Marilyn Marrs Gillet International Travel Fellowship

Thank you for your interest in the Marilyn Marrs Gillet International Travel Fellowship.

As of Spring 2026, the Gillet funds will be used toward competitive sixth-year funding through the Dean's Office.

Please direct travel funding requests you'd submit to the Gillet Fellowship to the Dean's Fund: https://humanities.rice.edu/graduate-research-funding.

2025 Fellows

Agnibha Banerjee

PhD student in English
Project: “On Objects and Borders: A New Materialist Approach to the Partition of Bengal”

Logan Buffa

PhD student in History
Project: “Hell on Devil's Isle: Indian Slavery in Atlantic Bermuda”

V. A. Lundquist

PhD student in English
Project: “Space, Place, and Placelessness: Imagining the Future in Global Asian Anglophone Novels of Authoritarianism”

Taylin Nelson

PhD student in English
Project: “Disruptive Encounters in the Adaptive World, 1625 - 1789”

2024 Fellows

Mariah A-K Bender

PhD student in History
Project: “Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Colombia and Panama”

Dallin Evans

PhD student in Art History
Project: “Arabic Immersion and Fatamid Precedents in Cairo”

Lauren Lovings-Gomez

PhD student in Art History
Project: “Materiality, Innovation, and Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century Britain”