Announcing the 2025-26 Society of Fellows Graduate Team Cohort

The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025-26 Graduate Team Fellowship competition. The incoming fellows, currently pursuing either PhD or MFA degrees, join us from six different units.
About the Graduate Team Fellows Program
The Graduate Team Fellowship program at Ohio State is the first team-based, arts and humanities graduate fellowship program in the United States. The Global Arts + Humanities Graduate Team Fellowships are financial awards made on the basis of academic merit through a division-wide competition. These fellowships are given to recognize the cross-disciplinary aspirations and accomplishments of graduate students in the division of arts and humanities. The fellowship competition is open to students whose projects engage cross-disciplinary critical and/or creative practices as well as students who seek to foster the development of participatory networks with local Columbus communities. Fellows may be at any phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project.
2025-26 Cohort
Annual Theme: Creativity | Automation | Intelligence

XIAO LIU
DFA, School of Music

FATEME MOHAMMADI MAKLAVANI
MFA, Department of Design
KATHERINE ROOS
PhD, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

JIARA SHA
MFA, Department of Dance

AHWAR SULTAN
PhD, History of Art

YING-SHAN WU
PhD, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures