Former Fellows

Sally Clegg, Lecturer III of Art & Design
"The Town With One Side"

Charles H.F. Davis III, Assistant Professor of Education
"Imagined Futures of Black Faculty"

Kelly Hoffer, Lecturer III of English Language & Literature
"Tactile Poetics"

Carleen L. Hsu, Lecturer III of Film, Television, and Media
"Wallenberg Documentary"

Joshua Kupetz, Lecturer II of English Language & Literature
"Literary Disability Aesthetics"

Raymond McDaniel, Lecturer IV of English; Sweetland Center for Writing
"NEMO"

Veerendra Prasad, Lecturer II of Film, Television, and Media
"Writing the Ensemble Film"

David Ward, Lecturer II of English Language & Literature
"little search parties"

FACULTY FELLOWS

    Stephen Berrey, Associate Professor of American Culture and History
     Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow   
    “Race, Memory, and the Invention of Small-Town America”

    Umayyah Cable, Assistant Professor of American Culture and Film, Television, and Media
    Richard & Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow
    “The Act: Performativity and Imperial Homophobia in Transnational Arab Culture Wars”

    Jennifer Hsieh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
    Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
    “The Hearing Subject: Noise and Sociality in Urban Taiwan”

    Nancy Khalil, Assistant Professor of American Culture
    Charles P. Brauer Faculty Fellow (Winter '25)
    “Imams of Us: Decentralized Religion, Religious Freedom, and the Establishment of U.S. Islam”

    Jacob Lederman, Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice at U-M Flint
    Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow
    “Join the Conversation!: How Placemaking Conquered Community Development”

    Alyssa Paredes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
    Steelcase Faculty Fellow
    “The Karmic Ecologies of Plantation Capitalism in Asia’s Banana Republic”

    Melissa Phruksachart, Assistant Professor of Film, Television, and Media
    John Rich Faculty Fellow
    “Archives of Embarrassment: Playing Asian on Cold War U.S. Television”

    Gayle Rubin, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies
    Jean Yokes Woodhead Faculty Fellow
    “The Feminist Sex Wars: A Retrospective Exploration”

    Niloofar Sarlati, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature
    John Rich Faculty Fellow
    “Suspicious Gifts and Speculative Translations: Persian and English Exchange in the Long
     Nineteenth Century"

    Paolo Squatriti, Professor of History and Romance Languages and Literatures
    Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow
    “The ‘Material Eucharist’ in Early Medieval Europe”

    Emilia Yang, Assistant Professor of Art & Design
    Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
    “Rebellious Memories: Expanded Archives and Technologies in the Americas”

GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS

    Samantha Adams, English Language and Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies
    James A. Winn Graduate Fellow
    “A Body of Water Inside Me: Water Shaping Black Life and Literature Beyond the Atlantic”

    Jahnabi Chanchani, Asian Languages and Cultures
    Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow
    “Animals Like Us: Interspecies Relationships in the Sanskritic Literary Imagination in Early India”

    Yun Chen, Anthropology and Social Work
    Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
    “Monopsonizing Experimentation: Making Persons and Orders through Social Work in China’s
     Anti-Drug Field"

    Luiza Duarte Caetano, Comparative Literature
    Sylvia ‘Duffy’ Engle Graduate Fellow
    “Revolution, Violence, and Literature: Restaging the French Revolution”

    Pragya Kaul, History
    Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
    “Refugees in Empire: Jewish Refugees and British India, 1921-1951”

    Janaki Phillips, Anthropology
    Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow
    “Divining Uncertain Futures: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Tarot Practice”

    Joseph Song, English Language and Literature
    James A. Winn Graduate Fellow
    “Race Event (!): Tracing Uncertainty and Racial Triangulation in Contemporary Asian American
     Cultural Production from 2008 to Present"

    Andrea Valedon-Trapote, History
    William & Sally Searle Graduate Fellow
    “Crafting the Mongol Sovereign: Merging the Qa’an and Huangdi in the Yuan (1271-1368) Court”

Angela Berkley, Lecturer II of English; Sweetland Center for Writing
"Nothing Gold Can Stay In Middle School: Reading S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders in 2024"

Gina Brandolino, Lecturer IV of English; Sweetland Center for Writing
"Queer Horror: New Perspectives on the Chilling and Macabre"

Annica Cuppetelli, Lecturer II of Art & Design
"The Jumpsuit: Challenging Gender Roles"

John J. Valadez, Professor of Film, Television, and Media
"The Rise of Latino Cinema"

Katherine Davis, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies
"Writing Knowledge: Egyptian Grammar and Scholarship in the Late Period"

Madhumita Lahiri, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature
"How We Hate Now: Xenophobia in the Age of Antiracism"

Sherina Feliciano-Santos, Associate Professor of Anthropology
"Regimes of Racialized Perception"

T Hetzel, Lecturer II in Sweetland Center for Writing
"The Flummox" and "14 Spencer Gardens"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Manan Desai, Associate Professor of American Culture and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies
Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow
"Imperial Vinyl: Race, Exotica and the Cold War"

Sandra Gunning, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and American Culture
Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow
“Expanding the Black Civil War: Gender, Sexuality, Community”

Nancy Khalil, Assistant Professor of American Culture
Charles P. Brauer Faculty Fellow
"Limited Imams:  Disestablishment and the Establishment of US Islam"

Greta Krippner, Associate Professor of Sociology
John Rich Faculty Fellow
“Preferred: Race, Gender, AIDS and the Individualization of Risk”

Jodi Melamed, Professor of English and Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies, Marquette University
Norman Freehling Visiting Professor
“Operationalizing Racial Capitalism: On Liberalism’s Command Forms”

Erik Mueggler, Professor of Anthropology
Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow
“The Book of Cunning and Treachery: Writing, Sovereignty and Bondage in a Qing Native Domain”

Scott Poulson-Bryant, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies
Steelcase Faculty Fellow
"When You Were Mine: The Queerness of Prince"

Mireille Roddier, Associate Professor of Architecture and Women's and Gender Studies
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
“Radical Vernacular”

Jessica Walker, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and American Culture
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
“Her Kitchen is the World: Black Women and the Culture of Soul Food”

GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS

Anna Almore, English Language and Literature and Education
James A. Winn Graduate Fellow
“Care in Containment: The Geography of Black and Indigenous Encounters within the Captivity of School”

Carlina Duan, English Language and Literature and Education
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow
“Towards a Disobedient Poetics: The Generative Practices of Contemporary Documentary Poets of Color”

Elisabeth Fertig, Comparative Literature
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow
“Radiopoetics: On Sound as Literary, Critical and Pedagogical Practice”

Amanda Kubic, Comparative Literature
Sylvia 'Duffy' Engle Graduate Fellow
“Animating Antiquity: Classical (Dis)embodiments by Modern Women”

Qian Liu, Romance Languages and Literature
Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow
“Urban Exergue: On Blackness, Spectrality, and the Poetics of Landscape in Contemporary Italy”

Pau Nava, American Culture
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
“The Artist as Community Archivist: A Chicago Case Study”

Merisa Bahar Sahin, Political Science
Marc and Constance Jacobson Graduate Fellow
“Anticolonial Cosmopolitanisms: Young Ottoman Anticolonial Thinkers and Projects of Global Integration,1884-1914”

Cengiz Salman, American Culture
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
“The Universal Fix: Computation as Mistaken Remedy"

Adi Saleem Bharat, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Judaic Studies
"Figural Jews and Muslims in Contemporary France"

Sascha Crasnow, Lecturer II in Islamic Arts and the Residential College
"The Age of Disillusionment: Palestinian Art After the Intifadas"

Jessie DeGrado, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies
"Authors of Empire: Assyria, Judah, and the Dynamics of Imperial Exchange"

Renee Randall, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literaure and Middle East Studies
"Laying Claim: Atrocity and Narrative in Lebanon's Civil War"

Gina Reichert, Lecturer III of Architecture
"Marking Time"

Mary Rodena-Krasan, Lecturer IV of Germanic Languages and Literatures
"The Afro-pessimistic Ghost in the Machine in Damir Lukacevic's 2010 film Transfer"

Cody Walker, Lecturer IV of English Language and Literature
"Poor Devil"

Andrea Zemgulys, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and Women's and Gender Studies
"For Insufficiency: Literature, Worlding, and Graphic Arts in the Late Modernity"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, Associate Professor of American Culture
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
"Citing Amina: Everyday Knowledge, Blackness and the Archive"

Hadji Bakara, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow
"Governments of the Tongue: A Literary History of Human Rights"

Sally Howell, Associate Professor of History, U-M Dearborn
John Rich Faculty Fellow
"Halal Metropolis: Mosques, Markets, and Muslim Visibility in Greater Detroit"

Aida Levy-Hussen, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
"Race Traitors: “Bad” Objects and Illicit Attachments in African American Literature"

Susana Morris, Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology
Norman Freehling Visiting Professor
"Octavia Butler, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler"

Swapnil Rai, Assistant Professor of Film, Television, and Media
Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow
"Networked Bollywood: Star Switching Power and the Globalization of Indian Cinema"

Giulia Riccò, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
John Rich Faculty Fellow
"New World Italians: The Invention of a Brazilian Identity"

William Stroebel, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature
Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow
"Greece and Turkey’s Undocumented Literatures at the East-West Borderscape"

Anca Trandafirescu, Associate Professor of Architecture
Steelcase Faculty Fellow
“Constructed Revisionism: The Monumental Potentials of Past Mistakes”

GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS

Salman Amir, Middle East Studies
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow
"The Lost Tribe of Plato: The Druze Religion and Ismā‛īlī Neoplatonism"

Leah Bernardo-Ciddio, Classical Art and Archeology
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow
"Ceramics, Craft Communities, and Cultural Interactions in the First Millennium Adriatic: Production and Trade of Apulian Matt-Painted Pottery"

Samet Budak, Middle East Studies
Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow
"A Mediterranean Episteme: Intellectual Networks and Contacts in the Eastern Mediterranean (1350-1500)"

Janice Feng, Political Science
Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow
“Towards a Decolonial Account of Desire: The Cultivation of Desire and Indigenous Women’s Self-Making and Resistance in Early Modern French North America”

Isabelle Gillet, History of Art
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
"Civility and Portraits of Women in France (1815–1848)"

Matthew Liberti, English Language and Literature
James A. Winn Graduate Fellow
"Standard Deviations: Migration Literature's Overlapping Histories, Images, and Languages"

Anthony Revelle, Romance Languages and Literatures
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
"Sharing Flesh. Carnivorism & Commensality in Medieval French Literature"

Alex Tarbet, Classical Studies
Sylvia 'Duffy' Engle Graduate Fellow
"Greco-Egyptian Humor and Storytelling: Herodotus on the Nile"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Charlotte Albrecht, Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies
Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow
"Peddling an Arab American History: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in Early Syrian American Communities"

Noah Blan, History
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
"'To See the Lion Dominating All Creatures and Beasts': Sovereignty and the Environment in Charlemagne's Empire"

Michael Lempert, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow
"Small Talk: Therapy, Technology, and the Science of the Face-to-Face"

Kenneth Mills, Professor of History
John Rich Faculty Fellow
"Apostolic Longing and Experience in an Early Modern Spanish World"

Keith Mitnick, Associate Professor of Architecture
Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow
"Un-Privileged Views"

Ian Moyer, Associate Professor of History
Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow
"At the Gates of the Temple: Culture, politics and public space in Ptolemaic Egypt"

Aswin Punathambekar, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Steelcase Faculty Fellow
"Sound Clouds: Listening and Citizenship in Indian Public Culture"

Ava Purkiss, Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women's and Gender Studies
Charles P. Brauer Faculty Fellow
"Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise, 1900-1960"

Youngju Ryu, Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
"How a Podcast Started a Revolution: South Korea's Protest Culture, 1987-2017"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Lauren Benjamin, Comparative Literature
Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow
"Feral Modernisms"

Irene Brisson, Architecture
Sylvia 'Duffy' Engle Graduate Fellow
"Speaking, Gesturing, Drawing, Building: Relational Techniques of a Kreyòl Architecture"

Padma Chirumamilla, Information Studies
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow
"Producing TV(s): The Multitudinous Life of Television in South India"

Mary Hennessy, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
"Handmaidens of Modernity: Gender, Labor, and Media in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany"

Jallicia Jolly, American Culture
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
"'I'm Not Sick!': A Critical Embodiment of Illness, Sexuality, Self-Making Among HIV-Positive Jamaican Women"

Tugce Kayaal, Near Eastern Studies
A. Bartlett Giamatti Graduate Fellow
"Bodies in War: Politics of Sexuality and War Orphans in Konya (1913-1923)"

Mika Kennedy, English Language and Literature
James A. Winn Graduate Fellow
"Crossed Wires: Japanese American Incarceration, Environmental Justice, and the Interethnic 'Frontier'"

Amanda Respess, History
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow
"The Circulation of Medical Goods and Knowledge Between Iran and China Along the Medieval Maritime Silk Road"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Michael Awkward, Professor of English and Afroamerican and African Studies
John Rich Fellow
“A Horribly Mangled Monstrosity: Disfiguring/Refiguring Black American Masculinity after Emmett Till”

Pamela Brandwein, Professor of Political Science
Helmut F. Stern Fellow, professor of political science
“Antislavery and the Formation of American Capitalist Democracy”

Par Cassel, Associate Professor of History
Richard and Lillian Ives Fellow
“Sovereignty in China: The Careers of a Concept”

Aileen Das, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
Charles P. Brauer Fellow
“Classical and Medieval Traditions of Transdisciplinary: Plato’s Timaeus in Arabic”

Anita Gonzalez, Professor of Theatre & Drama
Hunting Family Fellow
“Shipping Out: Transatlantic Maritime Performance and Ethnic Cultural Exchange”

Laura Kasischke, Professor of English Language and Literature
Hunting Family Fellow
“The Time Machine: A Book Length Poem”

Alexandra Murphy, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Helmut F. Stern Fellow
“When the Sidewalks End: Poverty & Race in an American Suburb”

Douglas Northrop, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History
Helmut F. Stern Fellow
“Four Days That Shook the World: Earthquakes and Empire Along the Eurasian Frontier

Ruby Tapia, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and Women's Studies
Steelcase Fellow
“The Camera in the Cage: Prison Photography and the Abject Sentimentality of the Exception”

Magdalena Zaborowska, Professor of American Culture and Afroamerican and African Studies
John Rich Fellow
“Archiving James Baldwin’s House: Digital Writer’s Museum, Chez Baldwin in St. Paul-de-Vence, France”

GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS

Anoff Nicholas Cobblah, English Language and Literature
Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow
“The Work of Scientific Play in Nineteenth-Century Britain”

James Hammond, English Language and Literature
James A. Winn Graduate Fellow
“Composing Eugenics: Race and Ability in the History of Writing assessment, 1869-1938”

Filipa Melo Lopes, Philosophy
Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Fellow
“Gender, Fundamentality and the Social World”

Benedito Luis Machava, History
A. Barlett Giamatti Graduate Fellow
“The Morality of Revolution: Urban Cleansing, Re-education Camps, and the Politics of Morality in Socialist Mozambique, 1975-1988”

Josh Morrison, Screen Arts and Culture
Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow
“Reveling in Uselessness: Queer and Trans Media, Emotional Labour, and Cultural Capital”

Michael Schachter, Composition and Music Theory
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
“The Black Clown: a Vaudeville Oratorio for Bass-Baritone, Chorus, and Orchestra”

Ana Maria Silva, History
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow
“Roots in Stone and Slavery: Permanence, Mobility, and Empire in 17th Century Cartagena de Indias”

Duygu Ula, Comparative Literature
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
“Aesthetics in Dissent: Queer Cultural Productions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Turkey”

FACULTY FELLOWS

James Cogswell, Professor of Art & Design
Charles P. Brauer Fellow
“Cosmogonic Tattoos”

Clare Croft, Assistant Professor of Music 
Norman and Jane Katz Fellow
“A Different Kind of Lady: Jill Johnston’s Political Embodiments of Dance Criticism and Feminism”

Matthew Hull, Associate Professor of Anthropology
John Rich Fellow
“Incorporation: Capitalism and Collective Life”

Marjorie Levinson, Professor of English Language and Literature
Hunting Family Fellow
“Field Theories of Form: Philosophy, Science, Poetry”

Xiomara Santamarina, Associate Professor of Afroamerican Literature, English Language and Literature, and American Culture
Hunting Family Fellow
"Modernities Past: Redefining Modernity in 19th-Century African America"

Perrin Selcer, Assistant Professor in History and the Program in the Environment
Norman and Jane Katz Fellow
“Constructing Spaceship Earth”

Mrinalini Sinha, Professor of Women's Studies, English Language and Literature, and History
Helmut P. Stern Fellow
"Complete Political Independence: The Curious Genealogy of a Nationalist Indian Demand”

Claire Zimmerman, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture 
Steelcase Fellow
“Albert Kahn in Detroit, 1890-1945”

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Cassius Adair, English Language and Literature
James A. Winn Graduate Fellow
"Documenting Difference: State Identification, Identity Formation, and Transgender Cultural Critique"

Kyle Grady, English Language and Literature 
Early Modern Conversions Graduate Fellow
“Moors, Mulattos, and Post-Racial Perceptions: Rethinking Racialization in Early Modern England”

Carolina Heredia, Music Composition
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
“Ausencias/Ausencias/Absences”

Emily Macgillivray, American Culture
Cody Engle Graduate Fellow
"I do not know any such woman: Native Women Traders' Property and Self-Determination in the Great Lakes from 1740 to 1840"

Christine Sargent, Anthropology
Marc and Constance Jacobson Graduate Fellow
“Ambivalent Inheritance: Down Syndrome and the Ethics of Kinship in Amman, Jordan”

Ben Strassfeld, Screen Arts and Cultures
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow
“The Detroit Model: Regulating Race and Pornography, 1950 – 1979”

Emma Thomas, History and Germanic Languages and Literatures
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
“Contested Labors: New Guinean Women and the German Colonial Indenture, 1884-1921”

Lia Wolock, Communication Studies
James Winn Graduate Fellow
“Producing South Asian America: Community, Digital Media, & Connectivity”

FACULTY FELLOWS

Andreas Gailus, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow
“Forms of Life”

Phoebe Gloeckner, Associate Professor of Art & Design
Richard and Lillian A. Ives Faculty Fellow
“The Return of Maldoror”

Christiane Gruber, Associate Professor of History of Art
Charles P. Brauer Faculty Fellow
"Gezi Graffiti: Resistance and Visual Culture in Contemporary Turkey"

Gabrielle Hecht, Professor of History
Mary I. and David D. Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
“Toxic Tales from the African Anthropocene”

Arvind-Pal Mandair, Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow
“Untimely Encounters”

Farina Mir, Associate Professor of History
Norman and Jane Katz Faculty Fellow
“Producing Modern Muslims: Everyday Ethics in Colonial India”

Mireille Roddier, Associate Professor of Architecture
Steelcase Professor
“Tactical Urbanism: The Politics of Interventionist Practices”

Sarah Suhadolnik, Musicology
Richard and Lillian A. Ives Graduate Fellow
“Navigating Jazz: Music, Place, and New Orleans in the Twentieth Century”

Megan Sweeney, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and Afroamerican an dAfrican Studies
John Rich Faculty Fellow
“Mendings”

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Andrea Brock, Classical Art and Archaeology
Sylvia 'Duffy' Engle Graduate Fellow
“Environment and Urban Development in the Archaic Forum Boarium in Rome, Italy”

Michelle Cassidy, History and American Culture
A. Bartlett Giamatti Scholar
“Both the Honor and the Profit: Anishinaabe Warriors, Soldiers, and Veterans from Pontiac’s War through the Civil War”

Lizzie Hutton, English Language and Literature
James A. Winn Graduate Fellow
“New Reasons for Reading: Progressive Experiments in Cultural and Literary Literacy”

Yanay Israeli, History
Early Modern Conversions Graduate Fellow
“Negotiating the Republic: Violence, Propaganda, and Government in Castillian Cities, 1391-1520”

Lavrentia Karamaniola, Anthropology
Marc and Constance Jacobson Graduate Fellow
“Bucharest Barks: Stray Dogs, Urban Lifestyle Aspirations, and the ‘Non-Civilized’ City”

Katie Lennard, American Culture
Mary I. and David D. Hunting Family Graduate Fellow
“Made in America: Costume, Violence, and the Ku Klux Klan, 1905-1940”

Shana Melnysyn, Anthropology and History
Mary I. and David D. Hunting Family Graduate Fellow
"Rum & Revenge: Portuguese-Angolan Trade and the Bailundo Revolt of 1902"

Emily Waples, English Language and Literature
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow
“Vitiated Nature: Heredity, Environment, and the American Etiological Imagination, 1785-1875”

FACULTY FELLOWS

Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Professor of Classical Studies
John Rich Professor
"The Charioteer's Circuit: Plato's Self-Moving Myth. Tracking the Migration of Plato's Myth in Late Antique Text Networks."

Alison Cornish, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Mary I. and David D. Hunting Family Fellow
"Medieval Remediation"

Maria Eugenia Cotera, Associate Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies
Helmut F. Stern Fellow
"The Shock of the Old"

Holly Hughes, Professor of Art & Design, Theatre & Drama, and Women's Studies
Norman and Jane Katz Fellow
"Preaching to the Perverted"

Rachel Neis, Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History
Richard & Lillian Ives Professor
"Mapping Jews in Late Antiquity: Minority Spatial Practices across Roman and Sassanian Empires"

Christian Sandvig, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Steelcase Research Professor
"Knowing Algorithms"

Tobin Siebers, Professor of English Language and Literature
John Rich Professor
"Disability and the Photograph"

Melanie R Yergeau, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
Charles P. Brauer Fellow
"Authoring Autism: On Rheotric and Neurological Queerness"

Wang Zheng, Associate Professor in Women's Studies, History, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Helmut F. Stern Fellow
"Experiencing Socialist Transformation: Shanghai Residents in the 1950s"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

David Green, Jr., American Culture
James Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"'Out of this Confusion I Bring My Heart': Love, Liberation, adn the Rise of Black LGBT Cultural Politics in Late-Twentieth-Century America"

Alison Joersz, Anthropology
Mary I. & David D. Huntington Graduate Student Fellow
"Talking Our Way Towards Development: The Political and Ethical Entanglements of Grassroots Organizing in Haiti"

Elizabeth Keslacy, Architecture
A. Bartlett Giamatti Graduate Student Fellow
"The Curatorial Impulse: Reading Postmodern Historicism on Exhibit, 1968-1989"

Nancy Linthicum, Near Eastern Studies
Marc and Constance Jacobson Graduate Student Fellow
"Writing in Cairo in the Age of Mubarak: Literary Networks and Prose Fiction of the 1990s and 2000s in Egypt"

Sarah Linwick, English Language and Literature
Early Modern Conversions Graduate Student Fellow
"Ecologies of Kind in Early Modern England"

Pascal Massinon, History
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"Participant Listeners: Home Taping and the Political Culture of Recording Technologies in the U.S."

Rostom Mesli, Comparative Literature
Sylvia 'Duffy' Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"In Defense of Identity Politics: For a Queer Reassessment of a Vilified Concept"

Asaf Peres, Music Theory
Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Student Fellow
"Timbre, Gesture, Space: Towards a Method for Analyzing Studio Produced Popular Music"

Bonnie Washick, Political Science
Mary I. & David D. Huntington Graduate Student Fellow
"Strange Spaces and 'Stranger Sensibilities': Conceptualizing Feminist Counterpublicity on the Web"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Kerstin Barndt, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Non/Simultaneities. Exhibiting Time and History in Contemporary Germany"

Mark Clague, Associate Professor of Music, Theatre & Dance
U-M Humanities Institute National Edowment for the Humanities Fellow
"O Say Can Your Hear?: A Cultural Biography of the United States National Anthem"

Deirdre de la Cruz, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures and History
Richard and Lillian Ives Fellow
"Spirit Logics: Filipino Ghosts and Global Occultisms at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"

Katherine French, Professor of History and Women's Studies
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Household Goods and Household Interaction in Late Medieval London"

Jarrod Hayes, Associate Professor of French
Steelcase Research Professor
"Reading across the Color Line: Racialization in the French Americas"

Webb Keane, Professor of Anthropology
John Rich Professor
"Ethical Life"

Scott Richard Lyons, Associate Professor of American Culture and English Language and Literature
Hunting Family Fellow
"Touching the Pen: Encountering Modernity in Native American Literature"

Janie Paul, Professor of Art & Design and Social Work
John Rich Professor
"Worthy to the World: Prison Art"

Elizabeth Sears, Professor of History of Art
Hunting Family Fellow
"Warburg Circles: Towards a Cultural Historical History of Art, 1929-1964"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Joshua Friedman, Anthropology
Richard and Lillian Ives Graduate Student Fellow
"Formations of Care: Virtuosos, non-adepts, and the Sacralization of Yiddish in the US."

Maria Hadjipolycarpou, Comparative Literature
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"Inter-subjective Histories in the Mediterranean: History and the Poetics of Self in Postcolonial Life-Writing"

Jennifer Lee Johnson, Natural Resources and Environment
Richard and Lillian Ives Graduate Student Fellow
"Abavubi: The Gendered Practices and Politics of Working with Fish in Uganda"

Monique Johnson, History of Art
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"Autofocused: The Countess de Castiglione's Visual Memoir and Photography as Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century France"

Michael Patrick McCulloch, Architecture and Urban Planning
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"Building the Working City: Designs on Home and Life in Boomtown Detroit, 1914-1929"

Richard Pierre, Comparative Literature
Sylvia 'Duffy' Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"Mineralogies of the Subject: Languages of Stone in German and Russian Lyric Poetry, 1900-1970"

Brian Whitener, Romance Languages and Literatures
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"After the Fall: Mexico, Brazil and Financialization in teh Long 1990s"

Cookie Woolner, History and Women's Studies
Mary I. & David D. Hunting Graduate Student Fellow
"'The Famous Lady Lovers': African American Women and Same-Sex Desire from Reconstruction to World War II"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Adam Ashforth, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"The Trials of Mrs. K, and Other Tales of the Quest for Justice and Security in the Shadow of AIDS in Africa"

Kathleen Canning, Professor of History, Women's Studies, and Germanic Languages and Literatures
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Citizenship Effects: Gender and Sexual Crisis in the Aftermath of War and Revolution in Germany, 1914-1930"

Frieda Ekotto, Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Afroamerican and African Studies
Hunting Family Fellow
"Vibrancy of Silence: Women Loving Women in Sub-Sahara Africa"

Karla Mallette, Associate Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean"

David Manley, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Norman and Jane Katz Faculty Fellow
"Method in Metaphysics: The Semantics and Subject Matter of Metaphysical Inquiry"

Daniel Ramirez, Assistant Professor of History and American Culture
John Rich Professor
"'’Alabaré a Mi Señor': Subaltern Pentecostal Music in American Religious History"

Douglas Trevor, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
"Radical Charity and the Long Reformation"

Jason Young, Associate Professor of Architecture
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Skirmishes with the MacroPhenomenal: Letting Go of the City"

Geneviève Zubrzycki, Associate Professor of Sociology
Steelcase Research Professor
"Stretching the Symbolic Boundaries of the Nation: Jewish Renaissance and 'Philo-Semitism' in Contemporary Poland"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Sheree Brown, History
A. Bartlett Giamatti Graduate Student Fellow
"'That Peace Shall Always Dwell Among Them and True Love be Upheld': Charity, Neighborlisness, and Lay Fellowship in Late Medieval and Early Reformation England"

Basak Candar, Comparative Literature
Mary I. and David D. Hunting Graduate Student Fellow
"Representing Censored Pasts: State Violence in Twentieth Century Turkish and Spanish Literature"

Alison DeSimone, Music
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"The Myth of the Diva: Female Opera Singers and Collaborative Performance in Early Eighteenth-Century London"

Candice Hamelin, History of Art
Sylvia 'Duffy' Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"Behind Immaterial and Material Divides: East German Photography between 1949 and 1989"

Sara E. Jackson, Comparative Literature
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"Temptresses & Murderesses: Text, Body and Performance in Fin-de-Siècle Berlin"

Pedro Monaville, History
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"Decolonizing the University"

Rebecca Ariel Porte, English Language and Literature
Mary I. & David D. Hunting Graduate Student Fellow
"Forms of Logic: Beauty, Truth, & Reason in Twentieth Century Experimental Poetry"

Brendan Wright, Political Science
Marc and Constance Jacobson Graduate Student Fellow
"Divine Entanglements: Religious Claims-Making and American Democracy"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Kathryn Babayan, Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies
Hunting Family Professor
"The Emergent Friend/Self in Epistolary Culture of Early Modern Isfahan"

Marlyse Baptista, Professor of Linguistics and Afroamerican and African Studies
Hunting Family Professor
"The Founder Principle in Creole Genesis: Uncovering the Founding Populations and their Languages in Creole Formation"

Daniel Hack, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature
John Rich Professor
"The African Americanization of Victorian Literature"

Joan Kee, Assistant Professor of History of Art
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"What Art Has to Say about the Law"

Matthew Lassiter, Associate Professor of History and Architecture and Urban Planning
Associate Professor
"The Suburban Crisis: The Pursuit and Defense of the American Dream"

Artemis Leontis, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Modern Greek
Hunting Family Professor
"Greek in the Flesh: The Alternative Archaeologies of Eva Palmer Sikelianos"

David Porter, Professor of English Language and Literature
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"English Literature of the early Qing Dynasty: A Study in Historical Cosmopolitanism"

Sean Silver, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Imagining Things: A Material History of the Eighteenth-Century Mind"

Xiaobing Tang, Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature
Steelcase Professor
"Scenes and Visions: Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Efrat Bloom, Comparative Literature
Marc and Constance Jacobson Graduate Student Fellow
"Writing and Dislocation: The Poetics of the Mother Tongue"

Jennifer Finn, Greek and Roman History
Mary I. and David D. Hunting Graduate Student Fellow
"Shaping Kings: Mesopotamian Kingship in the Age of Alexander"

Noah Gardiner, Near Eastern Studies
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"Tracing the Corpus Bunianum: Sufism, Books, and the Occult Science of Letters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods"

Recep Gul, Music Composition
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"Mübadele/ Ανταλλαγή: Remembering a Human Catastrophe through Music"

Sarah Hillewaert, Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies
Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"Between the Expected, the Respected and the Desired: Renegotiating Identities in an East African Muslim Town"

Amr Kamal, Comparative Literature
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"Out of Place: Tales Inside and Outside Department Stores"

Melanie Sympson, History of Art
Mary I. and David D. Hunting Graduate Student Fellow
"Strategies of Representation and Artistic Experimentation in Manuscripts of the Roman de la rose"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Christian de Pee, Assistant Professor of History
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
"Visible Cities: Text and Urban Space in Middle-Period China, Eighth through Twelfth Centuries"

Lisa Disch, Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies
John Rich Professor
"Rethinking Re-Presentation"

Basil Dufallo, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
"The Captor’s Image: Greek Art in Roman Ekphrasis"

Julia Hell, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Imperial Ruins: Imagining the Decline of Rome from Napoleon to Hitler"

Carol Jacobsen, Professor of Art & Design and Women's Studies
John Rich Professor
"Trial in Error"

Amy Kulper, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Steelcase Research Professor
"Immanent Natures: the Laboratory as Metaphor in Architectural Design"

Alaina Lemon, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow
"Penetrating Minds: Reading Others in a 'post' Orwellian World"

Anton Shammas, Professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Blind Spots, and Other Essays on Translation"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Katherine Brokaw, English Language and Literature
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"Tudor Musical Theater: Staging Religious Difference from Wisdom to The Winter’s Tale"

Puspa Damai, American Culture and English Language and Literature
Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
"Welcoming Strangers: Hospitality in American Literature and Culture"

Ben Gunsberg, Joint Program in English and Education
Sylvia "Duffy" Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"The Old Promise of New Media Composition"

Alan Itkin, Comparative Literature
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"Classical Motifs and the Representation of History in the Works of W.G. Sebald"

Graham Nessler, History
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"A Failed Emancipation? The Struggle for Freedom in Hispaniola During the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1809"

Nafisa Essop Shiek, History
A. Bartlett Giamatti Graduate Student Fellow
"Relations of Governance: Gender, Law and the Making of a Colonial State"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Y. David Chung, Associate Professor of Art & Design and Director of Center for Korean Studies
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Pyongyang – a drawing and video installation"

Peter Ho Davies, Professor of English Language and Literature
John Rich Professor
"The Great Race: a novel"

Angela Dillard, Associate Professor in the Residential College and Afroamerican and African Studies
John Rich Professor
"James H. Meredith and the Boundaries of the American Historical Imagination"

Valerie Kivelson, Professor of History
Steelcase Research Professorship
"Desperate Magic: Witchcraft and the Lineaments of Power in Early Modern Russia"

Keith Mitnick, Associate Professor of Architecture
Hunting Family Faculty Fellowship
"The Architecture of Unseen Things"

Ryan Szpiech, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Judaic Studies
Hunting Family Professor
"Authorizing Apostasy: Conversion and Narrative in Medieval Polemic"

Magdalena Zaborowska, Associate Professor of American Culture and Afroamerican and African Studies
Hunting Family Professor
"Racing Borderlands: Displacement, Difference, Dialogue, and American Cultural Traffic in the Second World"

Claire Zimmerman, Assistant Professor of Architecture and History of Art
Helmut F. Stern Professor
“Photographic Architecture from Weimar to Cold War: The Case of Mies van der Rohe"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Yanina Arnold, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"Law and Literature in Late Imperial Russia, 1864-1917"

Christopher Coltrin, History of Art
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"Destruction or Deliverance? The Politics of Catastrophe in the Art of John Martin"

Christopher Davis, Comparative Literature
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"Performing the Text: Troubadour Manuscripts and Vernacular Poetic Identity"

Ari Friedlander, English Language and Literature
A. Bartlett Giamatti Graduate Student Fellow
"Sex, Crimes, and Sex Crimes: Private Sins and Communal Concerns in Early Modern England"

Daniel Hershenzon, History
Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
"Moving People, Moving Goods: Captivity and Ransom in the Early-Modern Western Mediterranean"

Guillermo Salas, Anthropology
Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
"Religious Change and Ideologies of Social Distinction in the Southern Peruvian Andes"

VISITING FELLOW

Jean Hébrard, Honorary Inspecteur Général in the French Ministry of Education
Norman Freehling Visiting Professor

FACULTY FELLOWS

Joshua Cole, Associate Professor of History
Norman and Jane Katz Faculty Fellow
"The Empire of Fear: Violence and Politics of the Colonial Situation in Eastern Algeria, 1919-1940"

Caroline Constant, Professor of Architecture
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"The Modern Architectural Landscape"

Lucy Hartley, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"The Democracy of the Beautiful"

Paul Christopher Johnson, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and History
Hunting Family Professor
"To Be Possessed: 'Religion' and the Purification of Spirit"

Rudolf Mrázek, Professor of History
John Rich Professor
"Penal Colonies and Camp Cultures"

Susan Parrish, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature
John Rich Professor
"A History of Disturbance: Ecology and Literature in the U.S. South, 1927-1947"

Stephanie Rowden, Assistant Professor of Art & Design
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"A place has its stories"

Gareth Williams, Associate Professor of Romance Langauges and Literatures
Hunting Family Professor
"The Mexican Exception: Sovereignty and Political Subjectivity in the Twentieth Century"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Danna Agmon, Anthropology and History
Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
"Where Do Go-Betweens Go? Colonial Intermediaries in Eighteenth Century India"

Lembit Beecher, Music Composition
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"Estonia 1944: A Multimedia Chamber Oratorio"

Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Anthropology
Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"The Making of Poetic and Political Authority in Kazakh Aitus"

Monica Kim, History
"Humanity Interrogated: Empire, Nation, and the Political Subject in United States and United Nations Prisoner of War Camps during the Korean War, 1949-1954"

Amy Rodgers, English Language and Literature
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
“The Sense of an Audience: Spectators and Spectatorship in Early Modern England, 1576-1612"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Paul Anderson, Associate Professor of American Culture and Afroamerican and African Studies
Hunting Family Professor
"Hearing Loss: The Dreamlife of American Jazz"

Philip Deloria, Professor of History and American Culture
John Rich Professor
"Crossing the (Indian) Color Line: A Family History"

Tirtza Even, Assistant Professor of Art & Design
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains"

Andrew Herscher, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Hunting Family Professor
"Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict"

Katherine Ibbett, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
A. Bartlett Giamatti Faculty Fellow
"Compassion and Commonality: Forms of Fellow-Feeling in Seventeenth-Century France"

Marcia Inhorn, Professor of Public Health
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Reproducing Masculinities: Islam, IVF-ICSI, and Middle Eastern Manhood"

Scott Spector, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and History
John Rich Professor
"Violent Sensations: Sexuality, Crime, and Utopia in Berlin and Vienna, 1860-1914"

Johannes von Moltke, Associate Professor of Germanic Langauges and Literatures and Screen Arts and Cultures
Steelcase Research Professor
"Moving Pictures: Film, History, and the Politics of Emotion"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Elizabeth Ben-Ishai, Political Science
Sylvia "Duffy" Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"The Autonomy-Fostering State: Citizenship and Social Service Delivery"

Yolanda Covington-Ward, Anthropology
"Embodied Histories, Danced Religions, and Performed Politics: Changing Conceptions of Kongo Cultural Performance"

Jonah Johnson, Comparative Literature and Germanic Languages and Literatures
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"Seasick yet Still Docked: Casting Kant’s Shadow in Post-Enlightenment German Drama"

Min Li, Anthropology
Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
"Conquest, Concord, and Consumption:  Becoming Shang in Eastern China"

Jennifer Palmer, History and Women's Studies
"Slavery, Race, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century La Rochelle"

Stefan Stantchev, History
"Embargo: the Origins of an Idea and the Effects of a Policy"

FACULTY FELLOWS

Howard Markel, Professor of History of Medicine and Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
John Rich Professor
"The Anatomy of Addiction: A Cultural, Social and Medical History of Addiction in the United States, 1900 to the Present"

Khaled Mattawa, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
Hunting Family Professor
"Amorisco and A Typography of Strangers"

Christi Merrill, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Langauges and Cultures
"Memory with an Active Verb: Lessons in Translating Hindi"

James Robson, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Inside Asian Images: Religious Icons in the Context of Local and Ritual Practice"

Andrew Shryock, Anthropology
Charles P. Brauer Faculty Fellow
"Welcome and Trespass: The Politics of Hospitality in Jordan and Beyond"

Jamie Tappenden, Philosophy
"Riemann and Frege: A Study in the Emergence of Contemporary Logic and Mathematics"

Patricia Yaeger, English Language and Litreature
A. Bartlett Giamatti Faculty Fellow
"Luminous Trash: America in an Age of Conspicuous Destruction"

Norman Yoffee, Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology
Steelcase Research Professor and Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Winds of Desolation: A History and Archaeology of the Mesopotamian City of Kish"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Diana Bullen, History of Art
Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
"The Visual Culture of the Central Italian Foundling Hospital, 1400-1600"

Claire Decoteau, Sociology
"The Diseased Body Politic and the Corporeality of HIV/AIDS in South Africa"

Philip Duker, Music Theory
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"Diving into Mnemosyne’s Waters: Exploring the Depths of Memory and Musical Experience"

Kim Greenwell, Sociology
"Between Nation, Empire and Colony: Unsettling Events and English-Canadian Identity in the Nineteenth-century British Empire"

Edin Hajdarpasic, History
"Beyond ‘Nation vs. Empire’: Reform, Social Movements and the Search for Justice in Late Ottoman Bosnia"

Andrew Highsmith, History
"America Is a Thousand Flints: Race, Class and the End of the American Dream in Flint, Michigan"

Kristina Luce, Architecture
Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"Revolutions in Parallel: The Rise and Fall of Drawing Within Architectural Design"

Marti Lybeck, History
Michigan Graduate Student Fellow
"Gender, Sexuality and Belonging: Female Homosexuality in Germany, 1890–1933"

VISITING FELLOWS

Uwem Celestine Akpan, Nigerian Priest and Writer
Careers in the Making Fellow
In residence, Fall 2006 

David Henry Hwang, Playwright, New York City
In residence, January 2007

German Kim, History and Korean Studies, Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi
Mellon Global Fellow
In residence, Fall 2006

Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Editor, The New Yorker
Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts
"Mankoff on Mankoff"
In residence, March 5 – April 6, 2007 

Charles Stewart, Anthropology, University College London
In residence, March 5 – April 6, 2007

Sekou Sundiata, Poet and Performance Artist, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts
"the 51st (dream) state"
In residence January 7- 21, 2007 

Neferti Tadiar, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Mellon Global Fellow
In residence, October 29 – November 12, 2006

FACULTY FELLOWS

David Caron, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
"The Contested Ghetto: French Republicanism and the Politics of Community"

Gregory Dowd, Professor of History and American Culture
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"'Bad Birds,' 'Flying Reports,' and Frontier Rumor in Early America"

Sara Forsdyke, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
John Rich Professor
"Politics and Popular Culture in Ancient Greece"

Howard Markel, Professor of History of Medicine and Pediatrics and Commuicable Diseases
John Rich Professor
"The Anatomy of Addiction: A Cultural, Social and Medical History of Addiction in the United States, 1900 to the Present"

Khaled Mattawa, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
Hunting Family Professor
"Amorisco and A Typography of Strangers"

Christi Merrill, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Languages and Cultures
"Memory with an Active Verb: Lessons in Translating Hindi"

Steve Mullaney, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature
John Rich Professor
"The Work of the Stage: Trauma and Collective Identity in the Age of Shakespeare"

Marianetta Porter, Associate Professor of Art & Design
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Memory Breeze"

Elisha Renne, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies
"The Spiritual, Social, Spatial Connections of Yoruba Religious Textiles"

James Robson, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Inside Asian Images: Religious Icons in the Context of Local and Ritual Practice" 

Catherine Sanok, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature and Women's Studies
A. Bartlett Giamatti Faculty Fellow
"English Legends: Gender, Religion, and National Identity in Pre-modern England"

Andrew Shryock, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Charles P. Brauer Faculty Fellow
"Welcome and Trespass: The Politics of Hospitality in Jordan and Beyond"

Andrea Smith, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies, American Culture, and Women's Studies
Human Rights Fellow
"'Glocal' Organizing: The U.S. Human Rights Movement"

Louise K. Stein, Professor of Musicology
Steelcase Research Professor
"Spaniards at the Opera: Operas, Patrons, Singers, and the Publics in Madrid, Rome, Naples, and Lima, 1659-1701"

Jamie Tappenden, Associate Professor of Philosophy
"Riemann and Frege: A Study in the Emergence of Contemporary Logic and Mathematics"

Jason Weems, Assistant Professor of Art History at U-M Dearborn
Hunting Family Professor
"Barnstorming the Prairies: Flight, Aerial Vision, and the Idea of the Midwest, 1920-1940"

Patricia Yaeger, Professor of English Language and Literature
A. Bartlett Giamatti Faculty Fellow
"Luminous Trash: America in an Age of Conspicuous Destruction"

Norman Yoffee, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology
Steelcase Research Professor and Helmut F. Stern Professor
"Winds of Desolation: A History and Archaeology of the Mesopotamian City of Kish"

GRADUATE FELLOWS

Diana Bullen, History of Art
Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
"The Visual Culture of the Central Italian Foundling Hospital, 1400-1600" 

Claire Decoteau, Sociology
"The Diseased Body Politic and the Corporeality of HIV/AIDS in South Africa"

Philip Duker, Music Theory
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"Diving into Mnemosyne’s Waters: Exploring the Depths of Memory and Musical Experience" 

Didem Ekici, Architecture
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"Bruno Taut's Vision of the 'Orient': Creating a Universal Architecture"

Julen Etxabe, Law
Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
"Laws in Tragic Conflict: Sophocles' Antigone and Judicial Decision-Making"

Kim Greenwell, Sociology
"Between Nation, Empire and Colony: Unsettling Events and English-Canadian Identity in the Nineteenth-century British Empire"

Asli Gür, Sociology
Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"Educating the 'Orient': Transculturation of Foreign Educational Practices and Imperial Imagination in the Ottoman Empire (1857-1914)"

Edin Hajdarpasic, History
"Beyond ‘Nation vs. Empire’: Reform, Social Movements and the Search for Justice in Late Ottoman Bosnia"

Andrew Highsmith, History
"America is a Thousand Flints: Race, Class and the End of the American Dream in Flint, Michigan"

Myeong-seok Kim, Asian Languages and Cultures
Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
"Theories of Emotion in Early Chinese Confucian Texts"

Sumiao Li, English Language and Literature and Women's Studies
James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
"Fashionable People, Fashionable Societies: Gender, Fashion, and Print Culture in Britain, 1820-1860"

Kristina Luce, Architecture
Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow
"Revolutions in Parallel: The Rise and Fall of Drawing Within Architectural Design" 

Marti Lybeck, History
"Gender, Sexuality and Belonging: Female Homosexuality in Germany, 1890–1933" 

Bhavani Raman, History
Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
"Document Raj: Scribes, Writing and Society in Early Colonial South India"

VISITING FELLOWS

Louis Andriessen, Visiting Professor and Artist-in-Residence, Netherlands
In residence, February 5 – 19, 2006 

Jaq Chartier, Artist
In residence, January 8 – 14, 2006 

Marian Hobson, Professor of French, Queen Mary, University of London
Norman Freehling Visiting Professor
In residence, Winter 2006 

Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, Handspring Puppet Company and Yaya Coulibaly, Sogolon Puppet Company
In residence, October 17 – 30, 2005 

Nicolette Molnár, Stage Director
Mellon Arts and Knowledge Fellow
In residence, Winter 2006 

Livia Monnet, Professor of Comparative Literature, Film, and Media Studies, University of Montreal
In residence, February 12 – 25, 2006 

Lawrence N. Powell, Professor of History, Tulane University, New Orleans
Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecturer
In residence, September 12 – October 13, 2005