HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER

Postdoctoral Associates

Humanities Research Center Postdoctoral and Post-MFA Associates


2025–26

Steven Gubka (PhD, University of Texas at Austin ’22)
Humanities Research Center Postdoctoral Associate in Ethics of Technology (Department of Philosophy)

Vic Overdorf (PhD, Indiana University Bloomington ’23)
Humanities Research Center Postdoctoral Associate in Gender and Science (Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

Rebecca Potts (PhD, Yale University ’25)
Humanities Research Center Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental Humanities (Center for Environmental Studies)

Ella Rosenblatt (MFA, California Institute of the Arts ’24)
Humanities Research Center Post-MFA Fellow in Art and Digital Media (Department of Art)

School of Humanities Postdoctoral Associates

The HRC provides work space and opportunities for interaction and sharing of scholarship for all of the postdoctoral associates in the School of Humanities and postdoctoral associates working in humanistic fields across Rice University.

2025–26

Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS)
Ayodeji Olugbuyiro (PhD, Ohio State University)
Dr. Anthony Pinn Postdoctoral Associate

Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (CSWGS)
Anzi Dong (PhD, Arizona State University '24)
Postdoctoral Associate

Computer Science
Julia Huggins (PhD, Brown University ’24)
Postdoctoral Associate, Technology, Culture, and Society Initiative

Department of Art History
Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti (PhD, Rhodes University)
Nancy and Robert J. Carney Postdoctoral Associate

Medical Humanities Program
Samin Rashidbeigi (PhD, Princeton University '24)
Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Associate

Katherine Shwetz (PhD, University of Toronto '21)
Postdoctoral Associate

Program in Jewish Studies
Ido Telem (PhD, University of Chicago ’25)
Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Postdoctoral Associate

Recent HRC Alumni

2023–24

Alexandre Pelegrino (PhD, Vanderbilt University ’23)
Humanities Research Center Postdoctoral Associate for SlaveVoyages
Placement: Assistant Professor of History, University of Toronto

2022–24

Carlos Kelly (PhD, Ohio State University ’22)
Humanities Research Center Postdoctoral Associate in Latinx Arts, Literatures, Cultures or Religions
Placement: Assistant Professor of English, Kennesaw State University

Michael Schwarz (PhD, Northwestern University ’22)
Humanities Research Center Postdoctoral Associate in Law, Political Thought and the Humanities
Placement: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Emory University