Dania De La Hoya Rojas and Humanities Research Institute
February 27, 2026

The Humanities Research Institute has awarded its annual faculty and graduate student fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from campus for the 2026-27 academic year, including several from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics.

The theme for the year is “Up Against Erasure.” 

HRI Campus Fellows

Faculty Fellows

Eric Calderwood (Comparative and World Literature), “The Girl from Tetouan: Amina Loh and the Margins of Moroccan Culture” 

Olha Khometa (Slavic Languages and Literatures), “The Erasure of Ukrainian Modernism in the Soviet Union: Poetry and Politics, 1910–1930” 

Angelica Waner (Spanish and Portuguese), “Knowledge Keepers: How Isthmus Zapotec Magazines Shape Autonomy and Futurities” 

Graduate Fellows

Yating Li (East Asian Languages and Cultures), “Pathologizing the Womb: Medical Knowledge, the Female Body, and Mirage of Health in China (1900s–1940s)” 

Gerson Morales Pérez (Spanish and Portuguese), “From Erasure to Memory: Cultural Representations of War, Indigeneity and Resistance in Contemporary Guatemala”

Editor's note: A version of this announcement was first posted on the Humanities Research Institute website.