"The overall environment of the University, its colleges, and CRASSH renewed my sense of the value of universities as places that support original thinking – and of the enjoyment that is essential to that process." Professor Christopher Newfield (UC Santa Barbara), Visiting Fellow Easter 2011


Visiting Fellowships at CRASSH

CRASSH runs an annual programme of Visiting Fellowships aimed at established international and UK scholars. The theme for 2012-13 is Cultures and Politics of the Transregional.   Information on Visiting Fellows at CRASSH during 2012-13 and their Work-in-Progress seminars is available below. 

Please see the link at the right hand side of the page for Information about our 2011-12 Visiting Fellows.

Please click on the tabs on the left for information on specific Visiting Fellowship programmes at CRASSH.

Easter 2013

Dr Katherine Luongo (Northeastern University, USA)
Monday, 13 May 2013
Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft in the Trans-Regional Arena of Asylum
Dr Urmila Nair (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Buddhism and Science: Somatizing the Mind, Contemplating the Body
Dr Gaurav Desai (Tulane University, USA)
Thursday, 30 May 2013
"Frail Skiffs Tossed on the Ocean of Life": Gender and Romance in Nineteenth Century Zanzibar
Dr Vincent Guillin (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Thursday, 6 Jun 2013
A British Moralist on French Soil: The Early French Reception of John Stuart Mill’s Ethical Thought
Dr Jane Rhodes (Macalester College, USA)
Thursday, 13 Jun 2013
Transatlantic Blackness in the Era of Jim Crow: Race and Gender in the Life of an African American Expatriate

Michaelmas 2012

Professor Teresa Shawcross (Amherst College, US)
Monday, 22 Oct 2012
Cosmopolitan Networks in an Age of Revolutions: Ruling the Mediterranean World at the End of Empire, 1274-1348
Dr Stefan Dorondel (Francisc I Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Bucharest)
Monday, 12 Nov 2012
'Blowing in the Wind': Mobile Technologies, Global Environmental Agendas and the Struggle for Nature in Romania

Lent 2013

Dr Lauren Arrington (University of Liverpool)
Monday, 28 Jan 2013
Art, Empire, and Revolution, 1890-1930: the case of Casimir and Constance Markievicz
Dr Abhijit Gupta (Jadavpur University, India)
Monday, 4 Feb 2013
Print and missionary networks in early 19th-century South and South-East Asia
Dr David Monteyne (University of Calgary)
Monday, 11 Feb 2013
Architecture and Immigration to Canada
Dr Rachel Havrelock (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Monday, 25 Feb 2013
Pipeline: How Oil Created the Modern Middle East and How Water Can Transform It
Professor Dana Arnold (University of Middlesex)
Monday, 4 Mar 2013
Ambivalent Geographies
Dr Anders Ekstrom (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Monday, 11 Mar 2013
Time, Intermediality and Transregional Imaginaries in Disaster Discourse