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.
Global Knighthood: African, Indigenous, and Asian Members in the Noble Military Orders of the Iberian World, 1536-1700
The Hold: Black Femme Formations of Space, Text, and Being in the Long Nineteenth Century
Reading Beyond Reading: Literary Studies and the Problem of Method
Eros beyond Ethics: A Platonic Key to Levinas’ Totality and Infinity
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