Humanities Research Awards

2026-27 HRA

Faculty Awardees

 

Kamran Asdar Ali is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology. His project is entitled "Traditional Futures: The Life and Work of Kamil Khan Mumtaz (A Documentary Film Project)."

Samy Ayoub is an Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. His project is entitled "Inheritance Law and the Legal Afterlives of Slavery in Modern Egypt, 1800-1947."

Casey Boyle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. His project is entitled "Digital Field Methods Incubator."

Emily Drumsta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. Her project is entitled "How Romantic: Poetry, Prosody, and Politics in Modern Arabic Poetry."

Isabelle Headrick is a Professional Track Faculty member at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies. Her project is entitled "A Family in Iran: Networks of Love, Learning and Labor in the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1908-1978."

Kelly McDonough is a Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Her project is entitled "Water on the Record: Nahua Governance, Observation, and Rights in Colonial Cholula."

Valerie McGuire is a Professional Track Faculty member in the Department of European and Eurasian Studies. Her project is entitled "Wine in the Red Crescent: Globalizing Italian Migration to Tunisia and the Maghreb."

A. Azfar Moin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies. His project is entitled "The Chinggisid Charter State: Transformations in Sovereignty across Post-Mongol Eurasia."

Angus Nicholls is a Professor in the Department of European and Eurasian Studies. His project is entitled "The History and Future of the Humanities."

Megan Poole is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric & Writing. Her project is entitled "Ground Truth Initiative: Environmental Memories on the Banks of Boggy Creek."

Nicole Ramsey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. Her project is entitled "Under the Shade I Flourish: Blackness, Performance, and the Belizean Nation."

Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies. His project is entitled "Kinship, Loyalty, and Honor: The Making of a Muslim-Rajput Community in Mughal India."

Pablo E. Requena is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His project is entitled "Narrative Discourse and Meaning Construction in Child Language: A Public Humanities and Experimental Approach."

James Slotta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology. His project is entitled "The Science in Anti-Vaccine Sentiment."

Maria Sidorkina is an Assistant Professor in the Department of European and Eurasian Studies. Her project is entitled "Aesopian Speech Revisited: The Pleasures and Dangers of Political Avoidance in Contemporary Russia."

Craig Stevens is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. His project is entitled "Material Histories in Three Dimensions: Meaningful Encounters and Collaborative Curation with the African Art Collection at AGBS."

Graduate Student Awardees

 

Jessica Alexander is a Graduate Student in the Department of Linguistics. Her project is entitled "Emotional Voices in a Noisy World: Differences in Cognitive Effort Associated with Listening to Happy, Angry, and Neutral Speech."

Laura Botero is a Graduate Student in the Department of Geography and the Environment. Her project is entitled "Engendering Extraction: Bodies, Territories, and Colonial Legacies in an Indigenous Mining Frontier."

Lane Flores is a Graduate Student in the Department of Classics. Their project is entitled "The Rot and the Flower: Aeschylean (De)Composition and Performance Grammar."

Jake A. Garner is a Graduate Student in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. His project is entitled "The Way Along, The Way Across: Kinetic Rhetoric, Transnational Memory, and the Case of The Liberation Route Europe.”

Feiyao Liao is a Graduate Student in the Department of Anthropology. Their project is entitled "Embodiment and Adaptation in Contemporary Freediving."

Juan Sebastián Macías is a Graduate Student in the Department of History. His project is entitled "The Revolutionary Común: Popular Sovereignty and Political Experimentation in the Northern Andes during the Age of Revolutions.”

Charity Ezinne Mba is a Graduate Student in the Department of History. Her project is entitled "Reproductive Body: Fibroids and Diagnostic Technology in Nigeria, 1960-2000."

Darinelle Merced-Calderon is affiliated with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Their project is entitled "Archipelagic Relations: Performance, Diaspora, and Coloniality in the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico."

Levina C. Parada is a Graduate Student in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis. Her project is entitled "The Pursuit of Food Sovereignty: Practicing Agroecology and Forging Interdependence in Vieques, Puerto Rico."

Fernando José Véliz Corado is a Graduate Student in the Department of Geography and the Environment. His project is entitled "Political Landscapes and Community Archaeology at Naranjo, Guatemala.”