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FCHI Announces 2025-26 Life/Story Fellows

By Karl-Mary AkreJuly 7, 2025 @ 10:30 AM
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The Fox Center is delighted to announce our 2025-26 Fellows, who will be joining us during our Life/Story theme year. The new cohort includes 4 Faculty Fellows, 1 Non-Residential Faculty Fellow, 1 Visiting Faculty Fellow, 3 Postdoctoral Fellows, 2 N.E.H. Postdoctoral Fellows in Poetics, 3 Dissertation Completion Fellows, and 12 Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellows.
 
Over the academic year, our Fellows will engage in interdisciplinary discussions as their research explores how the humanities capture a life. Our incoming Fellows and their projects are:

Faculty Fellows
  • Hwisang Cho, Irresistible Fabulation: Moral Imagination and Storytelling in Korean Confucian Tradition
  • Tayari Jones, Old Fourth Ward: A Novel
  • Susan Reynolds, Ways of the Cross: Passion, Performance, and Divine Solidarity
  • Kristin Phillips, Light Bills and Black Lives: Energy Violence and the Struggle for Justice in the Deep South
Non-Residential Faculty Fellows
Visiting Faculty Fellows
  • Shehnaz Haqqani, Beyond Prohibitions: Muslim American Women’s Narratives of Love, Authority, and Agency
Postdoctoral Fellows
  • Victoria Bergbauer, Incarcerating Adolescents in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Architecture of Reintegration and Afterlives of Imprisonment
  • Jeffrey Williams, Colored Lawyer, Topeka: The Legend and Legacy of Elisha Scott
  • Lucas Koutsoukos-Chalhoub, The Black Angel: Race, Fame, Law and Politics in Twentieth-Century Brazil
N.E.H. Postdoctoral Fellows in Poetics
  • Alanna Price, Luminous Black: On Making Time, the World, and the Self in Black Women’s Poetry
  • Katie Dimmery, Narrating Heartache: Chinese Indigenous Poetics and the Feeling of Time
Dissertation Completion Fellows
  • Alizeh Ahmad, Islam, Marxism, and Muhammad Ali's New World Order
  • Alejandro Guardado, Reimagining Community: Indigenous Organizing in Mexico’s Neoliberal Turn (1968-2000)
  • Sooyoung Kim, Between Camptown Cross-Dressers and Trans Rights: A History of Trans Entertainers and Sex Workers in Post-Camptown Itaewon, Seoul (1971-1993)
Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellows
  • Abigail Brown, Out of Sight, Out of Mercy: Georgia’s Death Row Through the Eyes of Loved Ones
  • Anita Osuri, Uncommon Illness, Unequal Burden: Huntington’s Disease at the Intersections of Identity
  • Claire Burkhardt, Jihadist, Rebel, Statesman — Identity and Ideology in Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Path to Moderation
  • Daniel Bell, Public Men in Glass Houses: The Atlanta Police Department of Herbert Jenkins
  • Isabel Buyers, Memory, Movement, and Identity: Narratives of Dementia in Latin American Literature and Film
  • Kate Richardson, The Life of Marian Diamond: Biography as Contextualization for the Resurgence of Neurosexism Under the Trump Administration
  • Leo Raykher, Economics, Espionage and Exile: The Surveilled Life of David Drucker, esq.
  • Olivia Gilbert, Unruly Women in Film and the Telling of Women’s Stories
  • Samuel Chao, Chinese American Christian Voices in the Chinese Exclusion Era (1882-1943)
  • Thiên Thanh Nguyên, Making Them Known: The Lives of Working First-Generation College Students
  • Thora Jordt, Reconstructing Aelita: Queen of Mars
  • Eunjae Thompson, Beyond Capture: Blackened Piety and the Politics of Refusal