IPRH is delighted to announce the following recipients of its fellowship awards, and their projects:
IPRH Faculty Fellows, 2015–16
Ikuko Asaka, History: “Geographies of Black Freedom: Race, Intimacy, and Empire in the Anglo-American World, 1775–1879”
Eric Calderwood, Comparative and World Literature: “‘The Daughter of Granada and Fez’: Al-Andalus in Spanish Colonial Morocco (1859–1956)”
Anita Chan, Media and Cinema Studies and Institute for Communications Research: “Civic Technoscience, Digital Pedagogies, and Intersectional Research Practice Beyond Innovation Centers”
Rana Hogarth, History: “Blackness in Transit: Medicine and the Making of Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840”
Mimi Nguyen, Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies: “The Promise of Beauty”
John Randolph, History: “When I Served the Post as a Coachman: Empire and Enlightenment in Russia’s Eighteenth Century”
Maria Todorova, History: “Life in the Times of Utopia: The Lost World of Early Socialists at Europe’s Margins”
IPRH Graduate Fellows, 2015–16
S. Moon Cassinelli, English: “‘We are Here Because You were There’: Kinship and Loss in 20th- and 21st-Century Korean American Narratives”
Bryce Henson, Institute for Communication Research, “Beauty in the Dark: Racial Politics in Brazilian Hip-Hop”
Milos Jovanovic, History: “Bourgeois Balkans: World-building in Belgrade and Sofia (1840–1912)”
John Musser, English: “Radiant Divas: In Pursuit of the Queer Sublime”
Stephanie Rieder (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*), Sociology: “Missions of Biomedicine: Transnational Conflicts of Morality, Technology, and Care”
Zachary Sell, History: “Slavery Beyond Slavery: The American South, British Imperialism, and the Circuits of Capital, 1833–1873”
Devin Smart (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow*), History: “Exchanging Meals: Capitalist Culture, Labor Migration and Food History in Kenya since the Nineteenth Century”
IPRH-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2015–17
Nili Belkind (PhD, Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, 2014), “Music in Conflict: Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Cultural Production.” While at Illinois, Dr. Belkind will be affiliated with the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Division of the School of Music.
This is the sixth 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 our 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.
