07 April 2025
Eccles Institute Visiting Fellows, 2025-26
After a year’s hiatus, we are delighted to announce the 2025-26 Eccles Institute Visiting Fellows, all with brilliant new research and creative projects!
Alexander Peacock (Queen's University) - Empire and ecology, wild animals and the British colonization of North America.
Daniela Lucena (Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONICET) - Argentinian artists Delia Cancela and Pablo Mesejean in 1970s London.
Leonardo Santamaria Montero (Cornell University) - Images of the Miskito Kingdom in British and American books and maps in the 19th century.
Daniel Abdalla (University of Liverpool) - environment and indigeneity on stage in early 20th century drama.
Zeus Sumra (creative writer) - writing a novella loosely inspired by the works of Trinidad-born artist Althea McNish.
Julia Guarneri (University of Cambridge) - history of cleaning and cleanliness in the 20th century American home
Kimberly Bain (University of British Colombia) - colonial geological imaginaries and colonial interventions in the Caribbean.
Flor Isabel Palomino Arana (independent art historian) - Santiago Pirate Killer: Iconographic Changes and Importance of Santiago and the Triumphant Militant Church in Colonial Andean and Asian Art.
Thiago Krause (Wayne State University) - a history of slavery and early capitalism from the perspective of the Global South.
Matthew Butler (University of Texas at Austin) – Graham Greene’s 1938 Mexican journey.
Hadas Zahavi (Columbia University) - Kodak’s role in shaping peace and war imagery in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
Gianfranco Selgas (University College London) - a cultural and environmental history of Venezuela's extractive zones from 1890 to 1980.
Yvonne Weekes (creative writer) - The Montserrat Jumbie Dance: Reclaiming a Lost Heritage.
Alex Keith (Northwestern University) - Black Women's Theatre Organisations and political activism in the Anglophone African diaspora.
Samuel Niu (Columbia University) - Chinese labour on post-emancipation plantations in the United States and British Caribbean.
Jacob Feltham Forbes (University of Oxford) - transnational Black radical tradition and Anglophone Caribbean publishing and print in Britain.
Peter Walker (University of Wyoming) - Anglican loyalists and the American revolution.
Kirsten Brohm (Aarhus University) - feminist discourse in literary and political magazines and periodicals edited/ published by Anglo-Caribbean women in the late colonial period.
Emily Taylor (Presbyterian College) - Anglophone Caribbean writers and the Casa de las Américas in Cuba.
Florian Zappe (Ludwig Maximilian University) - atheist pamphlet literature in the United States from the mid-19th century until the present.
Melinda Schwakhofer (artist) - deerskin and cotton trade between the Muscogee Nation and Great Britain from the 1760s to the1830s.
Emma Long (University of East Anglia) - Politics, Democracy, and the US Supreme Court.
Lorna French (University of Birmingham) - Black musical revue on the early 20th century London stage.
Malinda Haslett (University of Southern Maine) - Rediscovering the Life and Music of Gilda Ruta: Italian Composer and The Embodiment of the American Dream.
Bryce Evans (Liverpool Hope University) - Impact of US environmental policies on food in Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam circa 1910-1940.