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Legacy of Knowledge: Dedicated Spaces

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Legacy of Knowledge: Dedicated Spaces

For nearly half a century, the National Humanities Center has supported the work of remarkable scholars producing seminal research.

Support of the Legacy of Knowledge: Dedicated Spaces endowment is more than just adding a plaque to legendary spaces within the Center. It also forges a tangible and lasting connection to NHC Fellows and helps to ensure the creation of new knowledge, opens up fresh paths of inquiry, reshapes fields, and changes the world.

Teachers’ Commons

Endowed by Mr. and Mrs. J. Porter Durham Jr.

This common gathering space, at the heart of the National Humanities Center, is dedicated to all those who teach us—sharing the known, igniting the fires of the unknown, and nurturing the bright future.

John P. Birkelund Lounge


Endowed by his fellow trustees in honor of John P. Birkelund’s service as Chair of the National Humanities Center Board of Trustees.

John Hope Franklin Conference Room

Endowed by Bill and Sandra Moore.

Donated in recognition of John Hope Franklin’s friendship, inspiration, and dedication to the humanities.

William C. Jordan Conference Room


Endowed by his friends in recognition of his distinguished leadership and service as a scholar, mentor, and trustee of the National Humanities Center.

Legacy of Knowledge: Named Studies

The following studies have been named and preserved with the generous support of individual philanthropists. For each named study, we have included a list of residents—those scholars who have benefited from the use of the study to produce their transformative research.

Peter Benoliel and Willo Carey Study (220)

Endowed with deep affection in recognition of John Hope Franklin (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1980–81; 1981–82) and Andrew Delbanco (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1990–91; 2002–03) for their superb scholarship and dedication to the humanities.

  • 1980–82: John Hope Franklin (History, University of Chicago) A Biography of George Washington Williams (1849–1891)
  • 1982–83: Norman Sherry (English, University of Lancaster) The Life and Work of Graham Greene
  • 1983–85: William J. Bouwsma (History, University of California, Berkeley) John Calvin
  • 1985–86: Jean H. Hagstrum (English, Northwestern University) Love in the Western World
  • 1986–88: Jack Greene (History, Johns Hopkins University) Changing Identity in Early British Plantation America
  • 1988–89: Jaroslav T. Folda (Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) A History of the Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land: 1099–1291
  • 1989–90: R. W. B. Lewis (American Studies, Yale University) Robert Penn Warren: the Poems of His Life
  • 1990–91: Douglass Cater (Public Affairs, Washington College) (1) The Small Liberal Arts College: Prospects for the Future; (2) A Retrospective on Life among American Politicians
  • 1991–92: Jack R. Goody (Anthropology, University of Cambridge) East and West
  • 1991–92: Denis Donoghue (English, New York University) Walter Pater: His Life, His Afterlife
  • 1992–93: Ruth Barcan Marcus (Philosophy, Yale University) Belief and Rationality
  • 1993–94: A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (Law, U.S. Court of Appeals) Race and the American Legal Process
  • 1994–95: Jack M. Sasson (Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Life and Times of Zimri-Lim, King of Mari
  • Fall 1995: John H. D’Arms (Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Michigan) Mellon Project in the Humanities
  • Fall 1996: Adolfo Gilly (Political Science, National University of Mexico) Markets, Rights, Culture and Democracy
  • Spring 1996: Vincent A. Blasi (Law, Columbia University) The Ideas of the First Amendment
  • Fall 1997: John N. King (English, Ohio State University) Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Seven Studies
  • Spring 1997: Denis Donoghue (English, New York University) The Tragic Generation: Yeats and the 1890s
  • Spring 1998: Denis Donoghue (English, New York University) The Tragic Generation: Yeats and the 1890s
  • 1998–99: Jaroslav Folda (Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land: 1187–1291
  • 1999–00: Bernard McGinn (Religion, University of Chicago) Continuity and Change in Late Medieval Mysticism, 1300–1500
  • 2000–01: Thomas Laqueur (History, University of California, Berkeley) Death, Memory, and Modernity
  • 2001–02: Thomas A. Brady (History, University of California–Berkeley) German Histories in the Age of Reformation
  • 2002–03: Andrew H. Delbanco (English, Columbia University) Melville’s World
  • 2003–04: Randolph Starn (History, University of California, Berkeley) Authenticating the Past: Archives, Museums, Libraries
  • 2004–05: Roger Chickering (History, Georgetown University) Total War in a Lovely Place: A Cultural History of Freiburg, 1914–1918
  • 2005–06: Mary Kinzie (English, Northwestern University) The Poems I Am Not Writing: A Meditation in Verse
  • 2006–07: William H. Sewell (Political Science & History, University of Chicago) Eighteenth–Century Capitalism and the Cultural Origins of the French Revolution
  • 2007–08: Elizabeth Helsinger (English & Art History, University of Chicago) “A Peculiar Music”: Poetry, Art, and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  • Fall 2008: Philip Nord (History, Princeton University) Remaking the French State, 1930–1950
  • Spring 2009: Alexander Welsh (English, Yale University) Meditations on New Comedy and Other Foolishness
  • 2009–10: William E. Leuchtenburg (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Resident Associate)
  • 2010–11: Dane K. Kennedy (History, George Washington University) Mapping Continents: British Exploration of Africa and Australia
  • 2011–12 / Fall 2012: Ezra Greenspan (English, Southern Methodist University) William Wells Brown: An African–American Life
  • Spring 2013: Thomas Pfau (English & German, Duke University) (Resident Associate) Dimensions of Being: Image and Form in Modern Aesthetics and Theology
  • 2013–14: John N. Wall, Jr. (English, North Carolina State University) Hearing Donne: The Experience of Preaching in Early Modern London
  • 2014–15: Gordon Teskey (English, Harvard University) A New Theory of Shakespearean Mimesis
  • 2015–16: Judith Walkowitz (History, Johns Hopkins University) Feminism and Urban Space in London in the 1970s and 1980s
  • 2016–17: Joan Hinde Stewart (French, Hamilton College) (Resident Associate) The Maid and the Milkmaid: Joan of Arc and Marie Antoinette
  • 2017–18: Valia Allori (Philosophy, Northern Illinois University) Quantum Mechanics and its Metaphysics: Primitive Ontology, Metaphysical Neutrality, and the Role of the Wave Function in Quantum Theories
  • 2018–19: 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)
  • 2019–20: Marsha Gordon (Film and Media Studies, North Carolina State University) Leftover Ladies: Ursula Parrott and the Emergence of the Modern Woman
  • 2020–21: Alexis Pauline Gumbs (African American Studies, Independent Scholar) The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: Biography as Ceremony
  • 2021–22: Jacob M. Baum (History, Texas Tech University) The Deaf Shoemaker: Ability, Disability, and Daily Life in the Sixteenth Century
  • 2022–23: Mariska Leunissen (Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Facts, Evidence, and Observation: Aristotle’s Natural Scientific Study of Women and Motherhood
William D. Cohan Study (129)

Endowed by William D. Cohan in recognition of Gilbert Sewall (NHC Fellow, 1981–82), a dedicated scholar, author, and educator.

  • 1978–79: James Nickel (Philosophy, Wichita State University) A Philosophical Introduction to the Subject of Human Rights
  • 1979–80: William C. Dowling (English, University of New Mexico) Internal Audience and Epistolary Form in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
  • 1980–81: Alfred Hornung (American Studies, University of Wurzburg) Autobiography and the Autobiographical Mode in America
  • 1981–82: Gilbert Sewall (Education, Newsweek Magazine) Basic Education: Past, Present, and Future
  • Fall 1982: Seymour Cohen (Biochemistry, State University of New York-Stony Brook) Thomas Cooper and the Chemical Revolution in America
  • Spring 1983: Laurence Thomas (Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) A Theory of Moral Character
  • 1983–84: Josiah Ober (Classics, Montana State University) Elitism and Anti-Elitism in the Athenian Democracy of the Fourth Century B.C.
  • 1984–85: Alan Beyerchen (History of Science, Ohio State University) James Franck and the Social Responsibility of the Scientist
  • 1986–87: Robert F. Yeager (English, Warren Wilson College) Classicism as an Ideal for Style in Late Medieval British Literature
  • 1987–88: Christopher Hill (Philosophy, University of Arkansas) The Nature of Consciousness
  • 1989–90: Nikita E. Pokrovsky (Philosophy, Moscow State University) The American Transcendentalist Worldview and the Moral Problems of Citizenship
  • 1991–92: J. Richard Green (Archaeology, University of Sydney) Art and the Theatre in the Ancient World
  • 1992–93: George P. Bealer (Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder) Philosophical Limits of Science
  • 1993–94: Leonard V. Smith (History, Oberlin College) War in Time of Peace: The Book and the Construction of Civilian Memory of World War I in France, 1915–1940
  • 1994–95: Charles H. Capper (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Margaret Fuller: The Public Years
  • Fall 1995: Philip Stewart (Romance Studies, Duke University) and Jean Vaché (English, Université Paul-Valéry) Translation of Rousseau’s ‘Julie ou la nouvelle Héloïse’
  • Spring 1996: Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher (English, Princeton University) Appropriating Wordsworth
  • Spring 1997: Nancy Langston (Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Riparian Boundaries
  • 1997–98: Peter Jelavic (History, University of Texas at Austin) Berlin Alexanderplatz: Media Aesthetics, Politics, and the Death of Weimar Culture
  • 1998–99: Wilfrid Robertson Prest (History, University of Adelaide) Going to Law in Early Modern England
  • 1999–00: Einar Thomassen (History of Religions, University of Bergen) The Spiritual Seed: The Church of the “Valentinians”
  • 2000–01: Kenneth Robert Janken (African and Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Mr. N Double-A C P: The Life of Walter White, 1893–1955
  • 2001–02 : Brian A. Krostenko (Classics, University of Notre Dame) Voicing Ideology: Art and Social Code in Cicero’s Political Speeches
  • 2002–03: Joseph E. Taylor (History, Iowa State University) “Pilgrims of the Vertical”: Yosemite Rock Climbing and Modern Environmental Culture
  • 2003–04: Charlotte S. Sussman (English & American Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder) Remembering the Population: British Literature in an Age of Mass Migration, 1660–1838
  • 2004–05: Georgia C. Warnke (Philosophy, University of California, Riverside) After Sex: A Hermeneutics of Race and Gender, Color, and Sex
  • 2005-06: Madeline C. Zilfi (History, University of Maryland) Slavery and Society in the Late Ottoman Middle East
  • 2006–07: Francesca M. Bordogna (History of Science & History of Philosophy, Northwestern University) Traveling Philosophers: The Constitution of an International Pragmatist Network, 1890–1920
  • 2007–08: Nancy B. Warren (English, Florida State University) The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350–1700
  • 2008–09: Paula A. Michaels (History, University of Iowa) On the Trail of Dr. Lamaze: A Transnational History of Childbirth Education, 1930–1980
  • 2009–10 : Jared Farmer (History, State University of New York, Stony Brook) Trees in Paradise: A California History
  • 2010–11: Katherine Zieman (English Literature, University of Notre Dame) Richard Rolle and His Readers: Defining the Literary in the Fifteenth Century
  • 2011–12: Paul E. Losensky (Near Eastern Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington) Sa’eb Tabrizi and the Poetics of Effulgence
  • 2012–13: Pamela O. Long (History, Independent Scholar) Rome Restored: Knowledge, Power, and Engineering, 1557–1590
  • 2013–14: Timothy W. Marr (American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Mohammedans under the American Flag”: Moro-American Relations in the Muslim Philippines
  • 2014–15: Elizabeth J. Hornbeck (Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri) Artists’ Lives in Film
  • 2015–16: Gregg Hecimovich (English, Winthrop University) The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative
  • 2016–17: 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
  • 2018–19: Richard K. Wolf (Ethnomusicology, Harvard University) The Nightingale’s Despair: Music and Moral Being in Greater Central Asia
  • 2019–20: Dennis Trout (Classics, University of Missouri) Monumental Verse: Poetry, Cityscape, and Authority in Late Ancient Rome
  • Spring 2021: Neşe Özgen (Duke University) Infrastructure Space and the Future of Migration Management: The EU Hotspots in the Mediterranean Borderscape
  • 2021–22: Nancy MacLean (History, Duke University) Capitalism and the Constitution: An Overlooked American Lineage and a Looming Peril
  • 2022–23: Patricia A. Matthew (Languages and Literature, Montclair State University) Gender, Sugar, and the Afterlives of Abolition
  • 2023–24: Richard M. Jaffe (Religious Studies, Duke University) Spreading Indra’s Net: A Biography of D. T. Suzuki
J. Porter Durham Jr. Study (109)

Endowed by Lisa Schroeder in honor of his passion for the humanities and his commitment to the National Humanities Center.

  • 1979–80: Quentin Anderson (English, Columbia University) Individualism and Consensus in the United States
  • 1980–82: Gregory Vlastos (Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley) (1) Socrates as a Philosophical Moralist and as a Reformer of Greek Morality; (2) The Philosophy of Socrates
  • 1981–82: Harvey Mansfield, Jr. (Government, Harvard University) A Study of the Theory of Executive Power
  • 1982–83: George Russell (English, University of Melbourne) An Edition of the C-Version of Piers Plowman
  • 1983–84: Harold Woodman (History, Purdue University) The Transformation of the Southern Economy, 1861–1920
  • 1984–85: John Philip Thomas (History, Dumbarton Oaks) Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents
  • 1985–86: Ernestine Friedl (Anthropology, Duke University) Women in Anthropology
  • 1986–87: Marta Petrusewicz (History, Princeton University) The Rise and Fall of the Calabrian Latifundia, 1806–1896
  • 1987–88: Henry Petroski (Engineering, Duke University) With a Pencil: Essays on Engineering and Culture
  • 1988–89: John W. Cell (History, Duke University) Biography of Lord Hailey (1872–1969)
  • 1991–92: Jeffrey T. Schnapp (Comparative Literature, Stanford University) Boccaccio and the Institution of Authorship
  • 1992–93: Richard E. Spear (Art History, Oberlin College) Guido Reni: A Reappraisal
  • 1993–94: Ankica Petrovic (Music, University of Sarajevo) The Changing Role of Women in Religious Rituals
  • 1994–95: David Konstan (Classics, Brown University) Friendship in the Classical World
  • 1995–96: Louise McReynolds (History, University of Hawaii) Russia at Play: Leisure-time Activities and Social Change in Late Imperial Russia
  • 1996–97: Stephen G. Vlastos (History, University of Iowa) Radical Agrarianism in Prewar Japan
  • 1997–98: Jennifer Cole (Anthropology, Harvard University) Memory, Trauma and the Moral Universe in East Madagascar
  • 1998–99: Suzanne Raitt (English, University of Michigan) The Aesthetics of Waste: Victorian and Modernist Literary Economies
  • 1999–00: Hugh Moody Thomas (History, University of Miami) Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and the Triumph of English Identity after the Norman Conquest
  • 2000–01: Jeremy D. Popkin (History, University of Kentucky) History, Historians and Autobiography
  • 2001–02 : Luis R. Corteguera (History, University of Kansas) Before God and King: Ordinary People in Politics in Early Modern Spain
  • 2002–03: Peter T. Struck (Classics, University of Pennsylvania) Divination and Greek Hermeneutics
  • 2003–04: Jenann T. Ismael (Philosophy, University of Arizona) Science, Simplicity, and Symmetry
  • 2004–05: Margaret Ellen Humphreys (History, Duke University) The Civil War and American Medicine
  • 2005–06: Gary A. Macy (Religion, University of San Diego) Ordination and Women in the Medieval West
  • 2006–07: James Carter Dobbins (Religion, Oberlin College) Religious Meanings in Japanese Buddhist Art
  • 2007–08 : Meghan E. Griffith (Philosophy, Davidson College) Freedom and Agency
  • 2008–09: Kathleen Anne DuVal (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Revolution Without Rebels: The Battle of Pensacola and the War for America
  • Spring 2010: Jason D. BeDuhn (Religious Studies, Northern Arizona University) Digital Enhancement, Editing, Translation, and Analysis of the “Dublin Kephalaia”
Dan Lacy Study (115)

Endowed by Hope Lacy in memory of her husband.

  • 1987–88: Max Black (Philosophy, Cornell University) Models of Rationality
  • Fall 1992: Michael R. Maas (History, Rice University) The Limits of Ethnography: Ethnicity and Empire in the Late Roman World
  • Spring 1993: Bozhong Li (History, Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences) The Baseline of China’s Economic Modernization: The Late Imperial Economy of the Lower Yangzi in World Historical Perspective
  • 1995–96: Denis Donoghue (English, New York University) Invited Senior Fellow
  • 1998–99: William Vernon Harris (History, Columbia University) The Control of Anger in Classical Antiquity
  • 1999–00: Jonathan M. Hess (Germanic Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Colonizing Diaspora: Debating Jewish Emancipation in Germany, 1781–1815
  • Fall 2000: John Richards (History, Duke University) The Unending Frontier: Early Modern World Environmental History
  • Spring 2001: Carolyn Merchant (History, University of California, Berkeley) Reinventing Eden
  • 2003–04: Brad L. Weiss (Anthropology, College of William and Mary) Conflicted Fantasies: Popular Cultural Practices in Urban Tanzania
  • Spring 2010: Irena Dzurkowa–Kossowska (Art History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Reinventing Historic Styles: Central European Art in the 1920s and 1930s
  • 2010–11: Marjorie I. Stone (English Literature, Dalhousie University, Canada) Citizenship Formations and Nineteenth-Century Transnationalist Networks
  • Spring 2012: William Kissane (Political Science, London School of Economics) Civil War: The Contemporary Challenge
  • Fall 2013: Abigail Manzella (English, University of Missouri) Permanent Transients: Representations of Internal Migration and Community in U.S. Women’s Writing
  • Spring 2014: Stephen J. Shoemaker (Religion, University of Oregon) The Apocryphal Mary: The Hidden History of Early Christian Devotion to the Mother of Jesus
  • Spring 2015: John Corrigan (Religion, Florida State University) Religious Violence and American Foreign Policy
  • Fall 2015: Jack M. Sasson (Judaic and Biblical Studies, Vanderbilt University) Judges 13–21 (Yale Anchor Bible)
  • Spring 2016: Anfeng Sheng (Comparative Literature, Tsinghua University) National Assimilation and Cultural Resistance: A Study of Contemporary Amerindian Literature
  • 2016–17: Dore Bowen (Art and Art History, San Jose State University) The Face of Becoming: Three Stages in the Life of the Diorama
  • Spring 2019: Franziska Seraphim (History, Boston College) Geographies of Justice: Japan, Germany, and the Allied War Crimes Program
  • Spring 2020: Neşe Özgen (Duke University) Infrastructure Space and the Future of Migration Management: The EU Hotspots in the Mediterranean Borderscape
Richard and Jane Levy Study (107)
  • 1979–80: Harold J. Berman (Law, Harvard Law School) The Western Legal Tradition
  • 1980–81: Thomas R. Cripps (History, Morgan State University) A Social History of Blacks in American Film, 1942 to the Present
  • 1981–82: John A. Hodgson (English, University of Georgia) Romantic Allegory: The Rhetoric and Logic of Transcendental Inquiry in Romantic Literature
  • 1982–83: Carl Wellman (Philosophy, Washington University) A General Theory of Rights
  • 1984–85: Betty Rose Nagle (Classics, Indiana University) Narrative Voice and Narrative Style: The Aesthetics of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  • 1985–86: Marcel Gutwirth (French, Haverford College) Theory of the Comic and the Art of Comedy
  • 1986–87: Loring Danforth (Anthropology, Bates College) The Anastenaria: Ritual Therapy in Rural Greece
  • Fall 1987: Jill Raitt (Religion, University of Missouri-Columbia) The Colloquy of Montbeliard, 1586
  • Spring 1988: Franklin L. Ford (History, Harvard University) Don’t Forget the Future: History and Looking Ahead
  • 1988–89: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Comparative Literature, Cornell University) The Poetics of Wole Soyinka: Theory and Practice
  • 1989–90: David Patrick Geggus (History, University of Florida) The Saint Domingue Slave Revolt, and the French Revolutionary Period in the Caribbean
  • 1990–91: Anna K. Clark (History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Gender and the Making of the English Working Class
  • 1991–92: Adolfo Gilly (Political Science, National University of Mexico) El Cardenismo, una utopia mexicana (Mexico 1930–1940)
  • 1992–94: Di Jin (English, Foreign Language Institute-Tianjin) Translation of James Joyce’s Ulysses into Chinese
  • 1994–95: George M. Wilson (Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University) Some Problems of Film Interpretation in the Case of Nicholas Ray
  • 1995–96: John David French (History, Duke University) The Metalworkers of ABC: Working Class Consciousness, Organization, and Ideology
  • 1996–97: Wing Chung Ng (Behavioral & Cultural Science, University of Texas at San Antonio) Chineseness in Diaspora: The Cultural Politics of Chinese Identity in Canada
  • 1997–98: Daniel M. James (History, Duke University) Memory Tales: Collective Memory and Communal Narratives in an Argentine City
  • 1998–99: Martin Jay Stone (Law & Legal Philosophy, Duke University) The Significance of Doing and Suffering: Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law
  • 1999–00: Rafiuddin Ahmed (History, Elmira College) Religious Symbols and Political Mobilization: The Bengal Muslims 1905–1947
  • 2000–01: Keith Phillip Luria (History, North Carolina State University) Sacred Boundaries: Catholics and Protestants in Seventeenth Century France
  • 2001–02: David Paul Gilmartin (History, North Carolina State University) Blood and Water: Irrigation and Colonialism in the Indus Basin
  • 2002–03: Lloyd S. Kramer (History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Traveling to Unknown Places: Politics, Religion and the Cultural Identities of Expatriate Writers, 1780–1960
  • 2003–04: Gianna Pomata (History, Università di Bologna) Holy Bodies in Early Modern Medicine and Religion
  • 2004–05: Edward E. Curtis IV (Religion, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Religious Life in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam
  • 2005–06: Mark T. Fiege (History, Colorado State University) Natural Histories: Retelling Great Stories of the American Past
  • 2006–07: Connie S. Rosati (Philosophy, University of Arizona) Personal Good
  • 2007–08: Judith Brooke Farquhar (Anthropology, University of Chicago) Nurturing Life in Transforming Beijing
  • 2008–09: Nancy MacLean (History, Northwestern University) “Freedom Is the Answer”: The Strange Career of School Vouchers
  • 2009–10: Ana M. Bacigalupo (Anthropology, State University of New York, Buffalo) Shamanic Memory and Historical Consciousness: The Making of Francisca Colipe and Her Mapuche Community in Chile
  • 2010–11: Gerard Passannante (Comparative Literature, University of Maryland) (1) Earthquakes of the Mind; (2) The Physics of Thought
  • 2011–12: John W. Sweet (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Captive’s Tale: Venture Smith and the Roots of the American Republic
  • 2012–13: Linda M. Rupert (History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Inter-Colonial Marronage, Colonial Policy, and Imperial Jurisdiction in the Early Modern Caribbean
  • 2013–14: Jane Ashton Sharp (Art History, Rutgers University) Another Art: Abstract Painting in Moscow after the Thaw
  • 2014–15: Noah Isaac Heringman (English, University of Missouri) Deep Time and the Prehistoric Turn
  • 2015–16: Grant Ramsey (Philosophy, Independent Scholar) Toward a Unified Foundation for Evolutionary Theory
  • 2016–17: Douglas Cambell (Religion, Duke University Divinity School) Depicting Paul: The Book of Acts and History
  • 2017–18: David Gilmartin (History, North Carolina State University) Exploring Democracy at the Intersection of Law, Politics, and Sovereignty: The Legal History of Elections in India
  • 2018–19: Bart Ehrman (Religion, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Invention of Heaven and Hell
  • 2019–20: Emily Lutenski (American Studies, Saint Louis University) Modern Lovers: Margery Latimer, Jean Toomer, and Race in American Culture
  • 2020–21: Michael Johnston (Medieval Studies, Purdue University) The Reading Nation in the Age of Chaucer: English Books, 1350–1500
  • 2021–22: Tony Frazier (History, North Carolina Central University) Slaves Without Wages: Runaway Black Slaves and Servants in Eighteenth-Century London
  • 2022–23: Catherine Roach (History of Art and Architecture, Virginia Commonwealth University) The Shadow Museum: A History of the British Institution, 1805–1867
  • 2023–24: Sally E. Hadden (History, Western Michigan University) One Supreme Court
R. W. B. Lewis Study (114)

Endowed by family and friends in memory of R. W. B. Lewis (NHC Fellow, 1989–90).

  • Fall 1980: John Wall (English, North Carolina State University) The Poetics of Persuasion in the English Renaissance
  • Spring 1981: David Wills (Religion, Amherst College) Documentary History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1816–1916, and Afro-American Religious Thought
  • 1981–82/1982–83: Blyden Jackson (English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Afro-American Literature: A History
  • 1982–83: Toshihiko Izutsu (Oriental Studies, Keio University) Studies in Islam
  • 1983–84: William J. Rorabaugh (History, University of Washington) Apprentices in the United States during the Early Industrial Revolution, 1783–1860
  • 1984–85: Armstead Robinson (History, University of Virginia) Day of Jubilo, Years of Sorrow: The Civil War Emancipation Experience in the Mississippi Valley, 1860–1865
  • 1985–86: Dale Vivienne Kent (History, La Trobe University) Social Structure and Patronage in Early Medicean Florence
  • Fall 1986: Jack G. Goellner (Scholarly Publishing, Johns Hopkins University Press) Scholarly Communication and Technology
  • Spring 1987: Thorkild Jacobsen (Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Harvard University) Introduction to Sumerian
  • 1987–88: Charles Townshend (History, University of Keele) Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain
  • 1988–89: Ewa Kuryluk (Art History, Unaffiliated) Veronica and Her Cloth: Origins, Tradition, and Symbolism of a “True” Icon
  • 1989–90: Mark Turner (English, University of Chicago) Analogy
  • 1990–91: Michael MacDonald (History, University of Michigan) A History of the Mind in Early Modern England
  • 1992–93: Barbara Herrnstein Smith (English, Duke University) Commerce with the Universe: Language, Knowledge, and Belief
  • 1993–94: J. William Harris (History, University of New Hampshire) Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation, 1880–1940
  • 1994–95: Francis Valentine O’Connor (Art History, Independent Scholar) The Mural in America: Wall Painting as Art and Environment from Native American Times to Present
  • 1995–96: Judith H. Anderson (English, Indiana University) Translations: The Limits of Metaphor in Early Modern England
  • Fall 1996: Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. (Musicology, Columbia College Chicago) Music in the Black Diaspora
  • Spring 1997: Michel J. Fabre (History, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III) The Culture of the Creoles of Color in Louisiana
  • 1997–98: Robert Alan Segal (Theory of Religion, Lancaster University) The Biography of William Robertson Smith
  • Fall 1998: R. W. B. and Nancy Lewis (Distinguished Visitors) American Characters: Portraits Visual and Verbal
  • Spring 1999: Jonathan A. Bush (Law & Legal Philosophy, Santa Clara University) The American Nuremberg Trials, 1946–1949
  • 1999–00: Paula Joanne McDowell (English, University of Maryland) “The Tongue Can No Man Tame”: Popular Oral Culture in Working London, 1678–1743
  • 2000–01: Peter A. Keating (History of Biomedical Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal) “Biomedicine” and the Post-War Realignment of Biology and Clinical Medicine in NCI’s Cooperative Oncology Groups
  • 2001–02 : Mark Louis Parker (English & American Literature, Randolph-Macon College) Blackwood’s Magazine and the Aestheticization of Knowledge
  • 2002–03: David H. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (History, Brock University) Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Catherine the Great to the Emigration
  • 2003–04: Caroline Winterer (History, San Jose State University) The Mirror of Antiquity: Classicism and Femininity in America, 1770–1900
  • 2004–05: Wye Jamison Allanbrook (Musicology, University of California, Berkeley) Happy Endings: Comic Musical Theater from Lully to Sondheim
  • Spring 2006: Alastair James Minnis (English, Ohio State University) The Medieval Eve: A Crisis in Creation
  • 2009–10: Peter G. Lurie (English, University of Richmond) American Obscurantism
  • 2010–11: Sabine Hake (German, University of Texas, Austin) Political Affects: The Fascist Imaginary in Postfascist Cinema
  • 2011–12: Laurie Langbauer (English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Child Authors and Juvenilia: The Tradition in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • 2012–13: Kate Gilbert (Medieval and Ancient Roman History, Independent Scholar) The Scandinavian Law Code of Bishop Anders Sunesen (c. 1167–1228)
  • 2013–14: Jonathan E. Dorsey (Philosophy, Texas Tech University) The Problem of Consciousness
  • 2014–15: Robin Einhorn (History, University of California, Berkeley) Taxes in U.S. History
  • 2015–16: Lynn Otto (English, George Fox University) Bodies and Boundaries
  • 2016–17: Tatiana Seijas (History, Pennsylvania State University) First Routes: Indigenous Trade and Travel between the American Southwest and Mexico
  • Spring 2018: Caroline Jones (Art History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Contested Visibilities and the Anthropogenic Image
  • 2018–19: Ling Hon Lam (University of California, Berkeley) The Fate of Reading: An Archaeology of “Media” in Late Imperial and Modern China
  • Spring 2020: Michael Pettit (York University) The Affective Revolution: Hot Cognition and the Ends of Cold War Psychology
Steven Marcus Study (209)

Named in honor of his role as Founder and Trustee, 1977–2013 (NHC Fellow, 1980–81; 1981–82).

  • 1978–79: Elizabeth F. Flower (Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania) The Practical as a Philosophical Conception and Its Bases in American Thought
  • 1979–80: W. D. Falk (Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Concept of “Ought” and Its Roots
  • 1980–81: John Opie (History, Duquesne University) Linking Energy Technologies and Quality of Life
  • 1981–82: Robert Simon (Philosophy, Hamilton College) Ethical Principles and International Affairs
  • 1982–83: F. S. L. Lyons (History, Trinity College, Dublin) The Life of William Butler Yeats
  • 1983–84: Paul Rahe (Classics, Franklin and Marshall College) Republics Ancient and Modern
  • 1984–85: Charles Royster (History, Louisiana State University) William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Civil War
  • 1985–86: Richard Patterson (Philosophy, Emory University) Aristotle on Essence, Explanation, and Logic
  • 1986–87: Bernard Semmel (History, State University of New York-Stony Brook) The Idea of Imperialism
  • 1987–88: Phillip Mitsis (Classics, Cornell University) Science and Morality in Hellenistic Thought
  • 1988–89: Larry Eugene Jones (History, Canisius College) The German Right and the Nazi Seizure of Power, 1928–1934
  • 1989–90: Morris Dickstein (English, Queens College–City University of New York) American Culture in the 1930s
  • 1990–91: Jeffrey C. Stewart (History, George Mason University) Enter the New Negro: Alain Locke and the Transformation of African-American Culture, 1885–1954
  • 1991–92: Eve K. Sedgwick (English, Duke University) Marriage Inside Out: Across Genders, Across Sexualities
  • 1992–93: Lynn E. Roller (Classics, University of California, Davis) The Cult of Anatolian Cybele
  • 1993–94: Dorothy J. Thompson (Ancient History, University of Cambridge) The First Hundred Years: A Study in Early Ptolemaic History
  • 1994–95: Richard A. Moran (Philosophy, Princeton University) Self and Other in Moral Psychology
  • 1995–96: Mario Klarer (American Literature, University of Innsbruck) Ekphrasis: Pictorial Description and Textual Self-Reflexivity in English and American Literature
  • 1996–97: David Richard Armitage (History, Columbia University) The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
  • 1997–98: Lydia H. Liu (Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley) A Global Circuit of Words: Missionary Linguistic Enterprise in 19th-Century China
  • 1998–99: Jonathan Levin (English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University) The Literature of Place: American Nonfiction Prose
  • 1999–00: Jerry Washington Ward, Jr. (English, Tougaloo College) Delta Narratives: Memory, Testimony, and Social Change
  • 2000–01: Padraig A. Breatnach (Irish Language and Literature, University College, Dublin) Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, Brussels
  • 2001–02: Ursula K. Heise (English & American Literature, Columbia University) World-Wide Webs: Global Ecology and the Cultural Imagination
  • 2002–03: Joanne Rappaport (Anthropology, Georgetown University) Indigenous Public Intellectuals and the Construction of Nationality in Colombia
  • 2003–04: Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie (History, independent scholar) Rites of August First: West Indian Emancipation Celebrations in the Black Atlantic World, 1831–1861
  • 2004–05: Gregg Alden Mitman (History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Breathing Space: An Ecological History of Allergy in America
  • 2005–06: Ben Vinson, III (History, Pennsylvania State University) The Forgotten Castes: Lobos, Moriscos, Coyotes, and Chinos in Colonial Mexico
  • 2006–07: Randal M. Jelks (History, Calvin College) Benjamin Elijah Mays, a Religious Rebel in the Jim Crow South: An Intellectual Biography
  • 2007–08: Isabel Wunsche (Art History, International University Bremen, Germany) Organic Visions in Modernism: The Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde
  • 2008–09: Colin P. Bird (Politics, University of Virginia) Communities of Respect
  • 2009–10: Andrew S. Escobedo (English, Ohio University) Renaissance Allegories of the Will
  • 2010–11: Lewis Taylor (Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK) Landlords and Peasants in Peru: The Socio-Economic Organisation of Haciendas
  • 2011–12: Karen Hagemann (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: War, Culture, Memory
  • 2012–13: Mario Klarer (American Studies, University of Innsbruck) (Resident Associate) Inside a Poet’s Mind: Medieval Brain Anatomy and Poetic Self-Reflection
  • 2013 Fall: Jinhua Chen (Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada) Sacred Bone: Relic-Worship in Medieval China
  • 2014 Spring: Claire Sponsler (English, University of Iowa) Reading the Beauchamp Pageant
  • 2014–15: John M. Willis (History, University of Colorado, Boulder) After the Caliphate: Mecca and the Geography of Crisis and Hope
  • 2015–16: Owen Flanagan (Philosophy, Duke University) The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility
  • Fall 2016: Kim F. Hall (Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonial Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University) ‘Othello was my Grandfather’: Race and Shakespeare in the African Diaspora
  • Spring 2017: Grace Musila (English Language and Literature, Stellenbosch University) Critical Illegibility, Blackness and Scoring Dangerous Freedoms
  • 2017–18: John Wilkinson (English, University of Chicago) (Resident Associate) Abstraction, Landscape and Communication
  • 2018–19: Shawn Van Ausdal (Universidad de los Andes) (Resident Associate) A Land of Grass and Cows: Rancher and Peasant in the Making of Modern Colombia
  • 2019–20: Chérie Ndaliko (African Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Archival Mutations: Decomposing Aesthetics of Atrocity in Congo
  • 2020–21: Tong King Lee (East Asian Languages and Literature, The University of Hong Kong) Creative Writing and the Semiotics of Crisis in Contemporary Hong Kong
  • Fall 2021: Ifeyinwa Genevieve Okolo (Languages and Literature, Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria) Sexualities and (Dis)Abilities: (Re)Valuing Being Sexual Humans through Body Narratives
  • Spring 2022: Christian Raffensperger (Medieval Studies, Wittenberg University) Political Culture in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000–1300
  • Fall 2022: Wamuwi Mbao (Cultural Studies, Stellenbosch University) Representing Discontent: South Africa in Words and on Screen
  • Spring 2023: Robert Mbe Akoko (Duke University) (Resident Associate) New Religious Movements: A Comparative Study of Pentecostalism in Cameroon and the United States of America
  • 2023–24: Katherine Davies (Philosophy, The University of Texas at Dallas) Care as Custody: A Critical Feminist Phenomenology of the U.S. Foster Care System
Patricia R. Morton Study (205)

Endowed by Thruston Morton in honor of his wife’s service as Trustee, 2004–19 and Board of Trustees Chair, 2014–18.

  • 1978–79: John Sitter (English, University of Massachusetts) Conversions of Experience in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Writing
  • 1979–80: Richard Lowenthal (Political Science, Berlin University) Mao’s Emancipation from Stalin, 1935–38
  • 1980–81: Claire Gaudiani (French, Purdue University) Theories of Optics and Light Metaphors: The Impact of the New Science on Literary Expression in Seventeenth-Century France
  • 1981–82: Edward Erler (Political Science, California State College, San Bernardino) The Supreme Court and Equal Protection: A Case Study in the Failure of Judicial Statesmanship
  • 1982–83: Seymour Cohen (Biochemistry, State University of New York-Stony Brook) Thomas Cooper and the Chemical Revolution in America
  • 1983–84: John Shelton Reed (Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Anglo-Catholic Movement in the Nineteenth-Century Church of England
  • 1984–85: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (History, State University of New York-Binghamton) The Mind of the Master Class: The Psychology of Southern Slaveholders
  • 1985–86: Bernard Romaric Boxill (Philosophy, University of South Florida) Moral Issues in Development
  • 1986–87: Mary De Jong (English, Pennsylvania State University, SV) Heart-Songs and Hymns: Hymnody and Power in Nineteenth-Century America
  • 1987–88: Sima Godfrey (French, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Concept of Fashionability in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
  • 1988–89: Rita F. Dove (English, Arizona State University) Durer’s Beauty
  • 1989–90: Thomas R. Metcalf (History, University of California-Berkeley) Ideologies of the Raj, 1860–1920
  • 1990–91: Leon R. Fink (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) America’s “Missing” Social Democrats: Labor Intellectuals in the Progressive Era, 1890–1916
  • 1991–92: David G. Ellis (English, University of Kent at Canterbury) Biography of D. H. Lawrence (1922–1930)
  • 1992–93: Leo Spitzer (History, Dartmouth College) Surviving Memory: Central European-Jewish Refugee Emigration to Bolivia and Its Representation in Individual and Collective Remembrance
  • 1993–94: Joshua I. Miller (Government & Law, Lafayette College) William James and Democratic Action
  • 1995–96: Brad C. Inwood (Classics, University of Toronto) Reading Seneca
  • 1996–97: Paul Strohm (English, Indiana University) Usurpation and Symbolic Legitimation in Lancastrian England
  • 1997–98: Dyan Heather Elliott (History, Indiana University) Proving Woman: Female Mysticism and Inquisitional Practice in Late Medieval Europe
  • 1998–99: Sharon T. Strocchia (History, Emory University) Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence
  • 1999–00: Richard Gordan Newhauser (English, Trinity University) Greed and Capital: Avarice in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • 2000–01: Herbert Frederick Tucker (English, University of Virginia) The Proof of Epic in Britain, 1790–1910
  • 2001–02: Nicholas R. Frankel (English & American Literature, Virginia Commonwealth University) The Discourse of Decoration: Ornament and Design in Victorian Britain
  • 2002–03: Ted W. Margadant (History, University of California-Davis) Criminal Justice and Revolutionary Politics in 1789
  • 2003–04: Thomas Cogswell (History, University of California, Riverside) Buckingham’s Commonwealth: War, Politics, and Political Culture, 1618–1629
  • 2004–05: Timothy B. Tyson (History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Deep River: African American Freedom Movements in the 20th-Century South
  • 2005–06: Ruth Nisse (English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln) Jacob’s Shipwreck: Powers of Diaspora in the Postbiblical Literature of the Jewish and Christian Middle Ages
  • 2006–07 : Glenda E. Gilmore (History, Yale University) From Social Justice to Civil Rights, 1919–1950
  • 2007–08: Maud Ellmann (English, University of Notre Dame) Modernist Returns: Recirculation in James, Woolf, Joyce, and Freud
  • 2008–09: Elizabeth Anne Payne (History, University of Mississippi) Shattering White Solidarity: A History of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
  • 2009–10: Rudiger Bittner (Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany) Do We Have a Will?
  • 2010–11: Bernard M. Levinson (Judaic Studies, University of Minnesota) Revelation and Redaction: The Role of Intellectual Models in Biblical Studies
  • Fall 2011: Florence Dore (English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Not Knowing
  • Spring 2012: Jonathan Culler (English & Comparative Literature, Cornell University) The Theory of the Lyric
  • 2012–13: Cynthia J. Brokaw (History, Brown University) Transforming the Frontier: Education, Book Culture, and the Rise of “Sichuan Learning”
  • 2013–14: Christian de Pee (History, University of Michigan) Visible Cities: Text and Urban Space in Middle-Period China, Eighth through Twelfth Centuries
  • 2014–15: Josephine McDonagh (English, King’s College London, UK) Literature in a Time of Migration: Print, Population and the British Nineteenth Century Novel
  • 2015–16: Neslihan Senocak (History, Columbia University) Care of Souls in Medieval Italy, 1050–1300
  • 2016–17: Annabel Wharton (History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology, Duke University) Manipulating Models: Diagnostic, Phenomenal, Architectural
  • 2017–18: Maud Ellmann (English Language and Literature, University of Chicago) Inside Out: Psychoanalysis and Fiction in World War II Britain and France
  • 2018–19: Paul Fyfe (English Language and Literature, North Carolina State University) The Age of Transmission: From Victorian Media Cultures to the Digital Humanities
  • 2019–20: Christina Snyder (History, The Pennsylvania State University) Slavery after the Civil War: The Slow Death and Many Afterlives of Bondage
  • 2020–21: Bryna Goodman (History, University of Oregon) Finance and Fortune: Economics, Calculation, and the Fate of the Chinese Republic
  • 2021–22: John D. Wong (History, The University of Hong Kong) Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of Hong Kong, 1930s–1998
  • 2022–23: Umrao Sethi (Philosophy, Brandeis University) Sensibilia: An Account of Sensory Perception and its Objects
  • 2023–24 : Oleg Budnitskii (History, HSE University) “The Red Army is not Ideal”: Soviet Soldiers’ Violence Against Civilians, 1939–1947
Francis Oakley Study (201)

Named in honor of her service as Board of Trustees Chair, 2004–07 (NHC Fellow, 1990–91).

  • 1978–79: Martin Krieger (Public Policy, University of Minnesota) Advice and Planning
  • Fall 1979: Robert R. Palmer (History, Yale University) Education and the French Revolution
  • Spring 1980: Richard M. Eaton (Oriental Studies, University of Arizona) Religious Conversion Movements
  • 1980–81/1981–82: Steven Marcus (English, Columbia University) Freud and the Culture of Humanism
  • 1982–83: Jerome S. Handler (Anthropology, Southern Illinois University) Africans and Their Descendants in Barbados: The Social and Cultural Life of a West Indian Slave Population, 1627–1834
  • 1983–84: Linda Kauffman (English, Ithaca College) The Discourse of Desire: The Lovers’ Discourse from Ovid to Roland Barthes
  • 1984–85: Emilia Viotti Da Costa (History, Yale University) The Strange Career of John Smith: The Demerara (Guyana) Slave Rebellion of 1823
  • Fall 1985: Roger A. Stalley (Art History, Trinity College, Dublin) Regional Expressions of the Early English Style
  • Spring 1986: Maurice Mandelbaum (Philosophy, Dartmouth College) Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory
  • 1986–87: Joan Thirsk (History, University of Oxford) The European Horticultural Revolution in the 16th and 17th Centuries
  • 1987–88: Carl Woodring (English, Columbia University) Nature and Art in Nineteenth-Century England
  • Fall 1988: Michael J. White (Philosophy, Arizona State University) The Physical World: Three Hellenistic Models
  • Spring 1989: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Comparative Literature, Cornell University) The Poetics of Wole Soyinka: Theory and Practice
  • Fall 1990: Lawrence Stone (History, Princeton University) (1) Broken Lives: Divorce in England, 1660–1857; (2) A Nation State at War: Britain, 1689–1815
  • Spring 1991: Francis C. Oakley (History, Williams College) Politics and Eternity
  • 1991–92: Stanley Fish (English, Duke University) The Domestic Quarrel
  • 1992–93: Alex Zwerdling (English, University of California, Berkeley) ‘Improvised Europeans’: American Literary Expatriates and the Anglo-Saxon Legacy
  • 1993–95: Conor Cruise O’Brien (Irish Statesman) The Founding Fathers and the French Revolution
  • 1995–96: Robert Keohane (International Relations, Harvard University) Contested Commitments in the United States Foreign Policy
  • 1996–97: John Heil (Philosophy, Davidson College) Language, Thought, and Reality
  • Fall 1997: Elizabeth K. Helsinger (English & Art History, University of Chicago) The Pre-Raphaelite Arts of Poetry, Painting, Collection, and Design (1850–80)
  • Spring 1998: Stanley Fish (English & Law, Duke University) Settling the Just Bounds between Church and State
  • 1998–99: Malcolm C. Barber (History, University of Reading) The Cathars
  • 1999–00: Sherry Ortner (Anthropology, Columbia University) The Newark:An Ethnographic Study of Class and Culture in the United States
  • 2000–01: Shepard Krech (Anthropology, Brown University) Ethnobiology in Native North America
  • 2001–02: Gerald Early (English & American Literature, Washington University-St. Louis) When Worlds Collide: African-Americans in the Age of Integration, 1950–1954
  • 2002–03: Harriet Ritvo (History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and the Victorian Environment
  • 2003–04: James L. Peacock (Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Exploring Identity in the Global South
  • Fall 2004: Bruce Redford (English & Art History, Boston University) Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • Spring 2005: Julia Ann Clancy-Smith (History, University of Arizona) The School on Rue du Pacha, Tunis: Educating Muslim Girls in Colonial North Africa, c. 1880–1920
  • 2005–06: Catherine Gallagher (English, University of California, Berkeley) Undoing: Alternate-History Novels, Counterfactual Histories, and Social Policies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • 2006–07: David Carrier (Philosophy & Art History, Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Institute of Art) A Multicultural Art History
  • 2007–08: Amelie O. Rorty (Philosophy, Harvard University) On the Other Hand: The Ethics of Ambivalence
  • 2008–09: Thomas L. Haskell (History, Rice University) Sensibility and Moral Capital in Abolishing the Slave Trade
  • 2009–10 : Jack P. Greene (History, Johns Hopkins University) The British Debate on American Colonial Resistance, 1760–1783
  • 2010–11: Paul F. Berliner (Ethnomusicology, Duke University) The Art of Mbira: A Forty-Year Study of the Repertory and Creative Practices of Africa’s Unique Musical Instrument
  • 2011–12: Martin J. Wiener (History, Rice University) Liberalism and the British Empire
  • 2012–13 : Stefan Collini (English, Cambridge University) The Nostalgic Imagination: Literary Criticism in English Culture
  • 2013–14: Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante (Spanish/Portuguese, University of Texas, Austin) The Sounds of an Indigenous Nation: Sonic Poetics and Politics in Contemporary Mapuche Culture in Chile
  • 2014–15: Hwansoo Kim (Religious Studies, Duke University) A Transnational History of Colonial Korean Buddhism (1910–1945)
  • 2015–16: Martin Berger (History of Art, University of California, Santa Cruz) Inventing Stereotype: Race, Art, and 1920s America
  • 2016–17: Nancy Wicker (History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology, University of Mississippi) Viking Art in Scandinavia and across the Viking Diaspora: Patrons, Producers, and Consumers from the Fifth through the Eleventh Centuries
  • 2017–18: Elizabeth Otto (Art History, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York) Haunted Bauhaus
  • 2018–19: Peter B. Villella (History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Of Ruin and Rebirth: The Construction of Aztec History, 1531–1625
  • 2019–20: Angela Stuesse (Ethnic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) #FreeDany: Dreaming and Detention in Dixie
  • 2020–21: Jordynn Jack (Rhetoric, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Training the Brain: Rhetoric, Neuropolicy, and Education
  • 2021–22: Mark Evan Bonds (Musicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Music’s Fourth Wall and the Rise of Modern Listening
  • 2022–23: Gregg Hecimovich (African American Studies, Furman University) The Columbia Seven: The Life and Times of the Zealy Daguerreotypes
  • Fall 2023: Jonathan Sachs (Languages and Literature, Concordia University, Montréal) Slow Time
  • Spring 2024: Xiaolin Duan (History, North Carolina State University) Three Cities of the Early Modern Pacific: Connections and Conflicts between the Ming Dynasty and the Spanish Empire
Carl Pforzheimer Study (113)

Named in honor of his service as Board of Trustees Chair, 2007–10.

  • 1980–81: John Kasson (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Civility and Rudeness: Public Etiquette in the United States from the Mid-Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century
  • 1981–82: F. Edward Cranz (History, Connecticut College) The Reorientation of the Categories of Western Thought c. 1100
  • 1982–83: Robert ter Horst (Spanish, University of Arizona) The Fortunes of the Novel: A Study in the Transposition of a Genre
  • 1983–84: Jane Censer (History, American University) The Old Elite Faces the New Order: Virginia and North Carolina Planters, 1860–1885
  • 1985–86: John J. Johnson (History, University of New Mexico) The United States and Latin America, 1815–1836
  • 1986–87: Wye J. Allanbrook (Music, St. John’s College) Characteristic Styles in Classic Music: A Study in the Theory of Musical Expression
  • 1987–88: Eugene Goodheart (English, Brandeis University) Ideology and Desire
  • 1988–89: Joseph Loewenstein (English, Washington University) Renaissance Creativity and the Book Trade
  • 1989–90: William A. Darity, Jr. (Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Race, Radicalism, and Reform: The Social Science Contributions of Abram Harris, Jr.
  • 1990–91: Richard C. M. Janko (Classics, University of California, Los Angeles) New Fragments of Aristotle’s Literary Theory
  • 1992–93: Edward W. Muir (History, Louisiana State University) Ritual in Early Modern Europe
  • 1993–94: Maureen P. Warner-Lewis (Linguistics, University of the West Indies) Caribbean African-Language Texts: Translation and Cultural-Linguistic Exegesis
  • 1995–96: Harlan Ray Beckley (Religion, Washington and Lee University) Equality of Opportunity: Revising and Renewing a Neglected Idea
  • Fall 1996: William Edwin Ray, Jr. (French, Reed College) French Fiction and the Cultivation of the Public
  • Spring 1997: Geneviève E. Fabre (English, Université Paris VII) African American Ceremonial and Celebrative Culture in Colonial and Antebellum Times
  • 1997–98: Isidore Oghenerhuele Okpewho (Africana Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton) A Dark and Dutiful Dyeli: The Poetry of Jay Wright
  • 1998–99: Rachel Fulton (History, University of Chicago) From Exegesis to Cult: Biblical Narrative, Historical Imagination, and Medieval Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary
  • 1999–00: Samuel Joseph Kerstein (Philosophy, University of Maryland) The Derivation of the Categorical Imperative: On the Foundations of Kantian Ethics
  • 2000–01: Dennis Romano (History, Syracuse University) Francesco Foscari and the Crisis of Venetian Republicanism
  • 2001–02: Tista Bagchi (Linguistics, University of Delhi, India) The Simplex Sentence as a Unit of Grammar and Reasoning
  • 2002–03: Jenefer Mary Robinson (Philosophy, University of Cincinnati) A Theory of Emotion: How to Make the Connection Between “Primitive” and Cognitively Complex Emotions
  • 2003–04: Todd W. Reeser (French, University of Utah) Translating Platonic Sexuality in the Renaissance
  • 2004–05: Thomas Cogswell (History, University of California, Riverside) Buckingham’s Commonwealth: War, Politics, and Political Culture, 1618–1629
  • Spring 2006: Cynthia B. Herrup (History, University of Southern California) “When Mercy Seasons Justice”: Pardons and the Constitution in Early Modern England
  • 2006–07: Zsuzsanna Gulácsi (Art History, Northern Arizona University) Formation of Mediaeval Book Art in West and Central Asia
  • Spring 2009: J. Clayton Fant (Classics, University of Akron) Marble and the Caesars
  • Spring 2010: Cornelis A. van Minnen (History, Roosevelt Study Center, The Netherlands) Dixie and the Southernization of the United States since the 1970s
  • 2010–11: Lorraine V. Aragon (Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Arts and Owners: Intellectual Property, Cultural Heritage, and Indonesian Arts
  • Fall 2011: Jutta Schickore (History of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington) Hazardous Operations: Experiments with Snake Venom, 1660–1960
  • Spring 2012: Cynthia Chase (English, Cornell University) Half-Life of a Stumbling Block: Paul de Man’s Earliest Reading of Hölderlin’s ‘Der Rhein’
  • Fall 2012: Arata Hamawaki (Philosophy, Auburn University) Self-Consciousness and the Second Person
  • Spring 2013: Bruce Rusk (Asian Studies, Cornell University) Truth in Chaos: Authenticity and Its Opposites in Early Modern China
  • 2013–14: Carol Symes (History, University of Illinois) Public Acts: Performance, Popular Literacies, and the Documentary Revolution of Medieval Europe
  • 2014–15: Jonathon P. Glassman (History, Northwestern University) A History of Barbarism: Difference and Race in African Thought
  • 2015–16: John H. Smith (German, University of California, Irvine) Paradoxes and Metaphors of Infinity: Calculus in Modern German Thought
  • 2016–17: 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
  • Spring 2018: Peter Galison (History of Science, Harvard University) Contested Visibilities and the Anthropogenic Image
  • Fall 2018: 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
  • Spring 2019: Alka Patel (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Irvine) India, Iran and Empire: The Shansabānīs of Ghūr, c. 1150–1215
  • Spring 2020: Gibson Ncube (Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Zimbabwe) Bodies and/as Texts: Queer Representations in African Screens
  • Fall 2020: Robert S. Schine (Middlebury College) Humanist in Exile: From Erlenbach to Ohio
  • Fall 2021: Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) Digital Risk Literacy
  • Spring 2022: Robert Mbe Akoko (Duke University) New Religious Movements: A Comparative Study of Pentecostalism in Cameroon and the United States of America
Cara Robertson Study (218)

Trustee, 2008–20.

  • 1978–81: William E. Leuchtenburg (History, Columbia University) (1) FDR and the Supreme Court Crisis of the 1930s; (2) Final Volume of Oxford History of United States: America since 1945
  • 1981–82: William Barrett (Philosophy, New York University) Mind in Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to the Computer
  • 1982–83: Richard Bjornson (Comparative Literature, Ohio State University) Literature and National Identity in Cameroon
  • 1983–84: Nayantara Sahgal (Creative Writing, Unaffiliated) A Man-Size Cloud (novel)
  • 1984–85: Lucinda MacKethan (English, North Carolina State University) America’s Literature of Lighting Out: Sources and Structures
  • 1985–86: Barbara Bellows (History, Middlebury College) Tempering the Wind: The Southern Response to Urban Poverty, 1820–1860
  • 1986–87: Raymond Van Dam (History, University of Texas-Austin) Cappadocia in the Later Fourth Century
  • 1989–90: Donald H. Regan (Law, University of Michigan) Agents and Their Ends: Prolegomena to a Doctrine of the Good
  • 1990–91: William B. Taylor (History, University of Virginia) Priest and Parish in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
  • 1991–92: David L. Smith (English, Williams College) Racial Writing, Black and White
  • 1992–93: Katherine T. Bartlett (Law, Duke University) Negotiating Tradition in Law: An Historicist Approach
  • 1993–94: Charles P. Segal (Classics, Harvard University) A Literary Commentary on Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10–12 and an Interpretive Essay on the Metamorphoses
  • 1994–95: Karen Halttunen (History, University of California, Davis) Murder and the Gothic Imagination in American Culture
  • 1995–96: Patricia Leighten (Art History, Queen’s University) The Esthetics of Radicalism: Anarchism and Cultural Criticism in Avant-Guerre France
  • 1996–97: Joy S. Kasson (American Studies & English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show: History, Performance, and Cultural Identity
  • 1997–98: Karen Barkey (Sociology, Columbia University) Divergent Paths to Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century
  • 1998–99: Robert L. Kendrick (Music, University of Chicago) Music and Urban Life in Milan, 1580–1650
  • 1999–00: Marjorie Curry Woods (English, University of Texas, Austin) Rhetoric in the Medieval Classroom
  • 2000–01: Wolfgang Iser (English and Comparative Literature, University of Constance, Germany) Conceptualizations of Culture
  • 2001–02: Kristin Hanson (English, University of California, Berkeley) “An Art that Nature Makes”: A Linguistic Perspective on Meter in English
  • 2002–03: Annabel Jane Wharton (Art History, Duke University) Selling Jerusalem: Towards an Historical Economy of Images
  • 2003–04: Elizabeth L. Kennedy (Women’s Studies, University of Arizona) Many Strands, One Woman: Lesbianism, Marriage, and Sexuality in an Upper-Class Life
  • 2004–05: Deborah E. Harkness (History, University of Southern California) The Social Foundations of the Scientific Revolution: Science, Medicine, and Technology in Elizabethan London
  • 2005–06: Cara W. Robertson (English & Law, Independent Scholar) The Canning Affair: Law and Evidence in the Eighteenth Century: The Trial of Lizzie Borden
  • 2006–07: James H. Sweet (History, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Domingos Álvares and the African-Atlantic Diaspora, 1710–1750
  • 2007–08: Ellen Gruber Garvey (English, New Jersey City University) Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake Nineteenth-Century Print Culture
  • Fall 2008: João José Reis (History, Federal University of Bahia) Ganhadores: Street Labor in Nineteenth-Century Bahia, Brazil
  • Spring 2009: Michael G. Wood (English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University) Proust’s Affair: Fantasies and Fictions of the Dreyfus Case
  • 2009–10: Patricia K. Curd (Philosophy, Purdue University) Divinity, Intelligibility, and Human Understanding in Presocratic Thought
  • 2010–11: Henry S. Turner (English Literature, Rutgers University) The Corporate Commonwealth: Economy, Technology and Political Community
  • 2011–12: Sheridan Johns (Political Science, Duke University) (Resident Associate) The Communist Part of South Africa (CPSA)
  • 2012–13: Stephen D. White (History, Emory University) Violence in Medieval England, 1042–1327
  • 2013–14: Michael Lurie (Classics, Independent Scholar) Not To Be Born Is Best: Greek Pessimism Revisited
  • 2014–15: Lena Cowen Orlin (English, Georgetown University) The Private Life of William Shakespeare
  • 2015–16: Anthony Kaye (History, Pennsylvania State University) Taking Canaan: Rethinking the Nat Turner Revolt
  • Fall 2016: Nicholas Harkness (Anthropology, Harvard University) A Semiotics of Intensity: Glossolalia, Collective Prayer, and South Korean Social Life
  • Spring 2017: Blake Wilson (Music History and Musicology, Dickinson College) Dominion of the Ear: Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry in Early Modern Italy
  • 2017–18: Wendy Griswold (Sociology, Northwestern University) Placements: Position and Location through American Culture
  • 2018–19: Matthew Rubery (English Language and Literature, Queen Mary University of London) Reader’s Block: Testimonies of Neurological Reading Disorders
  • 2019–20: Giuseppe Gerbino (Music History and Musicology, Columbia University) Music and Mind in the Renaissance
  • 2020–21: Helmut Puff (History, University of Michigan) The Time of the Antechamber: A History of Waiting (1500–1800)
  • 2021–22: Oscar de la Torre (Africana Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Enyoró: A Collective Biography of Black Matanzas (Cuba) from Slavery to Nation-Making‚ 1835–1898
  • 2022–23: Blair L. M. Kelley (History, North Carolina State University) Black Folk: The Promise of the Black Working Class
  • 2023–24: Justin T. Clark (History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) The Clockwork Republic: Sociolegal Culture, Time, and Struggle in the United States, 1787–1860
Patricia Meyer Spacks Study (210)

Named in honor of her service as Trustee, 1994–2012 (NHC Fellow, 1982–83; 1988–89).

  • 1978–79: B. J. T. Dobbs (History of Science, Northwestern University) The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought
  • 1980–81: Sylvia Wynter (Spanish, Stanford University) Uncle Tom Revisited–The Stock Characterization of the “Negro” in Western Literature
  • 1981–82: Vincent Franklin (History, Yale University) The Black Twenties: An Exploration in New Negro Consciousness
  • 1982–83: Patricia Meyer Spacks (English, Yale University) (1) Gossip; (2) The Novel
  • 1983–84: Michael Alexander (Classics, University of Illinois-Chicago) Ordinary Crime in the Late Roman Republic
  • 1984–85: Bonnie G. Smith (History, University of Rochester) Women’s Contribution to Modern Historiography in England, France, and the United States, 1750–1940
  • 1985–86: Waller Randy Newell (Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) The Political and Social Thought of Martin Heidegger
  • 1986–87: Joan Vincent (Anthropology, Barnard College) Fermanagh, An Irish County, 1800 to the Present
  • 1987–88: Michael Holt (History, University of Virginia) History of the American Whig Party, 1828–1856
  • 1988–89: Marcia Homiak (Philosophy, Occidental College) Investigations in Aristotle’s Ethics
  • 1989–90: Barbara D. Metcalf (History, University of California-Davis) The Pilgrimage Remembered: South Asian Accounts of the Hajj
  • 1990–91: Monika Fludernik (English, University of Vienna) Narratology: Theoretical Reflections on Structural, Methodological, and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Theory. The Example of Free Indirect Discourse
  • 1991–92: Mark T. Tucker (Music, Columbia University) Duke Ellington’s Compositional Process, 1927–1943
  • 1992–93: Elizabeth D. Kirk (English, Brown University) Standing in Unknowing: Faith and Consciousness in Fourteenth-Century English Poetry
  • 1993–94: Edna G. Bay (History, Emory University) Women and Power in Dahomey (West Africa)
  • 1994–95 : Adam Fairclough (History, Saint David’s University College) Black Teachers and the Civil Rights Movement
  • 1995–96: Richard J. Powell (Art History, Duke University) Subjugation and Agency in Nineteenth-Century Images of Blacks
  • 1996–97: Jane Marie Gaines (English, Duke University) Other/Race/Desire: Early Cinema and Nationhood
  • 1997–98: Narendra Panjwani (Journalism, Assistant Editor, Times of India) Exploring Indian Modernity through Popular Cinema 1950–1970
  • 1998–99: Melissa M. Bullard (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Letters of Lorenzo de’Medici and the Language of Diplomacy in the Renaissance
  • 1999–00: Kim Lacy Rogers (History, Dickinson College) Delta Narratives: Memory, Testimony, and Social Change
  • 2000–01: Paulla A. Ebron (Anthropology, Stanford University) Making Tropical Africa in the Georgia Sea Islands
  • 2001–02: Maura K. Lafferty (Classics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) The Empress of Languages: Latin in the Middle Ages
  • 2002–03: Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Philosophy, Ohio State University) Value Concepts and Objectivity
  • 2003–04: Susan Lee Youens (Musicology, University of Notre Dame) Heine and the Lied
  • Fall 2004: Andrea Marie Frisch (French, University of Southern California) Classical Amnesia: Forgetting Differences in Early Modern France
  • Spring 2005: Thomas E. Kaiser (History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock) Devious Empire: Marie Antoinette and French Austrophobia
  • 2005–06: Kyeong-Hee Choi (East Asian Studies, University of Chicago) Rewritten in Divided Korea: Colonial Literature as a History, 1945–1960
  • 2006–07: Fiona Somerset (English, Duke University) Feeling Like Saints: Lollard Affect and the Contestation of Holiness, 1370–1550
  • 2007–08: Mary Ellis Gibson (English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Poetry on the Margins: English Language Literary Culture in India, 1780–1912
  • 2008–09: Anupama P. Rao (History and Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University) Caste and the Colonial City: Dalit Life and Labor in Colonial Bombay
  • 2009–10: Katherine K. Preston (Musicology, College of William and Mary) Against the Grain: Women Managers and English Opera in Late Nineteenth-Century America
  • 2010–11: Sarah Shields (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Yusuf’s Dilemma: The Middle East and Identity Politics Between the Two World Wars
  • 2011–12: Neil Warren Bernstein (Classics, Ohio University) Narrative, Equity, and Community in the Pseudo-Quintilianic Major Declamations
  • 2012–13: Ian N. Proops (Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin) Reason’s Fiery Critique: Kant and Rational Metaphysics
  • 2013–14: Lynn Mary Festa (English, Rutgers University) All Things Human in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • Spring 2015: Colin David Hugh Jones (History, Queen Mary University of London, UK) Thermidor: Twenty-Four Hours of Parisian Revolution, 27 July 1794
  • 2015–16: Beatrice Longuenesse (Philosophy, New York University) Self-Consciousness and the First Person
  • 2016–17: Jakobi Williams (African American and African Diaspora Studies and History, Indiana University, Bloomington) “Neighborhoods First”: The Black Panther Party as a Model for Community Organizing in the US and Abroad
  • Spring 2018: Tsitsi Jaji (Comparative Literature, Duke University) Cassava Westerns: Black Revisions of The American Frontier Myth
  • 2018–19: Matt ffytche (University of Essex) Lost Words: Outsider Writing in the Twentieth Century
  • Fall 2019: Egbert Bakker (Yale University) Interformularity: A New Perspective on Homeric Repetition
  • Spring 2020: Simon Middleton (History, College of William & Mary) The Price of the People: Money and Power in Early America
  • 2020–21: Keith D. Miller (African American Studies, Arizona State University) Who Wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X?
  • Spring 2022: Rashna Darius Nicholson (History, The University of Hong Kong) “Helping Hands”: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, Soft Power and Theatre for Development
  • 2022–23: Patrick Greaney (University of Colorado Boulder) (Resident Associate) Designing a New Germany: Braun, Nazi Modernism, and 1950s Culture
  • 2023–24: Michael S. Gorham (Slavic Studies, University of Florida) Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Age of New Media Technology
Emily Rose Warner Study (116)

Endowed by Seth L. Warner in memory of his wife.

  • 1987–88: William Hallo (Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Yale University) The Origins of Modern Institutions in the Ancient Near East
  • Fall 1998: Theodore A. Bergren (Religion, University of Richmond) Commentaries on 5 and 6 Ezra
  • Spring 1999: Denis Donoghue (English, New York University) (Resident Associate)
  • 1999–00: Bernard M. Reginster (Philosophy, Brown University) The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism
  • 2000–01: Paul J. Weithman (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame) Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship
  • Spring 2010: Mikael Hörnqvist (History, Uppsala University)
  • 2010–11: James Phillips (History & Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia) Herman Melville’s Bartleby and the End of Politeness as a Political Strategy
  • Spring 2012: Stuart Isacoff (Music, SUNY-Purchase College Conservatory of Music)
  • Spring 2014: Jean M. Hébrard (Centre de Recherchers sur le Brésil Colonial et Contemporain) Having a Real Name: The Loss and Reconstruction of Names in the Slaveholding Societies of the Catholic Empires (Portugal, Spain, France)
  • Fall 2015: Carol Harrison (History, University of South Carolina) Writing Catholic Womanhood: Pauline Craven, 1808–1891
  • Spring 2016: David Pickell (Independent Writer) Komodo: Lessons from an Island and its Dragons