UCHI Visiting Scholars

Sara Matthiesen
History & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, George Washington University
“‘Free Abortion on Demand’ after Roe: A Reproductive Justice History of Abortion Organizing in the United States”

Jesse Olsavsky
American Studies & History, Duke Kunshan University
“In The Tradition: The Abolitionist Tradition and the Roots of Pan-Africanism, 1830–1945”

Heather Ostman
English, SUNY Westchester Community College
“Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Religion, and the Search for Grace”

UConn Faculty Fellows

César Abadia-Barrero
Anthropology
“Too Sick to Labor: Disease and Profit as the end of Capitalism”

Daniel Hershenzon
Literatures, Culture, and Languages
“The Maghrib in Spain: Enslavement, Citizenship, and Belonging in the Early Modern Spanish Mediterranean”

Yohei Igarashi
English
Faculty Success Fellow
“Word Count: Literary Study and Data Analysis, 1875–1965”

Hana Maruyama
History
“Entangled Remains: Indigenous Relationalities & Caretaking in Japanese American Incarceration”

Gregory Pierrot
English
“It Was Nation Time: Fictions of African American Revolution (Le Temps d’une nation noire: fictions révolutionnaires du Black Power)”

Janet Pritchard
Art and Art History
“Abiding River: Connecticut River Views & Stories”

Fumilayo Showers
Sociology
FOCWG Fellow
“Learning to Leave: Health Professions Education, the Afropolitan Imaginary, and Migration Aspirations in a Migrant Sending Nation”

Peter Zarrow
History
“A History of the ‘Museumification’ of the Forbidden City, Beijing, from 1900 to Today”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Joscha Jelitzki
Literatures, Culture, and Languages
Richard Brown Dissertation Fellow
“The Anti-Jewish ‘Lust Libel’ and its Deconstruction by Jewish Writers in Modern Vienna”

Yusuf Mansoor
History
Draper Dissertation Fellow
“Native Americans in Tangier: Slaveries in the Early Modern Atlantic World”

Danielle Pieratti
English
“Unoriginal: Transvocal works from Dante’s Purgatorio”

Julia Wold
English
“Adapting Choice: Shakespeare, Video Games, and Early Modern Thought”

Undergraduate Research Fellows

Kathryn Andronowitz
“The Tradwife Cultural Economy: A Comparative Case Study of Self-Branded Housewife Influencers on Social Media”
Project advisor: Bhoomi K. Thakore
Learn more about Kathryn’s project in UConn Today.

Kanny Salike
“The Evolution of African American English (AAE) and Black American Sign Language (BASL) in the United States”
Project advisor: Diane Lillo-Martin
Learn more about Kanny’s project in UConn Today.

Evan Wolfgang
“I Am Going to the Lordy: A Dramatic Parable about the Life and Death of Charles Julius Guiteau”
Project advisor: Gary M. English
Learn more about Evan’s project in UConn Today.

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Jordan Camp
American Studies, Trinity College
“The Southern Question”

Alexander Diener
Geography, University of Kansas
“The Middle of Somewhere: Place Attachment and the Geographies of Being”

Birgit Brander Rasmussen
English, Binghamton University SUNY
“Signs of Resistance, Signs of Resurgence: Indigenous Literacies, New Media, and Anti-Colonial Imaginaries in Native American Literature and Culture”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Political Science
“Human Rights Norms in Turkey”

Ana María Díaz-Marcos
LCL
“‘A Fistful of Antifascist Energy’: Ernestina González Fleischman’s Biography and Writings”

Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
LCL & El Instituto
“Solidarity in Translation: Aimé Césaire and His Cuban Comrades in Art”

Serkan Görkemli
English
“You’re Always Welcome Here, a Book of Short Stories”

Martine Granby
Journalism
UCHI Faculty of Color Working Group Fellow
“Ten Seconds of Sugar”

Oscar Guerra
DMD
“Documenting Migration”

Tracy Llanera
Philosophy
“The Misfits of Extremism”

Richard Ashby Wilson
Law, Anthropology, & Human Rights
“United Against Hate? Punishing Bias Crimes in the United States”

Victor Zatsepine
History
“Unsettling the Sino-Mongol-Russian Borderlands, 1911–1945”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Kathryn Angelica
History
Draper Dissertation Fellow
“An Uneasy Alliance: Cooperation and Conflict in Nineteenth Century Black and White Women’s Activism”

David L. Evans
History
“Hunger for Rights: Establishing the Human Right to Food, 1930–1988”

Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim
Anthropology
“Political Power during the Iron Age of the Southern Levant Through the Lens of Agricultural Production”

Xu Peng
LCL
Richard Brown Dissertation Fellow
“From History to the Future: Chineseness in Contemporary Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican Literatures and Cultures”

Undergraduate Research Fellows

Breanna Bonner
“‘The Space Between Black and Liberation’: Analyzing Black Women’s Experiences of Intersectional Invisibility Within Liberation Movements”
Project advisor: Evelyn M. Simien

Anabelle S. Bergstrom
“Minds Among Minds: A Pragmatist View of the Social and Spiritual Self in a Hyperconnected World”
Project advisor: Julian J. Schlöder

Brent Freed
“Vietnam in Their Factories: Immigrant Workers and the Global South During May 1968”
Project advisor: Elizabeth Della Zazzera

Nathan Howard
“Homofascism: The Queering of Hate”
Project advisor: Tracy Llanera

Honorable mentions:
Gianna Socci, “Monstrosity on Trial: Claiming Legal Personhood for Frankenstein’s Monster”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Joseph Darda
English, Texas Christian University
“The Naturals: How Sports Make Race in America”

Kareem Khalifa
Philosophy, UCLA
Future of Truth Fellow
“Segregation and Social Inquiry”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Hind Ahmed Zaki
Political Science & LCL
“The Price of Inclusion: Feminist Politics in the Shadow of the Arab Spring”

Heather Cassano
DMD
“The Fate of Human Beings”

Cornelia Dayton
History
“John Peters, A Life”

Anna Mae Duane
English
“Like a Slave: Slavery’s Appropriation from The American Revolution to QAnon”

Sandy Grande
Political Science & Native American and Indigenous Studies
“Indigenous Elders and Aging”

Stefan Kaufmann
Linguistics
“What was, what will be, and what would have been”

Hassanaly Ladha
LCL
“Solomon and the Caliphate of Man”

Elva Orozco Mendoza
Political Science & WGSS
UCHI Faculty of Color Working Group Fellow
“The Maternal Contract”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Julia Brush
English
Richard Brown Dissertation Fellow
“State/Less Aesthetics: Queer Cartographies, Transnational Terrains, and Refugee Poetics”

Yuhan Liang
Philosophy
“Confucian Exemplarism and Moral Diversity”

Britney Murphy
History
“Outsiders Within: Volunteers in Service to America and the Boundaries of Citizenship, 1962–1971”

Shihan Zheng
History
Draper Dissertation Fellow
“The Opium Discourse in China, 1830–1910”

Undergraduate Research Fellows

Karen Lau
“Soup Dumplings for the Soul: Ethnic Studies and Social-Emotional Learning”
Project advisor: Jason Oliver Chang and Grace Player

Rylee Thomas
“The Ghostly Dynasty: Victim-Blaming, the Gothic Novel, and the Modern True-Crime Drama”
Project advisor: Ellen Litman

Honorable mentions:
Kathryn Atkinson, “Cenabis Bene: A Culinary Odyssey through Apicius”
Monika Rydzewski, “Look at the Screen!: Merging Media with Gossip”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Sherie M. Randolph
History, Georgia Institute of Technology
“‘Bad’ Black Mothers: A History of Transgression”

Shiloh Whitney
Philosophy, Fordham University
“Emotional Labor: Affective Economies and Affective Injustice”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Meina Cai
Political Science
“The Art of Negotiations: Legal Discrimination, Contention Pyramid, and Land Rights Development in China”

Haile Eshe Cole
Anthropology
“Belly: Topographies of Black Reproduction”

Shardé M. Davis
UCHI/Mellon Faculty Fellow
Communication
“Being #BlackintheIvory: Contending with Racism in the American University”

Prakash Kashwan
Political Science
“Rooted Radicalism: Transformative Change for Food, Energy, Water, and Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Change”

Laura Mauldin
WGSS & HDFS
“For All We Care”

Micki McElya
History
“No More Miss America! How Protesting the 1968 Pageant Changed a Nation”

Kathryn Blair Moore
Art and Art History
“The Other Space of the Arabesque: Italian Renaissance Art at the Limits of Representation”

Fiona Vernal
History
“Hartford Bound: Mobility, Race, and Identity in the Post-World War II Era (1940-2020)”

Sarah S. Willen
Future of Truth Fellow
Anthropology
“‘Chronicling the Meantime’: Creating a Book about the Pandemic Journaling Project”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Erik Freeman
Draper Dissertation Fellow
History
“The Mormon International: Communitarian Politics and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1830-1890”

Carol Gray
Political Science
“Law as Politics by Other Means: An Egyptian Case Study as a Template for Human Rights Reform”

Drew Johnson
Philosophy
“A Hybrid Theory of Ethical Thought and Discourse”

Anna Ziering
English
“Dirty Forms: Masochism and the Revision of Power in Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature and Culture”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Erica Holberg
Philosophy
“The Pleasures of Anger: Insights from Aristotle and Kant on Getting Mad, Staying Mad, and Doing This With Others”

David Samuels
Music, New York University
“Early Folk World: Music, Industrial Modernity, and the Anguish of Community in the 20th Century”

Amy Meyers
Luce Foundation Future of Truth Fellow
“William Bartram and the Origins of American Environmental Thought”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Elizabeth Athens
Art History
“Figuring a World: William Bartram’s Natural History”

Amanda J. Crawford
Journalism
“The Sky is Crying: The Sandy Hook Shooting and the Battle for Truth”

Sean Frederick Forbes
UCHI/Mellon Faculty Fellow
English & Creative Writing
“Archaeological Revival: A Book of Poems”

Melanie Newport
History
“This is My Jail: Reform and Mass Incarceration in Chicago and Cook County”

Helen M. Rozwadowski
History
“Science as Frontier: History Hidden in Plain Sight”

Sara Silverstein
History & Human Rights
“Toward Global Health: A History of International Collaboration”

Scott Wallace
Journalism
“The Bleeding Frontier: Indigenous Warriors in the Battle for the Amazon and Planet Earth”

Sarah Winter
English
“The Right to a Remedy: Habeas Corpus, Empire, and Human Rights Narratives”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Nicole Breault
Draper Dissertation Fellow
History
“The Night Watch of Boston: Law and Governance in Eighteenth-Century British America”

Kerry Carnahan
English
“Song of Songs: A New Translation with Commentary”

Ashley P. Gangi
English
“May I Present Myself? Masks, Masquerades, and the Drama of Identity in Nineteenth Century American Literature”

Shaine Scarminach
History
“‘Lost at Sea’: The United States and the Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Kornel Chang
History, Rutgers University
“The Lost Dreams of Liberation: A Story of Decolonization in U.S.-Occupied Korea, 1945–1948”

Daniel Cohen
History, Case Western Reserve University
“Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memories in America’s Civil War Generation”

Joseph Ulatowski
Philosophy, University of Waikato, New Zealand
“Why Facts Matter: Pluralism about Facts in the Age of Fake News”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Emma Amador
History & El Instituto
“Consenting Colonialism: Puerto Ricans and the Politics of Welfare in the 20th Century”

Alexander Anievas
Political Science
“Race to Rollback: Far-Right Power in America’s Global Cold War”

Andrea Celli
Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
“Hagar the Outcast: Reappraisals of a Biblical Theme in the Context of Post-Tridentine Culture”

Patricia Morgne Cramer
English
“What Are the Wild Waves Saying: Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury, and the Public Schools”

Debapriya Sarkar
English
“Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science”

Nu-Anh Tran
History & Asian and Asian American Studies Institute
“Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalists in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954–1963”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Nathan Braccio
Draper Dissertation Fellow
History
“Parallel Landscapes: Algonquian and English Spatial Understandings of New England, 1500–1700”

Laura Godfrey
English
“Writing National Tragedies: Race and Disability in Contemporary U.S. Literature and Culture”

Hayley Stefan
English
“‘Be Wholly Out of Body’: Astonishment in Late Medieval English Literature”

Jessica Strom
History
“Financing Revolution: Adriano Lemmi and the Struggle for Italian Unification”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Katherine Rye Jewell
History
“Live from the Underground: College Radio in the Era of the Culture Wars”

Jonathan E. Robins
Global History
“Oil Palm:  a Global History of an African Tree”

ACLS Burkhardt Visiting Fellow

 Katherine Grandjean
History
“In the Kingdom of Devils: The Harpe Murders and the Legacies of the American Revolution”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Dorit Bar-On
Philosophy
“Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning”

Jason Oliver Chang
History/Asian American Studies
“Shore Leave:  Asian Sailors, Maritime Culture, and the Making of Greater Asian America”

Dexter J. Gabriel
History
“Jubilee’s Experiment:  The British West Indies and American Abolitionism.”

Ellen Litman
English
“Love Lesson:  Coming of Age in the Post-Perestroika Russia”

Stuart S. Miller
Literatures, Cultures and Languages
“From Temple to Home to Community:  The Survival and Transformation of Ancient Jewish Life in the Wake of Catastrophe.”

 Lynne Tirrell
Philosophy
“Toxic Speech”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Aimee Loiselle
History
“Creating Norma Rae:  The Erasure of Puerto Rican Needleworkers and Southern Labor Activists in the Making of a Neoliberal Icon.”

Amy Sopcak-Joseph
Draper Dissertation Fellow
History
“Fashioning American Women: Godey’s Lady’s Book, Female Consumers, and Periodical Publishing in the Nineteenth Century.”

Adrian Stegovec
Linguistics
“Why only person?  The exceptionality of person in syntax and its interfaces.”

Humility and Conviction in Public Life Fellows

Richard Frieder (fall 2018)
“Employing Dialogue and Deliberation to Foster Humility and Achieve Community Driven Change in Hartford”

 Maxime LePoutre (spring 2019)
“Ignorance and Democratic Speech:  Understanding the Challenge Ignorance Poses for Inclusive Deliberation”

William McMillan (fall 2018)
“Mapping the Potential Limits of Epistemic Humility and Conviction within an Influential Evangelical Christian Tradition”

Lani Watson (spring 2019)
“Educating for good questioning as a form of intellectual humility”

Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Jill Lepore
American History, Harvard University

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Deirdre Bair
English & Comparative Literature
“Bio/Memoir: The Accidental Biographer”

Rebecca Gould
Comparative Literature & Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies, University of Birmingham
“Narrating Catastrophe: Forced Migration from Colonialism to Postcoloniality in the Caucasus”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Eleni Coundouriotis
English
“The Hospital and the State: Readings in Anglophone Fiction”

Ruth Glasser
Urban Studies & History
“Brass City, Grass Roots: The Persistence of Farming in Industrial Waterbury, CT, 1870–1980”

Kenneth Gouwens
History
“A Translation of Paolo Giovio’s Elogia of Literati”

Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
History
“Becoming Atlanta: Political Power, Progress in the Capital of the New South”

Nancy Shoemaker
History
“A History of Soap: Oils, Chemistry, and the Rise of the Global Composite”

Harry van der Hulst
Linguistics
“It Means What you See (But You Have to Look for It)”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Sarah Berry
Draper Dissertation Fellow
English
“The Politics of Voice in Twentieth-Century Poetic Drama”

Laura Wright
Draper Dissertation Fellow
English
“Prizing Difference: PEN Awards and Multiculturalist Politics in American Fiction”

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
History
“The Lettered Barriada: Puerto Rican Workers’ Intellectual Community, 1897-1933”

Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco
Philosophy
“Action-Guidance in Complicated Cases of Suffering”

Humility and Conviction in Public Life Fellows

James R. Beebe (Spring 2018)
Philosophy
University of Buffalo
“Humble Conviction in the Face of Peer Disagreement”

Richard Frieder (Spring 2018)
Community Capacity Builders
“Employing Dialogue and Deliberation to Foster Humility and Achieve Community Driven Change in Hartford”

Tracy Llanera (Fall 2017)
Philosophy
Macquarie University
“Combatting Egotism: Intellectual Humility as Self-Enlargement”

Ufuk Topkara (Fall 2017)
Islamic Theology
University of Paderborn
“The Convergence of Reason and Faith: Breaking Through the Fabricated Barriers to Discourse and Truth”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Robert T. Chase
History, Stony Brook University
“Civil Rights on the Cell Block: Prisoners’ Rights Movements and the Construction of Carceral States, 1945–1995”

Leo J. Garofalo
History, Connecticut College
“Forging a Place in the Spanish Empire: Black European Sailors, Soldiers, and Traders to the Americas”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Anna Mae Duane
English
“Strange Place Blues: The Unusual Education of Three African American Leaders”

Mark Healey
History
“Waterscapes of Power in the Dry Lands of Argentina, 1880–2000”

Daniel Hershenzon
Literatures, Cultures & Languages
“Captivity, Commerce, and Communication: Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean”

Daniel Silvermint
Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
“Complicit Identities: The Ethics of Looking Out for Yourself”

Christine Sylvester
Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
“Objects of War: Whose Wars Are on View?"

Dimitris Xygalatas
Anthropology
“Homo Ritualis: Extreme Rituals as Social Technologies”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Jeffrey R. Egan
History
Draper Dissertation Fellow
“Watershed Decisions: The Environmental History of the Quabbin Reservoir, 1880–1940”

Melanie Meinzer
Political Science
Draper Dissertation Fellow
“Contested Consciousness: Foreign Aid and Palestinian Education in the West Bank and Jordan”

George Moore
English
“The Return of Dagon: Failed Iconoclasm in Early Modern English Literature”

Fabiana Viglione
Literatures, Cultures and Languages
“The Sale of Parga in the Nationalist Imaginary of 19th Century Italy: 1819–1858”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Peter Constantine
Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
“Translation and Annotation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Autobiography, Between the Millstones”

Joshua Schechter
Philosophy, Brown University
“Reasoning and Rationality: The Epistemology of our Most Basic Patterns of Inference”

UConn Faculty Fellows

César Abadía-Barrero
Anthropology
“Health Ruins: From Post-Colonial to Post Neoliberal ‘Medical Care’ in Columbia”

Susan Einbinder
Literatures, Cultures & Languages
“Eleh Ezkerah: Trauma and Medieval Jewish Literature”

Hassanaly Ladha
Literatures, Cultures & Languages
“The Idea of Africa: Hegel, Architecture, and the Political Subject”

Diane Lillo-Martin
Linguistics
“Sign Language Acquisition: Archiving and Sharing”

Natalie Munro
Anthropology
“A 30,000 Year History of Human Foraging and Farming in the Aegean: The View from Franchthi Cave, Greece”

Brad Simpson
History
“The First Right: Self Determination and the Transformation of International Politics”

Peter Zarrow
History
“The Utopian Impulse in Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1890–1940”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Joanna A. MacGugan
English
“Competing Authorities and Contested Spaces: Dying in Dublin in the Reign of Edward I”

Christiana Salah
English
“The Popular Invention of the Victorian Governess, 1815-2015”

Hilary Bogert-Winkler
Draper Dissertation Fellow
History
“Prayerful Protest and Clandestine Conformity: Alternative Liturgies and the Book of Common Prayer in Interregnum England”

Allison B. Horrocks
Draper Dissertation Fellow
History
“‘The Family and the Home as the Nursery of Humanity’: Flemmie Kittrell and the International Politics of Home Economics”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Rachel L. Greenblatt
History, Harvard University
“‘A Beautiful and Costly Procession’: Jewish Street in Imperial Celebration—Prague and Frankfurt Festivities on the Birth of a Habsburg Crown Prince (1716)”

Joseph McAlhany
Classics, Carthage College
“Collected Fragments of M. Terentius Varro, Text & Translation, with Accompanying Monograph”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Fakhreddin Azimi
History
“The Ascendancy of Khomeini: Illusions of secularity and rise of political Islam”

Frank Costigliola
History
“Kennan and Russia”

Martha J. Cutter
English
“Picturing Slavery: Illustrated Books and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1820–1855”

Jeffrey R. Dudas
Political Science
“Regeneration through Rights: Law, Family, and the Making of Modern American Conservatism”

Fiona Somerset
English
“The Implications of Consent”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Gordon Fraser
Draper Dissertation Fellow
English
“American Cosmologies: Race and Revolution in the Nineteenth Century”

Christina Henderson
Draper Dissertation Fellow
English
“Cities of the Future: Literary Utopias, World's Fairs, and the Making of American Progressivism”

Beata Moskal
Linguistics
“Universals in Morphology and Morpho-Phonology”

Lucía García Santana
Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
“Transatlantic Intellectual Meridian: Spain in the Configuration of the Argentinean Field of Cultural Production”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Mohammed Albakry
English & Applied Linguistics, Middle Tennessee State University
“The Tahir Plays: Dramatic Texts from the Egyptian Revolution”

Nicola McDonald
Medieval Studies, University of York, UK
“Fictions of Audacity: Middle English Romance and the Medieval Imagination”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Peter C. Baldwin
History
“Intimacy and Piety in Nineteenth Century New England: The Troubled Life of Samuel Edward Warren”

Kelly Dennis
Art History
"Desert Exposures: Aesthetics and Politics in Postwar Arizona Highways Magazine and the West"

Robin Adèle Greeley
Art History
“Between Campesino and State: Photography, Rurality, and Modernity in 20th Century Mexico”

Robert Gross
History
"The Transcendentalists and Their World"

Gregory Kneidel
English
“Donne’s Satires and Early Modern Equity”

Sarah Willen
Anthropology
“Renegade Moralities: Illegality, Exclusion, and Existential Struggle among African and Filipino Migrants in Israel”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Brandon Hawk
Medieval Studies
“Apocryphal Narratives in Old English Sermon Collections”

Michael Hughes
Philosophy
“The Epistemic Roles of Formal Coherence”

Jessica Linker
Draper Dissertation Fellow
History
“‘It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers’: Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720–1860”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio
Italian & Cinema Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
“Amorous Visions: Fluid Sexual Moments in Italian Cinema”

Simon Yarrow
Medieval History, University of Birmingham, UK
“A Cultural Ethnography of the Cult of Relics in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century England”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
English & Maritime Studies
“Sailor Talk: Utterance, Labor, and Meaning in the Maritime World”

Adrienne Macki Braconi
Dramatic Arts
“Staging Ground: Harlem’s Theatre, National Identity and Community, 1925–1948”

Mary Burke
English
“‘White Irish?’ A Cultural History of the Scots-Irish”

Christopher Clark
History
“The Age of Freehold: American Ideas about Land and Farming from the Revolution to the Cold War”

Gregory M. Colón Semenza
English
“The History of British Literature on Film: 1895–2010”

Sebastian Wogenstein
Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
“Prophets and Heretics: Human Rights and the German Literary Imagination”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Anthony Antonucci
Dean's Dissertation Award
History
“Americans and the Mezzogiorno: United States Relations with the Regno delle Due Sicilie from Thomas Jefferson to Herman Melville, 1783–1861”

Jeremy DeAngelo
Medieval Studies
“Proper Conduct: Good Journeys in the Literature of the Medieval North Atlantic”

Antonio Guijarro-Donadios
Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
“‘Comical Spaces’: Everyday Practices in 17th-Century Urban Short Plays”

Mary Isbell
Dean's Dissertation Award
English
“Amateurs: Home, Shipboard, and Public Theatricals in the Nineteenth Century”

Pamela Longo
Dean's Dissertation Award
Medieval Studies
“As Olde Stories Tellen Us: Telling Tales and Framing Stories in Late Medieval Public Culture”

Linda Meditz
Dean's Dissertation Award
History
“God’s Captive: Piety and Ministry in the Life and Diary of Stephen Williams”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Phyllis Cole
Pennsylvania State University
“The Afterlife of Margaret Fuller: Legacies in Transatlantic Feminism”

Melissa Homestead
University of Nebraska
“The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis”

Simon Yarrow
Universitas 21 Humanities Fellow
University of Birmingham
“A Cultural Ethnography of the Cult of Relics in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century England”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Eleni Coundouriotis
English
“The People's Right to the Novel: War Fiction in the Postcolony”

Brendan Kane
History
“Knowledge and the Legitimacy of Power in England and Ireland, 1500–1700”

Charles Mahoney
English
“Coleridge on Shakespeare”

Matthew McKenzie
History
“A History of Denial: Cultural Representation and Environmental Catastrophe on Georges Bank, 1872–1945”

Christopher Vials
English
“Dissonant Antifascism: The Political Left and the Idea of Fascism in U.S. Culture”

Janet Watson
History
“Telling War Stories: The Second World War in Postwar Britain”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Lindy Brady
Dean’s Dissertation Award
Mutable Boundaries in the Medieval Literatures of the British Isles

Omar Hassan Dphrepaulezz
Dean’s Dissertation Award
“The Right Sort of White Men”: General Leonard Wood and the U. S. Army in the Southern Philippines, 1898-1906

Alea Henle
Mutable Boundaries in the Medieval Literatures of the British Isles

Oliver Hiob
10th Anniversary Dissertation Fellow
Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies in the Early United States

Paul Silva
The Epistemology of Intuition and Seemings

Patricia Taylor
Writing with the Word: Post-Reformation Authorship in England, 1546-1671

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Anne Lambright
Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post Shining Path Peru

Joanne Melish
Making Black Communities: Race, Place, and Class in Post Revolutionary North

UConn Faculty Fellows

Emma Gilligan
History
“Zachistka: from Metallurgy to Human Cleansing”

Kenneth Gouwens
History
“Human Exceptionalism in the Renaissance”

Margo Machida
Art and Art History
“Resighting Hawai‘i: Global Flows and Island Imaginaries in Asian American and Native Hawaiian Art”

Gustavo Nanclares
Modern and Classical Languages
“War Film and the Film Wars: Mass Culture and the Political Imaginary in Spain (1898-1939)”

Marcus Rossberg
Philosophy
“Translation of G. Frege’s Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (Basic Laws of Arithmetic)”

Alexia Smith
Anthropology
“Social Response to Climate Change: Exploring the Collapse of the Akkadian Empire”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Asha Leena Bhandary
Dean’s Dissertation Award
Philosophy
Freedom to Care: A Capabilities Theory Based in Personal Autonomy and Care

Miloje Despić
LCL
Definiteness and Languages without Articles

Michael Neagle
Philosophy
Isles of Pines, U.S.A: Colonies, Communities, and Commerce in an American Enclave in Cuba, 1899-1960

UCHI Visiting Scholar

Naeem Murr
Creative Writing, Fiction
“Welcome to the Hotel of Strangers”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Clare Eby
English
"Until Choice Do Us Part: The Theory and Practice of Marriage in the Progressive Era"

Glen MacLeod
English
"Authenticity in American Art and Literature: From Casts and Copies to the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”

Janet L. Pritchard
Art and Art History
“Views from Wonderland, an artists' book”

Glenn Stanley
Music
“Fidelio and the Modern German Identity: Criticism and Performance of a National Cultural Icon”

Jennifer Terni
Modern and Classical Languages
“Elements of Mass Society: Paris 1830-1848”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Jennifer Lynn Holley
English
“The Child Elegy”

Sherry L. Zane
History
“The Politics of Sex, Scandals and Progressive Reform in Newport, Rhode Island, 1917–1921”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Barbara Fultner

Meaning, Intersubjectivity, and Social Practice: Social Theories of Meaning

Stuart Leibman

The Representation of Atrocity: The Cold War and Early Holocaust Cinema

UConn Faculty Fellows

Amanda Bailey

English

City of Vice: London 1550-1770

Jonathan D. Bobaljik

Linguistics

(Grammar of) Itelmen: A Language on the Brink

Rosa Helena Chinchilla

LCL

Literary Patronage in Spain (1500-1560)

Jeremy Pressman

Political Science

Sixty Years of Conflict: The Central Historical Themes in Arab-Israeli Relations

Helen Rozwadowski

History

Always the Last Frontier: The 1960's Ocean

Nancy Shoemaker

History

New England Indians and the American Whaling Industry

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Brian D. Carroll

History

From warrior to soldier: New England Indians in the Colonial Military, 1675--1763

Catherine Thompson

History

"Dr. Greene is not God!:" Patient-physicians relations in early America, 1750-1850

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Robert Bonner

The Fugitive Slave Law and the American Conscience

Jennifer Travis

The Call to Harms: Injury and Cultural Authority in America

UConn Faculty Fellows

Joel Blatt

History

The Assassination of Carlo and Nello Rosselli

Paul Bloomfield

Philosophy

A Theory of the Good Life

Mary Crawford

Psychology

Doing Gender in Kathmandu: the Social Construction of Sex Trafficking in Nepal

Sharon Harris

English

Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical

Brenda Murphy

English

David Mamet

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Katherine O’Sullivan

Medieval Studies

Discourses in Tears of Piers Plowman

Andrew Pfrenger

Medieval Studies

The Wisdom to choose: Emotion and Authority in Old English Literature

 

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Michelle Bigenho

Intimate Distance: The Intercultural Nexus of Bolivian Music in Japan

 

Sally O’Driscoll

Word on the Street: 18th Century Pamphlets and the Popluar Language of Gender

UConn Faculty Fellows

Jacqueline Campbell

History

The Troublesome Spirit of Proud People: War and Peace in Occupied New Orleans, 1862-1866

Anke Finger

LCL

Transitions of an East German Family: Life Writing and the Memories of History

Robin Greeley

Art and Art History

Between Campesino and the State: The Mexican Avant-Garde and Images of the Nation, 1920-1952

Michael P. Lynch

Philosophy

Truth as Many and One Prometheus' Gift: Faith in Human Resource

Mark Overmyer-Velazquez

History

Bleeding Mexico White': Race, Nation, and the History of Mexico-U.S. Migration

Guanhua Wang

History

Serious Games: Sports in the People's Republic of China

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Jennie-Rebecca Falcetta

English

Poet descending a staircase: Literary modernism's engagement with avant-garde visual art

James Luberda

English

Social Statistics and Evolutionary Discourse, 1844-1859

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Keith Brown
“Manifest Loyalties: The Routes of Modern Nationalism”

Pratima Prasad
“The French Romantic Novel and the Poetics of Race”

UConn Faculty Fellows

Cornelia Dayton
History
“Self and Sanity in Pre-Asylum New England”

Robert Hasenfratz
English
“Walking as Social Practice in Late Medieval England”

Benjamin Liu
Modern and Classical Languages
“The Moor’s Treasure: Interfaith Economies in Early Spanish Literature”

Osvaldo Pardo
Modern and Classical Languages
“Between Law and Religion: Honor in Early Colonial Latin America”

Altina Waller
History
“Margaret Eaton, Sexuality and Empowerment in Jacksonian America”

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Aparna Gollapudi
Enlgish
“The Reform Plot in English Comedy, 1696–1747”

Carolyn Schwarz
Anthropolgy
“Why Does ‘Religion’ Matter?: Power, Identity, and Daily Life in a Yolgnu Community, Australia”

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Elisabeth Frost

In Another Tongue: Image, Text, and the Body in Contemporary Feminist Art and Poetry

Peg O’Connor

Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life: Feminist Metaethics

UConn Faculty Fellows

Fakhreddin Azimi

History

Reinventing Authoritarian Rule in post-1953 Iran

John Davis

History

The Jews of San Nicandro

Jean Marsden

English

Fatal Desire: Women Sexuality, and the Stage, 1660-1720

Sherri Olson

History

A Mute Gospel. People and Culture of the Medieval English Common Fields

V. Penelope Pelizzon

English

Faultline (short essay) and 40 new pages of poems

Janet Watson

History

Telling War Stories: National Identity, Conservatism, and the Memory of the Second World War in Britain 1979-1995

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Andreas Prieto

LCL

Jesuit naturalists: Nature, Evangelization, and Propaganda in South America, 1588--1676

Chandra Wells

English

Befriending the other(ed) woman: Fictions of interracial female friendship

UCHI Visiting Scholars

Cynthia Macdonald
Self-Knowledge: Entitlement, Privelege, and Authority

Sonya Stephens
The Art of the Unfinished: Forms of the Non Finito in Ninteenth-Century France

UConn Faculty Fellows

Peter Baldwin
History
American Night: A History of Urban Public Space, 1800-1930

Rae Beth Gordon
Modern and Classical Languages/French
Primitivism, Pathology, and the Idea of Modernity in Popular Culture

Kenneth Gouwens
History
Clement VIII and the Crisis of the Renaissance Papacy

Joel Kupperman
Philosophy
Values in Ethics

Michael Orwicz
Art and Art History
Gaugin's Brittany: Regionalism, Nationalism, and Modernism

Sylvia Schafer
History
Liberty, Equality, Alternity: Law and the Government of Difference in Modern France

UConn Dissertation Research Scholars

Charles McGraw
History
"Every nurse is not a sister": Sex, work, and the invention of the Spanish-American War nurse

Timothy Nulty
Philosophy
Davidson and Heidegger on the nature of truth