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2004-2005 Fellows and Their Projects

News Release Date: April 7, 2004


Keith Stafford Brown (Anthropology, Brown University), Manifest Loyalties: The Routes of Modern Nationalism

Roger Chickering (History, Georgetown University), Total War in a Lovely Place: A Cultural History of Freiburg, 1914-1918

Julia Ann Clancy-Smith (History, University of Arizona), The School on Rue du Pacha, Tunis: Educating Muslim Girls in Colonial North Africa, c. 1880-1920

Lynda Leigh Coon (History, University of Arkansas), Priestly Bodies: Gender and Spatial Practice in the Carolingian Monastery of Fulda

Edward E. Curtis IV (Religion, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Religious Life in Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam

Tony Day (History, independent scholar), Forms of Reality: Literature in Java, 1800-2000

Mary A. Favret (English, Indiana University), Invisible Violence: Wartime in British Romanticism

Andrea Marie Frisch (French, University of Southern California), Classical Amnesia: Forgetting Differences in Early Modern France

Israel Gershoni (Middle Eastern & African History, Tel Aviv University, Israel), Egypt in World War II: Democracy and Fascism in the Egyptian National Discourse

Matthew C. Giancarlo (English, Yale University), With One Voice: Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England

Michael Allen Gillespie (Political Science & Philosophy, Duke University), The Unity and Disunity of Modernity

Deborah E. Harkness (History, University of Southern California), The Social Foundations of the Scientific Revolution: Science, Medicine, and Technology in Elizabethan London

Julie Candler Hayes (French, University of Richmond), Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800

*Margaret Ellen Humphreys (History, Duke University), The Civil War and American Medicine

Phyllis Whitman Hunter (History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Geographies of Capitalism: Imagining Asia in Early America

Benjamin Henri Isaac (Classics, Tel Aviv University, Israel), (1) Corpus of Ancient Inscriptions of Judaea/Palaestina, and (2) Greek and Roman Ideas about Warfare

Lawrence Patrick Jackson (English, Emory University), A Song in the Front Yard: A Cultural History of African American Writers and Critics, 1935-1960

Richard Mark Jaffe (Religion, Duke University), Seeking Shakyamuni: World Travel and the Reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism, 1868-1945

Thomas E. Kaiser (History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Devious Empire: Marie Antoinette and French Austrophobia

Bruce Kapferer (Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway), Cosmologies of Healing: Ritual Systems in Comparative Perspective

James H. Lesher (Philosophy, University of Maryland), Knowledge and the Gods: Religious Aspects of Early Greek Theories of Knowledge

Lisa Ann Lindsay (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), A South Carolinian in Colonial Nigeria: One Family's History and the African Diaspora

Joseph Luzzi (Italian, Bard College), Celluloid Muse: The Poetry of Italian Cinema

Joel Marcus (Theology, Duke University), The Passion Narrative in the Gospel of Mark

Rex Martin (Philosophy, University of Kansas), Rawls on Economic Justice

Andrew H. Miller (English, Indiana University), Improving Occasions

Nelson Hubert Minnich (History, Catholic University of America), The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517)

Gregg Alden Mitman (History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Breathing Space: An Ecological History of Allergy in America

Robin Dale Moore (Musicology, Temple University), Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba

Maura B. Nolan (English, University of Notre Dame), English Fortune: The Early History of a Literary Idea

Kevin J. Ohi (English, Boston College), On the Queerness of Style: Henry James and the Erotics of Form

*John A. Palmer (Philosophy, University of Florida), Developing a New Narrative for the History of Early Greek Philosophy

Bruce Redford (English & Art History, Boston University), Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Cara W. Robertson (English & Law, independent scholar), The Canning Affair: Law and Evidence in the Eighteenth Century

Karin Lynn Schutjer (German, University of Oklahoma), Goethe's Wanderers and the Wandering Jews: Identity, Idolatry, Modernity

Peter H. Sigal (History, California State University, Los Angeles), The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality in Early Nahua Culture and Society

Piotr Sommer (Poet & Translator, "Literatura na Swiecie" [Warsaw]), America as the New Center (Changes in the Concept of "the Native" vs. "the Foreign" in Polish Poetry after 1968)

Timothy B. Tyson (History, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Deep River: African American Freedom Movements in the 20th-Century South

Ding Xiang Warner (Chinese, Cornell University), Textual Production and the Creation of a Confucian Legacy

Georgia C. Warnke (Philosophy, University of California, Riverside), After Sex: A Hermeneutics of Race and Gender, Color and Sex


*Burkhardt Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies





Statistics, Class of 2004-2005

Number of Fellows: 40

Gender: Male, 26; Female, 14

Ages: 30-39, 16; 40-49, 8; 50-59, 10; 60-69, 6

Rank: Assistant Professor, 10; Associate Professor, 13; Professor, 14; Independent Scholar, 3


Disciplines: 17
Classics (1), Anthropology (2), Chinese (1), Creative Writing (1) English & American Literature (6), English & Art History (1), French (2), German (1), Government, Law, & Political Science (2), History (12), History of Science (1), Italian (1), Middle Eastern & African Studies (1), Musicology (1), Philosophy (4), Religion (2), Theology (1)


Geographic Representation
United States (36 scholars from 18 states):
Arizona (1), Arkansas (2), California (5), Connecticut (1), District of Columbia (2), Florida (1), Georgia (1), Indiana (3), Kansas (1), Maryland (1), Massachusetts (2), New York (2), North Carolina (8), Oklahoma (1), Pennsylvania (1), Rhode Island (1), Virginia (1), Wisconsin (2)

Other Nations (4 scholars from 3 other nations):
Israel (2), Norway (1), Poland (1)


Institutions
United States Institutions (28):
Bard College (1), Boston College (1), Boston University (1), Brown University (1), California State University, Los Angeles (1), Catholic University of America (1), Cornell University (1), Duke University (4), Emory University (1), Georgetown University (1), Indiana University (2), Temple University (1), University of Arizona (1), University of Arkansas (1), University of Arkansas at Little Rock (1), University of California, Riverside (1), University of Florida (1), University of Kansas (1), University of Maryland (1), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2), University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1), University of Notre Dame (1), University of Oklahoma (1), University of Richmond (1), University of Southern California (2), University of Wisconsin-Madison (2), Yale University(1)

Institutions in Other Nations (2):
Tel Aviv University, Israel (2), University of Bergen, Norway (1)


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