SOCIETY FOR THE HUMANITIES

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DIRECTOR

Brett de Bary
Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature,
Cornell University

FELLOWS

Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz	Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán “Foodscapes, Gastronomic Fields, and the Performance of Regional Identities in Yucatán”
Belinda Edmondson	English and African/African-American Studies, Rutgers University, Newark “Caribbean Middlebrow: Popular Culture and the Caribbean Middle Class”
Sarah Evans	Art History, University of California, Berkeley “This is Not Your Father’s Avant-Garde: Lower Manhattan Artist Communities, 1975-1985”
Matthew Hart	English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Late Modernism and Vernacular Sovereignty”
Andrew Hoberek	English, University of Missouri-Columbia “Green Revolutions: American Fiction and Foreign Policy Since 1960”
Micol Seigel	Liberal Studies, California State University, Los Angeles “Historicizing Transnational Method” and “Latin American Anticommunism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.”
Philip Stern	History, American University "A State in the Disguise of a Merchant: The Origins of the East India Company-State, 1657-1787"
Gabriela Vargas-Cetina	Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán “Exploring the Global Postmodern through Trova Music in Yucatán, Mexico

FACULTY FELLOWS (Cornell)

Jefferson Cowie	History and Industrial and Labor Relations “Last Days of the Working Class: Social History, Politics, and Pop in the 1970s”
Petrus Liu	Comparative Literature “Partitional Postmodernity/ Anomalous Colonies: Reading Popular Culture in Post-WWII Taiwan and Hong Kong”
Natalie Melas	Comparative Literature “Anachrony: The Poetics and Politics of Untimeliness”
Suman Seth	Science and Technology Studies “Violence as Context: History and Historiography of Science and Colonialism”

MELON GRADUATE FELLOWS (Cornell)

Stanka Radovic	Comparative Literature “The Narrative Place: Narrative Representations of Space and Identity in Postcolonial Literature"
Noa Vaisman	Anthropology “Recounting the Social: Discourses of Truth and Knowledge Production in Post-modern Buenos Aires”

MELON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Erin Williams Hyman	Comparative Literature, UCLA “Time Bombs: Anarchism and the Arts from Symbolism to Surrealism”
Jenny Mann	English, Northwestern University “Rhetorical Habits of Mind in Early Modern England”
Lucinda Ramberg	Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley “A Question of Theogamy: Kinmaking Between Gods and Humans”
Ellen MacKay	Theatre, Film, and Dance English, Indiana University “An Unnatural History of the Sea Spectacle from Nero to Wagner”