Associate Professor, English, University of California, Irvine - Uncertain Refuge: Ideas of Sanctuary in Middle English Literature

Independent Scholar, Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution - Beyond Grief: Art, Mourning, and Mystery in the Gilded Age

Associate Professor, Musicology, Rice University - Emblems of Faith and Authority: The Modes in Italian Baroque Music

Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Oregon - Eye Desire: Media Art after Feminism

Professor, English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - The View from Below: Imaging Modernity and the Lower East Side

Professor, Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara - Julius Caesar and the Roman People

Assistant Professor, Classical Studies, Tulane University - The King’s Canvas: The Transformation of Ancient Macedon

Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of Wyoming - Marginal Mormons: African Americans and Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century LDS Church

Professor, Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology - Empires and Antiquities: Appropriating the Past

Associate Professor, English; American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California - Memory and the Viet Nam War: A Multicultural, International, and Interdisciplinary Approach

Anthony Cerulli

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Medical Narratives and Allegorical Bodies in Indian Medical Literature

Associate Professor, English, Wesleyan University - Jacob’s Shipwreck: Diaspora and Translation in the Literature of the Jewish and Christian Middle Ages

Assistant Professor, History, Williams College - From Disorder to Dictatorship: A Domestic and International History of Ngo Dinh Diem’s Construction of South Vietnam, 1953-1956

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University - ‘Customary’ Citizenship in Contemporary Africa

Assistant Professor, History, University of Chicago - Cul de Sac: Plantation Society in Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue

Assistant Professor, Art, University of North Carolina, Greensboro - Zulu Surface and Form: The Aesthetics of South African Ceramic Economies

Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago - Illicit Exchange: An Imaginary History of the Han Dynasty Silk Road

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire - Public Life in Private Space: Religion and Change in the Ferghana Valley

Professor, English, University of Washington - Black Transnationalism: The U.S. and South Africa, 1900-1945

Assistant Professor, Art History, University of California, Irvine - The Whitewashed Image: Iconoclasm and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscapes

Associate Professor, History, Colorado State University - Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967

Associate Professor, French and Italian, University of Texas, Austin - Dante’s Bones and the Idea of Italy

Professor, English, George Washington University - Stories of Stone: Dreaming the Prehistoric in the Middle Ages

Assistant Professor, History, Washington University in St. Louis - A Pyramid for the Living: The Politics of Environment, Culture, and National Development in the Building of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, 1956-1971

Bonnie Costello

Professor, English, Boston University - Private Faces in Public Places: Modern Poetry and the First Person Plural

Assistant Professor, English, United States Military Academy - A Biography of John Ashbery’s Early Life and Art

Irene Solange D'Almeida

Professor, French & Italian, University of Arizona - Looking for Poetry, Hearing the Song among the Fon Women of Benin

Associate Professor, History, Saint Louis University - The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945 -1975

Editor, Romance Philology, Research Center for Romance Studies, University of California, Berkeley - The Paper Kingdom of La Nueva México: Edition and Study of Original Documents in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Pertaining to Juan de Oñate

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Seton Hall University - From Conquests to Colonies: Authority, Knowledge, and Difference in the Luso-Brazilian Empire, ca. 1700-1800

Associate Professor, American Studies, Brandeis University - Wildlands and Woodlands: The Future of the Eastern Forest

Professor, Politics, University of Virginia - Fad and Fashion in Political Economy Models: A Sociology of Knowledge

Associate Professor, English, Bates College - Chaucer and Walsingham: Clerks of Venus in Late Medieval England

Micol Seigel

Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington - The Global Precinct: U.S. Policing after World War II

Professor, English, University of California, Davis - Missing the Maidenhead: Cultural Debates about the Hymen in Early Modern England

Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College - Snapshot Histories: The Afterlife of Socialism in Russian Family Photographs

Ada Ferrer

Associate Professor, History, New York University - Cuban Slave Society and the Haitian Revolution

Elena Shtromberg

Assistant Professor, Art and Art History, University of Utah - Art and Information: Political Encounters in Brazil, 1968-1978

Professor, Anthropology, University of Rochester - A Cultural Biography of the P.G. Black Collection of Pacific Islands Artifacts

Assistant Professor, History, Indiana State University - Confessional Engineering, Parish Culture, and Orthodox Expansion in Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1796-1855

Professor, History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Incandescent America: Electric Light and America’s Culture of Invention

Assistant Professor, History and American Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington - The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America

Assistant Professor, English, Wesleyan University - Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University - Poetry, Philosophy, and Intertextuality in Six Dynasties (222-589 C.E.) China

Professor, History, University of Oregon - Autism, Between Rights and Risks

Associate Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of South Florida - Privilege and Duty in the Serene Republic: Illuminated Manuscripts of Renaissance Venice

Professor, History and affiliation with Gender Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Prairie Routes: Making a Global Heartland

Assistant Professor, History, University of Ottawa - “We Have Heard of the Great Assistance that You Render to Many Territories:” African United Nations Trusteeships and the International League of the Rights of Man (ILRM), 1948-1970

Associate Professor, Art History, Barnard College - Muybridge’s Pacific Coast: Landscape Photographs and Cultural Topography

Assistant Professor, History, California State University, Fullerton - Law and Custom: Concubines in Early Twentieth-Century China

Lilya Kaganovsky

Associate Professor, Slavic Lang & Lit; Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - The Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1928-1935

Assistant Professor, History, Dartmouth College - Land of Thirst, Land of Fear: A History of Water in the Sahara from Empire to Oil

Eleana Kim

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Rochester - Making Peace with Nature: The Greening of the Korean Demilitarized Zone

Professor, History, Barnard College - Thomas Tryon and His World

Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Unknown Political Bodies: Negative Anthropology, Political Theory, and Indigenous Societies

Professor, History, University of Toronto - The Question of the Perpetrator in Soviet History: An Exploration into Violence in the Soviet Union, 1928-41

Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Southern California - Between Culture and Nature: Cave Temples of Sichuan

Associate Professor, History, Hamilton College - The Black Man and the Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois, African American Soldiers, and the History of World War I

Associate Professor, History, University of Southern California - Consuming Encounters: Jews, Department Stores, and Early Mass Consumption in Germany, 1880-1940

Assistant Professor, History, Emory University - Mexico’s Babel: Multilingualism, Law, and Society in Oaxaca from Colony to Republic

Professor, History, Emory University - Trans-Atlantic Lives: Slavery and Freedom in West Africa and Brazil

Professor, Music, Cornell University - Anna Magdalena Bach and the Musical Lives of a Lutheran Woman

Professor, Department of Visual Arts, Union College (NY) - The Material Renaissance: A History of Colorants in Renaissance Venice

Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago - The Culture of Musical Entertainment in Early Modern China: Voice, Instrument, Text