Stanford Humanities Center Announces Hume Undergraduate Fellows
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Ten Stanford seniors have been selected by the Humanities Center to receive a Hume Honors Fellowship for the remainder of the 2021–22 academic year.
Now in its ninth year, the program supports undergraduates—nominated by their faculty advisors—who are writing an honors thesis in one of Stanford’s humanities departments. Their research projects include such topics as the Zimbabwe War for Liberation, the ethics of resisting immigration law, and the medieval Japanese poetry known as renga (“linked verse”), among others.
The Hume fellows will receive a stipend of $1,500 for research project materials and participate in a variety of specially-tailored group activities throughout the year. In the stimulating scholarly environment of the Humanities Center, undergraduate fellows benefit from a year-long association as a cohort, as well as with graduate student and faculty fellows in residence. This year, students will return to an in-person fellowship experience with a dedicated workspace at the Humanities Center.
“After a year of remote fellowship, we’re happy to be welcoming this year’s cohort of undergraduates in person,” says Humanities Center director Roland Greene. “The group always brings a certain energy and joy to our community of scholars. We love having the Hume fellows with us as they complete the most ambitious projects of their academic careers.”
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Isabella Ainsworth
History
A Small Band of the Best People on Earth: The Zimbabwe War for Liberation and White Supremacy
Natalie Francis
Classics and English, Minor in Art History
Pink Persephone is the New Prometheus: Rachel Smythe’s "Lore Olympus" and the Feminist Mythopoesis of the Classical Goddess of Spring in Sequential Art
Ekalan Hou
Art History and English, Minor in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Pockets of Becoming: The Photography of Lai Yong, Mary Tape, and Frank Jue
Jeevanjot “JJ” Singh Kapur
Theater & Performance Studies, Minor in Psychology
The Impact of a Theory-Driven Family Theater Workshop to Improve Communication and to Reduce Acculturative Family Distancing in Immigrant Parents and Children
Arman Kassam
History, Minor in Anthropology
Luna Incognita: How Early Seventeenth-Century English Writers Discovered Aliens on the Moon
Hannah Kunzman
Philosophy and Religious Studies, Minor in Spanish
Children’s Rights, Illiberal Families, and Liberal Democracies