The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are pleased to announce that six international scholars have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2011-12 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its third year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the international scholars will be on campus for four-week residencies. They will have offices at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with their nominating unit, the Humanities Center, and FSI.
A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose research and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and FSI.
The following six scholars have chosen to be in residence during the 2011-2012 academic year:
Adams Bodomo (October-November 2011) is the Chair of the Department of Linguistics in the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the Director of the University’s African Studies Program. A linguist hailing from Ghana, his primary expertise resides in the structure of West-African languages (Akan, Dagaare). He has recently undertaken research on the African diaspora in Asia, as well as conducted fieldwork on Zhuang, a minority language in China. He was nominated by the Department of Linguistics.
Mario Carretero (January 2012) is a Professor of Psychology at Autonoma University of Madrid, and one of the most prominent leaders studying how young people develop historical consciousness and how they understand history. His work has been at the forefront of the “history wars” since the 1990s over what and who should determine the curriculum on the Spanish-speaking world. Carretero’s research, unlike scholars who explore such issues by dissecting textbooks, is unique in its commitment to fieldwork - conducting interviews with adolescents and observing them in real life situations to understand the dynamics of cultural transmission and resistance. He was nominated by the School of Education.
Catherine Gousseff (February 2012) is a world-renowned leading figure in East-Central European history, politics and society of the twentieth Century, as well as of the former Soviet Union. A researcher at the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) she is currently affiliated with the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. While at Stanford, she will share insights into her new research project on collective memories of displacements, diaspora politics in wartime and post-war eras, notably the Polish-Ukrainian population exchange (1944-1950). She was nominated by the Europe Center.
James Laidlaw (April 2012) is an anthropologist at Cambridge University. Professor Laidlaw is deeply engaged in fieldwork in Asia, researching the Buddhist ethics of self-cultivation, looking at how the traditional means by which Buddhists practice self-cultivation –asceticism, meditation- are undergoing a massive restructuring. Practices once reserved for male monks are now being adopted by women and laity. James Laidlaw has edited seven books, the two latest ones on the cognitive approaches to religion, exploring them from an ethnographic perspective. He is also an expert on Jainism, a tradition of monastic renunciation like Buddhism that is also the religion of choice of a larger lay population. He was nominated by the Department of Anthropology.
Monica Quijada (October-November 2011) is a public intellectual and historian of Spain and Latin America at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) in Madrid. Her engagement with the UN in Argentina (working with refugees) and her directorship of the investigation carried out in the late 1990s regarding Nazi activities during the Second World War and in post-war Argentina shows her commitment to the public space. She has written extensively on dictatorship, populism, and war and their effect on the public sphere in Argentina and Spain as well as on the relationship between nineteenth-century Latin American states and their indigenous populations. She was nominated by the History Department and the Center for Latin American Studies.
Patrick Wolfe (May-June 2012) is a historian at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a premier historian of settler colonialism, currently working on a comparative transnational history of settler-colonial discourses of race in Australia, Brazil, the United States, and Israel/Palestine. While at Stanford, he will give lectures based on his core work on Australia and also on his forthcoming book Settler Colonialism and the American West, 1865-1904 (Princeton University Press). He was nominated by the Bill Lane Center for the American West.
While at Stanford, the scholars will offer informal seminars and public lectures and will also be available for consultations with interested faculty and students. For additional information, please contact Marie-Pierre Ulloa, mpulloa@stanford.edu.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Fellows Update Spring 2011
Read the latest updates from current and former fellows! Please take a moment to send us news about appointments, prizes, publications, and any other events you would like to share with your fellow fellows: shc-newsletter@stanford.edu.
2010-11
HARRIS FEINSOD will be a College Fellow at Northwestern University next year. Following this postdoc year, he will join Northwestern’s Department of English as an assistant professor, teaching courses on poetry, poetics, and the literature and culture of the Americas in the 20th century.
LORI FLORES received a Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bowdoin College and will be teaching courses for the history, Latin American studies, and gender and women’s studies departments for the 2011-2012 academic year.
NATALIE PHILLIPS (also 2008-09) has been appointed assistant professor of 18th-century British literature in the Department of English at Michigan State. Natalie will be staying on board with the research group at Stanford “Culture, Brain, and Learning,” returning to Stanford three to four times per year to stay up to date with the fMRI project.
COURTNEY ROBY will join the Department of Classics at Cornell University as assistant professor in fall 2011. While at the Center she defended her dissertation “The Encounter of Knowledge: Technical Ekphrasis between Alexandria and Rome” and will graduate this spring.
JAMES WOOD will be traveling this summer to the Houghton Library to consult the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of material relating to Samuel Johnson in preparation for the fifth and final chapter of his dissertation-in-progress “Anecdote and Enlightenment, 1700-1800.” The research trip is funded by Stanford’s Fliegelman Archival Research Award.
2009-10
MARY KATHERINE CAMPBELL received one of the ACLS future faculty postdocs (offers from Berkeley, NYU, PITT, Ohio State, and Cal Tech), but took an assistant professor position at the University of Tennessee instead. These offers were due, she says, in no small part to the Humanities Center.
2008-09
JAN ESTEP published the essay “Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art?” in Quodlibetica, Constellation #7, in April 2010, and the catalogue essay “David Lefkowitz, Other Positioning Systems,” in David Lefkowitz (Rochester Art Center, 2010). She also published “The Southern Land Not Fully Known: Naming Antarctica” in Quodlibetica, Constellation #10, October 2010, and “Art, Writing, Disciplinarity: The Political Potential of a Mixed Creative Practice” in Quoblibetica, Constellation #13, April 2011. To access these publications, visit http://www.quodlibetica.com/author/jestep/.
In 2009, Jan produced the artist publication/map Beneath the surface (of language), Silver Island Mountain Byway, Wendover, Utah, USA, in four-color offset print. The map, which is available at Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY, www.printedmatter.org, arose from the short research trip Jan took to the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s (CLUI) artist residency in Wendover, Utah, in Spring 2008, while she was at Stanford. It is modeled after the Wittgenstein map, Searching for Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lake Eidsvatnet, Skjolden, Sogn, Norway (2007), also at available at Printed Matter.
In October 2010 she designed and edited the collaborative artist book Issue: LAND, Volume Two in four-color, offset print. The book features fifteen artist projects that explore current environmental and land-use issues, including Jan’s essay “What Does a Sea Squirt Know? Why Art Needs a Brain,” and artist project “Grand Canyon Suicide Map.” Participating artists include Christine Baeumler (USA), Etienne Boulanger (France), The Center for Land Use Interpretation (USA), Song Chao (China), Matthias Einhoff (Germany), Jan Estep (USA), Simon Faithfull (England), Terike Haapoja (Finland), Nance Klehm (USA), KUNSTrePUBLIK (Germany), Laura Corcoran Mahnke (USA), Anna Metcalfe (USA), Daniel Seiple (USA/Germany), Mona Smith (USA), and Rebar (USA)/Works Progress (USA).
Jan also received a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing, December 2009- March 2011. For more information on Jan’s work and publications, visit www.janestep.com.
2006-07
MEG BUTLER was awarded an ACLS Fellowship for 2012 to work on her book manuscript, “The King’s Canvas: The Transformation of Ancient Macedon.” This is based on her dissertation work, a large part of which she completed as a Geballe fellow. Meg is currently an assistant professor (since 2008) at Tulane, where she is in the Department of Classical Studies.
TROY JOLLIMORE is publishing a new book of poems titled At Lake Scugog this month in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. The philosophical monograph that he started writing at the Center, Love’s Vision, will be published in June, also by Princeton University Press.
CHRISTY PICHICHERO is currently finishing a postdoctoral fellowship with Stanford’s Introduction to the Humanities Program. She has been appointed assistant professor of 17th and 18th century French studies at George Mason University and is the associate director of the Middlebury’s French School (summer linguistic and cultural immersion program) at the Mills College West Coast campus.
ERIC PORTER published the book he was working on while in residence at the Center, The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury (Duke University Press). The book is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. The Problem of the Future World shows how Du Bois’s later writings help to address race and racism as protean, global phenomena in the present. Read more: http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=14746
1995-96
JAMES PORTER published The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience with Cambridge University Press in November 2010. The book traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis on Greece in its earlier phases. Read more: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2715142/?site_locale=en_GB
1992-93
JOHN SEERY published A Political Companion to Walt Whitman (The University Press of Kentucky, 2010), the first full-length exploration of Whitman’s works through the lens of political theory. Read more: http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2443.
In 2011, John published a second book, Too Young to Run? A Proposal for an Age Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, with Penn State Press. Read about that book at psupress.org: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-04853-6.html.
1991-92
DAVID HAHN has been contracted by Fin Records to release a single. Fin Records, an audiophile label based in Seattle, releases collector’s edition recordings on green translucent vinyl. The recording will be released later in 2011.
David’s 4-movement piece for mandolin and guitar, Passionate Isolation, has been published by Clear Note Publications. The piece won the 2003 Composition Prize from the Classical Mandolin Society of America. The work joins Concerto Anatolia and W Is For Weasel at Clear Note. You can hear examples of Passionate Isolation at this link: http://www.clearnote.net/PassionateIsolation.html.
David has two new pieces: “The Massacre of Suns,” for solo voice and dedicated to soprano Beth Griffith with text by Emily Dickinson; and “TIC*TAC*TOE,” for mandolin, guitar, and electronic sound, commissioned by the German-based MARE Duo. It is available as a MIDI version here: http://soundcloud.com/davidhahn/tic-tac-toe.
In addition to his compositions, David worked as sound designer for a production of The Happy Ones now playing at Seattle Public Theatre. A re-mix of some sounds used in the play can be found here: http://soundcloud.com/davidhahn/happy-ones-the-remix. He also has a new performing ensemble, Concert Imaginaire, which performs his music. David plays electric guitar, Ruthie Dornfeld plays violin, and Jay Kenney plays synthesizer and bass. They are currently auditioning percussionists.
1988-89
CAROLYN WILLIAMS published Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody, with Columbia University Press in 2011, which recasts our understanding of creativity in the late nineteenth century. Read more: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14804-7/gilbert-and-sullivan.
1986-87
RENATO ROSALDO has a poetry collection that is scheduled to be published this coming July called Diego Luna’s Insider Tips. Published by Many Mountains Moving, it won the Many Mountains Moving poetry book manuscript contest for 2009.
2010-11
HARRIS FEINSOD will be a College Fellow at Northwestern University next year. Following this postdoc year, he will join Northwestern’s Department of English as an assistant professor, teaching courses on poetry, poetics, and the literature and culture of the Americas in the 20th century.
LORI FLORES received a Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bowdoin College and will be teaching courses for the history, Latin American studies, and gender and women’s studies departments for the 2011-2012 academic year.
NATALIE PHILLIPS (also 2008-09) has been appointed assistant professor of 18th-century British literature in the Department of English at Michigan State. Natalie will be staying on board with the research group at Stanford “Culture, Brain, and Learning,” returning to Stanford three to four times per year to stay up to date with the fMRI project.
COURTNEY ROBY will join the Department of Classics at Cornell University as assistant professor in fall 2011. While at the Center she defended her dissertation “The Encounter of Knowledge: Technical Ekphrasis between Alexandria and Rome” and will graduate this spring.
JAMES WOOD will be traveling this summer to the Houghton Library to consult the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of material relating to Samuel Johnson in preparation for the fifth and final chapter of his dissertation-in-progress “Anecdote and Enlightenment, 1700-1800.” The research trip is funded by Stanford’s Fliegelman Archival Research Award.
2009-10
MARY KATHERINE CAMPBELL received one of the ACLS future faculty postdocs (offers from Berkeley, NYU, PITT, Ohio State, and Cal Tech), but took an assistant professor position at the University of Tennessee instead. These offers were due, she says, in no small part to the Humanities Center.
2008-09
JAN ESTEP published the essay “Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art?” in Quodlibetica, Constellation #7, in April 2010, and the catalogue essay “David Lefkowitz, Other Positioning Systems,” in David Lefkowitz (Rochester Art Center, 2010). She also published “The Southern Land Not Fully Known: Naming Antarctica” in Quodlibetica, Constellation #10, October 2010, and “Art, Writing, Disciplinarity: The Political Potential of a Mixed Creative Practice” in Quoblibetica, Constellation #13, April 2011. To access these publications, visit http://www.quodlibetica.com/author/jestep/.
In 2009, Jan produced the artist publication/map Beneath the surface (of language), Silver Island Mountain Byway, Wendover, Utah, USA, in four-color offset print. The map, which is available at Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY, www.printedmatter.org, arose from the short research trip Jan took to the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s (CLUI) artist residency in Wendover, Utah, in Spring 2008, while she was at Stanford. It is modeled after the Wittgenstein map, Searching for Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lake Eidsvatnet, Skjolden, Sogn, Norway (2007), also at available at Printed Matter.
In October 2010 she designed and edited the collaborative artist book Issue: LAND, Volume Two in four-color, offset print. The book features fifteen artist projects that explore current environmental and land-use issues, including Jan’s essay “What Does a Sea Squirt Know? Why Art Needs a Brain,” and artist project “Grand Canyon Suicide Map.” Participating artists include Christine Baeumler (USA), Etienne Boulanger (France), The Center for Land Use Interpretation (USA), Song Chao (China), Matthias Einhoff (Germany), Jan Estep (USA), Simon Faithfull (England), Terike Haapoja (Finland), Nance Klehm (USA), KUNSTrePUBLIK (Germany), Laura Corcoran Mahnke (USA), Anna Metcalfe (USA), Daniel Seiple (USA/Germany), Mona Smith (USA), and Rebar (USA)/Works Progress (USA).
Jan also received a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing, December 2009- March 2011. For more information on Jan’s work and publications, visit www.janestep.com.
2006-07
MEG BUTLER was awarded an ACLS Fellowship for 2012 to work on her book manuscript, “The King’s Canvas: The Transformation of Ancient Macedon.” This is based on her dissertation work, a large part of which she completed as a Geballe fellow. Meg is currently an assistant professor (since 2008) at Tulane, where she is in the Department of Classical Studies.
TROY JOLLIMORE is publishing a new book of poems titled At Lake Scugog this month in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. The philosophical monograph that he started writing at the Center, Love’s Vision, will be published in June, also by Princeton University Press.
CHRISTY PICHICHERO is currently finishing a postdoctoral fellowship with Stanford’s Introduction to the Humanities Program. She has been appointed assistant professor of 17th and 18th century French studies at George Mason University and is the associate director of the Middlebury’s French School (summer linguistic and cultural immersion program) at the Mills College West Coast campus.
ERIC PORTER published the book he was working on while in residence at the Center, The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury (Duke University Press). The book is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. The Problem of the Future World shows how Du Bois’s later writings help to address race and racism as protean, global phenomena in the present. Read more: http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=14746
1995-96
JAMES PORTER published The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience with Cambridge University Press in November 2010. The book traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis on Greece in its earlier phases. Read more: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2715142/?site_locale=en_GB
1992-93
JOHN SEERY published A Political Companion to Walt Whitman (The University Press of Kentucky, 2010), the first full-length exploration of Whitman’s works through the lens of political theory. Read more: http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2443.
In 2011, John published a second book, Too Young to Run? A Proposal for an Age Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, with Penn State Press. Read about that book at psupress.org: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-04853-6.html.
1991-92
DAVID HAHN has been contracted by Fin Records to release a single. Fin Records, an audiophile label based in Seattle, releases collector’s edition recordings on green translucent vinyl. The recording will be released later in 2011.
David’s 4-movement piece for mandolin and guitar, Passionate Isolation, has been published by Clear Note Publications. The piece won the 2003 Composition Prize from the Classical Mandolin Society of America. The work joins Concerto Anatolia and W Is For Weasel at Clear Note. You can hear examples of Passionate Isolation at this link: http://www.clearnote.net/PassionateIsolation.html.
David has two new pieces: “The Massacre of Suns,” for solo voice and dedicated to soprano Beth Griffith with text by Emily Dickinson; and “TIC*TAC*TOE,” for mandolin, guitar, and electronic sound, commissioned by the German-based MARE Duo. It is available as a MIDI version here: http://soundcloud.com/davidhahn/tic-tac-toe.
In addition to his compositions, David worked as sound designer for a production of The Happy Ones now playing at Seattle Public Theatre. A re-mix of some sounds used in the play can be found here: http://soundcloud.com/davidhahn/happy-ones-the-remix. He also has a new performing ensemble, Concert Imaginaire, which performs his music. David plays electric guitar, Ruthie Dornfeld plays violin, and Jay Kenney plays synthesizer and bass. They are currently auditioning percussionists.
1988-89
CAROLYN WILLIAMS published Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody, with Columbia University Press in 2011, which recasts our understanding of creativity in the late nineteenth century. Read more: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14804-7/gilbert-and-sullivan.
1986-87
RENATO ROSALDO has a poetry collection that is scheduled to be published this coming July called Diego Luna’s Insider Tips. Published by Many Mountains Moving, it won the Many Mountains Moving poetry book manuscript contest for 2009.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Stanford Humanities Center Names 2011-12 Fellows
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.
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.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Two Arts Writers/Practitioners to Come to Stanford in 2011-12
The Stanford Humanities Center and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) are pleased to announce that two arts writers/practitioners have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2011-12 as part of a jointly sponsored program entering its second year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the arts writers/practitioners will be on campus for four-week residencies. They will have offices at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with their nominating unit, the Humanities Center, and SiCa.
These residencies bring high-profile arts writers/practitioners into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose arts practice and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and SiCa.
The following artists have been selected for the upcoming academic year.
Rafael Campo is an internationally recognized physician and poet, a leader in medical humanities and the award-winning author of seven books. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, he is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Office for Multicultural Affairs. A prominent figure in the LGBT medical community, Dr. Campo will lead writing workshops for medical and creative writing students during his time on campus. He was nominated by the Arts, Humanities, and Medicine Program at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.
M.K. Raina is one of the most distinguished theatre practitioners in India today. He is a graduate of India’s premier theatre institution, the National School of Drama based in New Delhi and his unique talents have been recognized by India’s highest awards, including the B.V. Karanth Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre in 2007. One of the few Indian artists who tackles the complex questions of human rights, democracy, and militant terror in the Kashmir valley—his birthplace—his work is informed by his dynamic engagement in secular activism and ranges from Kashmiri folk theatre (working with the Bhand Pather, Kashmiri folk performers) to classical Hindustani and avant-garde cinema. He was nominated by the Centre for South Asia. M.K. Raina will be present on campus in October 2011.
While at Stanford, Campo and Raina will offer informal seminars, demonstrations, student workshops, and public lectures and will also be available for consultations with interested faculty and students. For additional information, please contact Marie-Pierre Ulloa, mpulloa@stanford.edu.
The committee reviewed an unusually strong field of candidates and decided to assist financially in bringing three other nominees to campus: photographer Rosamund Purcell, the author of Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare; Jeff Chang, award winning author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005); and Judith Barrington, poet and memoirist, most recently published Lost Lands (2008).
These residencies bring high-profile arts writers/practitioners into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose arts practice and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and SiCa.
The following artists have been selected for the upcoming academic year.
Rafael Campo is an internationally recognized physician and poet, a leader in medical humanities and the award-winning author of seven books. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, he is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Office for Multicultural Affairs. A prominent figure in the LGBT medical community, Dr. Campo will lead writing workshops for medical and creative writing students during his time on campus. He was nominated by the Arts, Humanities, and Medicine Program at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.
M.K. Raina is one of the most distinguished theatre practitioners in India today. He is a graduate of India’s premier theatre institution, the National School of Drama based in New Delhi and his unique talents have been recognized by India’s highest awards, including the B.V. Karanth Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre in 2007. One of the few Indian artists who tackles the complex questions of human rights, democracy, and militant terror in the Kashmir valley—his birthplace—his work is informed by his dynamic engagement in secular activism and ranges from Kashmiri folk theatre (working with the Bhand Pather, Kashmiri folk performers) to classical Hindustani and avant-garde cinema. He was nominated by the Centre for South Asia. M.K. Raina will be present on campus in October 2011.
While at Stanford, Campo and Raina will offer informal seminars, demonstrations, student workshops, and public lectures and will also be available for consultations with interested faculty and students. For additional information, please contact Marie-Pierre Ulloa, mpulloa@stanford.edu.
The committee reviewed an unusually strong field of candidates and decided to assist financially in bringing three other nominees to campus: photographer Rosamund Purcell, the author of Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare; Jeff Chang, award winning author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005); and Judith Barrington, poet and memoirist, most recently published Lost Lands (2008).
International Scholars in Residence 2010-11
The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are pleased to announce that four international scholars have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2010-11 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its second year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the international scholars will be on campus for four-week residencies. They will have offices at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with their nominating unit, the Humanities Center, and FSI.
A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose research and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and FSI.
The following four scholars have been selected for the upcoming academic year:
Anies Baswedan, currently President of Paramadina University in Jakarta, is a leading intellectual figure in Indonesia. In 2008, the editors of Foreign Policy named him one of the world’s “top 100 public intellectuals.” As an advisor to the Indonesian government, he is a leading proponent of democracy and transparency in Indonesia, a creative thinker about Islam and democracy, as well as a charismatic leader in the educational field. He was nominated by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.
Stephane Dudoignon is a political scientist/senior research fellow at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He is one of the world’s leading scholars of Muslim politics and societies from the Caucasus to Central Asia. He is the author of pioneering work on Muslim movements, including the historical study of Sufi networks from the Volga River to China, Muslim intellectuals’ debates about gender, and modern Sunni revivalist movements in Eastern Iran. While on campus, he will give lectures on Islam in Eurasia and Iran, among other things. He was nominated by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES).
Mónica Quijada is a high-profile public intellectual and historian of Spain and Latin America at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. Her engagement with the UN in Argentina (working with refugees) and her directorship of the investigation carried out in the late 1990s regarding Nazi activities during the Second World War and in post-war Argentina shows her commitment to the public space. She has written extensively on dictatorship, populism, and war and their effect on the public sphere in Argentina and Spain as well as on the relationship between nineteenth-century Latin American states and their indigenous populations. She was nominated by the History Department and the Center for Latin American Studies.
Patrick Wolfe is a historian at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a premier historian of settler colonialism, currently working on a comparative transnational history of settler-colonial discourses of race in Australia, Brazil, the United States, and Israel/Palestine. While at Stanford, he will give lectures based on his core work on Australia and also on his forthcoming book Settler Colonialism and the American West, 1865-1904(Princeton University Press). He was nominated by the Bill Lane Center for the American West.
While at Stanford, the scholars will offer informal seminars and public lectures and will also be available for consultations with interested faculty and students. For additional information, please contact Marie-Pierre Ulloa, mpulloa@stanford.edu.
A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose research and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and FSI.
The following four scholars have been selected for the upcoming academic year:
Anies Baswedan, currently President of Paramadina University in Jakarta, is a leading intellectual figure in Indonesia. In 2008, the editors of Foreign Policy named him one of the world’s “top 100 public intellectuals.” As an advisor to the Indonesian government, he is a leading proponent of democracy and transparency in Indonesia, a creative thinker about Islam and democracy, as well as a charismatic leader in the educational field. He was nominated by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.
Stephane Dudoignon is a political scientist/senior research fellow at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He is one of the world’s leading scholars of Muslim politics and societies from the Caucasus to Central Asia. He is the author of pioneering work on Muslim movements, including the historical study of Sufi networks from the Volga River to China, Muslim intellectuals’ debates about gender, and modern Sunni revivalist movements in Eastern Iran. While on campus, he will give lectures on Islam in Eurasia and Iran, among other things. He was nominated by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES).
Mónica Quijada is a high-profile public intellectual and historian of Spain and Latin America at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. Her engagement with the UN in Argentina (working with refugees) and her directorship of the investigation carried out in the late 1990s regarding Nazi activities during the Second World War and in post-war Argentina shows her commitment to the public space. She has written extensively on dictatorship, populism, and war and their effect on the public sphere in Argentina and Spain as well as on the relationship between nineteenth-century Latin American states and their indigenous populations. She was nominated by the History Department and the Center for Latin American Studies.
Patrick Wolfe is a historian at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a premier historian of settler colonialism, currently working on a comparative transnational history of settler-colonial discourses of race in Australia, Brazil, the United States, and Israel/Palestine. While at Stanford, he will give lectures based on his core work on Australia and also on his forthcoming book Settler Colonialism and the American West, 1865-1904(Princeton University Press). He was nominated by the Bill Lane Center for the American West.
While at Stanford, the scholars will offer informal seminars and public lectures and will also be available for consultations with interested faculty and students. For additional information, please contact Marie-Pierre Ulloa, mpulloa@stanford.edu.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Fellows Update Winter 2011
Publications, promotions, and awards! Here’s what we’ve heard from you since the fall. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu.
2009-10
SARAH LOCHLANN JAIN explored the issue of cancer in “A Special Case: The Young Cancer Patient” for the Human Experience series “Thinking Twice.”
2008-09
TERRY CASTLE is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education article “Terry Castle, Critical Outlaw.” Her recent book The Professor was chosen as one of the Top 10 Books of the year by New York Magazine as well as one of the Favorite Books of 2010 by BookForum; it was also named Editor’s Pick #2 in the top ten books in Gay and Lesbian Studies by Amazon.com.
DONG GUOQING received a promotion to full professorship from Nanjing University. His promotion came on the heels of a number of recent publications: “Local Factionalism in the Cultural Revolution: Nanjing Under Military Control,” Journal of Asian Studies (June 2011); ”Factions in a Bureaucratic Setting: The Origins of Cultural Revolution Conflict in Nanjing,” China Journal (January 2011); ”Nanjing’s failed January Revolution of 1967: The Inner Politics of an Aborted Power Seizure,” China Quarterly (September 2010); and “The First Uprising of the Cultural Revolution at Nanjing University: Dynamics, Nature and Interpretation,” Journal of Cold War Studies (Summer 2010).
2006-07
HANS THOMALLA has won the prestigious Composer’s Prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The prize is a great honor for young composers and is awarded with a cash prize and a composition commission.
2005-06
MARGARET COHEN published The Novel and the Sea (Princeton University Press, 2010), a literary history that questions our land-locked assumptions about the novel.
2002-03
ARNOLD RAMPERSAD received the 2010 National Humanities Medal, bestowed by President Obama during a ceremony at the White House on March 2, 2011. Rampersad was honored for his work as a biographer and literary critic.
2001-02
DEBRA SATZ recently published Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets (Oxford University Press, 2010).
1994-95
LAWRENCE JACKSON published his second book, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 (Princeton University Press, 2010).
1991-92
DAVID HAHN finished composing “TIC*TAC*TOE” for mandolin, guitar, and electronic sound. The piece was commissioned by the German-based MARE Duo and will be included on their next CD, Sound Design. He is currently working as sound designer for the Seattle Publc Theatre‚ March 2011 production of The Happy Ones, a play by Julie Marie Myatt. He also founded the performing ensemble Concert Imaginaire which performs free improvisations and Eastern European folk music.
His 4-movement piece for mandolin and guitar, “Passionate Isolation,” has been published by Clear Note Publications. The piece won the 2003 Composition Prize from the Classical Mandolin Society of America.
1989-90
RICHARD PRICE published a new book, Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). Another of his books, Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2008), won the 2008 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, the 2009 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship, and the 2009 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion.
1987-88
BARBARA BABCOCK has a new book out with Stanford University Press titled Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz (2011). The January edition of Rorotoko featured a fascinating interview with Babcock on Clara Foltz’s life and why today we would call her a “public intellectual.” Read More»
1982-83
HERBERT LINDENBERGER published Situating Opera: Period, Genre, Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
2009-10
SARAH LOCHLANN JAIN explored the issue of cancer in “A Special Case: The Young Cancer Patient” for the Human Experience series “Thinking Twice.”
2008-09
TERRY CASTLE is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education article “Terry Castle, Critical Outlaw.” Her recent book The Professor was chosen as one of the Top 10 Books of the year by New York Magazine as well as one of the Favorite Books of 2010 by BookForum; it was also named Editor’s Pick #2 in the top ten books in Gay and Lesbian Studies by Amazon.com.
DONG GUOQING received a promotion to full professorship from Nanjing University. His promotion came on the heels of a number of recent publications: “Local Factionalism in the Cultural Revolution: Nanjing Under Military Control,” Journal of Asian Studies (June 2011); ”Factions in a Bureaucratic Setting: The Origins of Cultural Revolution Conflict in Nanjing,” China Journal (January 2011); ”Nanjing’s failed January Revolution of 1967: The Inner Politics of an Aborted Power Seizure,” China Quarterly (September 2010); and “The First Uprising of the Cultural Revolution at Nanjing University: Dynamics, Nature and Interpretation,” Journal of Cold War Studies (Summer 2010).
2006-07
HANS THOMALLA has won the prestigious Composer’s Prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The prize is a great honor for young composers and is awarded with a cash prize and a composition commission.
2005-06
MARGARET COHEN published The Novel and the Sea (Princeton University Press, 2010), a literary history that questions our land-locked assumptions about the novel.
2002-03
ARNOLD RAMPERSAD received the 2010 National Humanities Medal, bestowed by President Obama during a ceremony at the White House on March 2, 2011. Rampersad was honored for his work as a biographer and literary critic.
2001-02
DEBRA SATZ recently published Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets (Oxford University Press, 2010).
1994-95
LAWRENCE JACKSON published his second book, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 (Princeton University Press, 2010).
1991-92
DAVID HAHN finished composing “TIC*TAC*TOE” for mandolin, guitar, and electronic sound. The piece was commissioned by the German-based MARE Duo and will be included on their next CD, Sound Design. He is currently working as sound designer for the Seattle Publc Theatre‚ March 2011 production of The Happy Ones, a play by Julie Marie Myatt. He also founded the performing ensemble Concert Imaginaire which performs free improvisations and Eastern European folk music.
His 4-movement piece for mandolin and guitar, “Passionate Isolation,” has been published by Clear Note Publications. The piece won the 2003 Composition Prize from the Classical Mandolin Society of America.
1989-90
RICHARD PRICE published a new book, Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). Another of his books, Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2008), won the 2008 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, the 2009 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship, and the 2009 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion.
1987-88
BARBARA BABCOCK has a new book out with Stanford University Press titled Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz (2011). The January edition of Rorotoko featured a fascinating interview with Babcock on Clara Foltz’s life and why today we would call her a “public intellectual.” Read More»
1982-83
HERBERT LINDENBERGER published Situating Opera: Period, Genre, Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Center Announces International Visitors for 2011-12
The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are pleased to announce that four international scholars have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2011-12 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its third year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the international visitors will be on campus for four-week residencies. They will have offices at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with their nominating unit, the Humanities Center, and FSI.
A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose research and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and FSI.
The following four scholars have been selected for the upcoming academic year:
Adams Bodomo (October-November 2011) is the Chair of the Department of Linguistics in the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the Director of the University’s African Studies Program. A linguist hailing from Ghana, his primary expertise resides in the structure of West-African languages (Akan, Dagaare) and he has recently undertaken research on African diaspora in Asia, conducted fieldwork on Zhuang, a minority language in China. He was nominated by the Department of Linguistics.
Mario Carretero (January 2012) is a Professor of Psychology at Autonoma University of Madrid, and one of the most prominent leaders studying how young people develop historical consciousness and how they understand history. His work has been at the forefront of the “history wars” since the 1990s over what and who should determine the curriculum on the Spanish-speaking world. Carretero’s research, unlike scholars who explore such issues by dissecting textbooks, is unique in its commitment to fieldwork - conducting interviews with adolescents and observing them in real life situations to understand the dynamics of cultural transmission and resistance. He was nominated by the School of Education.
Catherine Gousseff (February 2012) is a world-renowned leading figure in East-Central European history, politics, and society of the twentieth century, as well as of the former Soviet Union. A researcher at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), she is currently affiliated with the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. While at Stanford, she will share insights into her new research project on collective memories of displacements and diaspora politics in the wartime and post-war eras, notably the Polish-Ukrainian population exchange (1944-1950) based on research in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish archives. She was nominated by the Europe Center.
James Laidlaw (April 2012) is an anthropologist at Cambridge University. Professor Laidlaw is deeply engaged in fieldwork in Asia, researching the Buddhist ethics of self-cultivation, looking at how the traditional means by which Buddhists practice self-cultivation –asceticism, meditation- are undergoing a massive restructuring. Practices once reserved for male monks are now being adopted by women and laity. James Laidlaw has edited seven books, two of which are on cognitive approaches to religion, exploring them from an ethnographic perspective. He is also an expert on Jainism, a tradition of monastic renunciation like Buddhism. He was nominated by the Department of Anthropology.
A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose research and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and FSI.
The following four scholars have been selected for the upcoming academic year:
Adams Bodomo (October-November 2011) is the Chair of the Department of Linguistics in the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the Director of the University’s African Studies Program. A linguist hailing from Ghana, his primary expertise resides in the structure of West-African languages (Akan, Dagaare) and he has recently undertaken research on African diaspora in Asia, conducted fieldwork on Zhuang, a minority language in China. He was nominated by the Department of Linguistics.
Mario Carretero (January 2012) is a Professor of Psychology at Autonoma University of Madrid, and one of the most prominent leaders studying how young people develop historical consciousness and how they understand history. His work has been at the forefront of the “history wars” since the 1990s over what and who should determine the curriculum on the Spanish-speaking world. Carretero’s research, unlike scholars who explore such issues by dissecting textbooks, is unique in its commitment to fieldwork - conducting interviews with adolescents and observing them in real life situations to understand the dynamics of cultural transmission and resistance. He was nominated by the School of Education.
Catherine Gousseff (February 2012) is a world-renowned leading figure in East-Central European history, politics, and society of the twentieth century, as well as of the former Soviet Union. A researcher at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), she is currently affiliated with the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. While at Stanford, she will share insights into her new research project on collective memories of displacements and diaspora politics in the wartime and post-war eras, notably the Polish-Ukrainian population exchange (1944-1950) based on research in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish archives. She was nominated by the Europe Center.
James Laidlaw (April 2012) is an anthropologist at Cambridge University. Professor Laidlaw is deeply engaged in fieldwork in Asia, researching the Buddhist ethics of self-cultivation, looking at how the traditional means by which Buddhists practice self-cultivation –asceticism, meditation- are undergoing a massive restructuring. Practices once reserved for male monks are now being adopted by women and laity. James Laidlaw has edited seven books, two of which are on cognitive approaches to religion, exploring them from an ethnographic perspective. He is also an expert on Jainism, a tradition of monastic renunciation like Buddhism. He was nominated by the Department of Anthropology.
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