The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has named its 2025–26 cohort of Faculty Fellows. Six faculty members from the humanities and humanistic social sciences will join the center for a semester-long residential fellowship. Three members of the cohort will be First Book Fellows, which provides extra workshopping time with external and internal readers to help prepare a first monograph for submission to a publisher.
The members of the cohort are as follows:
Fall 2025
- Elizabeth Childs, the Etta and Mark Steinberg Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology
- Nancy Reynolds, Associate Professor of History, of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (Affiliate), and of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (Affiliate), Department of History
- Sarah Weston, Assistant Professor of English and of Art History and Archaeology Department (Affiliate), Department of English*
Spring 2026
- Yannick Coenders, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology*
- Esther Viola Kurtz, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, of Performing Arts (Affiliate) and of African and African-American Studies (Affiliate), Department of Music
- Anne Schult, Assistant Professor of History and of Global Studies (Affiliate), Department of History*
* First Book Fellow
Faculty Fellows receive the workspace, resources and intellectual exchange needed to make significant progress on their research projects and books in progress. Follow this link to learn more about past fellows and their projects.
