Past Fellows & Affiliates
2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008
Huey Copeland (Art History) spent his two course teaching reduction exploring "Impossible Objects: Figuring Slavery in Postmodern America"
Christopher Lane (English) spent his two course teaching reduction to research "Failing Gods: Doubt in the Age of Victoria"
Rüdiger Seesemann (Religion) spent his year-long fellowship examining "Sufism in Context: The Rise of a Twentieth-Century West African Sufi Movement"
Michael Sherry (History) spent his two course teaching reduction to study "Go Directly to Jail: The Punitive Turn in American Life"
Julia Stern (English) spent her year-long fellowship to research "Mary Chestnut’s Unfinished Epic"
The 2007-2008 LIBRARY FELLOW was Scott GARTON, who worked on "A Life in Time and Space: Examining the Life and Career of Aubrey Beardsley through Geographic Software"
2007-2008 Faculty Affiliates: Peter CARROLL (History); Doris GARRAWAY (French & Italian); Cecily HILSDALE (Art History); Bonnie HONIG (Political Science); and Séamas O'DRISCOLL (Slavic)
2007-2008 Graduate Affiliates: Shannon Grady BLAHA (History); Jennifer CAZENAVE (Comparative Literature); Demetra KASIMIS (Political Science); Hector REYES (Art History)
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2006-2007 Fellows:
Bernadette FORT (French & Italian)— "Greuze and the Aesthetics of Fatherhood: Images of Patriarchal Authority in the Late Ancien Régime;"
Betsy ERKKILA (English)— "Writing the Revolution: Literature and Politics in Revolutionary America;"
Sarah MAZA (History)— "The Parricide: Violette Nozière and 1930s Paris."
Helen THOMPSON (English)—whose full year will be devoted to "Materialism and Culture in the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century."
Ji-Yeon YUH (History)— who will enter into a full-year fellowship awarded her last year to investigate "Contesting Nationalisms: Memory, Identity, and the Korean Diaspora."
The 2006-2007 LIBRARY FELLOW is Andrea STAMM, who will be working on "Chinese and Japanese Perspectives on Chicago’s World Fairs, 1893 and 1933-34."
2006-2007 Faculty Affiliates: Jennifer Brody (English), Tracy Davis (Performance Studies and English), Stephen Eisenman (Art History), Alexander Weheliye (English).2006-2007 Graduate Affiliates: Kathryn de Luna (History), Kerry Dobransky (Sociology), Laura Ephraim (Political Science), Peter Jaros (English), Katherine Kanne (Anthropology), Carmen Niekrasz (Art History), and Jana Measells (History).
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David SCHOENBRUN (History) spent his year-long fellowship exploring "Violence, Vulnerability, and Authority in Eastern Africa Before 1800"
Souleymane Bachir DIAGNE (Philosophy) used his two-course teaching reduction to examine "Figures of Difference: The Philosophical Readings of L.S. Senghor."
Nasrin QADER (French and Italian) worked on "Narratives of Catastrophe in Francophone African Fiction" during her fellowship year.
Janet OLSON was the Library Fellow. She worked on "William Dwight Porter Bliss and the Gospel of Social Salvation," researching the life and thought of W.D.P. Bliss (1856-1926), an Episcopalian priest and Christian socialist who was an influential figure in the social reform movements of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
2005-2006 Faculty Affiliates: Martha Biondi (African American Studies), Dario Fernandez-Morera (Spanish & Portuguese), Christine Froula (English), Dorothy Wang (English)
2005-2006 Graduate Affiliates: Samir Haddad (Philosophy), Devorah Heitner (Program in Media, Technology and Society), Christina S. McMahon (Theatre/Drama), Stefka Mihaylova (Theatre/Drama), Jonathan Mathys (Philosophy), Lida Maxwell (Political Science), Paul North (Comparative Literary Studies and German), Heather Schoenfeld (Sociology)
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2004-2005 FELLOWS:
Christopher Herbert (English) used his two-course teaching reduction to explore "The Indian Mutiny and the Victorian Soul";
Tessie Liu (History) spent her year-long fellowship examining "Universalism Transformed: Race-Thinking and the Rise of the Cultural Nation in Modern France";
Jorge Coronado (Spanish and Portuguese) worked on "Displaced Modernities in the Andean Avant-Garde" during the year;
Axel Mueller (Philosophy) devoted the year to "Realism and Pragmatism: Two Aspects of Empirical Knowledge."
Virginia Kerr was the Library Fellow. She explored "Renaissance and Baroque Library Buildings: Early Views."
2004-2005 Faculty Affiliates:Christine Froula (English), Daniel Richter (Classics), John Peffer (Art History), Helen Thompson (English), Harvey Young (Theatre).
2004-2005 Graduate Affiliates: Todd Hedrick (Philosophy), Ho Alan Chan (French and Italian), Terence McDonnell (Sociology).
