Friday, September 28, 2012
Levinthal Hall Renovation Complete
2011-12 Fellows Make Class Gift to International Visitors Program
Thank You to 2011-12 Fellows!
Each of the 2011-12 fellows contributed to a class gift that has become the seed fund to endow the International Visitors Program at the Humanities Center. As many of you know, this Program was piloted four years ago and brings high-profile scholars from around the world to campus for one-month residencies. We are so grateful for the support and appreciate that every fellow participated in this group gift. Learn more about the International Visitors Program.
Each of the 2011-12 fellows contributed to a class gift that has become the seed fund to endow the International Visitors Program at the Humanities Center. As many of you know, this Program was piloted four years ago and brings high-profile scholars from around the world to campus for one-month residencies. We are so grateful for the support and appreciate that every fellow participated in this group gift. Learn more about the International Visitors Program.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Undergraduate Fellowship Research Assistants Bring Benefits and Surprises
By Michael Marconi
On May 22, an audience assembled at the Stanford Humanities Center for a “Tuesday Talk.” Internal and external fellows, international visitors, graduate students and Center staff crowded the Board Room. This was no ordinary “Tuesday Talk;” it was the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, in which five students reported on the research they had conducted during the year.
These five students, each paired with one of the Center’s fellows, spent the year researching a single topic related to their and their fellows’ common interests. For undergraduates, this provided an opportunity to experience the intellectual life of the humanities early in their academic careers. For fellows, it was a chance to work with Stanford students and receive helpful research assistance.
For historian David Gilmartin, an external fellow from North Carolina State University, it became much more. Gilmartin worked with Albert Pak, a junior double majoring in Philosophy and Political Science, examining voting laws in India and Pakistan. “It was quite interesting because, in a certain sense, he worked as a research assistant, but in another sense, he really just worked as somebody who provided me with an opportunity to try out ideas with somebody who comes from a very different disciplinary background than I do,” Gilmartin said.
For his part, Pak was also influenced by the exchange. “Working on this project forced me to think about my work inter-disciplinarily. This experience will shape my ongoing research for my honors thesis, which is on personal autonomy, but in the realm of addiction [not on South Asian politics]. I hope this will enable me to give a more balanced perspective.”
During the year, Gilmartin asked Pak to look at works on the idea of the voter as an autonomous being in election laws and consider philosophical arguments about the nature of autonomy in political science in order to gain a new perspective on his historical research of voting laws in India and Pakistan.
“We met every week and we had discussions about different authors, mostly coming from disciplines that I wasn’t directly familiar with, mostly philosophy,” Gilmartin said. “And that provided a great opportunity. He would read things and suggest things and prepare outlines and then we would just meet once a week and talk about it. And that was really valuable for me and I hope it was valuable for him as well.”
Other 2011-12 undergraduate fellows were Laura Groenedaal, who worked with historian Kristen Harinh, helping to investigate a side question in Haring’s research concerning a prehistory of text messaging, specifically regarding pager usage. Stephen Hilfer, a senior majoring in English, partnered with Leah DeVun looking at transgender and intersex rights. Kyle Lee-Crossett, a junior majoring in English and Archeology, assisted Paula Findlen in mapping Galileo’s correspondence between 1588-1616. Freshman Cody Leff worked with Margaret Cohen in researching the life of underwater painter Zarh Pritchard.
On May 22, an audience assembled at the Stanford Humanities Center for a “Tuesday Talk.” Internal and external fellows, international visitors, graduate students and Center staff crowded the Board Room. This was no ordinary “Tuesday Talk;” it was the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, in which five students reported on the research they had conducted during the year.
These five students, each paired with one of the Center’s fellows, spent the year researching a single topic related to their and their fellows’ common interests. For undergraduates, this provided an opportunity to experience the intellectual life of the humanities early in their academic careers. For fellows, it was a chance to work with Stanford students and receive helpful research assistance.
For historian David Gilmartin, an external fellow from North Carolina State University, it became much more. Gilmartin worked with Albert Pak, a junior double majoring in Philosophy and Political Science, examining voting laws in India and Pakistan. “It was quite interesting because, in a certain sense, he worked as a research assistant, but in another sense, he really just worked as somebody who provided me with an opportunity to try out ideas with somebody who comes from a very different disciplinary background than I do,” Gilmartin said.
For his part, Pak was also influenced by the exchange. “Working on this project forced me to think about my work inter-disciplinarily. This experience will shape my ongoing research for my honors thesis, which is on personal autonomy, but in the realm of addiction [not on South Asian politics]. I hope this will enable me to give a more balanced perspective.”
During the year, Gilmartin asked Pak to look at works on the idea of the voter as an autonomous being in election laws and consider philosophical arguments about the nature of autonomy in political science in order to gain a new perspective on his historical research of voting laws in India and Pakistan.
“We met every week and we had discussions about different authors, mostly coming from disciplines that I wasn’t directly familiar with, mostly philosophy,” Gilmartin said. “And that provided a great opportunity. He would read things and suggest things and prepare outlines and then we would just meet once a week and talk about it. And that was really valuable for me and I hope it was valuable for him as well.”
Other 2011-12 undergraduate fellows were Laura Groenedaal, who worked with historian Kristen Harinh, helping to investigate a side question in Haring’s research concerning a prehistory of text messaging, specifically regarding pager usage. Stephen Hilfer, a senior majoring in English, partnered with Leah DeVun looking at transgender and intersex rights. Kyle Lee-Crossett, a junior majoring in English and Archeology, assisted Paula Findlen in mapping Galileo’s correspondence between 1588-1616. Freshman Cody Leff worked with Margaret Cohen in researching the life of underwater painter Zarh Pritchard.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Fellows Updates Fall 2012
These are updates you have submitted. The list of new book publications will be included in our Annual Report, coming this November. If you have any exciting news to share, please email shc-newsletter@stanford.edu!
2010-2011
GIORGIO RIELLO was promoted to a professorship in Global History and Culture at Warwick University.
2008-2009
MUNKH-ERDENE LKHAMSUREN will be a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for 2012-2013.
2007-2008
MIRIAM LEONARD was appointed to Full Professor at University College London in October 2011. Her title is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception.
2006-2007
CHRISTINE GUTH published two articles: “The Local and the Global: Hokusai’s Great Wave in Contemporary Product Design,” Design Issues vol. 28/2 (Spring 2012): 16-35 and“Hokusai’s Great Waves in Nineteenth-century Japanese Visual Culture,” The Art Bulletin Vol. XCIII/1 (Dec. 2011): 468-85.
2005-2006
STEVEN YAO'S monograph, Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity (Oxford 2010), has been selected by the Association for Asian American Studies for its 2010 Book Award in Literary Studies.
2003-2004
KAROL BERGER has received the 2011 Glarean Prize, Swiss Musicological Society and has been the 2011-12 EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.
AMELIA GLASER was promoted to the level of Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at UCSD, with tenure.
2002-2003
TAKASHI FUJITANI was runner-up for the John Hope Franklin Prize (best book in American Studies) for his book Race for Empire: Japanese as Koreans and Koreans as Japanese During WWII.
1998-1999
BYRNA GOODMAN will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-2013.
1994-1995
STEFAN HELMREICH'S book, Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, won 2010 American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize and 2010 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
LAWRENCE JACKSON'S second book, The Indignant Generation, won the 2012 Creative Scholarship Award from the College Language Association, the 2012 Award for Non-Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, Literature, the 2011 William Sanders Scarborough Prize of the Modern Language Association, and was a Finalist for the 2011 Hurston-Wright Award. His book My Father's Name was featured on NPR.
1993-1994
JANN PASLER won the Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers of Music for her book Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France (UC Press, 2009).
1990-1991
MICHAEL BRATMAN was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1988-1989
SCOTT JOHNSON was named 2011 Robert L. Spaeth Teacher of Distinction at St. John's University. He is also completing a 3 year term as Chair of the joint department of political science at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in St. Joseph and Collegeville MN.
1986-1987
ROBERT SCHAPIRO was appointed Dean of Emory Law School.
1985-1986
HAMILTON CRAVENS has retired from Iowa State University and now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of the truly civilized cities in North America. He continues his scholarship on science in modern American culture and is a research specialist in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota.
2010-2011
GIORGIO RIELLO was promoted to a professorship in Global History and Culture at Warwick University.
2008-2009
MUNKH-ERDENE LKHAMSUREN will be a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for 2012-2013.
2007-2008
MIRIAM LEONARD was appointed to Full Professor at University College London in October 2011. Her title is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception.
2006-2007
CHRISTINE GUTH published two articles: “The Local and the Global: Hokusai’s Great Wave in Contemporary Product Design,” Design Issues vol. 28/2 (Spring 2012): 16-35 and“Hokusai’s Great Waves in Nineteenth-century Japanese Visual Culture,” The Art Bulletin Vol. XCIII/1 (Dec. 2011): 468-85.
2005-2006
STEVEN YAO'S monograph, Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity (Oxford 2010), has been selected by the Association for Asian American Studies for its 2010 Book Award in Literary Studies.
2003-2004
KAROL BERGER has received the 2011 Glarean Prize, Swiss Musicological Society and has been the 2011-12 EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.
AMELIA GLASER was promoted to the level of Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at UCSD, with tenure.
2002-2003
TAKASHI FUJITANI was runner-up for the John Hope Franklin Prize (best book in American Studies) for his book Race for Empire: Japanese as Koreans and Koreans as Japanese During WWII.
1998-1999
BYRNA GOODMAN will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-2013.
1994-1995
STEFAN HELMREICH'S book, Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, won 2010 American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize and 2010 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
LAWRENCE JACKSON'S second book, The Indignant Generation, won the 2012 Creative Scholarship Award from the College Language Association, the 2012 Award for Non-Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, Literature, the 2011 William Sanders Scarborough Prize of the Modern Language Association, and was a Finalist for the 2011 Hurston-Wright Award. His book My Father's Name was featured on NPR.
1993-1994
JANN PASLER won the Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers of Music for her book Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France (UC Press, 2009).
1990-1991
MICHAEL BRATMAN was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1988-1989
SCOTT JOHNSON was named 2011 Robert L. Spaeth Teacher of Distinction at St. John's University. He is also completing a 3 year term as Chair of the joint department of political science at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in St. Joseph and Collegeville MN.
1986-1987
ROBERT SCHAPIRO was appointed Dean of Emory Law School.
1985-1986
HAMILTON CRAVENS has retired from Iowa State University and now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of the truly civilized cities in North America. He continues his scholarship on science in modern American culture and is a research specialist in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota.
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