Books by Fellows - National Humanities Center Report, July 1, 1998

The Practice of Reading
by Denis Donoghue
(Courtesy Yale University Press)

Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination
by Karen Halttunen
(Courtesy Harvard University Press)

The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History
by Barbara Hanawalt
(Courtesy Oxford University Press)

England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422
by Paul Strohm
(Courtesy Yale University Press)

Prizewinning Works

The National Humanities Center has learned of the following awards presented to Fellows for books written at the Center.

Denis Donoghue (Fellow 1991-92; 1995-96; 1996-97; 1997-98; 1998-99) received the Cleanth Brooks-Robert Penn Warren Prize for Literary Criticism, 1998, for his book The Practice of Reading.

Jaroslav Folda (Fellow 1988-89, 1998-99) was awarded the Haskins Medal for 1999 by the Medieval Academy of America for his book The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187.

Karen Halttunen (Fellow 1998-99) received an Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best book in American Studies in 1998, for her book Murder Most Foul.

Anthony W. Marx (Fellow 1997-98) is the recipient of the 1999 Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association for the best scholarly work in political science, published in 1998, which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism, for his book Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil.

Robert Patten (Fellow 1987-88). The Guardian of Manchester, England has named The Life, Art, and Times of George Cruikshank the best biography of the past decade.

David Wallace (Fellow 1989-90) was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language Association for the book he worked on during his fellowship year, Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Association Forms in England and Italy.

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Caton, Steven C. (Fellow 1992-93). Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Donoghue, Denis (Fellow 1991-92; 1995-96; 1996-97; 1997-98; 1998-99). The Practice of Reading. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Elliott, Dyan (Fellow 1997-98). Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality and Demonology in the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

Giere, Ronald N. (Fellow 1997-98). Science without Laws. Science and Its Conceptual Foundations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Goldman, Alvin I. (Fellow 1981-82). Knowledge in a Social World. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

Grove, Richard H. (Fellow 1995-96). Ecology, Climate and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400-1940. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 1997.

________, ed. Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia. Edited by Richard H. Grove, Vinita Damodaran, and Satpal Sangwan. Studies in Social Ecology and Environmental History. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Halttunen, Karen (Fellow 1994-95). Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Hanawalt, Barbara A. (Fellow 1997-98). The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Holt, Michael F. (Fellow 1987-88). The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Hunter, Mary (Fellow 1991-92). The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment. Princeton Studies in Opera. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Kelley, Donald R. (Fellow 1984-85). Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Lenzer, Gertrud (Fellow 1980-81), ed. Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings. History of Ideas Series. New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction, 1998.

Lewis, R. W. B. (Fellow 1989-90; 1998-99), and Nancy Lewis (1998-99). American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits. By R. W B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Lipking, Lawrence (Fellow 1993-94). Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Marx, Anthony W. (Fellow 1997-98). Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

McKane, William (Fellow 1987-88). The Book of Micah: Introduction and Commentary. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998.

Mills, Kenneth (Fellow 1995-96), ed. Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History. Edited by Kenneth Mills and William B. Taylor. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1998.

Olney, James (Fellow 1980-81). Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Phillips, J.R.S. (Fellow 1987-88). The Medieval Expansion of Europe. 2d ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Rogers, Eugene F. (Fellow 1998-99). Sexuality and the Christian Body: Their Way into the Triune God. Challenges in Contemporary Theology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1999.

Röhl, John C. G. (Fellow 1997-98). Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859-1888. Translated by Jeremy Gaines and Rebecca Wallach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Roller, Lynn E. (Fellow 1992-93). In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Saliba, George (Fellow 1997-98). The Origin and Development of Arabic Scientific Thought (in Arabic). Balamand, Lebanon: Center for Christian Muslim Studies, Balamand University, 1998.

Simpson, Pamela H. (Fellow 1996-97). Cheap, Quick, and Easy: Imitative Architectural Materials, 1870-1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer (Fellow 1982-83; 1988-89). Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Stewart, Philip (Fellow 1995-96), and Jean Vaché (Fellow 1995-96), trans. Julie, or The New Heloise: Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Translated and annotated. Vol. 6 of The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1997.

Strohm, Paul (Fellow 1996-97). England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Waters, Chris (Fellow 1996-97), ed. Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964. Edited by Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, and Chris Waters. London: Rivers Oram Press, 1999.

Woods-Marsden, Joanna (Fellow 1995-96). Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

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