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Announcing the 2021-22 Society of Fellows Faculty Cohort

August 10, 2021

Announcing the 2021-22 Society of Fellows Faculty Cohort

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The Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce the 2021-2022 Society of Fellows faculty cohort. The incoming cohort's seven internal fellows come to us from six departments at Ohio State, and this year, we welcome our first external fellow, Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, a public folklorist. The annual theme for this cohort is Imagination | Extinction.

The Society of Fellows brings Ohio State faculty from across the disciplines together to share research around an annual cross-disciplinary theme. The goals of the Society are to support faculty research and creative practices that highlight the transformative power of the arts and humanities to address global challenges and social needs; develop shared responses; and facilitate the multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas and methods. In addition to participating in a biweekly seminar, fellows will participate in monthly Cross-Disciplinary Digital Dialogues and a culminating public event.

2021-2022 Society of Fellows Faculty Cohort

Fellows

Photograph of Margaret Flinn

MARGARET FLINN | Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian
Project Title | Eco-French? The Local, the National and the Global in Contemporary Popular Visual Culture

Photograph of Hannah Kosstrin

HANNAH KOSSTRIN | Associate Professor, Department of Dance
Project Title | Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Dance, Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

Photograph of Ben McKean

BEN McKEAN | Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Project Title | Freedom and Resentment in the Anthropocene

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KRIS PAULSEN | Associate Professor, History of Art
Project Title | Flesh in the Machine

Photograph of Jacob Risinger

JACOB RISINGER | Associate Professor, Department of English
Project Title | Reimagining Energy in the Industrial Revolution and Beyond

Photograph of Elissa Washuta

ELISSA WASHUTA | Assistant Professor, Department of English (Creative Writing Program)
Project Title |  Apocalypse Cosmology

Photograph of Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth

JASPER WAUGH-QUASEBARTH | (External) Folklore
Project Title | Finding the Singing Spruce

Photograph of Carmen Winant

CARMEN WINANT | Associate Professor, Department of Art
Project Title | The Carol Newhouse Project

Facilitators

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JOHANNA BURTON | Executive Director, Wexner Center for the Arts

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WENDY S. HESFORD | Faculty Director, Global Arts + Humanities; Professor, Department of English; Ohio Eminent Scholar of Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy

Learn more

To learn more about the Society of Fellows program and  faculty and student cohorts, visit the Society of Fellows homepage.