2023–24 OHC Faculty and Graduate Student Fellows

Faculty Research Fellows 

Michael Allan, Comparative Literature: “A Pre-History of World Cinema” Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies 

Michael Aronson, Cinema Studies: “Klan Mouse: The Birth of a Nation Redux and White Cultural Nationalism in the 1920s Pacific Northwest” Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship 

Ashley Cordes, English and Environmental Studies: “Indigenous Approaches to Meaningful Digital and Environmental Humanities Research”  

Maria Fernanda Escallón, Anthropology: “Heritage Expertise, Equality, and UNESCO’s Dream of Community Participation” 

Devin Keith Grammon, Romance Languages: “Spanish in the linguistic landscape of Eugene, Oregon” 

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, English: “Draw for Your Lives: Comics Journalism and Human Rights” Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies   

Sergio Loza, Romance Languages: “Innovation in SHL Language Program Administration: Development and Outcomes of a Latinx ambassador program”  

Gabriela Pérez Báez, Linguistics: “Collaborative methods and technical protocols towards completion of a Diidxazá Dictionary” OHC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Fellowship  

Stephen J. Shoemaker, Religious Studies: “Muhammad and the Beginnings of Islam: A Critical History” Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship 

Thomas Glynne Walley, East Asian Languages and Literatures: “Eight Dogs Part Three” Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies 

Julie Weise, History: “Guest Worker: A History of Ideas, 1919-75”  

Alternate Faculty Research Fellows 

Kate Mondloch, History of Art and Architecture and Clark Honors College: “Selfie Power: The Performance of Participation and the Attention-Experience Economy (Ch. 2 of book project “Art of Attention”)” 

Beata Stawarska, Philosophy: “Vitalism for our time. Translating and interpreting L. S. Senghor’s theoretical writings” 

Angela E. Addae, Law: “Black Booze Bans: Legacies of Slavery and the History of Liquor Licensing”  

Teaching Fellows  

Faith Barter, English: ENG 3XX or 4XX “The Uncanny Self” Wulf Professorship in the Humanities  

Anita Chari, Clark Honors College and Political Science and Kate Mondloch, Clark Honors College and History of Art and Architecture: HC 221 “Body Politic and The Art of Perception” Coleman-Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities  

Geraldine Poizat-Newcomb, Romance Languages: RL 407 “Voice of the People (La Voix du Peuple)  

Dissertation Fellows 

Megan Hayes, Environmental Studies, “How to Love an Oyster: Chemistry, Sensibility, and Attachment” 

Raye Hendrix, English, “Writing the Rupture: Representations of Invisible Disabilities in Contemporary U.S. American Poetry by Women, Queer, and Transgender Authors”

Joseph Michael Sussi, History of Art and Architecture, “Sensing Toxicity: Art, Environmental Justice and Contaminated Geographies, 1980s–present” 

Moeko Yamazaki, History, “Making the World on Time: FedEx and the History of the American Logistics Industry since 1970” 

Alternate Dissertation Fellows 

1st alternate: Marena Fleites Lear, Comparative Literature, “Their Bodies Our Selves: Posthuman Embodiment in Latin American Speculative Cinema”

2nd alternate: Tal-Hi Goodman Bitton, Philosophy, “Reproductive Struggle from the River to the Sea: Anticolonialism, Social Reproduction, and Palestinian Liberation”

Graduate Research Support Fellow 

Leting Zhang, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “From Bourgeois Fantasy to Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Children’s Happiness in Modern China”