OHC’s 2024–25 Fellows

Faculty Research Fellows 

Stephen Dueppen, Anthropology: “Forging Multi-Millennial Communities: Technologies, Ancestors and Material Attachments in West Africa”
Mariachiara Gasparini, History of Art and Architecture: “Across the Tuyuhun-Tubo Kingdom: Material Culture from Dunhuang to Sichuan between the Sixth and Ninth Century” VPRI Completion Award
Ocean Howell, History: “Mapping Power: An Open History of Portland, Oregon”
Ryan Tucker Jones, History: “Cetahistory: Whales and the Making of the Anthropocene” Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship
Vera Keller, History: “Superability and the Renaissance Human” Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship
Susanna Soojung Lim, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program and East Asian Languages and Literatures: “Racing the Subempire: Race, Developmentalism, and Global Modernity and South Korean Culture” Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies
Kate Mondloch, History of Art and Architecture and Clark Honors College: “Immersive Installations and the Art of Experience”
Jennifer O’Neal, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies: “‘Change in the Winds’: Native American Self-Determination and Human Rights During the Carter Administration, 1975–1980” OHC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Fellowship
Beata Stawarska, Philosophy: “Vitalism for Our Time: Translating and Interpreting L.S. Senghor’s Humanistic Writings” Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies
David Wacks, Romance Languages: “People of the Book: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim retellings of the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia” Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies
Zachary Wallmark, Music: “A Nation of Instruments: How Nine Sounds Shaped America” 

Alternates
Eleonora Redaelli, Planning, Public Policy, and Management: “Invisible Cultural Policy in America”
Leah Lowthorp, Anthropology and Folklore and Public Culture Program: “Hashtag Folklore and CRISPR Gene Editing: Biotechnological Humor and Anxiety in the Twittersphere”
Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez, Philosophy: “Decolonial Aesthetics: Theory and Praxis from the Americas” 

Faculty Teaching Fellows

Corinne Bayerl, Clark Honors College: HC 421/434 “Cryptography and Cultural Memory” (Spring 2025 class)
Mai-Lin Cheng, English: ENG 407 “Shelf Life” (Spring 2025 class)
Helen Huang, English: ENG 199 “Digital Afterlives: Never Let a Book Go” (Spring 2025 class) Wulf Professorship in the Humanities

Dissertation Fellows

Sarah Agou, Romance Languages, Global Studies and Languages: “Narrative Sovereignty in Contemporary Cuba, Haiti, and Indigenous Quebec: Exploring Forms of Inhabiting Against Geographical, Political, Economical, and Identitarian Forced Enclosures”
Brooke Burns, Philosophy: “Dignity for Realists: A Politically Realist Genealogy of an Ethical Concept”
Olivia Wing, History: “Common and Contested Ground: Chinese and Japanese American Youth Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1920s-1960s”
Leting Zheng, East Asian Languages and Literatures: “From Bourgeois Fantasy to Maoist Propagandism: Children, Happiness, and Nation-Building in Modern China” 

Alternates
Raechel Root, History of Art and Architecture: “Picturing the Commons: Spatial Imaginaries in North American Art, 1968-Present”
Rhiannon Joy Lindgren, Philosophy: “Revolutionary Love and Reproductive Struggles: Feminist Politics of Care for the Queer Future”
Orlando Hawkins, Philosophy: “Black Nihilism, Racial Capitalism, and the Tradition of Black Radicalism”
Gloria Macedo Janto, Romance Languages: “Narratives of Resistance: Andean Women in the Discourses of Political Violence: Literature, Cinema and Testimony” 

Graduate Research Support Fellowships  

Alejandro Acero Ayuda, Romance Languages: “Echoes of Tomorrow: Student Voices of Criticality in Spanish Heritage Language Program Education”
Ulrike Baur, German and Scandinavian: “A Different Kind of Language: Music at the Threshold of German and Russian Literary Realism”
DeAndre A. Espree-Conaway, Linguistics: “Tu’un Javi Grammar of Space: Evolutionary Investigations and Cognitive Neurobiological Studies in the Linguistic Niche Hypothesis”
Bibo Lin, School of Journalism and Communication: “Capture Feelings: How AI Transforms our Emotional Selves and Society”