The Stanford Humanities Center has named 28 fellows for the 2012-13 academic year. Chosen from a pool of over 400 applicants, the 2012-13 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.
Mark Antliff, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow
Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University
Sculpture Against the State: Direct Carving, Gaudier-Brzeska and the Cultural Politics of Anarchism
Marcelo Aranda, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Between Discovery and Enlightenment: Spanish Scientific Culture through Decline, War and Reform, 1670-1735
Oksana Bulgakowa, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow
Institute of Film, Theater and Cultural Studies, Gutenberg University, Mainz
Voice and the Traces of Time: The Russian Archive of Vocal Memory
James Campbell, Donald Andrews Whittier Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Freedom Now: History, Memory, and the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Adrian Daub, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of German Studies, Stanford University
Dynasties: The Nuclear Family and its Discontents in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany
Graciela De Pierris, Violet Andrews Whittier Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
Hume, Kant, and the Metaphysical Tradition
Siyen Fei, External Faculty Fellow
Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Sexuality and Empire: Female Chastity and Frontier Societies in Ming China (1368-1644)
Corisande Fenwick, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Fashioning State and Subject in Late Antique and early Medieval North Africa (500-800)
Marisa Galvez, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Training for Holy War: The Poetics of Crusade Writing
Bruce Hall, External Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Duke University
Bonds of Trade: Slavery and Commerce in the 19th-century Circum-Saharan World
Héctor Hoyos, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University
The Commodity as Prism: A Hundred Years of Latin American Things
James Kierstead, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University
An Association of Associations: Social Capital and Group Dynamics in Democratic Athens
Matthew Kohrman, Donald Andrew Whittier Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Making Life and Death in China’s Urban Cigarette Market
Barbara Kowalzig, External Faculty Fellow
Department of Classics, New York University
Gods Around the Pond: Religion, Society and the Sea in the Early Mediterranean Economy
Aida Mbowa, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Drama, Stanford University
Dialogic Constructions of a New Black Aesthetic: East Africa and African America, 1952-1979
Robert Morrison, External Faculty Fellow
Department of Religion, Bowdoin College
Jewish Scholars in Renaissance Italy
Sara Mrsny, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
Justice, Labor, and the Family: Why We Should Accommodate Caregivers in Workplaces
Harriet Murav, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marking Time: The Writing of David Bergelson
Nicoletta Orlandi, External Faculty Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Rice University
Seeing in Practice: Putting Vision in its Place
Padma Rangarajan, External Faculty Fellow
Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder
Thug Life: The British Empire and the Birth of Terrorism
Byron Sartain, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Music, Stanford University
François Couperin’s Pièces de clavecin and the Musical Communities of Paris and Versailles
Laura Stokes, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
The Murder of Uly Mörnach: Greed, Honor, and Violence in the Basel Butchers' Guild, 1502
Jennifer Tamas, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Paradoxical Powers of Declarations in Old Regime and Revolutionary France
Sean Teuton, External Faculty Fellow
Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cities of Refuge: Indigenous Cosmopolitan Writers and the International Imaginary
Jennifer Trimble, Ellen Andrews Wright Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University
Visual Literacies in Roman Art
Chloe Veltman, Arts Writer/Practitioner Fellow
Writer and Broadcaster
The Communal Voice: Exploring the Metaphorical Significance of Portrayals of Ensemble Singing in Art and Literature
Richard Vinograd, Ellen Andrews Wright Fellow
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Chinese Painting in Theory
Peter Woodford, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Religion, Science, and Value: The Philosophy of Life and its Critics
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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.
