Student Fellows

​​​​​​About

Each year, HumanitiesX offers 4-6 paid student fellowships to undergraduate or graduate students who are pursuing a degree or minor in DePaul's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Applicants must have notable school, work, or personal experience both in the humanities and related to one or more of the pressing social challenges evoked in our HumanitiesX themes: Immigration and Migration, The Environment: Crisis and Action, and Democracy and Rights. 

Student Fellows learn about the public humanities, support faculty and community partner teams as they develop new HumanitiesX courses, and create public-facing writing and public humanities deliverables for audiences at DePaul and beyond.

Student fellows are paid for 8-10 hours of work per week and must be available for the full term of the fellowship, which runs from the spring quarter through the autumn quarter, including the summer.


The application cycle for 2026 HumanitiesX Student Fellows will open in WQ 2026. For more information about the fellowship, please contact the HX coordinator, Amanda Lautermilch.

2025 Student Fellows Cohort

​​​​​​​Tea​​m Women for Economic Justice​

Sergio Cruces

​​​​​​​​​Team Sanctuary Working G​​​roup​

Abigail Flores

Team L​​​umpen Radio

Luz Perez

Team Wom​​​en for Green Spaces

Sadie Peterson

​Sergio Cruces
Abigail Flores
Combined BA/MA Graduate Student, 
Luz Perez
Sadie Peterson
Undergraduate Student,


2023-24 Student Fellows Cohort

Angelina Alvarez
Angelina Alvarez
Team Chicago Religious Leadership Network (CRLN) Undergraduate Student s
Bella Netti
Bella Netti
Team Gerber/Hart Library and Archives Undergraduate Student <a href="https://csh.depaul.edu/academics/psychology/undergraduate/psychology-ba/Pages/default.aspx" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 1.25rem;">Community Psychology </a> & <a href="https://csh.depaul.edu/academics/psychology/undergraduate/psychology-ba/Pages/default.aspx"></a>
Camille Perry smiles with her head tilted slightly
Camille Perry
Team Alliance Française de Chicago Undergraduate Student <a href="/academics/sociology/undergraduate/sociology/Pages/default.aspx">Combined BA Sociology</a>  &
Fiona Reed
Fiona Reed
Team Alliance Française de Chicago Undergraduate Student
Safiyah Simpkins
Safiyah Simpkins
Team Chicago Religious Leadership Network (CRLN) Undergraduate Student
Taylor Sellers-Varela
Taylor Sellers-Varela
Team Gerber/Hart Library and Archives  Undergraduate Student <a href="/academics/english/Pages/default.aspx" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 1.25rem;">English</a>  & 

2022-23 Student Fellows Cohort

Emily Figueroa
Emily Figueroa
Team China's Environmental Voices Undergraduate Student <a href="https://www.depaul.edu/academics/undergraduate/majors/Pages/journalism.aspx" target="_blank">Journalism</a>
Miranda Kincer
Miranda Kincer
Team Friends of the Chicago River Undergraduate Student
Madeline Meyer
Madeline Meyer
Team China's Environmental Voices Undergraduate Student
Laura Murphy
Laura Murphy
Team Active Transportation Alliance Undergraduate Student
Mayra Shuja
Mayra Shuja
Team Friends of the Chicago River Graduate Student
Mariam Zaki
Mariam Zaki
Team Active Transportation Alliance Graduate Student

2021-22 Student Fellows Cohort

Sergio Godinez
Sergio Godinez
Team JCC Undergraduate Student <a href="/academics/american-studies/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">American Studies</a> <a href="/academics/american-studies/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <br> </ul></a>
Laura Pachon
Laura Pachón
Team MHRC Graduate Student
Yessica Pineda
Yessica Pineda
Team JCC Undergraduate Student
Lauren Rosenfeld
Lauren Rosenfeld
​Team BPNC Undergraduate Student
Emerson Sherbourne
Emerson Sherbourne
Team MHRC Graduate Student
Juliana Zanubi
Juliana Zanubi
Team BPNC Undergraduate Student