{"id":11639,"date":"2017-08-17T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T19:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/?page_id=11639"},"modified":"2024-09-03T12:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:01:12","slug":"graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/people\/graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AGHI offers a range of support for graduate students. Graduate Research Fellowships award one semester of funding to advanced graduate students working on a range of fields across the humanities and humanistic social sciences. During the Spring semester, Fellows carry on their research while meeting regularly with AGHI board members and affiliate faculty to share and discuss their work. The PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies (IHS), meanwhile, is a new doctoral program, funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. IHS students working at the intersection of two disciplines craft their own PhD, one that combines the insights, faculty support, and results of this unique interdisciplinary research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about these opportunities and how to apply, see our Graduate Opportunities page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024\u20132025 Graduate Research Fellows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We are excited to welcome five new scholars as the incoming 2024\u201325 cohort of AGHI graduate research fellows. Full info about individual fellows’ bios and projects below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see our past graduate research fellows, visit our Alumni page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Ella<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ella Gonzalez<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

B.A. Pepperdine University, Art History and Journalism (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bio: <\/strong>Ella is a Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art focusing on Greek art, with an emphasis on women and gender in ancient Greek art, as well as feminist theory. Ella previously earned a B.A. in both Art History and Journalism from Pepperdine University and has co-edited a forthcoming edited volume (with Cynthia S. Colburn and Ellen C. Caldwell, Penn State Press, Fall 2024) about gender violence in art history from antiquity to present titled Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention<\/em>. From 2023-2024, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Summary<\/strong>: Ella is working on a dissertation about caryatids, or female architectural supports, on bronze mirror handles (7th-5th centuries BCE) and public architecture (6th-1st centuries BCE) in ancient Greece, as well as their later receptions in modern and contemporary art, through the lens of women\u2019s labor in antiquity. She proposes that using the female body as an architectural support demonstrates the importance of women and their labor in sustaining ancient Greek life. Firmly grounded in art history, her project shows how revising our understanding of ancient caryatids is essential to how we engage with and see these figures, and women\u2019s labor, in the present.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mengqi An<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BAs in Russian Studies and Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MA in Russian Literature, Peking University, Beijing, China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography: <\/strong>Mengqi \u201cMercy\u201d An is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature. She works on Chinese-Sinophone literature, Russian-Russophone literature, ecocriticism, modernity and modernism, and borderland studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project:<\/strong> Mercy\u2019s dissertation project, titled “Between Nature and Cultures: Literature of Manchuria in Chinese and Russian Languages, 1910s-1940s,” examines writings in and about Manchuria (the borderland between China, Russia, Japan, and Korea) during a period of imperial rivalry, colonial activities, and unprecedented human impact on nature. She is particularly interested in how knowledge and ideas about nature come to shape and are shaped by literary texts. Her research troubles many boundaries, including those of nation-states, geographies, material-discourse, and human-nonhuman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Yanneck Wiegers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BA in Latin and Biology, Universit\u00e4t Osnabr\u00fcck<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MA in Classics, Universit\u00e4t Leipzig<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: <\/strong>yanneck.wiegers@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography: <\/strong>Yanneck Wiegers is a PhD candidate in Classics. He holds degrees in Biology, Latin, and Classics. His research interests are centered around ancient Greek and Roman ideas and theories of creativity, both from a literary and a biological perspective, as well as the intersection of the two. He loves to teach, Ancient Greek, Latin, and the History of Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project: <\/strong>In a world where the concept of creativity as an exclusively human endeavor is not just challenged by studies of animals, but by the much more momentous emergence of artificial intelligence, the ancient world can offer interesting perspectives to reevaluate our own ideas. The Romans, though they did not have the modern term, were heavily invested in explorations of the nature of the creative act. From the get-go their literature is characterized by an acute feeling of crisis and a compulsion to justify its own existence. Endlessly beware of their own belatedness, Roman writers felt forced to think of novel ways to explain themselves. This project tries to trace their attempts to grapple with the nature of the creative act. It anchors the exploration in three interrelated aspects: first, the Romans\u2019 engagement with Greek materialist philosophy, notably Philodemus, who offers a new way to analyze creativity through the old lens of compositio<\/em> or synthesis<\/em>; second, the Romans\u2019 distinct conception of nature and the body; and third, their view of the creative act as a form of labor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jacob Bruggeman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: <\/strong>19th and 20th century U.S. history, history of ideas, social histories of capitalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, political economy, print media and identity, economic and cultural geography, American regionalism, midwestern history economic, cultural, and literary history<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies (IHS) Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Hannah Haegeland<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BA, History and English Literature, Concordia College <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MA, South Asia, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: <\/strong>hhaegel1@jhu.edu <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography: <\/strong>Hannah Haegeland is a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies Program, working between the Department of the History of Science and Technology and the Department of Political Science. She researches military science and technologies in twentieth-century Asia. From 2011-2022 she held research and teaching positions related to the history and security of southern Asia in Albuquerque, Washington, D.C., Seattle, New Delhi, and Kathmandu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project: <\/strong>Hannah\u2019s project works to recover some of the silences in Global South nuclear histories. When scientific knowledge and technologies developed in one time, geography, market, language, community, political and strategic environment migrate to other spaces, the ways individuals, institutions, and states interact with them can change, along with the actual character of those technologies and science. The nature of that interaction has a lot to do with how key strategic, bureaucratic, and technical actors want to use the science and technology. Hannah\u2019s research will complicate universalist, deterministic scholarship by studying how and why key stakeholders engage with nuclear science and technologies differently or the same in distinct contexts over time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Goh Rui Zhe<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BA in Philosophy, Yale-NUS College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: rgoh1@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography:<\/strong> Rui Zhe is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies, working at the intersection between philosophy of mind and perception science. He is fascinated by the temporal nature of experience, and his research explores how the human mind segments the continuous flow of perceptual input into the discrete events that we experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project:<\/strong> In daily life, there are moments in which we seem to hear silence<\/em>, such as when we listen to the quiet night, or when an exhilarating orchestral performance ends abruptly. However, these experiences of silence are puzzling because they seem to be characterized by the absence <\/em>of sound\u2014what could we possibly be hearing, if not sound? In his current project, Rui Zhe uses empirical and philosophical tools to investigate the nature of silence perception. To date, he has discovered empirical evidence showing that the auditory system segments moments of silence into discrete perceptual events. Building on these experimental findings, Rui Zhe is now exploring the possibility that experiences of silence are the result of the auditory system segmenting empty periods of time<\/em> into discrete units. In the words of the playwright Tom Stoppard, silence may be \u201cthe sound of time passing\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer Marks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BA, Anthropology and Classical Civilization, Beloit College
MPH, International Health, Boston University School of Public Health
MA, Museum Studies certificate (Classical Archeology), Tufts University
MA, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, Brandeis University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: jmarks22@jh.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/strong>: Jennifer is a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, working between Classics and Near Eastern Studies.  She holds degrees in Anthropology and Classical Civilization from Beloit College, International Public Health from Boston University, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies from Brandeis University, and a Museum Studies certificate from Tufts University.  Her research interests include the archaeology and material culture of the Aegean Bronze Age, particularly Minoan\/Mycenaean textile craft production and specialization, metallurgy, and early Minoan mortuary practices, in addition to the application of ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology to ancient crafting techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project<\/strong>: Jennifer\u2019s project aims to access the lived experiences and creative work of women who labored in the textile industries of the Bronze Age Aegean and Ancient Near East, by newly foregrounding the ways in which their biographies – as migrants, mothers, and craftspersons – embodied connections between these two regions.  Drawing together two areas of the ancient world, her research, diachronic in scope, will culminate in a close study of workgroups of women from western Anatolia who migrated to Greece with their children as textile laborers for the Mycenaean palace at Pylos.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marshall Meyer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BA, Occidental College
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:<\/strong> mmeyer35@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/strong>: Marshall Meyer is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies at Johns Hopkins University, working between the departments of Comparative Thought and Literature and Modern Languages and Literatures. He received his bachelor\u2019s degree in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at Occidental College, where he wrote a thesis on the reception of Greek tragedy by key German idealist philosophers. His research interests include psychoanalysis, particularly the Ljubljana Lacanian School and transcendental materialism; German idealism, particularly Hegel; Marxist theory; twentieth-century European philosophy and theory; contemporary literature, film\/television, and popular music; and current topics in aesthetic theory, such as autonomy, form, and critique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project<\/strong>; Marshall situates his work as part of an ongoing effort, inaugurated more than thirty years ago by Slavoj \u017di\u017eek and members of his circle, to read the German idealist canon through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis (and vice versa). At the same time, he remains keenly interested in the many new practices of reading that have proliferated in the humanities in the twenty-first century, and it is the aim of his research to bring these two concerns into dialogue. How would Lacan or Hegel, with their shared emphasis on the subject\u2019s mediation, respond to a trending practice like postcritique, with its belief in an immediate relationship between reader and text? And are the thinkers just mentioned only good for critiquing existing practices of reading, or is there sufficient material in their work to advance a positive theory of aesthetics? These are among the questions that occupy him.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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John Lafe Shannon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BA, Sociology, Saint Xavier University
MA, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: <\/a>jshann12@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/strong>: John is a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies Program, working between Near Eastern Studies and Earth and Planetary Sciences. He holds degrees in Sociology from Saint Xavier University and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago. His research interests are the archaeology of Arabia, geoarchaeology, and the archaeology of trade and exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project<\/strong>: John\u2019s research focuses on chlorite vessels that were carved by the peoples of Arabia and Iran during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Despite their ubiquity in the archaeological records of civilizations surrounding the Persian\/Arabian Gulf, it remains unknown where the stone for these vessels originated. By linking chlorite vessels to geological sources, John seeks to extrapolate the trade networks within which these vessels were produced and distributed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shengshuang Wang <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BA, Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University
MA, Comparative Literature, Renmin University of China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:<\/strong> shengshuangwang@jhu.edu <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/strong>: Shengshuang holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Nanjing University, and she received her master\u2019s degree in Comparative Literature from Renmin University of China. In 2019 she was accepted into the German section at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. Currently, she is studying in the Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies Program to combine her interests in German studies and Sinology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project<\/strong>: Her research focuses on the influences of German literature and philosophy on Chinese modernity, especially on Chinese intellectual and political movements in the 20th century. Shengshuang also continues her investigations on the contemporary German writer W. G. Sebald, especially the theme of repetition in his works.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tatiana Avesani<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BA Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, Italy
MA New York University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:<\/strong> tavesan1@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/strong>: Tatiana\u2019s research has mostly focused on Italian Renaissance Literature. Specifically, before coming to Johns Hopkins, their work explored the relationship between political structures and language. Specifically, it analyzed the ways in which politics shaped the development of the Italian language in the debates taking place in Italy in the 15th and 19th centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project<\/strong>: Through the Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies Program Tatiana is bridging Italian Studies with Classics. Their projects aims at exploring the Italian Renaissance via Neo-Latin literature by posing questions of gender and identity through the lens of language. They hope that by working with Transgender Studies theory they will be able to shed a new light and reading of cultural production in the Italian Early Modern period.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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