Faculty Fellowship

Junior Research Fellow, 2022-2024 "Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions" Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions...

Senior Research Fellow, 2018-2020 Toward a Refined Racial Economy Perspective: Gentrification and Political Resistance in Chicago’s South Side Blues Clubs As Chicago’s poor, largely...

Senior Research Fellow, 2018-2020 Hindutva and Advertised Modernization The works of Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist, have returned to the center-stage in recent decades due to a...

Junior Research Fellow, 2018-2020 Olive Olive is a book about 21st century settler-colonialism. Specifically, it connects displacement, land conquest, and memory with the...

Junior Research Fellow, 2018-2020 Other Natures: Environmental Encounters with Ancient Greek Ethnography Other Natures investigates the relational environmental discourse of Greek...

Senior Research Fellow, 2019-2021 "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" My book-length project on the topic of US and global special...

Junior Research Fellow, 2019-2021 "Medina by the Bay: An Islamic Ethics of Difference and Survival in the Bay Area Islam is often discussed as something that arrives in (and...

Senior Research Fellow, 2017-2019 Habits of the Heart: Affective Attachments in the Public Sphere The deconstruction of the reason/passion dichotomy undertaken by emotion and affect...

Senior Research Fellow, 2017-2019 Civic Technoscience and Inclusive Innovation Practice: Co-Design for Care Emerging spaces of civic technoscience have increasingly drawn scholarly...

Junior Research Fellow, 2017-2019 Digitize and Punish: Digital Cartographies of Policing and Racialized Space Economy While critical attention has recently turned to racialized...

Junior Research Fellow, 2017-2019 The Making of al-Andalus: Uses of the Past in Contemporary Mediterranean Culture The Invention of al-Andalus explores the political uses...

Senior Research Fellow, 2016-2018 Mediterranean Laziness: The Invention of a Vice The modern concept of laziness has played and continues to play a crucial role in the...

Senior Research Fellow, 2016-2018 Changing Epistemologies in Contemporary Cuba: Towards a Collaborative Ethnography This study analyzes Cuban scholars' search for new modes of...

Junior Research Fellow, 2016-2018 Ricanness: Staging Time in Anticolonial Performance Ricanness examines how acts of bodily endurance performed by both Puerto Rican artists...

Junior Research Fellow, 2016-2018 "Making Ourselves from Scratch": Literacy and Social Change through Black Queer Activist Organizations Making Ourselves from Scratch: Literacy...

Senior Research Fellow, 2015-2017 Ugly Beasts, Talking Monkeys: Education and Contagion in Pre-Modern Europe The inception of the plague pandemic in 1348 triggered an unprecedented...

Senior Research Fellow, 2015-2017 Fugitive Life: On the Abandonment of the Contemporary "Fugitive Life: On the Abandonment of the Contemporary" draws on ethnographic research and...

Junior Research Fellow, 2015-2017 Reimagining a "Beautiful but Baneful Object": Black Theories of Citizenship in the Early United States Black Theories examines how conceptions of...

Junior Research Fellow, 2015-2017 Voices of Drought: Forró Soundscapes in Northeastern Brazil This project explores the musical and lyrical evocation of the landscape of...

Senior Research Fellow, 2014-2016 Educating for Freedom: Enlightenment Narratives of Autonomy, Gender, and Social Influence  Straddling the fields of eighteenth-century literature...

Senior Research Fellow, 2014-2016 Phenotype: A Case for the Meaning in Life As life scientists trace how the environment's physical and chemical characteristics shape biological...

Junior Research Fellows, 2014-2016 Between National and Comparative: Unworlding Indian Cinema My interest lies in developing a history and pedagogy of Indian cinema utilizing...

Junior Research Fellow, 2014-2016 Citizenship, a feeling: Affect, emotion, and immigration rhetoric U.S. immigration and border policy are obviously emotionally charged and highly...

Junior Research Fellows, 2019-2021 "A Body Exposed: The Aesthetics of Sex, Death, and Mexicanness" A Body Exposed: The Aesthetics of Sex, Death, and Mexicanness contends...

Senior Research Fellow, 2020-2022 "Blind Cinema: Visually Impaired Cinema and the Somatic Sensorium"  My book-length project on the subject of blind and visually impaired...

Senior Research Fellow, 2020-2022 "The Black Pacific: The African Diaspora in South East Asia"  The Black Pacific: The African Diaspora in South East Asia makes a...

Junior Research Fellows, 2020-2022 " 'Who, We?' Pronominal Politics, Citizenship, and the Rights of the Other in Hashtag-Era France" ‘Who, We?’ explores the tensions...

Junior Research Fellows, 2020-2022 "Peacebuilding and Placemaking: Collective Actions in Postconflict Colombia" “Peacebuilding and Placemaking: Collective Actions in Postconflict...