Faculty Research Seminar
The Axinn Center for the Humanities supports a yearly Humanities Faculty Research Seminar focused on a particular theme.
The seminar is designed to support faculty as they pursue their research projects and to create collaboration and community around those projects.
With input from the participants, the seminar leader develops a rough outline of thematic connections to explore in relation to the theme, along with a short bibliography. Seminar participants each work on a piece of scholarship connected to the chosen theme—an article, book chapter, or other defined scholarly product.
The seminar convenes at least monthly, following an agreed-upon schedule of readings and/or short presentations along with discussion. Participants then present their work in a panel presentation or series of talks either in the spring of their seminar year or during the following fall.
'Mellon Migration' Seminar Participants
Ian Barrow
Director of The Axinn Center for the Humanities, Professor of History
Leader of the Seminar for Spring 2025
Natalie Chwalisz
Visiting Instructor in Political Science
Mairead Harris
Lecturer in Chinese
Michael Sheridan
Professor of Anthropology
Yumna Siddiqi
Associate Professor of English
'Power, Represented' Seminar Participants
Therese Banks
Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
James Fitzsimmons
Professor of Anthropology
Jamie McCallum
Associate Professor of Sociology
Linus Owens
Associate Professor of Sociology
Thomas Preston
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
Ryan Sheldon
Assistant Professor of English