News from the Fox

Mar. 04, 2026
Fellow Focus: Héctor Álvarez
In this conversation, Non-Residential Faculty Fellow Héctor Álvarez discusses questions of historical memory, forgetting, and performance in his autofictional show "The School of Memory."

Mar. 03, 2026
Fellow Focus: Thora Jordt
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Thora Jordt discusses her thesis project and how the Fox Center's 2025-26 research theme "Life/Story" serves to foster community among the fellows.

Feb. 05, 2026
Fellow Focus: Jeffrey Williams
In this conversation, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Jeffrey Williams shares how his Fox Center fellowship inspired him to radically revise his book project on Jim crow era lawyer Elisha Scott.

Feb. 04, 2026
Fellow Focus: Isabel Buyers
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Isabel Buyers discusses her thesis project and how the Fox Center's 2025-26 research theme "Life/Story" allows her to preserve collective memory through the preservation of individual stories.

Jan. 30, 2026
Fellow Focus: Lucas Koutsoukos-Chalhoub
In this conversation, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Lucas Koutsoukos-Chalhoub discusses how his research on the life of Gregório Fortunato— President Getúlio Vargas’s chief bodyguard— informs wider political narratives.

Jan. 20, 2026
Fellow Focus: Alejandro Guardado
In this conversation, Dissertation Completion Fellow Alejandro Guardado shares how the concept of a life story tells him more about the concept of community in his study of indigenous self-determination movements of Oaxaca, Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s.

Dec. 01, 2025
Fellow Focus: Thiên Thanh Nguyễn
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Thiên Thanh Nguyễn discusses his thesis project and what the 2025-26 research theme "Life/Story" means to him.

Dec. 01, 2025
Fellow Focus: Abigail Brown
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Abigail Brown discusses her thesis project and the perks of being a Fox Fellow.

Nov. 13, 2025
Fellow Focus: Anita Osuri
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Anita Osuri discusses her thesis project and what the Fox Center's 2025-26 research theme "Life/Story" means to her.

Oct. 29, 2025
Fellow Focus: Leo Raykher
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Leo Raykher discusses his thesis project and the perks of being a Fox Fellow.

Oct. 17, 2025
Fellow Focus: Olivia Gilbert
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Olivia Gilbert discusses her thesis project and what the Fox Center's 2025-26 research theme "Life/Story" means to her.

Oct. 10, 2025
Fellow Focus: Sam Chao
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Sam Chao discusses his thesis project and its compatibility with the Fox Center's 2025-26 research theme "Life/Story."

Sep. 11, 2025
Applications Open for FCHI 2026-27 Postdoctoral Fellowships
Applications are now open for FCHI 2026-27 Postdoctoral Fellowships on our upcoming research theme "habitat."

Aug. 19, 2025
Fellow Focus: Brooke Luokkala
In this conversation, FCHI Humanities Pathways Fellow Brooke Luokkala discusses what she looks forward to during her fellowship year at the Fox Center.

Jul. 25, 2025
FCHI Announces Keynote by Paterson Joseph
This fall, the Fox Center's keynote event will be presented by British actor-writer Paterson Joseph.

Jul. 07, 2025
FCHI Announces 2025-26 Life/Story Fellows
Meet the Fox Center's Fellows for our 2025-26 Life/Story theme year.

Jun. 30, 2025
Fellow Focus: Verónica Zebadúa-Yáñez
In this conversation, Visiting Faculty Fellow Verónica Zebadúa-Yáñez discusses her work's exploration of the question of freedom and how her Fox Center fellowship helped her find community in Atlanta.

Jun. 03, 2025
Fellow Focus: Teelin Lucero
In this conversation, Dissertation Completion Fellow Teelin Lucero discusses how her research examines agrarian landscapes' impact on colonial conquest and our ideas of American democracy.

May. 30, 2025
Fellow Focus: Peter Habib
In this conversation, Dissertation Completion Fellow Peter Habib shares how the politics of water access in contemporary Lebanon helps him think through democratic values.

May. 30, 2025
Fellow Focus: David Nichols
In this conversation, Dissertation Completion Fellow David Nichols shares how his fellowship year impacted his definition of democracy.

May. 15, 2025
Alex Minovici wins Inaugural FCHI Undergraduate Honors Award
In this interview, Undergraduate Honors Fellow and history major Alex Minovici discusses winning the inaugural FCHI Undergraduate Honors Award for her thesis project.

May. 07, 2025
Fellow Focus: Emilyn Hazelbrook
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Emilyn Hazelbrook talks about her thesis on the ‘battered woman’ legal defense and her use of the Fox Center as a third space.

May. 02, 2025
Fellow Focus: Iris Wu
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Iris Wu talks about her thesis on the evolution of feminism in China and the benefits of external having structure.

May. 01, 2025
Fellow Focus: Yijin Li
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Yijin Li talks about examining 18th to 19th century Tibetan paintings and his Fox Center mentorship.

Mar. 27, 2025
Fellow Focus: Mercedes Sarah
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Mercedes Sarah discusses her thesis project about a family of Miwok women in Northern California during the 20th century.

Mar. 24, 2025
Former Fellow Focus: James Zainaldin
In this new feature, former Undergraduate Fox Fellow James Zainaldin talks about his new book and how his Fox Fellowship impacted his life and career in academia.

Feb. 20, 2025
Fellow Focus: Michael Patrick Allen
In this conversation, National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics Michael Patrick Allen discusses the connection between urban poets and democracy.

Feb. 01, 2025
Fellow Focus: Paige Scanlon
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Paige Scanlon talks about the supportive environment of the Fox Center and her work with Tibetan Buddhist nuns last summer.

Jan. 31, 2025
Fellow Focus: Yazi Zheng
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Yazi Zheng discusses the violence of consumption through the metaphor of eating and how her Fox fellowship helped centralize her thesis project ideas.

Jan. 30, 2025
Fellow Focus: Ariella Shulman
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Ariella Shulman discusses her work on implicit bias within social psychology and the social benefits of the Fox Center Fellowship.

Jan. 01, 2025
Fellow Focus: Drishadwati Bargi
In this conversation, Postdoctoral Fellow Drishadwati Bargi explains the origins of her research and the impact of the Fox Center Fellowship on her process.

Nov. 02, 2024
Fellow Focus: Klaire Mason
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Klaire Mason discusses Putin's return to power through political manipulation and the powerful connections that the Fox Center Fellowship has provided her access to.

Nov. 01, 2024
Fellow Focus: Charlotte Weinstein
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Charlotte Weinstein talks about the punk music scene in communist Czechoslovakia and her experience of writing with peers beyond the classroom.

Oct. 31, 2024
Fellow Focus: Alex Minovici
In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Alex Minovici discusses the benefits of having a mentor and writing within a community of likeminded scholars at the Fox Center.