Promoting collaborative research on ideas central to the pressing issues of our time.

Faculty Scholars in Residence

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.

Mary E. Mendoza
From Borders to Barrios: An Environmental History of Policing Latinos
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Milton’s Library / Promiscuous Reading
Sarah J Townsend
Rio-mar, Mare internum: The Amazon and the Mediterranean in an Age of Empire
Amanda Scott
Criminal Sentencing and Gitano Families in Early Modern Spain
Kolawole
Blackland, a novel
Ariana Steele
Signaling Gender: Nonbinary Discourses and the Sociality of Identity
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My Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart: Lyric Nonfiction
Kris F. Sealey
Variants in the Machine: Black Mothers Making Futures Against Natal Alienation

Humanities and Information Scholars

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The Making of a Free State: Free Soil, Free Labor, and Black Freedom in the Borderland of Southwestern Pennsylvania
Gabrielle Foreman
Founding Families: The Convention Movement and the Long History of Black Civil Rights Organizing
Ortega
For the Love of Memory: Memory-Objects at the Limits of the Archive
Saffron
Biographical Dictionaries of Islamic Scholars as Communities of Masculine Belonging