April 19, 2023

Congraulations to the CIH Fellowship Recipients for 2023-24

The Calgary Institute for the Humanities (CIH) is delighted to introduce the results of the Resident Fellowship Competition for 2023-24. CIH Fellows are given partial teaching release, an office in the CIH, and the opportunity to engage with a highly accomplished, multidisciplinary community of scholars over the course of the year.

This year’s cohort includes six fellows in all, including two resident fellows, the McCready Emerging Fellow, the Naomi Lacey Fellow, the Applied Ethics Fellow, and the Frances Spratt Graduate Fellow. These outstanding scholars come from across the Faculty of Arts, pursuing projects in religious studies, medieval history, Islamic studies, Philosophy, and German literature and culture. We are especially pleased to welcome graduate student Anastasiia Guschchina, who is completing her doctoral dissertation on animated documentary films.

We would like to extend a warm welcome to next year's fellows and express our gratitude to the Faculty of Arts and to our donors who make these fellowships possible:

Mushegh Asatryan, Resident Fellow, Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Linguistics and Culture: “Sages, Skeptics, and Pietists: The Culture of Debate in the Abbasid Empire (750-1258)”

Chris Framarin, Resident Fellow, Professor, Department of Philosophy: “The Joyful Sage: Renunciation and the Good Life in the Mahābhārata”

Anastasiia Gushchina, Graduate Student Fellow, PhD Candidate in Communication and Media, Department of Communication, Media and Film: “‘The Stuff of Reality’: Towards a Materialist Theory of Animated Documentary”

Courtnay Konshuh, Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow, Assistant Professor, Department of History: “Norman Consolidation and Communication in Kent”

Agnes Tam, Resident Fellow in Applied Ethics, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy: “Telling a Better Story of Who We Are: A New Ontology and Ethic of We-Agency”

Martin Wagner, Naomi Lacey Resident Fellow, Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Linguistics and Culture: “The Emergence of the Modern Writer and the Shifting Semantics of Obedience, 1750-1850”

Stay tuned for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities 2023-24 Annual Lecture Series, featuring lectures from CIH fellows, past and present, and invited guests. More information about our incoming fellows and their research can be found at https://arts.ucalgary.ca/calgary-institute-humanities/fellowship-programs/current-opportunities/resident-fellowship-competition.