IPRH is delighted to announce the following recipients of its fellowship awards, and their projects:
IPRH Faculty Fellows 2014–15
Teresa Barnes, History and Gender and Women’s Studies: “Apartheid’s Professor: AH Murray, Freedom and Complicity in South Africa, 1948–85”
Ruth Nicole Brown, Gender and Women’s Studies and Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership: “Brown Girl Levitation: Racialized Gendered Genius and Expressive Culture”
José B. Capino, English: “Marcos and Melodrama: Figures of the Authoritarian State”
Kenny Cupers, Architecture: “Architectural Modernism and Environmental Science in Imperial Germany”
Ellen Moodie, Anthropology: “Middle-Class Political Action and Generational Consciousness in Urban Central America”
Dana Rabin, History: “Under Rule of Law: Britain and Its Outsiders, 1750–1800”
Sandra Ruiz, Latina/o Studies and English: “Ricanness: The Performance of Time, Bodily Endurance, and Policy”
IPRH Graduate Fellows 2014–15
Benjamin Bascom, English: “State Affects and Republican Properties: Feeling Wrongly in the Early US”
Yoonjung Kang (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*), Anthropology, “Beyond the Reproductive Body: The Politics of Postpartum Care Practices in Contemporary South Korea”
Eileen Lagman, English: “Economizing Literacies: Intimacy, Learning, and Labor Migration in the Filipino Diaspora”
Kyle Mays (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*), History: “And We Shall Remain: Reclaiming Detroit as an Indigenous Space, 1837–1994”
Patryk Reid, History: “Managing Nature, Constructing the State: The Material Foundation of Soviet Empire in Tajikistan, 1917–37”
Ariana Ruiz, English: “Traversing Latinidades: Spatiotemporal Disruptions in Latina Art and Literature”
Monica FA W. Santos, Anthropology: “Re-imagining Colonialism: Class, Nation and Classical Ballet in the Philippines”
IPRH-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows, 2014–16
Chunghao Kuo (PhD, History, New York University, 2013), “Animal Matters: Epidemic Diseases, Public Hygiene, and Food Safety in China (1700–1900).” Dr. Kuo will be associated with the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures while at Illinois.
Jeannie Shinozuka (PhD, History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2009), “Biotic Borderlands: Constituting Race in Transnational Public Health and Agriculture, 1880–1945.” Dr. Shinozuka will be affiliated with the Department of Asian American Studies while at Illinois.
This is the fifth 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 2009. 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 showcasing his or her research at Illinois.
* Through the generous support of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) and the Nicholson Endowment Fund, two of the graduate fellowship recipients have been designated as IPRH-Nicholson Fellows. The Nicholson Endowment is a gift of Grace W. Nicholson (1906–1998), who pursued undergraduate studies in LAS, and Professor Emeritus John A. Nicholson (1891–1986), a faculty member in the Philosophy Department at Illinois for 33 years. The Nicholson Endowment, which was established in 1999, provides support for the academic programs in LAS and excellence in the study of the humanities on campus.