The second year's Fellows are listed below in alphabetical order. Find out more about their projects by clicking on each name.

 

Dr Shakeel Anjum
Dr Shakeel Anjum
RACE.ED Archival Research Fellow
Institution:
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Project title:
Frames of Sovereignty and Love: Palestinians, Jean Genet, and the Blacks
Dr Simon Buck
Dr Simon Buck
Research Fellow (University of Edinburgh’s Historical Links to African Enslavement and Colonialism)
Institution:
Northumbria University
Project title:
University of Edinburgh’s Historical Links to African Enslavement and Colonialism
Dr Danita Burke
Dr Danita Burke
Northern Scholars Visiting Research Fellowship
Institution:
University of Southern Denmark
Project title:
Moral Legitimacy, Stigma and Environmental Activism in the 21st Century: Greenpeace in the Arctic
Dr Elad Carmel
Dr Elad Carmel
Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow in 18th-Century Scottish Studies
Institution:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Project title:
A Moderate Radical: Robert Wallace on Liberty, Equality, And Slavery
Dr Arka Chattopadhyay
Dr Arka Chattopadhyay
Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow
Institution:
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Project title:
Bengali Avant-Garde Novel and World Form: Re-Inventing Modernism
Dr Marlo Jessica De Lara
Dr Marlo De Lara
RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow
Institution:
AMDA College and Conservatory of Performing Arts
Project title:
Displanting Routes: Sounding Philippine Diasporas
Dr Erika De Vivo
Dr Erika De Vivo
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution:
Università degli Studi di Torino
Project title:
“Gulak gus buzza?” An anthropological study of Márkomeannu Festival as a site of linguistic activism through the analysis of its linguistic landscape
Prof. Nicole De Wet-Billings
Professor Nicole De Wet-Billings
African Fellow
Institution:
University of the Witwatersrand
Project title:
Perpetuation of household food insecurity during COVID-19 in South Africa
Dr Lucy Deacon
Dr Lucy Deacon
Centre for Research Collections Fellow
Institution:
University of Edinburgh
Project title:
The Edinburgh “Oriental Collection”: Tracing Colonial Cultural Practice, and the Early Modern Circulation of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts
Dr Rama Salla Dieng
Dr Rama Salla Dieng
Sabbatical Fellow
Institution:
University of Edinburgh
Project title:
Genealogies of Racial Capitalism: Labour and Social Reproduction in Contemporary Land Rushes in the Senegal River Region
Dr Sara Forcella
Dr Sara Forcella
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution:
Sapienza University of Rome
Project title:
Looking inward: a decolonial perspective on the Arab criticism of 'The Thousand and One Nights'
Dr Caleb Froehlich
Dr Caleb Froehlich
IASH-CTPI Duncan Forrester Fellow
Institution:
University of St Andrews
Project title:
Five Objects for Art and Peacebuilding: Facilitating Constructive Relationships between Ukrainian Refugees and British Hosts
Professor Peggy Levitt
Professor Peggy Levitt
Visiting Research Fellow
Institution:
Wellesley College and the Global (De)Centre
Project title:
Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Decentering the World’s Museums, Libraries, and Universities
Dr Wen-chi Li
Dr Wen-chi Li
Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution:
University of Zurich
Project title:
Terribly Sorry for My Existence: Queer Melancholia, Suicide, and Decoloniality
Dr. Dipali Mathur
Dr Dipali Mathur
Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution:
University of Wollongong (UOW) Australia
Project title:
'Rematerializing' the Digital: Governmentality and the Environment Consequences of Life Online
Dr Fraser McQueen
Dr Fraser McQueen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution:
University of Stirling
Project title:
Colonial Continuities in the Literature of the French Far Right
Dr Khwezi Mkhize
Dr Khwezi Mkhize
African Fellow
Institution:
University of the Witwatersrand
Project title:
A Home-Made Empire: South Africa’s Imperium
Dr Wassim Mroue
Dr Wassim Mroue
IASH-Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution:
University of Edinburgh
Project title:
Drivers of Intra-Sectarian Relations in Civil Wars: A De-colonial Reading of Shia Politics in Lebanon
Dr Anthony Neal
Dr Anthony Neal
American Philosophical Association Fellow
Institution:
Mississippi State University
Project title:
Violent Abstractions
Professor Anahid Nersessian
Professor Anahid Nersessian
American Philosophical Society Fellow
Institution:
University of California, Los Angeles
Project title:
House on Fire: The Cato Street Conspiracy
Dr Chinmayee Satpathy
Dr Chinmayee Satpathy
Visiting Research Fellow
Project title:
Decolonization of Religion and Indian Nationalism: A Study of Jagannatha Temple at Puri, Odisha, India from 19th to 20th Century
Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda
Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution:
University of Edinburgh
Project title:
Constitutionalist Image Making: Photographing Revolution in the Modern Middle East
Dr Bhakti Shringarpure
Dr Bhakti Shringarpure
IASH-SSPS Research Fellow
Institution:
University of Connecticut
Project title:
Stories and Saviors: On Literary Humanitarianism
Dr Mishka Sinha
Dr Mishka Sinha
Research Fellow (University of Edinburgh’s Historical Links to African Enslavement and Colonialism)
Institution:
University of Oxford
Project title:
University of Edinburgh’s Historical Links to African Enslavement and Colonialism
Dr Dineo Skosana
Dr Dineo Skosana
African Fellow
Institution:
University of the Witwatersrand
Project title:
Compensating Mining-induced Dispossession and Intangible Loss
Dr Priyanka Tripathi
Dr Priyanka Tripathi
Visiting Research Fellow
Institution:
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Project title:
Optimizing Caste Intersectionality: A Decolonial Reading of Gender-based Violence in Select Subaltern Fiction in India 
Dr Tana Trivedi
Dr Tana Trivedi
CSMCH-IASH Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern and Contemporary History
Institution:
Ahmedabad University
Project title:
The Counterfactual Republic: Towards revisiting the “Deshi Rajyas” of Kathiawad
Prof. Ola Uduku
Professor Ola Uduku
Nominated Fellow
Institution:
University of Liverpool
Project title:
Researching hospitals and healthcare architecture in Africa c.1900- 1970s
Dr Asha Varadharajan
Nominated Fellow
Institution:
Queen's University, Canada
Project title:
"'How to Kick Ass When Life’s a Bitch': The Story of (Non)Human Rights" and "Archaeologies of Nonentity: The New Realities of Forced Migration and Involuntary Displacement"
Price Henry, Lavadoras de oro del río Guadalupe, 1852, colección Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
Dr Paola Vargas Arana
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution:
University of Edinburgh
Project title:
Life journeys of Africans in the Antioquia gold mines of New Granada during the British asiento (1713-1750)
Dr Valerie Wallace
Dr Valerie Wallace
Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow in 18th-Century Scottish Studies
Institution:
University of St Andrews
Project title:
The Case of William Macao: Alienness, Subjecthood and Legal Pluralism during Britain’s Reign of Alarm
Dr Annie Webster
Dr Annie Webster
Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution:
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Project title:
Stories of the Syrian New Scots: Dispersed Geographies and Digital Storytelling in COVID-19 Refugee Arts​
Dr Yarong Xie
Dr Yarong Xie
Research Fellow (University of Edinburgh’s Historical Links to African Enslavement and Colonialism)
Institution:
University of Edinburgh
Project title:
University of Edinburgh’s Historical Links to African Enslavement and Colonialism