Fellows
Since its founding in 1984, the Center for the Humanities has supported faculty research across a broad range of humanities fields. Center Fellows have been supported with the time, space and intellectual community to produce an impressive catalog of research. This digital archive, which goes back to 2018, offers a snapshot of the long tradition of Center scholarship.
Future Fellows: 2025-26
2025 Summer Teaching Innovation Fellowship
- Amy Koehlinger, Associate Professor in the School of History, Philosophy and Religion, will be working on "Philosophy and Spirituality of Nature: A Field Course"
- Kim McAloney, Assistant Professor in the School of Language, Culture and Society and Ecampus instructor, will be working on "Advancing Social Justice at OSU Service Learning Project"
- Valeria Ochoa, Assistant Professor in the School of Language, Culture and Society, will be working on "Spanish for Heritage Language Learners Program"
2025 Summer Research Writing Workshop
- Surabhi Balachander, Assistant Professor in the School of Writing, Literature and Film, will be working on "Rural America: Race, Environment, and Identity, 1920-2020"
- Professor Ron Mize and Assistant Professor Luhui Whitebear, both in the School of Language, Culture and Society, will be working on "Mapping Indigenous Men as Disposable Bodies in the Star Wars Universe"
- Jennifer Reimer, Associate Professor of American Studies at OSU-Cascades, will be working on "Transcultural Poetics, Borderzone Pedagogies"
- Bryan Tilt, Professor in the School of Language, Culture and Society, will be working on "Remaking a River: Water, Culture and Power in the Klamath Basin"
2025-26 Research Fellowship
- Sarah Perrault, Associate Professor in the School of Writing, Literature and Film, will be working on "Rhetoric and Science: An Introduction for Teachers of Science Writing"
- Emily Yates-Doerr, Associate Professor in the School of Language, Culture and Society, will be working on "Nuclear Stories from America’s Atomic Heartland"
Critical AI Literacy Fellowships (in partnership with OSU Libraries and Press)
- J.T. Bushnell, Senior Instructor II in the School of Writing, Literature and Film, will be working on "AI Literacy and Creativity"
- Anna Guasco, Visiting Assistant Professor in Marine Studies, will be working on "Quoth Leviathan Nevermore: Techno-optimist Fantasies of AI-Facilitated Human-Cetacean Communication"
Current Fellows
Sindya Bhanoo
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
School of Writing, Literature, and Film
2024-2025
Doctors of Arch Street
Tekla Bude
Associate Professor of English
School of Writing, Literature, and Film
2018-2019 and 2024-2025
Histories and Futures of Risk: A Humanities Approach
Kathryn McIntosh
Associate Professor of ESOL/Bilingual and Literacy Education
College of Education
2024-2025
Graduate Writing Pedagogy: Counter Narratives of Doctoral Students Being Empowered through Writing
Past Fellows
Richmond Barbour
School of Writing, Literature, and Film
2019-2020
The Journal of Captain John Saris in the "Clove," 1611-1614
Nabil Boudraa
School of Language, Culture, and Society
2019-2020 and 2023-2024
Postcolonial Algeria in the Films of Marzak Allouache
Julie Green
School of Arts and Communication
2018-2019
First Meal
Trina Hogg
School of History, Philosophy, and Religion
2018-2019
"Our Country Customs": Law and Trade in Southern Sierra Leone, 1861-1915
Karen Holmberg
School of Writing, Literature, and Film
2018-2019
Essays: Letterpress and Walter Hamady's Gabberjabb
Allison Hurst
School of Public Policy
2018-2019
Revisiting the Age of Affluence: How Post-War Social Science Misread the World
Amy Koehlinger
School of History, Philosophy, and Religion
2022-2023
Hidden in Plain Sight: Racial Identity and Implicit Whiteness in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Rena Lauer
School of History, Philosophy, and Religion
2021-2022
After Slavery: Strategies of Living Free in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
Cari Maes
School of Language, Culture, and Society
2018-2019
From Cradle to Nation: The Politics of Maternal and Infant Health and Nation-Building in Vargas-Era Brazil
Ray Malewitz
School of Writing, Literature, and Film
2019-2020
Epizootic Encounters: A Cultural History of Animal Illness
David Milne
Visiting Scholar, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
2019-2020
Witness to Catastrophe: A Life of Sigrid Schultz
Ron Mize
School of Language, Culture, and Society
2019-2020
"New" New Immigrants in the New Gilded Era
Rebecca Olson
School of Writing, Literature, and Film
2019-2020
Reimagining the Audience of Early Modern Print
Steven Ortiz
School of Public Policy
2022-2023
Emergent Sociological Issues in Family and Sport
Kirsi Peltomaki
School of Visual, Performing, and Design Arts
2021-2022
Heavy Metal: Modernity, Craft, and Industry, in Finnish Modernist Sculpture in the 1960s
Ehren Pflugfelder
School of Writing, Literature, and Film
2022-2023
Reconfiguring Risk in Technical Communication: Undermining the Field
Dana Reason
School of Visual, Performing, and Design Arts
2021-2022
Cinema's First Nasty Women
Kara Ritzheimer
School of History, Philosophy, and Religion
2018-2019
Nazi Girl: Girls and Girlhood in Hitler's Germany
Shawn Rowe
Research Fellow in Humanistic Science, Oregon Sea Grant
2018-2019
Creating Usable Science: Dialogic Encounters of Official and Vernacular Science
Stuart Sarbacker
School of History, Philosophy, and Religion
2018-2019 and 2023-2024
The Noble Eightfold Path: A Handbook for Living Buddhist Philosophy
Adam Schwartz
School of Language, Culture, and Society
2021-2022
Spanish So White: Conversions on the Inconvenient Racism of a "Foreign" Language Education
Justin St. Germain
School of Writing, Literature, and Film
2021-2022
Collection, Essays of the Rural and Working-class
Megan Ward
School of Writing, Literature, and Film
2018-2019
Virtual Collection from the Victorian Novel to the Digital Archive
Joel Zapata
School of History, Philosophy, and Religion
2021-2022
The Erased Homeland: Mexicans' Long Past, the Southern Great Plains, and America's Future