Current Scholars in Residence

Andrew Barnhill

David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality, 2024, New York University, "Washington's Clergy and the Founding of Hospitals: Case Study of Providence Hospital"

Robin Bates

British Research Council Fellow, 2018, University of Cambridge, "Politics and Civil War Veterans’ Pensions in Gilded Age America, c. 1878-1900"

Karlee Bergendorff

Kluge Fellow, 2024, Duke University, "The People's Leader and the Pyramids: North Korean and Egyptian Artistic Exchanges (1952-2017)"

Costica Bradatan

Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2025, Texas Tech University, "Against Conformity: A Study in Dissent"

Joanne Braxton

David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality, 2015, College of William and Mary, "Religion, Spirituality and Health in the African American Experience."

William Comben

British Research Council Fellow, 2024, University of Bristol, "Enslaved Women's Fugitivity"

Hannah Cowdell

British Research Council Fellow, 2024, University of Exeter, "Transgender Citizenship: Socio-legal and Medical Constructions of Gender in Lebanon"

Dagomar Degroot

NASA/LC Chair in Astrobiology, 2024, Georgetown University, "Cosmic Contamination: The Cold War Quest to Protect the Earth from Extraterrestrial Microbes -- And Why it May Have Failed"

Nathan Dorn

Kluge Staff Fellow, 2024, Library of Congress, "Outlawing Ordeals Again: The Case Against Judicial Ordeals in the Age of the Witch Hunt"

Cassandra Good

Visiting Fellow , 2025, Marymount University, "Lady Lobbyists: How America’s 19th Century Female Powerbrokers Changed American Politics, 1830-1875"

Hannah Grayson

Kluge Fellow, 2023, University of Stirling, "Transnational Axes of Collaboration: DC, Festac, & It’s Traces"

Daniel Green

Visiting Fellow, 2025, George Washington University, "First Among Equals: The History and Politics of Choosing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff"

Christopher Halsted

Kluge Fellow, 2023, University of Maryland, College Park, "Globality, Society, and the Slave Trade Among the Baltic Slavs, 700-1100"

Mary Haude

Kluge Staff Fellow, 2024, Library of Congress, "Rare Mesoamerican Maguey Paper: Botanical Origin, Regional Manufacture, and Use"

Arnaud Kurze

Digital Studies Fellow, 2022, Montclair State University, "Virtually Mapping and Visualizing Youth, Art, and Activism After the Cold War"

Shannon Mattern

Kluge Chair in Modern Culture, 2025, University of Pennsylvania, "Case Logics: A Catalog of Intellectual Furnishings"

Yasmeen Mekawy

Digital Studies Fellow, 2022, Northwest University in Qatar, "Passionate Politics: Emotions and Events through Social Media in the #Jan25 Egyptian Revolution"

Anthony Mullan

Visiting Fellow, 2024, Independent Scholar, "Use of the Cartouche in Eighteenth Century Maps of Mexico"

Azar Nafisi

Visiting Fellow, 2025, Johns Hopkins University, "Writers in Democracies and Totalitarian Societies"

Vali Nasr

Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations, 2024, Johns Hopkins University, "Iran's Decision Making"

Trang Nguyen

JRRI Fellow, 2024, University of Manchester, "Deconstructing Vietnamese Female Representation in Vietnamese and Vietnamese-diasporic Cinema"

Rebecca Parker-Braxton

David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality, 2024, Starr King School for the Ministry, "Spirituality, Ecology, and Global Health: Returning to Paradise Now"

Elena Schuster

German Fellowship, 2025, University of Freiburg, "Future Genders, Gender Futures: Trans Imaginations"

Vikram Tamboli

Visiting Fellow, 2025, Smithsonian, "Black Powers and Bush Work: Rumor, Race, and Trafficking in the Guyanese-Venezuelan Borderlands, 1721-2022"

Nelson Tebbe

Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance, 2025, Cornell University, "New Constitutional Paradigms"

Camilla Townsend

Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas, 2023, Rutgers University, "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Aztec Religion"