News from the Fox

Meet the Fox Center's Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellows for our 2026-27 Habitat theme year.

2025-26 Undergraduate Honors Fellow Olivia Gilbert recounts her experience on Capitol Hill for 2026 Humanities Advocacy Day.

Developed during his fellowship year, 2025-26 Life/Story Fellow Héctor Alvarez's "The School of Memory" premiered at Theatre Y in Chicago this July.

In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Eunjae Thompson reflects on their thesis project and fellowship year.

In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Kate Richardson discusses her thesis project and how the Fox Fellowship has helped broaden her exposure to topics she wouldn't normally confront in her department.  

In this informal interview, Faculty Fellow Susan Reynolds discusses her new book project and her relationship to discipline.  

In this conversation, Faculty Fellow Hwisang Cho discusses how the Fox Center fellowship helped him out of a disciplinary crisis.  

In this conversation, Faculty Fellow Kristin Phillips discusses more about her book manuscript, "Light Bills & Black Lives: Energy Violence & the Struggle for Justice in the Deep South."

In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Daniel Bell discusses his thesis project and how he uses the Fox Center's 2025-26 research theme "Life/Story" to help structure his research.

Undergraduate Honors Fellow and History major Leo Raykher has won the 2026 FCHI Undergraduate Honors Award.

The Fox Center is excited to celebrate our Life/Story Fellows' incredible accomplishments and next chapters.

In this conversation, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Victoria Bergbauer discusses her book project and how her fellowship experience and time in Atlanta, GA has pulled her research closer to the present.

Meet the Fox Center's Fellows for our 2026-27 Habitat theme year.

In this conversation, Visiting Faculty Fellow Shehnaz Haqqani discusses her current project on interfaith marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim partners in the United States. She discusses the role of discipline in her research and how presenting her project early on in the Fox Fellow's seminar helped transform her argument.

In this conversation, Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Claire Burkhardt discusses her thesis project and how the Fox Center's 2025-26 research theme "Life/Story" helps structure her research.

In this conversation, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics Alanna Prince shares more about her monograph The Long Collapse and the impact of the Fox Center's interdisciplinary environment on her approach to the "Life/Story" theme.

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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."

Applications are now open for FCHI 2026-27 Postdoctoral Fellowships on our upcoming research theme "habitat."

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

This fall, the Fox Center's keynote event will be presented by British actor-writer Paterson Joseph.

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

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.

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.

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

In this conversation, Dissertation Completion Fellow David Nichols shares how his fellowship year impacted his definition of democracy.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.