Pitt’s Humanities Center named 8 graduate student fellows

Pitt’s Humanities Center named eight doctoral candidates as 2023-24 graduate student fellows.

Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend to conduct a summer research project, then share their work with the center’s community during the fall and spring semesters. Fellows are enrolled in a humanities or humanities-adjacent doctoral program at the University, and represent a diversity of experiences, identities and disciplines.

Here is this year’s class of graduate fellows:

• Yasmine Anderson, rhetoric and composition
• Marcelo José Cabarcas Ortega, Hispanic languages and literatures
• Sritama Chatterjee, literature
• YuHao Chen, ethnomusicology
• Victoria LeFave, theatre arts
• Miranda Bartira Tagliari Sousa, musicology
• Alexander Tough, Hispanic languages and literatures
• Briana Wipf, English