Humanities Engage is delighted to announce the 2022-2023 Immersive Dissertation Research Fellowship awardees.

This fellowship incentivizes innovative, collaborative research that seeks to expand the traditional dissertation through incorporating rigorous engagement with institutions or communities.

S. Brook Corfman, Ph.D. Candidate in Critical and Cultural Studies, Department of English: “All Trans People are Artists, All Artists are Poets”

Luana Moreira Reis, Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures: “A poesia é meu quilombo: Black Feminist Poetics of Insurgency”

İlhan Ozan, Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art and Architecture: “Exhibiting Contemporaneity: Turkish Art in International Biennials, 1955-92”

Mathew Tembo, Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music: “Zed Beats: An Ethnographic Study of Musical Production in Zambia’s Popular Music”

Learn more about our Immersive Dissertation Research Fellows.

On behalf of the Steering Committee, we would like to extend warm thanks to all graduate student applicants for proposing innovative dissertation research.

June 17, 2022