Postdocs
October 18, featuring Nicole Seymour
Oct. 4, 2024—
Eric Moses Gurevitch receives Postdoc of the Year Award
Jun. 18, 2024—
Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Newsletter Features Helen Makhdoumian
Mar. 7, 2024—This post by Helen Makhdoumian (CHPP Fellow) is from the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs March 6, 2024 newsletter Walk by the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center (RPW) on a sunny afternoon, and you’ll likely see a group of people eating at one of the tables outside and having a lively conversation. Odds are good it’ll...
Indigenous Removals and Their Legacies: A Reading Guide to Start Campus Conversations
Jan. 18, 2024—Helen Makhdoumian is a Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Program Fellow with the Department of English. Last semester at Vanderbilt, I attended talks for “Cherokee and Chickasaw Students at Vanderbilt, 1885-1899,” a library exhibit organized by Professor Daniel Sharfstein, and the panel “The Land We Occupy: Vanderbilt Past and Present,” organized by the RPW Center’s Spatial Histories...
Urban Borderlands
Nov. 10, 2023—Anna Tybinko is a Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Program Fellow with the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Slicing through the hillsides of North Africa there are two enormous, steel mesh barriers that divide the autonomous Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla (often referred to as enclaves) from Moroccan territory. These double-facing fences, or vallas, are nearly...