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National Humanities Center Names Fellows for 2004-2005

Posted on: Monday, 17 May 2004, 06:00 CDT

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., April 22 (AScribe Newswire)-- The National Humanities Center has announced the appointment of 40 Fellows for the academic year 2004-2005. Representing history, literature, philosophy, and half a dozen other humanistic fields of study, these scholars will come to the Center from the faculties of colleges and universities across the United States and also from Israel, Norway, and Poland. They will work individually on research projects in the humanities, and will exchange ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences.

"I look forward to welcoming this exciting group of scholars," said Geoffrey Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center. "They represent a truly remarkable range of interests."

The Center received 526 applications in its fellowship competition for 2004- 05. The appointed Fellows will also include two scholars who have received Burkhardt Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies.

The National Humanities Center will grant $1.3 million to enable the 2004-05 Fellows to take leave from their normal academic duties and pursue research at the Center. Funding for these fellowships is made possible by the Center's endowment, by contributions from alumni Fellows of the Center, and by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The National Humanities Center (www.nhc.rtp.nc.us), located in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina, is a privately incorporated independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. Since 1978 the Center has awarded fellowships to leading scholars in the humanities, whose work at the Center has resulted in the publication of more than 900 books in all fields of humanistic study. The Center also sponsors programs to strengthen the teaching of the humanities in secondary and higher education.

2004-2005 FELLOWS AND THEIR PROJECTS:

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"

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 California, Davis), "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"

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"

Alexander Keyssar (History, Harvard University), "The Rules of the Game: The Evolution of Electoral Process in the U.S."

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 (Religion, 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"

Axel Mueller (Philosophy, Northwestern University), "Realism and Pragmatism: Two Aspects of Empirical Knowledge"

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 Andrzej 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"

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