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2005-2006 Fellows and Their Projects
News Release Date: April 5, 2005 Sahar Amer (French, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Border Crossings: Representations of Gender in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (Gould Foundation Fellowship) Theresa Sue Braunschneider (English, Washington and Lee University), Reforming the Coquette: Consumption, Education, and Female Sexuality in British Literature, 1660-1750 (Jessie Ball duPont Fellowship) Kristen E. Brustad (Middle Eastern Studies, Emory University), Arabic from Empire to Nation: A Study in Language Ideology (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship) David N. Cannadine (History, University of London), The Penguin History of Nineteenth-Century Britain (John Hurford Fellowship) Scott E. Casper (History, University of Nevada, Reno), Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: African-American Life at an American Shrine, from Slavery to Jim Crow (Research Triangle Foundation-Benjamin Duke Fellowship) Kyeong-Hee Choi (East Asian Studies, University of Chicago), Rewritten in Divided Korea: Colonial Literature as a History, 1945-1960 (Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship) Linda Colley (History, Princeton University), The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Global History (GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship) Scott B. Cook (Chinese, Grinnell College), Reinterpreting the Confucian Tradition in the Light of Newly Excavated Manuscripts (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship) Madeleine Louise Dobie (French, Columbia University), Trading Places: Colonialism, Slavery, and Eighteenth-Century French Culture (Fellows' Fellowship) Alice A. Donohue (Classics & Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College), Historiographic Structures in the Study of Classical Art (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship) Mark T. Fiege (History, Colorado State University), Natural Histories: Retelling Great Stories of the American Past (Research Triangle Foundation-Walter Hines Page Fellowship) Catherine Gallagher (English, University of California, Berkeley), Undoing: Alternate-History Novels, Counterfactual Histories, and Social Policies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Archie K. Davis Fellowship) Robert S.C. Gordon (Italian, University of Cambridge), The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2001 (Mellon Foundation-John Sawyer Fellowship) Maryemma Graham (English, University of Kansas), My House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker (John Hope Franklin Fellowship) Cynthia B. Herrup (History, Duke University), "When Mercy Seasons Justice": Pardons and the Constitution in Early Modern England (Duke Endowment Fellowship) Phyllis W. Hunter (History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Geographies of Capitalism: Imagining Asia in Early America (Research Triangle Foundation-Josephus Daniels Fellowship) John Lester Jackson (Anthropology, Duke University), Black Judah: Race, Gender, and the Twelve Tribes of Transnationalism (Lilly Endowment Fellowship) Martin Jay (History, University of California, Berkeley), The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: Lying in Politics (John P. Birkelund Fellowship) Akram F. Khater (History, North Carolina State University), A Deluded Woman: Gender and the Politics of Religious Modernity in Eighteenth-Century Greater Syria (Lilly Endowment Fellowship) Mary Kinzie (English, Northwestern University), The Poems I Am Not Writing: A Meditation in Verse (William C. Friday Fellowship) Thomas Miller Klubock (History, State University of New York, Stony Brook), La Frontera: Land, Labor, and Ecological Change in Chile, 1873-1993 (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship) Maryanne Kowaleski (History, Fordham University), Living from the Sea: An Ethnography of Maritime Communities in Medieval England (Delmas Foundation Fellowship) Tina Lu (East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania), The Boy Who Was an Ingot, or Money in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (Robert F. Goheen Fellowship) Gary A. Macy (Religion, University of San Diego), Ordination and Women in the Medieval West (Luce Foundation-Henry Luce Fellowship) Peter L. Mallios (English, University of Maryland), Our Conrad: American Transatlantic Self-Imaginings, 1900-1950 (NEH Fellowship) Mark J. Maslan (English, University of California, Santa Barbara), False Lives: Biographical Fraud and Contemporary Fiction (Delta Delta Delta Fellowship) Alastair James Minnis (English, Ohio State University), The Medieval Eve: A Crisis in Creation (Lilly Endowment Fellowship) Ruth Nisse (English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Jacob's Shipwreck: Powers of Diaspora in the Postbiblical Literature of the Jewish and Christian Middle Ages (Lilly Endowment Fellowship) Friederike Pannewick (Middle Eastern Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany), Visions of Martyrdom in Arabic Literature (Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship) Silvana Patriarca (History, Fordham University), Italian Vices: The Discourse of National Character, c. 1815-2000 (NEH Fellowship) Gerald J. Postema (Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), The Discipline of Common Reason (John Medlin Fellowship) Philip Rupprecht (Musicology, City University of New York, Brooklyn College), Avant-Garde Nation: British Musical Modernism Since 1960 (William J. Bouwsma Fellowship) Paul K. Saint-Amour (English, Pomona College), Archive, Bomb, Camera: Modernism in the Shadow of Total War (NEH Fellowship) Brenda D. Schildgen (Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis), Heritage of Heresy: Preservation and Destruction of Cultural Legacy (Allen Clowes Fellowship) David Lee Schoenbrun (History, Northwestern University), Violence, Vulnerability, and Authority in Eastern Africa Before 1800 CE (Frank H. Kenan Fellowship) Stuart Semmel (History, University of Delaware), "An Anthropology of Ourselves": A Cultural and Intellectual History of Mass Observation (Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Fellowship) Ben Vinson (History, Pennsylvania State University), The Forgotten Castes: Lobos, Moriscos, Coyotes, and Chinos in Colonial Mexico (NEH Fellowship) Deborah A. Wong (Musicology, University of California, Riverside), Big Beats: Taiko in Asian-American California (NEH Fellowship) Madeline C. Zilfi (History, University of Maryland), Slavery and Society in the Late Ottoman Middle East (Delta Delta Delta Fellowship) Distinguished Visitor: Helen Vendler, English, Harvard University (Assad Meymandi Fellowship) Statistics, Class of 2005-2006 Number of Fellows: 39 Gender: Male, 19; Female, 20 Ages: 30-39, 12; 40-49, 12; 50-59, 10; 60-69, 5 Rank: Assistant Professor, 5; Associate Professor, 20; Professor, 13; Independent Scholar, 1 Disciplines: 13 Classics & Archaeology (1), Anthropology (1), Chinese (1), Comparative Literature (1), East Asian Studies (2), English & American Literature (9), French (2), History (15), Italian (1), Middle Eastern Studies (2), Musicology (2), Philosophy (1), Religion (1) Geographic Representation United States (36 scholars from 16 states): California (7), Colorado (1), Delaware (1), Georgia (1), Illinois (3), Iowa (1), Kansas (1), Maryland (2), Nebraska (1), Nevada (1), New Jersey (1), New York (5), North Carolina (6), Ohio (1), Pennsylvania (3), Virginia (1) Other Nations (3 scholars from 2 other nations): Germany (1), United Kingdom (2) Institutions United States Institutions (30): Bryn Mawr College (1), City University of New York, Brooklyn College (1), Colorado State University (1), Columbia University (1), Duke University (2), Emory University (1), Fordham University (2), Grinnell College (1), North Carolina State University (1), Northwestern University (2), Ohio State University (1), Pennsylvania State University (1), Pomona College (1), Princeton University (1), State University of New York, Stony Brook (1), University of California, Berkeley (2), University of California, Davis (1), University of California, Riverside (1), University of California, Santa Barbara (1), University of Chicago (1), University of Delaware (1), University of Kansas (1), University of Maryland (2), University of Nebraska, Lincoln (1), University of Nevada, Reno (1), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2), University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1), University of Pennsylvania (1), University of San Diego (1), Washington and Lee University (1) Institutions in Other Nations (3): Free University of Berlin (1), University of Cambridge (1), University of London (1) » PDF file of this document News Releases National Humanities Center 7 Alexander Drive, P.O. 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