# 2026–27 HRI Fellows Announced

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2026–27 HRI Fellows Announced

Congratulations to the new Humanities Research Institute (HRI) graduate fellows!\
The 2026–27 theme is “[**Up Against Erasure**](https://hri.illinois.edu/fellowships-research-support/campus-fellowships).”\

**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”\
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See the full list of new fellows on the [Humanities Research Institute website.](https://hri.illinois.edu/news/2026-27-hri-fellows-announced)