This program, jointly sponsored with the College of the Liberal Arts and the commonwealth campuses, provides up to eight faculty members per year with one semester of release time from teaching, and a $1,000 mini-grant for research expenses and/or materials.

Latina/o Migrants in Deindustrializing Pennsylvania: An Origin Story for Political Xenophobia in America?

Engendering Feeling: Religious Affects, Transphobia, and Historicity

Courageous Revolt’: The Life and Educational Activism of Anna Julia Cooper

The Sword Outside, the Plague Within: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Europe

Queer Trails through Rachel Carson’s Letters

Empire’s Orphans, Nation’s Stepchildren: Jews and Others in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa

The Thinkery: The Making of Intellectuals in the Age of Socrates

Cartography and the Construction of Indigeneity: The farm, the Khoe, and the Bantu in South African Literary Landscapes