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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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."

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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.

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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.

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Jul. 07, 2025

FCHI Announces 2025-26 Life/Story Fellows

Meet the Fox Center's Fellows for our 2025-26 Life/Story theme year.

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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.

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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.

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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.  

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.