2026-2027
Rothman Faculty Summer Fellows
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.
Learn moreSince 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:
Joanne Britland
Joanne Britland is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities. Her research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Iberian literature, visual culture and digital cultural responses to crisis in Spain. She is co-editor of The Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative and has published widely on television, film, comics, novels and theater.
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Derek Burdette
Derek Burdette is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Florida, specializing in the arts of colonial Latin America and the intersections of art and politics in New Spain. His research focuses on miraculous imagery in colonial Mexico City and the legacies of colonialism in contemporary Mexican culture. His first book, Miraculous Celebrity: The Christ of Ixmiquilpan and Colonial Piety in Mexico City, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2025.
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Paige Glotzer
Paige Glotzer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the history of housing segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and public outlets including the Journal of Urban History, CityLab, PBS and Time magazine.
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Seejoo Han
Seojoo Han is Assistant Professor in the School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida. Han’s current research explores Florida’s underground metal music scene from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, using sonic and lyrical co-creation with local musicians as a form of cooperative design. The project will culminate in a cassette release commissioned by TFT Records in 2029.
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Yujie Li
Yujie Li is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the UF Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education. A historian of modern China, her research focuses on labor, technology and political economy from the late nineteenth century through the socialist period. Her work has appeared in Technology and Culture, Twentieth Century China and Artefact.
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Roger Maioli
Roger Maioli is Associate Professor of English and Associate Chair at the University of Florida. His research focuses on eighteenth-century British and French literature, Enlightenment studies, the history of the novel, animal studies and the relationship between the humanities and modernity. His work explores how eighteenth-century ideas continue to shape contemporary questions of ethics, human rights, racism, sexism and the role of the humanities today.
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Anastasia Ulanowicz
Anastasia Ulanowicz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on children’s literature, graphic narratives, memory studies, trauma and representation. She is the author and co-editor of several award-winning works, including Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature, and is currently completing a monograph on representations of Eastern Europe in Western comics.
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