Six new Graduate Student Fellows in the humanistic disciplines at Washington University will join the Center for the Humanities for a semester in residence during the 2025–26 academic year. Along with a $5,000 stipend, the competitively awarded Graduate Student Fellowships provide opportunity for grad fellows to workshop a portion of their dissertation with Faculty Fellows in residence, other WashU faculty and invited guests.
To review past Graduate Student Fellows, follow this link.
Fall 2025
Becca Hanssens-Reed
Department of Comparative Literature and Thought
“Reanimating Translation: Margaret Sayers Peden, the Myth of Understanding, and the Death of a Craft”
Kim Lacey
Department of History
“Koreitsy: Ethnic Koreans in the Former Soviet Republics, 1863-Present”
Juana Torralbo Higuera
Department of Comparative Literature and Thought
“Sympathetic Depictions: Eastern European Jewish Characters in Interwar Literature by German Jewish Authors”
Spring 2026
Kristin Emanuel
Department of English
“Poetry by Mail: Redelivering Art to Life through The S.M.S. Portfolios”
Richard Harrod
Department of History
“Oil, Onions, and Education: A Social History of Development in Oman from 1950s to the 1980s”
Hoyon Mephokee
Department of Art History and Archaeology
“On the Hunt for the White Elephant: Visualizing and Materializing Siam in the French Colonial Imaginary, 1861–1900”
