Professor Rosalyn LaPier and graduate students Owen MacDonald and Cheryl Trauscht were three of fourteen faculty members and graduate students to receive a 2026-27 Humanities Research Institute fellowship. This year's theme was "Up Against Erasure."
Faculty fellows are provided with one semester of release time and research funds. Graduate student fellows are given a stipend and a tuition and partial fee waiver for the academic year of the award.
LaPier was awarded a faculty fellowship for their project "Saokiotapi Wayfinding;" MacDonald received a graduate student fellowship for his project “Caribbean Amazônia: The Madeira-Mamoré Railroad, Labor, and the Making of Race, Gender, and Empire in Northwestern Brazil, 1870–1942"; and Trauscht received a graduate student fellowship for her project “Ubiquitous Stuff, Invisible People: Making Barrels, Knowledge, and Stories in the British Atlantic, 1620 to 1783.”