2025–26 faculty fellows named
Faculty Research Fellowships
Stacy Alaimo, English: “Dissolving Species: Ocean Acidification, Extinction, Mediation” Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship
Anita Chari, Political Science: “Traumacracy: Towards a Constructive Politics” Oregon Humanities Center VPRI Completion Award
Abigail Fine, Musicology: “Ready-made Memory: Kitsch and Material Culture in Musical ‘Album Leaves’” Oregon Humanities Center Faculty Research Fellowship
Nicholas Forster, Cinema Studies: “Alternatives to Madness: Bill Gunn and Black Film and Theater in Postwar America” Oregon Humanities Center Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Fellowship
Dong Hoon Kim, Cinema Studies: “Gender, Identity, and Nationhood in North Korean Cinema” Oregon Humanities Center Faculty Research Fellowship
Abigail Jinju Lee, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies: “Vexed Spaces: Opacity, Antiblackness, and Asian American Racialization in Popular Culture” Oregon Humanities Center Faculty Research Fellowship
Lanie Millar, Romance Languages: “Gender and Empire in Contemporary Lusophone Culture” Ernest G. Moll Faculty Research Fellowship in Literary Studies
Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Cinema Studies: “Hair Moves: Production and Performance in Music Videos and Commercials” College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Research Fellowship
Daniel Rosenberg, History: “On Pencils: Analog Technology in the Digital Age” Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship
Benjamin David Saunders, English: “Completion of Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Vol. 9: Doctor Strange” Ernest G. Moll Faculty Research Fellowship in Literary Studies
Cera Smith, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies: “Vivified Viscerality: Bioscience and the Black Interior in U.S. Black Literature and Sculpture” Ernest G. Moll Faculty Research Fellowship in Literary Studies
Alternates for Faculty Research Fellowships
Lana Lopesi, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies: “Imagining Global Samoan Subjectivities After Diaspora”
Yu-Fang Cho, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studie: “The Afterlives of the Nuclear Pacific: Remembering Indigenous-Asian Relationality in Transpacific Modernity”
Leah Lowthorp, Anthropology and Folklore and Public Culture: “Hashtag Folklore and CRISPR Gene Editing: Biotechnological Humor and Anxiety in the Twittersphere”
Colin Williamson, Cinema Studies: “Environment and Erasure: Background Art in Midcentury American Animated Cartoons”
Faculty Teaching Fellowships
Colin Koopman, Philosophy: PHIL 123 “The Internet, Society, and Philosophy” Oregon Humanities Center Faculty Teaching Fellowship
Abigail Jinju Lee, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies: ES 3XX “Eating America: Food, Race, and Empire” Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Teaching Professorship in the Humanities
Casey Shoop, Clark Honors College: HC 421 “The Anarchist Imagination” Oregon Humanities Center Faculty Teaching Fellowship