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American Council of Learned Societies Announces Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship Program

New Program Will Support Early Career Scholars Pursuing Innovative Approaches to Dissertation Research in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the launch of the  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships , a new program designed to support emerging scholars as they advance bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. The Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program will make awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before writing is advanced, and provide time and support for emerging scholars’ innovative approaches to dissertation research – practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

“The energy, curiosity, and creativity of emerging scholars can make a dissertation project into scholarship that refreshes and helps transform our fields and disciplines,” said Joy Connolly, president of ACLS. “ACLS has long supported innovation in the scholarly humanities, including work that crosses traditional boundaries and opens new directions of inquiry. We are thrilled to partner with the Mellon Foundation to support graduate students and their advisors with this new initiative.” The program will seek projects that push the traditional approaches to dissertation research in new directions. The strongest applications will show evidence of thoughtful plans for engaging the sources, resources, scholars, and communities necessary to advance their projects. Fellows might design a year that incorporates intensive digital methods training, a short-term practicum with a think-tank or social justice organization to develop experience with applied methods, and/or site-based research involving community-engaged or collaborative approaches. Each awardee will receive a $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year, as well as access to funding for research, travel, training, and other professional development activities. The award also supports additional mentorship for fellows, offering a stipend for external mentors who can bring critical perspectives to fellows’ projects. ACLS will also facilitate cross-cohort networking among fellows and advisors. ACLS is launching the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship as it winds down its long-running  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) program , which supported doctoral students in the final year of dissertation research and writing. Over the course of 16 competitions, the program provided funding to more than 1,000 promising scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and interpretive social sciences and drew on the expertise of over 1,500 doctoral faculty as peer reviewers. ACLS looks forward to announcing a final cohort of 50 Dissertation Completion Fellows in the coming days. ACLS will build on the relationships established through the DCF program, as well as work on the future of doctoral education among our member societies, to support our ongoing advocacy for salutary systems change in higher education. ACLS will begin accepting applications for the new Dissertation Innovation Fellowship in July 2022, with an application deadline in late October 2022. ACLS will host a series of webinars over the coming months and through September of this year.

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Formed a century ago, the  American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)  is a nonprofit federation of 78 scholarly organizations. As the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS upholds the core principle that knowledge is a public good. In supporting its member organizations, ACLS utilizes its $179 million endowment and $34 million annual operating budget to expand the forms, content, and flow of scholarly knowledge, reflecting our commitment to diversity of identity and experience. ACLS collaborates with institutions, associations, and individuals to strengthen the evolving infrastructure for scholarship. In all aspects of our work, ACLS is committed to principles and practices in support of racial and social justice. The  Mellon Foundation  is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Mellon believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through its grants, Mellon seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. The Foundation makes grants in four core program areas: Arts and Culture; Higher Learning; Humanities in Place; and Public Knowledge.

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The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program is designed to support emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

The program will make awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before writing is advanced, and provide time and support for emerging scholars’ innovative approaches to dissertation research – practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

Award Details

• $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year, plus up to $8,000 for project-related research, training, development, and travel costs.
• The award also includes a $2,000 stipend for external mentorship.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

• Be a PhD student in a humanities or social science department in the United States. 1
• Be able to take up a full year (9-12 months) of sustained specialized research and training, released from normal coursework, assistantships, and teaching responsibilities.
• Have completed at least two years and all required coursework in the PhD programs in which they are currently enrolled by the start of the fellowship term.
• As of September 2023 require at least two years remaining with their programs to complete the PhD degree.
• have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.

(1) The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program does not accept applications from students receiving professional or applied PhDs, terminal degrees that are not a PhD (such as an EdD or MFA), or PhDs outside of humanities and social science departments, including the following disciplines: business, clinical or counseling psychology, creative or performing arts, education, engineering, filmmaking, law, library and information sciences, life/physical sciences, public administration, public health or medicine, public policy, social work, or social welfare. If you are unsure whether your department or interdisciplinary program qualifies you for this fellowship program, please email  [email protected]  with a brief summary of your affiliation.

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Ph.D. Candidates Cho, Espinosa Receive 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Duke Ph.D. candidates Jieun Cho (Cultural Anthropology) and Martha L. Espinosa (History) have received the Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year.

The ACLS awarded 50 fellowships from a pool of more than 800 applicants. The prestigious award, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides a $35,000 stipend and up to $8,000 in research funds and university fees to exceptional graduate students in their final year of dissertation writing. Fellows will also participate in a professional development workshop to help prepare them for postdoctoral career opportunities within and beyond the academy.

Here’s a look at this year’s Duke recipients:

Cultural Anthropology

Dissertation: “Anxious Care: Radioactive Uncertainty and the Politics of Life in Post-Nuclear Japan”

This project investigates what conceptions of “life” are re/produced in a risky environment after the 2011 Fukushima meltdown in Japan. Despite the striking visibility of “Fukushima children” as the signature victims of the disaster in risk politics, there is little research on actual families who are raising children amidst post-Fukushima radiation. By studying the strivings of families who seek to raise healthy children in differentially exposed towns of Fukushima, this project examines how livability is created despite and through radioactive uncertainty. What constitutes “life” when it continues amidst chronic exposure to radiation? How can such life be made livable and in what sense? What are the implications of new forms of care and relations around a child imperiled by radiation? Exploring these questions ethnographically, this project argues that notions of life are undergoing a moment of reconfiguration in post-nuclear Japan both by real-life families and the family form.

Martha L. Espinosa

Dissertation: “The Science of Family Planning. Mexico’s ‘Demographic Explosion,’ Contraceptive Technologies, and the Power of Expert Knowledge”

This project studies the joint efforts of Mexican doctors, chemists, and demographers who tried to curb Mexico’s “demographic explosion” in the mid-20th century. These experts formed alliances with international foundations and pharmaceutical companies to produce knowledge about the consequences of population growth and develop contraceptives in Mexico between 1950-1970, a period in which the government maintained a pronatalist and antiimperialist stance. This research demonstrates that such Mexican experts dodged the opposition of the government and the Catholic Church to family planning, and they became key actors in testing the birth control pill with local women, a forgotten episode in the history of contraceptive technologies.

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• Award: $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year, plus up to $8,000 for project-related research, training, development, and travel costs. The award also includes a $2,000 stipend for external mentorship.
• Tenure: one year beginning summer 2023.
• Completed applications must be submitted through the ACLS online fellowship administration system (ofa.acls.org) no later than 9 pm EDT, November 2, 2022.
• Notifications will be sent via email in late March 2023.

Eligibility

• Be a PhD student in a humanities or social science department in the United States.
• Be able to take up a full year (9-12 months) of sustained specialized research and training, released from normal coursework, assistantships, and teaching responsibilities.
• Have completed at least two years and all required coursework in the PhD programs in which they are currently enrolled by the start of the fellowship term.
• As of September 2023 require at least two years remaining with their programs to complete the PhD degree. have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.

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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program is designed to support emerging scholars as they advance bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

The program will make awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before writing is advanced, and provide time and support for emerging scholars’ innovative approaches to dissertation research – practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

ACLS will issue a call for applications in June 2022 and the program will begin accepting applications in early July. The deadline for applications will fall in early November.

Register for an online information session about the new Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. We welcome participation from potential applicants (graduate students in US universities in the humanities and interpretive social sciences), faculty who advise and mentor doctoral students, learned society representatives, deans, grant officers, and anyone else interested in the program.

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Title: Interview with Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow Eriko Okamoto

PhD student Eriko Okamoto (Arabic and Islamic Studies) was recently awarded a 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her project, The Unity of Knowledge in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy: Abu Nasr al-Farabi’s Classification of the Sciences. 

What is the focus of your dissertation?

My dissertation deals with the 10th-century Islamic philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi’s classification of various academic disciplines, or the “sciences,” by focusing on the philosophical basis of his classification. It examines how al-Farabi organized the corpus of knowledge, and it adopts a multidisciplinary approach that investigates where religious concepts intersect with philosophical discourse on human knowledge. In doing so, my project illuminates how al-Farabi adapted features of earlier Greek classification systems in a way that spoke to the concerns of 10th-century Islamic society, an endeavor which resulted in the formulation of an innovative classificatory system that had a lasting impact in the Islamic world and beyond.

How did you first learn about the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship?

I first heard about the fellowship from the colleagues in my department while I was still doing my coursework. I was fortunate to have colleagues who were ahead of me and explained why external fellowships were crucial to building a competitive record. They also encouraged me to apply for them from early on even when I was still fully funded by my program.

At the same time, because I went directly from my BA to a PhD program and spent the first three years of my program completing coursework, I also knew that I would need to seek financial support from external sources in the course of my PhD career. For that reason, I attended various fellowship workshops offered by the Office of Graduate Fellowships & Awards and elsewhere, and there, too, I heard about the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships.

What made you decide to apply?

Frankly, I decided to apply for the fellowship in order to focus on writing and finishing my dissertation. Among the various kinds of fellowships that PhD students can apply for, dissertation completion fellowships are intended, as the name suggests, to help PhD candidates in their final stage of completing their projects by providing them with financial support. Since I am now in that phase, I decided to apply for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, along with other fellowships of a similar nature.

How will this fellowship impact your research and writing?

It will impact my research and writing immensely as it provides me the time to focus on writing. Getting support and recognition from a major fellowship also gives me a bit more confidence in my project (which is not to say that I did not think my project was important or worthy of study). Writing a dissertation can be a somewhat isolating process, but the fellowship will also provide me a network of scholars who are in the same boat and encourage each other to finish their dissertations.

What advice would you give to students who are thinking about applying for this fellowship?

ACLS recently announced that there will be no more Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships. There will, however, be a new program named Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships , which are designed to support PhD students in the formative stage of their dissertation development. For those who are planning to apply for this new fellowship and other ACLS fellowships, I would recommend checking the website on the particular fellowship they plan to apply for and reading very carefully the FAQ sections because that is where they find clues as to what kind of projects ACLS are looking for. When I applied, there was a document called “Writing Proposals for ACLS Fellowship Competitions” on the website, and I found it helpful in composing a competitive proposal. I would also recommend starting work on the application early and getting feedback from friends, colleagues, and advisors who are willing to read your proposal.

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• PhD student Taylor Coleman wins Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

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Coleman wins mellon/acls dissertation completion fellowship, by grace osaba, undergraduate english and political science major.

Published July 7, 2022

Blood is thicker than water, especially when it comes to UB graduate student Taylor Coleman’s research.

Coleman’s father was born and raised in Jamaica, but his background can be traced to other Caribbean islands. Coleman seeks a connection to her rich family history by researching concepts related to her family’s trajectory. She explores how Caribbean people — like her family — were shifting and sharing ideas, including what it means to be Black, which influenced her upbringing as a Black woman with Caribbean descendancy.

“Black liberation is central to many freedom movements,” Coleman explains. “New analysis on the subject is a starting point to observe the power of Black social movements and how they have defined freedom for different communities.”

Coleman is the second person from UB to win the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Awarded by the American Council of Learned Studies, the fellowship supports graduate students in their last year of writing their PhD dissertation in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. It aims to advance the voices, narratives and subjects that have historically been underrepresented or under-studied in academe. Recipients of the fellowship receive a total award of $43,000 and may apply to take part in a seminar on preparing for the academic job market.

“ACLS is excited to support this diverse cohort of promising emerging scholars as they pursue research that will help us gain a more complete understanding of our world,” says ACLS President Joy Connolly. “We are proud to partner with the Mellon Foundation to help build a more just and inclusive future for the humanities and social sciences.”

Coleman’s dissertation concentrates on the movement of populations across territories and the ideologies around race and Black liberation in the Caribbean. She focuses on how Latinx folks contextualize Black social movements by giving a more localized meaning. Culture and history are intertwined because of the movement of ethnic groups in the Caribbean, so she explores the dynamics between Latinx and Black communities as they exchange cultural and political ideas.

Originally from Cleveland, Coleman moved to Buffalo seven years ago. She finished her master’s in humanities at UB in 2017, and expects to receive her PhD in Africana and American studies next spring.

“Ultimately, I’d like to pursue a career as a tenured professor at a liberal arts college,” Coleman says. “I’ve enjoyed teaching classes like Intro to African-American Studies at UB.”

Coleman has an extensive support network that has been by her side throughout the process of writing her dissertation and pursuing a career in academia. Her husband, Anthony, and 4-year-old son, Kasen, have motivated her to continue her research ever since she arrived in Buffalo.

When asked who her role models are, Coleman smiles bashfully.

“Wow, there’s so many people,” she says. “I would say my dissertation adviser, Dr. Dalia Muller, and my master’s thesis adviser, Dr. Cecil Foster. They are my inspiration and have helped me theorize Black people and Black thought.”

Theorizing Black people and their ways of being is about considering the ways in which their shared lived experiences throughout the diaspora not only shape who they are, but are also vital in how they are connected, she says.

Coleman attributes her success to the supportive people in her life. With the help from her mentors, Coleman confronts adversity in her field head on.

“I’m lucky enough to be mentored by Black women and women of color in academia,” Coleman says. “I’ve been learning what it’s going to look like once I’m in academia, through the experiences of my mentors.”

Being a Black woman is one of the biggest obstacles to overcome, especially when writing about your own history, she says, noting that it’s difficult to be taken seriously as a scholar — as a woman of color. She must create a space for herself to speak freely, she says.

“Regardless of the challenges, I will continue to encourage academics to think about the intricacies of Black liberation and the connection between Black and brown communities,” Coleman says.

While her dream job is a tenure-track faculty position, she is also interested in working with and developing study abroad programs to Latin America and the Caribbean across higher education institutions.

“As a former Fulbright grantee (Costa Rica, 2012) and study abroad student, these experiences really helped to shape my unique approach to this kind of research,” Coleman says.

She says she’s particularly interested in creating programs that are geared toward financially disadvantaged students of color who wouldn't normally consider these opportunities because of the hefty price tag.

Four UW–Madison students receive Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

Four UW–Madison students have been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Mellon Foundation to support their innovative and creative dissertation research.

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences with up to $50,000 including funds for research, training, professional development, and mentorship. The four fellows at UW–Madison are among 45 overall, selected from a pool of more than 700 applicants. They are:

• Kuhelika Ghosh , doctoral candidate in English with a minor in Culture, History, and Environment
• Fauzi Moro , doctoral student in History with a minor in African Cultural Studies
• Anika M. Rice , doctoral student in Geography with a minor in Community-Engaged Scholarship
• Vignesh Ramachandran , doctoral student in Geography

Read more about each Mellon/ACLS Fellow below.

Kuhelika Ghosh

Ghosh’s dissertation explores multispecies gardens in Anglophone Caribbean literature and culture from the 1960s to the present, bringing together postcolonial studies and ecocritical approaches.

“I am interested in the ways that Afro-diasporic women’s gardening practices in the Caribbean region often engage with nonhuman rhythms relating to seasonal time, harvest and fallow, and the lives of insects, birds, and other species,” she said.

Through this work, Ghosh demonstrates how human gardening practices and the rhythms of many different species found in gardens of various types relate to postcolonial food politics and responses to empire. Ghosh explained that the original kitchen and market gardens began during plantation slavery as provisions grounds, which were plots of land set apart from plantations for enslaved people to grow their own food.

The project uses literary texts, visual culture, little-studied archival materials, and physical gardens to create new theories about key problems in cultural study, including voice, rhythm, and spatiality. Ghosh takes an interdisciplinary approach that crosses through literary studies, environmental studies, history, and visual cultures, which gives her dissertation the boundary-pushing trait the Mellon/ACLS fellowship seeks to encourage.

“By focusing on small-scale cultivation, women’s care work, and ‘inconsequential’ multispecies creatures, my project sheds light on the many minor figures in the postcolonial Caribbean that have the power to create change in food justice movements,” Ghosh said.

She also said agricultural scholarship tends to be biased toward men’s labor, while women make up a significant portion of the agricultural labor force in the Caribbean – especially through domestic spaces like backyard gardens. She seeks to highlight Caribbean women’s perspectives and voices around the topics of food justice and postcolonial politics.

“I hope my research brings to light the importance of gardens as a feminist practice, postcolonial agricultural strategy, as well as a form of art in itself,” Ghosh said. “Gardens are often seen as ‘minor’ in the field of the environmental humanities, but my dissertation attempts to demonstrate that although a garden may be minor in terms of area, it has political, ecological, and social significances for marginalized populations in the Caribbean as well as in other postcolonial spaces around the globe.”

Fauziyatu Moro (Fauzi)

Three miles north of Accra’s central business district, the city’s largest migrant enclave, Nima, houses migrants from various African countries. Moro explained that in the nine decades of Nima’s existence, its residents have embodied a distinct Afro-cosmopolitan identity that has thus far gone unnoticed by scholars of African urban history, migration, and the African diaspora.

Moro’s dissertation and an open-access digital archive emerging from her work theorizes Nima as an internal African diaspora and an unprecedented site of pan-African consciousness. This is facilitated by migrants’ urban leisure which speaks to an ethos of global Black solidarity, Moro said.

“By centering intra-Africa migrants’ social imaginations and amusements in the making of Accra’s pan-African and transnational history, my dissertation offers a glimpse into the possibilities of researching migration and urbanization in Africa through the category of leisure as opposed to migrant labor,” Moro said. This challenges scholars to reassess assumptions about working-class intra-Africa migrants, while introducing ideas about migrants’ roles as key historical actors in creating and socially transforming African urban spaces, she added.

Moro’s project centers on migrants’ narratives, social imaginations, and visual and material culture, creating a retelling of the history of Accra. This is underscored by multi-disciplinary methods including oral sources, state and migrants’ personal archives, print media, and literary and visual analysis.

“Migrants’ oral histories and personal archives are particularly crucial to my methodology because they anchor the counter-narrative I seek to provide about Accra’s intra-Africa migrants whose lives and experiences often come to us through the skewed lens of crime, poverty and/or chaos. My research is, thus, undergirded by a quest to make visible the histories of Africa’s urban migrants as told in their own voices,” Moro said.

Anika M. Rice

“In this context, how families leverage landholdings for migration is central to livelihoods, agrarian change, debt, and situated meanings of land,” Rice said.

Land access is often left out of discussions about the root causes of migration in Central America, Rice explained. Her research provides a grounding point that takes seriously the role of land access and how land is used in the decisions that families make about migration.

Rice will collaborate with groups of predominantly Maya K’iche’ women with migrant family members who seek to understand possibilities for collective resistance against the structural and institutional impacts of migration. These groups are part of the Jesuit Migration Network‘s programming in Guatemala.

“I intend for my research to center the agency of K’iche’ women and other marginalized folks in communities of origin, and affirm the right to migrate with dignity,” she said.

Rice said that while there has been important work on transnational migration in host and transit countries, as well as on the intersections of migration and agrarian change, there is limited attention to the gendered impacts of migration in communities of origin and how migration is tied to land access. Her dissertation will use community-based research approaches to engage with the experiences of women with migrant family members, showing their strategies for survival and persistence.

Previous scholarship has often focused on the head of household and on remittances sent home from migrants. Rice’s methods will integrate household surveys with ethnographic work that engages with how multiple family members in different social positions relate to and may leverage specific parcels of land for migration.

“Elevating voices from communities of origin, with a focus on how women are organizing, is central to the co-production of knowledge on social relations, mobility and the environment,” Rice said.

Vignesh Ramachandran

Scientific management, also known as Taylorism, focuses on economic efficiency and labor productivity. Ramachandran’s research focuses on how digital Taylorism – such as automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithm-based management practices – affects delivery workers. Ramachandran uses a worker’s inquiry methodology that emphasizes collaborative, action-oriented research conducted alongside workers to document the effects of digital Taylorism.

“Through this methodology, this project outlines the racializing and disciplining effects of algorithms in shaping the lives of immigrant delivery workers,” Ramachandran said. “In doing so, it also hopes to discover how digital Taylorism produces residual after-effects, like solidarity and care, that propose other modes of social life under the managerial control of algorithms and digital technology.”

Innovations in automation and AI are constantly changing the terrain of labor and work, Ramachandran said. Many of those innovations are implemented in the gig economy and push workers to work harder and faster, while corporations increase their profits, he said. His dissertation challenges “disembodied” descriptions of technological innovation by centering perspectives of immigrant delivery workers.

“Many working class immigrants in New York City have been doubly subjected to the effects of imperialism—faced with austerity, militarism, and climate crisis in their home countries, and border violence, policing, and structural poverty in the U.S.,” Ramachandran said. “In this context, my research challenges race-neutral accounts of the gig economy by situating exploitation in the gig economy within the long [duration] of racial capitalism and imperialism, and by documenting stories of immigrant worker resistance amidst this violence.”

Ramachandran said his approach to dissertation research “re-introduces the workers’ inquiry as an innovative form of collaborative research that academics can undertake with workers.”

“Whereas companies like Uber, Grubhub, and Doordash spend millions on research and development to maximize profit in the gig economy, the workers’ inquiry turns to the experiences and situated knowledge of workers to document and contest exploitation in their workplace,” he explained. “In this case, this project builds on over two years of community-engaged research with undocumented South Asian delivery workers and community organizations to understand how resistance to exploitation in the gig economy takes place at the intersection of digital technology, labor, and everyday immigrant life. Moreover, the project develops the importance of collaborative, community engaged methodologies in the broader humanities and social sciences.”

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Education University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate in Finance, 2019-Present University of Pennsylvania, Master of Arts in Finance, 2021 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bachelor of Arts in Economics, 2019

Research Working paper Instant Payment Systems and Competition for Deposits Working paper Local Power, Global Reach: The Influence of Deposit Market Power on International Banking

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Anna-Theresa Helmke

Education University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate in Finance, 2018-Present University of Oxford, Master of Science in Financial Economics, 2017 Maastricht University, Bachelor of Science in Economics, 2015

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James Paron

Education University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate in Finance, 2019–Present University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Science in Economics, summa cum laude, with minors in Mathematics and History, 2019

Research Working paper Heterogeneous-Agent Asset Pricing: Timing and Pricing Idiosyncratic Risks Working paper Sovereign Default and the Decline in Interest Rates with Max Miller and Jessica Wachter Working paper Who Hedges Interest-rate Risk? Implications for Wealth Inequality  with Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, and Natasha Sarin Work in progress “Firm dynamics and asset prices: Trends in valuation, concentration, and innovation” Work in progress “Asset pricing with and without growth” with Jules van Binsbergen Work in progress, “A context-based model of recall and decisions,” with Madison Paron and Michael Kahana

Awards 2022 Irwin Friend Prize for Best Paper

2021-2022 Fellows

Education University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate in Finance, 2017-Present Emory University, Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, 2013

Research Relaxing household liquidity constraints through social security with Sylvain Catherine and Natasha Sarin ( Journal of Public Economics , 2020) Mutual Funds: Skill and Performance with Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen ( Journal of Portfolio Management , 2020) Working paper Democratization, Inequality, and Risk Premia Working paper Foreign Influence in US Politics with Marco Grotteria and S.Lakshmi Naaraayanan (supported by Jacobs Levy Center research grant for project “The Insider Value of Political Connections”) Working paper Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality with Sylvain Catherine and Natasha Sarin Working paper Sovereign default and the decline in interest rates with James Paron and Jessica Wachter Working paper Who Hedges Interest-rate Risk? Implications for Wealth Inequality with Sylvain Catherine, James Paron, and Natasha Sarin

Awards 2021 Western Finance Association PhD Candidate Award For Outstanding Research 2021 Society for Financial Studies Cavalcade Best Paper in Asset Pricing

Felix Nockher

Education University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate in Finance, 2018-Present University of Lausanne, Master of Science in Finance, 2016 University of Mannheim, Bachelor of Science Business Administration, 2014

Research Working paper “Dynamic Strategic Corporate Finance” with Joao Gomes and Ulrich Doraszelski Working paper Pricing public information: The role of trade with Bradford (Lynch) Levy (supported by Jacobs Levy Center research grant for project “Market Efficiency in the 21st Century: Pricing Assets, Fast and Slow”)

Experience Rothschild & Co, Investment Banking Analyst, 2017-2018; Summer Investment Banking Analyst, 2016 Macquarie Capital, Off-Cycle Investment Banking Analyst, 2016 KPMG Corporate Finance, Summer Investment Banking Analyst, 2015 Ebner Stolz, Intern, 2013

Awards 2016 Prix de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la Formation Bancaire (Best Master’s Thesis Award) 2015 KPMG HighQ Scholarship

2020-2021 Fellows

Maria gelrud.

Education University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate in Finance, 2017-Present New Economic School and Higher School of Economics, Bachelor of Arts in Economics, 2017 Harvard College, Visiting Student, 2016

Research Interested in climate finance and asset pricing Working paper Discounting Climate Change Mitigating Projects: A Production-Based Model with Disasters

Experience Moscow Exchange, Intern, 2016 McKinsey & Company, Research Assistant, 2015

Awards The George James Doctoral Fellowship, 2017

Education University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate in Finance, 2017-present University of Toronto, Bachelor of Science, Economics and Statistics, 2017

Research Interested in asset pricing and financial econometrics Working paper Is The United States A Lucky Survivor: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach with Jules van Binsbergen and Jessica Wachter

Awards University of Toronto Excellence Award, 2017 First Place in Waterfront Quantathon, 2016

Education University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate in Finance, 2017-Present Amherst College, Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics, 2015

Research Interested in empirical asset pricing Working paper  ‘Superstitious’ Investors  with Jessica Wachter Working paper  Underreaction, Overreaction, and Dynamic Autocorrelation of Stock Returns

Experience Research Associate, Arrowstreet Capital, 2015-2017

Awards Miller, Anderson & Sherrerd Fellowship, 2018

ALEJANDRO LOPEZ-LIRA

Education University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate in Finance, 2015-present Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), Master of Arts in Economic Theory, 2015 ITAM, Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Financial Management, 2014

Research Interested in asset pricing, machine learning, banking, macro finance, and financial frictions Working paper  Risk Factors That Matter: Textual Analysis of Risk Disclosures for the Cross-Section of Returns Working paper  Demand-Driven Risk and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns Knowledge@Wharton  interview

Alexander Belyakov

Education University of Pennsylvania, 2015-present PhD candidate in Finance

New Economic School and Higher School of Economics, 2011-2015 Bachelor of Arts in Economics

Research Paper “Leverage and Financing in Distress” received Best Corporate Finance Paper award at 2017 Australasian Finance and Banking Conference

Experience Intern, Runa Capital, 2015 Intern, S&P Dow Jones Indices, 2013-2014

Education University of Pennsylvania, 2014-present Ph.D. candidate in Finance

The Ohio State University, 2012-2014 M.S. in Statistics

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 2008-2012 B.S. in Statistics

Research Interests Investments, Institutional Investors, Asset Pricing

Publications “Absolving Beta of Volatility’s Effects,” Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming), with Robert Stambaugh and Yu Yuan

Ram Yamarthy

Education New York University, Stern School of Business B.S. in Economics, B.A. in Mathematics, 2011 (magna cum laude)

Research Interests Macro-Finance (Asset Pricing, Dynamic Corporate Finance), Policy-Related Questions, Applied Time Series Econometrics

Experience Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Summer 2014

Honors and Awards American Finance Association Doctoral Travel Grant, 2015 University of Pennsylvania Dean’s Fellowship for Distinguished Merit, 2011-2015 Best Paper, Journal of Undergraduate Research in Finance 2011

Education Open University of Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel, M.B.A., 2007; B.A. Computer Science, 2004

Experience Research Assistant, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2008-2010 Instructor, Open University of Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2008-2010 Software Developer, Israel Defense Forces, 2004-2008

Awards Miller, Anderson & Sherrerd Graduate Fellowship in Finance, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, 2011-2012 University of Pennsylvania Dean’s Fellowship for Distinguished Merit, 2010-2014 Presidential Scholarship for Excellent Annual Achievements in M.B.A studies, Open University of Israel, 2007-2008 Certificate of Appreciation for Personal Contribution to the Winning Project of Israel’s Security Award, IDF Intelligence Corps, 2006

Yasser Boualam

Education Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, M.S., Computational Finance, 2009 Grenoble Institute of Technology, ENSIMAG, France, Diplome d’lingenieur (B.S., M.S.), Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 2008

Research Interests Macro-finance, financial fragility, financial institutions and sovereign debt

Teaching Fellowships FNCE 962 – Macroeconomics and the Global Economic Environment (MBA), Professor Ravi Bansal, (Spring 2012) FNCE 924 – Intertemporal Macro Finance (PhD), Professor Pricila Maziero (Spring 2011), Professor Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel (Spring 2012) FNCE 393/893 – Global Monetary and Financial Institutions: Theory and Practice (UGD/MBA), Professor Zvi Eckstein, Fall 2011

Experience AXA Investment Managers, Financial Engineering, Paris Deutsche Bank, Derivative Strategy and Index Trading, London Society General, CIB, Equity Derivatives Structuring, New York

Awards Irwin Friend Doctoral Fellowship in Finance, 2012 American Finance Association Doctoral Student Travel Grant, 2011 University of Pennsylvania Dean’s Fellowship for Distinguished Merit, 2009-2013 The Spirit of MSCF Award, Tepper School of Business, 2008 MSCF Merit Scholarship, Tepper School of Business, 2007-2008

College of Arts & Sciences

Doctoral Student Awards and Fellowships

2010 to present,     2017-2018.

Information forthcoming.

    2016-2017

History Department Awards

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Christopher DeLorenzo, Oliver Horn, Michael Polczynski, Patrick Scallen, Jordan Smith, Katrina Yeaw

University Awards

• 2017 Harold N. Glassman Award in the Humanities – Larisa Veloz, Ph.D. ’15

External Awards

• Mellon/CLIR Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2016-2017 – Chelsea Berry
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental History/Geography, College of William and Mary, 2016-2018 – Alan Roe, Ph.D. 2016
• The Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation, Edwin J. Beinecke, Jr. Scholarship in International Affairs, 2016 – Gregory Brew
• Bosphorus University, Istanbul,  Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2016-2017 – Selim Güngörürler
• Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, 2017 – Douglas McRae
• Harvard University, Academy for International and Area Studies at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Academy Scholar, 2016-2017 – Chris Gratien, Ph.D. 2015
• Higher School of Economics (Moscow), International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, Postdoctoral Fellowship – Jonathan Sicotte
• Loyola Marymount University, Asian & Asian American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018 – Fr. Lan Ngo, S.J., Ph.D. 2016
• ​Jing Brand Fellowship, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University, Oct. 2016-March 2017 – Yubin Shen

    2015-2016

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Elena Abbott, Eric Gettig, Isabelle Kaplan, Graham Pitts, Yelizaveta Raykhlina, Alan Roe
• ​Dorothy Brown Teaching Award (teaching assistant) – Soha El Achi
• Tom Helde Teaching Award (teaching an undergraduate seminar or colloquium) – Co-winners: Eric Gettig and Graham Pitts
• 2016 Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Erin Steward Mauldin, Ph.D. ’14
• GSAS Doctoral Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Fall 2015 – Laura Goffman, Faisal Husain 
• GSAS Doctoral Dissertation Research Travel Award, Spring 2016 – Graham Hough-Cornwell, Jeffrey Reger, and Volodymyr Ryzhkovski
• Academy of American Franciscan History, 2015-16 Dissertation Fellowship – Daniel Cano
• ​American Society for Environmental History, Leopold-Hidy Prize for Best Article in Environmental History – Faisal Husain
• Austro-Hungarian Fulbright Research Grant – Robert Mevissen
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Awards, 2016 – Chelsea Berry, Gregory Brew, Kate Dannies, Andrey Gornostaev (Joan Challinor Award for Overall Excellence), John Maurer (Joan Challinor Award for Overall Excellence), Jackson Perry
• Ernst Mach Worldwide Grant, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research, and Economics
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Robert Mevissen
• Fulbright Foreign Student Doctoral Fellowship (2015-2019) – James Torres Moreno
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, FY15 – Graham Cornwell
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dissertation Research Grant – Selim Gungorurler & Alex Macartney
• German Historical Institute, Research Grant – Volodymyr Ryzhkovsky
• Ibero-Amerikanische Institut Research Fellowship (Ibero-American Institute, Berlin, Germany) – Daniel Cano
• History of Economics Society, The Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholars Program Award – Christopher England
• Hoover Archives Summer Workshop on Political Economy (2016) – Ben Feldman
• Hoover Institute, Silas Palmer Research Fellowship – Jonathan Sicotte
• D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia, Dissertation Fellowship – Yubin Shen
• Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund, Dissertation Fellowship (2015-2017) – Alissa Walter
• National University of Singapore, Middle East Institute, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015-2017 – Shuang Wen
• Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), Dissertation Research Fellowship – Jeff Reger
• Rockefeller Archive Center, Travel Grant – Greg Brew
• Roosevelt Institute, Research Support Grant-in-Aid – Chad Frazier
• Roosevelt Library, Travel Grant – Greg Brew
• Social Sciences Research Council, Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Clark Alejandrino
• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant – Chad Frazier
• Society of Military History, Russel F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant – Greg Brew
• Watson Institute, Brown University, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015-2017 – Elizabeth Williams, Ph.D. 2015

    2014-2015

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – James Benton, Nick Danforth, Geraldine Davies-Lenoble, Yubin Shen, Larisa Veloz, Elizabeth Williams
• ​John Ruedy General Education Award (teaching a lecture class) – Zackary Gardner, US to 1865
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award (teaching assistant) – Daniel Cano
• ​Tom Helde Teaching Award (teaching an undergraduate seminar or colloquium) – Larisa Veloz, Women, Gender & Mexican Migration
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Joseph Hower, Ph.D. ’13
• GSAS Doctoral Dissertation Travel Award – Daniel Cano, Katy Hull, Adrienne Kates, Alissa Walter
• Georgetown Environment Initiative, Grant-in-Aid – Yubin Shen
• Georgetown-Japan 2020 Fellow – Alex Macartney
• The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), 2015 Research Grant – Alissa Walter
• Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, 2014 Graduate Paper Prize – Laura Goffman
• Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), 2015 Research Grant – Graham Cornwell
• Balassi Institute Hungarian Language and Culture, 2015 Scholarship – Robert Mevissen
• John Carter Brown Library, 2015-16 Short-Term Research Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library of Taiwan, Research Grant for Foreign Scholars – Clark Alejandrino
• Columbia University, Libraries Research Award, Global Studies Collection and Rare Books and Manuscripts Library – Chad D. Frazier
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Awards, 2015 – Kathy Hull, Yue Shi, Jordan Smith, Elizabeth Williams
• European Society of Environmental Historians, Travel Award – Graham Cornwell
• Fulbright Austro-Hungarian Joint Research Grant – Robert Mevissen
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, FY14 – Laura Goffman & Michael Polczynski
• Herbert H. Hoover Presidential Library, Travel Grant – Chad D. Frazier
• Hoover Institution Library & Archives Research Support Program Grant – Alissa Walter
• Lapidus-Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Graduate Research in Slavery and Print Culture Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Pre-doctoral Fellowships – Shuang Wen & Clark Alejandrino
• NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers – Barry McCarron
• Jacques Rossi Memorial Research Fellowship – Jonathan Sicotte
• Smith Richardson Foundation, Pre-doctoral Fellowship International Security Studies, Yale University- Julia Famularo
• Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Robynne Mellor
• Social Sciences Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship – Chelsea Berry
• Society for Military History, 2015 Edward M. Coffman First Manuscript Award (prize for best dissertation in military history) – Nathan Packard
• The Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation, Edwin J. Beinecke, Jr. Scholarship in International Affairs – Douglas McRae
• University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center & Archives, Grant-in-Aid Travel Award – Barry McCarron

    2013-2014

• Royden B. Davis Fellowships – Maria Amelicheva, Christopher England, Zackary Gardner, Kelly Hammond, Onur Isci, Anita Kondoyanidi
• ​John Ruedy General Education Award (teaching a lecture class) – Paul Adler, Introduction to US History, 1865 to present
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award (teaching assistant) – Brian Taylor
• Tom Helde Teaching Award (teaching an undergraduate seminar or colloquium) – Anita Kondoyanidi, History 372, Cultural Cold War
• American Historical Association, Bernadotte Schmitt Research Grant – Shuang Wen
• American Institute of Maghrib Studies, Jeanne Jeffers Mrad Graduate Student Travel Award – Graham Hough-Cornwell
• American Institute of Maghrib Studies, Long-Term Research Grant – Graham Hough-Cornwell & Katrina Yeaw (deferred)
• American Research in Turkey Fellowship – Michael Polczynski (declined)
• American Society for Environmental History, Hal Rothman Dissertation Fellowship – Robynne Mellor
• Association of American Colleges and Universities, K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award – Elena K. Abbott
• Association for Asian Studies, China Inner Asia Council Research Grant – Kelly Hammond
• Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Dissertation Fellowship – Shuang Wen
• Common Ground Publishing, Graduate Scholar Award – Bader Mousa Sulaiman Al-Saif
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2014 – Elena Abbott, Oliver Horn, Graham Hough-Cornwell, Adrienne Kates, and Barry McCarron
• Foreign Language & Area Studies Grant (FLAS) – Kate Dannies, Robert Mevissen, and Michael Polczynski
• Fulbright – Garcia-Robles Fellowship for Dissertation Research – Adrienne Kates
• Fulbright Polska Fellowship – Michael Polczynski
• Immigration and Ethnic History Society, George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award – Barry McCarron
• Institute of Historical Research, Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Huntington Library, Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellow, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship – Barry McCarron
• Huntington Library, William Keck Foundation Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Lehigh University, Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Latin American Studies Program – Javier Puente Valdivia
• The LBJ Foundation, Moody Research Grant – Oliver Horn
• Library Company of Philadelphia, Program in Early American Economy and Society – Jordan Smith
• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies, Pre-dissertation Summer Travel Grant – Clark L. Alejandrino
• Massachusetts Historical Society, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship – Christopher Gratien
• Mellon/CLIR Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources – Michael Polczynski
• Mellon Sawyer Seminar – Critical Silk Road Studies, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship – Yelizaveta Raykhlina
• Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Graduate Student Research Travel Award – Jordan Smith
• New England Regional Consortium Grant – Jordan Smith
• Organization of American Historians, Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grant – Zackary W. Gardner
• Peabody Essex Museum, Phillips Library Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Phi Alpha Theta Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Winning Paper 2014, Graduate Student Division – Ashleigh Corwin
• Jacques Rossi Memorial Research Fellowship – Carol Dockham & Jonathan Sicotte
• School of Foreign Service-Qatar Fellowship – Kelly  A. Hammond
• Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Doctoral Fellowship – Robynne Mellor
• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Diversity-International Outreach Fellowship – Barry McCarron
• Society One-Month Fellowship – Jordan Smith

    2012-2013

• Royden B. Davis Fellowships – Paul Adler, Michael Hill, Nathan Packard, Fernando Perez Montesinos, April Yoder
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Elena K. Abbott
• John Ruedy General Education Award
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Frederick W. Gooding Jr.
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Toshihiro Higuchi, Ph.D. ’12
• American Research Center in Turkey (ARIT), Dissertation Research Fellowship – Elizabeth Williams
• David L. Boren Dissertation Fellowship, National Security Education Program – Julia Famularo
• Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellowship – Shuang Wen
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholar Awards, 2013 – James C. Benton and Eric T. Gettig
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) – Jeffrey Reger
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY12 – John Gregory, Erina Megowan, & Alan Roe
• Institute for Turkish Studies, Dissertation Research and Writing Grant – Nick Danforth
• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Pre-dissertation Fellowship – Yubin Shen
• McNeill Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship – Jessica Simmon Hower
• Oxford University Press USA Dissertation Prize in International History – Toshihiro Higuchi
• Rockefeller Archives Center, Grant-in-Aid – Yubin Shen
• Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship – Julia Farmularo
• Social Sciences Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship – Jordan Smith & Jonathan Sicotte
• Social Sciences Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Eric Gettig
• Social Sciences Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Chris Gratien

    2011-2012

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Thomas Apel, Rodolpho Fernandez, Darcy Kerns, Jessica Simmon Hower, Joseph Hower
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – James Benton
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Darcy Kern
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Ben Francis-Fallon
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Andrew R. Robarts, Ph.D. ’11
• Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Research Fellowship, JFK School of Government, Harvard University – Evelyn Krache Morris
• Ernest May Fellowship, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, JFK School of Government, Harvard University – Anand Toprani
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Michael Polczynski
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Isabelle Kaplan
• George C. Marshall Foundation, Baruch Fellowship – Eric Gettig
• Mellon/ CLIR Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources – Sylvia Mullen
• Minerva Humanities Center of Tel Aviv University, Pre-doctoral Fellowship – Guy Lurie
• New Netherland Institute Hendricks Annual Award – Danny Noorlander
• Smith Richardson Foundation, Pre-doctoral Fellowship, International Security Studies, Yale University – Anand Tropani
• Southern Historical Association Summer Institute “Does Culture Matter? The Emotions, Senses, and Other New Approaches to the History of US Foreign Relations/International Relations” – Evelyn Krache Morris
• Innovative Scholar Award, HealthTank, LLC – James Benton

    2010-2011

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – John Corcoran, Frederick Gooding, Jr., Evelyn Krache Morris, Marc Landry, Danny Noorlander
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Anita Kondoyanidi, Kelly Hammond
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Darcy Kern
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Frederick Gooding Jr., Seth Rotramel
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Megan Brandow-Faller, Ph.D. ’10
• ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship – Toshihiro Higuchi
• Amherst College, Forris Jewett Moore Graduate Fellowship in History – Eric Gettig
• The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), Fellowship for Dissertation Research – John Bowlus
• CASA Fellowship – Graham Pitts
• Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Maryland – Matthew Bowman
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2011 – Paul Adler, Mariya Amelicheva, Nicholas Danforth, Onur Isci, Graham Pitts (Max and Vera Britton Environmental Science Award), Larisa Veloz
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Siobhan Doucette
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Larisa Veloz & Elizabeth Williams
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY10 – Siobhan Doucette
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Dissertation Writing Fellowship – Marc Landry
• Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, General Lemuel C. Shepard, Jr. Memorial Dissertation Fellowship – Nate Packard
• Mellon Foundation Fellowship, The Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies at the American Academy in Rome – Sylvia Mullins
• Miriam U. Chrisman Travel Fellowship for Dissertation Research – Amy Rogers Hays
• NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers – Jessica Simmon Hower
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship – Matthew Bowman
• Reed Fink Research & Travel Grant in Southern Labor History – James Benton
• Smith Richardson Foundation, World Politics and Statecraft Pre-doctoral Fellowship – Anand Toprani
• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant – Eric Gettig
• Southern Historical Association Parker Schmitt Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in European History – Megan Brandow-Faller
• Truman Good Neighbor Award – Soha El Achi

2000 to 2010

    2009-2010.

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Megan Brandow-Faller, Benjamin Francis-Fallon, Rita Guenther, Seth Rotramel, Tao Wang
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Jonathan Wyrtzen
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Paul Adler, Joshua Kueh
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Kevin Powers, Veronica Vallejo
• GSAS Doctoral Dissertation Research Travel Award – John Corcoran, Darcy Kern
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Luis Granados, Ph.D. ’08
• ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship – Shona Johnston
• ACLS Dissertation Writing Fellowship in Eastern European Studies – Andrew Robarts
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2010 – Emrah Safa Gurkan, Toshihiro Higuchi,  Joseph E. Hower, and Anand Tropani
• Fulbright Foreign Student Doctoral Fellowship (2009-2011) – Geraldine Davis
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2009-2012) – Erina Megowan
• George C. Marshall Foundation/ Baruch Fellowship – Anand Tropani
• Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Aurelia Perrier
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship (2009-2013) – Jenn DeVries
• Mormon History Association, Brooks Award for Best Graduate Student Paper – Matthew Bowman

    2008-2009

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Matthew Bowman, Corey Campion, Peter Engelke, Mikail Mamedov, Kevin Powers, Veronica Vallejo, Jonathan Wyrtzen
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Mariya Amelicheva, Mike Hill, Joe Hower
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Matthew Bowmann
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Ben Fulwider
• Doctoral Dissertation Research Travel Award – Tao Wang
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Meredith Oyen, Ph.D. ’07
• American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), Dissertation Research Grant – Andrew Robarts
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2009 – John V. Bowlus and Anita Kondoyanidi
• Peace History Society, Charles DeBeneditti Prize for best article – Toshihiro Higuchi
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Danny Noorlander
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY08 – Curtis Murphy
• Institute for Civic Space and Public Policy, Doctoral Research Fellowship, Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland – Felicia Rosu
• McNeill Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Fellowship – Shona Johnston
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship (2008-2012) – Kelly Hammond
• Morman History Association, J. Talmage Jones Award for best paper – Matthew Bowman
• International Seminar on the Historic Atlantic World Research Grant – Danny Noorlander

    2007-2008

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Ben Fulwider, Okezi Otovo
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Andy Wackerfuss
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Okezi Otovo
• Doctoral Dissertation Research Travel Award – Shona Johnston
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Sara Scalenghe, Ph.D. ’06
• ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship – Melissa K. Byrnes
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2008 – Megan Brandow-Faller
• Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship – Okezi T. Otovo
• Fulbright-Hays International Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, FY07 – John Corcoran, Rita Guenther, and Daniel Scarborough
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dissertation Research Grant – Marc Landry
• Institute for Civic Space and Public Policy, Doctoral Research Fellowship, Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland – Curtis Murphy
• Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Andrew Robarts
• Barra Dissertation Fellowship – Shona Johnston
• Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductee – Okezi T. Otovo
• John Carter Brown Library – Shona Johnston
• The Library Company of Philadelphia – Shona Johnston
• Massachusetts Historical Society – Shona Johnston
• Middle East Studies Association Graduate Student Paper Award – Hoda Yousef
• Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Doctoral Scholarship – Megan Brandow-Faller
• Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholarship Award – Megan Brandow-Faller
• Virginia Historical Society – Shona Johnston

    2006-2007

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Melissa Byrnes, Emilio Coral, Haiyun Ma, Felicia Rosu, Ryan Swanson, Xenia Wilkinson
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Ben Francis Fallon, Shona Johnston, Evelyn Krache Morris
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Stefan Zimmers
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Anton Fedyashin
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – George Vrtis, Ph.D. ’05
• Academia Sinica, Republic of China (Taiwan), Dissertation Fellowship – Catherine Kai-Ping Lin
• American Council of Learned Societies, Dissertation Writing Fellowship in East European Studies – Mirjana Morosini-Dominick
• ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship – Melissa K. Byrnes
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2007 – Bjorn Hofmeister
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Evelyn Krache Morris
• Fulbright-Austria, Austrian-American Educational Commission, Dissertation Fellowship – Megan Marie Brandow-Faller
• Fulbright Foreign Student Doctoral Fellowship (2006-2008) – Guy Lurie
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY06 –  Catherine McKenna, Elizabeth Shlala, & Jonathan Wyrtzen
• Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Language Fellowship – Evelyn Krache Morris
• Neal A. Maxwell Institute of Religious Studies, Brigham Young University, Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship – Matthew Bowman
• Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship – Nadya Sbaiti

    2005-2006

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Karen Carter, Anton Fedyashin, Luis Granados, Henri Lauziere, Meredith Oyen
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Tait Keller
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Ben Fulwider, Cathy McKenna, Veronica Vallejo
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Henri Lauziere
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Henriette de Bruyn Kops, Ph.D. ’05
• Association des Professeurs Francais et Francophones de l’Amerique, Bourse Jeanne Marandon Fellowship – Melissa Brynes
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2006 – Megan Faller and Andrew Robarts
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Dissertation Fellowship – Catherine Kai-ping Lin
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Curtis Murphy
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Jonathan Wyrtzen & Benjamin Fulwider
• Social Sciences Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Vanesa Casanova-Fernandez

    2004-2005

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Paul Du Quenoy, Sean Foley, Aron Palmer, Nadya Sbaiti, Sarah Snyder, Andrew Wackerfuss
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Karen Carter, Vanesa Casanova Fernandez, Kevin Powers
• John Ruedy General Education Award – George Vrtis, Stefan Zimmers
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Valerie Shearer, Tait Keller
• Association des Professeurs Francais et Francophones de l’Amerique, Bourse Jeanne Marandon Fellowship – Valerie Shearer
• David L. Boren Graduate (NSEP) Fellowship – Jonathan Wyrtzen
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship – Sara Scalenghe
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2005 – Nadya Sbaiti and Xenia Wilkinson
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Meredith Oyen
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program, FY04 – Felicia Rosu & Mirjana Morosini-Dominick
• Institute for Turkish Studies, Dissertation Research & Writing Grant – York A. Norman
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship – Paul du Quenoy
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Catherine McKenna, Christina Petrides, Veronica Vallejo
• Mellon / CLIR Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources – Vanesa Casanova-Fernandez, Diana Villiers Negroponte
• Mid-Atlantic Phi Alpha Theta conference “Best Graduate Paper” prize – Jonathan Wyrtzen

    2003-2004

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Isaiah Gruber, Tait Keller, Alexander Merrow, Sara Scalenghe, Valerie Shearer, Frederic Vallve
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Jeffrey T. Zalar, Ph.D. ’03
• Chateaubriand Fellowship, awarded by the Cultural Services Division of the French Embassy in Washington, DC – Karen Carter
• ​Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2004 – Felicia Rosu and Sara Scalanghe
• Fulbright – Haruka Matsumoto
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Andrew Wackerfuss
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY03 – Paul de Quenoy & Mikhail Mamedov
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Andrew Robarts
• Mid-Atlantic Phi Alpha Theta conference “Outstanding Graduate Paper” prize – Melissa Byrnes
• ​Social Sciences Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Mikhail Mamedov

    2002-2003

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Simone Ameskamp, Waskar Chachki Ari, Meriam Belli, Lisa Khachaturian, Michael Rouland
• American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), Dissertation Fellowship – Lisa Khachaturian
• David L. Boren Fellowship – Meredith Oyen
• Fulbright-Hays International Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, FY02 – Osama Abi-Mershed, York A. Norman, and Sean E. Foley

    2001-2002

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – James Class, Lisa E. Davenport, Gillian A. McGillivray, Barbara J. Skinner 
• American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), Dissertation Fellowship – Michael Rouland
• Association des Professeurs Francais et Francophones de l’Amerique, Bourse Jeanne Marandon Fellowship – Mitra Brewer
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Alexander Merrow & Sean E. Foley
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY01 – Isaiah J. Gruber & Kevin W. Martin
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dissertation Research Grant – Tait Keller
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), IREX Individual Advanced Research Fellow – Isaiah J. Gruber
• Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Sara Scalenghe
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship (2000-2004) – Henri Lauziere

    2000-2001

• Association des Professeurs Francais et Francophones de l’Amerique, Bourse Jeanne Marandon Fellowship – Joanna Hamilton
• David L. Boren Fellowship – Bart Goldyn
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Kevin W. Martin
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY00 – Sabrina E. Joseph & Meriam Belli
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) – Michael Rouland

Full List of Incoming and Returning IRH Fellows 2024-2025

IRH Director Steven Nadler is pleased to announce the full cohort of incoming and returning IRH Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. Later in the summer, IRH will be sharing fellow profile biographies and project information.

Senior Fellows:

• Mercedes Alcalá Galán , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2023-2027 (Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UW–Madison) “Uncovering Black African Female Slavery in Early Modern Spain: Voices from the Archives and Portrayals in Art and Literature”
• Karen Britland , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2024-2028 (Religious Studies Program, UW–Madison) “Possession: A Story of Gods, Goods and Greed”
• Jill Casid , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2024-2028 (Department of Art History; Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW–Madison) “Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene”
• Lisa H. Cooper , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2023-2027 (English Department, UW–Madison) “The Poetics of Practicality in Late Medieval England”
• Andrea Harris , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2023-2027 (Dance Department, UW–Madison) “The Body is an Instrument: Science, the Therapeutic Worldview, and the Beginning of Modern Dance”
• Francine Hirsch , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2021-2025 (Department of History, UW–Madison) “Enemies, A Love Story: An Entangled History of Russia and America”
• B. Venkat Mani , Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Senior Fellow, 2021-2025 (German, Nordic, and Slavic+, UW–Madison) “No Forwarding Address: The Global Novel in the Age of Refugees”
• Mario Ortiz-Robles , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2021-2025 (English Department, UW–Madison) “Future Anterior: How Nineteenth-Century Institutions Framed the Future of Animals”
• Anne C. Vila , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2021-2025 (Department of French & Italian, UW–Madison) “Convulsive Enlightenment: Lives and Afterlives of the Convulsionnaires in French Culture and Theory (18th to 21st Centuries)”

Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity (REI) Fellows:

• Ainehi Edoro (English Department; African Cultural Studies Department, UW–Madison) “Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think”
• Darshana Sreedhar Mini (Department of Communication Arts; Center for South Asia; Center for Visual Cultures; Gender & Women’s Studies, UW–Madison) “Geographies of Migrant Media: Transregional Homemaking in India and Beyond”

Resident Fellows:

• Margaret R. Butler (Musicology Area, Mead Witter School of Music, UW–Madison) “Operatic Women: Celebrity Culture and the Seria Stage, 1750–1790”
• Junko Mori (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison) “Cultural Diplomacy, Linguistic Capital, and Raciolinguistic Dynamics: The History of K-12 Japanese Language Education in Wisconsin”
• Lindsay Palmer (School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW–Madison) “Defending Our Colleagues: The Committee to Protect Journalists and Global Press Freedom (1981-2021)”
• Allison Prasch (Department of Communication Arts, UW–Madison) “‘The Capital of an Extensive Empire’: The Rhetorical Construction of Washington, D.C.”
• Lucas Richert (Social and Administrative Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW–Madison) “Chain Reaction: The Rise of Big Pharmacy, Corporate Health, and American Capitalism”
• Liina-Ly Roos (German, Nordic, and Slavic+, UW–Madison) “The Not-Quite Child: Rethinking Whiteness and Colonial Histories in Sweden through Images of Childhood”
• Daniel Stolz  (History, UW–Madison) “The Long Debt: The Ottoman Loans and Economic Governance in the Twentieth Century”

Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellow in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture:

• Sherry Velasco (Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures; Gender Studies, University of Southern California, Dornsife)

Kingdon Fellows:

• Isaiah Ellis (Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto) “Apostles of Asphalt: Race, Empire, and the Religious Politics of Infrastructure in the American South”
• Emma Snowden (History, University of Tennessee) “Narrating Conquest and Colonization in the Medieval Western Mediterranean”

Solmsen Fellows:

• Elizbeth Athens (Art + Art History, University of Connecticut) “Early Modern Anatomies and the Arboreal Body”
• Daniel Davies (English, University of Houston) “Under Siege: Perpetual Warfare and Late-Medieval Literature”
• Simeon David Ehrlich (The Institute of Archaeology, Fulbright Israel/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Time of Death in the Roman Empire: Tombstones, Timekeeping, Astrology, and Afterlife among Pagans and Christians”
• Jack Stetter (Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans) “Spinoza and the Philosophy of War”

Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC) Fellowship Resident:

• Brandon Smith (Instructor, Department of Philosophy, McGill University), “Spinozistic Eudaimonism: The Intellectual and Physical Unity and Plurality of Happiness”

Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellows:

• Esther Fernández (Independent Scholar) “A Drama in Transition: The Democratization of Spanish Classical Theater”
• Viacheslav Zahorodniuk (Ph.D, Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv; Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto) “Early Childhood in the Early Modern: Locke’s Accounts on Children Perception”

UW System Fellows:

• Thomas Leek (Department of World Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) “Aligning Vectorized Ancient Language Corpora: Towards a Translingual Search Function”
• Sarah Schaefer (Art History, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) “Tolkien’s Art Histories”
• Ying Wang (Art History, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) “LungShar Incident of 1934–a Failed Attempt to Modernize Tibet”

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship Resident:

• Kuhelika Ghosh (English Department, UW–Madison) “Cultivating Caribbean Voices: Multispecies Gardens, Care, and Food Justice in Anglophone Caribbean Literature”

Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow:

• Allyson Gross (Department of Communication Arts, UW–Madison) “Of Even Vaster Promise: Material Preservation and the Rhetoric of the Future”

Biruté Ciplijauskaité Dissertation Fellow:

• Mark John Radomski (Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UW–Madison) “Exploring Seville’s Cosmopolitanism: Literary Perspectives and the Guadalquivir River in the Early Modern Era”

Honorary Fellows:

• Adrian McClure (Ph.D. Medieval Literature, Purdue University) “Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade”
• Simon P. Newman (History, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Emeritus) “Freedom-Seekers 1776”
• Barbara Obrist (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris Diderot) “La cosmologie médiévale. Textes et images II: le XIIe siècle”
• Justine Walden (Department of History, UW–Madison) “What Price Souls: Enslavement, Evangelism, and Profit in the Early Modern Atlantic” and “Naming Race in the Renaissance”

Emeritus Fellow:

• Max Harris (Independent Scholar), “Battling Demons: The Temptation of Antony in Art, Theater, Fiction, Film, and Fiestas”