Professor Ramzi Fawaz has been awarded H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, which includes $60,000 in research funds and a named professorship. Funded by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) in recognition of the leadership of the late WARF Trustee President H. I. Romnes, the H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship is intended to recognize and support …
Professor Monique Allewaert has been awarded a fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center to support research and writing related to her project Luminescence: Insect Knowledge, Power, and the Literary: 1700–1814, which explores how West Indian plantation colonies’ inadvertent proliferation of insects became central to the cultural productions of enslaved, free black, indigenous, and subaltern white …
Professor Elizabeth Bearden has been awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2022-23 academic year. The position allows for uninterrupted research among a community of scholars at one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry. Each year, IAS welcomes more than 200 of the world’s most promising post-doctoral researchers …
Professor Aparna Dharwadker has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her project “Alternative Modernities” and the Modernization of Urban Theatre in India, a book about urban theater and modernity in colonial and postcolonial India from 1850 to the present. The National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, education, preservation, and public …
Professor Aparna Dharwadker has been honored with the Kellett Mid-Career Award. This award recognizes Professor Dharwadker’s distinguished scholarship in English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies. A divisional committee appointed by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education chooses winners from professors nominated by departments, Ph.D. major programs and interdepartmental groups. The Kellett …