Fellows and Their Projects, 2016–2017

The National Humanities Center appointed 37 Fellows for the academic year 2016–17. These leading scholars come to the Center from 17 states, Argentina, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Chosen from 449 applicants, they represent humanistic scholarship in anthropology; classics; comparative literature; East Asian languages and literatures; English language and literature; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; history; history of art, architecture, and archaeology; music history and musicology; philosophy; race, ethnicity and postcolonial studies; and religion. Each Fellow will work on an individual research project and will have the opportunity to share ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences at the Center.

• Ásta (Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir)
  Philosophy, San Francisco State University
  Categories We Live By
  Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Fellowship
• Derek Attridge
  English Language and Literature, University of York
  Poetry in Performance from Homer to the Renaissance
  M. H. Abrams Fellowship
• Erin Beeghly
  Philosophy, University of Utah
  Seeing Difference: The Ethics and Epistemology of Stereotyping
  Philip L. Quinn Fellowship
  Podcast: “The Ethics and Epistemology of Stereotypes”
• Celeste-Marie Bernier
  Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonial Studies, University of Edinburgh
  Living Parchments: Artistry and Authorship in the Life and Works of Frederick Douglass
  John Hope Franklin Fellowship
• Matthew Booker
  History, North Carolina State University
  The Oyster and the City: The Rise and Fall of the Edible City, 1870–1930
  Donnelley Family Fellowship
• Douglas Campbell
  Religion, Duke University Divinity School
  Depicting Paul: The Book of Acts and History
  Duke Endowment Fellowship
  Podcast: “Assessing the Historical Accuracy of the Book of Acts”
• Sebastián Carassai
  History, University of Buenos Aires
  Eclipsed Histories: The Sixties and Seventies in Argentina from a Microhistorical Perspective
  Frank H. Kenan Fellowship
• Mariana Dantas
  History, Ohio University
  Family Formation, Race, and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil
  Walter Hines Page Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation
• Marlene Daut
  Comparative Literature, University of Virginia
  An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (Age of Slavery)
  Josephus Daniels Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation
  Podcast: “The Haitian Revolution in Literature”
• Florence Dore
  English Language and Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Novel Sounds: The American Novel in the Age of Rock and Roll
  Fellows’ Fellowship
• Laurent Dubois
  History, Duke University
  Katherine Dunham: An Afro-Atlantic Itinerary
  William C. and Ida Friday Fellowship
  Podcast: “The Banjo: America’s African Instrument”
  Public Lecture: “The Banjo: A Musical Conversation”
• Mary Floyd-Wilson
  English Language and Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  The Tempter or the Tempted: Demonic Causality on the Shakespearean Stage
  Hurford Family Fellowship
  Podcast: “Demonic Representation on the Shakespearean Stage”
• Christopher Grasso
  History, College of William & Mary
  Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War
  Henry Luce Fellowship
• Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
  History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology, Northern Arizona University
  Artistic Culture of Religious Instruction Along the Trade Routes of Late Ancient and Medieval Asia
  GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship
  Podcast: “Art and Religious Instruction in Late Ancient and Medieval Asia”
• Kim F. Hall
  Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonial Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
  ‘Othello was my grandfather’: Race and Shakespeare in the African Diaspora
  John G. Medlin, Jr. Fellowship
• Nicholas Harkness
  Anthropology, Harvard University
  A Semiotics of Intensity: Glossolalia, Collective Prayer, and South Korean Social Life
  Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
• Mary Elaine Hegland
  Religion, Santa Clara University
  Days of Revolution: Religion, Ritual & Politics in an Iranian Settlement
  Archie K. Davis Fellowship
• Phillip Horky
  Classics, Durham University
  Pythagorean Philosophy: 250 BCE to 200 CE
  Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
• Benjamin Kahan
  Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Louisiana State University
  Sexual Etiologies and the Great Paradigm Shift
  Delta Delta Delta Fellowship
  Podcast: “The Great Paradigm Shift: Locating Lost Models of Sexuality”

• Kalman Bland
  Religion, Duke University
  Aesopian Fables, Islamic Political Philosophy, and the Transmission of Aristotle’s Poetics and Rhetoric in Medieval Judaism (Spring only)
• Dore Bowen
  Art and Art History, San Jose State University
  The Face of Becoming: Three Stages in the Life of the Diorama
• Ian Newman
  English, University of Notre Dame
  Songs of the City: Literature, Ballads, and the Urban Soundscape
• Joshua Rivkin
  Creative Writing and Literature, Independent Scholar
  CHALK: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly