Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows
The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) provides a unique opportunity for outstanding Ph.D. students who are engaged in interdisciplinary research to study with faculty at one of the University’s interdisciplinary research centers or institutes during the fellowship year.
2025-26 UMN IDF CLA recipients:
- Mukund Madhav Jha, History | Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
- Malay Kotal, Geography | Institute of Advanced Study
- Kanha Prasad, History | Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
- Hannah Shwendeman, Sociology | Institute for Advanced Study
- Weilun Zhang, Geography | Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
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Fulbright Fellowship Winners
The purpose of the Fulbright program is to increase mutual understanding between people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills. Approximately 1,900 grants are available to over 140 countries.
- Clare Harmon, Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society | 2023-2024 Fulbright Fellows
- Tanner Rogers, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies | 2023-2024 Fulbright Fellows
- John Dieck: History | 2022-2023 Fulbright Fellows
Endowed Fellowship Recipients
Harold Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study
The Leonard Memorial Fellowship supports graduate students who conduct study/research in film history, criticism, theory, or aesthetics. The fund was established by the will of Clara Lefkovits in honor of her son, Harold Leonard.
2025-2026 Recipients
- Fatemeh Nasr Esfahani, Feminist Studies | Transgressive Laughter: Iranian Women Comedians and the Fight for Gender Equity
2024-2025 Recipients
- Daniel Aufmann, Comparative Literature | Silent Suffragists: American Cinema and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1920
- Nina Peterson, Art History | Ridiculous Contraptions: American Art, Humor, and Machine Technology to Effect Social Change, 1954-1975
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