HRI is pleased to announce the recipients of its Andrew W. Mellon fellowships and internships for 2021–22. Please join us in congratulating them!

Legal Humanities Research Group

The Legal Humanities fellows and interns will pursue their own research projects and participate in all activities of the Mellon Legal Humanities Research Group. The Mellon Research Group is funded by a grant of $2,050,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to HRI to support the development of emerging areas in the humanities.

Faculty Fellow/Director

Colleen Murphy (Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy & Political Science, Director of Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program)

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

Claire Branigan (Anthropology), “Ineffective Laws, Active Citizens: Creating Justice in the aftermath of Femicidio in Argentina”

Ian Toller Clark (History), “Carceral Democracy: Race, Prisons, and the Realignment of Politics in Wisconsin, 1940-1972”

Undergraduate Interns

Thomas Ballard (major in Political Science and Economics)

Alice Lee (major in Political Science and Psychology)

Alex Wellman (major in Economics and Political Science)

These newest members will join current Post-Doctoral Fellows Sabeen Ahmed and Beverly Fok. Want to stay updated on Legal Humanities events? Subscribe to the Legal Humanities events email list.

Public Humanities Fellowship

Supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Public Humanities fellow serves in a one-year residency with the Odyssey Project, a free college-credit earning program for income-eligible adults seeking access to higher education outside traditional pathways. While in residence, the Public Humanities Fellow participates in the Odyssey Project’s activities, co-thinking and co-learning with the Odyssey Project staff to develop the public- and/or community-facing dimensions of their research.

Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Azlan Smith (English) Voices: Verbatim Theater as Civic Art