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Congratulations to the 2024 – 25 “Erasure” Fellows

2024 – 2025 “Erasure” Theme: We are living at a moment of erasure and the threat of erasure. Examples include book censorship; revisionist histories and denialism; “alternative” truths; refusal to acknowledge impending crises such as climate change; undermining of democratic and academic institutions; limitations on freedom of expression; dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; and obliterative forms of violence directed against people, populations, communities, and cultures. Erasure can invite forms of recovery and redress such as corrective histories; commemoration; archival research; art restoration; palimpsestic writing; and restorative justice. Digital humanities and AI join these traditional disciplinary approaches in providing opportunities for redress.

Convened by: Patricia Williams

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities

Director of Law, Technology and Ethics Initiatives 


Elizabeth Bucar

“The Religion Factor: How to Make Spirituality More Meaningful, Responsible, and Effective”

Professor, Religion; Dean’s Leadership Fellow

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Laura Forlano

Automated: Disability and Technology in an Algorithmic Age

Professor, Art + Design and Communication Studies

College of Arts, Media, and Design


Jelena Golubović

“Rumor and Retribution in Wartime”

Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology and International Affairs

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Risa Kitagawa

“Competing Visions of Empire: The Politics of Colonial Narrative in French Indochina”

Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Affairs

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Isabel Martinez

“Making it Visible: Fifty years of Latinx Stand-Up Comedy in New York City”

Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology and Cultures, Societies & Global Studies; Director of Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Sasha Sabherwal

“Erasure of Caste within Sikh Diasporic Communities of U.S. and Canada”

Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Carmel Salhi

Categories of Exclusion: Violent Erasure of Forced Migration and its Classificatory Systems

Associate Professor, Health Sciences

Bouvé College of Health Sciences


Philip Thai

In the Shadows of the Bamboo Curtain: Trade, Travel, and Trafficking across Greater China during the Cold War

Associate Professor, History and Asian Studies; Director of Global Asian Studies

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Yana Mommadova – Graduate Fellow

“Elite Networks and Democratic Deconsolidation”

Sociology PhD Candidate

College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Hunter Moskowitz – Graduate Fellow

“Labor and Race in the Global Textile Industry: Concord, Monterrey and Lowell in the Early 19th Century”

World History PhD Candidate

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

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