Stanford Humanities Center Newsletter

Here's what we've heard from you. If you don't see yourself here and have news to share, please send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu. We are also soliciting information for our annual report about books, CDs, and DVDs published during the 2007-08 academic year. We hope you stay in touch!

JOAN BURBICK (1987-88) is currently the Fulbright Distinguished
Chair in American Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

MARY JEAN CORBETT (1987-88) has been named the inaugural John W. Steube Endowed Professor of English at Miami and has a new book forthcoming from Cornell University Press this fall entitled Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf.

RACHEL COHON (1992-93) When Rachel was a fellow at the Center she began work on a book about David Hume's moral and political philosophy. Oxford University Press will publish that book, Hume’s Morality: Feeling and Fabrication, later this year.

HAMILTON CRAVENS (1985-86) has a new book forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in the spring of 2009 titled The American Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Brief History.

SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK (2005-06) is now professor of modern Japanese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book, Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army came out in 2007 (University of California Press). A Japanese translation will be published in spring 2008 from Hara Shobo, Tokyo.

LAURA GOMEZ (1996-97) recently published Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race (NYU Press, 2007). For more information: http://www.nyupress.org/product_info.php?
products_id=5182 .

During her Humanities Center fellowship, she gave birth to Alejandro (Alex) Gomez, who is now 11 years old and 5'2" tall!

ARIELA GROSS (1993-94) is now John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California. Her new book, What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2008.

CHRIS HIGHLEY (1988-89) has new book, Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland, forthcoming with Oxford University Press later this year. In 2007 he co-edited Catholic Culture in Early Modern England (University of Notre Dame Press) with Fran Dolan, Arthur Marotti, and Ron Corthell.

CHRISTA JOHNSON (1993-94) was recently promoted to Associate Dean for Research at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She was appointed Assistant Dean for Research in January 2006.

VICENTE RAFAEL (1986-87) moved in the fall of 2003 from the University of California, San Diego to join the History Department at the University of Washington in Seattle.

In November 2005 his third book was published, The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines (Duke University Press, 2005). For a cover illustration (which is quite lovely) and information/reviews, see:
http://www.dukeupress.edu/
books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-3664-8

In January 2008, Vicente delivered the Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecture at the Simpson Humanities Center, University of Washington, and gave a talk entitled "Translation in Wartime." For information and a podcast of the talk, see:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/katz/20072008/vicente_rafael.html

KATIE TRUMPENER (1986-87) is now professor of comparative literature and English at Yale. She and her husband Richard Maxwell edited the recent Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period. This year she is back at Stanford as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, which she says makes her year at the Humanities Center particularly present.