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Congratulations to the 2022-23 “Re-Imagining/Re-Forming” Fellows

2022 – 2023 “Re-Imagining/Re-Forming” Theme: Mindful of recent political, cultural, and environmental upheavals, the Northeastern Humanities Center invites proposals for the 2022-23 academic year on the theme of “Re-imagining/Re-forming.” We seek proposals that address how bedrock notions of social contract are being reconfigured by the disruptions of what some have called Industry 4.0, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What are the material implications of recent technological developments—broadly understood, including, for example, AI and biotechnologies—for the humanities, and for the laws and social ordering of what we have traditionally thought of as “the human”? Are we moving towards a digital social contract, and if so, who or what is determining its terms? We invite proposals connected to any dimension of this broad field of inquiry, including literary, artistic, historical, socio-political, economic, ecological, media theoretical, philosophical, linguistic, as well as technology-focused perspectives. Patricia Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, will lead the year-long interdisciplinary conversation among fellows about their work.

Convened by: Patricia Williams

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities

School of Law

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Sari Altschuler

“Capable Citizens: How Disability Shaped American Citizenship

Associate Professor of English

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Kabria Baumgartner

“Revolutionizing the City: Black Youth and Civil Rights in Boston”

Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Nick Beauchamp

Re-Forming Politics Online: Community Formation and Social Policing within the Left”

Assistant Professor of Political Science

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Victoria Cain

“Refuge, Revelation, Risk: A History of Adolescent Privacy in the Digital Age”

Associate Professor of History

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Sina Fazelpour

“Standpoint matters: Justice and diversity in sociotechnical algorithmic systems”

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Khoury College of Computer Sciences

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Chad Lee-Stronach

Encoding Justice: Towards a New Digital Social Contract

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Deirdre Loughridge

“Sounding Human”

Assistant Professor of Music

Faculty Affiliate of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts, Media, and Design


Lily Song

“Re-Imagining and Re-Formulating Spatial Planning and Development with Local Communities” 

Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment

College of Arts, Media and Design


Gloria SuttonCAMD Humanities Center Fellow

“Pattern Recognition: Marginality as Methodology within Computational forms of Art”

Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History

Faculty Affiliate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts, Media + Design


Ari Waldman

“Laundering Misinformation Through Law”

Professor of Law and Computer Science

Faculty Director, Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC)

School of Law

Khoury College of Computer Sciences


Taylor Braswell – Graduate Fellow

P.h.D Candidate

Department of Sociology

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Cherice Escobar JonesGraduate Fellow

P.h.D Candidate

Department of English

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

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