Cogut Institute for the Humanities
2021-22 Fellows Seminar
Undergraduate Fellow Interviews
This year’s undergraduate fellows discussed their experience with the seminar in a series of video interviews. They discuss the ways in which the seminar benefited their research, introduced them to a network of peer scholars, boosted their confidence, and reminded them about the importance of the humanities.
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Amanda Anderson
Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities -
Tim Bewes
Spring 2022 Faculty Fellow, Professor of EnglishProject: "Recents Experiments in American Fiction" -
Kaitlan Bui
2021–22 Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in English and East Asian StudiesProject: "(Re-)Imagination: The Shaping of Memory in Postwar Vietnamese Diasporic Literatures and Communities" -
Rebecca Louise Carter
Fall 2021 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Urban StudiesProject: "Experimental Ethnography and Black Life Itself" -
Lubabah Chowdhury
2021–22 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in EnglishProject: "Caribbean Women's Writing and Afro-Asian Intimacies, 1948-2001" -
Michelle Clayton
Fall 2021 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Associate Professor of Comparative LiteratureProject: "Moving Bodies of the Avant-Garde" -
Yara Doumani
2021–22 Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in History and Environmental StudiesProject: “'Let this be a WARNing': Pan-Tribal and Transnational Indigenous Women’s Activisms, 1970s-1980s" -
Veronica Fitzpatrick
2021–23 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern Culture and Media and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: "A Bachelor's Discourse" -
David Frank
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: "Environmental Philosophy through Utopia" -
Jane Freiman
2021–22 Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in American Studies and Comparative LiteratureProject: "Vagrant Desires and Dangerous Disguises: New York’s Anti-Mask Law" -
Scott Frickel
Fall 2021 Faculty Fellow, Professor of Sociology and Environment and SocietyProject: "Ground Truth: A Historical Sociology of Urban Soils" -
Christina Gilligan
2021–22 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in EnglishProject: "Readerly Identification in the Realist Novel from Austen to Hardy" -
Adrián Hernández-Acosta
2021–23 Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities in the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Mourning, Literature, and Religion in the Hispanophone Caribbean and its Diasporas” -
Connor Jenkins
2021–22 Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in History and Africana StudiesProject: “'Fear gave speed to our steps': Slavery’s Hauntings and the Long Lives of Plantation Geographies in Edenton, North Carolina from 1850 to 1880" -
Irina Kalinka
2021–22 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Modern Culture and MediaProject: "User Democracy: A Political Theory of Digital Logics" -
Andrew Laird
Fall 2021 Faculty Fellow, John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and HumanitiesProject: "Humanism and Experience in Post-Conquest Mexico: The Early Writings of Fray Cristóbal Cabrera (1530-1545)" -
Dadland Maye
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Africana Studies and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: "The Making of a Queer Caribbean: Grassroots, Dancehall, and Literary Advocacy (1975–2015)" -
Mariah Min
2021–23 Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities in the Department of English, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: "Figure Writing: Technologies of Character in Medieval Literature" -
Adi Ophir
Visiting Professor of Humanities and Middle East Studies -
Emily Owens
Spring 2022 Faculty Fellow, David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of HistoryProject: "Belated: Lesbians Out of Time" -
Diego Rodriguez Langevin
2021–22 Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in Neuroscience and Computer Science, Independent Concentrator in Philosophical Inquiry through Creative FormsProject: "Between the Poetic Languages of Matos Paoli and Rita Indiana: Remembrance and Insanity as Political Philosophy for the Caribbean" -
Emily Lim Rogers
2021–23 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of American Studies, the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS), and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Clinical Proximities: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Biomedicine’s Binds in the U.S.” -
Andrew Scherer
Spring 2022 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of AnthropologyProject: "War, Violence, and the Morality of Killing in Ancient Maya Society" -
Baoli Yang
2021–22 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative LiteratureProject: "The Literary Strata of Imperial Borders: Sinoscript Literature and its Encounters in the Tang Era"