Faculty affiliates win OHC fellowships

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Faculty affiliates win OHC fellowships

Nine CSWS affiliates are among those who have been selected to be Oregon Humanities Center's 2021-22 Faculty Fellows.

Among OHC's  research grant recipients is CSWS Director Michelle McKinley, Law, who received the Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship for “Bound Biographies: Transoceanic Itineraries and the Afro-Iberian Diaspora in the Early Modern World.” Additional members of our community who received OHC Research Fellowships include:

  • Sharon Luk, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, “Sea of Fire: A Buddhist Pedagogy of Dying and Black Encounters in Times of War.”
  • Isabel Millán, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, “Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children’s Literature” (Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies).
  • Yvette Saavedra, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, “Living la Mala Vida: Transgressive Femininities, Morality, and Nationalism in Mexican California, 1800-1850.”
  • Analisa Taylor, Romance Languages, “Daughters of the Moon: Longing and Memory in Mexico’s Lacandon Rainforest” (Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies).
Alternates for the Research Fellowships include: Annelise Heinz, History, “Collective: How Lesbian Feminists Reimagined Society," and Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, English, “How Comics Travel.”

CSWS affiliates who were awarded OHC Teaching Fellowships include: Corinne Bayerl, Comparative Literature and Clark Honors College, COLT 211 African American Writers in France; and Kristen Seaman, History of Art and Architecture, ARH 321 Ancient Jewish Art and Architecture (Coleman-Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities).

The complete list of 2021-22 OHC fellows can be accessed here. Congratulations to all!