Stanford Humanities Center names 26 fellows for 2008-09
The Stanford Humanities Center has named 26 fellows for the 2008-09 academic year. Chosen from more than 350 applicants, the fellows will pursue research and writing while contributing to the Stanford community through workshops, lectures and courses.
In addition to Stanford faculty members and advanced Stanford graduate students, the Humanities Center will host scholars from across the country and across the globe. Among the new fellows are scholars from the United Kingdom, Israel, China and Mongolia, including two Humanities and International Studies Fellows participating in a program offered in collaboration with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
The Humanities Center also will announce the recipient of a pilot fellowship in arts writing, offered in collaboration with the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts.
Following is a list of the 2008-09 fellows, their departments or programs, and their projects:
Rachel Ahern (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Classics, Stanford: The Rhetoric of Homeric Speech
Arto Anttila (Internal Faculty Fellow), Linguistics, Stanford: Choice and Chance: Rhythm in Language
Martin Berger (Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow), History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California-Santa Cruz: Civil Rights Photography: The White Struggle over Black Agency
Megan Bryson (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Religious Studies, Stanford: The Domestication of Baijie Shengfei: Gender and Ethnicity in Chinese Religion
Terry Castle (Ellen Andrews Wright Faculty Fellow), English, Stanford: Rococophilia—British Modernism and the 18th Century
Guoqiang Dong (Humanities and International Studies Fellow), History, Nanjing University, China: The Cultural Revolution at Nanjing University as Social History
Johanna Drucker (Digital Humanities Fellow), Media Studies and English, University of Virginia: Diagramming Interpretation
Dan Edelstein (Internal Faculty Fellow), French and Italian, Stanford: Myth and Enlightenment
Brian Ferneyhough (Donald Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow), Music, Stanford: As If the Time Were Now
Rhonda Goodman (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Art and Art History, Stanford: The Visual Culture of Slave Auctions in 19th-Century North America
John Hatcher (Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow), History, University of Cambridge: The Origins and Evolution of England's Economic and Social Exceptionalism
Margaret Jackson (External Faculty Fellow), Art and Art History, University of Miami: Configuring Narrative: Pictorial Notation in Moche Art of Peru
Jonathan Kramnick (Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow), English, Rutgers University: Problems of Consciousness in 18th-Century Literature and Philosophy
Joshua Landy (Internal Faculty Fellow), French and Italian, Stanford: Formative Fictions: Literary Structure and the Life Well Lived
Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren (Humanities and International Studies Fellow), Cultural Anthropology, National University of Mongolia: The Emnity of Independence: Ethnic and National Identities in Mongolia
Yen-Ling Liu (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Music, Stanford: Music for the People, Music for the Future: Monumentality as Expressive and Formal Ideal in the Symphonic Poems of Franz Liszt
Yair Mintzker (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), History, Stanford: The Defortification of the German City
Dina Moyal (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), History, Stanford: Did Law Matter? Law, State and Individual in the Soviet Union, 1953-1985
Natalie Phillips (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), English, Stanford: Distraction: Dramas of Attention in 18th-Century Literature, 1747-1818
Alon Rachamimov (External Faculty Fellow), History, Tel Aviv University, Israel: Islands of Men: Shifting Gender Boundaries in World War I Internment Camps
Judith Richardson (Internal Faculty Fellow), English, Stanford: Vegetable Matters: Plant Life and 19th-Century American Culture
Stephanie Shaw (Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow), History, Ohio State University: Slave Migrations, Generations and Antebellum Eras
Jason Stanyek (External Faculty Fellow), Music, New York University: Around the World Goes Around: Performing Brazilian Music and Dance in the United States
Kenneth Taylor (Violet Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow), Philosophy, Stanford: Toward a Natural History of Normativity
Lela Urquhart (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Classics, Stanford: Greek Religion and Indigenous Society in the Archaic Western Mediterranean: Impacts, Interactions and Religious Integration
Caroline Winterer (Internal Faculty Fellow), History, Stanford: Americans and Monarchy in the Age of Democracy
The Humanities Center fellowships are made possible by gifts and grants from the Esther Hayfer Bloom Estate, Theodore H. and Frances K. Geballe, Mimi and Peter Haas, Marta Sutton Weeks, the Mericos Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the offices of the Dean of Research and the Dean of Humanities and Sciences.
