Thursday, April 12, 2018

National Humanities Center Fellow 2018-2019

National Humanities Center Fellows 2018–2019

  • friend Joni Adamson (Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University) Desirable Futures: Cosmos, Canon, and Constellations of Practice in the Environmental Humanities (Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation) BRAVO Joni!
  • Audrey L. Anton (Philosophy, Western Kentucky University) Aristotle’s Vice (Philip L. Quinn Fellowship)
  • Weihong Bao (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Berkeley) Background Matters: Set Design and the Art of Environment in Modern China (Allen W. Clowes Fellowship)
  • Juliana Barr (History, Duke University) La Dama Azul: A Native Story of Colonialism (Duke Endowment Fellowship)
  • Andrea Brady (English Language and Literature, Queen Mary University of London) Poetry and Bondage: A New History of Lyric (Trustees’ Fellowship)
  • Lisa Earl Castillo (African Diaspora Studies, Independent Scholar) Between Memory, Myth and History: Atlantic Voyages in the Rise of an Afro-Brazilian Temple (Bahia, Brazil, 1810–1910) (Fellows’ Fellowship)
  • James Chappel (History, Duke University) Old Volk: The Invention of Old Age in a Global Germany (Delta Delta Delta Fellowship)
  • Lanlan Du (Feminist‚ Gender‚ and Sexuality Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Affective Dimensions of Precarity in Contemporary Chinese and English Fiction(Luce East Asia Fellowship)
  • Bart Ehrman (Religion, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Invention of Heaven and Hell (Henry Luce Fellowship)
  • Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi (History, University of California, Santa Barbara) An Ambiguous Past: Fascism, the Resistance and “Structures of Feeling” in Italy (1943–1945) (Archie K. Davis Fellowship)
  • Mia Fuller (Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley) Mussolini Threshing Still: Inertia Memoriae, Italy, and Fascist Monuments (NEH Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship)
  • Paul Fyfe (English Language and Literature, North Carolina State University) The Age of Transmission: From Victorian Media Cultures to the Digital Humanities (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship)
  • Rebecca Anne Goetz (History, New York University)Captive Archipelagos: Native Enslavement in the Greater Caribbean, 1492–1792 (NEH Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship)
  • Trudier Harris (American Literature, University of Alabama) Ungraspable?: Depictions of Home in African American Literature (John Hope Franklin Fellowship)
  • Frances S. Hasso (History, Duke University)Palestinian Perinatal and Young Child Death during the British Mandate (Delta Delta Delta Fellowship)
  • Marie Hicks (History, Illinois Institute of Technology)Queer Users and the Digital State: A Prehistory of Algorithmic Bias (Founders’ Fellowship)
  • Meta DuEwa Jones (English Language and Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Black Visionary Alchemy: How Poets & Artists Map Diaspora Memory (John E. Sawyer Fellowship)
  • Tait Keller (History, Rhodes College) A Global Environmental History of the First World War (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship)
  • Claudia Leal (History, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) National Parks in Colombia: A History of Territorial State Building, 1940–2010 (Donnelley Family Fellowship)
  • Huaqiang Li (History of Art and Architecture, Fudan University) Design, Ideology, and Communication: A Visual Culture Study on Chinese Left-wing Literary Publications (1928–1937) (Luce East Asia Fellowship)
  • Anton M. Matytsin (History, Kenyon College) A History of History: The Académie des inscriptions and the Remaking of the Past (John G. Medlin, Jr. Fellowship)
  • Robert G. Morrison (Religion, Bowdoin College) An Economy of Knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean(Kent R. Mullikin Fellowship)
  • Gretchen Murphy (English Language and Literature, University of Texas at Austin) Disestablishing Virtue: Federalism, Religion, and New England Women Writers(Hurford Family Fellowship)
  • Alka Patel (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Irvine) India, Iran and Empire: The Shansabānīs of Ghūr, c. 1150–1215 (Josephus Daniels Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation)
  • Kennetta Hammond Perry (History, East Carolina University) David Oluwale and the Alchemy of Policing Blackness in Britain (Walter Hines Page Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation)
  • Aretha Phiri (English Language and Literature, Rhodes University, South Africa) Interrogating Blackness, Locating ‘Africanness’: Call-and-Response in the Works of Toni Morrison and Zoë Wicomb, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Taiye Selasi(STIAS Iso Lomso Fellowship)
  • Matthew Rubery (English Language and Literature, Queen Mary University of London) Reader’s Block: Testimonies of Neurological Reading Disorders(Birkelund Fellowship)
  • Honor Sachs (History, University of Colorado Boulder)Freedom by a Judgment: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family (Anthony E. Kaye Fellowship)
  • Ricardo Salles (Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) The Ancient Stoic Proofs of the Intelligence of the Cosmos and Their Platonic Background (GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship)
  • Franziska Seraphim (History, Boston College)Geographies of Justice: Japan, Germany, and the Allied War Crimes Program (Frank H. Kenan Fellowship)
  • Matthew J. Smith (History, University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica) Onward Forward: A Social History of Jamaican Music, 1950–1980 (William C. and Ida Friday Fellowship)
  • Lisa Tatonetti (Indigenous Studies, Kansas State University) Indigenous Knowledges Written by the Body: Female, Two-Spirit, and Trans Masculinities(Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship)
  • Joseph E. Taylor III (History, Simon Fraser University)Forty-Seven Percent of the West: Congressional Conservation during the Long Progressive Era (Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Fellowship)
  • Abraham Terian (Classics, Saint Nersess Armenian Seminary) Philo of Alexandria: On Providence I-II. Critical Text, Translation, and Commentary (Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Fellowship)
  • Ted Underwood (English Language and Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) A Perspectival History of Fiction in English, 1800-2008(M. H. Abrams Fellowship)
  • Julie Velásquez Runk (Anthropology, University of Georgia) Entangled Rosewood: Loss, Being, and Belonging (NEH Fellowship)
  • Peter B. Villella (History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Of Ruin and Rebirth: The Construction of Aztec History, 1531–1625 (William J. Bouwsma Fellowship)
  • Richard K. Wolf (Ethnomusicology, Harvard University) The Nightingale’s Despair: Music and Moral Being in Greater Central Asia (Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellowship)
  • Yan Xu (Asian Studies, Fudan University) Reexamining Cao Zhi 曹植 (192–232): The Issue of Canonization in Chinese Literary History (Luce East Asia Fellowship)

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