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
Lauren Whitney Adams
Digital Public Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
J. G. Amato
Next Generation Scholar
Department of History, Stanford University
Cosimo's Church: The Politics of Religious Reform in Sixteenth-Century Florence
Ashley Attwood
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
Aristotle and his Predecessors on the Soul: The Argument of De Anima I
Orit Bashkin
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Department of History, University of Chicago
Historical Wonders: Jewish Jihads and Jewish Miracles in the Ottoman Empire
Caitlin Murphy Brust
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Philosophy of Education, Stanford University
Resisting Epistemic Injustice in U.S. Higher Education: A Feminist Reconceptualization of Liberal Education
Jeffery Chun-Jung Chen
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
The First Pacific War: How Britain's Invasion of China Changed the World, 1837–1846
Sarah Coduto
Digital Public Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
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)
Samia Errazzouki
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
The Saharan Passage: Sugar, Slavery, and Empire in the African Atlantic
Max Fennell-Chametzky
Digital Public Fellow
Department of History, 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
Isabela Fraga
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University
Subjected to Feeling: Slavery and Personhood in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba
Adom Getachew
Distinguished Junior External Fellow
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
The Universal Race: Garveyism and the Practices of Pan-Africanism
Pheaross Graham
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Music, Stanford University
Visions of the Pianistic Self: Don Shirley, Rachmaninoff, and Music Performance Studies
Claire Grossman
Next Generation Scholar
Department of English, Stanford University
Uncertain Work: Wagelessness and Post-1965 Multiethnic Literary Form
Rebecca Hall
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Independent Scholar Activist
Taking Freedom: Black Women and Emancipation 1860–1877
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
External Faculty Fellow
Department of Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Global Hijra: Muslim Refugee Migration since 1850
Jessica Jordan
Next Generation Scholar
Department of English, Stanford University
Anxieties of Abundance: Book and Body in America's Gilded Age
Roanne Kantor
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Figures of Suspicion: Anthropology, Literature, and the Voice of the Local in Global Anglophone Fiction
Irene Kuo
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of German Studies, Stanford University
Credible Witness: Seeking Authenticity in Narrative Representations of Asylum
Saad Lakhani
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
The Anti-Blasphemy Movement: Dignity, Sovereignty, and Islam in Pakistan
Charlotte Lindemann
Digital Public Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Jaime Marroquin
External Faculty Fellow
Department of Modern Languages, Western Oregon University
Translatio and Doctrīna: Natural Science and the Indies of the West
Kyle Mays
External Faculty Fellow
Department of African American Studies and American Indian Studies, UCLA
Who Will Pay Reparations on Our Souls: Landback, Reparations, and the Possibilities of Freedom
Michael Menna
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Policies in Making: The Regulation of Shakespearean Theater
Jisha Menon
Violet Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University
The Cultural and Legal Arts of Personhood
Bryan Norton
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of German Studies, Stanford University
Fragments of the Concrete: Ecology and Technical Media in German Romanticism
Ana Núñez
Digital Public Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Karla Oeler
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
The Surface of Things: Cinema and the Devices of Interiority
Bissera Pentcheva
Ellen Andrews Wright Internal Fellow
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
AudioVision in the Middle Ages: Music, Poetry, and Image
Joshua Phillips
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
At the Intersection of Temporal + Modal interpretation (Essays on Irreality)
Miri Powell
Digital Public Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Katja Schwaller
Digital Public Fellow
Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Utsavi Singh
Digital Public Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Ariel Stilerman
Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
How to Know Everything: Encyclopedias, Technology, and Cultural Warfare in Early Medieval Japan
Mitch Therieau
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
The Work of Art in the Age of Diminished Expectations
Joseph Wager
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University
Disappearance as Cultural Form: A Law and Humanities Approach from Colombia and Mexico
Chun-Yu (Jo Ann) Wang
Next Generation Scholar
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Refining Politics: Oil Development, Environmental Activism, and Political Improvisation in Rural Malaysia
Hershini Young
Marta Sutton Weeks External Fellow
Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Receiving the Wreck: Black Sociality and the Materiality of Salvage
Ya Zuo
External Faculty Fellow
Department of History, UC Santa Barbara
A Thousand Streaks of Tears: Emotion, Identity, and Society in Medieval China (600−1400)
