Past Jean Lane Humanities Professors and Themes:
Spring 2008: Gary S. MORSON (Slavic)- "Russian Literature and Thought in the 1860s"
Winter 2008: T.H. BREEN (History)- "Voices of the American Revolution : Evidence and Interpretation"
Fall 2007: Tracy Davis (Theatre/English)- "Nineteenth-Century British Performance: Editorial Technologies for New Scholarship"
Spring 2007: Mary Weismantel (Anthropology)- "Being Animal, Being Human: Living with Animals"
Winter 2007: Susan Pearson (History)- "Being Animal, Being Human: Thinking with Animals"
Fall 2006: Gary Fine (Sociology)- "The Politics of Reputation: Battles over Political, Literary, and Artistic Identities"
Spring 2006: Alessia Ricciardi (French & Italian)- "The Afterlife of Marxism"
Winter 2006: Dylan Penningroth (History)- "African Americans and the Law: History, Literature, Practice"
Fall 2005: Sarah E. Fraser (Art History)- "Identity & Ethnicity: What is Chinese About Chinese Art?"
Spring 2005: Peter Carroll (History)- "Cities as Modern Utopia/Dystopia in Europe, Asia, and America"
Winter 2005: Jane Winston (French & Italian)- "Race, Gender, Transnationality"
Fall 2004: Linda Zerilli (Political Science)- "Rethinking Political Universalism in a Multicultural World"
Spring 2004: Lyle Massey (Art History)- "Gender, Science and Anatomy: Imagining the Early Modern Body"
Winter 2004: Laura Hein (History)- "Asia as Point of Departure: Offsetting the West"
Fall 2003: Dwight McBride (African American Studies)- "Literature, Gender, and The Politics of Racial Respectability"
2002-2003 Academic Year: Penelope Deutscher (Philosophy)- "Gender, Evolution, and the Transhuman"
2001-2002 Academic Year: Susan Herbst (Political Science and American Studies)- "Media on the American Landscape"
2000-2001 Academic Year: Robert Gooding-Williams (Philosophy)- "Black Identities, Race, and Modernity"
1999-2000 Academic Year: Wendy Griswold (Sociology and Comparative Literary Studies)- "Arts And Publics"
1998-1999 Academic Year: Scott Durham (French)- "Cultures and Technologies of Time"
1997-1998 Academic Year: Helmut Müller-Sievers (German)- "Science And Defining the Human"
1996-1997 Academic Year: John McCumber (Philosophy) "The Meanings of the Modern"
Humanities Themes Prior to the Endowment of the Jean Lane Humanities Professorship:
1995-1996 Academic Year: "The Claim of Theories"
1994-1995 Academic Year: "Culture and Resistance"
1993-1994 Academic Year: "Authenticity and Identity"
