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  • Derek Baron

    Historical Musicology

    New York University, 2023

    Project: The Geopolitics of Voice: Music, Sound, and Law in the Native Nineteenth Century

    Derek Baron is an interdisciplinary scholar of U.S.-colonial and Indigenous histories of music, literature, and law. He received his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the Department of Music at New York University... (more)

  • Landon Reitz

    Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Religious Studies

    University of California, Berkeley, 2022

    Project: Reading Your Way to the Divine: Medieval Mystical Practices of Body, Mind, Text, and Soul

    Landon Reitz is a scholar of medieval European textual and religious cultures. His research investigates the iconography and poetics of reading that emerged as critical and creative rhetorical tools in the vernacular... (more)

  • Katherine Scahill

    Music

    University of Pennsylvania, 2025

    Project: Recalling the Lineage: Practices of Recitation and Renunciation at Three Thai Bhikkhuni Monasteries, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Pathom, Songkhla

    Katherine Scahill studies the intersection of gender, voice, and religious authority in contemporary Thai Buddhism. Specifically, her research centers on the aural/oral dimensions of Buddhist practice and teaching as... (more)

  • Shivani Shedde

    History of Architecture

    Princeton University, 2025

    Project: Toward an Architectural Commons: Afro-Asians and the Labors of Development After Empire

    Shivani is an architectural historian of the non-western world focusing on social movements, cultural practices, and intellectual currents of anti-colonialism and anti-capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth... (more)

  • Allan Zheng

    Music

    University of California, Riverside, 2025

    Project: Following the Way: Worlding Performance in Contemporary Cambodia

    Allan Zheng is a scholar researching the Cambodian performing arts in Cambodia and the diaspora, focusing on the boundaries between the traditional and contemporary as well as expressions of social and cultural... (more)