The Global Arts + Humanities has announced the 2026-27 Society of Fellows. Dr. Yana Hashamova, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at our Department, has been named Leadership Faculty Fellow and Mentor of the six Graduate Team Fellows. While performing her GA+H duties, Dr. Hashamova will also be working this coming year on her new book project, From Totalitarian Legacies to Populist Futures: Western Prejudices, the Politics of Belonging, and the Case of Post-socialist Bulgarian Diaspora.

Of this year's fourteen fellows, three are affiliates of our close friends and partners at CSEEES (The Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies): Naomi Brenner (Department of  Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Mara Frazier (University Libraries) have been named Faculty Fellows, and former CSEEES Director Yana Hashamova (Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures), who has been named a Leadership Fellow.

The Society of Fellows fosters a multidisciplinary community of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students that support the synthesis and translation of knowledge across disciplines to engage critical societal challenges in the form of an annual theme. The theme for the 2026-27 Society of Fellows seminar is Cultures in Motion. 

Contrary to past and present efforts to control cultural differences or prohibit mobility in pursuit of cultural stasis, Cultures in Motion envisions culture as dynamic, resilient and resistant to fixity. Fellows' projects engage with the reach of cultural circulation across time and space and methodological considerations of scale, and how cultural exchanges acquire or do not acquire larger significance.

Congratulations to Dr. Hashamova, the CSEEES affiliates and all 14 fellows on their tremendous work!

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