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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida

Since 2010, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with support from the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, has awarded summer fellowships to faculty in the humanities disciplines. This year, the Center proudly announces the newest recipients of this prestigious fellowship:

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Sean J. Patrick Carney

Sean J Patrick Carney is a Gainesville-based artist, writer and assistant professor in the UF School of Art + Art History in the College of the Arts. A frequent contributor to Artforum and Art in America, his writing has also appeared in VICE, Artnet News, Harvard Urban Review, Glasstire and High Country News. He received the 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and has led a range of experimental publishing, podcasting, teaching and collaborative art projects, including Social Malpractice Publishing, Humor and the Abject and GWC, Investigators.

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Ifigeneia Giannadaki

Ifigeneia Giannadaki is an associate professor, Cassas Chair in Greek Studies and faculty member in the UF Department of Classics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Formerly of University College London, she specializes in ancient Greek law and teaches courses in Classics and Greek Studies. Educated in Greece and the United Kingdom, Giannadaki is the author of a forthcoming Oxford University Press commentary on Demosthenes’ Against Androtion.

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Philip Janzen

Philip Janzen is an assistant professor in the UF Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A historian of Africa and the Caribbean, his research focuses on the cultural and intellectual histories connecting the two regions. His forthcoming Duke University Press book explores Caribbean people who served in British and French colonial administrations in West and Central Africa, drawing on archival research and literary influences from Aimé Césaire and Kamau Brathwaite. He teaches courses on African and global history.

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Rafael Ramírez Solórzano

Rafael “Rafa” Ramírez Solórzano is an assistant professor in UF’s Center for Latin American Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A historian of political activism, his work focuses on Latin American and Central American social movements, freedom movements, regional organizing and political campaigns. He earned his Ph.D. from UCLA, has taught at UCLA and California State University, Los Angeles, and has published scholarship in Latino Studies, Aztlán and American Quarterly.

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Trysh Travis

Trysh Travis is an associate professor in the UF Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A cultural and literary historian, her research focuses on popular media, therapeutic culture, gender, medicine, addiction, recovery and self-help movements in 20th-century America. She is the author of The Language of the Heart: Twelve-Step Recovery from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey, co-editor of Rethinking Therapeutic Culture and co-founder of Points, a blog dedicated to the history of alcohol and drugs.

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Meg Weeks

Meg Weeks is an assistant professor in UF’s Center for Latin American Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A historian and writer specializing in 20th-century Latin America, her research focuses on gender, labor and social movements in Brazil through archival work, oral histories and cultural analysis. Her scholarship has appeared in the Journal of the History of Sexuality and Philia, and her essays have been published in n+1, New York Review of Books and Artforum. She also translates contemporary Brazilian literature and leads a grant-funded project to digitize the archives of Brazil’s National Federation of Domestic Workers.

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