The John W. Kluge Center is pleased to announce the newest cohort of Kluge Fellows at the Library of Congress. Each year, we consider dozens of applications from scholars in the social sciences and humanities for the Kluge Fellowship and select twelve that are best suited to the Library’s collections and the Kluge Center’s mission. Fellows are in residence at the Library of Congress for four-to-eleven-month periods.
All funding for Kluge Fellowships comes from the generous endowment provided to the John W. Kluge Center by philanthropist John W. Kluge in 2000.
Keep reading to get to know our 2025 selectees and their projects.
Johaina Crisostomo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University. She will work on a project examining the literature and political philosophies of the Philippines as it transitioned from a Spanish Catholic to an Anglo-American Protestant holding after the Spanish-American War.
Yuri Doolan is an Assistant Professor of History and Chair of Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies in the History/Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. He will work on a project studying the US Military’s attitude towards sex workers hired by its soldiers in Cold War Asia and the Transpacific.
Sage Goodwin is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. She will work on a project examining network television in relation to the mid-20th century Black freedom struggle.
Emily Hawk is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She will work on a project studying the movements of Black modern dance from 1960 to 1985.
Emily Hoge is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Clemson University. She will work on a project analyzing how returning soldiers in the Soviet Union grappled with trauma stemming from their service in the Soviet-Afghan War.
Kelly McCay is a recent PhD graduate from Harvard University. She will work to complete her monograph studying shorthand manuals in Early Modern England.
Elsa Barraza Mendoza is a Professor of History at the Axinn Center for the Humanities in Middlebury College. She will work on a project studying the entanglement of Jesuit education in the United States with the institution of slavery.
Taylor Moore is a Research Scientist at Yale University. She will work on a project focusing on how Egyptian peasants’ supposed connection to Ancient Egypt has been a subject of fascination for Egyptian nationalists and colonial scientists alike.
Lina Nie is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She will work on a project analyzing maritime exchanges in East Asia from 1000 to the 1500s C.E.
Oishani Sengupta is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She will work on a project on how Africa was racialized in Indian Ocean print cultures.
Stanislav Tarasov is an Independent Scholar with a PhD in Russian History. He will work on a project discussing Russian emotional culture and the Decembrist Revolt of 1825.
Peiyu Yang is an Associate Professor in the Modern and Classical Languages Department at George Mason University. She will work on a digital humanities project on state and popular voices in China-Arab solidarity from 1949-1969.
Applications are open for the next round of fellows, with a deadline of September 15. Click here for more information.