The Humanities Institute
Dissertation Fellows 2019-20

• YEAR-LONG DISSERTATION FELLOW

• ISAAC BLACKSIN

  History of Consciousness

  “Meaningful Violence: American War Reportage in Iraq, Syria, and Beyond, 2014-2018”
  
  

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• SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWS

• TRUNG NGUYEN

  History of Consciousness

  “War Material: Vietnam and Transpacific Imaginaries of Capital and Transition”

   

• THOMAS ROBERTS

  Linguistics

  “Dimensions of Belief in Verbal Semantics”

   

• JACLYN SCHULTZ

  History

  “Learning the Values of a Dollar: Childhood and Cultures of Economy in the U.S., 1825-1900”

   

• TARA THOMAS

  Literature

  “Queer Decadent Classicism: Fin de Siècle British Reception of Decadent Rome”

   

• CYNTHIA TIBBETTS

  Philosophy

  “Metaphysics of the Moral Agent”

   

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