CURRENT AND PAST FELLOWS
CAORC-NEH Research Fellowship
Funding for this fellowship is generously provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Please see below recent cohorts of the CAORC-NEH Research Fellowship.
Multi-Country Research Fellowship
Funding for this fellowship is generously provided by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Please see below recent cohorts of the Multi-Country Research Fellowship.
2023 - 2024 Fellows
Mackenzie Cooley
Associate Professor & Director of Latin American Studies, Department of History, Hamilton College
Bioprospecting Tenochtitlan: The Global Quest for Cures in Mexico, 1500-1700
Cindy Nguyen
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Cambodian Textual Infrastructures: Histories and Community Engaged Scholarship
Matthew Shutzer
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Duke University
Ready Made: Asian Capital, Bangladeshi Agriculture, and the Transformation of the Global Economy after 1970
Andrew Weintraub
Professor, Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh
Years of Living Musically: Affective Politics and Indonesian Populism, 1950-65
2022 - 2023 Fellows
Christopher McCarthy
Independent Scholar
All Roads Lead to Karakorum: Mapping Mongolia's Silk Roads and Preservation of the Gobi Desert
Rebecca Mitchell
Associate Professor, Department of History, Middlebury College
Discordant Empire: Sound and Song in Imperial Russia, 1861-1930
Bamba Ndiaye
Assistant Professor, Institute of African Studies and Division of Humanities at Oxford College, Emory University
African Social Movements in the Digital Era
2020-2021 Fellows
Colleen Alena O’Brien
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut für Romanistk, Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen
Collaborative Documentation, Description, and Analysis of the Gorontalo Language
Susan Slyomovics
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
The Afterlives of France’s Colonial Monumental Heritage in Algeria
Daniel Steinhart
Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, University of Oregon
Cross-Border Hollywood: Production Politics and Practices in Mexico
2019-2020 Fellows
Max Ajl
Associated Researcher, Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment
Agronomic Alternatives from Tunisia: Big Plans and Small Farms in the Search for Sustainability
Elizabeth A. Cecil
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Florida State University
Architectures of Intimidation: Political Ecology and Landscape Manipulation in Early Southeast Asia
Khaled Esseissah
Assistant Teaching Professor, African Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Harāṭīn Muslim Intermediaries: Slavery, Gender and Social Change in French West Africa
2018-2019 Fellows
Hilary Jones
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
From Senegambia to the French Antilles: West Africa and the Making of the French Atlantic World
Ageeth Sluis
Professor, Butler University
Warrior Power: Dreaming, Drugs, Death and the Search or Alternate Spirituality in Mexico during the Sixties and Seventies
Nicholas Williams
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Colorado Boulder
Losing Luekon: Collaborative Documentation of an Endangered Language on the Remote Indonesian Island of Simeulue
2017-2018 Fellows
Justin Henry
Instructor, Loyola University Chicago
Imagining History: Cultural Interface, Religious Identity, and Historiography in Premodern Sri Lanka
Allyson M. Poska
Professor, University of Mary Washington
Contested Equality: Smallpox Vaccination in the Spanish Empire (1803–1810)
Anna Stirr
Associate Professor, University of Hawaii
Performing Aspirations: Love and Revolution in Nepali Progressive Song
2016-2017 Fellows
Karen Barton
Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado
Africa’s Titanic: Investigating the Geographic Dimensions of the Joola Ferry and Humanitarian Crisis
Dannah Dennis
Teaching Fellow, NYU Shanghai
Bureaucratizing Equality: Nepal’s Civil Service in Transition
Courtney Work
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chiang Mai University
Climate Change and Co-management in Prey Lang: Social experiments in conflict transformation
2023 - 2024 Fellows
Lydia Barrett
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Cruz
Songs of the Sacred Kitchen: Women’s Participatory Performance and Kitchen Drums in Senegal and Morocco
Richard Bownas
Professor, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Northern Colorado
Political Brokers and Caste based Quotas in Local Government: A cross-border comparison of Nepal and India
Matthew Canepa
Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran, Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine
Between Rupture and Renovation: Iran and the Creation of a Global Sensorium of Power
Owen Doonan
Professor, Department of Art, California State University, Northridge
Black Sea Iron Age: towards an archaeology of trans-cultural community.
Deren Ertas
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History & Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Imperial Geologies: The Political Ecology and Economy of Mining in the Ottoman Empire, 1720-1920
Lisa Gilman
Professor, Department of English and Folklore, George Mason University
My Culture, My Survival: Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees
Richard Harrod
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Washington University, St. Louis
Developing the Nahda: Imperial Legacies and the Forging of a Nation in Oman
Jessica Hogbin
Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Syracuse University
Innumerable Melancholies: Medicine and Mental Health in Renaissance Europe
Marina Madrikova
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Art and Art History, Case Western Reserve University
Crime and Punishment: Images of Sinners and the Power of the Visual in Byzantine and Slavic Monumental Painting
Nathaniel Moses
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Rivers Undone: State, Subject, and Ecology in Late Ottoman Iraq
Kristen Rudisill
Professor, Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University
The Rise of Gaana Dance: Cinema, Competitions, and Global Tamil Identity
Peter Soland
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Humanities, and Language, University of Houston, Downtown
The Radiance of Tlatelolco: Politics, Culture, and Nuclear Technology in Mexico and Argentina
2022 - 2023 Fellows
Gokh Amin Alshaif
Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Native Outsiders: The Black Muhamasheen of Yemen
Clare Bradford Anderson
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Tropical Agriculturists: The British Colonial Office, Imperial Agriculture, and the Making of the Global Tropics, 1870-1935
Hillary Buxton
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Kenyon College
Disabled Empire: Decolonizing Care and the First World War in Imperial Britain
Devin Creed
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Duke University
Giving for Eating: Famine, Humanitarianism, and Nutrition Science in Bengal and North India, 1837- 1975
Emily Gottreich
Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Mobilizing the Jewish Past for the Muslim Future: Jewish Heritage and History in the Islamicate World
Mayte Green-Mercado
Associate Professor & Newark Campus Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Department of History, Rutgers University, Newark
Mediterranean Displacements: Morisco Migrations between 1501 and 1608
Walter Hakala
Associate Professor, Department of English / Asian Studies, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Arabic-Script Vernacular Literacy and Public Texts
Michael Mandelkorn
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
Dis/Order in the Hills: Mapping Mobilities, Capital, and Ecologies Across a Zomian System, 1852-1975
Caitlyn Yates
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Migrantship: Extra-continental Mobility Strategies to Navigate Illegalization and Otherness in the Americas
2021- 2022 Fellows
Bayan Abubakr
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
The Forty Days’ Road and the World Around It: Race, Slavery, and Society in Ottoman-Egyptian Sudan, 1840-1924
Katherine Harrington
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Clark University
Home Economics: Crafting Households and Communities in Ancient Greece
Hannah Hyden
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Subjects of Wonder: Court Society and the Persian ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt (1300-1632)
Nancy Ko
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Nostalgic Governance: Coexistence, Capitalism, and the Moral Imagination of Jewish History-Writing in the Global "Orient," 1878-1967
Ryan Low
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Notarial Information and Village Life in the Medieval Mediterranean
Ariela Marcus-Sells
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Elon University
The War of Nasir al-Din: Reform and Revolution in West Africa
Abigail Schoenfeld
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Social Sciences, Knowledge Production, and Nation -Building in Turkey and Soviet Azerbaijan, 1922- 1940
Wallace Teska
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Stanford University
Paths to Justice: Law, Religion, and Social Change in French West Africa, 1890-1990
Brian Valente-Quinn
Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient
Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Colorado Boulder
The De-Radicalizing Stage: Theater Makers Respond to Extremism in France and West Africa
2020-2021 Fellows
Nicholas Bartos
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Classics, Stanford University
Human Geographies and Maritime Economies of the Western Indian Ocean, 100 BCE – 700 CE
Sophie A. Brady
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Music, Princeton University
Radio Dakar, Experimental Music, and the Forging of a Global Avant-Garde
Kurt Kuehne
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hidden from the Heartlands: Precarity, Boundary- Making, and Temporary Migrant Workers in the Global City
Yasser Nasser
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago
Creating ‘New Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship and its Global Afterlives, 1947-1962
James Nye
Retired Bibliographer, Committee on Southern Asian Studies, University of Chicago
Enhancing and Expanding Digital and Physical Resources for South Asian Studies
Maru Pabón
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University
Agitated Layers of Air: Language, Cultural Decolonization, and Poetics of Solidarity across Algeria, Cuba, and Palestine
Aaron Schneider
Professor and Associate Dean, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Why Emerging Powers Don’t Emerge: Boom and Bust in Brazil and India
William Taylor
Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient
Curator of Archaeology, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder
Understanding Pastoral Prehistory in Inner Asia’s Mountain Zones Through Glacial Archaeology
Christin Zurbach
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Doctoring Society: The Professionalization of Ottoman Medicine
2019-2020 Fellows
Ofosuwa M. Abiola
Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient
Associate Professor, Department of Theatre Arts, Howard University
Unwitting Witnesses: Unearthing Narratives of African Dance in Pre-Colonial Logs
Jason Ahlenius
Doctoral Candidate and Graduate Instructor, Spanish and Portuguese Department, New York University
The Limits of Freedom: Formations of Slavery on the Imperial Borderlands in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Mitchell Bacci
Doctoral Candidate, History Department and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Smugglers and State-Builders: The Illicit Opiate Trade and the Making of the Modern Eastern Mediterranean, 1828-1938
Divya Chandramouli
Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Fellow, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
What Happens When Dramas Move?: 20th Century Traveling Tamil Performers in the Bay of Bengal Region
Amanda Gaggioli
Doctoral Candidate, Classics Department, Stanford University
Earthquakes and Collapse: Resilience and Human-Geological Environment Relationships in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology
Nathan Grau
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
France's Forgotten Soldiers: Local Paramilitaries on the Frontlines of Decolonization, 1945-1962
Jill Jarvis
Assistant Professor, Department of French, Yale University
Signs in the Desert: An Aesthetic Cartography of the Sahara
Ellen Nye
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
Credit Between the British and Ottoman Empires: Forging a Global Monetary System, 1670-1720
Christy Schirmer
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
Exploiting Riverine Resources in the Roman Empire
CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship launched in 1993. This page displays the five most recent cohorts.