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Hurford Family Fellowship

Named in honor of former NHC trustee John B. Hurford, the Hurford Family fellowship has been awarded annually since 2000. Twice the recipient of Fulbright Fellowships, John Hurford lectured and did research on economic development in New Delhi, India, before moving on to a career in finance. At the time of his death in 2000, John was a managing director of Credit Suisse Management and Warburg Pincus in New York as well as the chair of Haverford College’s Board of Managers. During his tenure, the college’s total endowment grew from less than $50 million to almost $300 million during this time, and many enhancements to the physical plant were undertaken.

2002–2003	Susan F. Hirsch	Wesleyan University	The Embassy Bombings Reframed: Constructing Identities, Legal Meanings, and Justice
2003–2004	Jiyuan Hu	University at Buffalo, State University of New York	Comparing Virtues: Aristotle and Confucianism
2004–2005	Piotr Sommer	Independent scholar and poet	America as the New Center (Changes in the Concept of “the Native” vs. “the Foreign” in Polish Poetry after 1968)
2005–2006	David N. Cannadine	University of London	The Penguin History of Nineteenth-Century Britain
2006–2007	Catherine M. Cole	University of California, Santa Barbara	Stages of Transition: Performing South Africa’s Truth Commission
2007–2008	Judith Ann–Marie Byfield	Dartmouth College	“The Great Upheaval” –The Egba Women’s Tax Revolt: Gender and Nationalist Politics in Nigeria, 1945–1954
2008–2009	Anupama Rao	Barnard College	Caste and the Colonial City: Dalit Life and Labor in Colonial Bombay
2009–2010	Rudiger Bittner	University of Bielefeld	Do We Have a Will?
2010–2011	Rebecca Walkowitz	Rutgers University	After the National Paradigm: Translation, Comparison, the New World Literature
2011–2012	Ellen McLarney	Duke University	Poetics of Islamic Politics: The Adab of Rights and Freedom
2012–2013	Carla Nappi	University of British Columbia	Illegible Cities: Translating Early Modern China
2013–2014	John N. Wall, Jr.	North Carolina State University	Hearing Donne: The Experience of Preaching in Early Modern London
2014–2015	Colleen Kriger	University of North Carolina at Greensboro	Life, Death, and Business on the Guinea Coast
2015–2016	Javier Villa–Flores	University of Illinois at Chicago	Perjurers, Impersonators, and Liars: Public Faith and the Dark Side of Trust in Eighteenth Century Mexico
2016–2017	Mary Floyd–Wilson	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	The Tempter or the Tempted: Demonic Causality on the Shakespearean Stage
2017–2018	John Garrigus	University of Texas at Arlington	“Macandal is Saved!”: Disease, Conspiracy, and the Coming of the Haitian Revolution
2018–2019	Gretchen Murphy	University of Texas at Austin	Disestablishing Virtue: Federalism, Religion, and New England Women Writers
2019–2020	Ann Weirda Rowland	University of Kansas	Reading Keats in America
2020–2021	Rivi Handler–Spitz	Macalester College	Contentious Conversations: Masters, Disciples, and the Culture of Yulu Literature in Late Ming China
2021–2022	Irus Braverman	State University of New York at Buffalo	Settling Nature: The Biopolitics of Conservation in Palestine/Israel
2022–2023	David Brakke	The Ohio State University	A Religion of the Books: The New Testament and Other Early Christian Scriptural Practices
2023–2024	Stella Nair	University of California, Los Angeles	Inca Architecture: Chapters in the History of a (Gendered) Profession
2024–2025	Mostafa Minawi	Cornell University	Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Imperialism in the Red Sea Basin and the Horn of Africa at the End of the 19th Century