Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History is multi-year project organized by The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at UMN Twin Cities that will bring a series of visiting fellows to campus. With these fellowships, FoP and CPS hope to foster discussion about the ways in which the study of ancient and premodern cultural history has adopted (often unconsciously) western categories, premises, and practice and how we can move forward in a way that both approaches the study of ancient cultures more inclusively and better understands the contexts we study. We are very excited to announce our two fellows for this Semester (Fall, 2024): Prof. Anna Rosensweig and Prof. Young Richard Kim!

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Anna Rosensweig is Associate Professor of French and the Director of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on early modern literature and culture, the intersections of literature and political theory, and performance studies. She is the author of Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage (2022), and her current book project examines how Christian Nationalists and QAnon conspiracists in the US are currently mobilizing texts, images, and ideas from the sixteenth-century Wars of Religion in France .

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Young Richard Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies and the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a scholar and teacher of the ancient Mediterranean world, with a focus on Late Antiquity, late ancient Christianity, and early Byzantine Studies. He is the author of Epiphanius of Cyprus: Imagining an Orthodox World (2015) and the editor of the Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea (2021). His current book project is entitled Cyprus and the Historiography of Late Antiquity.