Stanford Humanities Center
Humanities Center Fellows and Affiliates
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:
Yassin Al Haj Saleh
International Visiting Scholar
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
Noor Amr
Lubert Stryer Next Generation Scholar
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Church Asylum: Religion, Migration, and the Boundaries of the Political in Germany
Moustafa Bayoumi
External Faculty Fellow
Department of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Like a Palestinian: How the Idea of Palestine Has Changed in—and Is Changing—America
Sahera Bleibleh
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Independent Scholar
Forbidden Space: Spatial Violence and the Everyday in Palestine
Lydia Burleson
Digital Public Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Alina Bykova
Digital Public Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
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
Chris Cristóbal Chan
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
Exhibiting the Spectral State: Public Art, Ruination and Revitalization in the Taiwan Strait
Emre Can Dağlıoğlu
Next Generation Scholar
Department of History, Stanford University
Silk-made Capitalism: Technoscience, European Financial Control, and Sericulture in the Ottoman Empire (1881–1914)
Alia Farid
International Visiting Artist
Office of the Vice President for the Arts – Stanford Arts
Jelani Favors
External Faculty Fellow
Vice President, Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute (United Negro College Fund)
Losing Whiteness: Power, Privilege, and Murder in the Post Reconstruction South; Sacred Spaces: Black College Seminaries and the Moral Traditions of the Civil Rights Movement
Max Fennell-Chametzky
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Primate Verbalizations: Ape Language Experiments and the Global Remaking of the Human, 1930–2018
Matthew Gilbert
Next Generation Scholar
Department of Music, Stanford University
Blow for Californi-o: Histories of Folk Music in the American West
Mario A. Gómez Zamora
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University
Dance and Performance Through the Cycle of Traditions in P’urhépecha Communities
Gaby Greenlee
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Inka Borders and the Power of Volatility: On the Fringes and Edges of Textile and Territory
Rachael Louise Healy
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Growing Up in “Peace”: Violence, Care, and Girlhood in a West Belfast Neighbourhood
Ellen Huang
External Faculty Fellow
Department of Humanities and Sciences, ArtCenter College of Design
Jingdezhen Porcelain and the Transformation of China, c. 1644–1911
Luo Jia
Digital Public Fellow
Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
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
Daniel Koplitz
SHC Dissertation Fellow Affiliate
Department of Music, Stanford University
Sounding Unsettled in the Premodern West
Maya Kronfeld
Distinguished External Junior Faculty Fellow
Literature Program and the Departments of Philosophy and Music, Duke University
Spontaneous Form: Philosophy, Literature, Jazz
Haiyan Lee
Violet Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
New Animism: An Unnatural History of the Chinese Environmental Imagination
Emily J. Levine
Internal Faculty Fellow
Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Agreeing to Disagree: Academic Freedom, Political Speech, and the American University
Ainan Liu
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Barbaric Acts in French Classical Theater
Katie Livingston
Digital Public Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Ali Madani
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Categorical Fictions: Literary History, Colonialism, and the Forms of Early Modern English
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Donald Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
Pragmatics of Understanding: Communication as an Improvisational Duet
Mpho Calachan Molefe
Kimberly Oden and Donald Brewster Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
“The Conditions for Our Remaining”: Provisional Belonging in Post-Apartheid South African Literature
Johanna Ines Mueller
Next Generation Scholar
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
An American Mission? Nineteenth-Century Missionaries and the Contested Meanings of “America”
Julie Beth Napolin
External Faculty Fellow
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School
Stay With Me: Conversation Before and After AI
Lara Norgaard
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Afterlives of Translation: Connective Memory in Cold War Indonesia and Latin America
Casey Elyse Ocasal
Digital Public Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Unjoo Margaret Oh
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
See(m)ing Error: GenAI and the Latents of Early Modern Literature
Timothy Pantoja
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of African and African American Studies, Stanford University
Scenes of Reflection: Compelling Insinuations and Black Empathy
Michael Penn
Ellen Andrews Wright Internal Fellow
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
The Church of Baghdad
Rose Salseda
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Muralism, A Cry for Justice: Chicano Art and the Cultivation of Humanity at Stanford University
Claire Sauter
Digital Public Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Partha Pratim Shil
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
The Street and the State: Decolonization, Labor Protests and State Making in India, c. 1945–1952
Colin Weaver
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Strange Ecologies: Imagination and Ethics in the Pluriverse
Omari Weekes
External Faculty Fellow
Department of English, Queens College, City University of New York
Lurid Affinities: Sex and the Spirit in Post-Civil Rights Black Literature
Leif Wenar
Donald Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
The Value of Unity
Tiana U. Wilson
Distinguished External Junior Faculty Fellow
Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Triple Jeopardy: The Ideology, Activism, and Legacy of the Third World Women’s Alliance
Mikael Wolfe
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
A Geopolitical Revolution: How Extreme Weather and Climate Shaped Cuban Socialist Development, 1955–1971
