2026–27 HRI Fellows Announced

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Graduate College News 2026–27 HRI Fellows Announced

Congratulations to the new Humanities Research Institute (HRI) graduate fellows!\ The 2026–27 theme is “Up Against Erasure.”\

David Bishop (English), “Reading Against Erasure: Archival Silences & the Lost Works of Augustus M. Hodges”

Yating Li (East Asian Languages and Cultures), “Pathologizing the Womb: Medical Knowledge, the Female Body, and Mirage of Health in China (1900s–1940s)”

Owen MacDonald (History), “Caribbean Amazônia: The Madeira-Mamoré Railroad, Labor, and the Making of Race, Gender, and Empire in Northwestern Brazil, 1870–1942”

Gerson Morales Pérez (Spanish and Portuguese), “From Erasure to Memory: Cultural Representations of War, Indigeneity and Resistance in Contemporary Guatemala”

Anirban Mukhopadhyay (Institute of Communications Research), “Governing the AIR: Radio, Polity, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India, 1950–2023”

Cheryl Trauscht (History), “Ubiquitous Stuff, Invisible People: Making Barrels, Knowledge, and Stories in the British Atlantic, 1620 to 1783”

Taisuke L. Wakabayashi (Landscape Architecture), “Nuclear Terrains: Four Landscapes Against Entanglement”\ \ \ See the full list of new fellows on the Humanities Research Institute website.