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
Esra Akcan
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Department of Architecture, Cornell University
A History of the World by Modern Architecture
Jonathan Atkins
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
To Continue to End: Verse and the Performance of the Limit
Nora Elizabeth Barakat
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Credit Oases: The Legacies of Ottoman Law and the History of Capitalism from Palestine to the Persian Gulf
Farah Bazzi
Next Generation Scholar
Department of History, Stanford University
The Alluring Aesthetic of Andalusī Nature: Conquest, Settlement Practices, and the Shaping of Racial Landscapes across the Early Modern Mediterranean and Beyond (1550–1666)
Lydia Burleson
Digital Public Fellow
Department of English, 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
Margaret Cohen
Violet Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Ocean Science for the Ocean Humanities: The Case of Monterey Bay
Johaina Crisostomo
External Faculty Fellow
Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
Imperfect Sacrifice: The Crisis of Political Imagination in Transimperial Philippines (1896–1935)
Madison Dalton
Next Generation Scholar
Department of Political Science, Stanford University
The Politics of Justice: Understanding Sexual Violence in the United States
Samia Errazzouki
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
The Saharan Passage: Sugar, Slavery, and Empire in the African Atlantic
Alia Farid
SHC/Stanford Arts Visiting Artist
Office of the Vice President for the Arts, Stanford University
Julien Fischer
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University
The Lure of Origins: Sexology and the Trans Autobiographical Mandate
Mahishan Gnanaseharan
Digital Public Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Mario A. Gómez Zamora
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University
Queer P’urhépecha Histories and Performances Beyond Borders
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
Amanda Joyce Hall
External Faculty Fellow
Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shantytown Solidarities: Black Consciousness and Global Anti-Apartheid
Sora Han
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California, Irvine
Break Law: When Artists Take Legal Matter Into Their Own Hands
Christina Hughes
External Faculty Fellow
Department of Sociology, Macalester College
Bad Refugees: Manufacturing Statelessness at the Margins of the Global North
Branislav Jakovljević
Donald Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University
Theaters of Atrocities: On Ethical Limits of Performance
Marina Johnson
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University
On This Land: Palestinian Performance from 2015–2025
Tyler Johnson
Medical Humanities Fellow, Spring Quarter
Division of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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
AJ Kim
External Faculty Fellow
Department of City Planning, San Diego State University
Mapping the Immigrant Rights Movement in the American South
Katie Livingston
Digital Public Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Antonio López
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Hood Playin' Tricks on Me: Gentrification, Grief, and the Ghosts of East Palo Alto
Ali Madani
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Categorical Fictions: Literary History, Colonialism, and the Forms of Early Modern English
Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky
Visiting Scholar Affiliate
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Paula Moya
Ellen Andrews Wright Internal Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Dark Aesthetics: The Decolonial Possibilities of Multifocal Narratives
Ana Núñez
Digital Public Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Jesuseyi Osundeko
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Tears Still Fall: The Contours of Feminine Self-Mourning in Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Literature
Timothy Pantoja
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of African and African American Studies, Stanford University
Scenes of Reflection: Compelling Insinuations and Black Empathy
Sunil Persad
Next Generation Scholar
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
A Social Biography of Bones in Late Antiquity
Joshua Phillips
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
At the Intersection of Temporal + Modal interpretation (Essays on Irreality)
Claire Sauter
Digital Public Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Fatoumata Seck
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Writing Revolution in Modern African Literature
Charu Singh
Distinguished Junior External Fellow
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
The Shastri and the Air-Pump: Science and Sensibility in Modern India
Lynn Stephen
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon
Invisible No More! Transborder Mesoamerican Indigenous Territories, Languages, and Communities in Diaspora
Mudit Trivedi
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Discipline and Pleasure: Archaeologies of Virtue, Faith and Envy
César Valenzuela
Next Generation Scholar
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
Climate Democracy: A Philosophical Framework
Laura Wittman
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Death on TV: Unconventional Experiments with Grief and Mortality
Alex Woloch
Violet Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
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