Announcing the 2024-25 Davis Center Fellows and Postdocs

March 28, 2024

The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies is delighted to announce the recipients of its fellowships for 2024-25, for the theme of “Truth and Information.”

Fellows

Paul Bertrand, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
“Forging the European Middle Ages: An Essay on the Regimes of Fake”
Spring 2025

Katlyn Carter, Notre Dame University
“The Politics of Truth in Early America”
Spring 2025

Greg Eghigian, Penn State University
“Carried Away? Truth, Trust, and Trauma in the Alien Abduction Phenomenon”
Fall 2024

Tim Livsey, Northumbria University
“Beyond Secrecy: Rethinking Histories of Knowledge and the British Colonial Migrated Archive”
Fall 2024

Jennifer Luff, Johns Hopkins University
“The Mendacious State: Political Policing in Interwar Britain”
Fall 2024

Caroline Mezger, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History
“Rumor and Displacement: A History of Forced Migration under the Third Reich, 1938-1948”
Spring 2025

Genevieve Renard Painter, Concordia University
“Trials as Factories of Truth: Judgment in a Settler Colony”
Fall 2024

Sasha Turner, Johns Hopkins University
“The Incalculability of Britain's Debt: Accounting for Emotions in Slavery”
Spring 2025

Aro Velmet, University of Southern California
“The Information Revolution: From Socialist Utopia to Digital Democracy in Eastern Europe”
Spring 2025

Greg Yudin, Princeton, UCHV
"'True Picture of Public Opinion': Opinion Polling as a Scientific and Political Technology"
Academic Year 2024–25

Postdoctoral Fellows

Davis Center Postdoctoral Fellows:

Victor Couto Tiribás
“Reading a Book from the Outside: The Transatlantic Diaspora of a Marginal Sephardic Circle”

Morgan Carlton
“Mothering the Race: Racial Uplift and Motherhood in Interwar Detroit”

Davis Center / Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Postdoctoral Fellows:

Nataly Shahaf
“Multiple Exposures: Ghosts, Buddhism, and Visual Heritage in Early Twentieth-Century China”

Alex Reiss-Sorokin
“Trust in Search: Credibility and Doubt in Legal Research Technologies”