Postdoctoral Fellows
The Humanities Research Center provides a home for postdoctoral fellows from across the School of Humanities.
On August 1, 2023, we welcomed the following new Humanities Research Center postdoctoral fellow for SlaveVoyages:
Alexandre Pelegrino (PhD, Vanderbilt University ’23), whose scholarship incorporates Afro-Indigenous people’s entanglements in colonial empires to offer new insight into the Atlantic World
We are pleased the following HRC postdoctoral fellows will continue their appointments in 2023-2024.
Carlos Kelly (PhD, Ohio State University ’22)
Humanities Research Center postdoctoral fellow in Latinx Arts, Literatures, Cultures or Religions
Michael Schwarz (PhD, Northwestern University ’22)
Humanities Research Center postdoctoral fellow in Law, Political Thought and the Humanities
The HRC provides work space and opportunities for interaction and sharing of scholarship for all of the postdoctoral fellows in the School of Humanities. Continuing fellows, funded by their host programs, centers or departments include:
Devin T. Mays (MFA, University of Chicago ’16)
Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning Fellow in the Humanities and the Arts
Tesla Cariani (PhD, Emory University ’21)
Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality postdoctoral fellow
Newly arriving postdoctoral fellows in Fall 2023 include:
Ablie Jabang (PhD, Michigan State University ’23)
Department of History postdoctoral fellow in Modern African Environmental History
Mendel Kranz (PhD, University of Chicago ’23)
Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies
Katherine Shwetz (PhD, University of Toronto ’21)
Medical Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow