Cogut Institute for the Humanities
2024-25 Fellows Seminar
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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 Applied MathProject: “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 Fellow 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 Fellow 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 Archaeology and the Ancient World; 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 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”