The Oregon Humanities Center has selected its Faculty Research and Teaching Fellowship recipients for 2018–19.

Fellowships support faculty research or course development in the humanities, including literature; philosophy; history; religion; ethics; the history, theory and criticism of the arts; and the historical or interpretive aspects of the social and natural sciences. The fellowships are for UO tenure-related faculty and are awarded through a competitive application process.

The faculty research fellowships give UO faculty a term free of teaching to engage in full-time research. Research projects must be humanistic, but fellows may belong to any department, college or school.

Among the several types of research fellowships are the Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship, funded by the Office of the Provost, for full professors or associate professors of five years. Another is the Ernest G. Moll Faculty Research Fellowship in Literary Studies, which provides recipients in the field of literary studies with $1,000 in research support to be used during the fellowship year.

Teaching fellowships give faculty members $4,500 in summer support to spend four weeks developing a new undergraduate humanities course or redesigning an existing one, alone or collaboratively. Courses must be based in the humanities, but faculty may belong to any department, college or school.

Additionally, teaching fellowships can provide funding of up to $1,000 to be used as course enrichment. Faculty receiving the center’s Wulf or Coleman-Guitteau professorships will receive up to $4,000 in course enrichment funds.

2018–19 Oregon Humanities Center faculty research fellows:

Leslie Alexander, history: “‘The Cradle of Hope:’ Black Internationalism in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution,” fall 2018 Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship.

Mayra Bottaro, romance languages: “Scrambled Messages: Telegraphic Poetics and the New Atlantic Language,” fall 2018, Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies.

Cory Browning, romance languages: “Terror, the Order of the Day: The French Revolutionary Terror and its Restagings,” fall 2018, Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies.

Joyce Suechun Cheng, history of art and architecture: “Spectacles of the Banal: Staging the Interior in Nabi Art and Fin-de-Siècle Theater,” fall 2018.

Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, romance languages: “Through Children’s Eyes: Remembering a History of Wars and Dictatorships in Iberian and Latin American Film and Literature, fall 2018.

Melissa Graboyes, Clark Honors College: “A Century of Failures: History, Ethics, and Malaria in Zanzibar, 1900–2016,” fall 2018 or winter 2019.

Nathalie Hester, romance languages: “Inventing America in Baroque Italy: Columbus, Vespucci, and ‘New World’ Epic,” spring 2019, Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship.

Lamia Karim, anthropology: “After Work: Life in the Shadows of Capital in Bangladesh,” fall 2018, VPRI Completion Fellowship.

Vera Keller, Clark Honors College: “Cultures of Citation,” winter 2019.

Tze-Yin Teo, comparative literature: “Unfinished Translations in Twentieth-Century Transpacific Literature,” winter 2019.

Courtney Thorsson, English: “The Sisterhood, 1977–78,” fall 2018, Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies.

Alternates:

Stephen Rodgers, music: “Twilight Tonality and Open Endings: Harmonic Ingenuity in the Songs of Fanny Hensel.”

Jeffrey Schroeder, religious studies: “Make-Believe Buddhism: Jodo Shin Thought and Politics, 1888–1965.”

Sarah Wald, environmental studies and English: “Nature's Democracy? Equity & Environmental Justice on Public Lands.”

Julie Hessler, history: “Friendship House: Anti-Imperial Solidarity in Soviet Culture, 1955–1980.” 

2018–19 OHC Teaching Fellows:

Nicholas Kohler, Geography: GEOG 199: Hike, Bike, Skate, Ski, Surf — Geographies of Adventure Travel and Active Leisure, spring 2019, Coleman-Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities.

Anne Kreps, religious studies: REL 4XX: New Religious Movements, winter 2019, Coleman-Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities.

Daniel Gomez Steinhart, cinema studies: CINE 399: Videographic Study of Hollywood Film Style, winter 2019.

Alejandro A. Vallega, philosophy: PHIL 242: World Philosophies, spring 2019, Wulf Professorship in the Humanities.