Stanford Humanities Center
Humanities Center Fellows
The Humanities Center offers residential fellowships to Stanford and non-Stanford scholars at all career stages, giving them the opportunity to pursue their research in a lively and constructive intellectual community.
Humanities Center Fellows:
Eduardo Acosta
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
A River of Ruined Capitals: History and Environmental Change in Early Modern Bengal
La Marr Jurelle Bruce
External Faculty Fellow
Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
The Afromantic: Black Love Out Yonder
Mike Chin
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Department of Classics, University of California, Davis
Diocletian: A Reckless Autobiography
Austin Clements
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Fear for a Lost God: Religion and the Transformation of the American Right, 1890–1950
Álvaro Contreras
Scholar Affiliate, March 2023 through February 2025
Institute for International Educational/Scholar Rescue Fund and the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University
Genealogías de la narrativa policial en América Latina (Genealogies of Police Narratives in Latin America)
Jon Cooper
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Dealing with Money: The Invention of Economics in England, 1544–1623
Armen Davoudian
Next Generation Scholar
Department of English, Stanford University
Elizabeth Bishop and Metanoia: How Poems Change Their Minds
Samia Errazzouki
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
The Saharan Passage: Sugar, Slavery, and Empire in the African Atlantic
Julien Fischer
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University
The Lure of Origins: Sexology and the Trans Autobiographical Mandate
Charlotte Fonrobert
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Re-Placing the Nation: Jewish Diaspora and Neighborhood
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
External Faculty Fellow
Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Revisiting the Southern Question: South Korea, South Vietnam, and the U.S. South
Pheaross Graham
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Music, Stanford University
Visions of the Pianistic Self: Don Shirley, Rachmaninoff, and Music Performance Studies
Emily Greenfield
Next Generation Scholar
Department of History, Stanford University
“Carry Me Back to Old Virginia”: Slavery, Memory, and the Making of a National Shrine
Munir Gur
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Music, Stanford University
Sensory Reimaginings of Citizenship: Makam and Belonging across Contemporary Greece and Turkey
Sun Ha Hong
External Faculty Fellow
Department of Communications, Simon Fraser University
Predictions without Futures: Repetition and Stagnation in Dreams of Artificial Intelligence
Paul Johnston
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University
Roman Literature in Greek and Latin: Bilingualism, Empire and the Shaping of the Classical Canon
Josefine Klingspor
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
Spinoza on Metaphysical Constitution
Mattea Koon
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Analogical: A Literary History of an Early Modern Idea
Indra Levy
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
Can the Meiji Man Laugh?
Ali Madani
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Categorical Fictions: Literary History, Colonialism, and the Forms of Early Modern English
Mark McGurl
Violet Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Word Magic: The Contemporaneity of Epic Fantasy
Richard Meyer
Donald Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Andy Warhol's Guide to Everyday Life
Erica Camisa Morale
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
The Vanishing Dead Body and the Emerging Persona in Early Modern East Slavic Lyrics
Dana Murphy
External Faculty Fellow
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Foremother Love: Phillis Wheatley and Black Feminist Criticism
Bryan Norton
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of German Studies, Stanford University
Fragments of the Concrete: Ecology and Technical Media in German Romanticism
Kristin Oberiano
Distinguished Junior External Fellow
Department of History, Wesleyan University
War Stories, Typhoon Tales: An Ecological History of the Marianas Archipelago
Nilay Özök-Gündoğan
External Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Florida State University
Forging Empire: Mineral Extraction, State-Making, and the Colonization of Ottoman Kurdistan, 1720–1870
Joshua Phillips
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
At the Intersection of Temporal + Modal interpretation (Essays on Irreality)
Barbara Pitkin
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Sebastian Franck (1499–1542), the Bible, and Mysticism
Paul Ramírez
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Department of History, Northwestern University
Salt of the Santos: A History of Devoted Work
Isabel Salovaara
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Engendering the State: Aspiration, Government Jobs, and the Coaching Industry in Bihar, India
Brent Sockness
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Ernst Troeltsch's Ethical Thought
Rupert Sparling
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
The Varieties of Normativity in Plato
Chepchirchir Tirop
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Athletics and the Politics of State and Nation Building in Kenya, 1945–2016
Morgan Tufan
Next Generation Scholar
Department of History, Stanford University
Bordering the Kurds: Imperial Governance and Traditional Authority in Sixteenth-Century Kurdistan
César Valenzuela
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
Climate Democracy: A Philosophical Framework
Joseph Wager
Next Generation Scholar
Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University
Between the informe and the inconforme: Disappearance, Gender, and Law in Contemporary Latin American Cultural Production.
