OHC announces its 2025–26 cohort of fellows

Faculty Research Fellows 

Stacy Alaimo, English: “Dissolving Species: Ocean Acidification, Extinction, Mediation” Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship 

Anita Chari, Political Science: “Traumacracy:  Towards a Constructive Politics” OHC VPRI Completion Award 

Abigail Fine, Musicology: “Ready-made Memory: Kitsch and Material Culture in Musical ‘Album Leaves’” OHC Faculty Research Fellowship 

Nicholas Forster, Cinema Studies: “Alternatives to Madness: Bill Gunn and Black Film and Theater in Postwar America” OHC Faculty Research Fellowship 

Dong Hoon Kim, Cinema Studies: “Gender, Identity, and Nationhood in North Korean Cinema” OHC Faculty Research Fellowship 

Abigail Jinju Lee, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies: “Vexed Spaces: Opacity, Antiblackness, and Asian American Racialization in Popular Culture” OHC 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” CAS Humanities Research Fellowship 

Daniel Rosenberg, History: “On Pencils: Analog Technology in the Digital Age” Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship 

Benjamin 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 

Faculty Teaching Fellows 

Colin Koopman, Philosophy: PHIL 123 “The Internet, Society, and Philosophy” OHC 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” OHC Faculty Teaching Fellowship 

Dissertation Fellows 

Jessica M. Johnson, History of Art and Architecture: “Black Georgians: Portraiture, Race, and Class in Britain During the Age of Empire” 

Hessam Abedini, Comparative Literature: “Unbound from Homer: Preserving the Iranian Cosmology in English Translations of Firdausi’s Shahnameh (1010 CE)” 

Alejandro Marin, Romance Languages: “The New Errancy: Unveiling Contemporary Migrant Literature in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Equatorial Guinea” 

Kimberly Olivar, English: ““A Nest of Antics”: Neurodiversity in Early Modern English Drama” 

Graduate Research Support 

Fellows 

Emily Erickson, History of Art and Architecture: “Thinking Beyond the ‘Other’: Representations of Parthian Ethnicity in Roman Art” 

Omar Barahona, Romance Languages: “Representing Land and Liberty: The Aesthetics of the Agrarian Question through Latin American Documentary Film” 

John Wood, Musicology: “A Highway Acoustemology: American Popular Music in the Age of Internal Combustion” 

Kathleen Gekiere, Environmental Studies: “Chasing Wild Horses: A Discursive Analysis of Management and Care”