New publications, new appointments, and plenty of awards—here’s what we’ve heard from you since April. And look for a full list of fellows’ publications in the 2009-10 Annual Report, which will be published later this fall. Remember to stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu.
2007-08
MICHAEL BRATMAN gave the Presidential Address on “Agency, Time, and Sociality” to the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in San Francisco last April.
BENJAMIN LAZIER won the Best First Book in History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion for God Interrupted (Princeton University Press, 2008).
2006-07
WILLIAM TRONZO co-edited the digital publication Medieval Naples: A Documentary History, 400-1400 (Italica Press, 2010) with Caroline Bruzelius, Ronald Musto and Eileen Gardiner.
Bill was appointed to the faculty of a new graduate program in History of Art at the University of Rome: Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Dipartimento di Studi Storico-Artistici, Archeologici e sulla Conservazione, Collegio dei Docenti del Dottorato di Ricerca (Storia e Conservazione dell’Oggetto d’Arte e d’Architettura).
He was also appointed by the Sicilian Parliament (Assemblea Regionale Siciliana) to a major new research project on the Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo: Comitato tecnico-scientifico e organizzativo sul Palazzo Reale di Palermo.
Bill was awarded a three-year (2011-14) grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities with his colleague Caroline Bruzelius for a new research project on architecture and landscape in Sicily and Southern Italy, from the twelfth to the fourteenth century.
2004-05
CHARLES GRISWOLD’s book Forgiveness: a Philosophical Exploration (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which he worked on while at the Center, has received some attention at an American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (March 20, 2008) and an American Catholic Philosophical Association Meeting (Nov. 1, 2008).
The exchange with the American Philosophical Association will be published in Philosophia 38.3 (2010) and is available online here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w4r21626m6687535/. The exchange with the American Catholic Philosophical Association has been published in the 2008 ACPA Proceedings and is available online here: http://www.bu.edu/philo/faculty/ACPAProceedings.pdf.
In April 2008, a conference occasioned by the book took place at the University of Oslo. Routledge will publish the results of the conference, edited by C. Fricke, under the title The Ethics of Forgiveness (see http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415885430/).
2002-03
SIBYL SCHWARZENBACH recently published On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State (Columbia University Press, 2009). She also wrote an article on the notion of civic friendship for the Huffington Post that can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sibyl-a-schwarzenbach/a-failure-of-civic-friend_b_387528.html.
2001-02
ILIAS CHRISSOCHOIDIS has received fellowships from ACLS and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Currently (2010-11), he is a visiting fellow at the Houghton Library (Harvard) and the Burney Center (McGill) as well as a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution at University College London, where he works on applications of game theory to opera. Specifically, he will be exploring the early reception of Handel’s oratorios from cognitive and psychological angles.
Ilias is also the creator of the “Handel Reference Database” the largest documentary collection on the composer, which he has made available at http://ichriss.ccarh.org/HRD/ through the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford.
MICHEAL DYLAN FOSTER’s book Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yôkai (UC Press, 2009) received the 2009 Chicago Folklore Prize for best book-length work of folklore scholarship of the year. The prize is sponsored by the University of Chicago and the American Folklore Society. For more information see http://www.afsnet.org/aboutAFS/AFSprizes.cfm#chicago.
BRENT W. SOCKNESS co-edited Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of Theology: A Transatlantic Dialogue (De Gruyter, 2010).
DANIEL J. WALKOWITZ recently published the book that he started at the Center, City Folk: English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America (NYU Press, 2010).
2000-01
DORIAN LLYWELYN published a new book, Toward a Catholic Theology of Nationality (Lexington Books, 2010).
1997-98
THOMAS D. CONLAN published Weapons and Fighting Techniques of the Samurai Warrior (Amber Press, 2009) and was recently promoted to the rank of professor at Bowdoin College.
MICHIKO SUZUKI published Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture (Stanford University Press, 2009). For more information see: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=17270.
1996-97
JOANNA LEVIN recently published Bohemia in America, 1858-1920 (Stanford University Press, 2009). For more information, see: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=16175.
1995-96
SVEN BERNECKER published Memory: A Philosophical Study (Oxford University Press, 2010).
1994-95
LAWRENCE P. JACKSON has a book appearing with Princeton University Press in November titled The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960.
It is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Era, which saw the communal rise of Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, and many other influential black writers. While these individuals have been duly celebrated, little attention has been paid to the political and artistic milieu in which they produced their greatest works. For more information see: http://www.lawrencepatrickjackson.com/RenofIndig.html.
1993-94
VILASHINI COOPPAN published Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing (Stanford University Press, 2009).
JANN PASLER received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities 2010-2011 to work on her new book Music, Race, and Colonialism in France 1880-1920.
1992-93
JUTTA SPERLING published Across the Religious Divide: Women, Property, and Law in the Wider Mediterranean ca. 1300-1800 (Routledge, 2010).
PHIROZE VASUNIA published three edited volumes: India, Greece, and Rome, 1757 to 2007, co-edited with Edith Hall (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, supplement volume 108, 2010); Classics and National Cultures, co-edited with Susan A. Stephens (Oxford University Press, 2010); and The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies, co-edited with George Boys-Stones and Barbara Graziosi (Oxford University Press, 2009).
1991-92
KATHRYN J. MCKNIGHT co-edited Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812 (Hackett Publishing, 2009) with historian Leo Garofalo. It is the first book-length collection of its kind, making available archival narratives produced by Africans and their descendants in the early part of Atlantic colonization. Kathryn and Leo are very excited about the potential this book has to enrich and, hopefully, impact studies of the African Diaspora, especially within Latin American Studies.
1986-87
VAN A. HARVEY recently contributed a chapter on Feuerbach in the newly published four volumes of The History of Western Philosophy of Religion (Acumen Press, 2009) edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis. He also contributed to the new Cambridge Encyclopedia of Christianity (forthcoming).
RENATO ROSALDO won the 2009 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest for his poetry book manuscript, Diego Luna’s Insider Tips. Part of the award is publication of the poetry book (expected fall 2010).
1985-86
REGENIA GAGNIER is currently director of the Exeter Interdisciplinary Institute, president of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and editor-in-chief of the Literature Compass. In addition, Regenia is the chair of the Consortium of Institutes of Advanced Study for the UK and Ireland (CIAS). In June, she addressed the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Tsinghua University in Beijing on the Global Circulation of Literature and Culture.
She also published Individualism, Decadence, and Globalization: On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859-1920 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
1984-85
JANE COLLIER published a Spanish translation of From Duty to Desire, Del deber al deseo: Recreando familias en un pueblo andaluz (CIESAS, Universidad Iberoamerica, Mexico, 2009).
GENARO PADILLA has a book coming out in the fall titled Cultural Politics and Pérez de Villagrás: Historia de la Nueva México, 1610 (forthcoming, University of New Mexico Press).
1983-84
GREGSON DAVIS published the edited volume A Companion to Horace (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
JOSEPH FRANK published two books, Dostoevsky, A Writer in His Time (Princeton University Press, 2010) and Between Religion and Rationality, Essays in Russian History and Culture (Princeton University Press, 2010).
1982-83
DAVID WELLBERY received the 2010 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service for career contributions to the understanding of German language and literature abroad.
David also published Deutscher Geist. Ein Amerikanischer Traum with Ernst Osterkamp (Exhibition Catalogue, Marbach am Neckar: Deutsches Literaturarchiv, 2010).
