March 6, 2026
Anirban Mukhopadhyay, a student in the Institute of Communications Research, has been selected as a 2026-27 Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Fellow.
Mukhopadhyaym will join six other graduate students and seven faculty members who will meet at the Humanities Research Institute throughout the year to address how they are rethinking research paradigms.
The theme for this year’s Fellowship is “Up Against Erasure,” which invites researchers to persuade others of the stakes of identifying processes of erasure, of being up against it, and of working in opposition to it. Mukhopadhyay’s research narrative is “Governing the AIR: Radio, Polity, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India, 1950–2023.”
As an HRI Graduate Student Fellow, Mukhopadhyay will receive a $25,000 stipend and a tuition and partial fee waiver.
HRI grants fellowships to Illinois faculty and graduate students, who spend the year engaged in research and writing. All HRI Fellows participate in HRI activities, including the yearlong Fellows Seminar.
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