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Established in 1976, the  (CIH) fosters advanced study and research in a broad range of subject areas. We are multi-disciplinary and multi-faculty orientated. We support research in traditional humanities disciplines such as languages and literature, history, religious studies and philosophy as well as in philosophical and historical aspects of the social sciences, arts, sciences and professional studies. The humanities are not conceived as a specific group of academic disciplines, but as forms of study that examine what is human – typically guided by literature, history, social and physical settings, artifacts, visual and performing arts. 

For the 2025-26 academic year, five annual Resident Fellowships were awarded to outstanding scholars to pursue a particular research project, and two graduate student fellowships were awarded to students to support the final phase of their PhD dissertations. All fellows maintain a regular presence at the Institute, share their research in an in-house lecture and involve themselves in the community of scholars working at the Institute. Resident Fellows also present their research as part of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Lecture Series. 

We are delighted to announce the 2025-26 CIH Fellowship recipients: 

• Petra Dolata, “Defining Energy Security from Above and Below – The 1970s Energy Crises and the Emergence of a Concept”

  2025-26 Naomi Lacey Resident Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of History

• Narges (Lel) Khalesimoghaddam Ghaen, “Migration Regimes and Protracted Displacement: Afghans’ Multi-Generational Experience” 

  2025-26 Graduate Student Fellow, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology

• Aubrey Jean Hanson, “Present! Indigeneity and Urbanity in Literary Arts” 

  2025-26 CIH Resident Fellow, Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education 

• Ryanne Kap, “‘Necessary Fictions’: Deconstructing Origins in Adoptee-Authored Autofiction”

  2025-26 Frances Spratt Graduate Student Fellow, PhD Student, Department of English

• Qian Liu, “The Co-Construction of Discrimination against Marginalized Lawyers: Rethinking Cultural Competence in the Canadian Legal Profession” 

  2025-26 Applied Ethics Fellow, Associate Professor of Law and Society, Department of Sociology 

• Joy Palacios, “Ritual Attention: Creating Devotion in a Technology Ecosystem” 

  2025-26 Resident Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Religion

• Uchechukwu Umezurike, “Desiring Home: Migration, Belonging, and Diaspora in Canada” 

  2025-26 McCready Emerging Fellow, Assistant Professor, Department of English

  Find out more about the 2025-26 CIH Fellows’ research projects .