The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has named its 2026–27 cohort of Faculty Fellows. Six faculty members from the humanities and humanistic social sciences will join the center for a semester-long residential fellowship. Four 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 2026

• Thembelani (Themba) Mbatha, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and English (Affiliate), Department of African and African American Studies
• Anne Schult, Assistant Professor of History and of Global Studies (Affiliate), Department of History*
• Marjan Wardaki, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History​*

Spring 2027

• AJ Jones, Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology*
• Ron Mallon, Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Department of Philosophy
• Sarah Weston, Assistant Professor of English and of Art History and Archaeology Department (Affiliate), Department of English*

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.

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