Ten seniors awarded Hume Humanities Honors Fellowships

By Robert Cable  | The Dish 

The Stanford Humanities Center welcomes a new cohort of undergraduates, including international relations major Isabelle Carpenter, who have been awarded Hume Humanities Honors Fellowships for the 2019-20 academic year.

Each of the students was selected through nominations by faculty advisors and is writing an honors thesis in one of Stanford’s humanities departments. Their research topics include the 1857 revolt in India against British imperialism, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, medieval religious and gender history, and the relationship between British novelists Virginia Woolf and Thomas Hardy.

The Hume Fellows receive a stipend for research project materials, have a shared workplace in a Humanities Center undergraduate office and participate in group activities.

The fellowship program was established seven years ago for eight seniors majoring in a humanities discipline, and this year it has been expanded to include 10 fellows.

The fellows are:

Amir Abou-Jaoude
Art History and American Studies

Isabelle Carpenter
International Relations and Comparative Literature; minor in Middle Eastern Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Emily Elott
English

Ravi Veriah Jacques
History

Won-Gi Jung
History and East Asian Studies

Adrian Liu
Philosophy and Religious Studies, Mathematics

Clara Romani
History and French; minor in Italian

Alexandra Taylor
Political Science and Art History

Dayonna Tucker
African and African American Studies

Jenny Vo-Phamhi
Classics and Computer Science

Learn more on the Humanities Center website, and read a Q&A with international relations major Isabelle Carpenter here.