The Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce our 2026-27 Society of Fellows faculty and Graduate Team Fellows awards. The incoming cohorts include fourteen fellows from the Departments of Art; Classics; Comparative Studies; Dance; Design; English; History of Art; NESA; Sociology; Theatre, Film and Art; the Center for Ethnic Studies; and University Libraries.

The Society of Fellows fosters a multidisciplinary community of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students that support the synthesis and translation of knowledge across disciplines to engage critical societal challenges in the form of an annual theme. The theme for the 2026-27 Society of Fellows seminar is Cultures in Motion. 

Contrary to past and present efforts to control cultural differences or prohibit mobility in pursuit of cultural stasis, Cultures in Motion envisions culture as dynamic, resilient and resistant to fixity. Fellows' projects engage with the reach of cultural circulation across time and space and methodological considerations of scale, and how cultural exchanges acquire or do not acquire larger significance.