New Directions Fellowships Recipients

2019

Vance Byrd (German), Grinnell College
Catherine Corson (Geography), Mount Holyoke College
Leila Kawar (Law and Society), University of Michigan
Shayne Legassie (Medieval Literature), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli (Political Science and Law), McGill University
Meaghan O’Keefe (Religion), University of California at Davis
Anna Parkinson (German), Northwestern University
Aysha Pollnitz, (History), Rice University
Susana Schellenberg (Philosophy), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Zeb Tortorici (History), New York University
James Uden (Classics), Boston University
Mari Webel (History), University of Pittsburgh

2018

Kathleen Birney (Archaeology and Classical Studies), Wesleyan University
Brent Durbin (Government), Smith College
Melissa González (Hispanic Studies), Davidson College
Caroline Gottschalk Druschke (English), University of Wisconsin at Madison
Erik Harms (Anthropology), Yale University
Julie Hruby (Classics), Dartmouth College
LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant (Africana Studies), Williams College
John Morrison (Philosophy), Barnard College
Thomas Mullaney (History), Stanford University
Vanessa Ogle (History), University of California at Berkeley
Noah Salomon (Religion), Carleton College
Kevin Zollman (Philosophy), Carnegie Mellon University

2017

Fabrizio Cariani (Philosophy), Northwestern University
Giancarlo Casale (History), University of Minnesota
Nouri Gana (Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), University of California at Los Angeles
Liza Grandia (Native American Studies), University of California at Davis
Stephen Gross (History), New York University
Suzanne Hudson (Art History and Fine Art), University of Southern California
Eileen Kane (History), Connecticut College
Matthew Kotzen (Philosophy), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kathryn M. de Luna (History), Georgetown University
Annie McClanahan (English), University of California at Irvine
Edward D. Melillo (History and Environmental Studies), Amherst College
Lisa Stevenson (Anthropology), McGill University
Haicheng Wang (Chinese Art History), University of Washington

2016

Jessica Chapman (History), Williams College
Pramit Chaudhuri (Classics), Dartmouth College
Deborah Coen (History, History of Science), Barnard College
Jason De León (Anthropology), University of Michigan
Courtney Fullilove (History, History of Science), Wesleyan University
Mark Hendrickson (History), University of California at San Diego
Hoyt Long (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), University of Chicago
Ian Jared Miller (History), Harvard University
Sean Pue (Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and Culture), Michigan State University
Ayesha Ramachandran (Comparative Literature), Yale University
Elly Truitt (Medieval History, History of Science), Bryn Mawr College
Chad Wellmon (Germanic Languages and Literatures), University of Virginia

2015

James T. Downs (History, Social History), Connecticut College
Hannah Feldman (Art History), Northwestern University
Patrick E. Forber (Philosophy), Tufts University
Graham M. Jones (Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lorenz Lüthi (History, International Relations), McGill University
Meredith Martin (English, Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities), Princeton University
Mark Fathi Massoud (Politics, Legal Studies), University of California at Santa Cruz
Colin Milburn (English, Science and Technology Studies), University of California at Davis
Lisa Siraganian (English, American Literature), Southern Methodist University
Genese Sodikoff (Sociology, Anthropology), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
James Tweedie (Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies), University of Washington
Yanna Yannakakis (History), Emory University

2014–2019

2014

Sonya Atalay (Anthropology), University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Wiebke Denecke (Chinese, Japanese, Comparative Literature), Boston University
Antonio Donato (Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy), Queens College, City University of New York
Gregory Flaxman (English and Comparative Literature), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brooke Holmes (Classics), Princeton University
Laure Katsaros (French), Amherst College
Sonya Lee (Art History), University of Southern California
Adam Lifshey (Spanish and Portuguese), Georgetown University
Lori Pearson (Religion), Carleton College
Nancy Reynolds (History), Washington University in St. Louis
Naghmeh Sohrabi (Middle East History), Brandeis University
Shirley Thompson (African and African Diaspora Studies, American Studies), University of Texas at Austin

2013

Anthony Barbieri-Low (History), University of California at Santa Barbara
Holly Barcus (Geography), Macalester College
Melani Cammett (Political Science), Brown University
Sara Dubow (History), Williams College
Samera Esmeir (Rhetoric), University of California at Berkeley
Edda Fields-Black (History), Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Gasper (History), Occidental College
James Loeffler (History), University of Virginia
Julia Lynch (Political Science), University of Pennsylvania
Gideon Manning (Philosophy), California Institute of Technology
Tiya Miles (Afro-American and African Studies), University of Michigan
Melissa Schwartzberg (Political Science), Columbia University
Phillip Stern (Political History), Duke University
Travis Zadeh (Religion), Haverford College

2012

Eric Cazdyn (Literature), University of Toronto
Giovanna Ceserani (Classics), Stanford University
Gil Hochberg (Literature), University of California at Los Angeles
Danny Hoffman (Anthropology), University of Washington
Sarah Igo (History), Vanderbilt University
Matthew Jones (History), Columbia University
Naveeda Khan (Anthropology), Johns Hopkins University
Scott Kugle (Religion), Emory University
Eden Medina (History), Indiana University
Monica Miller (English), Barnard College
Kirsten Ostherr (English), Rice University
Andrew Piper (Literature), McGill University
Dan Shao (East Asian Languages and Cultures), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Teresa Shawcross (History), Mount Holyoke College
Heather Williams (History), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2011

Vincent Brown (History), Duke University
Christopher Bush (Literature), Northwestern University
Holly Case (History), Cornell University
Christina Cogdell (Art History), University of California at Davis
Campbell Grey (Classics), University of Pennsylvania
Jacques E. C. Hymans (Political Science), University of Southern California
Debra Javeline (Political Science), University of Notre Dame
Samantha Kelly (History), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Matthew W. Klingle (History and Environmental Studies), Bowdoin College
Stacey Langwick (Anthropology), Cornell University
Jinyu Liu (Classics), DePauw University
Melinda Maynor Lowery (History), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Feisal Mohamed (English), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adina Roskies (Philosophy), Dartmouth College
Jing Yuen Tsu (Literature), Yale University

2010

Laurent Dubois (History), Duke University
Nick Everett (History and Medieval Studies), University of Toronto
Antonia Foias (Anthropology), Williams College
Samantha Frost (Political Science), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adam Leite (Philosophy), Indiana University
Fuji Lozada (Anthropology), Davidson College
Christian McMillen (History), University of Virginia
Bissera Pentcheva (Art History), Stanford University
Walid Saleh (Religion and Near-and Middle-Eastern Civilizations), University of Toronto
Silvia Tomaskova (Women's Studies and Anthropology), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2009

Clifford Ando (Classics), University of Chicago
D. Graham Burnett (History), Princeton University
Laurent Dubreuil (French Literature), Cornell University
Susanne Freidberg (Geography), Dartmouth College
Tamar Gendler (Philosophy), Yale University
Eleanor Kaufman (Literature), University of California at Los Angeles
Michael Lower (History), University of Minnesota
Nasrin Qader (French), Northwestern University
Benjamin Schmidt (History), University of Washington
Gideon Yaffe (Philosophy and Law), University of Southern California

2008–2013

2008

Alan R. Baker (Philosophy), Swarthmore College
Barbara Cooper (African Studies), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Brian T. Edwards (English), Northwestern University
Laura J. Mitchell (History), University of California at Irvine
Kathleen D. Morrison (Anthropology), University of Chicago
Roumyana Ivanova Pancheva (Linguistics), University of Southern California
Larry Polansky (Music), Dartmouth College
Eric Rebillard (Classics), Cornell University
Anna Marie Smith (Government), Cornell University
Elliott Visconsi (English), Yale University
Gregory W. White (Government), Smith College
Yongming Zhou (Anthropology), University of Wisconsin at Madison

2007

David Atwill (History), Pennsylvania State University
Paul Eiss (Anthropology and History), Carnegie Mellon University
Hans Halvorson (Philosophy), Princeton University
Jennifer Light (Communication Studies, History and Sociology), Northwestern University
Marc Perlman (Musicology), Brown University
Susan Short (Sociology), Brown University
Heather Williams (Politics), Pomona College

2006

Carol Bakhos (Jewish Studies), University of California at Los Angeles
Timothy Billings (English), Middlebury College
Bettine Birge (East Asian Languages and Cultures), University of Southern California
Hannah Brückner (Sociology), Yale University
Berthold Hoeckner (Music), University of Chicago
Jane Kamensky (History), Brandeis University
Michael McNally (Religion), Carleton College
Benjamin Nathans (History), University of Pennsylvania
Shawkat Toorawa (Near Eastern Studies), Cornell University
Gary Wilder (History), Pomona College

2005

Katherine Hagedorn (Musicology), Pomona College
Dana Leibsohn (Art History), Smith College
Alex London (Philosophy), Carnegie Mellon University
Tina Lu (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), University of Pennsylvania
Cecelia Lynch (Political Science), University of California at Irvine
Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Languages), Washington University
Mark Pegg (History), Washington University
Katherine Rowe (English), Bryn Mawr College
Xiaobing Tang (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), University of Chicago
Alison Winter (History), University of Chicago

2004

Leora Batnitzky (Religion), Princeton University
Elliott Colla (Comparative Literature), Brown University
Fiona Cowie (Philosophy), California Institute of Technology
Nicole Huang (East Asian Languages and Literature), University of Wisconsin at Madison
David Hughes (Human Ecology), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lynn Meskell (Anthropology and Archaeology), Columbia University
Sara Rappe (Classical Studies), University of Michigan
Walter Scheidel (Classics), Stanford University
Julia Thomas (History), University of Notre Dame

2003

Jeremy Avigad (Philosophy), Carnegie Mellon University
Christine Chism (English), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Rachel Fulton (History), University of Chicago
Maria Georgopoulou (Art History), Yale University
Cristle Judd (Musicology), University of Pennsylvania
Christine Hayes (Religion), Yale University
Jacob Levy (Political Science), University of Chicago
Sophia Rosenfeld (History), University of Virginia
Gabrielle Starr (English), New York University

2002–2007

2002

Ann Blair (History), Harvard University
Cathryn Carson (History), University of California at Berkeley
Delia Graff (Philosophy), Cornell University
Darcy Grigsby (Art History), University of California at Berkeley
Daniel Heller-Roazen (Comparative Literature), Princeton University
Annette Richards (Musicology), Cornell University
Gideon Rosen (Philosophy), Princeton University
Pamela Smith (History), Pomona College