Past Humanities Center Fellowships
Humanities Center Faculty Research Fellowship
Through these Research Fellowships, the Humanities Center seeks to encourage, support, and disseminate important humanistic research. Each Research Fellow spends one term conducting full-time research in residence at the Center.
2007-2008
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Romance Languages: Cities in Ruins in Modern Poetry (Spring). Professor Enjuto Rangel is also the recipient of the Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies.
Daniel Falk, Religious Studies: Contribution of the Qumran Scrolls to the Study of Ancient Jewish Liturgy (Spring)
Katya Hokanson, Russian and Eastern European Studies: Theatrical Asides: Gender and Nation in Russian Women’s Travel Writing (Spring). Professor Hokanson is also the recipient of the Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies.
Mark L. Johnson, Philosophy: The Aesthetic Roots of Human Values (Winter)
Lamia Karim, Anthropology: The Political Economy of Shame: NGOs and Debt in Bangladesh (Fall)
David Li, English: Globalization in Speed: Economy, Emotions and Ethics in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Spring)
Kate Mondloch, Art History: Look at this: Attention, Spectacle, and the Problem of Participation (Fall)
Jeffrey Ostler, History: The Question of Genocide in U.S. History, 1776-1890 (Spring)
Tze-lan Sang, East Asian Languages: Alternative Modernities: Popular Fiction and Urban Culture in Early Twentieth-Century China (Winter)
2006-2007
Monique R. Balbuena, Clark Honors College: Diasporic Sephardic Identities: A Transnational Poetics of Jewish Languages (Fall)
Leonard Feldman, Political Science: A Genealogy of Necessity (Fall)
Sangita Gopal, English: No Place to Hide: Conjugality and Nationalism in Contemporary Hindi Film (Fall)
Jenifer Presto, Comparative Literature: The Other Motherland: Italy and the 20th-Century Russian Imagination (Spring)
Ellen Rees, Germanic Languages and Literatures: Genre and Space in Cora Sandel’s Short Prose (Winter). Professor Rees is also the recipient of the Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies.
Stephen Rodgers, Music: Berlioz and the 19th-Century French Romance: Convention, Ingenuity, and Autobiography in His Late Songs (Spring)
Daniel Wojcik, English: Outsider Art and Vernacular Traditions (Winter)
Alternates (in ranked order):
Steve Larson, Music: Musical Forces and Music Analysis (Winter)
Garrett Hongo, Creative Writing: The North Shore (Fall)
Humanities Center Graduate Fellowships
The purpose of the Graduate Research Fellowships is to stimulate humanistic research and support graduate education by providing students who are completing their Ph.D.s the necessary time, space and other resources to finish their dissertations.
2007-2008
Larissa M. Ennis, English: Melodramas of Ethnicity and Masculinity: Generic Transformations of the American Screen Gangster, 1971-2006 (Winter)
Christen L. Picicci, Romance Languages and Literatures: Force and Human Suffering in Sixteenth-Century Epic Poetry: Torquato Tasso’s La Gerusalemme Liberata and Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga’s La Araucana (Fall)
Kelly Sultzbach, English: Nature Replies in a Modern Voice: The Relationship Between Humans and the Environment in the Work of E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and W.H. Auden (Winter)
Robin L. Zebrowski, Philosophy: We are Plastic: Human Variability and the Myth of the Standard Body (Fall)
2006-2007
Amanda Adams, English: In Person: Authorship, Performance, and the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour (Winter)
Celia Bardwell-Jones, Philosophy: Travel, Identity and Community: Transnationalizing the Social Self (Fall)
Zhihong Chen, History: Going to the Frontier: Chinese Intellectuals’ Reconceptualization of Chinese Geography and Peoples during the 1930s (Fall)
Ann Laudati, Geography: The Greening of the Fortress: Rethinking the Conservation and Development Discourse in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (Fall)
Humanities Center Teaching Fellowships
Teaching Fellowships assist faculty in developing cross-disciplinary undergraduate Humanities courses to be offered in their home departments: courses funded are cross-listed under the Humanities Program. Teaching Fellowships provide a summer stipend as well as funds for course materials, films, or visiting lecturers. Faculty members, individually or in collaboration, from any department, college, or school at the University of Oregon are encouraged to apply for a Teaching Fellowship.
2007-2008 Teaching Fellowships
Michael Aronson, English: New Media: Digital Culture (Fall: ENG 481/581)
John Davidson, Political Science: The Right to Life—Legal, Political, & Philosophic Perspectives or Matters of Life and Death (Spring: PS 410/510). Professor Davidson has also been awarded a 2007-2008 Robert F. Wulf and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities.
Daniel Wojcik, English: Apocalypse Culture: Contemporary Perspectives on Apocalyptic & Millennialist World Views (Winter: FLR 410/510)
2006-2007 Teaching Fellowships
Heather Briston, Knight Library, and Suzanne Clark, English: Writing and the New Research (Fall: WR 399)
Evlyn Gould, Romance Languages, and Karen McPherson, Romance Languages: Great Romances: The World of Proust (Fall: RL 410/510). Professors Gould and McPherson have also been awarded a 2006-2007 Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities.
Anita Weiss, International Studies: Islam and Global Forces (Spring: INTL 399). Professor Weiss has also been awarded a 2006-2007 Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities.
2007-2008 Coleman-Guitteau Teaching-and-Research Fellowship
Judith Raiskin, Women’s and Gender Studies: Travel Writing and Tourism (Fall: WGS 415/515)
2006-2007 Coleman-Guitteau Teaching-and-Research Fellowships
Martha Bayless, English: Oral Traditions in Ancient and Modern Culture (Winter: ENG 407)
Elizabeth Reis, Women’s and Gender Studies: Sex and Medical Ethics (Winter: WGS 415)
Updated: 7/1/08 |
