Arts and Humanities Fellows

Daniel Conway, professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, documented and analyzed the roles that ordinary people play in genocidal violence and other crimes against humanity, with plans to produce a book provisionally titled “Facing Evil.”

Felice House, associate professor, Department of Visualization, College of Architecture, expanded her large-scale painting series titled “Re-Western,” which recasts iconic Western-movie heroes as contemporary women, and exhibited her work in the United Kingdom.

Katherine Unterman, associate professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, studied the effects of a 1901 Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution does not fully apply to American citizens living in the five populated U.S. territories.

Daniel Schwartz, assistant professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, developed a digital publication called SPEAR: Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations, to advance methods for the study of Syriac.

Brian Rouleau, assistant professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, conducted research for a book tentatively titled Empire’s Children: Youth Culture and the Long Nineteenth Century’s Expansionist Impulse, which will investigate the ways in which children became central to imperialism in North America, Africa, and Australia. The Oxford University Press has expressed interest in the project.

Kristan Poirot, assistant professor, Department of Communication and the Women’s Gender Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts, worked in tourism studies, cultural geography, rhetoric, history, and gender studies with the goal of better understanding the concepts that inform the public’s collective memory as "gendered landscapes."

Olga Dror, associate professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, used texts produced for and by young people in North and South Vietnam and compared and analyzed how Vietnamese on both sides of the conflict shaped the identities of their youth.

Galen Newman, assistant professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Architecture, explored the unique urban design and landscape characteristics of heavily depopulated urban neighborhoods; used the Land Transformation Model,  to predict future vacancy; and developed an urban design strategy in response to those conditions.