HUMANITIES RESARCH CENTER

Teaching Release Faculty Fellows

A select group of faculty members in the School Humanities and Shepherd School of Music have been awarded one-semester fellowships during the 2022-23 academic year, with the goal of facilitating the initiation, completion, or development of individual or collaborative research projects. Our Faculty Fellows meet regularly to share their research and have the opportunity to initiate other activities, including hosting a speaker or workshop, and convening a reading or writing group, with the support of the HRC.

We congratulate the following Faculty Fellows:

Niki Kasumi Clements | Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Associate Professor, Department of Religion
True Confessions: Foucault in the Archives

Esther Fernandez | Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
Democratizing the Classics in Spain (1975-1982)

Alexandra Kieffer | Associate Professor of Musicology, Department of Music History and Musicology, Shepherd School of Music
Music and the Sacred in Secular Modernity

Brian Ogren | Anna Smith Fine Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, Department of Religion
'Reel' Kabbalah: On Cinematic Representations of Jewish Esoteric Lore

William Suarez-Potts | Associate Professor, Department of History
Law, Sovereignty, and Wealth in Mexico, 1808-1863

Harvey Yunis | Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
Plato's Symposium: Greek Text with Introduction, Literary and Philosophical Commentary, and History of Interpretation


Academic Year 2021-22


Natasha Bowdoin | Associate Professor, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts
Nature as Stage

Leo Costello | Associate Professor, Department of of Art History
Early Turner: The Artist Seen and Unseen in London 1795-1815

Sarah Ellenzweig | Associate Professor, Department of English
Verse, Rhyme, and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century

Sophie Esch | Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
Creatures in Conflict. Writing War Beyond the Human in Africa and Latin America

Charles Siewert | Robert & Kathryn Hayes Chair in Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
Subjectivity and Understanding