Fellows & Affiliates
Each year the Institute offers fellowships to tenured and tenure-track faculty in WCAS. Colleagues from School of Communication and School of Music were invited to apply for the first time in the 2008-09 competition.
Fellowships are for a full year of leave or a two-course teaching reduction. Applicants' projects are subject to a competition and evaluated by outside reviewers. Fellows work on their projects, conduct an Institute colloquium to present their research, take part in Institute events, and--a year later--design and teach an Institute class that reflects their research. For more information on applying for Institute Fellowships, please click here.
All NU faculty and advanced doctoral students across the University are invited to apply to become Institute Faculty and
Graduate Affiliates if they are interested in the Institute's programming. Institute Affiliates participate in Institute events and receive research funds.
2008-2009 Fellows:
Martha Biondi, Associate Professor (African American Studies), plans to use her two course teaching reduction to complete “Black Student Activism and the Early Black Studies Movement, 1966-1980.”
Sherwin Bryant, Assistant Professor (African American Studies), will use his two course teaching reduction to explore “Rivers of Gold, Sweet Valleys, and Sordid Cities: Slavery and the Struggle for Autonomy and Rights in the Kingdom of Quito, 1680-1810.”
Jonathon Glassman, Associate Professor (History), will employ his two course teaching reduction to complete “War of Words, War of Stones: The Multiple Sources of Racial Thought in Colonial Zanzibar.”
Cecily Hilsdale, Assistant Professor (Art History), will devote her year-long fellowship to “Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline.”
Seamas O'Driscoll , Assistant Professor (Slavic), will devote his year-long fellowship to complete "Invisible Forces: Economy and the Russian Literary Imagination."
Marco Ruffini, Assistant Professor (French & Italian), will spend his year-long fellowship exploring “Vasari and His Readers: The Early Reception of the ‘Lives of the Artists’”
The 2008-2009 LIBRARY FELLOW is Dan Zellner.
2008-2009 Faculty and Graduate Affiliates:
Faculty Affiliates
Thomas Bauman (Music Studies), Jinah Kim (Asian American Studies, English), Michael Kramer (History, American Studies), Vivasvan Soni (English)
Graduate Affiliates
Adrian Curtin (Theatre and Drama), Sam O’Connell (Theatre and Drama), Sara VanderHaagen (Rhetoric and Public Culture), Lora Walsh (Religion)
