2026-2027 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellows

Davis, California — Imagining America (IA) is proud to announce the cohort of 2026-2027 PAGE Fellows. PAGE is IA’s network for publicly engaged graduate students in humanities, arts, and design. PAGE enhances the praxis and pedagogy of public scholarship; fosters a national, interdisciplinary community of peers and veteran scholars; and creates opportunities for collaborative knowledge production.

The four PAGE Co-Directors selected eight fellows from IA member campuses to participate in the year-long program and receive a fellowship stipend, professional development funds, and access to bidirectional mentorship and community-building events.

Please join us in celebrating the 2026-2027 PAGE Fellows!

Hannah Brancato
University of Maryland, College Park

Chamila Gunamunige
University of Texas, Austin

Star Liao
Emerson College

Julianne Liu
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Vivian Nguyen
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Sergio Peña
Penn State University 

Alyssa Ramos
Emerson College

Scherly Virgill
University of Maryland, College Park

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The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues. By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.

The Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) network has been active for over 20 years, since 2003 when University of Michigan graduate student Dana Walker and then UT-Austin graduate student Sylvia Gale advanced the question, “Where was the graduate voice in conversations in public engagement?” PAGE formed with support from then IA Faculty Director Julie Ellison, and has since grown into an extensive peer network organized by a rotating cohort of PAGE Alumni who share responsibility for designing support structures for the new cohort.