The Rothman and Tedder Doctoral Fellowships provide funding for doctoral students to conduct research related to their dissertations. Many of the fellows traveled to study their research subjects on location.
Mosúnmólá Omówùnmí Adéòjó | Nigeria
“The Visual and Archival Narrative of Rev. Canon J.J. Ransome-Kuti”
Adéòjó’s work explores how Africans and people of African heritage have documented their lives, represented themselves, and depicted their agency across various spaces and time periods. Her dissertation specifically focuses on the life of Rev. Canon J.J. Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian clergyman and music composer, exploring how he was represented and asserted his agency within colonial contexts. Through this historical example, Adéòjó explores the themes of presence and representation that are central to her research.
Neha Kohli | Nicobar Islands
“The Matter of Islands: Negotiating Terrains in Archipelagos of Marginality and Possibility”
Kohli’s work critically examines India’s policy toward the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean. Her research aims to inform a decolonizing development approach that recognizes and valorizes the autonomy of the islands’ Indigenous peoples. In her dissertation, Kohli explores themes of marginality and possibility, focusing on how these island communities navigate and assert their agency within the broader context of state policies and development frameworks. In doing so, Kohli addresses systemic issues of discrimination based on class, caste, race, and gender, and contributes to the broader discourse on sustainable and equitable development in the Global South.
Synergies Doctoral Students Research Symposium
In April, the center’s Graduate Humanities Research Initiative hosted a daylong symposium showcasing the research of doctoral students across the humanities. This symposium had five presentation sessions where students presented emerging research to an engaged audience of interdisciplinary peers. From transnational histories and historical narratives to navigating the social impacts of changing landscapes, presentations spanned a wide array of subjects and time periods. Between sessions, students enjoyed food, drinks, and an opportunity to network with colleagues and potential collaborators as they developed their dissertations and early careers.
Fellowship Announcements
2024 ROTHMAN FACULTY SUMMER FELLOWS
Chris Dorst, Philosophy
Physics as a Humanistic Discipline: Why our Best Physical Theories Should be Understood Instrumentally.
Richard Kernaghan, Anthropology
Rivers in Nomos: Moving Terrains of Law Through the Apaporis-Tabatinga Line.
Stacey Liou, Political Science
All Assembled: Protest and the Politics of Interpretation.
Carmen Martínez Novo, Anthropology and Center for Latin American Studies
Surviving Fascism in the Past and Undoing It in the Present: Family Memory and Private Archives in Spain.
Porchia Moore, Art + Art History
The King’s Palace That Burnt; Added Beauty to It: The Benin Bronzes and the Museum.
2024-25 TEDDER FAMILY DOCTORAL FELLOWS
Joseph Angelillo, History
The Lost Promise of Purposeful Inclusion: Movements for Racially Representative Juries During Reconstruction.
Sayantika Chakraborty, English
Displacement and Emplacement: Studying Female Climate Refugee Experiences in Contemporary India.
2024-25 ROTHMAN DOCTORAL FELLOWS
Faith Barringer, Art History
French Atlantic Portraiture, Creolization, and the Construction of Race, c. 1715 – 1815.
Chris Lause, History
“Treat’em Tough”: The Militarization of the New York Police Department, 1926-1962.
Karen Libby, English
Literary Community Building: TwentiethCentury Lesbian Publishing.
Daniela Núñez de Álvarez Stransky, Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Using Social Network Analysis to Examine Dynamic Changes in Returnees’ Spanish grammar.
Mosunmola Ogunmolaji, History
Beyond Borders: The Migration, Labor, and Everyday Lives of Nigerian Nurses in the United Kingdom, 1937-2000.
Karen Lorena Romero Leal, Anthropology
Embodied Extractivism: How Women in Amazonia Experience and Resist the Extractive Desires of Capitalism in Times of War and Peace in Colombian Amazonia.
Danielle Sensabaugh, Art History
Coming of Age in the Era of Enlightenment: Envisioning Girlhood and Feminine Virtue, c. 1750 – 1815.
Gerard Spicer, Music
Anthem Diplomacy in Brazil: The New York Philharmonic’s 1958 Latin America Tour.
Allison Westerfield, Art History
Queen of Pentacles: Women Surrealistsm& The Tarot of Pamela Coleman Smith.
Long Xiao, Political Science
Securitizing China: Exploring the Construction of Threat Perception in U.S. – China Relations.