The UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI) selected eleven faculty members, dissertation scholars, and visiting scholars for 2019-2020 fellowship awards.

During the academic year, the fellows will be in residence at UCHI pursuing research and each will present a public lecture about their scholarship.

“Providing time, space, and community for humanities scholars to pursue their research and explore collaborations with their fellows is some of the most important work we do at UCHI,” says Alexis Boylan, professor of art and art history and director of academic affairs at UCHI. “Our fellows have gone on to receive support for their work from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim Foundations, and we are thrilled to welcome yet another group of fellows for next year.”

UConn faculty:

• Emma Amador, assistant professor of history and Latinx Studies, “Contesting Colonialism: Puerto Ricans and the Politics of Welfare in the 20^th Century.”
• Alexander Anievas, assistant professor of political science, “Race to Rollback: Far-Right Power in America’s Global Cold War.”
• Andrea Celli, assistant professor of literatures, cultures and languages, “Hagar the Outcast. Reappraisals of a Biblical Theme in the Context of Post-Tridentine Culture.”
• Patricia Morgne Cramer, associate professor of English, “What Are the Wild Waves Saying: Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury, and the Public Schools.”
• Debapriya Sarkar, assistant professor of English and maritime studies, “Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science.”
• Nu-Anh Tran, assistant professor of history and Asian and Asian American Studies, “Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalists in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963.”

UConn dissertation scholars:

• Nathan Braccio, history, James L. and Shirley A. Draper fellowship, “Parallel Landscapes: Algonquian and English Spatial Understandings of New England, 1500-1700.”
• Hayley Stefan, English, “Writing National Tragedies: Race and Disability in Contemporary U.S. Literature and Culture.”
• Jessica Strom, history, “Financing Revolution: Adriano Lemmi and the Struggle for Italian Unification.”

Visiting fellows:

• Daniel Cohen, history at Case Western Reserve University, “Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memories in America’s Civil War Generation.”
• Kornel Chang, history at Rutgers University, “The Lost Dreams of Liberation: A Story of Decolonization in U.S.-Occupied Korea, 1945-1948.”

The mission of UCHI is to promote research on these questions, and to act as a voice for that research on the regional, national and international stage. In hosting annual residential fellowships, offering opportunities for humanities-focused programming, and fostering an interdisciplinary space for scholars to think, collaborate, and create, the Institute serves as a global hub for scholars dedicated to humanist scholarship and activism. UCHI seeks to inspire and support scholars at all levels and across disciplines to take on the critical and public task of humanistic inquiry.