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. The Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowships recognize and support faculty members as they make significant progress on existing research and creative projects during the summer months. This year, the Center proudly announces the newest recipients of this prestigious fellowship:
Sean J. Patrick Carney
Assistant Professor
School of Art + Art History
UF College of the Arts
Sean J Patrick Carney is an artist and writer in Gainesville, FL. He is a frequent contributor to Artforum and Art in America, and his writing has appeared in VICE, Artnet News, Harvard Urban Review, Glasstire, and High Country News, among other publications. In 2019, Carney received the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for short-form writing. Previously, he was a member of New York artist collective the Bruce High Quality Foundation, and served as a faculty member and co-director of their experimental, tuition-free school, BHQFU. Since 2009, he has operated an independent artist book distribution label, Social Malpractice Publishing. His podcast Humor and the Abject received a Net Art Grant from Rhizome and a Creators Residency at Kickstarter. As part of paranormal research collaborative GWC, Investigators, he has participated in High Desert Test Sites and received grant funding from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Precipice Fund, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council. Read full bio >
Ifigeneia Giannadaki
Associate Professor
Cassas Chair in Greek Studies
UF Department of Classics
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Ifigeneia Giannadaki, formerly of University College, London, is the new holder of the Andronicos Nicholas Cassas Professorship(opens in new tab) in Greek Studies at University of Florida. Educated in Greece and the United Kingdom, Dr. Giannadaki specializes in ancient Greek law and teaches courses in both Classics and Greek Studies. Her most recent book, a commentary on Demosthenes’ Against Androtion, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Read full bio >
Philip Janzen
Assistant Professor
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Philip Janzen is a historian at the University of Florida who focuses on the cultural and intellectual histories connecting Africa and the Caribbean. He earned his Ph.D. in African history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018 and joined UF in 2019. His upcoming book, scheduled for publication by Duke University Press in June 2025, explores the experiences of people from the Caribbean who served in British and French colonial administrations in West and Central Africa. The book draws on a range of narrative styles and incorporates literary influences from Aimé Césaire and Kamau Brathwaite. Janzen’s scholarship has appeared in several academic journals, and his research has received support from multiple national and international funding organizations. He teaches courses on African and global history. Read full bio >
Rafael Ramírez Solórzano
Assistant Professor
Center for Latin American Studies
UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Rafael “Rafa” Ramírez Solórzano is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies, where his work centers on Latin American and Central American social movements. A historian of political activism, he earned his Ph.D. from UCLA and has taught at institutions including California State University, Los Angeles and UCLA. His research draws on extensive experience in public advocacy and examines the histories of freedom movements, regional organizing, and political campaigns within these regional and cultural communities. His work has been published in journals such as Latino Studies, Aztlán, and American Quarterly, and has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center. Read full bio >
Trysh Travis
Associate Professor
Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Trysh Travis is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Florida and a cultural and literary historian specializing in popular media, and therapeutic culture in 20th-century America. Her research explores the intersection of gender and medicine, with a focus on addiction, recovery, and self-help movements. She is the author of The Language of the Heart: Twelve-Step Recovery from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey and co-editor of Rethinking Therapeutic Culture. Travis has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation, and her work has appeared in journals including PMLA, American Quarterly, and Contemporary Drug Problems. She also co-founded the blog Points, dedicated to the history of alcohol and drugs, where she serves as Managing Editor Emerita. Read full bio >
Meg Weeks
Assistant Professor
Center for Latin American Studies
UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Meg Weeks is a historian and writer specializing in twentieth-century Latin America, with a focus on gender, labor, and social movements in Brazil. She joined the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2024. Her research combines archival work, oral histories, and cultural analysis, and has been published in the Journal of the History of Sexuality and Philia. In addition to her academic work, Weeks writes for publications such as n+1, New York Review of Books, and Artforum, and translates contemporary Brazilian literature. Her forthcoming annotated translation of Gabriela Leite’s memoir will be published by Duke University Press. She also leads a grant-funded project to digitize the archives of Brazil’s National Federation of Domestic Workers. Read full bio >
Learn more about the Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowships, as well as other CHPS funding opportunities, here.