{"id":148594,"date":"2019-04-12T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=148594"},"modified":"2019-05-14T07:57:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:57:40","slug":"humanities-institute-announces-fellowship-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/04\/humanities-institute-announces-fellowship-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanities Institute Announces Fellowship Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI) selected eleven faculty members, dissertation scholars, and visiting scholars for 2019-2020 fellowship awards.<\/p>\n<p>During the academic year, the fellows will be in residence at UCHI pursuing research and each will present a public lecture about their scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding time, space, and community for humanities scholars to pursue their research and explore collaborations with their fellows is some of the most important work we do at UCHI,\u201d says Alexis Boylan, professor of art and art history and director of academic affairs at UCHI. \u201cOur fellows have gone on to receive support for their work from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim Foundations, and we are thrilled to welcome yet another group of fellows for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UConn faculty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emma Amador, assistant professor of history and Latinx Studies, \u201cContesting Colonialism: Puerto Ricans and the Politics of Welfare in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Anievas, assistant professor of political science, &#8220;Race to Rollback: Far-Right Power in America\u2019s Global Cold War.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Andrea Celli, assistant professor of literatures, cultures and languages, \u201cHagar the Outcast. Reappraisals of a Biblical Theme in the Context of Post-Tridentine Culture.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Patricia Morgne Cramer, associate professor of English, \u201cWhat Are the Wild Waves Saying: Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury, and the Public Schools.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Debapriya Sarkar, assistant professor of English and maritime studies, \u201cPossible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nu-Anh Tran, assistant professor of history and Asian and Asian American Studies, \u201cDisunion: Anticommunist Nationalists in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UConn dissertation scholars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nathan Braccio, history, James L. and Shirley A. Draper fellowship, \u201cParallel Landscapes: Algonquian and English Spatial Understandings of New England, 1500-1700.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hayley Stefan, English, \u201cWriting National Tragedies: Race and Disability in Contemporary U.S. Literature and Culture.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Strom, history, \u201cFinancing Revolution: Adriano Lemmi and the Struggle for Italian Unification.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visiting fellows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel Cohen, history at Case Western Reserve University, \u201cBurning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memories in America\u2019s Civil War Generation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kornel Chang, history at Rutgers University, \u201cThe Lost Dreams of Liberation: A Story of Decolonization in U.S.-Occupied Korea, 1945-1948.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The mission of UCHI is to promote research on these questions, and to act as a voice for that research on the regional, national and international stage. In hosting annual residential fellowships, offering opportunities for humanities-focused programming, and fostering an interdisciplinary space for scholars to think, collaborate, and create, the Institute serves as a global hub for scholars dedicated to humanist scholarship and activism. UCHI seeks to inspire and support scholars at all levels and across disciplines to take on the critical and public task of humanistic inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProviding time, space, and community for humanities scholars to pursue their research and explore collaborations with their fellows is some of the most important work we do,\u201d says Alexis Boylan, professor of art and art history and director of academic affairs at UCHI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":148608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-148594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 17:40:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/148608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148594"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=148594"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=148594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}