CURRENT AND PAST FELLOWS
NEH Senior 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 Senior 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.
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, Florida International University
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
Mellon Mediterranean Regional
Research Fellowship
Funding for this fellowship was generously provided by the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Please see below recent cohorts of the Mellon Mediterranean Research Fellowship.
2016-2017 Fellows
George Bajalia
Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University
Waiting at the Border: Language, Labor, and Infrastructure in the Straits of Gibraltar
Daanish Faruqi
Doctoral Candidate, Duke University
Politicized Sainthood in Diaspora: Sufi rebels from the colonial Maghrib to the 2011 Syrian Uprising
Eliza Gettel
Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University
Between Federalism and Imperialism: The koina of Roman Achaea from the 1st to 3rd century CE
Maya Maskarinec
Visiting Research Scholar, New York University
Unsafe for Saints: Critique of Rome from Late Antique Constantinople to 10th century Italy
Joel Pattison
Doctoral Candidate, University of California at Berkeley
Trade and Religious Boundaries in the Medieval Maghreb: Genoese Merchants, their Products, and Islamic Law
Jackson Perry
Doctoral Candidate, Georgetown University
A New Milieu: Eucalyptus and the modern Mediterranean, 1848-1896
Michael Turner
Doctoral Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Definiteness in the Arabic and Berber Dialects of North Africa
2015-2016 Fellows
Evan Freeman
Doctoral Candidate, Yale University
Ritual Object, Ritual Space: Art, Agency, and Performance in the Middle Byzantine Liturgy
Rebecca Gruskin
Doctoral Candidate, Stanford University
Phosphates: Local Dissidence, Global Agriculture, and Environment in Gafsa
Ian Halthaway
Doctoral Candidate, Yale University
States, Travelers, and Pirates: Early Modern Mediterranean Letters of Safe Passage and the Challenge of Controlling the Sea
Jonathan McCollum
Doctoral Candidate, University of California Los Angeles
Ottomanism at War: Citizenship, Nationalization, and Minorities in the Ottoman Empire, 1911-1912
Vish Sakthivel
Doctoral Candidate, University of Oxford
Resistance through Cooperation: Algeria's Islamist Grassroots
Nir Shafir
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Los Angeles
The Road from Damascus: Mobility, Material Culture, and the Redefinition of Islam in an Ottoman Holy Land, 1620-1720
Jennifer Thum
Doctoral Candidate, Brown University
Turning the Landscape into a Stela: The Mechanics of Egyptian Royal Rock Inscriptions
2019-2020 Fellows
Ofosuwa M. Abiola
Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient
Associate Professor of History, 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
2018-2019 Fellows
Henry Clements
Doctoral Candidate, Yale University
Documenting Community: The Süryani Christians of the Ottoman Empire
Armelle Crouzières Ingenthron
J. Harvey Watson Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Middlebury College
Mediterranean Dialogues in Catalan and French: Najat El Hachmi and Malika Mokeddem
Samaa Elimam
Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University
On Site: Engineering, Empire, and the Geography of the Nile Valley
Arjun Guneratne
Professor, Macalester College
Ornithology at the Margins: The Social History of a Field Science in Sri Lanka
Nour Joudah
Doctoral Candidate, University of California Los Angeles
Mapping Decolonized Futures: Indigenous Efforts for Algeria, Palestine, and Hawaii
Caroline Kahlenberg
Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University
Hawkers and Housekeepers: Gender, Class, and Jewish-Arab Relations on Palestine’s Margins (1887-1948)
Taylor Moore
Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Egypt (1875-1950)
Jeannie Sowers and Erika Weinthal
Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire
Lee Hill Snowdon Professor of Environmental Policy, Duke University
Conflict and the Targeting of Civilian Infrastructure and Livelihoods in the Middle East
Anna Weerasinghe
Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient
Doctoral Candidate, Johns Hopkins University
Gender, Medicine, and Law in Early Modern Portuguese India
2017-2018 Fellows
Ashley Eckhardt
Doctoral Candidate, Emory University
The Crafting of Cult Statues in the High Hellenistic Period
Rachel Kulick
Collaborating Geoarchaeologist, University of Toronto
Bronze Age Urban Environments on Crete and Cyprus: Investigating Socio-Environmental Interactions using Geoarchaeology
Laura Kunreuther
Associate Professor, Bard College
Translating Voices, Interpreting in the Field
Rebecca Levitan
Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
The Pasquino Group: The Use of a Hellenistic Sculpture as a Locus for Dialog and Resistance from Ancient Greece to the Renaissance
Mali Skotheim
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Postclassical Performance: Greek Drama in the Hellenistic and Roman Era
Cristina Stancioiu
Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary
Art and Identity in Eastern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries: The Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in Context
Andrew Ward
Independent Scholar
Transculturality and Regional Adaptation: Cylinder Stamping in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
Julie Weise
Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient
Associate Professor, University of Oregon
Citizenship Displaced: Migrant Political Cultures in the Era of State Control
2016-2017 Fellows
Alexandra Dalferro
Doctoral Candidate, Cornell University
Shimmering Surfaces and Stray Threads: Weaving State Politics into Khmer Silk in Contemporary Thailand
Lori Leonard
Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient
Professor, Cornell University
Junkers: Second-hand cars and the creation of waste and value in West Africa
Royce Novak
Doctoral Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Archipelago of Extinction: Prison Islands in the Making and Unmaking of Empire
Dilshanie Perera
Doctoral Candidate, Stanford University
Barometer Falling: Anticipating Ecological Risk and Governing Disaster across Meteorological Worlds
Erin Rowe
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
Kimberley Thomas
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Is climate finance just?
Hugh Tuller
Doctoral Candidate, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
The Role of Forensic Science in Post-Conflict Transformation: A cross-cultural comparison of Cyprus and northern Uganda
2015-2016 Fellows
Faiz Ahmed
Assistant Professor, Brown University
Ottoman Americana: The Sublime Porte, the United States, and Transatlantic Muslims in North America, c. 1730-1923
Joel Blecher
Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee University
Profit and Prophecy: Islam and the Spice Trade from Venice to India
Celine Dauverd
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Three Kings: Muslim rulers and the Pact of Peace Toward Italians, 1453-1610
Ann Gaul
Doctoral Candidate, Georgetown University
Inventing the Modern North African Kitchen: Emerging National Cuisines in Egypt and Morocco
Andrew Lebovich
Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University
The Search for the Straight Path: Islamic Reform and Regional Change in Algeria, Senegal, and Mali in the Twentieth Century
Mara Leichtman
Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Humanitarian Islam: Transnational Religion and Kuwaiti Development Projects in Africa
Benjamin Linder
Doctoral Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mobility and the Global Production of Space Between Hong Kong and Kathmandu
CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship launched in 1993. This page displays the five most recent cohorts.