Cogut Institute for the Humanities
2026–27 Fellows Seminar
2026–27 Fellows Seminar
Cogut Institute Fellows Seminar
The research seminar gathers fellows from all ranks and postdoctoral research associates across the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Participants meet every week to share work-in-progress and then lunch. The composition of the seminar varies from year to year, based on application submissions, the review process, and award acceptance.
2026–27 Seminar Participants
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Joshua Babcock
Spring 2027 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of AnthropologyProject: "Image and the Total Utopia: Desiring Distinction in Multiracial, Multilingual Singapore" -
Lance Brightmire
2026–27 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in AnthropologyProject: "Unsettling the Heartland(s): Performativity, Narration, and the Politics of Racio-Juridical World-Making in Tulsa, Oklahoma" -
Zoë Clark-Kawwa
2026–27 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Political ScienceProject: "Political Theory and the Machine Question" -
Ruby Erickson
2026-27 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology and EthnomusicologyProject: "‘Keeping the Music Alive’: Indebtedness and Echo as Grassroots Musical Vitality in Cabo Verdean New England" -
Benjamin Flaumenhaft
2026–27 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in Comparative LiteratureProject: "Reading Negativity: Antisocial Politics and Theater in Jean Genet" -
Brendan Fleig-Goldstein
2025–27 Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Normative Commitments and the Foundations of Rational and Moral Agency in Artificial Intelligence” -
Tyler Franconi
Spring 2027 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World and ClassicsProject: "Cultivating Change: Empire, Environment, and Economy on Rome’s German Frontier" -
Paulina Gasiorowska
2026–27 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in Comparative Literature and History of Art and ArchitectureProject: "The Matter of Translation: On the First Printed Vernacular Editions of 'Aesop’s Fables', and How to Carry Them Across to the Present" -
Sloane Geddes
2026–28 International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Classics and at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities.Project: "The Aesthetics of Wonder: Affective Experience and Devotion in Sanskrit Poetry" -
Jennifer Greenberg
2026–27 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Religious StudiesProject: "The Authority of Plain Sense: Philosophy, Politics, and Jewish Interpretation" -
Cate Gutowski
2026–27 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in English and Political ScienceProject: "The King’s Prerogative: Mysteries of State in Jacobean Law and Drama" -
Leon Hilton
Fall 2026 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance StudiesProject: "The Vulnerability Artist" -
Shelley Lee
Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of American Studies, Professor of Humanities, Professor of HistoryProject: “Out of Status: Race, Bureaucracy, and Being ‘Undocumented’ in America” -
Damien Mahiet
Director of Academic Programs at the Cogut Institute, Lecturer in Humanities -
Aparajita Majumdar
Spring 2027 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and SocietyProject: "Planting Recalcitrance: Nature, Knowledge, and Heritage in a South Asian Borderland" -
Michael F. McGovern
2026-28 Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History and at the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: "'A Real, Live Usefulness': Race, Privacy, and the Political Economy of Government Data after the Second Reconstruction" -
Ourida Mostefai
Fall 2026 Faculty Fellow, Professor of Comparative Literature and French and Francophone StudiesProject: "Problematizing Consent: Theories and Fictions of Resistance to Oppression in the Enlightenment" -
Breyten Neill
2026–27 Undergraduate Fellow, Independent Concentrator in Politics, Philosophy, and EconomicsProject: "The Shape of the Good Life: Freedom, Community, and the Liberal Imagination" -
Douglas Nickel
Spring 2027 Faculty Fellow, Andrea V. Rosenthal Professor of History of Art and ArchitectureProject: "Photography, Art, and the Human Imagination" -
Catherine Nuckols
2025–27 International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Full-Figure Glyphs: Iconicity, Figuration, and Tz’ihb in Ancient Maya Inscriptions” -
Adi Ophir
Visiting Professor of Humanities and Middle East Studies -
Melinda Rabb
Fall 2026 Faculty Fellow, Professor of EnglishProject: "Parting Shots: War Trauma and English Literature in the Long 18th Century" -
Daniel A. Rodríguez
Fall 2026 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of HistoryProject: "Children Seeking Freedom: Race, Labor, and Childhood in Cuba" -
Lou Silhol-Macher
2025–27 International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of German Studies and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Of Goo and Dust: Aesthetic Theories of Formlessness” -
Georga-Kay Whyte
2026-27 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in HistoryProject: "The University Works Because We Do: A Social and Intellectual History of Custodial Labor at U.S. Universities c.1870-1970"