Michael Young
The 2023 CALS Summer Graduate Fellow was Michael Young for his dissertation titled Twentieth Century Sophistries: Popular Science, Human Manuals, and American Rhetorical History, directed by Debbie Hawhee.
Sabrina Evans
The 2022 CALS Summer Graduate Fellow was Sabrina Evans for her dissertation titled, Continuous Dignified Action: Black Clubwomen’s Literary, Intellectual, and Public Activism in Defense of Black Dignity, directed by Shirley Moody-Turner.
Katie Warczak
Katie Warczak, Being Human: The Intersections of Animality, Race, Disability, and Eugenics in Modernist Literature (directed by Michael Bérubé and Keith Gilyard).
Justin Smith
Justin Smith, for research at the Beinecke Library at Yale University
Justus Peña Berman
The 2021 CALS Summer Graduate Fellow was Justus Peña Berman, for his dissertation titled Technoracialization: Race, Technology, and Media in Contemporary Latinx and Asian American Literature, directed by Tina Chen.
Aaren Pastor
Aaren Pastor, Magicians Unbound: Modernism’s Counterhumanist Challenge to Man
Yi-Ting Chang
The 2020 CALS Summer Graduate Fellow was Yi-Ting Chang, for her dissertation titled "Independence’s Others: Decolonial Taiwan in the Transpacific."
Akash Belsare
Akash Belsare, Humanimal Narratives: Genre and Animality in Contemporary Ethnic Literatures
Liana Glew
Liana Glew, Documenting Insanity: Institutional Narratives in Psychiatric History
Layli Miron
Layli Miron, for the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America’s Summer Institute