HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER

Postdoctoral Fellows

Humanities Research Center Postdoctoral and Post-MFA Fellows


2024–25

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

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

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

2023–24

Alexandre Pelegrino (PhD, Vanderbilt University ’23)
Humanities Research Center Postdoctoral Fellow for SlaveVoyages

2022–24

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

School of Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

The HRC provides work space and opportunities for interaction and sharing of scholarship for all of the postdoctoral fellows in the School of Humanities.

2023–24 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:

Abdoulie 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