The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities has awarded its 2013-15 Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities to two scholars chosen from an international field of applicants. In addition, it has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from the campus for the 2013-14 academic year.
The IPRH Faculty Fellows for 2013-14 and their research projects:
- Andrew Gaedtke (English), “The Machinery of Madness: Mind, Body, and Disability”
- Craig Koslofsky (history),”Skin in the Early Modern World, 1450-1750″
- Jennifer Monson (dance), “Live Dancing Archive”
- Fiona Ngô (Asian American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies),”Structures of Sense”
- Robert Rushing (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, and comparative and world literature),”Descended From Hercules: A Peplum Century”
- John Senseney (architecture), “Tools, Machines and the Body in Greek and Roman Architecture”
Roderick Wilson (history and East Asian languages and cultures), “Waterbodies: The Re-engineering of Rivers and Communities in the Formation of Modern Japan, 1868-1945”
The IPRH Graduate Student Fellows for 2013-14: Megan Condis (English), Corey Flack (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese), In Hye Ha (English), Emily Pope-Obeda (history), T.J. Tallie (history), Jennifer Thomas (landscape architecture) and Pui-Sze Priscilla Tse (musicology)
“The research being conducted by our 2013 fellows provides a profile of the excellence and diversity of scholarship being produced in the humanities at Illinois,” said Dianne Harris, the IPRH director. “Our faculty, graduate student and post-doctoral fellows consistently publish, create and perform innovative works that transform our understanding of the world around us. I look forward to watching this group of outstanding artists and scholars make use of the time afforded by their fellowship to create the new knowledge that has come to define the endeavors that take place at the IPRH.”
Faculty Fellows are released from one semester of teaching, with the approval of their departments and colleges, and receive a research allocation. Graduate Student Fellows receive a stipend and a tuition and fee waiver from IPRH. All IPRH Fellows are expected to remain in residence on the Illinois campus during the award year, and to participate in the program’s yearlong interdisciplinary Fellows Seminar.
The IPRH-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities spend a two-year term in residence at Illinois, where they conduct research on their proposed projects and teach two courses per year in an appropriate academic department. The fellows also participate in activities related to their research at IPRH, in the teaching department and on the Illinois campus. Each post-doctoral fellow also gives a public lecture showcasing his or her research at Illinois. This is the fourth year of the IPRH-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship program. The fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The 2013-15 IPRH-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows, and their projects: Aaron Carico (American studies, Yale University, 2012), “The Free Plantation: Slavery’s Institution in America, 1865-1940,” to be affiliated with the department of English at Illinois; and Onni Gust (history, University College London, 2011),”Pedagogies and Peripheries: the Governess at the Margins of Empire, c. 1760-1860,” to be affiliated with the departments of history and of gender and women’s studies at Illinois. Both fellows will participate in the yearlong Fellows Seminar associated with the IPRH Campus Fellowships’ annual theme.
