Here’s what we’ve heard from you. A full list of fellows’ publications for academic year 2008-09 will be published in the Annual Report. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu.
2008-09
DAN EDELSTEIN published The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution with The University of Chicago Press (2009). For information on the book, visit the press web page. Dan is also a founding editor of Republics of Letters, a peer-reviewed, digital journal dedicated to the study of knowledge, politics, and the arts. Its first issue, featuring articles by Anthony Grafton, Margaret Jacob, Josiah Ober, and many others, appeared in September 2009.
2007-08
H. SAMY ALIM received tenure this year and is now an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles.
2006-07
WILLIAM TRONZO published the edited volume The Fragment: An Incomplete History. He also received a grant from the Kress Foundation to fund a workshop he will oversee this fall at Duke University with his colleague Caroline Bruzelius on “Landscape and Architecture in Southern Italy and Sicily in the late Middle Ages.”
2005-06
MARCUS FOLCH is now an assistant professor of classics at Columbia University.
2004-05
JARED FARMER has been honored with the Francis Parkman Prize by The Society of American Historians for his 2008 book On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. For more information, visit: http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2009/03/on-zions-mount-wins-parkman-prize.html.
CHARLES GRISWOLD has been awarded a senior fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the 2009-10 academic year for a book project entitled Self and Other: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith on Freedom, Authenticity, Sympathy, and Narrative. He also won fellowships, for the same project, from the National Humanities Center and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.
2000-01
TOM WASOW received an endowed chair with the title Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy.
1997-98
MARTIN JAY was presented with a collection of essays written in his honor by his prior students Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon, A. Dirk Moses, Samuel Moyn, and Elliot Neaman, some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The book, The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory, was published by Berghahn Books in December 2008.
1995-96
GERALDINE HENG would like to announce the formation of a new international consortium, the Global Middle Ages. The Global Middle Ages Project, the Mappamundi cybernetic initiatives, and the Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages together represent a variety of universities, institutes, centers, and scholars who are working toward the goal of transforming how we understand the world across macrohistorical time: a thousand years of history, literature, technology, cultural encounters and crossings, ideas, movement, and change. Read more»
1980s
TOM LUTZ (1983-84; 1984-85) received the 2008 American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation for Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
NANCY RUTTENBURG (1982-83; 1983-84) had an exceptional year. Her book, Dostoevsky’s Democracy, was published by Princeton University Press. She was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was offered (and accepted) a position as professor of English, with a courtesy appointment in the departments of comparative literature and Slavic, at Stanford. She is delighted at the prospect of being with her new colleagues in the fall.
ROBERT A. SCHAPIRO (1985-86; 1986-87) published Polyphonic Federalism: Toward the Protection of Fundamental Rights with The University of Chicago Press. Robert credits his graduate fellowship at the Center in 1985-87 with guiding him to the use of polyphony as a trope for federalism and says that the concept of the U.S. Constitution meets Bakhtin would not have been possible without his time at the Center.
