Current Faculty and Graduate Affiliates
Faculty and Graduate Affiliates, comprised of departments from across the University, participate in Institute events and receive research funds from the Institute.
Announcing 2012-2013 Faculty and Graduate Affiliates!
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Latina/o Studies Program
"The Second City Anew: Mexicans, Urban Culture, and Migration in the Transformation of Chicago"

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Graduate School
"Gunslinging Justice: Justifiable Gun Violence in American Law and Westerns"
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor in Communication
Professor, Department of Radio, Television, Film
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Comparative Literary Studies and English
"Long Contemporaneity: The Global Novel and the Multitude"

Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre
"The Director’s Prism: E.T.A. Hoffman and Russian Modernist Directors"
Comparative Literary Studies and French
“The Aristocrat in French Interwar Writing and Film”

Department of Art History
“Caillebotte’s Things: People and Possessions Entangled”

Rhetoric and Public Culture
“Indian Anticolonial Thought Abroad, 1900-1930”
Performance Studies
“Avantgarde Frontiers in the Austere City: Political Economies of Artistic Placemaking in the Postmillennial United States”

Department of English and Gender Studies
“Reading by Hand: Manuscript Poetry and Readerly Identities in Early Modern England”
Department of Political Science
“Inside Out: Bodily Integrity in an Age of Biopolitics and Biocapitalism”
2011-2012 Faculty and Graduate Affiliates
Faculty Affiliates
Catherine Belling

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Humanities & Bioethics
"Paranoid Autonomy: Reading Popular Fiction as Bioethics, 1968-1980"
Hannah Feldman
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History
"Petite Planète: Transversal Networks and Memories of Revolution "
Mary Finn

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Department of English, WCAS Dean's Office
"Digital Humanities at Northwestern"
Kinohi Nishikawa
Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies
"Building a Community of Readers"
Alessia Ricciardi

Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian
"Becoming Woman as a Form of Life"
Rachel Riedl

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
"Transforming Politics, Dynamic Religion: Religion’s Political Impact in Democratic Africa"
Graduate Affiliates
Taka Daitoku
Department of
History
"The 'Challenge of Peace': Nixon, the August Crisis of 1971, and the Creation of the G-5"
Connor Doak

Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures
"Poetry in the Matador’s Cape: Masculinity in the work of Vladimir Mayakovsky"
Jamie Merchant
Department of Rhetoric and Public Culture
“Public Consciousness and the Discourses of the Crisis"
Kimberly Singletary

Department of Rhetoric and Public Culture
"Blackness Personified: Images of U.S. Blackness in Contemporary German Public Culture"
Kati Sweaney
Department of Theatre and Drama
"Cerebral Motions: Anatomical Objects and Subjects in Five Performances of the Human Brain"
Winter Jade Werner
Department of
English
"The Gospel and the Globe: Negotiating Cosmopolitanism through Missionary Narratives, 1795-1901"
Kaplan Scholars Program
Are you an incoming freshman? Check out our Kaplan Humanities Scholars Program, a year-long investigation of the overarching theme "Humanities in the World"
Upcoming Institute Events
New Faculty Wednesdays: Caitlin Fitz (History)
May 16, 2012 • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: EXHIBITION OF NEW WORK BY ANTONIO MARTORELL
May 29, 2012 • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Important Institute Deadlines
Co-sponsorship Application Deadline #3
March 30, 2012
AKIH Affiliate Applications
April 13, 2012
Research Workshop Proposals
May 4, 2012

