Two Cultural Anthropologists Named 2026-27 National Humanities Center Fellows

Two Trinity College of Arts & Sciences faculty members, professors of Cultural Anthropology(link opens in a new window/tab) Rebecca L. Stein(link opens in a new window/tab) and Orin Starn(link opens in a new window/tab), have been named 2026–27 Fellows of the National Humanities Center(link opens in a new window/tab), one of the nation’s leading institutes for advanced study in the humanities. They are among 29 scholars selected from a pool of 453 applicants representing universities across the United States and Ghana. 

During their fellowships, Stein and Starn will pursue major research projects while participating in the Center’s intellectual community of seminars, lectures and conferences. Stein’s project, “How to Unsee Gaza: Israeli Visual Politics in a Time of Genocide,” examines the politics of visual media and perception surrounding the war in Gaza. Starn’s project, “Love Yourz: Battling Amazon in Too Late America,” explores contemporary struggles against corporate power through the lens of resistance to Amazon.  Continue reading.