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2002-2003 Fellows and their Projects

News Release Date: April 19, 2002

Tom Beghin (Musicology, University of California-Los Angeles), Performing Rhetoric: Joseph Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas as Musical Orations

Kalman P. Bland (Religion, Duke University), Animals, Technology, and Souls: Human Identity in Medieval Jewish Thought

Kathryn Jane Burns (History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Truth and Consequences: Scribes and the Colonization of Latin America

Charles H. Capper (History, Boston University), The Transcendentalist Moment: Romantic Intellect and America's Democratic Awakening

Sherman Cochran (History, Cornell University), Inside a Chinese Family: The Private Correspondence of the Lius of Shanghai, 1910-1956

Edwin David Craun (English, Washington and Lee University), Fraternal Correction: The Ethics of Medieval English Reformist Literature

Andrew H. Delbanco (English, Columbia University), Melville's World

Ginger Suzanne Frost (History, Samford University), "As Husband and Wife": Cohabitation in Nineteenth-Century England

Gail McMurray Gibson (English, Davidson College), Childbed Mysteries: Performances of Childbirth in the Late Middle Ages

Paul Douglas Griffiths (History, Iowa State University), Petty Crime, Policing, and Punishment in London, 1545-1660

Grace Elizabeth Hale (History, University of Virginia), Rebel, Rebel: Outsiders in America, 1945-2000

James A. Henretta (History, University of Maryland-College Park), The Liberal State in America: New York, 1820-1950

Susan Fern Hirsch (Anthropology, Wesleyan University), The Embassy Bombings Reframed: Constructing Identities, Legal Meanings, and Justice

Paulina Kewes (English, University of Wales, UK), The Staging of History in Early Modern England

James Rex Knowlson (French, University of Reading, UK), Samuel Beckett and European Art and Architecture

Lloyd S. Kramer (History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Traveling to Unknown Places: Politics, Religion and the Cultural Identities of Expatriate Writers, 1780-1960

John Richard Kucich (English, University of Michigan), Melancholy Magic: Masochism and Late Victorian Political Identities

Richard Lim (Ancient History, Smith College), The World Continues: Public Spectacles and Civic Transformation in Late Antiquity

Jo Burr Margadant (History, Santa Clara University), Monarchy at Risk: The Last French Royal Family, 1830-1848

Ted W. Margadant (History, University of California-Davis), Criminal Justice and Revolutionary Politics in 1789

Teresita Martinez-Vergne (History, Macalester College), The Construction of Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Dominican National Discourse

David Lewis Porter (English, University of Michigan), China and the Invention of British Aesthetic Culture

Stephen J. Pyne (History, Arizona State University), A Fire History of Canada

Joanne Rappaport (Anthropology, Georgetown University), Indigenous Public Intellectuals and the Construction of Nationality in Colombia

Jonathan Riley (Philosophy, Tulane University), Pluralistic Liberalisms: Berlin, Rawls, and Mill

Harriet Ritvo (History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and the Victorian Environment

Jenefer Mary Robinson (Philosophy, University of Cincinnati), A Theory of Emotion: How to Make the Connection Between "Primitive" and Cognitively Complex Emotions

Paula Ann Sanders (History, Rice University), Making Cairo Medieval

David H. Schimmelpenninck (History, Brock University), Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Catherine the Great to the Emigration

Moshe Sluhovsky (History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Possessed Women, Mysticism, and Discernment of Spirits in Early Modern Europe

Erin Ann Smith (American Studies, University of Texas-Dallas), Souls and Commodities: Spirituality and Print Culture in 20th Century America

Faith Lois Smith (English, Brandeis University), Making Modern Subjects: Cultural and Intellectual Formation, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, 1880-1910

Helen Solterer (French, Duke University), Playing the Dead: Theatrical Revivals of the Medieval Past in Modern-Day France

Mart Allen Stewart (History, Western Washington University), Climate and Culture in American History

Peter T. Struck (Classics, University of Pennsylvania), Divination and Greek Hermeneutics

Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Philosophy, Ohio State University), Value Concepts and Objectivity

Joseph E. Taylor (History, Iowa State University), "Pilgrims of the Vertical": Yosemite Rock Climbing and Modern Environmental Culture

Bernard Mano J. Wasserstein (History, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK), Krakowiec: Jews and their Neighbors in a Small Town in Eastern Galicia, 1772-1946

Annabel Jane Wharton (Art History, Duke University), Selling Jerusalem: Towards an Historical Economy of Images






Statistics, Class of 2002-2003

Number of Fellows: 39

Gender: Male, 22; Female, 17

Ages: 30-39, 8; 40-49, 13; 50-59, 12; 60-69, 6

Rank: Assistant Professor, 9; Associate Professor, 10; Professor, 20


Disciplines: 10
American Studies (1), Ancient History, Classics, Archaeology (2), Anthropology (2), Art History (1), English & American Literature (7), History (19), Modern Languages-French (2), Musicology (1), Philosophy (3), Religion (1)


Geographic Representation
United States (34 scholars from 18 states):
Alabama (1), Arizona (1), California (3), Connecticut (1), District of Columbia (1), Iowa (2), Louisiana (1), Maryland (1), Massachusetts (4), Michigan (2), Minnesota (1), New York (2), North Carolina (6), Ohio (2), Pennsylvania (1), Texas (2), Virginia (2), Washington (1)

Other Nations (5 scholars from 3 other nations):
Canada (1), Israel (1), United Kingdom (3)


Institutions
United States Institutions (29):
Arizona State University (1), Boston University (1), Brandeis University (1), Columbia University (1), Cornell University (1), Davidson College (1), Duke University (3), Georgetown University (1), Iowa State University (2), Macalester College (1), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1), Ohio State University (1), Rice University (1), Samford University (1), Santa Clara University (1), Smith College (1), Tulane University (1), University of California, Davis (1), University of California, Los Angeles (1), University of Cincinnati (1), University of Maryland, College Park (1), University of Michigan (2), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2), University of Pennsylvania (1), University of Texas, Dallas (1), University of Virginia (1), Washington and Lee University (1), Wesleyan University (1), Western Washington University (1)

Institutions in Other Nations (5):
Brock University (1), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1), University of Glasgow (1), University of Reading (1), University of Wales (1)




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