About Us - Mellon Affiliates
The following are a list of Middlebury College faculty and staff working on projects funded by Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times Grant.
Co-Principal Investigators
Ian Barrow
Director of the Axinn Center for the Humanities, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of History
Spring 2025: Teaching HIST 0440: South Asian Migrations
Mellon Migration Faculty Research Seminar Member
- Email:
- ibarrow@middlebury.edu
Carrie Anderson
Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
- Email:
- carriea@middlebury.edu
Febe Armanios
Philip Battell & Sarah Frances Cowles Stewart Professor of History
- Email:
- farmanios@middlebury.edu
Marion Wells
Henry N. Hudson Professor of English and American Literatures
- Email:
- mwells@middlebury.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Catherine Fitzgerald Boyle
Postdoctoral Fellow for the Axinn Center for the Humanities
- Email:
- catherineb@middlebury.edu
Faculty
Dima Ayoub
Associate Professor of Arabic
Fall 2024: Teaching Mellon Public Humanities Lab Course: ARBC 0219 Modern Palestinian Literature
- Email:
- dayoub@middlebury.edu
Natalie Chwalisz
Visiting Instructor in Political Science
Spring 2025: Teaching Mellon Public Humanities Lab Course PSCI 0247: Politics of International Migration
Mellon Migration Faculty Research Seminar Member
- Email:
- nchwalisz@middlebury.edu
Khyree Davis
Assistant Professor of Black Studies
Spring 2025: Teaching Mellon Public Humanities Lab Course BLST 0414: Blacklisted: Surveillance, Race, and Gender
- Email:
- khyreed@middlebury.edu
Gloria Gonzalez Zenteno
Jean Thompson Fulton Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Luso-Hispanic Studies
Fall 2024: Teaching Mellon Public Humanities Lab Course SPAN 0330 Migrant Oral Narratives
- Email:
- gonzalez@middlebury.edu
Mairead Harris
Lecturer in Chinese
Mellon Migration Faculty Research Seminar Member
- Email:
- maireadh@middlebury.edu
Stefano Mula
Professor of Italian
Fall 2024: Teaching Mellon Public Humanities Lab Course FYSE 1005 Migrations: Politics, Ethics, Literature
- Email:
- smula@middlebury.edu
Fulya Pinar
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Fall 2024: Teaching Mellon Public Humanities Lab Course ANTH 0274 Global Migration
- Email:
- fpinar@middlebury.edu
Erin Sassin
Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture
Spring 2025: Teaching Mellon Public Humanities Lab Course HARC 0368: The Rise & Fall of Detroit
- Email:
- esassin@middlebury.edu
Michael Sheridan
Professor of Anthropology
Mellon Migration Faculty Research Seminar Member
- Email:
- msherida@middlebury.edu
Yumna Siddiqi
Associate Professor of English
Spring 2025: Teaching Mellon Public Humanities Lab Course, ENGL 0268 Literature of Displacement
Mellon Migration Faculty Research Seminar Member
- Email:
- ysiddiqi@middlebury.edu
Students
Maya Watson '25
History and Russian Major
My Mellon Grant research will culminate in a senior thesis focused on economic migration and national identity in Soviet Kazakhstan.
- Email:
- mcwatson@middlebury.edu
Sajia Yaqouby '25.5
Art History and Museum Studies Major
“Colors of Home” is a project that explores the role of art in fostering a sense of belonging among the Afghan refugee community in Vermont. By conducting interviews with newly resettled Afghan refugees and Afghan students at Middlebury College, the project highlights a nuanced contrast in their experiences and perspectives despite both groups leaving Afghanistan around the same time. While one group is deeply engaged with various forms of art, the other is less so. Through an analysis of themes such as belonging, identity, and the refugee experience, this paper seeks to uncover how these individuals’ relationships with art shape their sense of home and community in a new environment.
- Email:
- syaqouby@middlebury.edu
Academic Department Coordinator
Judy Mayer
Academic Coordinator for the Axinn Center for Humanities and the Department of History
- Email:
- jmmayer@middlebury.edu