Current Fellows

Hubert Tworzecki (Ph.D., Political Science, University of Toronto) is an Associate Professor of Political Science. His research interests include political parties, elections, and voting in East-Central Europe.

Jason Morgan Ward is a Professor of History at Emory University, where his research and teaching focus on race, politics, violence, and memory in the modern United States.

Aisha Finch is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University whose research focuses on the study of slavery, Black feminism, and Black political movements. 

Danielle Hansen is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Spiritual Care at Emory’s Candler School of Theology, where she researches at the intersection of trauma, theology, narrative, and philosophy.

Michael Allen (Ph.D., English, Harvard University)’s research and teaching focus on poetry and poetics and the development of the novel. 

Drishadwati Bargi (PhD, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota) works on Dalit Literature and anti-caste cinema in the wake of Hindutva.

Silvia Fedi (Ph.D., Political science, University of Chicago) is a political scientist specializing in political theory. Her work is situated at the intersection of feminist political theory and ancient Greek political thought.

Lora Webb (Ph.D., Art History, Stanford University) studies Byzantine art history. Her research centers the ceremonial and performative contexts of works of art and architecture.

David Nichols’ work revolves around carceral space as represented in Latin American literature, specifically in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, post-1976.

Timothy Barouch is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Georgia State University.

Verónica Zebadúa-Yáñez is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Women’s Studies at Spelman College.

Yijin Li is an undergraduate student majoring in Art History and Religion. His Honor Thesis research centers a series of post-eighteenth-century thangkas featured by the rare occurrence of the assembly of one hundred deities.

Jaytrice Mackey is a senior majoring in African American/Black Studies. Her honors thesis focuses on resistance theory and Afro-studies to explore how trends in protest culture extend from the past into the present.

Klaire Mason is a double major in history and creative writing. Her honors research will focus on opposition and repression leading up to Putin's election to a third term and how it changed Russia’s trajectory.

Mercedes Sarah is a senior at Emory studying history and English & creative writing. Her honors thesis explores the Indigenous methodologies, the role of the archive, and oral history in the context of Indigenous California. 

Alex Minovici is a senior majoring in History and Philosophy, Politics, & Law. Her thesis explores how modern political engagement in democratic Romania is influenced by the memory of the 1989 Revolution.

Adelaide Rosene is a senior studying History with a minor in English. Her thesis project titled “Shadows of Exclusion: The Legacy of Sundown Towns In Wisconsin” examines how communities enforced racial segregation through policing and discrimination in housing.

Paige Scanlon is a senior studying Religion and Interdisciplinary Studies of Society and Culture. Her honors thesis investigates social learning and lived religion among nuns living in diaspora from Tibet.

Iris Wu is a senior double majoring in Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies and Quantitative Sciences. Her honors thesis project investigates the intersection of gender, nationalism, and censorship in China's digital sphere.

Yazi Zheng is a senior double majoring in Comparative Literature and Mathematics. Her honors thesis  project in Comparative Literature explores the intersection between personal space and the public sphere in women’s writing.