The Global Arts + Humanities has announced the 2026-27 Society of Fellows. Of this year's fourteen fellows, three are CSEEES affiliates. Naomi Brenner (Department of  Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Mara Frazier (University Libraries) have been named Faculty Fellows, and former CSEEES Director Yana Hashamova (Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) has been named a Leadership Fellow.

The Society of Fellows fosters a multidisciplinary community of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students that support the synthesis and translation of knowledge across disciplines to engage critical societal challenges in the form of an annual theme. The theme for the 2026-27 Society of Fellows seminar is Cultures in Motion. 

Contrary to past and present efforts to control cultural differences or prohibit mobility in pursuit of cultural stasis, Cultures in Motion envisions culture as dynamic, resilient and resistant to fixity. Fellows' projects engage with the reach of cultural circulation across time and space and methodological considerations of scale, and how cultural exchanges acquire or do not acquire larger significance.

Congratulations! We look forward to seeing the results of this work.