CAORC-NEH Research Fellowship

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

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Susan Slyomovics

Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

The Afterlives of France’s Colonial Monumental Heritage in Algeria

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Daniel Steinhart

Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, University of Oregon

Cross-Border Hollywood: Production Politics and Practices in Mexico

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2019-2020 Fellows

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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

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Elizabeth A. Cecil

Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Florida State University

Architectures of Intimidation: Political Ecology and Landscape Manipulation in Early Southeast Asia 

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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

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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

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Ageeth Sluis

Professor, Butler University

Warrior Power: Dreaming, Drugs, Death and the Search or Alternate Spirituality in Mexico during the Sixties and Seventies

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Nicholas Williams

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Colorado Boulder

Losing Luekon: Collaborative Documentation of an Endangered Language on the Remote Indonesian Island of Simeulue

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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

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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

2021- 2022 Fellows

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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, Department of Art History, Emory 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

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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

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Sophie A. Brady

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Music, Princeton University

Radio Dakar, Experimental Music, and the Forging of a Global Avant-Garde

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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

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Yasser Nasser

Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago

Creating ‘New Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship and its Global Afterlives, 1947-1962

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James Nye

Retired Bibliographer, Committee on Southern Asian Studies, University of Chicago

Enhancing and Expanding Digital and Physical Resources for South Asian Studies

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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

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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

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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

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Christin Zurbach

Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

Doctoring Society: The Professionalization of Ottoman Medicine

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2019-2020 Fellows

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Amanda Gaggioli

Doctoral Candidate, Classics Department, Stanford University

Earthquakes and Collapse: Resilience and Human-Geological Environment Relationships in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology

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Nathan Grau

Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

France's Forgotten Soldiers: Local Paramilitaries on the Frontlines of Decolonization, 1945-1962

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Jill Jarvis

Assistant Professor, Department of French, Yale University

Signs in the Desert: An Aesthetic Cartography of the Sahara

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Ellen Nye

Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Yale University

Credit Between the British and Ottoman Empires: Forging a Global Monetary System, 1670-1720

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Christy Schirmer

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin

Exploiting Riverine Resources in the Roman Empire

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2018-2019 Fellows

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Henry Clements

Doctoral Candidate, Yale University

Documenting Community: The Süryani Christians of the Ottoman Empire

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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

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Samaa Elimam

Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University

On Site: Engineering, Empire, and the Geography of the Nile Valley

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Arjun Guneratne

Professor, Macalester College

Ornithology at the Margins: The Social History of a Field Science in Sri Lanka

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Nour Joudah

Doctoral Candidate, University of California Los Angeles

Mapping Decolonized Futures: Indigenous Efforts for Algeria, Palestine, and Hawaii

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Caroline Kahlenberg

Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University

Hawkers and Housekeepers: Gender, Class, and Jewish-Arab Relations on Palestine’s Margins (1887-1948) 

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Taylor Moore

Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Egypt (1875-1950)

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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 

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Anna Weerasinghe

Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient

Doctoral Candidate, Johns Hopkins University

Gender, Medicine, and Law in Early Modern Portuguese India

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2017-2018 Fellows

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Ashley Eckhardt

Doctoral Candidate, Emory University

The Crafting of Cult Statues in the High Hellenistic Period

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Rachel Kulick

Collaborating Geoarchaeologist, University of Toronto

Bronze Age Urban Environments on Crete and Cyprus: Investigating Socio-Environmental Interactions using Geoarchaeology

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Laura Kunreuther 

Associate Professor, Bard College

Translating Voices, Interpreting in the Field    

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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

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Mali Skotheim

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Postclassical Performance: Greek Drama in the Hellenistic and Roman Era

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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

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Andrew Ward

Independent Scholar

Transculturality and Regional Adaptation: Cylinder Stamping in the Ancient Western Mediterranean

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Julie Weise

Mary Ellen Lane Travel Award Recipient

Associate Professor, University of Oregon

Citizenship Displaced: Migrant Political Cultures in the Era of State Control

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CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship launched in 1993. This page displays the five most recent cohorts.