Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Cogut Collaborative Humanities Fellows

Doctoral students hold the fellowship in the second, third, or fourth year of their Ph.D. program and at any stage of their pursuit of the doctoral certificate.

  • Portrait photo of Ahmad Abu Ahmad

    Ahmad Abu Ahmad

    Collaborative Humanities Fellow, Comparative Literature

    Ahmad Abu Ahmad is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, where he works across the modern and classical Arabic literary traditions with a focus on Palestinian literature and film. Having completed a B.A. in English and an LL.B. in law at Tel Aviv University, he has been committed to questions of sovereignty and violence in Israel/Palestine as both a student activist and, later, an attorney. Such involvements inform his current research, which examines the intersections of space, language, and memory and attests to the complex politics of linguistic and (inter)cultural contact zones in the project of settler-colonial state-building. For him, translation offers not only a rubric for close textual analysis, but an expanded mode of circulation of meaning both within and outside text, where language functions as a contact zone and a site of asymmetric force and violence.

  • Portrait photo of Kamari Carter

    Kamari Carter

    Collaborative Humanities Fellow, Music and Multimedia Composition

    Kamari Carter is a third-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Music and Multimedia Composition, working with sound and found objects. Carter’s practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Carter’s work has been exhibited at Automata Arts, MoMA, Mana Contemporary, the RISD Museum, Microscope Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, and Wave Hill and has been featured in a range of major publications including Artnet, Precog Magazine, Flash Art, Level Ground, and Whitewall. Carter holds a BFA in music technology from the California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in sound art from Columbia University.

  • Portrait photo of Yannick Etoundi

    Yannick Etoundi

    Collaborative Humanities Fellow, History of Art and Architecture

    Yannick Etoundi is a third-year doctoral candidate at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture. As a historian of the built environment, he specializes in postcolonial architectural history, global modernisms, visual culture of empire, and the architectures of slavery and abolition. His main area of focus is the African continent and the African diaspora, and he is particularly interested in the ways in which the memory of slavery, abolition, and colonialism is articulated around the built environment. He holds a M.Arch. and a B.Arch. from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a B.Soc.Sc. in international studies and modern languages from the University of Ottawa. He also has professional experience in architectural firms based in Yukon, Canada, and Tokyo, Japan.

  • Portrait photo of Andrés Emil González

    Andrés Emil González

    Collaborative Humanities Fellow, Comparative Literature

    Andrés Emil González is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature. He holds a B.A. in comparative literature and politics from Oberlin College and an M.A. in Spanish from the Middlebury College Language School. His research is primarily on Anglophone and Hispanophone horror film and literature, the production of tropes and narrative conventions, and genre studies.

  • Portrait photo of Will Johnson

    Will Johnson

    Collaborative Humanities Fellow, Music

    Will Johnson is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Music. Themes from his work include Black digital memory, phantom archives and the latent poetics of audio engineer speak. His proposed dissertation project centers on composition for trunk subwoofers and conceives of automobile collectives as orchestras-in-motion. Throughout his work, particular attention is paid to subfrequencies and the left-most regions of the frequency spectrum. Here, “bass” is explored as a vibrotactile substance that challenges the formality of “music” as a purely auditory phenomena. Johnson is a visiting researcher at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Johannesburg’s Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD) Research Centre. He is the recipient of the Jerome Foundation’s Composer and Sound Artist Fellowship and the McKnight Fellowship for Musicians.

  • Portrait of Henry Neim Osman

    Henry Neim Osman

    Collaborative Humanities Fellow, Modern Culture and Media

    Henry Neim Osman is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. In his research, he draws from the history of computation, digital media, and philosophy of technology. His planned dissertation project is a critique of the analog as both a mode of correlation and computational paradigm, as seen in analog computers. Working across military science experiments and corporate-developed AI, he examines how the use of biological analogies such as the neural net, swarming, and plant-based computing naturalize new modes of control. Before coming to Brown, he received a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s in visual cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London.

  • Portrait photo of Anna Wright

    Anna Wright

    Collaborative Humanities Fellow, Music

    Anna Wright is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Music. Her research interests focus on Scottish traditional music and nationalism and include gender and sexuality studies and disability studies. Her current work examines madness in bagpiping discourse, following how accusations of madness reveal historical censorship of contradictory narratives and individuals, contrasted with modern discourses that tactfully leverage madness as a means to allow for a plurality of simultaneous truths. She has a background in performance, and before coming to Brown, she studied at the University of British Columbia, where she earned M.A. degrees in saxophone performance and ethnomusicology. She plays pipes in her spare time and is originally from Edinburgh.

Aseel Azab
Religious Studies

Chanelle Dupuis
French and Francophone Studies

Helene Nguyen
Modern Culture and Media

JD Stokely
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

Stephen Woo
Modern Culture and Media

Osama Ahmad
History

Pablo a Marca
Italian Studies

Alberto Alcarez Escarcega
Politcal Science

Katherine Contess
Modern Culture and Media

Thomas Dai
American Studies

Lee Gilboa
Music

Heather Lawrence
Modern Culture and Media

 

Tara Dhaliwal
Religious Studies

Julie Dind
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

Nabila Islam
Sociology

Andressa Maia
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Alessandro Moghrabi
Religious Studies

Regina Pieck
Hispanic Studies

Sherena Razek
Modern Culture and Media

Katyayni Seth
Anthropology

Nicholas Andersen
Religious Studies

Kevin Ennis
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Melaine Ferdinand-King
Africana Studies

Nomaan Hasan
Anthropology

Carolina-Maria Mendoza
Religious Studies

Michael Paninski
German Studies

Michael Putnam
Religious Studies

Urszula Rutkowska
English

Pedro Almeida
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Chris DiBona
Religious Studies

Jeffrey Feldman
Political Science

Aaron Jacobs
History

Jacquelynn Jones
American Studies

Irina Kalinka
Modern Culture and Media

Mariz Kelada
Anthropology

N'Kosi Oates
Africana Studies

Ahona Palchoudhuri
Anthropology

Mirjam Paninski
German Studies

Jan Tabor
German Studies

 

Yifeng Cai
Anthropology

Kareem Estefan
Modern Culture and Media

Nechama Juni
Political Science

Stephen Marsh
English

Caleb Murray
Religious Studies

Miriam Rainer
German Studies

Nicole Sintetos
American Studies