King’s College London announces fellows of Arts & Humanities 2023
Six academics have been awarded new Institute Fellowships from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. The Fellowship allows for staff to pursue a cross-Faculty programme of work for six months within one of the new interdisciplinary institutes at King’s – the Digital Futures Institute and the Global Culture Institute.
Alongside the new Fellows, 19 new projects have been assigned microgrants to celebrate the new institutes and to further Arts & Humanities expertise in these fields.
I want to congratulate our inaugural Faculty Fellows – they are a brilliant example of how the diversity of work in arts and humanities can help us all answer some of the most pressing questions in society today. The institutes are designed as greenhouses of activity and I look forward to seeing these projects grow and come to life.
Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean – Faculty of Arts and Humanities
The inaugural Faculty Fellows are:
Digital Futures Institute: Living Well with Technology
Dr Kate Devlin (Jan – Jun 2024)
· Creative and Humanistic AI
Dr Brian Kavanagh (Jul – Dec 2023)
· Using digital to engage new classical music audiences
Dr Anna Maerker (Jul – Dec 2023)
· Disability in History and Culture, and the History of Palliative Care
Global Cultures Institute: Talking beyond boundaries
Professor Erica Carter (Jul 2023-Jan 2024)?
· ‘Unhoused archives’ and new thinking on postcolonial restitution
Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Jan – Jun 2024)
· Creolised enclaves of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds
Dr Zoe Norridge (Jan – Jun 2024)
· Cultural responses to conflict in Bosnia and Rwanda
The microgrants are up to £1,500 and provide seed funding for projects aligned with the theme of the institutes and network – the list of awardees are as follows and are all for the 2022-23 Academic Year.
Digital Futures Institute: Living Well with Technology
Dr Aqeel Abdulla – Digital Archive and Syrian Culture
Dr Giota Alevizou and Dr Michael Duggan – Communication infrastructures and students’ navigation of London as a digital city
Dr Daniel Chavez Heras – Future of Computational Moving Image Studies
Dr Munira Cheema – Emerging debates on the rise of nationalism in South Asia
Dr Martin Dinter – Untranslated and unedited texts from the Global South
Dr Jelena Dzakula – A novel way to regulate digital technologies
Dr Adelene Buckland – History of technologies designed to undertake infant care
Dr Jonathan Gray and Dr Maud Borie – Responding to ecological issues through collections of digital materials
Dr Christopher Holliday – AI and filmmaking practices
Professor Mark Shiel – Digital maps, VR and understanding Hollywood cinema
Dr Rush Stewart – Understanding algorithmic fairness
Professor Gonda Van Steen – Digital approaches to the decolonization movement
Global Cultures Institute: Talking beyond boundaries
Professor Btihaj Ajana – Refugee crises and economies of sympathy
Dr Priyanka Basu and Dr Lizzie Stewart – Moving Paradigms: Movement-based Approaches to Migration, Coloniality, and Fugitive Methods
Professor Erica Carter – Sudan Memory
Dr Bernard Geoghegan – Origins of computer graphics in planetary navigation
Dr Taushif Kara – Decolonisation and Global Islamic Studies
Dr Frederika Tevebring – Imagining Lost Origins: Migration, Diffusion and the Visual Politics of the Deep Past
Dr Flora Willson – Aida’s Afterlives: Sourcing Italian Opera in Late-19th-Century Cairo