The College of Humanities and Social Sciences would like to congratulate Tamara Harvey and Jacqueline M. Burek from the Department of English for being selected for the 2026 National Humanities Center four-week summer residency program this June at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina. The NHC Summer Residency is a competitive program with a capped enrollment of 40 participants out of about 200 interested applicants. Summer residents will experience a concentrated period of supported research and intellectual exchange at the Center that is customized for humanities research and writing.
Tamara Harvey, department chair and associate professor in the Department of English will use this four-week residency to complete chapter two of her current book project, Fantastic Leaps: Women’s Global Imagination in the Seventeenth Century, which looks at how Margaret Cavendish, an English duchess, and Úrsula de Jesús , an Afro-Peruvian mystic mapped multiple worlds and diverse peoples in ways that mobilized and critiqued the racial and gender categories that dominated perceptions of them by others.
Jacqueline M. Burek, associate professor in the Department of English, will use this four-week residency to write chapter 2 of her upcoming second book, Memory and History in Twelfth-Century Britain, examining how history books in particular function as memory repositories and encourage audiences to view the written text of history as something creative and interpretive, rather than inflexible or unquestioning.
March 02, 2026