The seventeen participants in the Global Humanities Institute "Crises of Democracy through the Prism of Cultural Trauma" have been selected among early-career scholars at the convening centers (Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Institute, Trinity College Dublin; CEDIM, University of Zagreb; Institute for Advanced Study, University of São Paulo; Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) and from a pool of applicants affiliated with CHCI member organizations.

Meghna Bhardwaj

Jawaharlal Nehru University
Title of Research: Mediating 'Aspiration' and Conditions of Marginal Existence in the 21st Century: The Growing 'Hip-Hop Scene' among the Youth of Indian Slums

Saib Bilaval

Jawaharlal Nehru University
Title of Research: The Propaganda of the Hindu Far Right and the Making of Early Post-colonial India: A Study of the Organiser and Hindu Outlook, 1947-50

Natália Bouças do Lago

University of São Paulo
Title of Research: Neither Inside, Nor Outside: Gender, Transits, and Associations of Women Circulating Through Prison

Kosta Bovan

University of Zagreb
Title of Research: The Relational Self: Implications for Individual and Cultural Trauma

Rebecca Carr

Trinity College Dublin
Title of Research: The Function of Myth in Cultural Trauma Narrative Films of South/Eastern Europe

Serena Clark

Trinity College Dublin
Title of Research: The Art of Conflict and Peacebuilding: Public Artwork and Graffiti in Northern Ireland

Vinko Draća

University of Zagreb
Title of Research: Psychiatric Discourse and Society in the Fin De Siècle Croatia

Dana Lloyd

Washington University in Saint Louis
Title of Research: From Religious Freedom to Indigenous Sovereignty

Emily McGiffin

University of Edinburgh
Title of Research: Yim’uthi Gomololo: Land, Labour, Poetry and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Africa

Thiago Marcel Moyano

University of São Paulo
Title of Research: Colonialities In Movement: Sexual Citizenship and Queer Subjectivities in Shani Mootoo’s Fiction

Alex Pekov

Columbia University
Title of Research: Toward a Transmediterranean Genealogy: Matrilineal Legacies of Sephardi Women Writers from the Former Yugoslavia and the Maghreb

James Smith

Trinity College Dublin
Title of Research: Deep Mapping the Spiritual Waterscape of Ireland’s Lakes: The Case of Loch Derg, Co. Donegal

Lukong Stella Shulika

University of KwaZulu-Natal
Title of Research: Building peace in Post-Conflict Societies: An Exploration of the Role of Women in Liberia’s Peace-building Architecture

Brooks Swett

Columbia University
Title of Research: Reconstructing the American Union and Building the Democratic State in the United States and Britain, 1865-1885

Claire Urbanski

University of California, Santa Cruz
Title of Research: Genocidal Intimacies: Grave Theft and Spiritual Longing in the Making of United States Settler Empire

Feeza Vasudeva

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Title of Research: The Epidemic of Lynching and Crisis of Democracy in India

Iva Vukusic

Utrecht University
Title of Research: Serb(ian) Paramilitaries in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s