The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies is delighted to announce the recipients of its fellowships for 2025–26, for the theme of “Truth and Information.”
Fellows
Jessamyn Abel, Pennsylvania State University
“Information, Truth, and Democratization in Postwar Japan, 1945–1955”
Spring 2026
Mikhal Dekel, CCNY and the CUNY Graduate Center
“Beyond Restitution: Global Reverberations of Holocaust Memory”
Fall 2025
Tamara Fernando, SUNY Stony Brook
“Shallow Blue Empire: Labor, Science and Environment across the Indian Ocean Littoral, 1850–1925”
Fall 2025
Cindy Hahamovitch, University of Georgia
“That Same Old Snake”: Slaves, Coolies, Guestworkers, and the Global History of Human Trafficking”
Year 2025–26
Jacqueline Hylkema, Leiden University College
“Faking Truth and Truthfulness in the Dutch Republic, 1608 – 1688”
Spring 2026
Taushif Kara, King's College London
“The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Colonial India”
Fall 2025
José Ragas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
“Becoming Data: Bodies, Personal Information and Technology in Modern Peru”
Spring 2026
Pavlina Rychterova, Austrian Academy of Sciences
“The Return to a Simple Truth and Its Consequences: Discourses of Failure and Loss in Late Medieval Bohemia”
Spring 2026
David Sartorius, University of Maryland
“Cuban Paper Trails: A Colonial History of Passports, Race, and Mobility”
Fall 2025
Mischa Suter, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
"The Transferential Truth About Subjects: Psychoanalysis Between West Africa and Western Europe in the Sixties"
Fall 2025
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”