The Humanities Research Institute Announces Fellowship Awards 2022–2023
The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduates students from the campus for the 2022–23 academic year. The theme for the year is “Un/Doing.”
HRI is also pleased to announce the 2022–23 Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Public Humanities and the 2022 Summer Faculty Research Fellows. The Public Humanities Fellowship is an opportunity for a doctoral student in the humanities to be in residence with the Odyssey Project and to pursue a public humanities-related project under the guidance of a designated faculty mentor.
Summer Faculty Research Fellowships are designed to help faculty maximize the summer for research in service of their ongoing professional development.
Please join HRI in congratulating these new fellows!
HRI Campus Fellows—Un/Doing
Faculty Fellows
Janett Barragán Miranda (Latina/Latino Studies), “Hungering for Equality: The Community of Mexican-Origin from Post-WWII to Civil Rights”
Kathryn Oberdeck (History), “Un/doing in History Harvest Courses: Re/constructing Practices of Collaborative Digital Public History”
Yuridia Ramírez (History), “Indigeneity on the Move: Transborder Politics from Michoacán to North Carolina”
Deena Rymhs (American Indian Studies), “Putting back together: re-worldings in annie ross’s Pots and Other Living Beings”
R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada (Latina/Latino Studies), “Intersectional Justice Denied: Racist Warring Masculinity, Negative Peace and Violence in Post-Peace Accords El Salvador”
Emma D. Velez (Gender and Women’s Studies), “Orienting Historias: Unraveling the Coloniality of Gender through Las Tres Madres”
Damian Vergara Bracamontes (Gender and Women’s Studies), “The Administration of Illegality and Mexican Migrant Life”
Graduate Fellows
Dilara Caliskan (Anthropology), “World and Kin Making: Family, Time and Memory among Trans Mothers and Daughters in Turkey”
Nicole Cox (Anthropology), “Re/Moving the State: Multiple Productivities of Embodied Practice in Indian Diplomacy”
Daniel DeVinney (Communication), “The Post-Racial Imaginary: Visual Logics of Race in the Obama and Early Trump Eras”
Kadin Henningsen (English), “Biblionormativity and Trans* Capacity: Gender, Race, and the Material Book in Nineteenth Century America, 1840–1910”
Jessennya Hernandez (Sociology), “Everyday Latinx Strategies and Embodied Feminist Knowledge in Los Angeles”
Lingyan Liu (History), “Just Call It the Noise: Chinese Opera and the Sounds of China in Race-Making and Modern Citizenship, 1850s–1930s”
Amanda Smith (French and Italian), “21st Century Black Beauty Resistance: Collectivism, Individuality, and In/Visibility in Black French Women’s Body and Hair Representations”
HRI Mellon Pre-Doctoral Public Humanities Fellow
Eva Kuras (Comparative Literature), “Crossing Paths,” Faculty Mentor: Eleanora Stoppino
Summer Faculty Research Fellows
Nir Ben-Moshe (Philosophy), “Idealization and the Moral Point of View: An Adam Smithian Account of Moral Reasons”
Eda Derhemi (French and Italian), “Endangered Arvanitika in Zeriki, Greece”
David O’Brien (Art History, Art + Design), “The Cult of Napoleon in Material Culture, 1815–1848”
