Stanford Humanities Center Newsletter

The Stanford Humanities Center has named 27 fellows for the 2007-08 academic year. Chosen from a pool of nearly 350 applicants, these fellows will pursue individual research and writing as well as contribute to the Stanford community through their participation in workshops, lectures, and courses.

In addition to Stanford faculty members and advanced Stanford graduate students, the Humanities Center will host scholars from across the country and across the globe. Among the 2007-08 fellows are scholars from Sweden, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Senegal, including two Humanities and International Studies (HIS) fellowships offered in collaboration with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. The HIS fellows are Babacar Fall (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal), who will research the relation between individual life histories and political change in his native Senegal, and Faviola Rivera-Castro (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), who will examine the difference between U.S. and Mexican notions of political liberalism.

Following is a full list of the fellows and their research projects.

H. Samy Alim (External Faculty Fellow), Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles: Speech Is Our Hammer: Verbal Mujahidin in the Transglobal Hip Hop Umma

Facundo Alonso (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Philosophy, Stanford University: "Shared Intention, Reliance, and Interpersonal Obligations"

Jeremy Braddock (External Faculty Fellow), English, Cornell University: The Modernist Collector and Black Modernity, 1914-1934

Michael Bratman (Donald Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow), Philosophy, Stanford University: Shared Action, Shared Intention, Shared Valuing

Gerald Bruns (Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow), English, University of Notre Dame: Singular Poetries: The Writings of Susan Howe and Lyn Hejinian

Giovanna Ceserani (Internal Faculty Fellow), Classics, Stanford University: Archaeologies of Magna Graecia: Scholarship at the Margins of Modern Hellenism

James Clifford (Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow), History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz: Traditional Futures: Indigenous Cultural Politics Today

Babacar Fall (Humanities and International Studies Faculty Fellow), History, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal: History vs Literature: Between Conflict and Convergence – Life Histories and Social and Political Change in Senegal, 1945-1968

Christelle Fischer (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Classics, Stanford University: "Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt"

Mikael Hörnqvist (External Faculty Fellow), History, Uppsala University, Sweden: Machiavelli and Justice

Paul Kiparsky (Violet Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow), Linguistics, Stanford University: Amphichronic Linguistics

Nancy Kollmann (Ellen Andrews Wright Faculty Fellow), History, Stanford University: Justice, Law, and the State in Early Modern Russia

Jenna Lay (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), English, Stanford University: “'They Will Not Be Penned Up in Any Cloister': Nuns, Recusants, and the Development of Protestant Literary History"

Benjamin Lazier (External Faculty Fellow), History, Reed College: The New Organicism: A History of Earth and Artifact in Twentieth-Century Thought

Steven Lee (Geballe Associate Dissertation Prize Fellow), Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University: "Cold War Multiculturalism: The Clash of American and Soviet Models of Difference"

Miriam Leonard (External Faculty Fellow), Classics, University College London: Greeks, Jews, and the Enlightenment

David Lummus (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), French and Italian, Stanford University: "Boccaccio’s Human Mythology: Myth and Humanism in the Works of Giovanni Boccaccio"

Liisa Malkki (Internal Faculty Fellow), Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University: Figuring the Human, Moralizing World Order

Kristin Monroe (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University: "Mobile Citizens: Space, Power, and the Remaking of Beirut"

Jessica Payette (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Music, Stanford University: "Seismographic Screams: 'Erwartung’s' Reverberations Through Twentieth-Century Culture"

Faviola Rivera-Castro (Humanities and International Studies Faculty Fellow), Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Toleration, Secularization, and Citizenship in Mexican Liberalism

Richard Roberts (Donald Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow), History, Stanford University: Colonialism, the Rule of Law, and Bargains of Collaboration: An African Life Astride the Transition to Colonialism in French West Africa, 1879-1918

Natalie Rouland (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University: "Ballet and the Imperial Body in Russian Literature, 1851-1895"

Christopher Rovee (Internal Faculty Fellow), English, Stanford University: Disposed to Critique: Waste and the Lyric from Wordsworth to Wilde

Michael Shanks (Violet Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow), Classics, Stanford University: Making Material Culture

Carol Loeb Shloss (Ellen Andrews Wright Faculty Fellow), English, Stanford University: Treason’s Child: Mary de Rachewiltz and the Real Estate of Ezra Pound

Ema Vyroubalova (Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow), English, Stanford University: “'These Confusions of Lewd Tongues': Linguistic Diversity in Early Modern England, 1509-1625"

The Humanities Center’s fellowships are made possible by gifts and grants from 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.