Announcing the 2025-26 Institute for the Humanities Fellows
We are thrilled to announce our new fellows cohorts! Eight U-M lecturers and tenure-track faculty have received summer fellowships and will join us for five weeks this summer. Beginning in September, eight U-M faculty members and eight graduate students will be fellows at the institute during the 2025-26 academic year.
The two cohorts will take up residence at the institute during their fellowship periods, forming an intellectual community while pursuing original research and participating in regular, cross-disciplinary fellows’ seminars. Fellowship recipients represent diverse disciplines, this year including psychology, education, anthropology, English, art and design, and history.
The fellows and the topics of their research projects are:
2025 Summer Fellows
Sally Clegg, lecturer III, art & design
“The Town With One Side”
Charles Davis, assistant professor, education
“Imagined Futures of Black Faculty”
Kelly Hoffer, lecturer III, English language & literature
“Tactile Poetics”
Carleen Hsu, lecturer III, film, television, & media
Short documentary about Raoul Wallenberg.
Joshua Kupetz, lecturer II, English language & literature
Two articles focusing on poetic and narrative form as they relate to disability aesthetics.
Raymond McDaniel, lecturer IV, Sweetland Center for Writing
Book-length project currently titled NEMO.
Veerendra Prasad, lecturer II, film, television, & media
“Writing the Ensemble Film”
David Ward, lecturer II, English language & literature
"little search parties"
2025-26 Faculty Fellows
Jennifer Jones, associate professor; history and women’s and gender studies
Jean Yokes Woodhead Faculty Fellow
“The (In)Visible Acquisitions of Ann Allen Shockley: An Intellectual Biography”
Sanne Ravensbergen, assistant professor; history, International Institute
Steelcase Faculty Fellow
“Fabricating Law: A Material History of a Criminal Court in Colonial Indonesia”
Luciana Chamorro, assistant professor; anthropology
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
“Afterlives of Revolution: Political Attachments in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua”
Ittai Orr, assistant professor; English language & literature
Norman and James Katz Faculty Fellow
“Before IQ: The Construction of Cognitive Difference in Antebellum American Literature”
Daniel Nemser, associate professor, Romance languages & literatures
John Rich Faculty Fellow
“The Great Circulation Machine: Imperial Logistics and Fugitive Practice in the Iberian Empire”
Nachiket Chanchani, associate professor, history of art
Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow
“Of Vessels and Values: The Arts of Survivance at a Crossroads of Asia”
Francine Banner, professor, behavioral sciences, U-M Dearborn
Norman Freehling Visiting Faculty Fellow
“Assumptions of Risk: Narratives of Gender, Complicity, and Culpability”
Rona Carter, associate professor; psychology
Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellow
“Empowering Black Girls Through Digital Narratives: Exploring the Social Implications of Off-Time Pubertal Development”
2025-2026 Graduate Fellows
Maya Day, English language & literature
James A. Winn Graduate Fellow
“‘Leaking Poems:’ Reading Relations in Post-War U.S. Multiethnic Poetry”
Ana Guimarães, Romance languages & literatures
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
“The Fiction of Dwelling”
Alanna Heatherly, classical studies
Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Fellow
“The Hermeneutics of Pain in the Roman Empire (1st–3rd c. C.E.): Pain and Identity Formation”
Julianna Loera-Wiggins, American culture
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow
“Wild Tongues that Lash: Race, Class, and Citizenship in Chicago's Latina Comedy Scene”
Mix Mann, history
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow
“She Feels Like Home: Black Women and Queer Domesticity, 1859-1970”
Daniel Varela Corredor; anthropology, history
A. Bartlett Giamatti Graduate Fellow
“Gold doesn’t Like the Law: Property, Family, and Mining Practices among Afro-Colombians in Chocó, 1851-1935”
Lai Wo, anthropology
Marc and Constance Jacobson Graduate Fellow
“Navigating Ambivalence: Intimate Labor Migration from Indonesia to Hong Kong and Back”
Qingyi Zeng, comparative literature
William and Sally Searle Graduate Fellow
“Refracting Species: Environment, Technology, and Miracles in Contemporary East Asia”
