Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities

IPRH-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows 2013–15

The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has awarded its 2013–15 Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities to two scholars chosen from an international field of applicants.

The IPRH-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities spend a two-year term in residence at Illinois, where they conduct research on their proposed projects and teach two courses per year in an appropriate academic department. The Fellows also participate in activities related to their research at the IPRH, in the teaching department, and on the Illinois campus. Each Post-Doctoral Fellow gives a public lecture that showcases his or her research at Illinois. This is the fourth year of the IPRH-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship program. The fellowships are funded by a six-year $1.25 million grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to IPRH in 2010.

The IPRH is delighted to announce the following recipients of the IPRH-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2013–15:

Aaron Carico(Ph.D., Yale University, 2012)
“The Free Plantation: Slavery’s Institution in America, 1865-1940”
Dr. Carico will be affiliated with the Department of English while at Illinois.

Onni Gust (Ph.D., University College London, 2011)
“Pedagogies and Peripheries: the Governess at the Margins of Empire, c.1760-1860”
Dr. Gust will be affiliated with the Departments of History, and Gender and Women’s Studies while at Illinois.