2022–23 Graduate Fellows

Dissertation Fellows 

Sarah McLay, Philosophy: “Embodied Ambiguity: Towards a Critical Phenomenology of Illness” (Fall 2022) 

Zeinab Nobowati, Philosophy: “Critique and the Ambivalence of Colonial Modernity: Towards a Postcolonial Genealogical Critique” (Fall 2022) 

Yosa Vidal Collados, Romance Languages “Memories of Betrayal and Betrayal of Memory: Narratives of Defeat in Chile and Argentina” (Winter 2023) 

Alternates for Dissertation Fellowships 

Nadège Lejeune, Comparative Literature: “Authors and the Meta-Literary: The Politics of Publication in Francophone Literature” 

Emily Lawhead, History of Art and Architecture: “Networks of Experience: Interactive Digital Art in the 21st Century” 

Xiaoyu Wang, East Asian Languages and Literatures: “The Struggling Self-Consciousness: Desire, Recognition, and Illusion in Modern Okinawan Literature” 

Graduate Research Support Fellowships 

Pierce Allen Bateman, History: “From Anchorage to Hawaii on the Hula Loop: Alaska-Pacific Connections, 1867—2017” 

Molly McBride, Anthropology: “Queer Resiliency and Expressive Culture in a Midwestern Lesbian-Feminist Community” 

Gloria Lizette Macedo Janto, Romance Languages: “Gender Roles in the Testimonial Narrative of Andean Women from Peru (1980-2000)” 

Michele D. Pflug, History: “’In Pursuit of Butterflies’: Gender, Madness, and Natural History in the English Countryside, 1655-1715”