2016 - 2017

Isaiah Lorado Wilner is a global historian of knowledge who researches at the interstices of race, modernity, memory, and ecology. He received his PhD in History from Yale University in 2016. Wilner’s current project connects cultural and intellectual...

Anna Jones Abramson received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016. Her current project, “The Age of Atmosphere: Air, Affect, and Technology in Modernist Literature,” traces the convergence of meteorological, affective...

Alex Beasley holds a PhD in American Studies at Yale University (2016). His book project, At Your Service: Houston and the Preservation of US Global Power, 1945-2008, examines the cultural, political, and economic development of the globally integrated...

Corey Byrnes is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Culture at Northwestern University, where he teaches courses in Chinese literature and visual culture, Sinophone cinema, and the environmental humanities. He received a PhD in Chinese Literature from...

Gösta Gabriel is postdoctoral researcher in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. He studied Ancient History, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Business Administration, Design Thinking, and Philosophy in Chelmsford...

Mark Anthony Geraghty received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2016. His current, PhD-based, book project ethnographically investigates the Rwandan state’s recent campaign against “genocide ideology”...

John Harpham is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government. He studies political theory and the history of political thought. His dissertation argues that slavery took root in the English New World colonies within an historical context that was to a...

Callie Maidhof received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016. Her current project, "Borderline Settlers: Building the Suburban Israeli State in Palestine's West Bank," is an ethnographic inquiry into secularism and...

Kate Rennebohm is a PhD candidate in Harvard's Film and Visual Studies program. Her doctoral thesis, “Ethical Re-vision,” argues for the dramatic, but un-theorized, influence of cinema upon ethical thinking and philosophy. Drawing from the history of...