Research Focused on Movement of Ideas Across Cultures Eva Kuras (Comparative and World Literature), the 2022–23 Mellon Pre-Doctoral Public Humanities Fellow, writes about her fellowship project, what drew her to this work, and what “public humanities” means to her. What motivated you to apply for the Mellon Pre-Doctoral Public Humanities Fellowship? I have always been […]
Amanda Smith (French and Italian) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellow. Smith’s research project, “21st Century Black Beauty Resistance: Collectivism, Individuality, and In/Visibility in Black French Women’s Body and Hair Representations,” examines representations of Black women’s bodies and hair in Francophone autobiographical, sociocultural, and literary texts written by 21st century Black women to […]
Lingyan Liu (History) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellow. Liu’s research project, “That Hideous Sound: The Speaking, Singing, and Shouting of Chinese and Chinese Americans in Race Making, 1850s-1930s,” explores how the sounds of Chinese opera, street hawkers, labors, festival firecrackers were historically constructed as unnatural and noisy, leading to the sonic configuration […]
Dilara Çalişkan (Anthropology) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellow. Çalişkan’s research, “World and Kin Making: Family, Time and Memory among Trans Mothers and Daughters in Turkey” is an ethnographic exploration of how trans women who do sex work in Istanbul creatively compose spaces of relatedness through mother and daughter relationships to challenge social […]
Kadin Henningsen (English) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellow. Henningsen’s project, “Biblionormativity and Trans* Capacity: Gender, Race, and the Material Book in Nineteenth Century America, 1840–1910,” theorizes trans* capacity (the potential for making visible the mutability and multiplicity of gender) by mapping the development of aesthetic and material norms of the book (e.g., […]
Jessennya Hernandez (Sociology) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellow. Hernandez’s project, “Mycorrhizal Assemblages: Everyday Latinx Strategies and Embodied Feminist Knowledge,” examines the everyday lives of working-class queer immigrant Latinx women and femme political-creatives living in greater Los Angeles. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty and graduate students […]
Nicole Cox (Anthropology) is a 2022–2023 HRI Graduate Fellow. Cox’s project, “Re/Moving the State: Multiple Productivities of Embodied Practice in Indian Diplomacy” focuses on the role of embodied practices such as dance and yoga in India’s public diplomacy and seeks to undo invisible and oversimplified notions about global Indian heritage, state power, and the moving […]
Daniel DeVinney (Communication) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Graduate Fellow. DeVinney’s project, “The Post-Racial Imaginary: Visual Logics of Race in the Obama and Early Trump Eras,” examines the visual culture of the post-racial myth during the Obama and early Trump eras. According to DeVinney’s research, this decade was not beyond race, but instead was a […]
Ray Martinez (Spanish and Portuguese) is a member of the 22–23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. He shares about his experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23–24! Learn more about Interseminars. […]
Toyosi Tejumade-Morgan (Theatre) is a member of the 22–23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. She shares about her experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23–24! Learn more about Interseminars. View […]