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MEET OUR 2024 FELLOWS

African Studies

Wale Adebanwi, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Fort Washington, PA.

American Literature

Heather Cass White, Professor of English, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.

Anthropology & Cultural Studies

Carl Knappett, Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair of Aegean Prehistory, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Laura A. Ogden, Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, South Strafford, VT. 

Douglas Rogers, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Deborah A. Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Applied Mathematics

Paul Newton, Professor, Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Architecture, Planning, & Design

Paul Hardin Kapp, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chatham, VA.

Astronomy–Astrophysics

Marc Kamionkowski, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 

Biography

Nicholas Frankel, Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Biology

Alison M. Bell, Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

Robert M. Pringle, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Corina E. Tarnita, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Chemistry

Chad A. Mirkin, Professor and Director, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Teri W. Odom, Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. 

Choreography

Rosie Herrera, Choreographer, Miami Beach, Florida.

Ryan K. Johnson, Choreographer, Columbus, Ohio.

Hari Krishnan, Professor, Department of Dance, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

Rebecca Lazier, Professor of the Practice, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Victor Quijada, Choreographer, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 

amara tabor-smith, Artist in Residence, Stanford University, Oakland, CA.

Abby Zbikowski, Associate Professor of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

Classics

Gretchen Reydams-Schils, Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.

Andrew M. Riggsby, Lucy Shoe Meritt Professor in Classics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

Computer Science

Gene Tsudik, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.

Constitutional Studies

Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Hopewell, NJ.

Dance Studies

Emily Wilcox, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

Data Science

Martin J. Wainwright, Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Drama & Performance Art

Joshua Harmon, Dramatist, New York, NY

Modesto Jimenez, Dramatist, Ridgewood, NY.

Martyna Majok, Dramatist, New York, NY.

James Scruggs, Dramatist, Plainfield, NJ. 

Caridad Svich, Dramatist & Part-Time Lecturer, Department of English, Rutgers University, New York, NY.

Earth Science

Eric Steig, Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

East Asian Studies

Anna M. Shields, Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Education

Carola Suárez-Orozco, Professor in Residence, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Boston, MA.

Engineering

Vivek K. Goyal, Professor and Associate Chair of Doctoral Programs, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Cambridge, MA. 

Petia M. Vlahovska, Professor, Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

European & Latin American History

John Connelly, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, Kensington, CA. 

Martin Nesvig, Professor, Department of History, University of Miami, Miami Beach, FL.

European & Latin American Literature

Martin Munro, Eminent Scholar, Winthrop-King Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Tallahassee, FL.

Fiction

Camille Bordas, Writer, Chicago, IL. 

Jamel Brinkley, Writer & Assistant Professor, Writers Workshop, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.

Emma Cline, Writer, Los Angeles, CA.

Laird Hunt, Writer & Professor of Literary Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI.

Julia Phillips, Writer, Brooklyn, NY.

Kirstin Valdez Quade, Writer & Associate Professor of English, Stanford University, Brooklyn, NY.

Emma Straub, Writer, Brooklyn, NY.

Justin Torres, Writer & Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

Film-Video

Itziar Barrio, Filmmaker & Faculty, School of Visual Arts; Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, Brooklyn, NY. 

Jessica Beshir, Filmmaker, Brooklyn, NY.

Garrett Bradley, Filmmaker, New Orleans, LA.

Lilli Carré, Filmmaker & Special Faculty, Experimental Animation Program, California Institute of the Arts, Glendale, CA. 

Jude Chehab, Filmmaker, Richmond Hill, NY.

Ariana Gerstein, Filmmaker & Professor, Graduate Director, Cinema Department, Binghamton University, Vestal, NY.

Juan Pablo González, Filmmaker & Faculty, School of Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts, Glendale, CA.

Ben Hagari, Filmmaker & Lecturer, Yale School of Art, Yale University, Brooklyn, NY.

Shadi Harouni, Filmmaker & Assistant Professor and Head of Video and Photography, New York University, New York, NY.

Baba Hillman, Filmmaker & Professor Emerita of Film, Hampshire College, Croom, Maryland. 

Crystal Kayiza, Filmmaker, Brooklyn, NY.

Won Ju Lim, Filmmaker & Lecturer, Department of Art, University of California, Riverside, Highland Park, CA. 

Loira Limbal, Filmmaker, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana, Filmmaker, Denver, CO.

Jennifer Redfearn, Filmmaker & Director of the Documentary Program, University of California, Berkeley, Richmond, CA. 

Shengze Zhu, Filmmaker, Chicago, IL.

Film, Video, & New Media Studies

Jonathan Sterne, James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Fine Arts

Sónia Almeida, Artist & Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, Arlington, MA.

Kim Anno, Artist & Professor, California College of the Arts, Berkeley, CA. 

Anna Betbeze, Artist & Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of California, Riverside, Los Angeles, CA.

Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn, Artist & Adjunct Instructor, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

Rebeca Bollinger, Artist, San Francisco, CA.

Ben Thorp Brown, Artist, Brooklyn, NY.

Mike Cloud, Artist & Associate Professor, Department of Art, Theory & Practice, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

Lewis deSoto, Artist, Napa, CA.

Adama Delphine Fawundu, Artist & Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia University in the City of New York, Brooklyn, NY. 

Nicholas Galanin, Artist, Sitka, AK.

Guillermo Galindo, Artist & Senior Adjunct Professor, Critical Ethnic Studies Program, California College of the Arts, Berkeley, CA.

Antonietta Grassi, Artist & Faculty, Department of Visual Arts, Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Léonie Guyer, Artist, San Francisco, CA.

Bang Geul Han, Artist & Associate Professor, College of Staten Island, Brooklyn, NY. 

Lotus L. Kang, Artist & Faculty, Sculpture, Bard College, Brooklyn, NY.

Nicola López, Artist & Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia University in the City of New York, Brooklyn, NY.

Park McArthur, Artist & Tepper Family Endowed Chair, Department of Art and Design, Rutgers University, Highland Park, NJ. 

Harold Mendez, Artist, Los Angeles, CA.

Taji Ra’oof Nahl, Artist, Philadelphia, PA.

Lorraine O’Grady, Artist, New York, NY. 

Lamar Peterson, Artist & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Anders Herwald Ruhwald, Artist, Chicago, IL.

Carrie Schneider, Artist, Hudson, NY.

Jennifer Sirey, Artist, Brooklyn, NY.

Arvie Smith, Artist, Portland, OR.

jackie sumell, Artist, New Orleans, LA.

Dyani White Hawk, Artist, Shakopee, MN.

Susan York, Artist, Santa Fe, NM.

Fine Arts Research

Claire Bishop, Presidential Professor, PhD Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

Laura U. Marks, Grant Strate University Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Alexander Nagel, Craig Hugh Smyth Professor of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY. 

Amara Solari, Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 

Krista Thompson, Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History,  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. 

General Nonfiction

Jonathan Alter, Writer, Montclair, NJ.

Thomas Beller, Writer & Associate Professor, Tulane University, New York, NY. 

Jefferson Cowie, Writer & James G. Stahlman Chair in American History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

David Mura, Writer, Minneapolis, MN.

Beth Nguyen, Writer &  Dorothy Draheim Professor of English, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI.

Jennifer Raff, Writer & Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 

Sonia Shah, Writer, Baltimore, MD.

Christina Sharpe, Writer & Professor, Canada Research Chair, Department of Humanities, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

Adam Shatz, Writer, Brooklyn, NY.

James Wood, Writer & Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Geography & Environmental Studies

Robert Kopp, Distinguished Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Highland Park, NJ. 

Emily T. Yeh, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO.

 

History of Science, Technology, & Economics

Angela N. H. Creager, Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 

Dániel Margócsy, Professor in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Intellectual & Cultural History

Matthew Pratt Guterl, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI.  

Vincent W. Lloyd, Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA.

Tiya Miles, Michael Garvey Professor of History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Law

Thomas M. Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law & Politics, Department of Political Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

Linguistics

Joseph F. Eska, Professor, Department of English, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.

Literary Criticism

Bruno Bosteels, Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY. 

Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University, Hamden, CT. 

Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and the College, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Roy Scranton, Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.

Mathematics

Henri Darmon, Distinguished James McGill Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Medicine & Health

Cassandra L. Quave, Associate Professor of Dermatology and Human Health, Emory University, Decatur, GA.

Medieval & Early Modern Studies

Brian A. Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO.

Music Composition

Utku Asuroglu, Composer & Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Composition, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Nicolás Lell Benavides, Composer & Lecturer, Composition / Theory & Analysis, University of Southern California, Signal Hill, CA.

Kui Dong, Composer & Professor of Music, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

Kate Gentile, Composer, Brooklyn, NY. 

Rodney Jones, Composer, Danbury, CT. 

Yoon-Ji Lee, Composer & Assistant Professor in Composition, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA.

Aruán Ortiz, Composer, Easthampton, MA. 

Luis Quintana, Composer, Paris, France.

Nicole Rampersaud, Composer, Southampton, New Brunswick, Canada. 

Bekah Simms, Composer & Lecturer in Composition, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, UK.  

Anthony Tidd, Composer, New York, NY. 

Julia Wolfe, Composer & Professor of Music Composition, New York University, New York, NY. 

Theresa Wong, Composer, Berkeley, CA.  

Wang Xi, Composer & Associate Professor of Composition/Theory, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.

Music Research

Nina Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Amy Lynn Wlodarski, Charles A. Dana Professor of Music, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.

Neuroscience

Roger Philip Levy, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Somerville, MA.

Philosophy

Jenann Ismael, William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 

Barbara Montero, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, New York, NY.

Photography

Sara Bennett, Photographer, Brooklyn, NY. 

Matthew Brandt, Photographer, Playa del Rey, California.  

Carlos Diaz, Photographer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Photography, College for Creative Studies, Brighton, MI.  

Joanne Dugan, Photographer, New York, NY.  

Lisa Elmaleh, Photographer, Paw Paw, WV.  

Lucas Foglia, Photographer & Adjunct II Professor, Graduate Fine Arts Program, California College of the Arts, Berkeley, CA.  

Dylan Hausthor, Photographer, Peaks Island, ME.

Katherine Hubbard, Photographer & MFA Program Director, Associate Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Stone Ridge, NY. 

Tarrah Krajnak, Photographer & Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

Rachelle Mozman Solano, Photographer & Professor of the Practice, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Brooklyn, NY.

Gina Osterloh, Photographer & Associate Professor of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Arthur Ou, Photographer & Associate Professor of Photography, The New School, Woodside, NY.

Ahndraya Parlato, Photographer & Dr. Ronald Francis/Mabel Francis Professor, School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

Greta Pratt, Photographer, Norfolk, VA.

Margaret Mary Stratton, Photographer, Camano Island, WA.

Leonard Suryajaya, Photographer, Chicago, IL.

Ada Trillo, Photographer, Philadelphia, PA.

Physics

Tracy R. Slatyer, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Poetry

Kaveh Akbar, Poet & Associate Professor, Director of the Undergraduate English and Creative Writing Major, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. 

Jos Charles, Poet & Visiting Creative Writing Instructor, University of California, Riverside, Long Beach, CA. 

Elaine Equi, Poet, New York, NY.  

Vievee Francis, Poet & Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College, White River Junction, VT.

Airea D. Matthews, Poet & Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA.

Robyn Schiff, Poet & Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Safiya Sinclair, Poet & Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ. 

Tracy K. Smith, Poet & Professor of English and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Waban, MA. 

Mai Der Vang, Poet & Assistant Professor, Department of English, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA.

Political Science

Kosuke Imai, Professor of Government and of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 

Jessica Pisano, Professor of Politics, The New School, New York, NY.

Religion

Mara H. Benjamin, Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor of Jewish Studies, Mount Holyoke College, Northampton, MA. 

Carol E. Harrison, Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. 

Travis Zadeh, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Science Writing

Jennifer Ackerman, Writer, Charlottesville, VA. 

Ed Yong, Writer, Oakland, CA.

Sociology

Feng Wang, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.

South & Southeast Asian Studies

Nita Kumar, Historian, Varanasi, Upper Pradesh, India. 

Jonathan A. Silk, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Leiden University, Noordwijk, S. Holland, Netherlands.

Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

Jack Halberstam, The David Feinson Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY. 

Tavia Nyong’o, William Lampson Professor of American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Translation

Ryan Bloom, Senior Lecturer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Washington, DC.

U.S. History

Ned Blackhawk, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.  

Elizabeth Hinton, Professor of History, African American Studies, and Law, Yale University, New Haven, CT.  

Christina Snyder, McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University, Boalsburg, PA. P

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