The Stanford Humanities Center has named 26 fellows for the 2011-12 academic year. Chosen from a pool of nearly 400 applicants, the 2011-12 cohort comprises scholars from other institutions, as well as Stanford faculty and advanced Stanford graduate students. Fellows will pursue individual research and writing for the full academic year while contributing to the Stanford community through their participation in workshops, lectures, and courses.
Shahzad Bashir, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Persianate Pasts: Memory, Narration, and Ideology in the Islamic East, 1400-1600
Martin Blumenthal-Barby, External Faculty Fellow
Department of German Studies, Rice University
The Language of Secularization
Luis Cheng-Guajardo, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
The Practical Demand of Means-end Rationality
Margaret Cohen, Violet Andrews Whittier Fellow
Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Enchanted Depths: Imagining the Ocean in the Era of Underwater Visualization
Georgia Cowart, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow
Department of Music, Case Western Reserve University
Watteau’s Utopias of Music and Theater: Visions of a New France
Megan Dean, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Neither Empire Nor Nation: Networks of Trade in the Caucasus, 1750-1925
Leah DeVun, External Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Rutgers University
Enter Sex: Hermaphrodites and the Demands of Difference, 1000-1600
Alexander Duncan, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University
Tragic Ugliness: An Investigation in Genre and Aesthetics
Paula Findlen, Ellen Andrews Wright Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
After Leonardo: The Artist as Scientist in Seventeenth-Century Italy
David Gilmartin, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow
Department of History, North Carolina State University
The People’s Sovereignty: Law, Politics, and Elections in the Making of Modern India
Paul Gowder, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Political Science, Stanford University
An Egalitarian Theory of the Rule of Law
Thomas Hare, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow
Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Performance and Practice in Buddhist Japan
Kristen Haring, External Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Auburn University
Placing a Call: How Location and Design Facilitated Telephone Communication
Jillian Hess, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Commonplace Books: Romantic and Victorian Technologies of Extraction
Christopher Hom, External Faculty Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Texas Tech University
Hating and Necessity: The Semantics of Racial Epithets
Miyako Inoue, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Making Modern Evidence: Law, Speech, and Recording Technologies in Japanese Courts
Samuel Kahn, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
Establishing a Kantian Pluralism
Richard Martin, Donald Andrews Whittier Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University
Religion, Performance, and Aesthetics in Homeric Poetry
Peggy Phelan, Violet Andrews Whittier Fellow
Departments of Drama and English, Stanford University
Literature and Performance: Expressing the Inexpressible
Janice Ross, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Drama, Stanford University
The Great Rehearsal: Jewish Identity in Russian Ballet
C. Namwali Serpell, External Faculty Fellow
Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Seven Modes of Uncertainty
Debora Silverman, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow
Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Art of Darkness: Art Nouveau, “Style Congo,” and the Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, 1897-2010
Malcolm Turvey, External Faculty Fellow
Department of Film History, Sarah Lawrence College
The Films of Jacques Tati (1907-1982) and Their Place Within the Overlooked Tradition of Comic Modernism
Sylvia Yanagisako, Ellen Andrews Wright Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Made in Translation: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Ventures in Global Fashion
Johanna Yunker, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Music, Stanford University
Politics of Identity in East German Music: Ruth Berghaus and Ruth Zechlin
Ryan Zurowski, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
To the Gentle Reader: Prefaces and Books in Early Modern England
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The Center’s fellowships are made possible by gifts and grants from the following individuals, foundations and Stanford offices: The Esther Hayfer Bloom Estate, Theodore H. and Frances K. Geballe, Mimi and Peter Haas, Marta Sutton Weeks, the Mericos Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the offices of the Dean of Research and the Dean of Humanities and Sciences.
