Professor Golden Owens has been awarded a Society of Scholars Research Fellowship by the Simpson Center for the Humanities for the academic year 2026-2027 in support of her book project, Digital Maids in Domestic Spaces: Virtual Assistants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Ghosts of Black Women's Labor.
PhD Candidate Yumo Yan has likewise been awarded a Society of Scholars Research Fellowship by the Simpson Center for the Humanities for the academic year 2026-2027 in support of her dissertation, Repurposing Cinema: Chinese Movie Theaters, Audiences, and Technologies, 1920s–2000s.
PhD candidate Yandong Li has been awarded a Society of Scholars Research Fellowship by the Simpson Center for the Humanities for Summer 2026 in support of his dissertation, Energy Objects: A Media Genealogy of Environmental Futures.