Photo: Faculty Fellow Lan Li of The History of Medicine (far right) presenting work on her forthcoming book, Body Maps: Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine
The 2025 deadline has passed.
The AGHI Faculty Fellowship aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue, inspire creative collaborations, and forge communal bonds.
The core of the fellowship is built around biweekly Friday lunches: convivial gatherings centered on work-in-progress presentations followed by robust discussions. Complementing the vibrant intellectual activities that go on within departments, these gatherings offer humanities faculty—together with IHS students and AGHI Graduate Research Fellows—the opportunity to convey the essence and relevance of their work to and receive feedback from colleagues outside their own disciplines and beyond the traditional parameters of classrooms, departments, and institutional hierarchies.
For the academic year 2025-2026, up to nine Faculty Fellows, including emeriti, will be selected from the full range of humanistic departments, disciplines, and ranks.
Complete the application via Interfolio.
Contact [email protected] for questions.
Fellowship details
All Faculty Fellows will be expected to attend the Friday lunches, present their work to the group, and find ways to involve students in their projects. For their participation, they will each receive $5,000 in additional research funds, half of which are unrestricted, and half of which are intended to facilitate meaningful graduate and/or undergraduate student engagement. The funds will be made available to active Faculty Fellows at the end of the fall semester.
AGHI Faculty Fellowships will be awarded for interdisciplinary work that especially promises to benefit from and contribute to the intellectual community that emerges from these conversations. Please submit a one- to two-page description of your project, in which you highlight how you intend to involve students.
Current fellows
Jennifer Culbert
Associate Professor, Political Science
Research Interests: Political theory, jurisprudence
Gabrielle Dean
William Kurrelmeyer Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries; Adjunct Professor, English and the Program in Museums and Society
Nour El Rayes
Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicologist & Musicology
Research Interests: Global popular music
Mary Favret
Allen Grossman Professor, English
Research Interests: British Romanticism, late 18th- early 19th-century English literature, war studies, gender and genre, literature and violence
Satoru Hashimoto
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Thought & Literature
Research Interests: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literatures and cultures; modernities and modernisms; comparative literature, aesthetics, and intellectual history; aesthetics and justice; post-secularism; world literature
Robert Kargon
Emeritus Professor, History of Medicine
Research Interests: History of the physical sciences; science and social change; history of science and technology in America
Jennifer Kingsley
Teaching Professor and Director, Museums and Society
Research Interests: Medieval art; history of collecting and display; art museums; inclusive museums; history of the senses; digital knowledge scapes
Pawel Maciejko
Associate Professor, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture
Research Interests: Early modern history, Jewish history, intellectual history, and East-Central Europe
Marie O’Connor
Associate Teaching Professor, University Writing Program
Research Interests: AI language and rhetoric
Nadejda I. Webb
Assistant Research Professor, Center for the Digital Humanities; Assistant Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure (LxC)
Research Interests: 20th and 21st-century African-American and Post-Colonial literature, as well as digital humanities, imaginaries, and belonging.