Denbo Fellows Cohort Announced
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Denbo Fellows Cohort Announced
February 27, 2025
Latest Denbo Fellows cohort brings groundbreaking projects from multiple disciplines.
The Denbo Center has closed its annual fellowship competition, and we are pleased to announce our outstanding cohort of fellows for academic year 2025–2026. The center supports groundbreaking humanities and arts research through this fellowship program, open to UT faculty and graduate students working on research projects with humanistic methods and outcomes.
Denbo fellowships release faculty and students from teaching and department service duties so that they can complete significant research projects such as books, online digital archives, and dissertations. The fellowship program is internally competitive, with applications externally reviewed by a team of international scholars. Applicants must also have applied for an external grant or fellowship at the time of application.
We welcome our incoming class of fellows, who will start residency in July 2025:
Faculty Research Residency Fellowship (two semesters, fall/spring 2025-2026):
- Sam Blankenship, assistant professor, Department of Classics
- Dionte Harris, assistant professor, Department of English
- Erin Darby, associate professor, Department of Religious Studies
- Janelle Vanderkelen, assistant professor, Department of Art/Cinema Studies
- Yasser Nasser, assistant professor, Department of History
- Joe Stratmann, assistant professor, Department of Philosophy
Digital Humanities Faculty Fellowships (one semester, spring 2026):
- Heather Coker-Hawkins Heather Coker-Hawkins, assistant professor, Department of Art/Cinema Studies
- Faye Nixon, assistant professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
Graduate Student Research Residency Fellowship (two semesters, fall/spring 2025-2026):
- Nicolas Strasser, Department of History
- Elizabeth Tarulis, Department of Anthropology
- Eliza Alexander Wilcox, Department of English
- Andrew Ertzberger, Department of Philosophy
The Denbo Center thanks the UT Chancellor’s Office, the Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the UT Office of the Provost for their continued support of this fellowship program.