Stanford Humanities Center names 22 fellows
The Stanford Humanities Center has named 22 fellows for the 2009-10 academic year. Chosen from a pool of more than 400 applicants, the 2009-10 cohort is composed of scholars from other institutions, Stanford faculty and advanced Stanford graduate students. This year's cohort includes a record number of external applicants.
The center also will announce shortly the international scholars selected for the inaugural year of a program of four-week residencies.
The fellows will pursue individual research and writing for the full academic year while contributing to the Stanford community through their participation in workshops, lectures and courses.
Following is a list of the 2009-10 fellows, their departments or programs, and their projects:
Wendi Adamek (External Faculty Fellow), Religious Studies, Barnard College: A Niche of Their Own: The Buddhist Women of Bao Shan.
Audrey Calefas-Strebelle (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), French and Italian, Stanford University: The Image of the Turk in French Literature and History.
Mary Campbell (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Art and Art History, Stanford University: Holy Lands and Profane Women: Charles Ellis Johnson and the Practice of Mormon Photography.
Mark Feldman (Internal Fellow), Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University: Urban Ecologies: New York City's Visionary Urbanism.
Catherine Gallagher (Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow), English, University of California, Berkeley: The Way It Wasn't: Counterfactual History and the Alternate-History Novel.
Erdag Göknar (External Faculty Fellow), Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University: "Turning Turk": The Turkish Novel and Orhan Pamuk.
Rebecca Greene (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Linguistics, Stanford University: Eastern Kentucky English and Ideology.
Nicholas Guyatt (External Faculty Fellow), History, University of York (United Kingdom): Nations, Empires and the Idea of Colonization, 1730-1900.
Blair Hoxby (Violet Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow), English, Stanford University: Spectacles of the Gods: Tragedy and Tragic Opera, 1550-1780.
Sarah Lochlann Jain (Internal Faculty Fellow), Anthropology, Stanford University: Cancer Culture in the United States.
Hanna Janiszewska (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), English, Stanford University: Romantic Life of the Mind: Literary Forms as Forms of Life.
Florian Klinger (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Comparative Literature, Stanford University: Judgment and Kairocentric World.
Gwyneth Lewis (Arts Practitioner/Writer Fellow), poet and nonfiction author: Poetry and the Body (fellowship sponsored jointly with the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts).
Gregory Mann (External Faculty Fellow), History, Columbia University: The End of the Road? Non-Governmentality in the West African Sahel.
David Marriott (Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow), History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz: Black Poetry and Knowledge.
Ingrid Monson (Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow), Music and African & African American Studies, Harvard University: Neba Solo in Contemporary Mali: Music, Globalization, and Means.
Daniel Perez (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), History, Stanford University: Between Yugoslav Federation and Albanian Nation-State: Albanian Communists and the Assertion of National Sovereignty, 1944-1948.
Maria Ponomarenko (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), History, Stanford University: The Department of Justice and the Limits of New Deal State Building, 1933-1945.
Cabeiri Robinson (External Faculty Fellow), Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington: Body of the Victim, Body of the Warrior: Refugees and the Kashmir Jihad.
Vincent Tomasso (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Classics, Stanford University: Past Imperfect: Studies in Quintus of Smyrna's Reception and Refiguration of Homeric Monumentality in the Posthomerica.
Amir Weiner (Donald Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow), History, Stanford University: Wild West, Window to the West: Sovereignty, Governance and Revolutionary Violence Between the Baltic and Black Seas, 1935 to Present.
Lael Weis (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Philosophy and Law School, Stanford University: Public Purpose, Common Good: Constitutional Protection of Private Property in the Democratic State.
The Humanities Center's 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.
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