Center for Ideas & Society Resident Fellows
2020-21
Crystal Baik
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Reparative Horizons: On Korean American Activisms
Mellon Second Project Fellowship
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Thomas Cogswell
History
The Murder of the Duke of Buckingham and the Transformation of English Political Culture
Mellon Term Professorship
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Gloria Kim
Media & Cultural Studies
The Microbial Resolve: Visualization, Speculation, Security
UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship
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Padma Rangarajan
English
Thug Life: The British Empire and the Birth of Terrorism
Mellon Second Project Fellowship
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Eric Schwitzgebel
Philosophy
Philosophy Meets Science Fiction
Mellon Dean’s Fellowship
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Sherryl Vint
English
The Ethics of Debt: Speculation, Imaginaries, Futures
Mellon Term Professorship
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2019-20
Jody Benjamin
History
The Texture of Change: Cloth, Commerce and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850
NEH Fellowship
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David Biggs
History
Pacific Gyres and the Base Archipelago: An Environmental History of Militarized Circulations in the Pacific, 1945-Present
Mellon Term Professorship
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Marissa Brookes
Political Science
Bringing Labor Back In: How Histories of Conflict Tame Corporate Power Over Time
Second Project Fellowship
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Matthew King
Religious Studies
Faxian and the Invention of Asia
Second Project Fellowship
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Jade Sasser
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Stoves, Fuels, and Women’s Agency in the Global South
Mellon Dean’s Fellowship
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Stephen Sohn
English
War Everlasting: The Militarized Technogeometries of Korean American Literature
Mellon Term Professorship
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2018-19
Amanda Lucia
Religious Studies
Transformational Festivals, Spirituality, and American Yoga
Second Project Fellowship
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Andreja Novakovic
Philosophy
Experience in Hegel’s System
Second Project Fellowship
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Christina Soto van der Plas
Hispanic Studies
New Chronicles of the Indies
Second Project Fellowship
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2017
Farah Godrej
Political Science
Prison Yoga and Meditation: South Asian Text and Practice in U.S.
Senior Fellowship (2017-20)
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George Haggerty
English
HORACE WALPOLE: A Life in Letters
Senior Fellowship (2017-20)
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Anthony Jerry
Anthropology
The Racialization of Space and Youth Citizenship in the Southwest United States
Second Project Fellowship (2017-18)
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Stephen Sohn
English
Recalculating Combat: The Militarized Technogeometries of Korean American Literatures
Senior Fellowship (2017-20)
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Rachel Wu
Psychology
Inducing cognitive growth in aging adults
Second Project Fellowship (2017-18)
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2016
Paulo Chagas
Music
Sonic Imaginations: Sound Studies, Sound Practices and Sound Creativity
Senior Fellowship (2016-19)
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Christine Schwenkel
Anthropology
The Afterlife of Solidarity: Vietnamese Reanimation of Urban ‘Ruins’ in Eastern Germany
Senior Fellowship (2016-19)
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Ajay Verghese
Political Science
The Last Days of Magic: Religiosity in Modern India
Second Project Fellowship (2016-17)
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Jason Weems
History of Art
Inventing the Americas: Art, Archaeology, and the Modern Making of a Pre-Columbian Past
Senior Fellowship (2016-19)
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