Resident Scholars

Jane Aikin

Visiting Fellow, 2017, Independent Scholar
Kluge Center Project: "America's Greatest Library: An Illustrated Chronology of the Library of Congress."

Sarah Bell

Digital Studies Fellow, 2017, Michigan Technological University
Kluge Center Project: "Speak & Spell to Siri: A Media History of Voice Synthesis."

Katie Booth

Kluge Fellow, 2017, Independent Scholar
Kluge Center Project: "The Performance of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to Cure Deafness."

Joanne Braxton

David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality, 2015, College of William and Mary
Kluge Center Project: "Religion, Spirituality and Health in the African American Experience."

Davide Ceriani

Kluge Fellow, 2017, Rowan University
Kluge Center Project: "Defining Italian Cultural Identity in American Urban Centers through Opera from Mass Migration to World War II, 1881-1941."

Christy Chapin

Kluge Fellow, 2016, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Kluge Center Project: "The U.S. Economy and the Emergence of Financial Capitalism."

Aikaterini Gegisian

British Research Council Fellow, 2017, Teeside University
Kluge Center Project: "Representations of the European Union in USA Moving Image Archives (1947-1999)."

Alan Gevinson

Kluge Staff Fellow, 2017, Library of Congress
Kluge Center Project: "Assessing Public Television Documentaries about Public Institutions."

Luke Harlow

Kluge Fellow, 2016, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Kluge Center Project: "Religion, Republicans, and the Defeat of Reconstruction"

Tahir Hemphill

Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Education, 2018, TH Media, Inc.
Kluge Center Project: "Representing Blackness: Media, Technology and Power"

Hayang Yumi Kim

David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality, 2017, The Johns Hopkins University
Kluge Center Project: "Managing Madness: Religion, Gender and Care in Japan, 1870s-1920s."

Alexander Knirim

Bavarian Fellow, 2017, University of Bayreuth
Kluge Center Project: "German Imprints in British North America in the 18th Century and the Construction of a German-speaking Community."

Erik Linstrum

Kluge Fellow, 2016, University of Virginia
Kluge Center Project: "Questions of Evidence: Documenting Violence in the Postwar British Empire."

Lauren MacDonald

Kislak Fellow in American Studies, 2017, The Johns Hopkins University
Kluge Center Project: "Atlantic Reformations: Religion and Empire in the Caribbean, 1562-1598."

Jeffrey Mansfield

Kluge Fellow, 2017, MASS Design Group
Kluge Center Project: "The Architecture of Deafness: 200 Years of the Deaf School as Architectural Type in the United States, 1817-2017."

Andrew McGee

Digital Studies Fellow, 2016, Carnegie Mellon University
Kluge Center Project: "Mainframing America: Computers, Politics, and Digital Public Life in America from the Birth of the Computer Age to the Dawn of the Internet."

Max Muir

British Research Council Fellow, 2017, University of Oxford
Kluge Center Project: "Unquiet Ghosts: An Investigation of American Civil Disobedience and Its Discontents."

Catherine Newell

David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality, 2016, University of Miami
Kluge Center Project: "Food Faiths: Health, Wellness, and the Science of Spiritual Eating."

Jacob Fairless Nicholson

British Research Council Fellow, 2017, King's College London
Kluge Center Project: "A Transnational Cultural and Historical Geography of Anti-racist Education in Britain, 1960-1990."

Matthew Restall

Kislak Fellow in American Studies, 2016, Pennsylvania State University
Kluge Center Project: "The Meeting: Cortes, Moctezuma, and the True History of the Spanish-Mexica War."

Seonaid Rogers

British Research Council Fellow, 2017, University of Nottingham
Kluge Center Project: "Rostcards of Palestine and Isreal: Matson, Photocrom and the American Colony."

Kristen Shedd

Kluge Fellow, 2016, Oklahoma State University
Kluge Center Project: "The Liberal Protestant Dilemma: The Mainline's Resistance to a Free-Enterprise America."

Ivan Sigal

Digital Studies Fellow, 2017, Independent Scholar
Kluge Center Project: "Shifting Use Cases of Archives of Conflict and Disaster."

Lucianne Walkowicz

NASA/LC Chair in Astrobiology, 2017, The Adler Planetarium
Kluge Center Project: "Fear of a Green Planet: Inclusive Systems of Thougth for Human Exploration of Mars."

Gwendolyn Wright

Kluge Chair in Modern Culture, 2018, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Kluge Center Project: "Affordable Housing: Histories, Variations and Futures"