Since its founding in 2003, the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT) has supported innovative scholarship across the humanities and humanistic social sciences through its Faculty and Graduate Fellowships. These fellowships provide dedicated time, resources, and intellectual community, enabling recipients to advance their research, share findings through lectures and seminars, and contribute to Temple’s vibrant humanities ecosystem.
This year's Faculty Fellows are pursuing ambitious research projects—from urban environmental policy to disability justice and global industrial transformations—while our Graduate Fellows are undertaking cutting-edge work in history, literature, and media studies. With projects spanning Philadelphia to the Global South, exploring topics from environmental justice and rural–urban migratory flows to media conglomerates and global soft power, literary non-human and feminized figures, empire building with(out) women, and the transatlantic circulation of paranormal and disability discourses, our 2025–2026 fellows are exceptional. They exemplify the breadth and interdisciplinarity of Temple’s faculty and graduate student research, showcasing the dynamic, boundary-pushing work taking place across the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
2025-2026 CHAT Faculty Fellows:
Christina Rosan, Professor, GENUS, CLA: Stories of Climate, Justice, and Sustainability in Philadelphia (2009-2024)
Lu Zhang, Associate Professor, Sociology, CLA: Shifting World’s Factory Floor: Industrial Relocation, Labor, and Local Development in A Changing China
Shannon Walters, Associate Professor, English, CLA: Paranormal Rhetorics: Disability Magic and Crip Glamour
2025-2026 CHAT Graduate Fellows:
Tara Kennette, English, CLA: Reciprocal Relations Between Women and the Environment in American Regionalist Writing
Ethan Cohen, History, CLA: What is a Woman (Again)? Women's History, European History, and the Question of Morocco 1898-1939
FengYi Yin, Media & Communication, Klein College of Media & Communication: Rewriting the Global-Local Nexus: Transnational Television and South-South Media Flows
Learn more about the fellows and their projects here.