Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowship awards are the centerpieces of the IPRH, with application guidelines published in the fall of the academic year prior to the fellowship year, and an announcement date in mid-winter. The fellowship program revolves around an annual topic, and the fellowship provides an opportunity for faculty and graduate student fellowship recipients to develop research related to the theme in all of its many broad interpretations.

All IPRH Fellows are expected to maintain residence on the UIUC campus during the award year, and to participate in the program’s annual conference and related activities, including the yearlong Fellows’ Seminar. The Fellows’ Seminar meets approximately every other week, and each meeting is devoted to the work-in-progress of one Fellow, which is circulated in advance to the group and discussed during the seminar.
All Fellows are provided with office space and limited research support by the IPRH.

Faculty Fellows are released from one semester of teaching; they continue to earn sabbatical leave credit and receive their regular salaries from their departments, and the IPRH reimburses departments for all faculty fellowships. Faculty members are asked to teach one course, during the award year or the year immediately following, on a subject related to their fellowship project. Joint applications from faculty members in different departments are encouraged.

Graduate Student Fellows receive a stipend of $7,000 and a tuition and fee waiver if one is not otherwise provided by their home departments. Graduate Fellows may also hold appointments as teaching/research assistants, but those appointments may not exceed one-third time (33 percent).

Since fall 1998, the IPRH has awarded fellowships to 59 faculty and 58 graduate students from thirty departments and programs, ranging from traditional humanities disciplines such as English and History to a diverse array of units including Musicology, Art and Design, Architecture, and Political Science.

Between fall 2002 and spring 2007, the IPRH awarded post-doctoral fellowships to nine external humanities scholars, who spent the fellowship year at the U of I participating in IPRH activities and teaching one course in the appropriate department (departments included English, History, Religious Studies, and Anthropology). The Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Program was discontinued in 2007 because of budget cuts.

Faculty Fellows

Jonathan Ebel, Program for the Study of Religion
Faith in the Fight: The Great War and the Religion of the American Soldier

Jed Esty, Department of English
Tropics of Youth:  The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity

Ellen Moodie, Department of Anthropology
Democracy and Security after the Cold War:  Shifting Meanings of Violence in Postwar El Salvador

Lisa Nakamura, Institute of Communications Research / Asian American Studies Program
Interfaces of Identity:  Telematic Profiling and Cultural Difference in Digital Visual Media

Marc D. Perry, Department of Anthropology / African American Studies Program
Critical Blackness and the State:  Hip Hop in Late Socialist Cuba

Renee R. Trilling, Department of English / Program in Medieval Studies
Unto the Breach:  Rupture, Continuity, and the Anglicization of Norman History

Graduate Student Fellows

Kevin Coe, Department of Speech Communication – Nicholson-IPRH Fellow
Why We Fight:  Presidential Justifications for War from WWII to Iraq

Melissa Free, Department of English
Elsewhere England: Late Colonial South Africa, British Identity, and the Authorial Informant

William Hope, Department of Anthropology
“Donde nace lo cubano”:  Aesthetics, Nationalist Sentiment, and Cuban Music Making

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Department of History – Nicholson-IPRH Fellow
The Rise of a Punishing Logic:  The Punitive Turn in American Criminal and Social Welfare Policy, 1968-1980

Jin-kyung Park, Institute of Communications Research
Constructing Racial “Backwardness”:  Colonial Governance, Medicine, Female Reproductive Physiology, and Conjugality in Colonial Korea

Victor Pickard, Institute of Communications Research
Media Democracy Deferred:  Rupture and Resolution in U.S. Communications Policy, 1945-1949

James H. Warren, Department of History
Empire and Anxiety:  Colonial Revolutions, Public Men, and the Idea of Authority in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain

Hui Xiao, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Rupturing Modernity, Engendering Interiority:  Divorce in Post-Mao Chinese Literature and Culture

2006-07: Beauty

Faculty Fellows

Brett Kaplan, Comparative and World Literature
Landscape and Holocaust Postmemory

Richard Mohr, Philosophy
Beauty, Goodness, Love, and Sexuality in Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus

Isabel Molina, Institute of Communications Research
Consuming Latina Bodies and the Racialized Politics of Beauty

Ned O’Gorman, Speech Communication
Catastrophic Vistas: Discourse about Disaster in Cold War America and the American Sublime

Deke Weaver, Art and Design
The Palimpsest Project

Yutian Wong, Asian American Studies/Dance
Choreographing Asian America: Club O’ Noodles and Other Mis-Acts

Graduate Student Fellows

Sarah Dennis, English
Prose for Art’s Sake: Creating and Documenting an American Aesthetic, 1820-1900

Aisha Durham, Institute of Communications Research
Beauty as the Beast: Un/Desirable Iconic Black Female Bodies in Popular Culture

Danielle Kinsey, History
Modern Imperial Beauty: Diamonds and the Production of Taste in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Anthony Perman, Musicology
Hearing an Ndau Past: The Semiotics of Music, History, and Affect in Ndau Drumming Styles in Zimbabwe

Julia Sienkewicz, Art History
Planting Ancient mores on an “untouched” land: Charles Willson Peale’s citizen-building project at Belfield

Polyxeni Strolonga, Classics
The Perils of Beauty and the Aesthetics of Exchange in Greek Poetry

Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow

Elizabeth B. Boyd (Ph.D., American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2000)
Southern Beauty: Performing Region on the Feminine Body

2005-06: Belief

Faculty Fellows

Thomas Albrecht, Art + Design
Extremities: Bodies and Belief Making

Peggy Miller, Speech Communication and Psychology
Self-Esteem in Folk Theory and Practice: How American Parents Embrace and Personalize a Cultural Ideal

Andrew Pickering, Sociology
Cybernetics, Spirituality and Technologies of the Self

Junaid Rana, Asian American Studies
Islamophobia and Racism: An Ethnographic Study of Muslims in Chicago

Bruce Rosenstock, Program for the Study of Religion
Germans, Jews, and the Theologico-Political Question

Gillen D. Wood, English
Sacred Music, Sacred Nation: Handel, George III, and the Making of British National Culture

Graduate Student Fellows

Teresa Gale, Art + Design
Stories of Truth, Stories of Fiction: Shifting Realities in Sound and Image

Robin E. Jensen, Speech Communication
Challenging Beliefs about Sex: The Gendered Rhetoric of Sexual Education Campaigns During the Progressive Era

Tzu-kai Liu, Anthropology
Text, Power and Personhood: Engaging Minority Identities in Post-Socialist China

David McDonald, Musicology
My Voice is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance

Kate Roark, Theatre
Yankee Theatre: Republican Beliefs and Racial Ideology

Michael Rosenow, History
Casualties in the United States’ Industrial Army: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death among Workers, 1877-1918

Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellows

Erica Lehrer (Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2004)
“Shoah-business,” Holocaust Culture, and Salvage Ethnography in a Post-Jewish Landscape: An Inquiry into the Ethnic Self after Genocide

Robert A. Yelle (Ph.D. History of Religions, University of Chicago, 2002)
Legal Fictions: Genealogies of Law, Religion, and Rhetoric

2004-05: Difference

Faculty Fellows

Shefali Chandra, History/Gender and Women’s Studies
Gender and ambivalence in the English ecumene

Frances Gateward, Cinema Studies/Comparative and World Literature
A Different Image: African American Women Film Makers

Dianne Harris, Landscape Architecture
Constructing Identity: Race, Class, and the Ordinary Postwar House, 1945-60

Nichole T. Rustin, Institute of Communications Research/Afro-American Studies
Beyond Category: Jazz, Masculine Difference, Race, and the Emotions in 1950s America

Christian Sandvig, Speech Communication
Within and Without Wireless Internet: Visual Narratives of an Activist Subculture

Graduate Student Fellows

Brett Boutwell, Musicology
Receptive Dissonance: Arbitrating Artistic Meaning in the New York Schools of Music and Painting

Jeremy Engels, Speech Communication
“we can never count with certainty on its tranquil submission”: Or, How Violence Produced and Destroyed Difference in Early America

Marina Levina, Institute of Communications Research
Re-imagining the genetic body: Human Genome Project and the Narratives of Difference in Popular and Scientific Discourses

Daniel Tracy, English
The Circulation of Culture and the Culture of Circulation: Disseminating and Differentiating Modernist Identities

Li-Lin Tseng, Art History
The Difference between the Development of the Silent Films of D.W. Griffith and Zheng Zhengqiu in the 1920s

Kerry Wynn, History
The Embodiment of Citizenship: Sovereignty and Colonialism in the Cherokee Nation, 1880-1920

Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellows

Becky Conekin (Ph.D., History, University of Michigan, 1998)
Taste Matters: A History of the Notion of Taste in 19th and 20th Century Britain and the United States

R. Jonathan Moore (Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, 2003)
The Devil Went Down to Hoopeston: Pagans, Cornjerkers, and American Identity

2003-2004: Violence

Faculty Fellows

Ravinder Bhavnani, Political Science
Repeat After Me: Communal Violence and the Politics of Rumors

Andrea Goulet, French/Robert Rushing, Comparative Literature (joint project)
Bloody Crimes and Bloodless Fictions: The Erasure and Return of Violence in Modern European Detective Narratives

Philip Graham, English
Dreaming the Towers: The Interior Landscapes of 9/11

Stephen Hartnett, Speech Communication
Executing Democracy: Arguing About Capital Punishment in America, 1683-1845

Michael Rothberg, English
W.E.B. DuBois in Warsaw: The Holocaust, Colonialism, and the Legacies of Violence

Graduate Student Fellows

Jennifer C. Edwards, History
Communal Bodies: Engendering Violence in the Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers

Stephen Hageman, History
“This Is a Terrible Thing”: Violence, Class, Gender, Sex, and Racial Integration in Chicago, 1960-1970

Jin-hee Lee, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Collective Violence, Competing Narratives: Re-Membering the Colonized in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in the Japanese Empire

Joseph L. Swenson, Philosophy
Violence and its Vicissitudes: Towards a New Theory of Sublimation

Jeffrey S. Sychterz, English
“Not Always Carrion”: Representing the Battlefield Corpse in Twentieth-Century War Poetry

Joy Sather-Wagstaff, Anthropolgoy
Sites/Sights of Violence: Trauma Tourism and the (Re)Production of Memory and Identity in the Age of Photographic Hyperproduction

Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellows

Lisa Marie Cacho (Ph.D. Latina/o Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2002)
Telling Ghost Stories: Knowing Ourselves Through Others’ Historical Hauntings

Darren Mulloy (Ph.D. American Studies, University of East Anglia, UK, 2002)
Violence and the American Militia Movement

Faculty Fellows

Nancy Castro, English
A Southern Problem Writ Large: The Caribbean as U.S. Laboratory

S. Max Edelson, History
Developing Plantation America: The Politics of Territorial Expansion in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica, 1607-1776

Zsuzsanna Fagyal, French
Assimilation or clash? Contemporary Parisian French in contact with immigrant languages from the South

Lauren M.E. Goodlad, English
Victorian Literature and Liberal Internationalism: British Encounters with the South

Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Diagonal Australity: Southern Identities in Argentine Culture

Shannon O’Lear, Geography
Environmental and Human Security in “The South”: The Case of Azerbaijan

Graduate Student Fellows

Jonathan Coit, History
Racial Boundaries, Racial Violence: Chicago, 1916-1922

Sherita Lavon Johnson, English
To Speak and Be Heard: Representing Black Southern Women in American Literature

Samuel Martland, History
Southern Progress: Constructing Urban Improvement in Valparaìso, Chile, 1840-1918

Giovanna Micarelli, Anthropology
The Development of Industry and Indigenous Processes of Cultural Reaffirmation in Colombian Amazonia

Phoebe Wolfskill, Art History
The Lure of the South in Paintings by Archibald Motley, Jr.

Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellows

Elizabeth Duquette (Ph.D. English, New York University, 1998)
Successful Conversions: The Problems of Moral Allegiance in Postbellum America

Sophia Mihic (Ph.D. Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1999)
The American South as Ghetto, The Politics of “Race” in the United States as Problem

2001-2002: The Means of Reproduction

Faculty Fellows

Richard Burkhardt, History
Reproducing in Captivity

David O’Brien, Art History
Colonial Reproduction: Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century French Painting and Photography

Leslie J. Reagan, History
Ambiguous Motherhood: The Impact and Investigation of Miscarriage in Twentieth-Century America

Simona Sawhney, Comparative Literature
The Path of Work: Sanskrit Literature and Modernity

Lawrence R. Schehr, French
Gay Reproduction

Graduate Student Fellows

Joshua Eckhardt, English
Poetics of Social Reproduction in Early Modern England

Ruth L. Fairbanks, History
Pregnant Workers: Women’s Jobs, Women’s Bodies, Welfare and Equality, 1940-1993

Stacey A. Jocoy, Musicology
Decoding Musical Resistance: Popular Music in England’s Civil Wars and Commonwealth

Elizabeth Klett, English
Re-producing Shakespeare, Engendering Anxiety: Contemporary Women’s Performances of Male Shakespearean Roles

Jesook Song, Anthropology
South Korean “Productive Welfarism” 1997-2000: The Reproduction of Heteronormative Familism

2000-2001: Cities

Faculty Fellows

Sharon Irish, Architecture
Intimacy and Monumentality in Urban Public Spaces

Alejandro Lugo, Anthropology
Urban Order, Death, and the Possibility of Counter-Surveillance in a Border City

William Maxwell, English/Joseph Valente, English (joint project)
Metrocolonial Capitals of Renaissance Modernism: Dublin’s “New Ireland” and Harlem’s “Mecca of the New Negro”

Robert Ousterhout, Architecture
Constantinople and the Construction of Medieval Urbanism

Helaine Silverman, Anthropology
Urban Space and Place in an Imagined Past: A Study of Tourist Cities in Peru

Mark D. Steinberg, History
St. Petersburg, Fin-de-Siècle

Graduate Student Fellows

Rebecca Bryant, Musicology
Shaking Big Shoulders: Popular Music and Dance Culture in Chicago, 1910-1925

Sace Elder, History
Murder Scenes: Violence in the Public Culture and Private Lives of Weimar Berlin

Serife Genis, Sociology
The Making of a Global City and Its Discontents: Globalization in Istanbul and Changing Discourses on Squatters

Jane T. Kuntz, French
AuthentiCity: Assia Djebar’s Women in Algiers

Shawn Miklaucic, Institute of Communications Research
Images of the Simulated City: Virtual Real(i)ty, Sim City, and the Production of Urban Hyperspace

Gretchen Soderlund, Institute of Communications Research
Sex Panics and City Papers: “White Slavery” and Journalistic Objectivity in New York, 1910-1920

1999-2000: Institutions of the Visual

Faculty Fellows

James Hay, Speech Communication
Articulated Places: Screen Media and Social Space

Anne D. Hedeman, Art History
Notarial and Secretarial Culture, 1365-1483

Armine Kotin Mortimer, French
Paradise on TV: Philippe Sollers and Video Art

Cary Nelson, English
The Visual Discourses of the Spanish Civil War

Julia Saville, English
Bathing Boys: An Aesthetics of the Male Nude in Victorian Poetry, Painting, and Photography

Linda Scott, Advertising
Commercial Canon

Graduate Student Fellows

Jason G. Karlin, History
Representing the Nation: Taste, Nostalgia, and Aestheticism in Imperial Japan

Niranjan S. Karnik, Sociology/Medicine
International Humanitarian Organizations and Fundraising Depictions of Children

Guisela M. Latorre, Art History
Indians in Mexican Photography: The Rise and Expansion of Post-Revolutionary Discourses on Indigenism

Lynnea Magnuson, History
“The Advance Picket of Civilization”: Gender, Expansionism, and the American Frontier (1830s-1840s)

Faculty Fellows

Brenda M. Farnell, Anthropology
Postindian Strategies of Survival in Native American Performance Arts

Matt Garcia, History
“A World of Its Own”: Intercultural Relations in the Citrus Belt of Southern California, 1900-1960

Zine Magubane, Sociology
The Diaspora Writes B(l)ack: The Influences of African American Aesthetics in South African Cultural Production, 1880-Present

Joseph Squier, Art and Design
Artists and the Digital Diaspora: Community, Identity, and Expression in the Electronic Age

Zohreh Sullivan, English
Postcolonial Narratives of Diaspora

Angharad N. Valdivia, Institute of Communications Research
Will the Real Salsera/os Please Stand Up! The Local Side of Identity and Diaspora

Graduate Student Fellows

Kevin Carollo, Comparative Literature
Literary Homelessness and Ambivalent Homelands

Gregory Diethrich, Music
“When the Drums Speak, We Know Who We Are”: Music and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora of Trinidad

Sascha L. Goluboff, Anthropology
Jewish Others and Other Jews: The Performance of Ethnicity Among Mountain, Russian, Georgian, and Bukharan Jews of the Moscow Choral Synagogue

Dana E. Katz, Art History
The Visual Rhetoric of Jews and Despots in Fifteenth-Century North Italian Painting

Kathleen A. Mapes, History
Defining the Boundaries: Land, Labor, Capital, and Community in the Midwestern Sugar-Beet Industry 1898-1945