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Denbo Center Fellows<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

With the support of the UT Chancellor\u2019s Office, the Office of Research and Engagement, our affiliated arts and humanities departments, and the College of Arts and Sciences, the Denbo Center supports the creation of groundbreaking humanities research through our fellowship programs. These individuals\u2014Faculty Fellows, Graduate Fellows, and a Marco Haslam Dissertation Fellow\u2014are listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty Fellows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Amanda Evans<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, School of Art<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project:<\/strong> When the River Becomes a Cloud<\/em>, an interdisciplinary public art installation in rural East Washington \u2013 her time at the center will be devoted to writing a book based on the completion of the project<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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R.D. Perry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Department of English<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project: <\/strong>An examination of the formal structure of The Canterbury Tales<\/em>, specifically its incompleteness as an aesthetic mode <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rachel Schneider<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project:<\/strong> A study of white Christians and faith-based development in South Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emma Schroeder<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Department of History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project:<\/strong> A history of women\u2019s technological activism from the 1960s to the 1980s<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Moussa Seck<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project:<\/strong> A study of how migration shapes and reimagines identity in literature by francophone African and Afro-descendant writers <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marie Balsley Taylor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Department of English<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project:<\/strong> A history of America\u2019s first printed Bible written in the indigenous language Wampanoag and published in 1663<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Graduate Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Taylor DeMichael<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Marco Haslam Fellow, Department of English<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project:<\/strong> Predestined: Religious Trauma, Hellish Anxieties, and the Calvinist Theatre<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Annamaria Haden<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Department of History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project:<\/strong> An analysis of media depictions of atomic animals, or animals affected by nuclear radiation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Morgan Schneider<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Department of World Languages and Cultures<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project: <\/strong>An exploration of representations of devils, demons, and other diabolical figures in the Hispanic transatlantic world<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dave Strickler<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Department of History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project: <\/strong>A history of the role played by bodies of water in the work of historian and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Maggie Warren<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Department of English<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project: <\/strong>A study of elegies by female poets of color<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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