2015-2016 Graduate Student Fellows  

Faith E. Barter
American Studies Fellow
“Human Rites: Deciphering Legal and Literary Personhood, 1830-1860”
Department of English  

Michell Chresfield
“Problem and Promise: Scientific Experts and the ‘Mixed-Blood’ in the Modern U.S., 1870-1970”
Department of History

Jonathan Coley
“Varieties of Activism: Pathways of Participation among LGBT Religious Activists”
Department of Sociology

Alexander Jacobs
George J. Graham, Jr. Fellow
“Enlightenment Projects: The Age of Reason and the Politics of Disenchantment in Postwar
American Thought”
Department of History

Michelle O’Loughlin
“A Cognitive Approach to Audio Description”
School of Modern Languages, Queen’s University Belfast

Petal Samuel
Elizabeth E. Fleming Fellow
“‘Timing to Descant’: Sonic Temporalities of Slavery in Caribbean and U.S. American Literature”
Department of English

Sandra Skene
“Transatlantic Narratives on Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: On the Roles of Imagination and Remembrance in Forming Epistemic Agency”
Department of Philosophy

Steven Wenz
Joe and Mary Harper Fellow
“National Identity in Contemporary Argentine Culture”
Department of Spanish and Portuguese