		Vagrant Desires and Dangerous Disguises: New York’s Anti-Mask Law
2021–2022Connor Jenkins2022History
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
2021–2022Diego Rodriguez2022IC 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
2020–2021Amanda Brynn2021Archaeology and the Ancient World
Egyptology
Modern Culture and Media		Pornography and Plunder: Colonialism, Sexuality, and the British Museum’s “Secret Museum”
2020–2021Marysol Fernandez2021Comparative Literature EconomicsTranslation: A Politics of Exchange
2020–2021Matthew Marciello2021American Studies Gender and Sexuality StudiesNot Biologically Male, Not Biologically Female: The Intersex Rights Fight Against Intersex Genital Surgery, 1960s–Present
2020–2021Karis Ryu2021History and East Asian Studies A Way of Life: Remembering the U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan of the Cold War
2020–2021Nicole Yow Wei2021HistoryKnowing about Knowing: Nineteenth-Century Colonial Libraries of the Straits Settlements
2019–2020Zarah Asghar2020Behavioral Decision Sciences
Middle East Studies		Dialogue under Humanitarian Governance: The Creation of Water and Sanitation Networks in Zaatari
2019–2020Aliosha Bielenberg2020Archaeology and the Ancient World
Independent Concentration in Critical Thought and Global Social Inquiry		Postcolonialism, Pragmatism, and the Khoi-San of South Africa
2019–2020Isaac Leong2020HistoryContested Justice: Law and Ritual in Postwar Singapore
2019–2020Tabitha Payne2020Development StudiesThe Khmer Queer and Incarceration: LGBT People and Prisons in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2018–2019Makedah Hughes2019Comparative LiteratureBlack Francophone Identity: dans la vie et dans les livres
2018 (Fall)Victoria Huynh2019Ethnic StudiesRoots of Resilience: Vietnamese community gardening in Camden, NJ
2018–2019Asey Koh2019EnglishNarratives of Liminality: Queerness and Monstrosity
2018–2019Ryan Miller2019History of Art and ArchitectureEngaging Urban Space: Public Art as Spatial Inquiry and Intervention
2018–2019Kyle Tildon2019Africana StudiesBlack Diversity in Education: The Results of Nationality and Ethnicity on Black Experiences in Academia
2017–2018Iván Hofman2019History
Comparative Literature		Rethinking the Modern Self: Critical Conversations
2017–2018Grace Monk2018Classics
Comparative Literature		Memorias del Territorio, Graffiti and Public Space, Alberto Fuguet, Popular Perception of Classics
2017–2018Edward Tie2018Science 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 Frampton2018Africana StudiesExploring the Permeance of Blackness in Today’s China
2016–2017Victor Bramble2016Modern Culture and Media 
2016–2017Ximena Carranza Risco2017Environmental StudiesSettling for Disaster: The Construction and Governance of Climate-related Urban Vulnerability in Lima’s Informal Settlements
2016–2017Noah Fields2017Literary Arts 
2016–2017Dolma Ombadykow2017Medical HumanitiesExploring the Medical Encounter: Systemic Inequality and Conceptions of Chronicity through Language
2016–2017Joseph Zappa2017French Studies 
2015–2016Grant Meyer2016Modern Culture and Media 
2015–2016Aanchal Saraf2016Geography 
2015–2016Maya Sorabjee2016History of Art and Architecture 
2015 (Fall)Margaret Livingstone2016American Studies
Urban Studies		 
2014–2015Leila Blatt2015Africana Studies 
2014–2015Patricia Ekpo2015Gender and Sexuality
American Studies		 
2014–2015Alexander Jusdanis2015Music 
2014–2015Bartosz Zerebecki2015Postcolonial Studies 
2013–2014David Adler2014Development Studies
Economics		 
2013–2014David Borgonjon2014English 
2013–2014Valeria Fantozzi2014Development Studies
Architectural Studies		 
2013–2014Saudi Garcia2014Anthropology 
2012–2013Berit Goetz2013Music
Comparative Literature		 
2012–2013Peter Johnson2013Egyptology & Ancient Western Asian Studies 
2012–2013Zack Mezera2013Religious Studies
Public Policy		 
2012–2013Catharine Savage2013History 
2011–2012Elizabeth Caldwell2012History 
2011–2012Gabriella Ferrari2012Classics
Slavic Studies		 
2011–2012Juan Ruiz-Toro2012History 
2011–2012Sabrina Skau2012Anthropology 
2010–2011Benjamin Hyman2011Comparative Literature
International Relations		 
2010–2011Dylan Nelson2011Music
Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments (MEME)		 
2010–2011Isabel Parkes2011German Studies
Hispanic Studies		 
2010–2011Janet Zong2011English
International Relations		 

 

Cogut Institute Undergraduate Fellowship

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