Current Scholars-in-Residence
2020-21 Academic Year
Oscar Alatriste
National Autonomos University of Mexico
Historical Context and analysis of the ideas of José Vasconcelos expressed in the lectures he held at (and published by) the University of Chicago in 1926
Christopher Allison
Dominican UniversityProtestant Relics: Capturing the Sacred Body in Early America
Priscilla Archibald
Roosevelt University Symphonic America: Hemispheric Collaborations and the Politics of Transamerican Literary Exchange
Lydia Barnett
Northwestern University
The Work of Science: Gender, Labor, and Environment in Early Modern Europe
Kristin Bivens
Harold Washington College
Expositions and Exhibitions: Chicago’s Involvement with Early Healthcare Technology for Premature Infants
William Brooks
University of York
American Sheet Music, 1880 to 1920
Salvatore Calomino
University of Wisconsin Madison
“Anna Bahr-Mildenburg: Memoirs,” Part 2; Christoph Willibald von Gluck as Innovator and Traditionalist
Federica Caneparo
Independent Scholar
Painting Ovid in Italian:
Anguillara’s Translation of the Metamorphoses and its Impact on the Visual Arts
Ronald Corthell
Purdue University Northwest
Robert Southwell and Catholic Melancholy
Delia Cosentino
DePaul University
Resurrecting Tenochtitlan in Modern Mexico City, 1915-1965
Penelope Dean
University of Illinois at Chicago
Game Plans Strategic Design and Positioning Methods in Chicago, 1970–
Roger Ferlo
Bexley Seabury Seminary Federation
The Bexley Hall Collection–a history and Letters from “G”–the short life of an immigrant woman
Stephen Foster
Northern Illinois University
Provinciality in Colonial New England, 1690-1750
Lisa Freeman
University of Illinois at Chicago
The Novelty of Progress
Ginger Frere
Independent Scholar
Pre-Fire Chicago
Timothy Gilfoyle
Loyola University Chicago
Isaac Isaac Singer and the Creation of the American Garment Industry
Adam Goodman
University of Illinois at Chicago
Made in América: The Origins of the Central American Refugee Crisis
Kim Hedlin
Independent Scholar
The Book of Job from Luther to Milton
Sarah Kernan
Independent Scholar
Creating Cookbooks: Networks of Recipe Readers and Writers in England, 1300–1700
Thomas Kernan
Roosevelt University
The Great Emancipator/The Great Commoner: Music, Memory, and the Changing Lincoln Repertoire
Robert Ketterer
The University of Iowa
Articles on Classical Reception in Baroque Opera and Shakespeare.
Anne Koenig
Independent Scholar
Flesh and Blood: The Body and Popular Health in Late Medieval Germany
Ann Kuzdale
Chicago State University
Opera Omnia and Patristic Authority: a case study of Gregory the Great
Angela Latham
Governors State University
Finding Gloria
Julia Lieblich
DePaul University
The Divine Majority: Portraits of Religious Women Changing the World
Debra Mancoff
Independent Scholar
Backstories of Iconic Art
Andrew Mattison
University of Toledo
Renaissance Literary Forms and the Reading Stranger
Rowena McClinton
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
“Transnational Reaches of Moravian Missions, Missionaries’ Encounters with Indian Tribes, and Moravian North American, 1735 - 1840”
Christopher McKee
Grinnell College
Are You Prepared to Appear before the Dread Tribunal? Death, Sin, and Religious Faith on the Navy’s Lower Deck
Stuart McManus
Chinese University of Hong Kong
1619: A Global History
Omar McRoberts
University of Chicago
Black Public Religion and Social Welfare Policy
Walter Melion
Emory University
Translation and commentary of Karel van Mander’s ‘Grondt der edel vry Schilder-const’
Eva Mendieta
Indiana University Northwest
New Findings on Vicente de Lardizábal
Anca-Delia Moldovan
University of Warwick
Illustrating the Year: New Perspectives into Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italian Calendars
Francesca Morgan
Northeastern Illinois University
Nation of Descendants: Genealogy and the Self in U.S. History
Peter Nekola
Luther College
Redrawing the World: 1919 and the History of Cartography
Kirk Nickel
Independent Scholar and Curator
The Enigmatic Image in Renaissance Brescia: Antiquarianism, Renovation, and Reform
Sheryl Reiss
Independent Scholar
A Portrait of a Medici Maecenas: Giulio de’ Medici (Pope Clement VII) as Patron of Art
Diana Robin
University of New Mexico
Italia Blood: Ippolita Maria Sforza and the Renaissance of War
Alicia Schatteman
Northern Illinois University
An Uncommon Life: The Legacy of Lea Demarest Taylor and the Chicago Commons Settlement House
Jason Rosenholtz-Witt
Independent Scholar
Music and Crisis at Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo during the Turbulent 1620s
Elizabeth Shermer
Loyola University Chicago
Indenturing Students & The Business of Education
Jeffrey Sklansky
University of Illinois at Chicago
Grassroots Property: Making Land on America’s Middle Border, 1850-1900
Tim Soriano
University of Illinois at Chicago
The Royal Navy, Legal Pluralism, and Authority in Sierra Leone 1785-1820
David Spatz
Independent Scholar
Roads to Postwar Urbanism: Expressway Building and the Transformation of Metropolitan Chicago
Richard Squibbs
DePaul University
Prattlers, Meddlers, Bachelors, Busy-Bodies: The Periodical Essay in the 18th Century & Conscience is a Pair of Breeches: Terrae Filius Periodicals, 1707-1763
Joseph Stadolnik
University of Chicago
The International Making of Early English Books
Neil Steinberg
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago History
Jane Stevens
Illinois State Museum
The Edward E. Ayers Collection of America and Contemporary Native Artists
Ryan Taycher
Indiana University
The Foundation of Discant: Structure and Ornament in Medieval Polyphony
Andrew Trees
Roosevelt University
Forgotten Founders
Emily E. LB. Twarog
University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign
Lowell: The Spindle City
Nick Valvo
City Colleges of Chicago
The Parish of Parnassus
Mara Wade
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Emblems & Empire
Samuel H. Williamson
Miami University and MeasuringWorth
The impact of the Pennsylvania RR pension of 1900 on the retirees behavior
James Zychowicz
A-R Editions, Inc.
Reassessing the Reception of Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss