Welcome & Farewell!
As we head into the start of a new school year we'd like to say farewell and thank you to our outgoing fellows:
Virgil D. Aldrich Faculty Research Fellowships
Catherine Mayes
School of Music
"Hungarian Dances in Eighteenth-Century Vienna”
Maureen Mathison
Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies,
“The Rhetoric of Controversy within Science”
The Marlin K. Jensen Artist and Scholar in Residence
Andrew Lloyd
Department of Music
The University of Texas at San Antonio
“Latter-Day Saints and the Musical Arts”
The Annie Clark Tanner Teaching and Research Fellow in Environmental Humanities
Tiffany Higgins
Independent Scholar
Graduate Student Fellows
Brandon Clark
Department of History,
"Environmental History of the Colonial Americas"
Melissa Parks
Department of Communication
"From the Redwoods Conservation Movement to Sequencing Genomes: Genetic Ecologies
of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries"
Cori Winrock
Department of English
"Digital Text-iles: Stitching Hybridity"
Latter-day Saints Studies Research Fellowship
Sasha Coles
Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
"Homespun Respectability: Silk Worlds, Women’s Work, and the Making of Mormon Identity,
1850s-1910s"
Honors College Undergraduate Research Fellow
Andrew Hayes
Department of Philosophy
“The Problem of Self-Knowledge: Agency and First-Person Opacity”
Welcome to our 2020-21 incoming fellows, we're excited to work with you!
James Campbell, Department of History, Stanford University, “Freedom Now: The Mississippi Freedom Movement in American History and Memory”
Virgil D. Aldrich Faculty Research Fellowships
Julie Ault, Department of History, “Solidarity and Socialist Riches: East German Diplomacy, Environment, and Technology, 1949-1989”
Andrew Franta, Department of English, “Romanticism and the History of the Future”
Natalia Washington, Department of Philosophy, “Taxonomy is Taxidermy: Thinking Clearly About Diagnostic Kinds”
Graduate Research Fellowship
Taylor Johnson, Department of Communication, “Decolonizing Publicity: Indigenous Resistance and
Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making in the Bears Ears National Monument
Controversy”
Latter-day Saints Studies Research Fellowship
Hannah Jung, Department of History, Brandeis University, “The Transformation of Secrets: Family, Religion, and the Resilience of Mormon Polygamy