Past Awardees

 Manasicha Akepiyapornchai is an Assistant Professor in the Asian Studies Department. Her project is entitled “Faith Across Languages: Multilingual Magazines, Religious Publics, and the Making of Śrīvaiṣṇava Modernity.”

Alex Beasley is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department. His project is entitled “Trading Land Like Stocks: Transnational Investor Real Estate in the U.S. Since the 1960s.”

Rikki Byrd is an Assistant Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department with a courtesy appointment in Art and Art History. Her project is entitled “In Loving Memory: Art, Textiles, and the Sartorial Politics of Mourning.”

Jonathan Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the History Department. His project is entitled “The Vicente and Connie Carranza Online Archive.”

Xisai Song is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department. Her project is entitled “Transnational Flow of Elderly Care: Caregiver Training in Japan.”

Julija Šukys is an Associate Professor in the English Department. Her project is entitled “The Garden as Archive, or How to Cultivate a Planet in Crisis.”

Lara-Sophie Boleslawsky is a Ph.D. candidate in the Religious Studies Department. Her project is entitled “Dilemmas of Discipleship: A Critical Re-evaluation of Anti-Jewish Rhetoric in Bornkamm and Käsemann's Scholarship on the Apostle Paul.”

Chenyu Bu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Philosophy Department. Her project is entitled “Object, Structure, and Abstraction.”

Knowledge Grey Moyo is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History Department. His project is entitled “From Gift to Commodity: The Social Policy of Blood Transfusion in Zimbabwe, 1980–Present.”

Lillian Nagengast is a Ph.D. Candidate in the American Studies Department. Her project is entitled "'The Best Way I Know How': (Re)Making Feminist Possibilities in the Rural Midwest."

Yohad Zacarías S. is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History Department. Her project is entitled “Rural Electrification: Cooperatives, the State, and Transnational Links Between Chile and the U.S., 1945-1980.”

Danielle Sanchez is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department. Her project is entitled “Law and Order in Texas: The Texas Rangers and the Ku Klux Klan, 1900-1930.”

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John Anderson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Classics. His project is entitled "Fragment's of Aristotle's Exoterica."

Danissa Paz Contreras Guzman is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government. Her project is entitled "Vox Populi, Vox Dei: The Rise of the Religious Conservative Left and the Reconfiguration of Political Space in Latin America."

Taylor Renee Joyce is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Linguistics. Her project is entitled "The Experience of Disabled Second Language Learners of American Sign Language."

Eduardo Henrique Gorobets Martins is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History. His project is entitled "Contemporary Nahua Relationships Between Humans and More-Than-Humans in the Huasteca Veracruzana, Mexico."

Sarah Porter is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her project is entitled "Freedom Now! Defending Black Women Political Prisoners, 1945-1975."

Clifton E. Sorrell is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History. His project is entitled "Black Freedom and Sovereignty on the Frontier in the Early Caribbean: Spanish Jamaica 1585-1690." 

Pramit Chaudhuri is a faculty member in the Department of Classics. His project is entitled "Computational Methods for Historical Psychology: A case-study in Latin ca. 200 BCE - 1700 CE."

J. Brent Crosson is a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies. His project is entitled "The Other Anthropocene."

Claire Fitch is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geography & the Environment. Her project is entitled "The Emergent Spatial Imaginaries of Virtual Reality."

Brian Hurley is a faculty member in the Department of Asian Studies. His project is entitled "Market Literacy and the Culture of Cold War Capitalism in Japan."

Jon Erling Litland is a faculty member in the Department of  Philosophy. His project is entitled "Definition: a Novel Account."

Saraswati Nandini Majumdar is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "Contemporary South Asian & Black US Improvisational Poetics."

Sophia Monegro is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. Her project is entitled "Shadow Scholars: A Black Woman’s Archive of Dominican Society."

Avigail Noy is a faculty member in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. Her project is entitled "The Science of Arabic Eloquence: Poetics and Literary Theory in the Islamic World, 1200-1300."

Marina Peterson is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. Her project is entitled "Weathering Uncertainty."

Sam Selsky is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government. His project is entitled "Religious Festivities and Refugee Inclusion in the Developing World: Evidence from Ramadan."
 

Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez is a faculty member in the Department of History. His project is entitled "Empire’s Fabric: The Making and Unmaking of the New Kingdom of Granada."

Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and African and African Diaspora Studies. Her project is entitled "From the Fatherland: Caudillismo Politics in the Caribbean."

Ashley D. Farmer is a faculty member in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. Her project is entitled "Gendering Surveillance: Black Women Activists and the FBI."

Tatjana Lichtenstein is a faculty member in the Department of History. Her project is entitled "Expanding the ‘Final Solution’: The 1944 Deportations of Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia."

Richard Meier is a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics. His project is entitled "Deaf Teachers of the Deaf: The Spread of ASL and Deaf Culture in 19th-century America."

Nahid Siamdoust is a faculty member in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. Her project is entitled "The Politics of Performing Joy in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Publics."

Julia Earle is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology. Her project is entitled "Building the Sacred Valley: Transformations of landscape during the Killke and Inka Periods (ca. 1000 to 1532 CE)."

Jian Gao is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History. His project is entitled "Crossing Borders, Creating Networks: Migration and Emotions in Modern Chinese Mexico."

Taylor Karahan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of American Studies. Her project is entitled "Sites of Unburial: How Ancestral Remains Trouble State and National Narratives in Texas."

Caroline Kraft is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her project is entitled "On the Brink and at the Edge: Writing Women’s Lives from 1838-1948."

Suzanne Nimoh is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geography & the Environment. Her project is entitled "Black Ecological Survival on the Hispaniola Plantation."

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Abimbola Adelakun is a faculty member in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. Her project is entitled "Performing Faith: Politics, Power, and Nigerian Pentecostalism."

Craig Campbell is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. His project is entitled "Tunguska Events: Siberia, Industrialism and the Time of Catastrophe."

Wendy Hunter is a faculty member in the Department of Government. Her project is entitled "Nationalism and the Unmaking of Citizens in the Dominican Republic, Kenya, and India."

Coleman Hutchison is a faculty member in the Department of English. His project is entitled "Dixie Mythologies: Region, Race, Refrain."

Youjeong Oh is a faculty member in the Department of Asian Studies. Her project is entitled "Placing Periphery: Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju, South Korea."

Martha Selby is a faculty member in the Department of South Asian Studies. Her project is entitled "A Complete Translation of Kuruntokai, an Early Old Tamil Anthology."

Kamran Ali is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. His project is entitled "Cinema and the City: Karachi in the 1960s."
Katherine Arens is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Studies. Her project is entitled "Kant in Central Europe: From Minoritarian Philosophy to Critique of Knowledge."
Samy Ayoub is a faculty member in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. His project is entitled "Law and Legal Modernity in Colonial Egypt, 1800-1955."
Alex Beasley is a faculty member in the Department of American Studies. His project is entitled "Expert Capital: Houston and the Making of a Service Empire."
Xiaobo Lu is a faculty member in the Department of Government. His project is entitled "Skeleton of the State: Party Formation, Fiscal Extraction, and State Building in China and Taiwan."
Gesel Mason is a faculty member in the Department of Theatre & Dance and African and African Diaspora Studies. Her project is entitled "No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers."
D. Alex Walthall is a faculty member in the Department of Classics. His project is entitled "Life on the Margins: The University of Texas at Austin Excavations at Morgantina (Sicily)."
Bruce Wells is a faculty member in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. His project is entitled "The Forensic Turn in Ancient Near Eastern Litigation (describing the transition in Mesopotamia from ritual-based litigation procedure to one much more grounded in evidence)."

Vladislav Beronja is a faculty member in the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies. His project is entitled "Unacknowledged Losses: Mourning Memory, and Resistance in the Wake of Yugoslavia."
Ashley Farmer is a faculty member in the Department of History and African & African Diaspora Studies. Her project is entitled "Queen Mother Moore: Biography of a Black Internationalist."
Jonathan Kaplan is a faculty member in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. His project is entitled "The Bibilical Jubilee and Ancient Utopian Visions of Liberty."
Donna Kornhaber is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "Women's Work: The Female Screenwriter and the Development of Early American Film."
Kelly McDonough is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Her project is entitled "Indigenous Science and Technologies of Mexico Past and Present."
Julia Mickenberg is a faculty member in the Department of American Studies. Her project is entitled "Eve Merriam and the Way We Were."
Joan Neuberger is a faculty member in the Department of History. Her project is entitled "Sergei Eisenstein, The Feeling of Landscape, and a Socialist Politics of the Arts."

Jennifer-Kate Barret is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "Pandora's Clock: Contingent Ethics in Renaissance English Literature."
Deborah Beck is a faculty member in the Department of Classics. Her project is entitled "The Stories of Epic Similes."
Brent Crosson is a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies. His project is entitled "The Other Anthropocene: Race, Energy, and Fossil Fuel Cosmologies in Trinidad."
Joshua Frens-String is a faculty member in the Department of History. His project is entitled "Hungry for Revolution: Food, Land, and Labor in the Making of Modern Chile."
Courtney Handman is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. Her project is entitled "Unnatural languages: technological and colonial fears at the limits of the human."
Geraldine Heng is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE."
David Kornhaber is a faculty member in the Department of English. His project is entitled "Tragedy and Postmodernity in Anglo-American Drama."
Cory Reed is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. His project is entitled "Embodied Cognition, Empathy, and Activism in Early Modern Spanish Theatrical Performance."
Sonia Roncador is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Her project is entitled "Luso-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies; Cultural History and Anthropology; Hemisphere Studies."

Janine Barchas is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "The Lost Books of Jane Austen: Case Studies in Editing, Reception History, and Cover Art."
Janet Davis is a faculty member in the Department of American Studies. Her project is entitled "Jawsmania: A History."
Lauren Gutterman is a faculty member in the Department of American Studies. Her project is entitled "Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage."
Heather Houser is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "Environmental Culture of the 'Infowhelm'."
Julie Minich is a faculty member in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies. Her project is entitled "Enforceable Care: Health, Justice, and Latina/o Expressive Culture."
Gretchen Murphy is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "Disestablishing Virtue: Federalism, Religion, and New England Women Writers."
Abena Osseo-Asare is a faculty member in the Department of History. Her project is entitled "Particles in Bodies: Historical Perspectives on Radiation and Health in Ghana."
Gabriela Polit is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her project is entitled "Unwanted Witnesses: Journalism and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America."
Bartholomew Sparrow is a faculty member in the Department of Government. His project is entitled "Unequal at the Founding: Indentured Servants, Poor Whites, and the Legacy of Colonial America."
Sam Vong is a faculty member in the Department of History. His project is entitled "Geopolitics of Compassion: The International History of Southeast Asian Refugees after the Vietnam War, 1960s-1990s."
Jennifer Wilks is a faculty member in the Department of English and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. Her project is entitled "Diasporic Carmens."

Daniel Birkholz is a faculty member in the Department of English. His project is entitled "We Have to Invent Him: Harley Lyrics, Hereford Maps, and the Life of Roger de Breynton, c. 1290-1351."
Paola Bonifazio is a faculty member in the Department of French and Italian. Her project is entitled "Women's Popular Culture in Italy, 1948-1968."
Danny Law is a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics. His project is entitled "Structure and Authority in Classic and Colonial Mayan Texts."
Minkah Makalani is a faculty member in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. His project is entitled "Calypso Conquered the World: C.L.R. James and the Politically Unimaginable in the Trinidadian Postcolony."
Sandro Sessarego is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His project is entitled "Chocó Spanish and Veracruz Spanish: African Diaspora and Creole Genesis."
Shirley Thompson is a faculty member in the Department of American Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies. Her project is entitled "No More Auction Block for Me: African Americans and the Problem of Property."
Per Urlaub is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Studies. His project is entitled "Literary Reading in the Second Language: Theoretical Considerations and Curricular Implications."

Pascale Bos is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Studies. Her project is entitled "Between History and Imagination: Nazi Sexual Violence in the Literature of the Holocaust."
Jennifer Graber is a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies. Her project is entitled "Forged in Empire: Indian and American Religious Worlds, 1803–1903."
Benjamin Gregg is a faculty member in the Department of Government. His project is entitled "Genetic Manipulation of Human Embryos: Moral Dilemmas, Humanistic Answers."
Peter Hess is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Studies. His project is entitled "Mapping Emerging Modernity: Crisis, Transgression, Discipline, and Ordering in Early Modern German Literature."
Lars Hinrichs is a faculty member in the Department of English. His project is entitled "Variation in Texas English: Diversity and Changing Cultural Identity."
Sofian Merabet is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. His project is entitled "The Queer Archive of the Carlton Hotel Beirut: Documents and Ephemera as a Record of the Human Experience in Colonial Lebanon."
Elizabeth Scala is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "The Early Modern Book Project."
Christen Smith is a faculty member in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology. Her project is entitled "Remembering Beatriz Nascimento: Quilombo, Territoriality, Memory and Black Transcendence."

Marc Bizer is a faculty member in the Department of French and Italian. His project is entitled "The Impossible Choice: Toward a New Definition of the Tragic and Tragedy in France, 1100-1700."
Juliet A. Hooker is a faculty member in the Department of Government. Her project is entitled "Hybrid Traditions: Race in U.S. African-American and Latin American Political Thought."
Randolph R. Lewis is a faculty member in the Department of American Studies. His project is entitled "The Culture of Surveillance: Affect, Power, and Technology."
Marc Pierce is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Studies. His project is entitled "Towards a New History of Germanic Linguistics in North America."
Nancy K. Stalker is a faculty member in the Department of Asian Studies. Her project is entitled "Budding Fortunes: Ikebana, Identity, and Globalization in Modern Japan."
Circe D. Sturm is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. Her project is entitled "Race, Sovereignty, and Civil Rights: The Cherokee Freedmen and the Ongoing Struggle for Tribal Citizenship."
Cynthia M. Talbot is a faculty member in the Department of History. Her project is entitled "Noble Lineages in the Making: Writing Warrior Histories in Mughal India, 1590-1690."
Lisa Thompson is a faculty member in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. Her project is entitled "Performances of Black Cultural Trauma and Memory."
Jeffrey Walker is a faculty member in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition. His project is entitled "The Rhetoric of the Ant: Joseph Rhakendytes' Synopsis of Rhetoric and Ptochoprodromos 4."
Alexandra Wettlaufer is a faculty member in the Department of French and Italian. Her project is entitled "Translating George: Sand, Eliot, and the Novel in France and Britain, 1830-1900."
Hannah C. Wojciehowski is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "Archaeologies of Censorship: Michel Foucault's 1968."

Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her project is entitled "Mediascapes: Literature and New Media Cultures in the Spanish Caribbean."
Kristen Belgum is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Studies. Her project is entitled "Geographical Imagination or How the World Shrank in the Nineteenth Century."
Benjamin Brower is a faculty member in the Department of History. His project is entitled "The Mediterranean Hajj Under French Rule, 1798-1962."
Kirsten Cather is a faculty member in the Department of Asian Studies. Her project is entitled "Scripting Suicide in Modern Japan."
Tarek El-Ariss is a faculty member in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. His project is entitled "Making a Scene: Literature, Social Media, and the Arab Spring."
Huaiyin Li is a faculty member in the Department of History. His project is entitled "China Under Mao: A New Interpretation."
Jeffrey Meikle is a faculty member in the Department of American Studies. His project is entitled "The Cultural Legacy of the Beat Generation:a multidisciplinary study of writers and artists influenced by the Beat writers."
Lisa Moore is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "Selected Poems of Anna Seward - new edition."
Lynn Wilkinson is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Studies. Her project is entitled "A Field of Their Own: Women Intellectuals in Nineteenth-Century Europe."

Katherine Arens is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Studies. Her project is entitled "Austrian Arc/K: A Historical Epistemology of Modern Science."
Arturo Arias is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His project is entitled "Kotz'ib': The Emergence of a New Maya Literature."
Janine Barchas is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity."
Erika Bsumek is a faculty member in the Department of History. Her project is entitled "The Concrete West: Engineering Society and the Culture in the Arid West, 1900-1980."
Luis Carcamo-Huechante is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His project is entitled "On Mapuche Voices and Poetic Economies."
John Hartigan is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. His project is entitled "The Roots of Racial Thinking: A Contemporary and Historical Study of ‘Razas de Maiz.'"
Mark Lawrence is a faculty member in the Department of History. His project is entitled "Broken Promise: The United States and the Developing World in the Crucial Decade."
Julia Mickenberg is a faculty member in the Department of American Studies. Her project is entitled "The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination."
Martha Newman is a faculty member in the Department of History and Religious Studies. Her project is entitled "Miracle and Doubt in Late Twelfth-Century Monasticism."
Gabriela Polit-Dueñas is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her project is entitled "Fictions of Drugs: Stories from Culiacan, Medellin and La Paz."

Hans Boas is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Studies. His project is entitled "Linguistic Infrastructure in Texas: Past potentials, current challenges, and future opportunities."
Yoav Di-Capua is a faculty member in the Department of History. His project is entitled "Arab Thought on the Eve of Dystopia, 1939-1967."
Alison Frazier is a faculty member in the Department of History. Her project is entitled "The Beginning of the World in the Italian Renaissance: Conversations about Creation, 1300-1500."
Karen Grumberg is a faculty member in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages. Her project is entitled "Hebrew Gothic: Narrative, Nation, and the Discourse of Victimization."
Sabine Hake is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Studies. Her project is entitled "Political Affect: The Fascist Imaginary in Postfascist Cinema."
Tracie Matysik is a faculty member in the Department of History. Her project is entitled "Spinoza Matters."
Robert Oppenheim is a faculty member in the Department of Asian Studies. His project is entitled "An intellectual History of Korea and American Anthropology."
Paula Perlman is a faculty member in the Department of Classics. Her project is entitled "The Inscribed Laws of Ancient Crete."
Guy Raffa is a faculty member in the Department of French and Italian. His project is entitled "Dante's Bones."
Marjorie Curry Woods is a faculty member in the Department of English. Her project is entitled "Weeping for Dido: Male Writers and Female Emotions in the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Classroom."

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