Cogut Institute for the Humanities
2022-23 Fellows Seminar
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Amanda Anderson
Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities -
Alexander Ávila
Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in SociologyProject: "Legitimate and Illegitimate Resistance in Pandemic Times" -
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Fall 2022 Faculty Fellow, Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative LiteratureProject: "Arab-Judaica: More Than Objects, The Colonial Termination of Arab-Jewish Life in Algeria" -
Michael Berman
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities in the Department of Anthropology and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: "Heart of a Heartless World: Alienation, Compassion, and Listening in the Making of Secularist Japan" -
Sam Coren
Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in American StudiesProject: "Watershed Metropolis: a partial history of the Providence River and its lifeworlds" -
Manimporok (Maro) Dotulong
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities in the Department of East Asian Studies and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: "Oceans of the Free: East- and Southeast Asian Transnational Relations in the Arafura Zone, 1880s-1960s" -
Veronica Fitzpatrick
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern Culture and Media and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: "A Bachelor's Discourse" -
Mia Barzilay Freund
Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in EnglishProject: "A Recovered Canon: Tracing a Lineage of Women's Literary Invention from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen" -
Chong Jing Gan
Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in Comparative LiteratureProject: "Islands in Migration: Singaporean (Trans)national Identity in Diasporic Literature" -
Benjamin P. Hein
Spring 2023 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of HistoryProject: "The Migrant's Spirit: Industrial Revolution in the German Lands" -
Adrián Hernández-Acosta
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" -
Stephen Houston
Spring 2023 Faculty Fellow, Dupee Family Professor of Social SciencesProject: "Vital Signs: The Visual Culture of Maya Writing" -
Ayantu Israel-Megerssa
Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Political ScienceProject: "Impossible Objects: Democratic Pessimism and a Politics of Contamination" -
Eric Johnson
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities.Project: "Mapping Munsee Landscapes: (Un)Recognizing Indigenous Stone Architecture in the Northeast" -
Kiran Lam-Saili
Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in EnglishProject: "Identification After Disillusionment: The ‘Minor’ Idioms of Diasporic Life" -
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Ren L[i]u
Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in Ethnic Studies and Science, Technology, and SocietyProject: "Towards Crip-of-Color Transsexual Erotics: Trans, Disabled Poetics as Technologies of Understanding Third World Othering and Belonging” -
Mariah Min
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" -
Marah Nagelhout
Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in EnglishProject: "Critique of Extractive Reason: Time and the Environmental Antiblackness of Racial Capital" -
Catherine Nelli
Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in Comparative Literature, Sanskrit Classics, and International and Public AffairsProject: "Investigating Indology: Divergences between Colonial French and English and Contemporary Sanskrit Reception of Classical Indian Texts" -
Adi Ophir
Visiting Professor of Humanities and Middle East Studies -
Candace Rice
Fall 2022 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Archaeology and ClassicsProject: "Beyond Connectivity: the Economic Landscape of Roman Lycia" -
Emily Lim Rogers
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" -
Hannah Rose Silverblank
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: "Listening to the Monster in Greek Poetry" -
Mark Suchman
Fall 2022 Faculty Fellow, Professor of SociologyProject: "The New Corporate Personhood: Morality, Authenticity, and the Ideology of Entrepreneurship" -
Peter Szendy
Spring 2023 Faculty Fellow, David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative LiteratureProject: "Pneumatopolitics: An Archaeology of Conspiring" -
Rachel Wetts
Spring 2023 Faculty Fellow, Acacia Assistant Professor of Environment and Society and SociologyProject: "Climate Politics as Status Struggle: Class, Gender, and the Politics of Symbolic Worth" -
David Wills
Fall 2022 Faculty Fellow, Professor of French and Francophone StudiesProject: "The Saturated Slate of the Rothko Chapel"