Tanner Humanities Center

Ataya Cesspooch Annie Clark Tanner Teaching & Research Fellow in Environmental Humanities 

PhD Candidate, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley

Research: Making Power: Oil and Gas, Land Relations, and Indigenous Sovereignty on the Northern Ute Reservation 

The Standing Rock Sioux’s 2016 fight against the Dakota Access pipeline garnered a torrent of mass media and scholarly attention and situated oil and gas development (OGD) as an environmental justice (EJ) issue impeding Indigenous sovereignty (Estes 2019). Yet, multiple tribal nations currently rely on OGD for revenue and their perspectives remain largely unexamined by scholarly research. The Ute Tribe has been leasing land on their 1.2-million-acre Reservation in northeastern Utah for OGD since 1949 (“Notice of Lease Sale” 1949). Revenue from leasing has lifted the Tribe out of poverty and positioned OGD as its primary expression of sovereignty. However, the permitting process for a well on the Reservation involves a tangled web of environmental approvals from multiple federal agencies whose decision-making processes do not include the Tribe. As a result, environmental management has become a deeply contested political space, undergirded by issues of Ute sovereignty and EJ. In recent years production has moved from the remote periphery to close proximity with Tribal communities and is increasingly affecting life on the Reservation (UDOGM 2019). Tribal members have seen wells creep closer to waterways and ceremonial sites and air quality monitors on the Reservation have recorded unhealthy levels of ozone (Lyman and Tran 2015), a pollutant known to aggravate heart and lung conditions and cause premature death (EPA 2019). My research examines how Tribal members make sense of our1 complicated dependence on oil and gas in light of its EJ repercussions and asks how Tribal entanglement with oil and gas has shaped who we are as Nuchew2 (Ute people), our relationships to land, and our conceptions of sovereignty.

Ataya is an enrolled citizen of the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes and a descendant of the northern Ute Tribe from the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in northeastern Utah.Prior to starting her PhD at Berkeley, Ataya worked for the Ute Tribe and later the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an environmental protection specialist. In this position she reviewed agency NEPA documents assessing the environmental impacts from proposed oil and gas wells cited on Tribal lands.  During the five years she spent doing this work, she identified tensions between Tribal sovereignty and federal environmental oversight, particularly around air quality regulation. Her research seeks to better understand these dynamics and address the resulting public health concerns. Ataya is passionate about revitalizing the Ute language and is pursuing a designated emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization to strengthen her community’s language curriculum and anchor her work in Ute epistemologies.

Jessica Chaplain 

Graduate Research Fellow 

PhD Candidate, Department of Communication

Research: (Re)Imagining Climate Justice Trajectories: Transnational Coalitions and Worldmaking in the UNFCCC 

Climate change is a global phenomenon that radically disrupts borders, offering opportunities for humanities scholars to reimagine possibilities for solidarity and transnational coalition building in the development of climate solutions. In my dissertation project, I conduct critical rhetorical fieldwork at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conferences of the Parties (COP), an annual site of international climate action restricted by its reliance on national negotiating power, reinforcement of geopolitical power imbalances, and exclusion of climate justice activists from participating in these decision-making processes. My research amplifies climate justice activism within these spaces and how communities build coalitions around “people power” to advocate for systemic and transformative climate solutions. Coalescing those most impacted under the idea that “those closest to the problem are closest to the solution,” coalitions built around “the people” cultivate solidarities, coordinate locally-driven climate action projects, and garner political force to influence international climate decision-making. My project focuses on three important solutions climate justice activists advocate for through their different experiences and intersectionalities: 1) meaningful engagement of most impacted communities in climate decision-making, 2) climate finance that funds bottom-up, community-led climate solutions, and 3) a just transition that disrupts global financial flows upholding extractive, fossil fuel dependent economies and supports local, regenerative economic systems. Following Michael Lechuga’s (2020) call to respect activists as theorists with powerful ways to rewrite collective futures, my dissertation project argues critical rhetorical fieldwork is vital for amplifying and supporting the work of climate justice activists across scales of climate action.

Alexis M. Christensen

Career Line Fellow 

Associate Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures

Research: A Cultural Companion to the Bacchanalian Conspiracy (186 BCE) 

This book project situates the Bacchanalian Conspiracy episode of 186 BCE described by the Roman historian Livy in his Ab urbe condita (From the Founding of the City) within its larger cultural context in order to make both the narrative and Roman culture accessible to students, instructors, and non-specialist readers. This Conspiracy centered on the new, extraordinary growth of the cult of Bacchus in Rome and Italy due to corruption of its traditional initiation practices and rituals. The young men of the Roman state were being debauched by older women, who ran through the streets of Rome at night with live torches. After an investigation, the Senate passes an extraordinary decree allowing state officials to detain and ultimately execute 7000 individuals, and severely restrict the worship of Bacchus. Livy’s detailed narrative provides an opening for exploring fundamental questions about how the Roman state functioned; state and individual relationships to religious worship; how gender, age, and socio-legal status were viewed; family relationships and obligations; and Roman views of non-Romans. These questions remain relevant today, making Livy’s narrative a useful lens for examining how we address them in our own, modern culture. While focusing on Livy’s text in particular, I contextualize his narrative in an interdisciplinary manner that brings traditional historical and philological approaches together with material culture by considering the physical landscape of the spaces described in the episode, as well as archaeological evidence for the cult of Bacchus in Italy during the early second century BCE.

Thérèse De Raedt 

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellow

Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures

Research: Figuring Postcolonial Littoral Spaces 

In my book I analyze contemporary literary and cinematic representations of beaches in parts of the world that were colonized by France and that remain under her cultural and linguistic influence. Nowadays beaches incarnate–for France and more generally the Western world–vacation sites of regeneration, relaxation, and freedom. The beaches I study take on a different valence in terms of how they are represented and thought of. Often the leisure venue gets overlaid, for instance, with the beaches’ role as a point of departure for hopeful, although undocumented, migrants aiming to find better living conditions overseas. Contemporary post-colonial beaches, I argue in my book, incarnate and perpetuate the asymmetrical North-South, South-North relations of domination and subordination that originated in the historical reality of slavery and colonialism. I consider beaches as contact zones where a wide range of interactions, from hostile to hospitable, occur. To study the literal and metaphorical significance of beaches, I rely on the concept of liminality. I use the natural phenomenon of ebb and flow to show that the beach contains within it—literally and symbolically—the threat of erasure and destruction as much as the promise of growth and regeneration.

John Harfouch 

Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellow 

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Research: Researching the Fayez Sayegh Archives 

The J. Willard Marriott Library’s Middle East Library holds the complete archival works of Fayez Sayegh (1922-1980), an important twentieth century philosopher. Sayegh’s carefully researched philosophical studies of colonialism, nationalism, imperialism, dialectic methodology, history, and political theory are vitally important to current philosophical debates as well as the humanities as whole. These writings have remained almost entirely inaccessible to the general public for decades. I am applying for a Tanner Visiting Research Fellowship with the goal of publicizing Sayegh’s writings through two related projects.

Dr. Harfouch studies the history of philosophy from 1600 to the present. His 2018 book, Another Mind-Body Problem: A History of Racial Non-Being, presents a counter-history of human subjectivity in the Modern period tracing the development of race and racism through the discourse on minds and bodies. He has also written extensively on imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His current research program focuses on Palestinian philosopher, Fayez Sayegh, who developed a unique philosophical method to advocate for justice in the Middle East. At UAH, Dr. Harfouch often teaches classes in ethics, history, and political philosophy. He is also the director of UAH’s pre-law certificate.

Christopher Patrick Miller 

Career Line Fellow 

Assistant Professor, Honors College

Research: Public Enemies: Sounding the Limits of Democracy in the American Lyric

Public Enemies argues that a genealogy of American lyricists, from Walt Whitman to Gwendolyn Brooks, used the tools of lyric in song and on the page to challenge normative conceptions of democratic culture. The nexus of this challenge was in their diverse experimentation with the figure, speech, and personality of “the transient,” manifest variously as racialized strangers, vagabonds, tramps, hobohemians, or migrant workers. These lyricists understood how central transient persons and communities were and continue to be in popular stories American tell themselves about territorial expansion, urban development, and individual freedoms or rights. Underlying this popularity, however, is a fundamental tension in American culture between the idealization of autonomy or mobility and reckonings with the personal, social, and political costs of marginalization and displacement. It is to this tension that these lyrics address themselves, showing how a truly pluralistic democracy requires an attention to the transitional figures whose speech, presence, or conversation populate the shifting margins of public life.

Jacob Nelson

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellow

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication

Research: Unhealthy Skepticism: Public Trust in a Digital Age

Journalism faces an ongoing—and, in many ways, intensifying—credibility crisis. This project seeks to understand why public trust in journalism fallen so much. I will draw on 150 in-depth interviews with U.S. adults from a variety of political and socioeconomic backgrounds, collected over the past three years, to tell a comprehensive story about people’s relationship with news. My overarching argument: In today’s saturated media environment, where accusations of dishonesty are seemingly everywhere, people feel that distrust is a necessary means to avoid being duped by any individual source of information. Equally important, people see themselves as more than up to the task of “doing their own research” to sift through the inaccurate news to uncover the truth. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which suggests that people trust specific news outlets they perceive as aligned with their own political beliefs (and distrust outlets they perceive as biased in ways that run counter to those beliefs), I conclude that people distrust journalism as a whole because they see the institution as inherently and hopelessly compromised by corporate or political interests. In short, this project seeks to identify the origins and implications of people’s distrust in news. In doing so, it will also chart a path forward for improving journalism’s relationship with the public, and to illustrate larger lessons for addressing what ails American public life.

Dr. Jacob L. Nelson (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is an assistant professor at the University of Utah. His teaching and research focuses on the changing relationship between journalism and the public. He is the author of Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public (Oxford University Press, 2021), which draws on case studies of three news organizations in Chicago to understand how journalists’ assumptions about their audiences shape their pursuits of those audiences. His work has been published in top journalism studies and communication journals such as Digital Journalism, New Media & Society, and Social Media+Society, as well as in public-facing venues such as Columbia Journalism Review, The Conversation, and Nieman Journalism Law. He is currently working on a book project that examines public trust in journalism, healthcare, and higher education.

Brandon James Render 

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellow

Assistant Professor, Department of History

Research: Colorblind University: A History of Racial Ideologies in Higher Education 

In Colorblind University, I trace the intellectual genealogy of racial colorblindness throughout the twentieth century to argue that Black student activism and university policy during the civil rights and Black Power era fundamentally re-shaped interpretations of race in the United States. Ultimately, this particular era not only produced social shifts, but also served as an intellectual movement due to the competing racial ideologies that framed civil rights and Black Power activists and intellectuals’ demands for racial justice. Prior to the Black civil rights movement, institutions used racial classifications to maintain segregation. Following the movement, tensions over racial ideologies grew as civil rights activists wrestled with interpretations of Black Power over the meaning of racial colorblindness. These changes to American society, politics, and culture shaped multiple institutions, most notably higher education. Racial ideologies impacted colleges and universities at many levels, from admissions policies to curriculum and department structures. Beginning with the 1896 Plessy decision that provided constitutional support for segregation, I explore the evolution of colorblind ideology along student activism, university policy, state and federal legislation, and legal decisions. This methodology proves that racial colorblindness did not result from top-down, elitist interpretations of race or bottom-up social influences. Instead, racial colorblindness developed through a feedback loop of social interaction, cultural values, access to political power, and legal decisions. Conflicts over desegregation, affirmative action, and multicultural or multiracial curriculum in a “post-racial society” characterize the debate over race-neutral interpretations. In the end, Colorblind University illuminates how race-neutral ideology became the dominant interpretation of race in the contemporary United States.

Brandon James Render is an Assistant Professor in the History Department. His teaching and research examines twentieth century U.S. history, post-1945 social and intellectual movements, and the Black intellectual tradition. His current book project, Colorblind University: A History of Racial Inequity in Higher Education, explores the fundamental shift in Americans’ collective interpretation of race during the civil rights and Black Power era.

Lindsey Webb 

Graduate Research Fellowship

PhD Candidate, Department of English

Research: Saccades: Essays 

Saccades is a collection of essays exploring the history and present of extraction in the western U.S. through a mix of arts writing, memoir, photography, and archival work. It focuses on the way landscapes are interpreted, especially by extractive industries. From the development of prospecting technologies for “reading” the earth, to a secret abortion in a Depression-era mining camp, to the extraction industry’s surprisingly direct relationship to visual art as patron, subject, and medium, Saccades suggests that the framework one uses to understand a landscape can deeply change one’s material relationship to it.

Lindsey Webb is the author of Plat (Archway Editions, May 2024), which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and the chapbooks Perfumer’s Organ (above/ground, 2023) and House (Ghost Proposal, 2020). Her writings have appeared in Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, and Lana Turner, among others. With Kylan Rice, she edits Thirdhand Books.

She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and lives in Salt Lake City, where she is a Tanner Graduate Fellow and PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah.  She is working on a project about land use and land art in the American west.

Megan Weiss

Mormon Studies Graduate Research Fellow

PhD Candidate, Department of History

Research: The Daughters of Utah Pioneers: A Study of Utah Heritage, Religion, and Gender

Megan’s project is titled “The Daughters of Utah Pioneers: A Study of Utah Heritage, Religion, and Gender.” Since 1901, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) has been one of Utah’s flagship public history organizations – running a state museum, collecting artifacts, erecting historical markers and monuments, and organizing Days of ’47 parades and rodeos. This significant women-led organization has produced a variety of community-based histories over the years, but to date historians have neglected its role in shaping public perception of Utah’s history. This research project traces the formation and growth of the DUP over the course of the twentieth century and analyzes how its influence on Utah society changed over time, especially as women began to access professionalization opportunities, which then transformed work in the heritage sector. Foregrounding material culture and objects, this project tells a story about women’s work, preservation, the politics of history, and Utah’s spiritual connection to the past.

Eric Herschthal,  Assistant Professor, Department of History
January 25, 2024 
TITLE:"Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change"

"Carbon Conscripts" explores the role racial slavery played in the origins of climate change.  In recent years, interdisciplinary scholars working across the humanities have suggested that slave plantations may have been an early driver of human-induced climate change.  Yet the notion has remained a theoretical conjecture rather than an empirically-tested idea.  Drawing on a collaboration with climate scientists, "Carbon Conscripts" models the carbon emissions of the major slave-grown crops in Anglo-American Atlantic World from the seventeenth through nineteenth century and compares them to emissions from the major non-slave grown commodities of the period.  The study ultimately shows that, with some key exceptions, slave-grown commodities dramatically expanded the carbon footprint of the British and American empires long before the transition to fossil fuels, crystalizing a form of racial capitalism that continues to fuel carbon emissions globally today.

Darcie DeAngelo,  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice 
February 1, 2024
Title: "For the Love of Rats"

We humans don’t love rats, generally speaking. Ten thousand years ago, after modes of production shifted from prehistoric foraging to more settled types of agriculture, pests coevolved with humans. Over a quarter of the world’s human population still derive their livelihoods from farming as a fulltime occupation while the rest of us depend on this agriculture for subsistence. So do the pests. But that might be overly economically deterministic. Consider the rats themselves. Rats look like pests. Their habits and bodies feed into their stereotypes. They hang out in sewers. Their eyes glow in the dark. They have teeth that chitter and… that tail. Imagine my surprise, then, when I met a group of humans who loved rats. These humans loved rats. I have conducted research on rats for half a decade. My research on rats led me to stories from across the world about human encounters with rats as well as why and how they proliferate so well. From vectors to prey, from enemies to models, to finally beloved, in this lecture I discuss some of the surprising encounters between humans and rats across space and time. Being a rat cannot be understood without understanding being a human, just as being a human cannot be understood without understanding being a rat.

Nadja Durbach, Professor, Department of History
February 8, 2024
Title: "From Slaves to Enslaved People: Slave Registration and the Emergence of Identity Documentation in the British World, 1812-34"

The abolition of the slave trade in 1807 led to an illegal traffic in slaves in Britain’s Caribbean and Indian Ocean colonies. Britain’s government attempted to curb this by mandating the registration of the “lawfully enslaved” in every slave-holding colony. Because copies of these registers were kept in a central office in London, they were one of few ways in which an individual could be vouched for across the British empire. Predating birth certificates, slave registration was thus among the first modern forms of identity documentation. In documenting some combination of name, color, employment, age, stature, country of origin, distinguishing marks, and kinship relations these government records participated in codifying how identity was coming to be understood in the early nineteenth-century British world. Despite government claims that this practice safeguarded their property, however, planters fiercely resisted slave registration. This was not only because they saw this measure as unwarranted interference in colonial society. It was also because the registration process went well beyond a population accounting. The requirement to record each individual on a separate line with discrete data, compelled planters to acknowledge that the enslaved were unique persons even while registering them as chattel.

Jenny Andrus, Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies
February 15, 2024
Title: "'Under His Thumb:' Storytelling about Staying in Violent Intimate Relationships"

There is a debate in discourse analysis about the proper way to generate narratives for research. There are those who elicit narratives in interviews, producing longer, developed narratives that have likely been practiced in earlier storytelling events (Labov and Waltsky). Then, there are scholars who argue that narrative analysis should focus on narratives occurring in interaction (De Fina and Georgakopoulou). Additionally, narrative analysis must consider the relationship between the local context of storytelling and the macro context of sociocultural mores.

This paper refuses to take sides in this debate. Instead, I use a Labovian-style discourse analysis to show that narratives produced in interviews also reference social ideologies and identities as they create stories that reflect the storyteller’s goals and engage local and macro audiences. This is particularly true in narratives about Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). In narratives about IPV that emerge in interviews, the narratives are interactional and specific to the storytelling event. Further, stories emerge about what victims/survivors know about socioculturally structured identities, ideologies, and stereotypes about women who stay in violent relationships. In this paper, I identify narrative strategies that engage social discourses, while I also show how the storytelling responds to and complicates held beliefs about IPV that are circulating in sociocultural discourses.

C. Thi Nguyen, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
February 22, 2024
Title: "The Social Function of Scoring Systems"

We find scoring systems aplenty in both games and institutional life – in all the rankings and metrics which surround us. Why are scores so common, and what does it mean that we are so often entangled in scoring systems that we don’t entirely control? A score is a quantitative evaluation that renders a singular verdict. Scores have a typical function: they to encourage convergence on a singular evaluation. They are not transparent engines; they transform our values. Scoring can exert systematic pressures on our social processes of evaluations. They work to suppress pluralism about value, and to discourage evaluations in vague terms, and they encourage evaluation in mechanically repeatable terms. In doing so, scores can also serve to settle key choice points in collective reasoning processes – which explains, in part, the centrality of metrics in institutional deliberation.

Charlotte Hansen Terry, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Davis
February 29, 2024
Title: "To Make Saints: Mormon Adoptions and Familial Belonging in the Pacific"

White Mormon missionaries first arrived in Hawai‘i in 1850 and started the practice of adopting or sponsoring Pacific Islanders and bringing them to the North American West within a few years. Mormon participation in English schools is what led to many of these migrations, and some children then went to Utah and the larger Mormon cultural region to attend school. This paper explores these cross-racial adoptions and how adoption was understood across different communities. The adoption of Pacific Islander children complicated Mormon attempts to expand the boundaries of belonging as adoptions exacerbated tensions with the United States and Pacific nations by the 1890s. This talk is part of a larger project that explores Mormon missionization efforts during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and responses to these efforts by Pacific Islanders and their governments, U.S. imperial agents, and other missionary organizations. It traces how white Mormon missionaries and Pacific Islanders considered their affiliations with one another, and also their attempts to define and expand racial, religious, familial, and national belonging.

Matty Glasgow,PhD Candidate, Department of English
March 12, 2024
Title: "They, or Restoration: An Essay"

The Bear River is many and multiple: the primary tributary to a drying ancient lake, a site of state-sanctioned genocide, boundless molecules who have known many paths and many ends, a symbol for our ursine kin who once lumbered in great numbers along their shores. A river, too, is kin. Their flow not only maintains life, but is, in themselves, alive. Their memory insists on histories, both social and environmental, which offer truth in the mud and muck of mythologies of the American West and climate change denial. Can the river bear us? Can we bear them? This lyric essay considers the multiplicity and more-than-human agency of the Bear River, the work being done to restore ecosystems along their path, and if whiteness grounded in colonial extraction will ever allow for such restorative kinship. If we ask a river about their own restoration, they might respond: of whom, for whom, to when, and why?

Nicole Clawson, PhD Candidate, Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies
March 28, 2024
Title: "'We’re just people. We’re not these crazy guys with guns:' Rhetorical Narratives and Officer Identity Performance"

Narratives can create a shared worldview and provide resources that teach members of a society how to behave. As it does elsewhere, storytelling plays an important role in the work of police officers and in forming and maintaining police culture. Quotidian narratives shape police culture and give rise to officer identities. In this talk, I present a concept called “flexible and evolving identity.” I hold that identity not only emerges in-the-moment but evolves over time. The narratives I analyze consider emergent identities that operate outside traditional officer behavior (i.e., racist, machismo, suspicious, etc.), rhetorically positioning officers as “human.” Being “human” is used to create connection and camaraderie with the public. The stories told by these officers are not “just stories”; they do real rhetorical work to reshape and reframe police culture. Using this analysis, I show that officer identity and police discourse are rhetorically flexible and open to evolution. As more idiosyncratic identities and non-traditional policing narratives are shared, police discourse and culture metamorphosizes.

C.J. Alvarez, Associate Professor Mexican American and Latina-o Studies, University of Texas at Austin 
April 4, 2024
Title: "Desert Time"

There is a vast desert in the heart of North America, the biggest of its kind on the continent. This dryland is called the Chihuahuan Desert, at least by some. Most people though, in either the United States or Mexico, do not call it by any name and would be hard put to find it on a map. It is an ancient place in the midst of time-illiterate societies, a highly specialized ecosystem populated largely by people stricken with environmental amnesia. This talk is about the history of the desert which is, depending on how you measure, over 8,000 years old. There is no academic discipline, calendrical system, or common vocabulary available to describe this length of time, the lifespan of the desert. This talk proposes, with trepidation and humility, several ways of organizing desert time in the absence of any intrinsically meaningful schema and in the face of a human-centered worldview that too often dominates our imaginations and impoverishes our feel for the world outside our species.

Hua Zhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Writing & Rhetoric Studies
April 9, 2024
Title: "From Resistance to Interconnectivity: Enacting the Rhetoric of Yin"

This lecture proposes the rhetoric of yin 因 as a specific way of power subversion. In early Chinese rhetoric, yin means “to go with local circumstances.” It specifically features a paradoxical act of reforming dominant discourses while performing a level of conformity to the discourses. To recover the rhetoric of yin, I recontextualize Guiguzi, a treatise in the Warring States period of China, and further trace ancient traveling consultants’ practice of yin in the situation of advising nobles. Consultants’ practice of yin invites rhetoricians to consider how one might break through the paradigm of speaking against power and speaking outside power, underlying which is an oppositional and ethnocentric logic that sustains the systematic production of the Other. As a shrewd and responsive rhetoric, yin reorients power subversion from antithetic resistance to interconnectivity, or a relating-yet-separating relationship where there is no center to imagine from but subjects and rhetorics of various kinds can co-exist and become interdependent.

Virgil D. Aldrich Faculty Research Fellowships

ANDREW FRANTA, Department of English, “Romanticism and the History of the Future”

NATALIA WASHINGTON, Department of Philosophy, “Taxonomy is Taxidermy: Thinking Clearly About Diagnostic Kinds”

Graduate Research Fellowship

TAYLOR JOHNSON, Department of Communication, “Decolonizing Publicity: Indigenous Resistance and Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making in the Bears Ears National Monument Controversy”

Latter-day Saints Studies Research Fellowship

HANNAH JUNG, Department of History, Brandeis University, “The Transformation of Secrets: Family, Religion, and the Resilience of Mormon Polygamy

Virgil D. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

• CATHERINE MAYES, Department of Music, “Hungarian Dances in Eighteenth-Century Vienna”
• MAUREEN MATHISON, Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies, “Social Contexts and the Rhetoric of Scientific Controversy”

Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities

• TIFFANY HIGGINS, independent scholar, poet, environmental journalist, “The Impact of Hydroelectric Dams on Brazil’s Indigenous and Traditional Peoples.”

Marlin K. Jensen Scholar and Artist in Residence

• ANDREW K. LLOYD, Assistant Professor, Department of Music, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Latter-day Saints and the Musical Arts.”

Graduate Research Fellowships

• BRANDON CLARK, Department of History, “Environmental History of the Colonial Americas”
• MELISSA PARKS, Department of Communication, “From the Redwoods Conservation Movement to Sequencing Genomes: Genetic Ecologies of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries”
• CORI WINROCK, Department of English, “Digital Text-iles: Stitching Hybridity”

Graduate Research Fellowship in Latter-day Saints Studies

• SASHA COLES, Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara, “Homespun Respectability: Silk Worlds, Women’s Work, and the Making of Mormon Identity, 1850s-1910”

Tanner Humanities Center Honors Undergraduate Fellowship

• ANDREW HAYES, Department of Philosophy, “The Problem of Self-Knowledge: Agency and First-Person Opacity”

VISITING FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

• HEATHER HOUSER, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, "Environmental Culture of the Infowhelm"

THE ANNIE CLARK TANNER TEACHING & RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES

• GRETCHEN HENDERSON, Department of English, Georgetown University, "Tectonic Essays: A Philosophy of Stones"

THE VIRGIL C. ALDRICH INTERNAL FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

• KEVIN DELUCA, Department of Communication, "Activism on the Wild Public Screens of China: Environmentalism, Social Media, and Civil Society"
• RACHEL GRIFFIN, Department of Communication, “‘Still I Rise’: Early Black Feminist Rhetors"
• ANGELA SMITH, Department of English and Gender Studies Program, “Disability Affect: Moving Images and Special Effects"

GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

• ADAM GIANNELLI, Department of English, “Stutterfied”
• RYAN NELSON, Department of Philosophy, “Understanding Autism: Ontology, Classification, and Ethics"

GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN LATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDIES

• DAVID DMITRI HURLBUT, Department of History, Boston University, "Understanding the Rise of Mormonism in the Aba-Uyo Hinterlands of Nigeria, 1960-2005"

HONORS COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

• MAYA KOBE-RUNDIO, Department of Communication, Honors College, "In Her Element: Outdoor Recreation as a Tool for Female Empowerment and Community Building"

VIRGIL C. ALDRICH FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

• KEVIN COE, Department of Communication, "From Christian America to Pluralist America: Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation"
• DANIELLE OLDEN, Department of History, "Racial Uncertanties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in a Post-Civil Rights America"
• JEREMY ROSEN, Department of English, "Genre Bending: Contemporary Literary Transformations of Genre Fiction"
• JESSICA STRALEY, Department of English, "Animal Testing: Education, Ecology, and Victorian Literature"

OBERT C. & GRACE A. TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

• MATTHEW ROMANIELLO, Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, "Humoral Subjects: Imperial Health in Eighteenth-Century Russia"
• GRETCHEN HENDERSON, Department of English, Georgetown University, "Tectonic Essays: A Philosophy of Stones"

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

• NICK HARRISON, Department of Philosophy, "Explaining Addiction: The Biomedical Model and its Effects"
• SUNGGYUNG JO, Department of English, "Readerly Creations: Reading Novels and 'Reading' the Self"

OBERT C. & GRACE A. TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN MORMON STUDIES

• CRISTINA ROSETTI, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside, "'The Veil was Thin': Mormon Interactions with Spiritualism in Contemporary Mormon Movements"

HONORS COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP

• CHRISTAL HAZELTON, Department of Film & Media Arts,  Honors College, "The Things We Tell Our Children: A Look at LGBT+ in Children's Animation"

VIRGIL C. ALDRICH FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

• MATT BASSO, Department of History, "Reworking Settler Societies: Labor and the Evolution of Settler Colonialism in New Zealand and the United States, 1890-1950"
• BENJAMIN B. COHEN, Department of History, "The Shape of Water in the Deccan, c. 1083-2013"
• ANNE PETERSON, Department of Philosophy, "Matter, Composition, and Biological Unity in Aristotle"

OBERT C. & GRACE A. TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

• COLLEEN O’NEILL, Department of History, Utah State University, "Labor and Sovereignty: The Transformation of Work in Indian Country, 1890 to the Present"
• PIERRE-JULIEN HARTER, Department of Philosophy, Saint Xavier University, Buddhas in the Making: Path, Perfectability, and Gnosis in the Abhisamayālaṃkāra Literature"

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

• ANNE ROYSTON, Department of English, "Reading Theory as Artist’s Book: Materiality, Writing, Technology
• JESSICA HOUF, Department of Communication, "Bacteria, Bodies, and Boundaries: A Genealogy of Bacteria and the Human Body"

OBERT C. & GRACE A. TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN MORMON STUDIES

• GAVIN FELLER, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, Enamored but Ambivalent: Mormonism and 20th Century New Media"

HONORS COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP

• JONAH KATZ, Asian Studies Major, Honors College, Analysis of 'Dream of the Red Chamber'

VIRGIL C. ALDRICH FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

• HUGH CAGLE, Department of History, "Assembling the Tropics: Illness, Exploration, and Global Geography"
• KATHARINE COLES, Department of English, "Poem, Image, Mage"
• ERIC HINDERAKER, Department of History, "'Motley Rabble' or Martyrs for Liberty? The Boston Massacre and the Search for a Usable Past"
• MAEERA SHREIBER, Department of English, "Holy Envy: Poetry, Modernism and the Judeo-Christian Border Zone"

OBERT C. & GRACE A. TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

• DAVID KIERAN, Department of History, Washington-Jefferson College, "Signature Wounds: The Cultural Politics of Mental Health During the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars"
• MARTIN PADGET, Department of English, Aberystwyth University, Wales, United Kingdom, "Paul Strand: Photography, Modernism, and the World"

GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

• JESSICA ALEXANDER, Department of English, "House of Glee," a grotesque novel
• DANIEL AUERBACH, Department of Sociology, "Agent Orange: And the Treadmill of Destruction"

OBERT C. & GRACE A. TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN MORMON STUDIES

• STANLEY THAYNE, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "The Blood of Father Lehi: Indigenous Americans and The Book of Mormon"

HONORS COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP

• JOSHUA LIPMAN, Religious Studies Program, Honors College, "Environmental Ethics in The Book of Mormon"

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

• Christine Jones, Department of Languages & Literature, "An Edible World: Hot Beverages, Orientalism, and the French Enlightenment"
• Robin Jensen, Department of Communication, "Expectant Voices: A Rhetorical History of Fertility"
• Dustin Stokes, Department of Philosophy, "Cognitive Penetration, Attention, and the Senses"
• Margaret Wan, Department of Languages and Literature, "Drum Ballads: Popular Literature and Regional Culture in Nineteenth Century China"

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellowships

• Don Fallis, Department of Information Resources, University of Arizona, "Disinformation and the Norms of Communication"

Graduate Research Fellowships

• Travis Ross, Department of History, "History in the Works: Hubert Howe Bancroft, the History Company, and Making of Western History"
• Sadie Hoagland, Department of English, "Strange Children - A Novel"

George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Fellowship in Mormon Studies

• Nathan Jones, Department of History, "Mormon Political Thought in an Age of Pluralism"

Tanner Humanities Center Honors Undergraduate Fellowships

• Kajsa Vlasic, Department of English, "Storytelling and the Patient Experience: An Examination of Narrative and Breast Cancer Survival"
• Jeremy Sean Lofthouse, Departments of History and Religious Studies, "Tongues in Transition: The Changing Role of Glossolalia within Early Mormonism"

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

• Gema Guevara, Department of Languages & Literature, "The Sound and Silence of Race: Contesting Cuba’s Racial Paradigm (1830 - 1930)"
• Matt Potolsky, Department of English, "Secrecy Theory: A Defense of Secrets in an Age of Full Disclosure"
• Jonah Schupbach, Department of Philosophy, "Explanatory Reasoning: Philosophical and Empirical Considerations"
• Hakan Yavuz, Department of Political Science, "The Process of Vernacularization and the Zones of Islam"

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellowships

• Jared Farmer, Department of History, State University New York Stony Brook, "Trees in Time: History and Mortality among Sequoias"
• Kevin Schultz, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, "The Tory and the Libertine: Norman Mailer, William F. Buckley, Jr., and the American 1960s"

Graduate Research Fellowships

• Louis Sherman, Department of English, "Guns and the Man: Control and the Armed Ideal in Twentieth-Century American Culture"
• Spencer Wall, Department of English, "Mapping Milton: The Many Worlds of 'Paradise Lost'"

George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Fellowship in Mormon Studies

• Saskia Tielens, Department of American Studies, Dortmund University, Germany "The Ritualization of Mormon History: Tracing Cultural Memory in a Global Zion"

Tanner Humanities Center Honors Undergraduate Fellowship

• Jordan Jochim, Department of Political Science, "Renegotiating Injury: The Politics of Revenge and the Ethics of Tragic Inheritance"

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

• Mark E. Button, Department of Political Science, “Democratic Souls: Emerson, Whitman, and Beyond”
• Benjamin B. Cohen, Department of History, “A Shocking Scandal: Love, Power, and History in Colonial India”
• Robert W. Gehl, Department of Communication, “Socially engineering social media: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and the political economy of new media capitalism”
• Eric Laursen, Department of Languages and Literature, “Transformers: Energy & Electrification in Early Soviet Culture”
• James Tabery, Department of Philosophy, “Nature×Nuture: The History, Philosophy, and Bioethics of Gene-Environment Interaction”

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellowships

• Richard S. Street, Independent Scholar, “Knife Fight City: Life, Labor, and Community in a Giant Farm Labor Exploitation Camp on the West Side of California’s San Joaquin Valley”

Graduate Research Fellowships

• William K. Martin, Department of History, “Cartography as an Expression of Empire: Mapping Colonial North America and the Early American Republic”

George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Fellowship in Mormon Studies

• Rosemary Avance, Annenberg School for Communication, The University of Pennsylvania, “Voices and silences: On the dialogic construction of Mormon identities”

Tanner Humanities Center Honors Undergraduate Fellowship

• Emmylou Manwill, Department of Political Science & Department of International Studies

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

• Danielle Endres, Department of Communication, "Toxic Discourse:  The Rhetoric of Nuclear Waste Siting in the U.S."
• Anne Jamison, Department of English, "Kafka's Other Prague: Late Writings in the New Republic"
• Kathryn Stockton, Department of English, "The Sexualized Child in a Racialized World"

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellowships

• Greg Forter, University of South Carolina, "Atlantic and Other Worlds: Critique and Utopia in Contemporary Historical Realism"

Graduate Research Fellowships

• Julie Gonnering Lein, Department of English, "The Magdeburg Experiment: A Book of Poems"
• Barbara Duffey, Department of English, "Simple Machines: A Book of Poems"
• Esther Lee, Department of English, "Omma [as]: A Novel"

George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Fellowship in Mormon Studies

• Max Mueller, Harvard University, "Beyond the Priesthood: Race and Gender in the History of African-American Mormons"

Tanner Humanities Center Honors Undergraduate Fellowship

• Michael Taney, Department of History
  

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

• Chrisoula Andreou, Department of Philosophy, “Dynamic Choice and Its Discontents"
• Kimberly Mangun, Department of Communication, "'A Giant in Birmingham': Editor Emory Overton Jackson and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama"
• Daniel Medwed, College of Law, "Compromising Innocence: American Prosecutors and the Race to Convict"
• Lance Olsen, Department of English, "Theories of Forgetting"

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellowships

• Susan Courtney, University of South Carolina, "Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the South, the West, and the U.S.A. at Midcentury"

Graduate Research Fellowships

• Shira Dentz, Department of English, "Rose Secoming: A Collection of Poetry and Prose"
• Rachel Marston, Department of English, "How to Speak to God: A Fictional Exploration of Nuclear Testing, Faith, and Monstrosity in the American West"

George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Fellowship in Mormon Studies

• Kate Holbrook, Boston University, "Radical Food: Mormon Foodways and the American Mainstream"

Post-Doctoral Fellowship

• Michael Trestman, University of California, Davis

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

• Kevin DeLuca, Department of Communication, "Creating Wilderness, Imagining Environmentalism's Sublime Object"
• Eric Hutton, Department of Philosophy, "A New Translation of Xunzi"
• Stacy Margolis, Department of English, "The Rise and Fall of Public Opinion: Literature and Networks in the Early Republic"

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellowship

• Michele Mendelssohn, Oxford University, "A Race for Beauty?: The Cultural Politics of Aestheticism"

Graduate Research Fellowships

• Monika Piotrowska, Department of Philosophy, "Human, Part-Human, and Human Parts"
• Alfred Seegert, Department of English, "Till We Have (Inter)faces: A Study in Ecocriticism and Cyberculture"

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

• Suhi Choi, Department of Communication,"The Book of 'Counter Memory and the Korean War'"
• Emily Michelson, Department of History, "The Pulpit and the Press in Catholic Italy, 1520-1600"
• Helga Shugart, Department of Communication, "Bodies of Work: The Cultural Production of Obesity"
• Melanie Rae Thon, Department of English, "The Voice of the River, a novel in progress"

Obert C. & Grace A.Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellowships

• Ellen Litwicki, SUNY Fredonia, "Between Commerce and Affection: A Cultural History of Domestic Gift Giving in America"
• Katy Ryan, West Virginia University, "The Death Penalty: A Performance over the Twentieth-Century"

Graduate Research Fellowships

• Halina Duraj, Department of English, "Fatherland: A Novel"
• Mary Gould, Department of Communication, "The Rock, the Plantation, and Emerald City: Visibility and the Representational Politics of the Prison System"

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

• Matt Haber, Department of Philosophy, "The Centrality of Phylogenetic Thinking"
• Christine Jones, Department of Languages and Literature, "Size Matters: Proportion and the Arts in France (1680-1725)"
• Paul Reeve, Department of History, "Nineteenth Century Mormon Bodies: Power, Polygamy, and the Creation of a 'New Race'"
• Paisley Rekdal, Department of English, "Intimate: An American Photo Album"

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellowships

• Laura Briggs, University of Arizona, "The Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption"
• Kristine Harper, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, "Weather  By Design: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth Century America"

Graduate Research Fellowships

• Ryan Dearinger, Department of History, "Frontiers of Progress and Paradox: Building Canals, Railroads, and Manhood in the America West"
• Cara Diaconoff, Department of English, Marian Hall

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

Chrisoula Andreou, Department of Philosophy, “Environmental Damage and Self-Control”

Anne Keary, Department of History, “Comparing Cross-Cultural Histories:  Christianity, Colonialism and Cross-Cultural Translation in Eastern Australia and Northwestern America”

Nancy A. McLaughlin, College of Law, “Conservation Easements:  An Experiment in Land Preservation”

Angela Smith, Department of English, “’Hideous Progeny’:  Eugenics, Disability and Classic Horror Cinema”

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellows

Farid Abdel-Nour, San Diego State University, "Political Responsibility: How Individuals are Answerable for Their Polity"

Ronald Doel, Oregon State University, "Ewing's Mansion: Ethics, Science, and the Production of Knowledge During the Cold War"

Jenefer Robinson, University of Cincinnati, "Emotion as Process"

Graduate Research Fellows

Jonathan Moyer, Department of History, “Interaction of the Mormon Church and the Republican Party in Local and National Politics”

Katie R. Sullivan, Department of Communication, “How is Sexuality Discursively Constructed in the Profession of Massage Therapy?”

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

Mark Button, Department of Political Science, "Democratic Humility and the Virtues of Late Modernity"

Claudio Holzner, Department of Political Science, "Contrasting Voices of Mexico's Democracy"

Isabel Moreira, Department of History, "Purgatory:  Punishment and Mediation in the Early Medieval Afterlife"

Margaret Wan, Department of Languages and Literature, "Cultural Literacies: Popular Literature and Local Culture in Late Imperial China"

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellows

Michaele Ferguson, U. Colorado, Boulder,  "Sharing Democracy"

Kathrin Koslicki, Tufts University, "The Language of Counting and Measuring"

Keith Watenpaugh, Le Moyne College, "The Generation of 1900: The Arab Intellectual Between Islam and Modernity"  George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Distinguished Fellow in Democracy and Diversity

Betsy Duquette, Gettysburg College, “Loyal Subjects:  Problems of Race, Nation, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America”

Graduate Research Fellows

Kyeong-Kyu Im, Department of English, “Empire and Diasporic Formation of Asian America”

Tracy Marafiote, PDepartment of Communication, “Boundaries of Identity, Earth and Institution:  A Cultural History of the Wilderness Society and the Wilderness Act of 1964”

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships 

Nadja Durbach, Department of History, “Exhibiting Freaks:  Constructing the Modern British Body, 1830-1914”

Daniel J.H. Greenwood, College of Law, “The Metaphors of Corporate Law”

Joseph Metz, Department of Languages and Literature, “Writing in the Margins:  Gender, Nation, and the Figuration of Austria as Inner Colonial Space, 1840-1940”

Ronald Smelser, Department of History, “The Myth of the Eastern Front:  An American Perspective”

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellows

Marian Eide, Texas A&M University, “the Lure of Violence:  Political Brutality in Twentieth-Century Aesthetics”

Jennifer Ritterhouse, Utah State University,  “Learning Race:  Racial Etiquette and the Socialization of the Children in the Jim Crow South”

Graduate Research Fellows

David C. Hawkins, Department of English, “Dark Adaptation,” a poetry manuscript project.

Carolina Webber, Department of Communication, “A Case Study of a State Court Systems Organizational Communication Processes”

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

Katharine Coles, Department of English

Lisa Flores, Department of Languages and Literature

Gema Guevara, Department of Languages and Literature

Mauricio Mixco, Department of Languages and Literature

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellows

Erika Bsumek, University of Texas, Austin:  “Indian-Made®:  The Construction and consumption of Navajo Identity, 1860-1940”

Dana Luciano, Hamilton College:  “Revisions of Mourning:  Loss, Nationality and the Longing for Form in Nineteenth Century America”

Graduate Research Fellows

Hale Yilmaz, Department of History, "Learning, Resisting, Living:  Negotiating the Kemalist Reforms in Trabzon, 1923-1938"

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

Vincent J. Cheng, Department of English (Fall; Virgil Aldrich Fellowship)

Cynthia Stark, Department of Philosophy (Fall, Virgil Aldrich Fellowship)

Karen Lee Ashcraft, Department of Communication (Spring, Virgil Aldrich Fellowship)

Mariam G. Thalos, Department of Philosophy (Spring, Virgil Aldrich Fellowship)

Graduate Research Fellows

Brian Kubarycz, Department of English (Tanner Graduate Fellowship)

Justen Mark Olsen, Department of Philosophy (Tanner Graduate Fellowship)

Jason Pickavance, Department of English (Tanner Graduate Fellowship

Eileen Wallis, PDepartment of History (Tanner Graduate Fellowship)

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

Kimberly Lau, Department of English, Department of Women Studies, "The Anatomy of a Movement: Women, Activism, and Embodiment Theory"

Marouf Hasian, Jr., Department of Communication, "Collective Memories and Anglo-American Holocaust Trials"

Edward Rubin, Department of Linguistics, "Modifier Phrase, Bare Phrase Structure, and Functional Categories"

Janet Theiss, Department of History, "Dealing with Disgrace: Chastity and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China"

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellows

Shannon Miller, Temple University, "Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth Century Writing by Women"

Shawn Michelle Smith, Washington State University, "Photography on the Color Line"

Graduate Research Fellows

Katie Pearce-Sassen, Department of History, "A Cultural Study of the Eagle Forum and Concerned Women for America in the Battle Over the Equal Rights Amendment."

Ryan Spellecy, Department of Philosophy, "Ulysses Contracts and Mental Illness."

Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowships

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Department of Political Science, "What are the Possibilities for a More Humanistic Social Science? The Case of Political Science"

Eric Laursen, Department of Languages and Literature, "Engineers of the Human Soul: Proletarian Theory and the Fantastic in Russian Literature of the 1920's"

Jacqueline Osherow, Department of English, "Take Words With You"

Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellows

Carol Poster, Montana State University, "Figural Rhetoric"

Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University, "The Other Virgil: The Subversive Aeneid in Early Modern Europe"

Graduate Research Fellows

Carl Sederholm, Department of English, "Early American Literature and the influence with the occult"

Lora Knight, Department of History, " Women and Eugenics in Germany and the U.S.,1900-1940"