Here is what we have heard from you since last October. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu.
2007-08
H. SAMY ALIM, after completing a wonderful year as a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow in 2007-2008 (and returning from completing a MA and PhD from Stanford), is happy to be back on “the Farm” as an Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Linguistics, as well as an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. The year at the Humanities Center provided a window into the engaging intellectual life across Stanford’s campus, and Samy is delighted to be a part of this challenging and stimulating environment.
2005-06
WENDY LARSON published a book that came out of her Humanities Center fellowship, fortuitously emerging at the 100th anniversary of Freud’s debut talk in America at Clark University in 1909: From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China, Stanford University Press, 2009.
1999-2000
JAMES ROBSON published his book that was incubated long ago at the Humanities Center: Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak in Medieval China, Harvard University Press, East Asian Monograph Series, 2009.
RICHARD STREET was the recipient of the 2009 Howard Chapnick Grant for the advancement of photojournalism in a ceremony held at The Asia Society in New York City on October 14, 2009. The grant will allow him to travel to Washington, D.C. and conclude the final phase of his research in the Leonard Nadel Collection at the Smithsonian Institution on his book titled Subversive Images: Leonard Nadel’s Massive and Unknown Photo Essay on Braceros in 1956, which will be published in 2011.
1997-98
TIM DEAN published two books recently: A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy, ed. James J. Bono, Tim Dean, & Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Fordham University Press, November 2008; and Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking, University of Chicago Press, May 2009.
1985-86
HARRIET RITVO published The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism, University of Chicago Press, in October 2009. She presented a piece of it at a symposium at the Humanities Center several years ago.
