- Lilly Postdoctoral Fellows
2010-2012 Lilly Fellows 
Jennifer Miller received her BA in English and German from Valparaiso University, earning distinction as both a Christ College scholar and as an English scholar with honors. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Minnesota, focusing her studies on multicultural American literature and science fiction/fantasy literature. Her dissertation is titled “From Water Margins to Borderlands: Boundaries and the Fantastic Fantasy, Native American and Asian American Literatures.” 
Mina Suk received her AB with magna cum laude honors in political science and interdisciplinary studies from Amherst College, a Master of Theological Studies in Christianity and Culture from Harvard Divinity School and she expects to receive her PhD in Political Theory and law and politics from Johns Hopkins University. Her doctoral dissertation “The Wounded Self: Suffering, Liberal Democracy, and the Political Theology of Inspiration” studies the idea of suffering and pain as the self's experience of relation with the Other. 2011-2013 Lilly Fellows 
Katherine Calloway received her BA in University Scholars and MA in English from Baylor University, and her PhD in English from the University of British Columbia in 2010. She is interested in the interaction between poetry and theology in seventeenth-century England, particularly in the poetry of John Milton. Her dissertation, "God's Scientists: the Renovation of Natural Theology in England, 1653-1692," demonstrates how scientists and philosophers dealt with the challenges to Christian faith posed by the Scientific Revolution. 
Robert Elder received his BA summa cum laude in history and English from Clemson University, where he also received his MA. He expects to receive his PhD in history from Emory University in May 2011. His doctoral dissertation, "Southern Saints and Sacred Honor: Evangelicalism, Honor, Community, and the Self in South Carolina and Georgia, 1784-1860," examines the influence of honor culture on the rise of evangelical religion in the American South in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 
Charles Strauss received his BA in history and peace and conflict studies at College of the Holy Cross. He earned an MA in history from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and expects to receive his PhD in history from the University of Notre Dame in 2011. Strauss is interested in transnational approaches to the study of U.S. history. His undergraduate thesis analyzed the impact of the South African War on Irish-American nationalism. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the role of Catholic and Protestant missionaries in debates on U.S. Latin American policy during the Cold War.
Learn more about the Lilly Fellows Program: Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts