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:
Rushain Abbasi
Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Beyond the Divine Command: A History of the Secular in Premodern Islam
Monique Allewaert
External Faculty Fellow
Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Luminescence: Insect Knowledge, Power, and the Literary: 1700-1814
Brandon Bark
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University
Working Languages: Metalinguistic Discourse and the Shaping of Latin Literature
Vaughn A. Booker
Distinguished Junior External Fellow
Department of Religion, Dartmouth College
From the Back of the Church: A History of Irreverent Religion in African American Life
Meryem Deniz
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of German Studies, Stanford University
Ethereal Romanticism: Dynamic Materiality in German Thought in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Gabriel Ellis
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Music, Stanford University
Anaesthetics: Popular Music and the Flight from Feeling
Lewis Esposito
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Covariation, Change, and Style
Elaine Fisher
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Devotion in Early Modern India
Isabela Fraga
Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University
Subjected to Feeling: Slavery and Personhood in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba
Pheaross Graham
Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
Department of Music, Stanford University
Visions of the Pianistic Self: Don Shirley, Rachmaninoff, and Music Performance Studies
Vera Gribanova
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Ellipsis and the Identity Relation
Ana Ilievska
Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
The Machine in the Novel: Fictional Human-Machine Interactions at the European Periphery (ca. 1870-1914)
Elspeth Iralu
Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
Technologies of Territoriality: Indigeneity, Surveillance, and the State
jem Jebbia
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
The Fruits of Their Labor: Religion, Race, and Resistance in California’s Central Valley, 1870-1960
Jessica Jordan
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Anxieties of Abundance: Book and Body in America's Gilded Age
Michael Kinney
Career Launch Fellow
Department of Music, Stanford University
Hearing Beyond Vocal Twilight: Aging Vocality in Contemporary American Opera Performance
Matthew Kohrman
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Filtered Life: Gendered Dwelling Amidst Environmental Distress
Radhika Koul
Career Launch Fellow
Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
The Drama of Our World: Spectator and Subject in Medieval Kashmir and Early Modern Europe
Richard Martin
Donald Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University
Homer and the World of Song
Paul Nauert
Career Launch Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Climate Crucible: American Choices in Germany, Japan, and the Making of the Great Acceleration, 1939-1953
Bryan Norton
Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
Department of German Studies, Stanford University
Fragments of the Concrete: Ecology and Technical Media in German Romanticism
Michelle K. Oing
Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Puppet Potential: Late Medieval Sculpture and the Aesthetics of Play, 1300-1525
Eve Oishi
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Department of Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University
Partial Form: An Experimental History of Asian American Film and Video
Christy Pichichero
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External Faculty Fellow
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, George Mason University
From Slavery to Stardom: Family, Freedom, and the First Black Celebrity, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George
Eric Plemons
External Faculty Fellow
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
What To Make of Me: The Transgender Body As a Valuable Resource
Robert N. Proctor
Violet Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Agnotology in the Archives: Probing Cigarette Invisibility and Cigarette Deception
Judith Rodríguez
External Faculty Fellow
Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington
Impositions: The Aesthetic Blackening of Puerto Rico and its Diaspora
Margarita Lila Rosa
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Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Archive of the Flesh: Fugitivity, Kinship, and Black Feminist Theory and Art in the Americas
Londa Schiebinger
Ellen Andrews Wright Internal Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Global Review of Sex, Gender, and Diversity Analysis in Research Policies of Major Public Funding Agencies
Susan Stryker
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona
Changing Gender: Memory, History, Manifesto
Anna Toledano
Jeff and Sara Small Career Launch Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Collecting Independence: The Science and Politics of Natural History Museums in New Spain, 1770–1820
Fred Turner
Donald Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of Communication, Stanford University
Crisis of Representation: Media and the Politics of Difference in 1980s America
Vannessa Velez
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
No Promised Land: Environmental Inequality in the Making of Globalized Atlanta, 1949-1996
Heather Vrana
External Faculty Fellow
Department of History, University of Florida
Guerrilla Medicine and Disability in Cold War Central America
Esther Yu
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Experiencing the Novel: The Genre of Tender Conscience
Adnan A. Zulfiqar
External Faculty Fellow
Law School, Rutgers University
Duties to the Collective: Jurists, Islamic law and the Search for Cohesion, 945 to 1258 CE
Victoria Zurita
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
The Paradoxes of Aesthetic Individualism: Fashioning Selves and Communities in Fin-de-siècle France and Spanish America
