University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Mellon Humanities Fellows

Jernigan

As a critical medical anthropologist, my research focuses on obesity (and related chronic conditions) at the intersections of issues related to structural violence, historical trauma, heritage narratives, and meaning-making among Indigenous communities in Oklahoma. Using collaborative and participatory methods, my research examines the socio-cultural, economic, political, and historical influences of health, while centering tribal citizens’ personal stories and meaning-making in these processes.

Blatt

Ari Blatt is Associate Professor in the Department of French at UVa. A specialist of modern and contemporary French literature and culture, he is the author of Pictures into Words: Images in Contemporary French Fiction (Nebraska, 2012). Other published or forthcoming work includes articles on television and literature; on manic fiction; on the suspension of movement in cinema; on topographic narrative; on writing about walking; and on looking at (and listening to) trees.

Bigelow

Allison Bigelow is the Tom Scully Discovery Chair Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She is the author of Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture for UNC Press, 2020), the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in early modern Iberian colonies.

Scherz

China Scherz is an Associate Professor in the department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. She specializes in medical anthropology, the anthropology of ethics, and the anthropology of religion.

Kondyli

Bio: Fotini Kondyli (Assistant Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, University of Virginia) is a Byzantine archaeologist who works on the Late Antique, Byzantine and Frankish periods. Her research interests include the construction of Byzantine spaces, communal identity, landscape and household archaeology and the archaeology of Byzantine non-elites. She also works on cultural, economic and political networks in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Byzantine period (13th- 15th c.).

Linstrum

Erik Linstrum is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 2015.  He is a historian of British imperialism in the twentieth century, with interests in science and technology, war and violence, and decolonization.  His prize-winning first book is Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire (Harvard, 2016).  He has previously held fellowships with the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the Institute of History Research in London, and the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan.  

Paoletti

Giulia Paoletti is Assistant Professor of African art in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia. A specialist of modern and contemporary African art, her research focuses on the histories and theories of photography in West Africa. She is working on a book manuscript tracing the origins and early developments of photography in Senegal, where she has conducted fieldwork over the past ten years. Her work has appeared in edited volumes, and academic journals including Cahiers d'études africaines, the Metropolitan Museum Journal, Art in Translation, and African Arts.

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