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National Humanities Center
2009-10 Fellows and Their Projects


News Release Date: April 29, 2009


Ana M. Bacigalupo (Anthropology, State University of New York, Buffalo), Mapuche Memory, Forgetting, Shamanic Historical Consciousness: The Making of Francisca Colipe and Her Mapuche Community in Chile (Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship; NEH Fellowship)

Edward J. Balleisen (History, Duke University), Policing the Marketplace: A History of Commercial Fraud in America (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship)

Dorit Bar-On (Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Expression, Action, and Meaning (William C. and Ida Friday Fellowship)

Mia Elisabeth Bay (History, Rutgers University), The Ambidexter Philosopher: Thomas Jefferson in Black Thought, 1776-1877 (John Hope Franklin Fellowship)

Jason D. BeDuhn (Religious Studies, Northern Arizona University), Digital Enhancement, Editing, Translation, and Analysis of the "Dublin Kephalaia" (Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Fellowship; NEH Fellowship)

Rudiger Bittner (Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany), Do We Have a Will? (Hurford Family Fellowship)

Joseph Allen Boone (English, University of Southern California), The Homoerotics of Orientalism: Mappings of Male Desire in Narratives of the Near and Middle East (M. H. Abrams Fellowship; NEH Fellowship)

Holly Brewer (History, North Carolina State University), "Inheritable Blood": Of Slavery and Freedom, Aristocracy and Empire in Early Virginia and the British Atlantic (Walter Hines Page Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation)

Chad Carl Bryant (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Nationalists on the Move: Travel and Identity in Bohemia before 1848 (Delmas Foundation Fellowship)

Ruth Elizabeth Chang (Philosophy, Rutgers University), Making It Matter (GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship; NEH Fellowship)

Patricia K. Curd (Philosophy, Purdue University), Divinity, Intelligibility, and Human Understanding in Presocratic Thought (Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellowship)

Gaurav Desai (English, Tulane University), Post-Manichean Aesthetics: Africa and the South Asian Imagination (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship)

Irena Dzurkowa-Kossowska (Art History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Reinventing Historic Styles: Central European Art in the 1920s and 1930s (Allen W. Clowes Fellowship)

Bart D. Ehrman (Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Literary Forgery and Counter-Forgery in the Early Christian Tradition (Frank H. Kenan Fellowship)

Andrew S. Escobedo (English, Ohio University), Renaissance Allegories of the Will (Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation; NEH Fellowship)

Jared Farmer (History, State University of New York, Stony Brook), If Trees Could Speak: Botanical Dispatches from California (Donnelley Family Fellowship; Fellows' Fellowship)

Kit Fine (Philosophy, New York University), Metaphysics of Material Things (Birkelund Fellowship)

Valeria Finucci (Italian, Duke University), The Body Natural: Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga and Early Modern Medical Practices (Delmas Foundation Fellowship)

Eileen Gillooly (English, Columbia University), Anxious Affection: Parental Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Britain (NEH Fellowship)

Jack P. Greene (History, Johns Hopkins University), The British Debate on American Colonial Resistance, 1760-1783 (Josephus Daniels Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation)

John H. Hanson (History, Indiana University, Bloomington), Islam, Schooling and the Public Sphere: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Ghana, West Africa (Delta Delta Delta Fellowship; NEH Fellowship)

John Franklin Kasson (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America (John G. Medlin, Jr. Fellowship; NEH Fellowship)

Michael E. Kulikowski (History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), The Rhetoric of Being Roman: Fourth-Century Politics and the End of Empire (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship)

Thomas M. Lekan (History, University of South Carolina), Green Tourism: Consumption and Conservation in Twentieth-Century Germany (Delta Delta Delta Fellowship)

Peter G. Lurie (English, University of Richmond), American Obscurantism (Jessie Ball duPont Fellowship)

Charles D. Orzech (Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro), The Secrets of Three Mountains: Esoteric Buddhism in Continental East Asia, 755-1279 (Henry Luce Fellowship)

Katherine K. Preston (Musicology, College of William and Mary), Against the Grain: Women Managers and English Opera in Late Nineteenth-Century America (William J. Bouwsma Fellowship)

David Lee Schoenbrun (History, Northwestern University), Killer Kings and Moralities of Power: East African Political Culture to the Nineteenth Century (NEH Fellowship)

Ellen Frances Stroud (Environmental Studies, Bryn Mawr College), Dead as Dirt: An Environmental History of the Dead Body (Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship; NEH Fellowship)

Robert Norman Swanson (History, Birmingham University, UK), The Parish in Late Medieval England: c1300-c1535 (John E. Sawyer Fellowship)

Cornelis A. van Minnen (History, Roosevelt Study Center, The Netherlands), Dixie and the Southernization of the United States since the 1970s (Archie K. Davis Fellowship)

Gennifer S. Weisenfeld (Art History, Duke University), Imaging Disaster: Visual Culture in Japan after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake (Duke Endowment Fellowship)

Richard James Will (Musicology, University of Virginia), Mozart Live: Performance, Media, and Reinvention in Classical Music (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship)



Statistics, Class of 2009-10

Number of Fellows: 33

Gender: Female, 12; Male, 21

Ages: 30-39, 3; 40-49, 13; 50-59, 13; 60-69, 3; 70+, 1

Rank: Assistant Professor, 3; Associate Professor, 16; Professor, 14


Disciplines: 9
Anthropology (1), Art History (2), English (5), Environmental Studies (1), History (13), Italian (1), Musicology (2), Philosophy (5), Religion (3)


Geographic Representation
United States (29 scholars from 14 states):
Arizona (1), California (1), Illinois (1), Indiana (2), Louisiana (1), New Jersey (1), New York (5), North Carolina (9), Ohio (1), Pennsylvania (1), Rhode Island (1), South Carolina (1), Tennessee (1), Virginia (3)

Other Nations (4 scholars from 4 other nations):
Germany (1), The Netherlands (1), Poland (1), United Kingdom (1)


Institutions (23):
Bryn Mawr College (1), College of William and Mary (1), Columbia University (1), Duke University (3), Indiana University, Bloomington (1), Johns Hopkins University (1), New York University (1), North Carolina State University (1), Northern Arizona University (1), Northwestern University (1), Ohio University (1), Purdue University (1), Rutgers University (2), State University of New York, Buffalo (1), State University of New York, Stony Brook (1), Tulane University (1), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (4), University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1), University of Richmond (1), University of South Carolina (1), University of Southern California (1), University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1), University of Virginia (1)

Institutions in Other Nations (4):
Birmingham University, UK (1), Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland (1), Roosevelt Study Center, The Netherlands (1), University of Bielefeld, Germany (1)




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