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FCHI Announces 2026-27 Undergraduate Fellows

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The Fox Center is delighted to announce our 2026-27 Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellows, who will be joining us for our Habitat research theme year. The new cohort includes 14 undergraduate students whose majors include Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Anthropology, Arabic, Classics, English and Creative Writing, Environmental Science, History, Human Health, Religion, and Spanish.
 
Our incoming Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellows and their projects are:

  • Francisca Bravo Tizza, Human Health, "The Hidden Strain: Exploring the Well-Being of Chilean Caregiver Mothers in the Sandwich Generation"
  • Emma Faz, Classics/History, "Exploring Potential Uses of Room X in the House of the Vettii"
  • Hannah Hansford, Arabic, "Resettling a Habitat: An analysis of resettlement efforts for Syrian Refugees in the Middle East"
  • Diya Hebbar, Spanish, "Habitats of Belonging: Race, Animality, and Belonging in Caribbean Diasporic Narratives"
  • Leilani Hoff, Anthropology and Human Biology, "He Mo’olelo O Hula (The Story of Hula) on Moku O Keawe (Island of Hawai’i): The Embodiment of Environmental Relationships and Sovereignty"
  • Ethan Kim, English and Creative Writing, "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Remaking of Racial History"
  • Anissa Patel, Environmental Science (Social Science & Policy), "Double Dispossession: Heirs’ Property, Planned Relocation, and Land Tenure Insecurity on the U.S. Southeast Coast"
  • Cabot Postol, History, "Iron & the Bomi Hills: Liberia, the United States, and Cold War Resource Sovereignty, 1945-1977"
  • Jaanaki Radhakrishnan, Anthropology and Religion, "The Clearing: Nature Play as Black Liberation Methodology"
  • Giselle Salazar, Anthropology, "Hongos y Hongueros: Relationships with Mushrooms Over Time in El Llanillo Redondo"
  • William Shan, History, "The Empire’s Laboratories: Ireland, Sierra Leone, and the Movement of Policy and Personnel, 1808-1841"
  • Eloise So, History/English, "The Suburban Dream in Chinatown: Culture, Place, and Family in San Francisco, 1945–1965"
  • Hannah Xu, Ancient Mediterranean Studies, "Burial Figurines, Food Production, and the Construction of the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, China, and the Mediterranean"
  • Lauren Yee, Religion, "Dwelling in Diaspora: Guanyin Devotion and Identity in Atlanta’s Buddhist Communities"