Stanford Humanities Center Newsletter

The Stanford Humanities Center has named 26 fellows for the 2008-09 academic year. Chosen from a pool of over 350 applicants, the fellows named below will pursue individual research and writing while contributing 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 2008-09 fellows are scholars from the United Kingdom, Israel, China, and Mongolia, including two Humanities and International Studies (H.I.S.) fellows participating in a program offered in collaboration with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.    

The Humanities Center also hopes to soon announce the recipient of a pilot fellowship in arts writing offered in collaboration with the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts.

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

Rachel Ahern, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University
The Rhetoric of Homeric Speech

Arto Anttila, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Choice and Chance: Rhythm in Language

Martin Berger, Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow
Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz
Civil Rights Photography: The White Struggle Over Black Agency

Megan Bryson, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
The Domestication of Baijie Shengfei: Gender and Ethnicity in Chinese Religion

Terry Castle, Ellen Andrews Wright Faculty Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Rococophilia – British Modernism and the Eighteenth Century

Guoqiang Dong, Humanities and International Studies Fellow
Department of History, Nanjing University, China
The Cultural Revolution at Nanjing University as Social History

Johanna Drucker, Digital Humanities Fellow
Departments of Media Studies and English, University of Virginia
Diagramming Interpretation

Dan Edelstein, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Myth and Enlightenment

Brian Ferneyhough, Donald Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow
Department of Music, Stanford University
As If The Time Were Now

Rhonda Goodman, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
The Visual Culture of Slave Auctions in Nineteenth-Century North America

John Hatcher, Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
The Origins and Evolution of England’s Economic and Social Exceptionalism

Margaret Jackson, External Faculty Fellow
Department of Art and Art History, University of Miami
Configuring Narrative: Pictorial Notation in Moche Art of Peru

Jonathan Kramnick, Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow
Department of English, Rutgers University
Problems of Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Philosophy

Joshua Landy, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Formative Fictions: Literary Structure and the Life Well Lived

Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren, Humanities and International Studies Fellow
Department of Cultural Anthropology, National University of Mongolia
The Emnity of Independence: Ethnic and National Identities in Mongolia (An Institutionalist Analysis)

Yen-Ling Liu, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Music, Stanford University
Music for the People, Music for the Future: Monumentality as Expressive and Formal Ideal in the Symphonic Poems of Franz Liszt

Yair Mintzker, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
The Defortification of the German City

Dina Moyal, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Did Law Matter? Law, State, and Individual in the Soviet Union, 1953-1985

Natalie Phillips, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Distraction: Dramas of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature, 1747-1818

Alon Rachamimov, External Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Islands of Men: Shifting Gender Boundaries in World War I Internment Camps

Judith Richardson, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of English, Stanford University
Vegetable Matters: Plant Life and Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Stephanie Shaw, Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Ohio State University
Slave Migrations, Generations, and Antebellum Eras

Jason Stanyek, External Faculty Fellow
Department of Music, New York University
Around the World Goes Around: Performing Brazilian Music and Dance in the United States

Kenneth Taylor, Violet Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
Toward A Natural History of Normativity

Lela Urquhart, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University
Greek Religion and Indigenous Society in the Archaic Western Mediterranean: Impacts, Interactions, and Religious Integration

Caroline Winterer, Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University
Americans and Monarchy in the Age of Democracy

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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.