Past Fellows

Complete list available: Davis Center Fellows 1969-2019 (pdf)


“(Post)Colonial Environments: The Politics of Visibility”
2023-2024
“God View: How Seeing Earth Changed Humanity”
2023-2024
“On the Right Side of Radicalism: African American Farmers, Tuskegee Institute, and Agrarian Radicalism in the Alabama Black Belt, 1881-1940”
2023-2024
“Fish Nations: Species, Technology, and Environments in Asia’s Aquacultural Transformation”
2023-2024
“Wasted: An Environmental Justice History of Newark, New Jersey”
2023-2024
“An American Colony in France: The Nantuckois of Dunkirk and the Dialectic of Illumination”
2023-2024
“The Worst Year to Be Alive: Interdisciplinary Tensions, Academic Boundaries, and the Premodern Environment”
2023-2024
“Imagining Weather in Early Medieval Francia”
2023-2024
“Water, Steam, and Philadelphia’s Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene”
2023-2024
“Gender, Power, and Climate Change on the Swahili Coast, ca. 500-1900 CE”
2023-2024
“The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene: Finding Hope in Japan”
2023-2024
Visiting Research Scholar, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Year
2022-2023
Visiting Research Scholar, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Year
2022-2023
Visiting Research Scholar, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Spring
2022-2023
Visiting Research Scholar, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Fall
2022-2023
Visiting Research Scholar, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Fall
2022-2023
Visiting Research Scholar, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Spring
2022-2023
Visiting Research Scholar, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Spring
2022-2023
Visiting Research Scholar, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Fall
2022-2023
“When Émile Went to War: A Family Romance in the Age of Revolution”
Year, Spring & Fall 2021
2021-2022
"How Backlashes Have Shaped American Politics, 1865-Present"
Spring
2021-2022
“Harvest of Revolution: Agrarian Reform and the Making of Revolutionary Cuba, 1958-1970”
Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020-2022
2021-2022
“The Future That Was: Feminist Thought in the Decolonizing World, 1955-1995”
Year, Spring – Fall 2021
2021-2022
"Generation Revolution: Political Lives in a Revolutionary Age, ca. 1760-1825"
Spring
2021-2022
"The Pastoral Revolution in Medieval Europe and the Emergence of the Moralizing State"
Year
2021-2022
"Revolutionary Conjunctures: Gangadhar Adhikari and the Roads Not Taken in Twentieth-Century India"
Spring
2021-2022
"Departure Gates: Space Age Infrastructures/ Postcolonial Displacements"
Year
2021-2022
"The Shining Path Guerrilla Movement in Peru"
Fall
2021-2022
“London Patriots: Transatlantic Politics, Material Culture, and the American Revolution”
Spring
2020-2021
“Breaking Faith: The Constantinian Religious Revolution and Its Aftermath, 306-451 C.E.”
Fall
2020-2021
“Imperial Ruptures: Colonial Experiments in Trinidad During the Age of Revolutions”
Spring
2020-2021
"The Concept of Revolution"
Year
2020-2021
“Ruins and Glory: The Long Spanish Civil War in Latin America”
Fall
2020-2021
Law and climate science in South Asia
Fall
2019-2020
The Nation of Islam and African-American Free Speech in US Courts
Spring
2019-2020
Rebellious lawyers and the jurisprudence of decolonization
Spring
2019-2020
Colonial law and the Muslim family in Algeria
Spring
2019-2020
Slave law in the early modern Iberian world
Fall
2019-2020
Law and nuclear weapons testing in postwar Oceania
Spring
2019-2020
A history of the Soviet dissident movement
Fall
2019-2020
Children, development, and international law in decolonization
Year
2019-2020
Punishment in the Carolingian Empire
Fall
2019-2020
"Strange Bedfellows: Public Health and Welfare Politics in the United States, 1965–2000"
Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018-2020
2018-2019
"‘For my enemies, the law’: A Cultural History of Law and Justice in Russia, 1860-1905"
Spring
2018-2019
"Worthy of Freedom: Antislavery, Free Labor, and Indenture in the Era of Emancipation"
Year
2018-2019
"Legal Artifacts: Fabricating Law in Medieval England"
Year
2018-2019
"Secularislamization: Secularization and Contemporary Islamic Law"
Year
2018-2019
"Geographies of Justice: Japan, Germany, and the Allied War Crimes Program, 194­3–1958"
Fall
2018-2019
"Fear of the False: Forensic Science in Colonial India"
Fall
2018-2019
"Imagining African Law: South Africa, 1870–1927"
Year
2018-2019
"The Course of a Life"
Year
2018-2019
“Medical Efficacy in a Highly Intervened-in World”
Fall
2017-2018
“Trembling Earth and Burning Mountains: Responses to Environmental Risk in Early Modern Italy (ca. 1500-1750)”
Fall
2017-2018
“Discounting: A History of the Modern Future (In One Calculation)"
Year
2017-2018
“Social, Religious and Environmental Risk in Ancient Greek Myth Narratives”
Spring
2017-2018
“Controlling Risk, Generating Fear: Policing, Medicine and the State in Old Regime France”
Fall
2017-2018
“Finance and the New Chinese Republic Risk, Rationality, and Rights”
Spring
2017-2018
“The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, 1849-1910”
Spring
2017-2018
“Risks & Realities: Death and Credit in the French Tropics”
Year
2017-2018
"Risk, Culture, and Business in Renaissance Florence"
Fall
2016-2017
"Risk and Fortune in Ancient Textual Amulets"
Spring
2016-2017
"Invincible Daughters of Commerce: The Independent Order of St. Luke and Black Women in Finance, 1900-1940s"
Year
2016-2017
"Risky Bodies: Quantification, Fungibility, and Slave Trade in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic"
Spring
2016-2017
"Actuarial Age: Insurance and the Emergence of Neoliberalism in the Post-WWII United States"
Year
2016-2017
"Archipelago Capitalism: The Shadow Political Economy, 1920s-1980s"
Year
2016-2017
"Atlantis Restored: Political Economy during Sweden's Age of Greatness"
Year
2016-2017
"The Good Occupation: Americans as Victors after the Second World War"
Fall
2015-2016
"Humanitarian Purges: Revolutionary Memory and Northwest China's Great Gansu Earthquake of 1920"
Year
2015-2016
"Moral Tales and Political Reckonings: Soviet Survivors of Nazi Occupation and Their Audiences (1943-1945)"
Spring
2015-2016
"The Hungry City: Food, Famine, and a Year in the Life of Medieval Barcelona"
Year
2015-2016
"The Expert Witnesses: State Violence, Survivors, and the Anti-Concentration Camp Movement in Postwar Europe"
Fall
2015-2016
"Repressing, Defusing, and Conjuring the Disasters at the End of Louis XIV's Reign: The Wild Hope of John Law's System (1717-1720)"
Year
2015-2016
"The Afterlives of the Confederate Archive, 1865-1901"
Spring
2015-2016
"Souls under Siege: Surviving Plague, War, and Doubt in Fourteenth-Century Provence"
Fall
2014-2015
"Forgotten Refugees: Decolonization, Displaced Persons, and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945-1960"
Year
2014-2015
"Lazaretto Ghosts: Remembered Trauma and the Meanings of Quarantine in the Nineteenth-Century City"
Spring
2014-2015
"Imperial Aftershocks: The Legacies of Decolonization in the Netherlands"
Fall
2014-2015
"Wealth and Disaster: Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"
Year
2014-2015
"Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue in Soviet Central Asia, Iran, and India"
Spring
2014-2015
"Living and Dying in the Long War: China and Taiwan, 1937-1959"
Year
2014-2015
"Belief and Unbelief in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Ottoman Empire: The Qāḍīzādeli Movement and Its Spread"
Year
2013-2014
"At the Cross: Redeeming Emancipation in the Mission Fields of African America"
Year
2013-2014
"Land, Culture, Belief and Unbelief in Early Modern and Modern Cambodia"
Spring
2013-2014
"Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft in the Global Arena of Asylum"
Spring
2013-2014
"Too Many Truths: Spain, the Medieval Heritage, and the Rise of Doubt"
Fall
2013-2014
"Special Dwellers: Saints and People in the Mexican Household, 1600-1800"
Year
2013-2014
"'A Sacred Space is Never Empty': Scientific Atheism, Socialist Rituals, and the Soviet Way of Life, 1954-1991"
Fall
2013-2014