Fellows, A-I

Karen Barkey (Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University), Rockefeller Fellow,* researched and wrote on the rise of nationhood in the Balkans at the end of the eighteenth century. She drafted two chapters of Empire and Nationhood: Changing Relations and Political Space in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans and did further research on the next two chapters. She attended the Santa Fe Institute workshop on "State and Market Emergence" and presented a paper entitled "Networks of Social Control: Cohesion and Fragmentation in Historical Context." She also gave a talk, entitled "States and Social Control: The Ottoman Case in the Seventeenth Century," to the Department of Sociology at Yale University.

James Buzard (Associate Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), NEH Fellow, worked on his book Anywhere's Nowhere: Fictions of Auto-Ethnography in the United Kingdom, to be published by Princeton University Press. He wrote three essays, including one for Blackwell's Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, and another for the journal Studies in Travel Writing, and edited a special issue of the journal Victorian Studies on "Victorian Ethnographies." He gave talks at the University of Minnesota, Indiana University, Duke University, the University of Tennessee, and the Modern Language Association Conference in Toronto.

Mary Baine Campbell (Associate Professor of English and American Literature, Brandeis University), Mellon Fellow, spent the year completing her work on Wonder and Science: Representing Worlds in Early Modern Europe, forthcoming from Cornell University Press (1999); wrote a chapter entitled "Literature, Science and the Spaces Between" for Early Modern Science, vol. 3 of Cambridge History of Early Modern Science, edited by Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming); wrote an essay "Faith, Flesh and Science: Anthropology Made in America, 1724," for Moments of Encounter, edited by Dorothy Figueira (under submission at University of Illinois Press); and also wrote a review of Janet Todd's The Secret Life of Aphra Behn, forthcoming in Albion (1998). She gave a lecture entitled "On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds: Bruno and Galileo" for the Arts and Sciences Committee for Renaissance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; attended the 1997 convention of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and gave a poetry reading at the Center.

Jennifer Cole (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University), Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, devoted the majority of her time to the preparation of a book on historical memory and the Betsimisaraka people of East Madagascar. She also revised two articles, one to be published in the American Ethnologist and another submitted for consideration. She gave a talk at the conference of the American Anthropological Association, and another at the American Ethnological Association meetings, and lectured at the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mark Csikszentmihalyi (Assistant Professor of Religion, Davidson College), Jessie Ball duPont Fellow, engaged in research for a book entitled Virtue Made Concrete: Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Han China; completed editing of Essays on Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi (with Philip J. Ivanhoe), forthcoming from SUNY Press (1999); and collaborated on a translation, Essay on the Five Kinds of Action (with Pang Pu). He wrote an article on "Confucius" to be included in The Rivers of Paradise, edited by David Noel Freedman and Michael McClymond (William B. Eerdmans, forthcoming); worked on "Constructing Lineages and Inventing Traditions in the Shiji" (with Michael Nylan); and wrote a review of Sarah A. Queen's From Chronicle to Canon: The Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn, According to Tung Chung-shu for Review of Politics. He presented a paper, entitled "Yue Chengong and the Invention of Traditions in Han China," for the Workshop on Intellectual Lineages in Pre-Imperial China at the University of Pennsylvania, and another, entitled "Huang-Lao Influence on Western Han Self-Cultivation," at the Second American-Japanese Conference on Taoism, held in Boston, and also in Maine, as well as giving a lecture on "The Physiology of Virtue in Chinese 'Ritual Theory'" at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Denis Donoghue (Professor of English, New York University), completed a book, The Practice of Reading, to be published by Yale University Press (1998); completed the Alexander Lectures to be given at the University of Toronto in November 1998 under the title The Question of Reading; and started work on a book provisionally called My T. S. Eliot, in certain respects part of an intellectual memoir.

Dyan Elliott (Associate Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University), Lilly Endowment Fellow, completed her book Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998) and worked on her book project "Proving Woman: Female Mysticism and Inquisitional Practice in Late Medieval Europe." She gave a paper on medieval confessional practice at Purdue University, and chaired a session on medieval marriage at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Laura Engelstein (Professor of History, Princeton University), Lilly Endowment Fellow, drafted most of Sheep among the Goats (under contract with Cornell University Press); an essay "Paradigms, Pathologies, and Other Clues to Russian Spiritual Culture: Some Post-Soviet Thoughts" (under consideration at Slavic Review and Voprosy filosifii); and the introduction to an essay collection, Self and Story (under contract with Cornell University Press). She served as a commentator on a panel at the American Association of Slavic Studies in Seattle; gave a lecture at the Slavic Center of the University of North Carolina entitled "Personal Testimony and the Defense of Faith: Sectarian Tales in Tsarist and Soviet Russia"; delivered the keynote address, "Paradigms, Pathologies, and Other Clues to Russian Spiritual Culture: Some Post-Soviet Thoughts," for the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, AAASS, in Durham, N.C.; and gave a lecture entitled "Sheep among the Goats: Extremity and Tolerance in Russian Folk Religious Life" as part of the National Humanities Center's public lecture series, and also at the University of Illinois.

Stanley Fish (Arts and Sciences Professor of English, Professor of Law, and Associate Vice Provost, Duke University; Executive Director, Duke University Press), wrote a lengthy introduction for a book on the prose and poetry of John Milton and began writing an introduction to a book on the First Amendment. Both will be published in the next year. He delivered the Gottschalk Lectures at Cornell University; gave lectures at the UCLA Law School and Center for Modern Studies, the University of Toledo, and Grinnell College (Iowa); and gave talks at the School of Criticism and Theory Fellows' meeting, and at a meeting of the Independent Scholars of the Triangle.

Gladys-Marie Fry (Professor of English, University of Maryland), spent the year working on her project "'In Them Days Everyone Wore Beads': A Study of Slave Dress and Bodily Adornment." She curated "From the African Loom to the American Quilt," an exhibition of African American quilts at the National Humanities Center, and "Man Made," an exhibition of quilts by African American men, at the Smithsonian Institution.

Marilyn Frye (Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University), NEH Fellow, with supplemental support from the Mellon Foundation, engaged in research on "categories" with a view to developing a more satisfactory understanding of the structure of social categories, such as those of race and gender, than has been offered so far in works which presuppose the social construction of such categories--exploring the work of cognitive psychologists, linguists, and anthropologists, as well as philosophical theories of natural kinds. She completed an essay on the usefulness of treating the category of women as a family resemblance category, worked with a co-editor on an anthology of papers on the work of philosopher Mary Daly, and completed five entries for an encyclopedia of feminist theory which is to be published by Routledge. She lectured at Duke University, Elon College, and Guilford College, and participated in a panel at the fall meeting of the Midwestern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy.

Ronald N. Giere (Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota), Delta Delta Delta Fellow,* revised a set of eleven essays and wrote the introduction and conclusion for a collection to be titled Science without Laws/Realism without Truth which has been accepted for publication by the University of Chicago Press. Additionally, he explored the analogy between maps and models in science, did considerable reading in the history of cartography and in contemporary cartographic theory and practice, and explored the capabilities of geographical information systems, computer-based methods for organizing and displaying information in spatial form. He attended the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in La Jolla, Calif., and was a commentator on an invited symposium on the role of models in science. He also presented a paper at a workshop on "Logical Empiricism in North America," held at Cambridge, Mass. The results of the workshop, which he is co-editing, will be published in a future volume of Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. He was invited to give talks on the topic of "Naturalism and Realism" for the philosophy departments at Duke University, at three campuses of the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Greenville), and Ohio State University.

Barbara A. Hanawalt (Professor of History, University of Minnesota), Delta Delta Delta Fellow,* did final proofing of three books: 'Of Good and Ill Repute': Gender and Social Control in Medieval England (Oxford University Press, 1998); Medieval Crime and Social Control, edited by Barbara Hanawalt and David Wallace (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 1998); and the Oxford Illustrated History of the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 1998). She revised six chapters of the popular Western civilization text, The Western Experience (McGraw-Hill, 1998), and edited (with Mickel Kolbialka), The Practices of Medieval Space, a collection of essays to be published by the University of Minnesota Press. She began writing the first chapter of Women in Medieval London, to be published by Oxford University Press, and wrote three articles: "'Good Governance' in the Medieval and Early Modern Context, " a review essay of Marjorie McIntosh's Controlling Misbehavior in Medieval and Early Modern England, which will appear in the next issue of Journal of British Studies; "Violence in the Domestic Milieu of Late Medieval England," to be published in a collection of essays edited by Richard Kaeuper on violence in the Middle Ages; and "The Child in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," a historiographical essay on the study of childhood and how it has been influenced by Philippe Ariès, to be published in a collection of essays edited by Willem Koops and Michael Zuckerman entitled Are We at the End of the Century of the Child? At the conference of the Social Sciences History Association, she chaired and organized a panel on poverty and social welfare and spoke at a panel on writing history of crime. She was a commentator at a conference on "Body, Matter, and Spirit" at Duke University, and attended a conference at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study on "Are We at the End of the Century of the Child?" She was invited to speak at the Department of Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at UNC-Greensboro; gave the John M. Turner Lecture in the Humanities at Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Va.; and delivered a public lecture at the National Humanities Center entitled "Whose Story Is This? Rape Narratives in Fourteenth-Century England."

Karen Tranberg Hansen (Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University), NEH Fellow, drafted half of the chapters for a book focusing on the political economy of the international secondhand clothing trade and questions concerning clothing consumption in Zambia; completed a journal article and two related papers slated for appearance in forthcoming anthologies--one on economic anthropology and the other on gender. She presented several papers, including "Dressing Dangerously: Miniskirts in the Time of AIDS in Zambia" for the Program on Gender and Global Change at Cornell University; "Secondhand Clothing Encounters in Zambia" at the Department of Anthropology at Yale University; "Rags and Riches: Transnational Biographies and Local Meanings of Secondhand Clothes in Zambia" for the International Studies Program at Denison University; and a plenary address "Salaula (secondhand clothing) and the Work of Consumption in Zambia" at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, held at Northwestern University. She lectured at the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and for the Africanists in the Carolina Seminar.

Elizabeth Helsinger (Professor of English and Art History, and Chair, Department of English, University of Chicago), Mellon Fellow, wrote: "Pre-Raphaelite Arts; Aesthetic and Social Experiment in the 1860s," forthcoming in the Center's journal, Ideas; "Rossetti and the Art of the Book," for a collection on Victorian text and image, edited by Catherine Golden; and worked on "Artistic Friendships: Ruskin and Rossetti" for a collection of recent work on Ruskin, edited by Robert Hewison. All the above, in some form, will become part of her book, Pre-Raphaelite Arts. She gave the Hannah M. Adler Lecture at Skidmore College, entitled "Rossetti and the Art of the Book"; delivered a paper, entitled "Artistic Friendships: Ruskin and Rossetti," at the Ruskin Seminar of Lancaster University (England); and spoke on "Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Aesthetic and Social Experiment in the 1860s," for the English Department at North Carolina State University, and for a public lecture at the National Humanities Center.

Susannah Heschel (Eli Black Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Religion, Dartmouth College), Rockefeller Fellow,* completed work on the introduction, and an essay on "Making Jesus an Aryan: The Politics of New Testament Scholarship during the Third Reich," for a volume she co-edited (with Robert Ericksen) entitled Betrayal: The German Churches and the Holocaust, to be published by Augsburg-Fortress Press (1999). She completed research and reviewed archival materials for her book-length project on Protestant theologians in Nazi Germany (for University of Chicago Press), and wrote drafts of four chapters. She also wrote several articles on material drawn from the book project which have been accepted for publication. While at the Center, she enjoyed the publication of two books during early 1998: Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press) and Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (University of California Press). She wrote a number of other articles which are forthcoming, including "Church Protests during the Third Reich: A Report on Two Cases," Kirchliche Zeitgeschicte; "Deutsche Theologen für Hitler: Walter Grundmann und das Eisenacher Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben," to appear in the Jahrbuch of the Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt am Main; "Redemptive Antisemitism: The De-Judaization of the New Testament in the Third Reich," in Literary Studies in Luke-Acts: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Joseph B. Tyson, edited by Tom Phillips and Richard Thompson (Mercer University Press); "The Vagina as Fetish: Feminist Analysis of the Laws of Niddah," in Der Shayne Yid: The Jewish Body, edited by Sander Gilman and Robert Jütte (a catalogue accompanying an exhibit at the Juedisches Museum, Vienna); "Israel als moralische Konflikt," in Mein Israel, edited by Micha Brumlik (S. Fischer Verlag); an essay in The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, edited by Simon Wiesenthal (Schocken Books, 1998); "Meeting of the Spirit, by the Spirit: The Relationship between Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr.," which appeared in the summer 1998 issue of Conservative Judaism and will also be published in Black Zion: African-American Religious Encounters with Judaism, edited by Yvonne Chireau and Nathaniel Deutsch (Oxford University Press); "Judaism: An Overview," "Judaism: Modern," and "Judaism: History of Study," to appear in Encyclopedia of Women and World Religions, edited by Serinity Young (Macmillan Reference); and "Abraham Joshua Heschel," for the Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, edited by John Hayes (Abingdon Press). She also wrote an essay on relations between Israel and American Jewry for The Nation; another on the Vatican's "Reflection on the Shoah," for Dissent; and two articles--"Abraham Joshua Heschel," in Tikkun: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture, and Society (January/February, 1998), and "Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr.," in Fellowship 64 (January/February 1998). She presented two papers: "Revolt of the Colonized: Wissenschaft des Judentums as a Challenge to Christian Hegemony in the Academy," for a conference on The Impact of the German-Jewish Experience on Western Culture, at Ben Gurion University; and "The Revival of Theopaschite Traditions in the Post-War Era: Abraham Heschel's Influence on Christian Theology," for a symposium at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Locally, she presented papers at Duke University; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at Greensboro; the Triangle Jewish Studies Seminar; and at synagogues in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina.

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