Cogut Institute for the Humanities
2023-24 Fellows Seminar
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Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
Fall 2023 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of American Studies and EnglishProject: “Critical Race Theory and the Politics of Literary Form” -
Faiz Ahmed
Spring 2024 Faculty Fellow, Joukowsky Family Distinguished Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern HistoryProject: “America in the Ottoman Gaze: The Late Ottoman Empire and the Early United States, 1730–1923” -
Maru Attwood
2023–24 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrator in HistoryProject: “Footpaths and Fences: A Spatial History of Nsikazi, South Africa” -
Michael Berman
2022–24 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” -
Devon Clifton
2023–24 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in EnglishProject: “Psychoanalytics: Towards a Black Object Study” -
Manimporok (Maro) Dotulong
2022–24 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” -
Brianna Eaton
2023–24 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Africana StudiesProject: “Everywhere Black Folks Went: Examining Transnational Diasporic Dialogues in Media” -
Christopher Grasso
Spring 2024 Faculty Fellow, Professor of HistoryProject: “The Chisolm Massacre: Reconstruction and the Politics of Violence” -
Eric Johnson
2022–24 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: “Epistemologies of Recognition: Indigenous Stonework and Archaeological Heritage in the Northeast” -
Lucia Kan-Sperling
2023–24 Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in Modern Culture and Media and EnglishProject: “Reading Digitally: Technology, Language, and the Poetics of Digital Subjectivity” -
James Langan
2023–24 Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in Comparative Literature and AnthropologyProject: “Rereading Modernity: Specters of Cannibalism in the Caribbean Avant-Garde” -
Jessaca Leinaweaver
Spring 2024 Faculty Fellow, Professor of Anthropology, Chair of AnthropologyProject: “Familiar Figures: Counting Children, Discounting Kin” -
Itamar Levin
2023–24 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in ClassicsProject: “Cenotaphs and the Politics of Commemoration: Civic Ideology in the Greek Polis” -
Andrew Lu
2023–24 Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in Comparative Literature and History of Art and ArchitectureProject: “Devouring Stone: Rethinking the Monstrous in Romanesque Monastic Sculpture” -
Damien Mahiet
Director of Academic Programs, Lecturer in Humanities -
Ambra Marzocchi
2023–25 International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Latin Textbooks in Colonial Mexico” -
Katherine A. Mason
Spring 2024 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of AnthropologyProject: “Journaling the Pandemic: A Grassroots Collaborative Ethnography of COVID-19” -
Adi Ophir
Visiting Professor of Humanities and Middle East Studies -
Eleanor Paynter
2023–25 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian Studies and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Up/Rooted: Migrant Farmwork and the Production of the Citizen” -
Goutam Piduri
2023–24 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in EnglishProject: “Owning Renunciation: Studies in the Authority of Non-possession” -
Sebastián Antezana Quiroga
2023–25 International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Migrant Afterlives: Spectral Narratives of Greater Mexico and Greater Bolivia” -
Ravit Reichman
Fall 2023 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of EnglishProject: “Possessive Cases: The Propertied Imagination in Modern Times” -
Hannah Rose Silverblank
2022–24 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” -
Peter Szendy
2023–24 Seminar Leader, David Herlihy University Professor of Comparative Literature and the Humanities -
Grace Xiao
2023–24 Undergraduate Fellow, Concentrator in History of Art and ArchitectureProject: "(Dis)location, Diaspora, and the Camera Image: Contemporary Women Artists of the South Asian Diaspora"