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Deadline Extended for Applications to Undergraduate Research Fellowship

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The deadline to submit applications for the CLAS and UCHI Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellowship has been extended to March 14, 2025.

The fellowship supports a year-long research project supervised by a UConn faculty member. Students receive mentorship support, a $2000 scholarship, a desk at the Humanities Institute, and 6 credits through the successful completion of two independent studies. The project should explore big questions about human society and culture and should lead to an original contribution to your area of study.

Learn more about the fellowship program in this video.

For details on eligibility and how to apply, please see the call for applications, also appended below.

The UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI) and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) are excited to offer year-long fellowships for undergraduate students pursuing innovative research in the humanities.

The fellowship supports a year-long research project supervised by a UConn faculty member. The project should explore big questions about human society and culture and should lead to an original contribution to your area of study. The exact parameters (length, format, etc) will be set by your faculty advisor. Depending on your major and your academic and professional plans, your project may consist of a scholarly research project or a creative product with a significant research component. At the end of the year, students will submit the final project to their faculty advisor, UCHI, and CLAS.

The project should ask questions or explore issues and ideas that feel urgent and exciting to you. We highly encourage proposals for projects that use methods, ideas, and approaches from more than one discipline.

Fellows will be welcomed as members of the Humanities Institute, a lively community of accomplished faculty and graduate student scholars conducting advanced research in the humanities. In addition to immersion in this intellectual community, the fellowship offers:

  • A $2,000 scholarship
  • A desk/work area at UCHI, located conveniently in Homer Babbidge Library for conducting research
  • Bi-weekly check-in meetings
  • A public presentation about the project at UCHI in the spring semester
  • Participation at UCHI’s events (for example, presentations by visiting scholars and artists) and special opportunities to meet with such visiting speakers
  • A field trip or cultural excursion (for example, a visit to a museum or archive) to be announced during the year
  • The opportunity to present your work at the Humanities Undergraduate Research Symposium
  • 6 credits for the academic year, through the successful completion of one 3-credit independent study each semester with the UConn faculty member supervising your project
  • (For non-Honors students) Admission into the Honors Program through the successful completion of this program, if other Honors admissions criteria are met.

Eligibility

Fellowship applicants should be rising sophomores or rising juniors in good academic standing (that is, students who will be sophomores or juniors in Fall 2025). Rising seniors are also eligible to apply, but preference will be given to students earlier in their degrees. Please note that students who applied in previous years and did not receive a fellowship are eligible to apply again.

Fellows from all campuses are welcome. Although the fellowship includes bi-weekly meetings on the Storrs campus, accommodations will be made for fellows unable to attend those meetings in person. However, the public presentation in the spring semester will take place on the Storrs campus.

The proposed project should be humanities research. Broadly speaking, the “humanities” means the study of human society and culture. Humanities majors or minors typically include but are not limited to: Africana Studies; American Studies; Anthropology; Art and Art History; Asian and Asian American Studies; English; History; Human Rights; Journalism; Latino and Latin American Studies; Philosophy; Sociology; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. If you aren’t sure if your project is humanistic, please email uchi@uconn.edu.

Fellows should check individually with the Office of Student Financial Aid Services to ensure that they are eligible to accept the scholarship.

Application

  1. A Word document with answers to the following questions:
    1. What is your project’s title?
    2. What big question(s) is your project asking, and why are those questions important to you, your community, and society? (maximum 300 words)
    3. What is your plan for the project? What work will you do to try to answer its questions? (maximum 300 words)
    4. How do you think working on this project contributes to your own goals? (maximum 200 words)
    5. Optional question: Are there additional factors in your background or life experience that would help you benefit from this opportunity? Discuss social, economic, educational, or other obstacles, as appropriate. (maximum 300 words)
  2. A writing sample of your best research and writing (for example, your best final paper).
  3. One letter of recommendation from a UConn faculty member that also includes their willingness to supervise the project over the course of an academic year. (The faculty member should email their letter directly to uchi@uconn.edu. There’s no need to wait until the letter is complete to submit the rest of your application.)
  4. An unofficial transcript.

Applications for the 2025-26 fellowship year must be submitted by February 28, 2025 March 14, 2025.

All questions and application materials can be sent to uchi@uconn.edu.

Please know while we will make every effort to review submissions as soon as possible, the materials you submit may not be reviewed immediately upon receipt. Please note that all University employees are mandated reporters of child abuse or child neglect. In addition, UConn employees have responsibilities to report to the Office of Institutional Equity student disclosures of sexual assault and related interpersonal violence; any information you submit in this application is subject to UConn reporting policies. If you feel you need more immediate assistance or support, we encourage you to reach out to the Dean of Students Office and/or Student Health and Wellness- Mental Health. In addition, if you have concerns related to sexual harassment, sexual assault, intimate partner violence and/or stalking, we encourage you to review the resources and reporting options available at: https://titleix.uconn.edu

UConn Humanities Institute Awarded Grant to Build Glossary for AI Research

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The Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) has awarded the UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI) a grant of $25,000 for their project “Reading Between the Lines: An Interdisciplinary Glossary for Human-Centered AI.” Funded by CHCI’s Human Craft in the Age of Digital Technologies Initiative, this grant will allow UCHI along with our partners at the International University of Rabat (UIR) to create an interdisciplinary glossary that interrogates the meaning of key AI concepts.

This project brings an international cohort of humanists, engineers, and scientists into conversation through an in-person symposium and a series of podcast dialogues illuminating how the definitions of terms associated with Artificial Intelligence vary widely by discipline, location, and language. The symposium and the podcasts will be structured to address the challenges that language and translation (both conceptual and linguistic) pose to collaboration on AI research.

“We often use the same words—like ‘learning’ or ‘intelligence’—when we are talking about AI, but what those words mean depend on our own academic and cultural background and the assumptions that accompany them,” notes Anna Mae Duane, PI and Director of the UConn Humanities Institute. “The humanities bring crucial insights about language and meaning that can help us to engage these gaps in constructive ways. Working with our partners at the International University of Rabat in Morocco, we’ll bring together voices from computer science, medicine, law, and the humanities to develop better ways of understanding each other and this transformative technology.”

This project showcases UCHI’s interdisciplinarity and its growing global connections. “Reading Between the Lines” draws on the expertise of the Humanistic AI Working Group, a cross-disciplinary team of over twenty UConn researchers, who have been meeting monthly since Fall 2024, and deepens UCHI’s pre-existing partnership with AI scholars at UIR. Through CHCI’s Human Craft in the Age of Digital Technologies Initiative, the grant project will bring UCHI and affiliated faculty into conversation with additional humanities centers and institutes all over the world who are launching projects related to AI, digital technologies, and the human.

The project is being led by Anna Mae Duane, UCHI Director and Professor of English, with the support of collaborators including Clarissa J. Ceglio, UCHI Associate Director of Collaborative Research and Associate Professor of Digital Humanities; Nasya Al-Saidy, UCHI Managing Director; Dan Weiner, Vice Provost of UConn Global Affairs; Allison Cassaly, Global Initiatives Coordinator, UConn Global Affairs; and Ihsane Hmamouchi, Vice-Dean at the International Faculty of Medicine at the International University of Rabat.

Fellow’s Talk: Yohei Igarashi on the Emergence of Literary Data Processing

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2024-25 UCHI Fellow's Talk. "Autonomy and Automata: Objecthood, the Dramatic Monologue, and the Emergence of Literary Data Processing" Yohei Igarashi, Associate Professor of English, UConn. With a response by Hana Maruyama. March 5th, 3:30pm, UCHI Conference Room.

Autonomy and Automata: Objecthood, the Dramatic Monologue, and the Emergence of Literary Data Processing

Yohei Igarashi (Associate Professor of English, UConn)

with a response by Hana Maruyama (History, UConn)

Wednesday March 5, 2025, 3:30pm, Humanities Institute Conference Room (HBL 4-209)

The event will also be livestreamed with automated captioning.

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We should understand better the histories of computing in humanities disciplines. Focusing on literary studies, this talk offers an explanation of a particular event: the emergence of a practice called “literary data processing” around 1960, and the methodological revolution which—while projected from this practice—did not quite happen. Working outward from the writing of the literary scholar Stephen Parrish (1921–2012), this talk uncovers the questions that exercised literary computing and literary criticism alike at this historical moment, questions about humans, machines, language, and minds.

Yohei Igarashi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of Communication (2020) and other writing, most recently a chapter on literary data in the Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age (2024). In 2023–2024, he was the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the National Humanities Center.

Hana Maruyama is an assistant professor in history and social and critical inquiry at the University of Connecticut. Her current manuscript discusses how the federal government exploited Japanese Americans’ World War II incarceration to dispossess American Indians and Alaska Natives and advance U.S. settler colonialism.

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Fellow’s Talk: César Abadía-Barrero on Sugary Industries and the Body

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2024-25 UCHI Fellow's Talk. Sweetness and Disease: How Capitalist Sugary Industries Have Destroyed Human Biology. César Abadía-Barrero, Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights, UConn. WIth a response by Yusuf Mansoor. February 26, 3:30pm, UCHI Conference Room, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th floor.

Sweetness and Disease: How Capitalist Sugary Industries Have Destroyed Human Biology

César Abadía-Barrero (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights, UConn)

with a response by Yusuf Mansoor (History, UConn)

Wednesday February 26, 2025, 3:30pm, Humanities Institute Conference Room (HBL 4-209)

The event will also be livestreamed with automated captioning.

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In 400+ years of history (from early XVII to early XXI centuries) sugar went from being used primarily by the European royalty and their criminal imperial associates to being consumed in large amounts by all inhabitants of the planet. In this talk, I draw from Sidney Mintz’s classic Sweetness and Power to briefly present the history of sugar. Then, I update this history by presenting the incredible growth and profits of the sugary drinks and ultra-processed food industries. By asking what has happened to our human biology as we have replaced real food with more free sugars and processed substances, I develop connections with several diseases, primarily diabetes and obesity that have reached pandemic proportions. I present how the efforts to curb down consumption and enforce regulations have been met with strategies to co-opt and influence policy makers, aggressively market their products to vulnerable populations, and fund and promote biased research. By naming some of the capitalists of the largest transnational “food” industries and their enormous wealth and profit rates, and by connecting their business success with the progressive destruction of our biology, this first chapter of a larger book project intends to test if we can present a material history of our deteriorating human biology for broad audiences; a material history that argues that to understand human biology we need to understand the history of capitalism.

César Abadía-Barrero is a Colombian activist/scholar and associate professor of anthropology and human rights at the University of Connecticut. His research approach is grounded in activist, collaborative, and participatory action research frameworks and integrates critical perspectives to study interconnections among capitalism, human rights, and communities of care. He has been a member of or collaborated with collectives and social movements in Brazil, Colombia, Cameroon, Spain and the United States examining how for-profit interests transform access, continuity, and quality of health care, and how communities resist forms of oppression and create and maintain alternative ways of living and caring.

He is the author or editor of several books and articles, including I Have AIDS but I am Happy: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS, and Social Responses in Brazil (2011 in English and 2022 in Portuguese), Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care (2022, English and Spanish editions), and Countering Modernity: Communal and Cooperative Models from Indigenous Peoples (2024).

His current collaborative research in Colombia follows decolonial proposals in health and wellbeing after Colombia’s 2016 peace accord, focusing on Indigenous peoples’ conceptions of Buen Vivir, collective healings, medicinal plants, and peace building. His other research line centers on the dysregulation of human bodies due to the capitalist transformation of labor, consumption, and the environment. He is the director of the Buen Vivir and Collective Healings Initiative at the University of Connecticut, and co-director of the Global Health & Human Rights Research Program at the Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut.

Yusuf Mansoor is a PhD candidate in the History Department, and the Draper Dissertation Fellow at the UCHI. His research focuses on Native Americans and the Atlantic World in the seventeenth century, with a focus on New England. He has received research fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society, the John Carter Brown Library, the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, the American Philosophical Society, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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Faculty Talk: Bhoomi K. Thakore on Fun and Play on YouTube

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2024-25 Faculty Talk. Fun and Play on YouTube. Bhoomi Thakore, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Social and Critical Inquiry. February 19, 12:15pm. Humanities Institute Conference Room, Homer Babbidge Library, fourth floor.

Fun and Play on YouTube

Bhoomi K. Thakore (Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Social and Critical Inquiry, UConn)

Wednesday February 19, 2025, 12:15pm, Humanities Institute Conference Room (HBL 4-209)

The event will also be livestreamed with automated captioning.

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Since its 2005 launch, YouTube has been the premier site for long-form video content. Even within the sea of social media entertainment, YouTube has maintained its significant influence on society and culture. Users have found opportunities to develop their interests and communities. Amateur creators have a platform to showcase their identities and creativity, with the potential for profit. In this talk, I will present findings from a sample of amateur YouTube content creators highlighting the experiences of fun and play in content creation, and YouTube’s commercial influences on creativity.

Bhoomi K. Thakore (she/her) is an Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Social and Critical Inquiry, at the University of Connecticut. Her research areas include inequalities, media sociology, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

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Fellow’s Talk: Heather Ostman on Literature and the Search for Grace

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2024–25 Fellow's Talk. Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Religion, and the Search for Grace. Heather Ostman (Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Institute, and Humanities Curriculum Chair at SUNY Westchester Community College) with a response by Julia Wold. February 19, 3:30pm. UCHI Conference Room.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Religion, and the Search for Grace

Heather Ostman (Professor of English, SUNY Westchester Community College)

with a response by Julia Wold (English, UConn)

Wednesday February 19, 2025, 3:30pm, Humanities Institute Conference Room (HBL 4-209)

The event will also be livestreamed with automated captioning.

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In this presentation, Heather Ostman will discuss her UCHI project, which seeks to find the links between the representations of religion and selected texts from America’s nineteenth-century, a time in the nation’s history when it sought to assert a distinctive culture and national identity—attempts challenged particularly by the Civil War. The New Testament notion of “grace” shapes the direction of this study, as it points to multiple writers’ concerns with ideas of “mercy,” “salvation,” and/or “redemption”—all of which lend themselves to the developing mythos of the American self-made individual, as shaped by earlier narratives, such as Benjamin Franklin’s eighteenth-century autobiography. The texts studied in this project, which include those by Emerson, Walt Whitman, Sojourner Truth, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pierton Dooner, and Kate Chopin, present a complex picture of American letters, the contours and constraints of religious practice, and the search for grace—and ultimately, for meaning itself—amid the political, religious, and social constructs of nineteenth-century America. After a broad introduction to the study, this presentation will particularly focus on the intersections between fiction and religion through the lens of “grace” as they emerge in the work of Kate Chopin and in comparison to other texts studied in this project.

Heather Ostman is Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Institute, and Humanities Curriculum Chair at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. She is the author/editor of eleven books, including, recently, Kate Chopin and the City: the New Orleans Stories (2024). She is the recipient of two NEH grants and a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and she is the co-founder and president of the Kate Chopin International Society. The UCHI Visiting Fellowship will enable Heather the time and space to work on her next book project, which is titled “Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Religion, and the Search for Grace.” As Christian idea, “grace” speaks to acts of mercy, salvation, and redemption.

Julia Wold is a doctoral candidate in the English Department specializing in Early Modern drama, primarily Shakespeare, and adaptation theory, focusing on video game adaptations. She received her MA in English from the University of North Dakota and her BA in English from Northern State University. Her work focuses on early modern philosophies of choice in both contemporaneous works (Hamlet, Paradise Lost) and modern video game adaptations of these works (Elsinore, The Talos Principle). She is also the co-host and editor of the Star Wars English Class podcast, exploring concepts ranging from literary theory to creative writing via Star Wars. At UCHI, Julia will complete her dissertation, “Adapting Choice: Shakespeare, Video Games, and Early Modern Thought,” which explores the connection between early modern conceptions of decision-making (“right reason”), theorized as “thoughtful choice” and video games adaptations of early modern texts.

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Fellow’s Talk: Jesse Olsavsky on Frederick Douglass and Pan-Africanism

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2024-25 Fellow's Talk. Frederick Douglass, Emigration, Empire, and the Beginnings of Pan-Africanism, 1850-1920. Jesse Olsavsky, assistant professor of History and a co-director of the Gender Studies Initiative at Duke Kunshan University. with a response by Janet Pritchard. February 12, 3:30pm. Humanities institute conference room, homer babbidge library, fourth floor.

Frederick Douglass, Emigration, Empire, and the Beginnings of Pan-Africanism, 1850–1920

Jesse Olsavsky (History & Gender Studies, Duke Kunshan University)

with a response by Janet Pritchard (Art and Art History, UConn)

Wednesday February 12, 2025, 3:30pm, Humanities Institute Conference Room (HBL 4-209)

The event will also be livestreamed with automated captioning.

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This talk will explore the influence Frederick Douglass had upon the development of Pan-Africanism. Though Douglass is often viewed as an American nationalist with little interest in Africa, this talk will contrarily show the ways that intellectuals in West Africa, the West Indies and the US circulated and reinterpreted Douglass’s thought in order to understand the horrendous changes in the world resulting from the overthrow of Reconstruction and the partition of Africa. Out of these transatlantic discussions, in which Douglass figured heavily, emerged the ideas and practices of Pan-Africanism, which eventually became the principal ideology of African decolonization in the twentieth century

Jesse Olsavsky is an assistant professor of history at Duke Kunshan University, Jiangsu Province, China. He is author of The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835-1861.

Janet L. Pritchard is a Professor of Art, Photography/Video Area Coordinator, and Affiliated Faculty Member of the Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering and Institute of the Environment at the University of Connecticut. Her creative research interests focus on landscape photography, using a methodology described as historical empathy. She is the author of More than Scenery: Yellowstone, an American Love Story.

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Multidisciplinary Team of AI Researchers Led by UCHI Receive Two-Year Grant from CLAS

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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has awarded a two-year grant of $94,000 for a multidisciplinary team of researchers, led by the UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI), to advance AI research that integrates critical humanistic and social scientific perspectives. Funded by the Strategic Initiative for Multidisciplinary Research program, this grant will build capacity for successfully competing for significant external awards that require or are enhanced by a multidisciplinary approach.

Research stipends, funding for collaborative projects, and structured grant proposal development support will enable members of UCHI’s Human Centered AI team to pursue diverse funding opportunities, while monthly flash talks, human-centered design grant incubators, and targeted feedback will maintain the group’s commitment to deep interdisciplinary collaboration.

“We believe that human-centered AI will only be possible when humans from a truly diverse array of perspectives, backgrounds, and disciplinary training are involved in designing and deploying these powerful tools,” notes Anna Mae Duane, PI and Director of the UConn Humanities Institute.

UCHI’s Human-Centered AI team builds on the Humanistic AI Working Group, a cross-disciplinary team of over twenty UConn researchers, who have been meeting monthly since Fall 2024. The Humanistic AI Working Group brings together faculty from across campus, and across disciplines, to share research, resources, and funding opportunities, and to collaborate on this vital area of research.

The Human-Centered AI team is made up of academics from Statistics, Philosophy, Communications, Geography, Earth Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Journalism, LCL, and English. It ecompasses faculty from junior scholars to senior researchers. Together, this multidisciplinary group has complementary strengths that include AI’s role in human rights, educational accessibility, medical parity, and climate change. The group held its first public-facing event on January 13th, as UConn hosted an international virtual workshop with AI researchers from the International University of Rabat, Morocco.

Key faculty for the Human-Centered AI team include Anna Mae Duane (PI), Professor, English, Director, UCHI; Shiri Dori-Hacohen, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Anke Finger, Professor of German, LCL; Trevor Harris, Assistant Professor, Statistics; Ting-an Lin, Assistant Professor, Philosophy; Jiyoun Suk, Assistant Professor, Communications; Brad Tuttle, Assistant Professor, Journalism; Lijing Wang, Assistant Professor, Earth Science; Arash Zaghi, Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Fellow’s Talk: Peter Zarrow on Heritage and History

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2024-25 UCHI fellow's talk. "Hertiage of Kings: France–England–China–Japan." Peter Zarrow, Professor of History, UConn, with a response by Jesse Olsavsky. January 29, 3:30pm. UCHI Conference Room, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th floor.

Heritage of Kings: France–England–China–Japan

Peter Zarrow (Professor, History, UConn)

with a response by Jesse Olsavsky (History & Gender Studies, Duke Kunshan University)

Wednesday January 29, 2025, 3:30pm, Humanities Institute Conference Room (HBL 4-209)

The event will also be livestreamed with automated captioning.

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My talk “Heritage of Kings: France–England–China–Japan” examines how major heritage sites in four countries shape their views of the past.  I focus on palaces and temples associated with the monarchy, suggesting that national identity in each case today is formed partly in relationship to views of the earlier kingdom. I ask whether a comparative approach is useful in understanding how different societies memorialize the past. In theory at least, by highlighting similarities and differences we can determine if there are common patterns in the process of national heritagization and determine what cultural properties are unique to each national culture.

Peter Zarrow is professor of History at UConn. His research focuses on modern Chinese thought and culture, and his current project explores national heritage in China and Japan. He is the author of China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 (2005) and since coming to UConn in 2014 has published Educating China: Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902–1937 (2015) and Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880-1940 (2021).

Jesse Olsavsky is an assistant professor of History and a co-director of the Gender Studies Initiative at Duke Kunshan University, Jiangsu Province, China. He is a scholar of Abolitionism, Pan-Africanism and their legacies. He is the author of The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 (2022), which was a finalist for the Harriet Tubman book prize. His research has been supported by such institutions as the Schomburg Center for research in Black Culture, the NEH, the ACLS, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. He will spend his fellowship year working on his second book project titled “In The Tradition: The Abolitionist Tradition and the Routes of Pan-Africanism.” The project will explore the ways numerous intellectuals and movements in the US, West Africa, and the West Indies, from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, re-invoked and reinterpreted the history of the struggle to abolish slavery during their own struggles for African unity and decolonization.

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Undergraduate Fellowship Information Session

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Undergraduate Fellowship Information Session. January 28, 2025, 4:00pm. UCHI Conference Room, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th floor.

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Undergraduate Research Fellowship Information Session

January 28, 2025, 4:00pm
UCHI Conference Room, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th Floor

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We are holding an information session for students interested in applying for the 2025–26 Humanities Research Fellowship—a year-long fellowship for UConn undergraduates pursuing innovative research in the humanities—or for other fellowships for undergraduate researchers. Led by Micah Heumann, Director of the Office for Undergraduate Research, and Elizabeth Della Zazzera, Associate Director of Communications and Outreach at UCHI, this information session will go over how to get started in research, how to find opportunities and funding, what to expect from the application process. We will also offer tips and tricks for writing a compelling application and answer questions.