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.
Monday, April 18, 2011
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.
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