UT Humanities Center Announces 2024-2025 Class of Fellows

February 15 (Updated March 25)

• The UT Humanities Center is pleased to announce our class of Research Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. The fellowships provide a full-year release from teaching and service to six UT tenure-stream faculty members and four UT graduate students from departments affiliated with the Center.  This year’s incoming fellows represent the fields of Africana studies, art history, history, philosophy, and religious studies. Their research ranges in scope from pre-colonial African spiritual traditions to gendered writing practices in modern China, from artisanal production in sixteenth-century Goa to political operatives in nineteenth-century Washington, D.C.

  Fellows are selected through a competitive process and their applications are scored by an external panel of reviewers. They use their year at the Humanities Center to finish long-term research undertakings such as books, digital projects, or dissertations. Residency includes participating in the life of the Center by working at the UTHC, presenting work in progress, and engaging with other fellows and with visiting scholars in once-weekly Chandler Seminars.

  FACULTY FELLOWS*

  SALVADOR BARTERA Assistant Professor, Department of Classics Project: Bernardino Stefonio, S.J., Flavia Tragoedia: critical edition, English translation, and commentary

  KRISTEN BLOCK Associate Professor, Department of History; Program Director, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Project: Desire, Corruption, and Healing in Early Caribbean Transcultural Flows

  ARIS MORENO CLEMONS Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Department of World Languages & Cultures Project: U.S. Black Vernacular Spanish(es): Towards Hemispheric Black Language Pedagogies in Spanish World Language Classrooms

  MARCUS HARVEY Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies Project: “Life is War”: African Epistemology and Black Religious Hermeneutics

  XUEFEI MA Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture, Department of World Languages & Cultures Project: Trans(re)lation of Women’s Scripts: Personal Stories and Nested Feminisms from Rural China to the Sinophone World

  DANIELLE PROCOPE BELL Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies; Affiliate Faculty in English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGS) Project: Dispersed Domesticities: Uncovering Black Feminist/ Feminine Thought

  GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS

  MEHTAP INCE Department of World Languages and Literatures Project: A Cross-Textual Event Analysis based on German Short Stories

  AMANDA KLUG Department of History Project: Memories of the Constitutional Convention, 1787-1861

  LINH MAC Philosophy Project: Krinostic Injustice: A Testimonial-Hermeneutical Case of Epistemic Injustice

  KYLE VRATARICH History Project: “Distinguished Scoundrel”: General Orville Babcock, The Whiskey Ring and the Dawn of a New Breed of Political Operative

  The UT Humanities Center, established in 2011, supports cutting edge arts and humanities research at UT and advocates for the importance of the humanities to our state, nation, and global economy. To learn more about programs offered by the UT Humanities Center, visit our website, humanitiescenter.utk.edu.

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