Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

2025–26 Recipients
 

Matthew Balance
Doctoral Student in Anthropology

Support for archaeological excavations as a part of his doctoral research at a site located along the course of the colonial highway south of Potosi, Bolivia.

 

Benet Ge
Doctoral Student in History of Art and Architecture

Benet Ge will be presenting his paper “Speculating About China: From Edward Orme's An Essay on Transparent Prints to His Cantonese Cabinet” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Philadelphia.

 

Zhujun Ma
Doctoral Student in Religious Studies

Zhujun Ma presented their “Fragmented Listening, Redundant Performing: A Segmental Reading of the Precious Scrolls about the Lady of Mount Tai” at Western Branch: American Society for Premodern Asia in Boulder, Colorado.

 

Sara Buitrago Montero
Doctoral Student in Hispanic Studies

Sara Buitrago Montero travelled to San Francisco, California to present a paper on the transatlantic transformations of saintly figures for the Renaissance Society of America conference.

 

Feier Ying
Doctoral Student in History of Art and Architecture

Feier Ying travelled to Kansas City to conduct dissertation research (Dwelling in the Waterscape: The Kinesthetic Workspace of Chinese Painters in the long Seventeenth Century) at the Nelson-Atkins Museum.