Class of 2021

Assistant Professor
Religious Studies Program
College of Liberal Arts

Daniel R. Bare’s research interests include history-religious aspects-Christianity, church history, history.

Bare will produce a book-length study of the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville—from the Jim Crow era, through the civil rights movement and into the late twentieth century.

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts

Deborah Carlson’s research interests include Greek and Roman archaeology, ancient seafaring.

Carlson will create an illustrated multilingual lexicon of nautical terminology in a searchable, open-access digital database, stretching from the Greek Archaic to the Early Modern period, integrating literary descriptions of water craft with the physical remains of ships and boats.

Professor
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

Dr. Daniel Conway studies 19th-century European philosophy, political philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, philosophy and film, philosophy and literature, and genocide studies. He will compose a book designed for teachers and scholars working in genocide studies, exploring the relevance of popular films in science fiction. Conway was also a 2016 fellow.

Assistant Professor
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

Sara DiCaglio’s research interests include contemporary poetry, gender studies, medical humanities, rhetoric of health and medicine, science studies, writing pedagogy.

DiCaglio will write a monograph illustrating how pregnancy is largely absent from rhetoric about reproduction. The project examines this rhetoric in public health communication, cultural models of pregnancy and scientific studies.

Associate Professor
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

Jessica Howell’s research interests include Victorian literature and culture, travel writing, literature and medicine, health humanities, postcolonial studies, women’s and gender studies.

Howell will complete research for a monograph that will draw upon women’s and gender studies, life-writing studies and postcolonialism to analyze literary and cultural figures.

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
College of Liberal Arts

Hyeran Jo’s research interests include international institutions, international law, international political economy.

Jo will conduct research on the effectiveness of countries, international organizations and international civil society actors in reducing sexual violence inside global-conflict zones.

Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies
College of Liberal Arts

Hilaire Kallendorf’s research interests include Spanish Golden Age, religious studies, comparative literature, renaissance cultural studies.

Kallendorf will draw upon a database of 800 Spanish plays from 1550-1700 and employ digital humanities methodology to consider these works an archive of moral knowledge.

Associate Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies
College of Liberal Arts

Alain Lawo-Sukam’s research interests include Hispanic studies, Africana studies, Afro-Hispanic literature and culture.

Alain will examine the division between Peninsularists and Latin Americanists that has obscured the history of Spain in Africa and African-Hispanic literature.

Associate Professor
Department of Communications
College of Liberal Arts

Jennifer Mercieca’s research interests include American political rhetoric.

Mercieca will conduct research for a book to analyze modern propaganda techniques.

Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture
College of Architecture

Zachary Stewart’s research interests include art and architectural history; spatial theory; architectural documentation; architectural representation; historiography; medieval studies; digital humanities.

Stewart will produce a book that investigates the medieval parish church as one of the earliest settings for collective material production in the West.