Past Institute Fellows

1992-1993 | 1993-1994 | 1994-1995 | 1995-1996 | 1996-1997 | 1997-1998 1998-1999 | 1999-2000 | 2000-2001 | 2001-2002 | 2002-2003 | 2003-2004 2004-2005 | 2005-2006 | 2006-2007 | 2007-2008 | 2008-2009 | 2009-2010
2010-2011 | 2011-2012

2011-2012

David Ebrey (Philosophy)
"The Role of Matter in Aristotle's Natural Science"

Nina Gourianova (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
"Visualizing Radicalism: The Aesthetics and the Ideological Paradigms of the Twenties"

Katherine Hoffman (Anthropology)
"Mirror of the Soul:  Law, Islam, and Language under the French Protectorate of Morocco (1912-1956)"

Amy Stanley (History)
"Revolutionary Kyoto:  The Everyday Politics of Rebellion, Restoration, and Enlightenment in Japan's Imperial City, 1860-1890"

Barry Wimpfheimer (Religious Studies)
"Coherence: The Engine of Jewish Law"

İpek Yosmaoğlu (History)
"A World Undone: Religion, Violence, and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878-1912"

Julie Rudder (Library Fellow)
"Light and the Unseen: The Role of Light in Contemporary Visual Arts Practice"

2010-2011

Thomas Bauman (Musicology)
"'No Use Actin' What You Ain't': Chicago's Pekin Theater"

Christopher Bush (French and Comparative Literary Studies)
"The Floating World: Japonisme, Modernism, Globalization"

Peter J. Carroll (History)
"This Age of Suicide': Modernity, Society, and the Self in China, 1900-1957"

Wendy Espeland (Sociology)
"Commensurate Worlds: How We Do Things with Numbers"

Jörg Kreienbrock (German)
"Recalcitrant Objects: The Secret Life of Things"

D.J. Hoek (Library Fellow, Head of Music Library)
"From Bird to Cage: The Circumstances and Aesthetic Rationale Behind the Dial Library of Contemporary Classics”

2009-2010

Susan Phillips (English)
“Polyglots and Pocketbooks: A Cultural History of the Pre-modern Dictionary."

Lars Toender (Political Science)
"Experiences of Tolerance"

Domietta Torlasco (French and Italian)
"Digital Memory: Antigone, Cinema, and the Archive"

Mary Weismantel (Anthropology)
"Sexual Themes in Moche Ceramic Art"

John Russell (Library Fellow)
"The Little Shepherd Leaves Town: Rediscovering the Recorder in the 19th Century"

2008-2009

Martha Biondi (African American Studies)
“Black Student Activism and the Early Black Studies Movement, 1966-1980”

Sherwin Bryant (African American Studies)
“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 (History)
“War of Words, War of Stones: The Multiple Sources of Racial Thought in Colonial Zanzibar”

Cecily Hilsdale (Art History)
“Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline”

Seamas O'Driscoll (Slavic)
"Invisible Forces: Economy and the Russian Literary Imagination"

Marco Ruffini (French & Italian)
“Vasari and His Readers: The Early Reception of the ‘Lives of the Artists’”

Dan Zellner (Library Fellow)
"The Future of Improv"

2007-2008

Huey Copeland (Art History)
"Impossible Objects: Figuring Slavery in Postmodern America"

Christopher Lane (English)
"Failing Gods: Doubt in the Age of Victoria"

Rüdiger Seesemann (Religion)
"Sufism in Context: The Rise of a Twentieth-Century West African Sufi Movement"

Michael Sherry (History)
"Go Directly to Jail: The Punitive Turn in American Life"

Julia Stern (English)
"Mary Chestnut’s Unfinished Epic"

Scott Garton (Library Fellow)
"A Life in Time and Space: Examining the Life and Career of Aubrey Beardsley through Geographic Software"

2006-2007

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)
"Materialism and Culture in the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century"

Ji-Yeon Yuh (History)
"Contesting Nationalisms: Memory, Identity, and the Korean Diaspora"

Andrea Stamm (Library Fellow)
"Chinese and Japanese Perspectives on Chicago’s World Fairs, 1893 and 1933-34"

2005-2006

David Schoenbrun (History)
"Violence, Vulnerability, and Authority in Eastern Africa Before 1800"

Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Philosophy)
"Figures of Difference: The Philosophical Readings of L.S. Senghor"

Nasrin Qader (French and Italian)
"Narratives of Catastrophe in Francophone African Fiction"

Janet Olson (Library Fellow)
"William Dwight Porter Bliss and the Gospel of Social Salvation"

2004-2005

Christopher Herbert (English)
"The Indian Mutiny and the Victorian Soul"

Tessie Liu (History)
"Universalism Transformed: Race-Thinking and the Rise of the Cultural Nation in Modern France"

Jorge Coronado (Spanish and Portuguese)
"Displaced Modernities in the Andean Avant-Garde"

Axel Mueller (Philosophy)
"Realism and Pragmatism: Two Aspects of Empirical Knowledge"

Virginia Kerr (Library Fellow)
"Renaissance and Baroque Library Buildings: Early Views."

2003-2004

Clare Cavanagh (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
critical biography of Czeslaw Milosz

Alexandra Owen (History)
"The Politics of Inferiority in Britain, 1890-1925"

Brodwyn Fischer (History)
"Law, Ambiguity, and Power in the History of Modern Latin America"

Francesca Bordogna (History)
"Negotiating Boundaries: Philosophy and the Human Sciences in the Work of William James"

Charlotte Cubbage (Library Fellow)
"Women Writers' Utilization of London as a Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century Novels"

Patricia Dailey (Woodrow Wilson Foundation Posdoctoral Fellow)

2002-2003

Robert Gooding-Williams (Philosophy)
"The Strange Meaning of Being Black: Du Bois as Political Philosopher"

Christine Froula (English)
"Toward New Lands, New Civilizations: Virginia Woolf and the Adventure of Modernity"

Doris Garraway (French and Italian)
"The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the French Caribbean"

Cynthia Robin (Anthropology)
"Theary and Practice in an Archaeology of Everyday Life: A Case Study from Chan Noohol, Belize"

Harriet Lightman (Library Fellow)
"Memoirs Relating to the History of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society"

Patricia Dailey (Woodrow Wilson Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow)

2001-2002

Henry Binford (History)
"The Invention of the Slum: Poverty and the Remaking of Urban Space in America, 1840-1900"

Nancy MacLean (History)
"The Work of Inclusion: Contesting Racial and Gender Inequality on the Job in Modern America"

Susan McReynolds (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
"Aesthetics and Politics: The Case of Dostoevksy"

Alexander Weheliye (English)
"Phono-Graphies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity"

2000-2001

Sarah Maza (History)
"The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie, 1750-1830: An essay on the Social Imaginary"

Thomas McCarthy (Philosophy)
Project will be an investigation of race and political philosophy

Derrick Darby (Philosophy)
Project on moral rights

David L. Easterbrook (Library Fellow)

1999-2000

Tessie Liu (History)
“Genealogies of Race: Loyalty, Love, and Nationhood in Republican France, 1789-1848”

Reginald Gibbons (English)
working on a new novel in progress and a book of autobiographical essays

Cristina Traina (Religion)
“The Sensual Mother: Maternal Experience and the Boundaries of Sexual Ethics”

Jean Mainil (French and Italian)
“Fairy Tales and the Art of Seduction: Essay on the Sexual Ethics of the French Enlightenment”

Kathleen Bethel (Library Fellow)

Anthony D’Amato (School of Law Fellow)

1998-1999

Lawrence Lipking (English)
“Adam’s Dreams: Imagining English Poetry, 1660-1850”

John McCumber (German)
“Continental Philosophy as a Response to Time”

Sarah Fraser (Art History)
“Copying Artists: Sketching in Aesthetic Theory and Practice in China”

Ariela Lazar (Philosophy)
"Psychological Explanations of Behavior in Philosophy"

Jeffrey Garrett (Library Fellow)

Robert Burns (School of Law Fellow)

1997-1998

Laura E. Hein (History)
“When Rationality and Democracy Were One: Economic Imagination in Twentieth-Century Japan”

Thomas William Heyck (History)
"Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in 20th-century Britain"

Lloyd Davidson (Library Fellow)

Andrew M.M. Koppelman (School of Law Fellow)

1996-1997

Edward Muir (History)
“The Fall of Renaissance Italy”

Micaela di Leonardo (Anthropology)
“Can’t We All Just Get Along?’ New Haven and Modern Urban American Imaginaries”

Madhu Dubey (English)
“Black Studies and the Project of Vernacular Theory”

Jane Winston (French and Italian)
“Postcolonial Contexts: Refiguring the French Margins with Duras”

Deborah Campana (Library Fellow)

Kathryn Abrams (School of Law Fellow)

1995-96

Carl F. Petry (History)
Will work on a comparative study of the economic dominion by militarist elites in three regimes of the Middle East during the Islamic Middle Period

Reginald Gibbons (English)
Will work on a new novel and poems

S. Sara Monoson (Political Science and Classics)
Project will be a rethinking of the relation of Plato’s dialogues to democratic Athens and Athenian self-representation

Michael Stone-Richards (Art History)
Project will be a study of the context, practice, and theory of the Surrealist conception of automatism

William A. McHugh (Library Fellow)

Michael J. Perry (School of Law Fellow)

1994-95

S. Hollis Clayson (Art History)
“Parisian Women and Visual Representation in the ‘Terrible Year’ (1870-71)”

Robert Launay (Anthropology)
“The ‘Prehistory’ of Anthropological Theory in the Eighteenth Century”

Kenneth Alder (History)
“The Geometry of the Workplace: The Language and Practice of Mass Production in Revolutionary France”

Julia Stern (English)
“No Space for Dissent: Tyrannies of Voice in the Early American Novel, 1791-1799”

Rochelle Elstein (Library Fellow)

Ronald J. Allen (School of Law Fellow)

1993-94

Albert Ascoli (French and Italian)
“Timely Ironies: Essays in the Historical Understanding of the Renaissance”

Alexandra Owen (History)
"Ritual magic in the Victorian Age"

Terry Mulcaire (English)
“The Aesthetic of Laissez-Faire: Sentimental Values in American Culture, 1770-1860”

Wendy Wall (English)
“Domestic Fictions: Privacy, Maps, and the Home in Early Modern England”

1992-93

Carol J. Avins (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
“Ethnicity, Ideology, Artistry: The Red Cavalry Diary of Isaac Babel”

Barbara Newman (English/Religion)
“Sophia: A History of Wisdom from Solomon to Suso”

Jonathan Glassman (History)
“The Laughing Chorus: Patricians, Plebeians, and Parvenus in a Swahili Town, 1856-1888”

Johnny Payne (English)
"Political Potsherds: Material Culture and the Quechua Renaissance in Peru”