Sally Clegg Awarded Summer 2025 Institute for the Humanities Fellowship
Stamps Lecturer III and Student Exhibitions Coordinator Sally Clegg has been announced as a Summer 2025 Institute for the Humanities Fellow. Clegg is one of eight U‑M lecturers and tenure-track faculty that will take up residence at the Institute for five weeks this summer, forming an intellectual community while pursuing original research and participating in regular, cross-disciplinary fellows’ seminars.
The 2025 summer fellowship recipients represent diverse disciplines, this year including psychology, education, anthropology, English, art and design, and history.
- Sally Clegg, lecturer III, art & design
- Charles Davis, assistant professor, education
- Kelly Hoffer, lecturer III, English language & literature
- Carleen Hsu, lecturer III, film, television, & media
- Joshua Kupetz, lecturer II, English language & literature
- Raymond McDaniel, lecturer IV, Sweetland Center for Writing
- Veerendra Prasad, lecturer II, film, television, & media
- David Ward, lecturer II, English language & literature
During her fellowship, Clegg plans to continue work on her research project, The Town With One Side.
The Town With One Side is a multimodal research – creation project that begins with 1890s lithographic toy patterns from Arnold Print Works — a factory connected to Clegg’s family history, and which is now the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. By centering on the sewn, stuffed toys produced from these patterns and situating them alongside contemporary print-on-demand ephemera, tracing the obsolescence of APW’s machinery, gathering worker stories, and examining social prejudices embedded in mass-production, the project interrogates the concept of “sidedness” in both form and narrative. Based in practice-based scholarship and interdisciplinary dialogue, The Town With One Side will culminate in a sculptural installation and accompanying monograph that reveal how industrial object-making legacies linger materially and metaphorically, deepening our understanding of technology, labor, cultural memory, and art.