Announcing 2024 Summer Faculty Fellows and Research Clusters
The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Summer Faculty Fellowships to ten faculty members for 2024. These fellowships are designed to help faculty maximize the summer in service of their ongoing professional development. They provide an infusion of resources to jump start or fuel an ongoing research project, undertake course development, or pursue a professional training opportunity over the summer months.
HRI is also pleased to announce the 2024–25 Research Clusters. The Research Clusters initiative provides funding to enable faculty and graduate students in the humanities and arts to develop questions or subjects of inquiry that require or would be enhanced by collaborative work.
HRI Summer Faculty Fellows
Course Development
Amy Clay (French and Italian), French 103 and 104: Intermediate French I and II
Cynthia Kocher (Theatre), Theatre 401: Broadway Stage Management
Daniel Leon (Classics), CLCV 250: Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome
Research
Angela J. Aguayo (Media and Cinema Studies), “Collective Matters: The History of Documentary Production in the US, 1970- present”
Laura Hetrick (Art Education, Art and Design), “Auto-ethnography of an Autistic Professor: Navigating a Neurodiverse Academic Life”
Daniel Nabil Maroun (French and Italian), “Filial Failures: Writing Queer Kinship and Community in Contemporary France”
Tess McNulty (English), “Content Culture: Genres of Virality in the Twenty-First Century”
Rini Bhattacharya Mehta (Comparative and World Literature/Religion), “Unreason and Capital: Calcutta’s Long 19th Century
Kimberly C. Ransom (EPOL), “The Historic Pickensville Rosenwald School and Community Center (HPRSMC)”
Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture), “Quality of Life: A History of a Modern Aspiration”
Nisi Sturgis (Theatre), “The Verona Cycle”
Research Clusters
Environmental Humanities
Co-Directors:
- John Levy Barnard (English/Comparative and World Literature)
- Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture)
Ethical Methods of Community Engagement in Design and the Arts
Director:
- Kathryn Holliday (Architecture/Landscape Architecture)
Interdisciplinary Sport Studies
Co-Directors:
- Caitlin Clarke (Kinesiology and Community Health)
- Jesse Couture (Kinesiology and Community Health)
- Jacob Fredericks (Recreation, Sport, and Tourism)