Cogut Institute for the Humanities

2024-25 Fellows Seminar

The seminar gathers fellows and visitors across the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

  • Portrait photo of Arnav Adhikari

    Arnav Adhikari

    2024-25 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in English
    Project: “Amorphous Empires: Literature, Media, and Politics in Cold War South Asia”
  • Portrait of Amanda Anderson

    Amanda Anderson

    Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities
  • Portrait of Lindsay Caplan

    Lindsay Caplan

    Spring 2025 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
    Project: “Artificial Life: Art, Abstraction, and Analogies between Humans and Machines”
  • Portrait photo of Mahasan Chaney

    Mahasan Chaney

    Fall 2024 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Education
    Project: “Disciplining Opportunity: Antiblack Paternalism and Making School Punishment”
  • Portrait photo of Athia Choudhury

    Athia Choudhury

    2024-26 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of American Studies; Science, Technology, and Society, and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
    Project: “Gut Cultures: Metabolic Personhood and the Promise of Wellness”
  • Portrait photo of Kayleigh Danowski

    Kayleigh Danowski

    2024-25 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in History of Art and Architecture and Psychology
    Project: “Domestic Labor and Artistic Pursuits: Finding Female Agency in the Early 20th-Century United States”
  • Portrait photo of Lee Gilboa

    Lee Gilboa

    2024-25 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Music
    Project: “Listening for More: A Study of Heardness”
  • Portrait photo of Eric Gottlieb

    Eric Gottlieb

    2024-25 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in History, Egyptology, and Applied Math
    Project: “Egyptian Christianization from the Manichaean Perspective: Evidence from Medinet Madi, 300–599 CE”
  • Portrait photo of Nomaan Hasan

    Nomaan Hasan

    2024-25 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology
    Project: “Experiments in Collective Selfhood on the Last Days of Democracy”
  • Portrait photo of Namrata Kanchan

    Namrata Kanchan

    2024-26 International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
    Project: “Power Play in Leisure Gardens: Royal Turco-Mongol Women and Their Visual Displays of Autonomy”
  • Portrait photo of Tarisa Little

    Tarisa Little

    2024-26 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of History, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
    Project: “Students of Aataentsic”
  • Portrait photo of Amanda Macedo Macedo

    Amanda Macedo Macedo

    2024-25 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
    Project: “Unraveling Resistance: Aesthetic Interventions in the Face of Imperial Violence”
  • Portrait of Damien Mahiet

    Damien Mahiet

    Director of Academic Programs at the Cogut Institute, Lecturer in Humanities
  • Portrait photo of Ambra Marzocchi

    Ambra Marzocchi

    2023–25 International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
    Project: “Latin Textbooks in Colonial Mexico”
  • Portrait photo of Daniel Newgarden

    Daniel Newgarden

    2024-25 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating Archaeology and the Ancient World; Egyptology and Assyriology
    Project: “(Re)Constructing the Past: Archaeophilia and Dynastic Aggrandizement in Late Hellenistic North Syria”
  • Portrait photo of Mark Ocegueda

    Mark Ocegueda

    Fall 2024 Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of History
    Project: “Sol y Sombra: Mexicans, Race, and Culture in the Making of San Bernardino and the Inland Empire”
  • Portrait of Adi Ophir

    Adi Ophir

    Visiting Professor of Humanities and Middle East Studies
  • Portrait photo of Sebastián Antezana Quiroga

    Sebastián Antezana Quiroga

    2023–25 International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
    Project: “Migrant Afterlives: Spectral Narratives of Greater Mexico and Greater Bolivia”
  • Portrait of Marc redfield

    Marc Redfield

    Spring 2025 Faculty Fellow, Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of German Studies
    Project: “Literature and Hospitality”
  • Portrait photo of Kristen Reynolds

    Kristen Reynolds

    2024-26 International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Africana Studies, Center for Digital Scholarship, and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
    Project: “The (Hu)man in the Machine: Black Speculative Visions for Technology Beyond Man”
  • Portrait photo of Patricia Rubertone

    Patricia Rubertone

    Spring 2025 Faculty Fellow, Professor of Anthropology
    Project: “Unsettling Providence: Politics of Erasure and Indigenous Persistence in a Settler Colonial City”
  • Portrait photo of Amy Russell

    Amy Russell

    Fall 2024 Faculty Fellow, Director of the Program in Early Cultures, Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of History
    Project: “POPVLVSQVE: Citizenship, Sovereignty, and the State in Ancient Rome”
  • Portrait photo of Samuel Schwartz

    Samuel Schwartz

    2024-25 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in History and Slavic Studies
    Project: “Nikolai Bukharin: The Worm Which Sickens the Rose”
  • Portrait photo of Prerna Singh

    Prerna Singh

    Fall 2024 Faculty Fellow, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    Project: “Moral Vaccination: Ideas and Institutions in the Control of Contagion in China and India”
  • Headshot of Amir Tamaddon

    Amir Tamaddon

    2024-25 Undergraduate Fellow, concentrating in History
    Project: “Political Theology of ‘Authenticity’: Messianic Self-Craft and Identity-Formation in Revolutionary Iranian Thought”
  • Portrait photo of Daniel Vaca

    Daniel Vaca

    Spring 2025 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
    Project: “Paying for the Future: A Religious History of Taxes”
  • Portrait photo of Katharina Weygold

    Katharina Weygold

    2024-25 Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies
    Project: “African American Women and Haiti from the U.S. Occupation to the Duvalier Regime, 1915–1986”