Cogut Institute for the Humanities
2024–25 Fellows Seminar
2024–25 Fellows Seminar
Cogut Institute Fellows Seminar
The seminar gathers fellows from all ranks, as well as visiting scholars, 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.
2024–25 Participants
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Arnav Adhikari
2024–25 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in EnglishProject: “Amorphous Empires: Literature, Media, and Politics in Cold War South Asia” -
Amanda Anderson
Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities -
Lindsay Caplan
Spring 2025 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of History of Art and ArchitectureProject: “Artificial Life: Art, Abstraction, and Analogies between Humans and Machines” -
Mahasan Chaney
Fall 2024 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of EducationProject: “Disciplining Opportunity: Antiblack Paternalism and Making School Punishment” -
Athia Choudhury
2024–26 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of American Studies; Science, Technology, and Society, and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Gut Cultures: Metabolic Personhood and the Promise of Wellness” -
Kayleigh Danowski
2024–25 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in History of Art and Architecture and PsychologyProject: “Domestic Labor and Artistic Pursuits: Finding Female Agency in the Early 20th-Century United States” -
Lee Gilboa
2024–25 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in MusicProject: “Listening for More: A Study of Heardness” -
Eric Gottlieb
2024–25 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in History, Egyptology and Assyriology, and Applied MathematicsProject: “Egyptian Christianization from the Manichaean Perspective: Evidence from Medinet Madi, 300–599 CE” -
Nomaan Hasan
2024–25 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in AnthropologyProject: “Experiments in Collective Selfhood on the Last Days of Democracy” -
Namrata Kanchan
2024–26 International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Power Play in Leisure Gardens: Royal Turco-Mongol Women and Their Visual Displays of Autonomy” -
Tarisa Little
2024–26 Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Departments of History, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “Students of Aataentsic” -
Amanda Macedo Macedo
2024–25 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre Arts & Performance StudiesProject: “Unraveling Resistance: Aesthetic Interventions in the Face of Imperial Violence” -
Damien Mahiet
Director of Academic Programs at the Cogut Institute, 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” -
Daniel Newgarden
2024–25 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in Archaeology and the Ancient World and Egyptology and AssyriologyProject: “(Re)Constructing the Past: Archaeophilia and Dynastic Aggrandizement in Late Hellenistic North Syria” -
Mark Ocegueda
Fall 2024 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of HistoryProject: “Sol y Sombra: Mexicans, Race, and Culture in the Making of San Bernardino and the Inland Empire” -
Adi Ophir
Visiting Professor of Humanities and Middle East Studies -
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” -
Marc Redfield
Spring 2025 Faculty Fellow, Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of German StudiesProject: “Literature and Hospitality” -
Kristen Reynolds
2024-26 International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Africana Studies, Center for Digital Scholarship, and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesProject: “The (Hu)man in the Machine: Black Speculative Visions for Technology Beyond Man” -
Patricia Rubertone
Spring 2025 Faculty Fellow, Professor of AnthropologyProject: “Unsettling Providence: Politics of Erasure and Indigenous Persistence in a Settler Colonial City” -
Amy Russell
Fall 2024 Faculty Fellow, Director of the Program in Early Cultures, Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of HistoryProject: “POPVLVSQVE: Citizenship, Sovereignty, and the State in Ancient Rome” -
Samuel Schwartz
2024–25 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in History, Literary Arts, and Slavic StudiesProject: “Nikolai Bukharin: The Worm Which Sickens the Rose” -
Prerna Singh
Fall 2024 Faculty Fellow, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social SciencesProject: “Moral Vaccination: Ideas and Institutions in the Control of Contagion in China and India” -
Amir Tamaddon
2024–25 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in HistoryProject: “Political Theology of ‘Authenticity’: Messianic Self-Craft and Identity-Formation in Revolutionary Iranian Thought” -
Daniel Vaca
Spring 2025 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of Religious StudiesProject: “Paying for the Future: A Religious History of Taxes” -
Katharina Weygold
2024–25 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in American StudiesProject: “African American Women and Haiti from the U.S. Occupation to the Duvalier Regime, 1915–1986”