This program provides up to nine students in the humanities with a one-course teaching release or summer funding, enabling them to devote an entire semester to work on their dissertations. Students are required to be in residence at University Park for the duration of the grant period.
Towards an Existential-Standpoint Reading of Blackwomen’s Autobiographies Under Apartheid South Africa
Femmes Galantes, Femmes Savantes: Literary Expressions of Women’s Sexuality and Mentorship in the long 18th Century
“Imagining Elsewheres: Speculating the Asian Diaspora in North America, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand”
Geographical Visualities of Race and Health in Antebellum U.S. Culture
The Body’s Memory: Visceral Poetics in Contemporary Arabic and Persian Literature in the Gulf
Power, Diplomacy, and Interdependent Sovereignty in the Choctaw Nation, 1720-1924
Clandestine China: Extraterritorial Violence and the National Revolution Abroad, 1895-1919