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Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
Fellow from 2022-2025<\/em><\/p>\n During my fellowship, I completed my book manuscript, Urban Air Modernism: Beyond the Skyscraper Aesthetic in New York, 1880\u20131940<\/em>. I published related material in two articles on the artist John Sloan and his engagements with race and urban space in New York City in American Art<\/a> and\u00a0Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art<\/a>. I developed and taught new courses in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, including Art, Race, and Urban Space<\/em> and Art and the Environment in the United States<\/em>. I also spearheaded Vanderbilt\u2019s membership as a consortium campus to the Urban Humanities Network<\/a> (UHN)\u2014an emerging professional organization that unites universities, practitioners, and researchers dedicated to interdisciplinary study within the urban humanities, and co-led UHN\u2019s second global (Un)Conference hosted by Washington University in St. Louis.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fellow from 2022-2025<\/em><\/p>\n As a Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Gurevitch worked on transforming his dissertation into a monograph for publication. He actively contributed to programing in the environmental humanities and Science and Technology Studies at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the humanities. And he taught courses in the Asian Studies Department and the History Department.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Email<\/a><\/p>\n Fellow from 2023-2025<\/em><\/p>\n Prior to her time at Vanderbilt, Anna Hill (she\/her) received a Ph.D. in English from Yale University. Her research and teaching focused on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature of the United States, with a particular emphasis on environmental criticism, memory studies, postcolonial\/decolonial studies, and affect theory. Her book project explored how late-twentieth-century authors reworked major genres of the American novel and tropes of environmental writing in light of emergent discourses about environmental crisis and global climate change. This project made the case that, as a dynamic vehicle of place-based, more-than-human memory, the realist novel offers a generative resource for environmental imagining and environmental justice in the Anthropocene.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fellow from 2022-2024<\/em><\/p>\n During my CHPP fellowship, I published the peer-reviewed article \u201cDe cimarrones: Raza y disidencia en\u00a0Autobiograf\u00eda de Juan Francisco Manzano<\/i><\/a>\u201d in\u00a0Cuban Studies<\/i>\u00a0(2022). I also developed my book manuscript,\u00a0Who Is Afraid of Sik\u00e1n?<\/i>, which examines Cuban and Latinx cultural production through the lens of the Abaku\u00e1 Society, an all-male Afro-Cuban religious confraternity. Centered on Sik\u00e1n, a foundational figure condemned for revealing sacred knowledge within the Abaku\u00e1 tradition, the project analyzes how women artists reimagine this myth to challenge patriarchy and recover suppressed matrilineal genealogies.<\/span><\/p>\n In parallel with this research, I led community-engaged workshops in collaboration with colleagues from Tennessee State University and local artists. These workshops created spaces for Nashville\u2019s Hispanic and Latinx communities to engage cultural memory through collective readings, creative writing, and art. I also collaborated with Dean Andre Churchwell and the Nashville Public Library on a panel series,\u00a0Then and Now: The History of Minority Communities in Nashville<\/i>. This commitment to community engagement was recognized with the Postdoctoral Service Award from Vanderbilt\u2019s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n Email<\/a><\/p>\n Fellow from 2023-2024<\/em><\/p>\n While a CHPP fellow, I worked on several publications and collaborative endeavors including an accepted article entitled “Elsewhen Among the Elderberries: Gendered infrastructures of home and migration in a Mam Maya town” in Environment & Planning D: Society & Space and “Mapping Karen Parker\u2019s Journal: Student archival interpretation as feminist geographic worldmaking pedagogy<\/a>” with Banu G\u00f6kar\u0131ksel and Sarah Carrier in Journal of Historical Geography, 88 (June 2025): 146-156. My editorial collective, Desirable Futures, published two special issues and prepared an edited volume for the University of Georgia Press: About Time: The Politics and Poetics of Desirable Futures<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since leaving the CHPP program, I am still working on my research projects. My collaborative book project is now under review with advanced contract with UGA, and I have recently submitted a photo essay for you are here: the journal of creative geography that was coauthored with my research collaborators in Guatemala. As the Librarian and Curator for Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies at Vanderbilt Libraries, I teach classes around information literacy, finding and selecting sources for Latin American Studies, and ethics and politics of archives and citation practices. I also curate the library’s book and manuscript collections in these areas, collaborating with our vendors from across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula to select materials to support teaching and research interests at Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Email<\/a><\/p>\n Fellow from 2022-2025<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. Moraes holds a Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies from the University of Miami, which encompasses the interdisciplinary scope of her work. Her academic pursuits extend to examining the development of social movements in the Americas observed through the lens of cultural production. During her time in the program, she offered courses such as \u201cConceptualizing Social Justice,\u201d \u201cMusic is Power!\u201d and \u201cAfro-Diasporic Legacies.\u201d Lidiana\u2019s research contributions can be found in various scholarly publications and languages, including the Journal of Lusophone Studies<\/a>, Revista Diadorim<\/a>, and the edited volume Narrativas del Miedo: Terror en Obras Literarias, Cinem\u00e1ticas y Televisivas de Latinoam\u00e9rica<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Department of Africana, Afro-Brazilian, and Indigenous Studies, Federal University of Ouro Petro, Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n Fellow from 2022-2025<\/em><\/p>\n During my CHPP fellowship, I worked on the project Invisible Urbanisms: Indigenous Urban Experiences, which examined the historical and contemporary presence of Indigenous peoples in urban spaces, challenging narratives that render them invisible or \u201cout of place.\u201d Drawing on my training as a historical anthropologist, I\u00a0focused on how processes of Indigenous child separation and labor exploitation in the Brazilian Amazon contributed to long-term forms of ethnic erasure that continue to shape urban Indigenous experiences today. The project also explored how Indigenous communities are using digital and social media platforms to reclaim visibility, assert belonging, and rearticulate Indigenous identities within modern urban and digital landscapes.<\/p>\n I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana, Afro-Brazilian, and Indigenous Studies<\/a> at the Federal University of Ouro Preto. In this role, I am developing my book project, Kunh\u00e3t\u00e3i Nation: Indigenous Children in the Amazon, advising undergraduate and graduate students, and coordinating research initiatives focused on Indigenous history in Minas Gerais, Brazil, supported by national and international grants.<\/p>\n Laborat\u00f3rio de Pesquisa Caminhos Ind\u00edgenas<\/a><\/p>\n Email<\/a><\/p>\n Art History, University of Illinois<\/strong><\/p>\n Fellow from 2022-2023<\/em><\/p>\n I was fortunate to be part of the initial cohort of NEH fellows at Vanderbilt. I divided my time between teaching, organizing programs for the environmental humanities cluster overseen by Prof. Teresa Goddu, and my own research. <\/p>\n Email<\/a><\/p>\n Fellow from 2022 to 2025<\/em><\/p>\n During my time at Vanderbilt, I developed my book project Battling Banana Blight<\/em>, which is now under advance contract with the University of North Carolina Press’ Flows, Exchanges, and Migrations series. The book tells the story of how ecological crisis, in the form of the banana-crop-killing fungus known as Panama Disease, reshaped agricultural modernization in late-Colonial Jamaica (1910-1960). As part of my work at Vanderbilt, I published several articles on the topic, which can be found in Agricultural History, Environment and History, and Arcadia. I also developed several courses including History of Environmental Law and Environmental Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Email<\/a><\/p>\n Fellow from 2022-2024<\/em><\/p>\n During my CHPP fellowship, I primarily focused on developing a book proposal that has since evolved into my first scholarly monograph, now under contract with Harvard University Press. The project\u2014The Black Royalists: Haiti and A Politics of Freedom in the Atlantic World<\/em>\u2014examines how Afro-Catholic royalism shaped the revolutionary politics of Haiti’s revolutionaries. In addition, I designed new courses on Migration and Borders that allowed me to begin refining the questions guiding my second research project, a hybrid and interdisciplinary exploration of three generations of U.S. immigration enforcement history, informed by my experience as a former Asylum Officer for the federal government.<\/p>\n Since completing the fellowship, I\u2019ve been fortunate to continue expanding both my scholarly and community work. I was appointed Faculty Head of Moore College (2025) and Assistant Professor of the Practice in Caribbean Studies at Vanderbilt University\u2019s Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (2024), with an affiliation in the Program in Culture, Advocacy, and Leadership. My article, \u201cFreedom, Faith & Sovereignty: The 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt as an Afro-Catholic Royalist Rebellion<\/a>,\u201d was published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 46, No. 1). I also received several institutional grants, including the Provost\u2019s Faculty Grant for Voices of Belonging: Latinx Student Experiences at Vanderbilt and the Big Questions and Community Engagement Collaboration Funds for Caribbean Week: Bridging Cultures, Celebrating Diasporas, and Inspiring Connections. This provided funding for the inaugural Caribbean Week at Vanderbilt University, and for which I direct a newly approved Caribbean Studies Minor<\/a> in the College of Arts & Sciences. In 2024, I was honored with the Maestrx Award for Outstanding Faculty Support of Latinx Students.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Email<\/a><\/p>\n Fellow from 2022-2024<\/em><\/p>\n Prior to coming to Vanderbilt, Dr. Anna Tybinko was the John Hope Franklin Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Franklin Humanities Institute\u2019s From Slavery to Freedom Lab at Duke University, where she also received her doctorate in Romance Studies. She specialized in Migration and Border Studies in the Iberian world. Her research on questions of race, racialization, and \u201cbordering\u201d in Spanish cities was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the American Council for Learned Societies. She published in Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literatures, contributed essays to the edited collections Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America<\/a> (Routledge, 2022) and Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures<\/a> (Manchester University Press, 2022), was co-editor of Migrant Frontiers: Race and Mobility in the Luso-Hispanic World<\/a> (Liverpool University Press, 2023), and was developing her monograph, Urban Borderlands: Contesting Racial Boundaries in Contemporary Spain. At Colby, she teaches courses on modern and contemporary cultures of Spain and Global Hispanophone countries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nEric Moses Gurevitch<\/a><\/h4>\n
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History of Science, Harvard University
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nAnna Hill<\/h4>\n
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English, Clemson University<\/strong><\/p>\nElvira Aball\u00ed<\/span><\/span> Morell<\/h4>\n
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Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Princeton University<\/strong><\/p>\nLara Lookabaugh<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Librarian & Curator for Latin American, Iberian, & Latinx Studies, Vanderbilt University<\/strong><\/p>\nLidiana de Moraes<\/h4>\n
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University Honors Program, Florida State University<\/strong><\/p>\nAna Luiza Morais Soares<\/h4>\n
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<\/strong><\/p>\nJames Pilgrim<\/a><\/h4>\n
\nMy first book, Pastoral’s End: Art, Ecology, and Catastrophe in Renaissance Italy<\/a>, which was my main research focus while at Vanderbilt, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the summer of 2026.<\/p>\nMatthew Plishka<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Environmental History\/Humanities, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Amherst College<\/strong><\/p>\nJes\u00fas Ruiz<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Caribbean & Latin American Studies & History, Vanderbilt University<\/strong><\/p>\nAnna Tybinko<\/h4>\n
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Department of Spanish, Colby College<\/strong><\/p>\n