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"When we launched a celebration last year in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Stanford Letter from Humanities Center, none of us imagined that this anniversary year would be the Center’s the Director most challenging.”
When we launched a celebration last year in We continue to carry out this responsibility even honor of the 40th anniversary of the Stanford under adverse conditions, and will emerge from the Humanities Center, none of us imagined that present pandemic stronger than before, with a this anniversary year would be the Center’s new sense of how to adapt the available media to most challenging. In the middle of March 2020, reach our local and worldwide audiences. because of the pandemic, the fellows and staff were enjoined to leave our building and move abruptly Our plans through 2021 include four new to online activities, a drastic change for an series: “How Change Comes,” a train of talks institution accustomed to hosting in-person events and workshops by scholars who maintain a for the entire Stanford campus and fostering serious commitment to social justice; “Inside daily encounters among its members.While we the Center,” in which Humanities Center maintained the fellows’ weekly work-in-progress fellows present their work in progress; “All talks with scarcely a break, the Geballe Research This Rising,” featuring thinkers of all disciplines Workshops made a difficult shift away from on-site whose influence will crest over the next ten years; meetings, and our ambitious agenda of public and the “1891 Lectures in the Humanities,” in events was largely postponed into the autumn which new senior members of the Stanford of 2020. humanities faculty introduce their thought to the community.The endowed lectures on our annual Even as the end of the pandemic is not yet in calendar are designed as memorable occasions to sight, the Stanford Humanities Center remains hear figures of growing renown. determined to uphold our distinctive office on campus, in the nation, and in the world. As I see The work of the Stanford Humanities Center it, only the Humanities Center has the mission remains urgent, and is now resurgent.We hope that to bring to Stanford the freshest, most exciting as you explore this report of 2019–20, you will ideas in the broader humanities. be inspired to join us for the invigorating intellectual experience of the coming years. Across disciplines, the Center speaks for the general importance of interpretation, argument, evidence, and analysis.We lend historical and comparative context to urgent issues of the present such as racial justice and climate change; we sponsor provocative, unfashionable, and unusual Roland Greene work that brings insight to the cultural conversation. Anthony P.Meier Family Professor and Director 62309 text 62309_text_03 STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER 2019—2020 ANNUAL REPORT 1 2 2 3
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The events of this year have caused a seismic shift in the Center’s operations. Roland Greene becomes Spring Quarter classes move online Bay Area institutes nation’s While this wasn’t the 40th anniversary we were expecting, it was a collective Director of the Center first shelter-in-place order experience that brought about new and unexpected ways of communicating, exploring, and expanding. It reaffirmed that the work we do matters and showed how humanists respond, even if we don’t yet know how this story will end.
Global Event
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Fellowship year begins Hume Humanities Honors Fellows The Center shifts to an join the Center entirely virtual program with all staff working remotely
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Roland Greene delivers China reports cluster of First International Visitor of the year, U.S. COVID-19 cases surge past Spring Quarter International Planned pneumonia cases, later identified Visitorships postponed to 2020–21 arrives Classes Without as novel coronavirus Joanne Liu, 82,000 Presidential Quizzes the highest total in world Lecture lecture for Reunion Homecoming by Achille Mbembe (rescheduled Weekend to Oct 20, 2020)
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Ato Quayson delivers the inaugural First case of COVID-19 reported Hume undergraduates present Planned Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Santa Clara County virtual symposium erupt across the U.S. over the deaths 1891 Lecture in 1891 Lecture of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, in the Humanities Ahmaud Arbery, and others the Humanities by Anna Bigelow (rescheduled to Nov 10, 2020)
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"The luxury of having long stretches of time to read, think, and write was Fellows the biggest benefit of my year at the Humanities Center. But the benefit of solitary scholarship is beneficial only when set beside the fellowship of a scholarly community. The Cen- ter magically makes both possible.”
Haiyan Lee, Ellen Andrews Wright Faculty Fellow
For four decades, the Stanford Humanities Center The Humanities Center’s fellowships are made has created a unique intellectual community for possible by gifts and grants from the following scholars at all stages of their academic careers to individuals, foundations, and other Stanford offices: join in a mutual exchange of ideas. In 2019–20 The Esther Hayfer Bloom Estate,Theodore H. the Center provided nearly 50 fellowships to scholars and Frances K. Geballe, Mimi and Peter Haas, from around the globe. And while we were forced Marta Sutton Weeks, the Andrew W. Mellon by the pandemic to move that community online Foundation, the Mericos Foundation, the National midyear, the Center continued to support our Endowment for the Humanities, and the offices fellows’ research, writing, and scholarly connections of the Dean of Research and the Dean of Human- from afar with weekly virtual talks and events. ities and Sciences. 62309 text 62309 text
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Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Stanford Humanities Center Faculty Fellow Faculty Fellow Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities Dissertation Prize Fellow in the Humanities in the Humanities
Department of German Studies, Department of Political Science, Department of History, Department of History, Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Department of Music, Stanford University Stanford University Stanford University Vanderbilt University Northwestern University Studies, Stanford University The Sound of Metal: Amateur Brass Bands Undivided Heavens: Space Exploration Convergence Concepts: The Political The Judgment of the Provinces: The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping Walking with the Ghost: Contested Silences, in Southern Benin and Identity in Cold War Germany Construction of Stability, Legitimacy, Law, Culture, and Empire in the Roman East of an American Political Identity, from Nixon Memory-Making, and Cambodian/American and Authority to Trump Histories of Violence
The Humanities Center provided My fellowship year offered a host of My fellowship gave me time to put I spent Fall Quarter finishing up The This year as a Mellon Fellow has been I am grateful to the Stanford Human- a wonderful centerpiece for me to benefits, but the most fundamental was into continuous prose some answers to Hispanic Republican, but I also began an invaluable opportunity for growth ities Center staff for their support and encounter new ideas and be a part probably the time it afforded me to the problems and questions I’ve been my next book project on the lifelong and preparation for a tenure-track career thoughtful decisions during this time, of a community on campus. I enjoyed think deeply and critically through my thinking about for some ten years. In the friendship between the Watergate in academia. I am appreciative of the and for my time at the Center as a whole. learning about the fascinating new dissertation project. I came into the time that I had in the Center, I managed mastermind E. Howard Hunt and the intellectual and collegial community I I thought the book proposal workshops directions that humanities research year with the pieces of a project—only to complete two very lengthy chapters of conservative intellectual William F. found within the program and especially that included one-on-one meetings with is taking and thinking about how to one finished chapter of my disserta- my book and I’m really happy with the Buckley, Jr.Without a doubt, the major among the group of other Mellons. In editors were especially helpful. The incorporate these new perspectives into tion—and the fellowship gave me the things I have written. I’ve been a fellow benefits of the fellowship were the addition to scholarly exchange during Center provided a supportive commu- my own work. All of the opportunities time to put them together. Although at several institutions, and I know that quiet time away from responsibilities Friday research talks on a variety of nity and a stimulating space in which to for us to share our own work have been access to the Center was cut short by the culture seems to be a given. But it at my home institution, and the op- topics, I have enjoyed interacting with share experiences and ideas and I look very valuable and I have learned a lot the threat of COVID-19, the fellowship isn’t—it’s something built by hard work portunity to make community with and learning from Mellon Fellows as forward to beginning my new position from the ways in which other Mellon was also generous in the space it and attention to detail. everyone at the Stanford Humanities we came and went and worked together as Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology Fellows write, think, or teach. made for work, study, and community. Center. And in fact, I’d probably say in the communal office at the Human- at the University of Toronto in the fall that the latter was more important ities Center. of 2020. to me than the former. 62309 text 62309 text
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Stanford Humanities Center Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Faculty Fellow Faculty Fellow Violet Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow Dissertation Prize Fellow in the Humanities
Department of Music, Stanford University Department of History, University Department of Linguistics, Department of English, Department of Slavic Languages and Department of History, Stanford University of California, Berkeley Stanford University University of Wisconsin, Madison Literatures, Stanford University The Varieties of Minimalist Experience: Priests’ Wives: Confronting Celibacy The Roles of Psychological States in Aim at Empire: Arms Trading and the Participant Encoding in West Circassian Queer Forms Through Each Other's Eyes: in the Age of Reform, ca. 1040–1215 the Reception of American Minimalism Fates of American Revolutions Russian-English Cultural Encounters, During the Long Sixties 1553–1603
Having my own office on campus made It was such a blessing to have time and The Mellon Fellowship gave me the During my year at the Humanities I normally teach nine courses a year With the support of the Stanford for my most productive and focused space to read, research, reflect, and space, time, and resources to advance Center I completed the longest and and have to squeeze my research into Humanities Center, I made substantial year at Stanford. I finished and defended write. I had intended to spend the year my academic career. My major accom- most challenging chapter of my new evenings and weekends when I am not progress on a new research project my dissertation, applied for over 40 mainly writing, and wound up mostly plishments included a fieldtrip to Russia book project.The time I was granted preparing for my classes. Consequently, examining the lives and experiences of academic jobs (receiving a postdoc position researching, thinking, and reimagining for data collection in December 2019, to research, reconsider my approach this year has been a godsend to me. It’s eleventh-century priests’ wives.This in Toronto), presented at two national essential aspects of the project.That a presentation at the major conference and arguments, was invaluable. I also the first time that I have been able to subject has been on my research agenda conferences, and submitted two papers wouldn’t have been possible without the in my field in January 2020, and the spent a very significant amount of devote myself exclusively to my research. for some time, but it is difficult: most for publication. But building relation- blessing of time and space to think. submission of a manuscript to a peer- time simply reeducating myself on my I made considerable progress on three studies of church reform during the eleventh ships with other fellows was even more I really loved the rhythm.Tuesday pre- review journal. As I’ve transitioned own fields of expertise: I filled in aspects of my research—the gifting century ignore the implications of rewarding than the preceding accom- sentations were always very welcome— from graduate school to my postdoctoral major gaps in my knowledge of 1960s between England and Russia, exchange celibacy for women married to priests plishments and milestones. Faculty and learning about everyone’s work, and career, a new campus and department, and 1970s social movement history of doctors, and early masques— or pass over the women as being graduate students were willing to have getting to think together, however and throughout the COVID-19 crisis, and culture, including learning more despite my inability to visit the English “absent” from medieval sources. I felt honest conversations about their work, briefly, as a community. And interacting the Center has been an invaluable about Asian American feminisms, and Russian archives, as intended. quite free to explore sources that lives, and future goals. with the staff was always a delight. source of support and community. lesbian separatism, and trans politics. were entirely new to me. 62309 text 62309 text
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Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Stanford Humanities Center Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Donald Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow Ellen Andrews Wright Faculty Fellow in the Humanities Dissertation Prize Fellow in the Humanities
Department of Comparative Media Studies/ Department of Iberian and Latin American Department of East Asian Languages Center for Comparative Studies in Race Departments of French and Italian Departments of East Asian Languages Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Cultures, Stanford University and Cultures, Stanford University and Ethnicity, Stanford University and Comparative Literature, and Cultures and Comparative Literature, Technology Stanford University Stanford University Stages of History: New World Performing Jiang Qing (1914–1991): Gender, Mapping Race: Policies, Sex, and Social Drowning in the Mainstream: Network News Spectacles and the Theater of the Performance, and Power in Modern China Orders in the French Atlantic and Indian Marcel Proust: A Very Short Introduction A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology at the 1968 Democratic Convention World in the Sixteenth Century Oceans, c. 1608–1756 of the Chinese Legal Imagination
I made tremendous progress on my Thanks to my Mellon Fellowship, I was In my time as a Dissertation Prize The fellowship allowed me to make a My main task has been to make prog- My major accomplishment of the year book on media coverage of the Chicago able to complete a full draft of my book Fellow, I was able to work through difference on the job market.To me, the ress on a new book: Oxford University was finishing 90% of my book manu- Democratic National Convention of manuscript, and the Humanities Center my research materials, narrow the daughter of an Afro-Caribbean house- Press kindly commissioned me to write script. I also co-organized a symposium 1968. I arrived having gathered all of my enabled me to develop my project in dia- scope of my investigation, commit to keeper and a white working-class artisan about Marcel Proust for their Very Short on cognitive literary studies under the archival research materials and having logue with the broader intellectual a methodology of biography and from a French banlieue, becoming an Introductions series. Among the benefits auspices of the Center for the Study of read relevant background material. At community at Stanford. I presented literary/performance analysis, and identify assistant professor at Tulane University the fellowship year offered were the time the Novel. It was the last large in-person that point, I had given several confer- chapters at Bolívar House and the my overall argument for my project. starting in fall 2020 is such an extraor- to write, intellectual exchanges with the event I participated in.The luxury of ence presentations on the work and had Center for Medieval and Early Modern Conversations at lunch with various dinary career path.This year, I finished wonderful fellows, and personal and intel- having long stretches of time to read, think, conceptualized the arguments and Studies and taught two undergraduate fellows were critical in helping me my book manuscript, wrote one article, lectual connections that I hope will last and write was the biggest benefit of my structure of the book. I now end the year courses in the Department of Iberian and shape the structure. A nod, a follow-up and taught one course. I am also grateful a lifetime. Also, the daily lunches would year at the Humanities Center. But the having written the book’s introduction Latin American Cultures.The Center question, confusion, methodological to the Mellon Foundation for their bring us together and weekly lectures benefit of solitary scholarship is benefi- plus three chapters. I am delighted with also provided me with an intimate forum comparisons, rephrasing and re-stating, guest speaker fund, which allowed us to helped presenters finetune their projects cial only when set beside the fellowship the progress I was able to make on my where I could present works-in-progress etc., helped me think through the argu- invite Harvard professorVincent Brown while also enlightening and inspiring of a scholarly community.The Center work while at the Center. and receive feedback at crucial junctures. ment and significance of my project in for a fascinating guest lecture by a key everyone else. magically makes both possible. relation to different disciplines. figure in the humanities. 62309 text 62309_text_12 STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER 2019—2020 ANNUAL REPORT 1 12 13 13
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Faculty Fellow Violet Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Faculty Fellow Stanford Humanities Center Ellen Andrews Wright Faculty Fellow in the Humanities Dissertation Prize Fellow
School of Historical, Philosophical, and Department of East Asian Languages Department of Slavic Languages and Department of History, Stanford University Department of Communication, Departments of Theater and Performance Religious Studies, Arizona State University, and Cultures, Stanford University Literatures, Stanford University Stanford University Studies and English, Stanford University Tempe Toward a Free State: Imperial Shift and Centrality of the Peripheries: Queer Traditions in Early Modern Russia the Formation of Post-Colonial South Korea, Watching Feeling: Emotional Data Warhol's New York: 1976–1987 Aliens and Empire: Immigration and the The Language and the Users 1937–1950 from Cybernetics to Social Media Borders of U.S. Expansion in the Greater U.S. West, 1870–1920
During my fellowship year, I made The fellowship year brought me a I’ve felt very settled and motivated this Although I have been reading sources I was able to devote myself fully to I published two essays about feminist significant progress on my next book. chance to both consolidate my current year, and this has really helped with my and writing draft chapters for my researching and writing my dissertation, art and wrote another on Warhol and I was fortunate enough to give my work and develop a new direction productivity. In large part this is thanks current book project for the past several a history of the entanglement of com- his long film, Empire, which will be research talk in the fall, receiving invaluable of my research.Two journal articles and to our Mellon Fellowship community, years, this fellowship at the Humanities puting and emotion from the immediate part of a collection of essays by scholars feedback from other fellows. Based on one book chapter will appear soon as whose friendly support and intellectual Center helped me concentrate fully on post-war period to the present. I was interested in narrative and slowness. I this feedback, I was able to think more well as a journal special issue “Multiplicity engagement have sustained my belief in reading primary sources without inter- fortunate to be able to share this work also worked on the Warhol photo archive broadly (and ambitiously) about the in Grammar: Modes, Genres and myself, my work, and academia as a ruption and think about how I will write at a number of conferences over the at Stanford and began trying to link his kinds of research questions and topics Speaker’s Knowledge.”The intellectual whole.There were also some wonderful the book for a broader audience. Being year, as well as with the Humanities Center work to new conceptions of art as data, that my book needs to address. In community at the Center provided fellows at the Humanities Center this able to interact with the scholars in other community.The diversity of expertise largely driven by advances in Artificial addition, my fellowship provided me with me with ideas and time to design new year who helped to make the Stanford disciplinary fields and learn about their among fellows also helped me refine my Intelligence. And I was the Principal several opportunities to present my projects including “Sharing Conversations: Humanities Center such a welcoming academic interests and research projects framing of my project, in order to make Investigator for a multi-year Mellon work to various audiences in California A Core Human Experience Across Life,” and supportive place to come and work helped me rethink the relevance of my it relevant to scholars in disciplines quite Foundation Grant dedicated to evolving and I was able to deepen my relation- supported by Stanford’s Cultivating and socialize. own project. far removed from my own. the Honors in the Arts capstone pro- ships with fellow scholars. Humanities Grant. gram into a four-year minor. 62309 text 62309 text
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Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Faculty Fellow Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Stanford Humanities Center Stanford Humanities Center Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities in the Humanities Dissertation Prize Fellow Dissertation Prize Fellow in the Humanities
Department of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University Department of Classics, Stanford University Department of History, Stanford University Department of Iberian and Latin American Department of History, Stanford University Stanford University of California, Berkeley Cultures, Stanford University Proverbial Plato: Proverbs, Gnômai, and the The Rebellious River: Transnational Senegal The Texture of Empire: Botanic Gardens, The Treatment of Motion in Transforming Philosophy: A Reading Reformation of Discourse in Plato’s Republic River Management, 1920–2000 Past Present: The Literature of Human Rights Science, and Governance in the British Presocratic Philosophy of Spinoza’s Ethics in Postdictatorial Chile, Argentina, and Brazil Empire, Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
This past year has been full of oppor- During the first two quarters, I This past year as a Mellon Fellow has This was quite a hectic year, but one Since early March, I have continued While last year I spent the bulk of tunity.The intellectual climate both of drafted two new pieces of my larger been one of my most rewarding as a which membership in the Humanities to work on my dissertation and to my time reconceptualizing my dissertation the Mellon program itself and the Spinoza project and revised two scholar. First and foremost, I was able to Center community vastly improved! participate in the virtual activities of project as the first step toward a com- Humanities Center more broadly has other parts. One of these, which was devote significant time to my research In the space of six months I started and the Stanford Humanities Center. pleted book manuscript, this year I began truly exceeded my expectations; it is published in the fall as “Spinoza’s and writing. Second, I gained significant ended a (successful) job hunt, defended This has been a difficult year (for all to use that roadmap to work on the the vision itself of scholarly interchange ‘Infinite Modes’ Reconsidered” in experience as a teacher from the course my dissertation, and advanced other of us, in different ways), but the book manuscript.The year was also very across disciplines and borders which I the Journal of Modern Philosophy, I taught for the Classics Department. research projects. I continued a digital feedback I have received was incredibly fruitful for my maturation as an have (sadly) found so lacking in most was recently nominated by a panel of Lastly—and speaking more generally— history project with my advisor on map- helpful. It has been restorative, and educator. The pandemic pushed me academic institutional settings.That senior scholars for inclusion in the I was able to see a way of situating my ping slave liberations in West Africa. I such a privilege, to continue to take part to consider what, at bottom, are the community has allowed me to situate Philosopher’s Annual, a collection meant work within the larger framework of presented on this at a conference at Rice in this community and to count on most important takeaways for my students and contextualize my work, to see a to represent the ten best articles the humanities. Such interdisciplinary University and will work on the project the supportive presence of Roland Greene, to have, and I have focused on those number of links between my work and published in the previous calendar year. exposure has had a profound impact with undergraduates at Hamilton the Humanities Center staff, and fellows. when reshaping classes to fit in the that of others in various humanities I was really thankful to have a year on my growth as a scholar. College; it will be exciting to make the virtual format. fields, and it has made me a more well- of research leave away from my depart- initiative a multi-university affair! rounded scholar. ment and its distractions. 62309 text 62309 text
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Distinguished Junior External Fellow Stanford Humanities Center Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Stanford Humanities Center In Memoriam Dissertation Prize Fellow in the Humanities Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of the History of Science, Department of History, Stanford University Department of History, Stanford University Department of Communication, The Stanford Humanities Center was Harvard University Stanford University deeply saddened by the loss of our colleague The Age of the Perplexed: Translating Nature Framing Perception: Landscape Images and and friend Professor Eleni Bastéa, who passed Strange Stability: The Scientific Power Elite and Bodies between the Ottoman Empire the Politics of Geographical Information in The Engineering of Sentiment and Desire: away on January 12, after an illness. in the Age of Nuclear Weapons and Europe, 1650–1730 Syria and Lebanon, 1900–1946 Unraveling the Aestheticized Politics of Ideotainment in China
I was able to make significant progress As a Dissertation Prize Fellow, This was my second year with the Mellon The most important accomplishment Bastéa, who was Regents Professor and Architecture (University of New on my book manuscript and I feel I have made significant progress on program, and we had a fantastic lineup of my fellowship year was the comple- of Architecture at the University of Mexico Press, 2004), and Venice fortunate to have been able to do this my dissertation, which explores of speakers and editors. Our cohort tion of my dissertation and passing my New Mexico, was in the middle without Gondolas, a poetry collection writing around such a friendly group how and why translations managed this year included a linguist, a critical defense with no revision. My disserta- of a yearlong residency at the Center (Finishing Line Press, 2013). of people. Presenting a chapter to an to create new ideas about nature, theorist, and philosophers, and I was tion won the 2020 Nathan Maccoby as a Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow. engaged and thoughtful audience human bodies, and faith in the early particularly thrilled by this diversity Dissertation Award granted by my home Her research was focused on a book Speaking about her fellowship during during the Tuesday talk series was modern world. I have found of viewpoints and approaches.The lunch department, an award that is given project titled Geographies of Loss, a celebratory gathering at the Center, extremely helpful for the process Tuesdays talks and conversations community of course is what makes only in those years when there is an which concerned the memory of lost her husband Mark Forte said, “I was of editing and rewriting. Each week with other scholars very important the Humanities Center such a unique outstanding dissertation. I want to places among refugees and examined happy to see that Eleni connected in the it was impressive to see a group factors to shape my thinking about place to do a postdoc, as I once again emphasize the importance of this the politics of commemoration. Her way that I knew she would connect. of very smart people engage with the my project. I now have a much got the opportunity to chat with tenured fellowship to my achievements. Because books include The Creation of She was so excited to come here, and enormous range of methods and clearer idea about the scope and the faculty from around the county to build of the fellowship’s generous support, I Modern Athens: Planning the Myth she did make a difference.” topics represented in the research of structure of my dissertation.The friendships and receive priceless advice. have been able to concentrate on writing (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Humanities Center fellows. fellowship made me realize, once again, and research without distractions and to also published in Greek (Libro, how interdisciplinary thinking is see my work in a new light. 2008, author’s translation), Memory crucial for every research project. 62309 text 62309 text
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Amir Hume Abou-Jaoude Art History and American Studies Fellows Robert Mapplethorpe and the Allure of Antiquity Advisors: Jody Maxmin, Richard Meyer, Christian Whitworth
For his honors thesis work, Abou-Jaoude received the Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and the Creative Arts, the 2020 Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation in Art and Art History, and the 2020 David M. Kennedy Honors Thesis Prize.
Isabelle Carpenter Above: Hume Fellows meet with students from The Harker School. In 2019–20, the Stanford Humanities Center expanded the program to award a Hume Humanities Honors Fellowship to ten undergraduate seniors International Relations and Comparative Literature "The Hume Humanities Fellowship majoring in a humanities discipline.The Hume Fellows was one of the highlights of my receive a stipend for research project materials, Ahmad Faris Shidyaq share dedicated workplaces in the Humanities Center, Advisor: Alexander Key Stanford career. The fellowship and participate in group activities that aim to gives fantastic exposure to what deepen their scholarly focus and enrich their association as a cohort. Following graduation, Carpenter will be working serious academic work in the at a political risk analysis consultancy in Washington, This year’s group of fellows rose to the particular D.C. and hopes to return to the Middle East, humanities looks like; it’s a terrific challenges of having to complete the fellowship virtu- COVID-19 permitting. ally, culminating with a successful online symposium bridge between undergraduate where they each had the opportunity to present on and graduate life.” their honors thesis to their peers and advisors.
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Emily Won-Gi Elott Jung
English History and East Asian Studies
Out of Obscurity: The Connection Between Thomas Hardy The Making of Chinatown: Chinese Migrants and the and Virginia Woolf Production of the Criminal Space in the 1920s Colonial Seoul
Advisors: Michaela Bronstein, Alice Staveley Advisor: Dafna Zur
Elott is beginning a job as an investment analyst for Jung won a Hoefer Prize in Writing and a Korea two years, with Capital Group, but hopes that read- Program Prize for Writing in Korean Studies. ing literature and writing will figure prominently. He plans to do a remote internship program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Ravi Veriah Adrian Jacques Liu
History Mathematics, Philosophy and Religious Studies
The Indian Mutiny in the British Racial Imagination Incomparable Choices and Procedural Justice
Advisors: Priya Satia, Kathryn Olivarius Advisors: Lee Yearley, Rob Reich
Veriah Jacques was a recipient of the J.E.Wallace Following graduation, Liu plans to be a judicial Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement and a extern for Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of 2020 Schwarzman Scholarship. He will be partici- the California Supreme Court, and in October pating with various cohort members from Seoul. he will begin a year-long term as a judicial fellow at Placer Superior Court, part of the Capital Fellows program. 62309 text 62309 text
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Clara Dayonna Romani Evelyn Tucker
History and French African and African American Studies
Secrecy, Subversion, and the Second Sex: Womb Space: Marvels of Our Own Women’s Networks in Medieval Cathar Inventiveness
Advisors: Rowan Dorin, Fiona Griffiths Advisor: Allyson Hobbs
Romani won the History Department’s Award for Tucker received the Lyric McHenry Community Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation. She is Arts Fellowship with Stanford’s Institute for Diversity also a Fulbright grantee for the coming year, which in the Arts and is considering pursuing an MFA will allow her to pursue a master’s in history at in the future. CY Cergy Paris University.
Alexandra "Mac" Jenny Taylor Vo-Phamhi
Political Science and Art History Classics and Computer Science
Ethics of Judicial Decision-Making Human Trafficking into the Roman World and the Modern United States Advisors: Rob Reich, Alexander Nemerov Advisor: Richard Saller
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"The idea behind spending time at Stanford was to reflect and research on how our International current security obsession is impacting global responses to humanitarian crises through three case studies: The 2014–15 Ebola epidemic, Visitors Program the attack on Kunduz Trauma center in Afghanistan in 2015, and the ongoing forced displacement crisis across the globe. It has been an immense privilege to be in a sheltered and mind-rich environment. In fact, an environment conducive for success.”
Joanne Liu, Physician, Canada
Since 2009, some 60 international visitors—from During their stay, the international scholars are able more than 30 countries and representing over 50 to share their research with other departments on institutions—have come to Stanford for month-long campus and become introduced to Stanford’s other residencies through the joint partnership of the institutions and larger intellectual life. Although Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute this year’s program was interrupted, with only three for International Studies (FSI). visitors able to travel to Stanford, we hope to wel- come the others in the next academic year. 62309 text 62309 text
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Sophie Joanne Alain Shashi Nitza Yfaat Lemiere Liu Schnapp Jayakumar* Tenenblat* Weiss*
FSI-Humanities Center FSI-Humanities Center FSI-Humanities Center FSI-Humanities Center FSI-Humanities Center FSI-Humanities Center International Visitor, 2019–20 International Visitor, 2019–20 International Visitor, 2019–20 International Visitor, 2019–20 International Visitor, 2019–20 International Visitor, 2019–20
Christopher Family International Bliss Carnochan International Visitor, 2019–20 Visitor, 2019–20
Political Anthropologist Physician and International President, Professor Emeritus, Classical Archeology Head of Centre of Excellence Professor of Theater Professor of Jewish History, Hebrew Democracy in Hard Places Initiative at Doctors Without Borders (2013–2019) for National Security University of Jerusalem the Ash Center for Democracy, Harvard Panthéon-Sorbonne University University of Brasília Director of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish University of Montreal S. Rajaratnam School of International History and Culture–Simon Dubnow University February–March 2020 Studies (RSIS) Professor of Modern History, Leipzig January–February 2020 February 2020 University
Sophie Lemiere’s current work explores Joanne Liu is a pediatric emergency Alain Schnapp's main interests are Jayakumar was nominated by the WSD Tenenblat was nominated by Weiss was nominated by the Depart- the intangible elements of politics, physician who has devoted her career Greek iconography and the cultural Handa Center for Human Rights and the Department of Theater and ment of German Studies and Taube including the conjunction of political to medical humanitarianism, and has history of antiquity. He has been a International Justice. Performance Studies. Center for Jewish Studies. imaginary and legitimacy; charisma undertaken more than 20 missions visiting scholar or visiting professor at and personality politics; the evolution since 1996 in Central Africa, Central numerous universities and institutes of political imaginary; the constructions Asia, and the Middle East. Her contri- and has produced pioneering work of political and national narratives; and butions range from introducing bridging a variety of disciplines.While the role of emotions in politics. comprehensive medical care for survivors at the Center, Schnapp worked to of sexual violence, to developing a tele- finish his manuscript on a universal Lemiere was nominated by the Abbasi medicine platform connecting doctors history of ruins. Program in Islamic Studies. in remote areas with medical specialists. Schnapp was nominated by the Depart- *Due to the shutdown and the restrictions on Liu was nominated by the Stanford ment of Classics. international travel, these visitors were unable to arrive on campus and their residencies have Center for Innovation in Global Health. been deferred to a future date. 62309 text 62309_text_29 STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER 2019—2020 ANNUAL REPORT 1 28 28 29
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A Decolonial Collaborative Reframing Fashion Studies Research Group
Digital Aesthetics: Critical Approaches Standardization in Ancient Economies
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Ethics and Politics, Varieties of Agency Ancient and Modern
Marta Sutton Weeks Research Workshop The Research Workshop Program, now "The rise of COVID-19 has only intensi- in its 25th year, brings together Stanford fied pre-existing racial inequality and faculty and advanced graduate students, Eurasian Empires Working Group in Literary as well as Humanities Center fellows and Visual Culture discrimination. The CORE Workshop and scholars from other institutions, to present and discuss current research Research Workshop in Honor of John Bender (Critical Orientations to Race and Ethnicity) and explore topics of common intellectual concern. During this academic year became an important space to discuss workshops drew some 800 attendees, Feminist/Queer Colloquium Worlds of Work and the Work our work in the context of these issues, and coordinators rallied by moving to of Networks an online format in the spring, which, as largely because we were one of the few a result, opened up the program to a diverse group of participants from more spaces at Stanford designed for exactly distant countries and new institutions. these types of conversations.”
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Founded in 2012, CESTA is a renowned research hub in the digital humanities, "The time is ripe to ask central questions supported by the Dean of Research and about humanistic inquiry as it relates to the Dean of Humanities and Sciences and led by Associate Professor of Classics the evolving methodologies of a changing Giovanna Ceserani, who began her term as director last November. Previous world, such as what might publishing directors were Professor Zephyr Frank become in the digital age, or how can machine- (History) and Professor Elaine Treharne (English). CESTA explores places, global learning change the way we investigate spaces, texts, textual artifacts, data visual- ization, digital curation, preservation and the past. Our new partnership with the display, linked data and interoperability, Stanford Humanities Center will ensure and sustainability. As a scholarly com- munity counting more than 25 affiliated that CESTA continues to ask such questions.” faculty, CESTA supports and encourages cutting-edge work across the humanities Giovanna Ceserani and the interpretative social sciences. Director, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis 59726 shortsheets 59726 shortsheets
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ORBIS Chinese Railroad Workers in North America The launch of ORBIS, a Google map detailing the ancient The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America project, Roman empire, holds tremendous appeal for the general which just concluded this past year, has tapped the power public as well as for scholars. of the web in order to reveal the untold story of Chinese labor in late nineteenth-century California. The project was Directed by Professor Walter Scheidel. awarded the 2019 Preservation Design Award in the InterpretiveExhibitscategoryandaTrusteesAwardfor Excellence by the California Preservation Foundation.
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Life in Quarantine: Writing about Epidemic Witnessing Global Pandemic The Stanford Literary Lab (directed by Assistant Professor This graph traces the embedding This Digital Humanities Initiative, launched in March 2020 of English Mark Algee-Hewitt) has started a suite of related projects that speak to the ongoing pandemic, space of influenza, by three doctoral students and a group of undergraduates, showing the closest using quantitative analysis to explore the language is an online community platform that addresses the terms to “flu” in transformations we’re experiencing in the age of COVID-19. ofdiseaseandsocialisolationoverthepastthreecenturies. American newspa- Together, these projects trace the patterns of words pers over the course of the twentieth Directed by PhD students Nelson Endebo, Ellis Schriefer, around the experience of epidemic and isolation in order to contextualize our own moment and understand how century. The circle and Farah Bazzi. indicates the 1918 it echoes, and differs from, similar situations described influenza pandemic in literary texts and popular media. and the disap- pearance of terms The Evolving Language of Disease associated with it as Literature of Confinement the pandemic was censored across the Personifying Illness media landscape.
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October 24, 2019
Stanford Alumni Association: Homecoming Reunion | Classes Without Quizzes
1600: When Science, Art, and Literature Changed Together Roland Greene, Director, Stanford Humanities Center
January 30, 2020
The 1891 Lectures in the Humanities
Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation Ato Quayson, Professor of English, Stanford University
Above: The Center’s major events draw the public to Ato Quayson delivered an impassioned hear leading figures in the humanities and arts.This talk on “Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation,” year saw the launch of our “1891 Lectures presenting a taxonomy of interdisciplinary approaches and situating his work in this area. in the Humanities” series designed to welcome senior humanities faculty. However, most of the key events planned before the shutdown, such as the March 5, 2020 Presidential Lecture in the Humanities by phi- losopher Achille Mbembe and a new series titled Book Talk | Tacky's Revolt: The Story “How Change Comes: Knowledge + Justice,” were rescheduled to this fall or in early 2021. of an Atlantic Slave War Vincent Brown, Professor of American History and In the summer we also began offering our first Professor of African and African American Studies, all-virtual public events with an ongoing series Harvard University called “Inside the Center,” highlighting current and former fellows’ research and writing. Find more information and recordings of past events at shc.stanford.edu/inside-center. 62309 text 62309 text
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July 29, 2020 October 12, 2019 October 29, 2019 November 7 & 8, 2019
Inside the Center with Ramzi Fawaz The Uplift of All: Gandhi, Bhante Sujato: Symposium | Making
Queer Love on Barbary Lane: The Sexual Politics of Serial King, and the Global Translating a 2500-Year- History, Thinking Gay Fiction in Armistead Maupin’s ‘Tales of the City’ Struggle for Freedom Old Sacred Text for a Historically
Co-sponsored with Center for Modern Audience Co-sponsored with Center for Watch a video: South Asia, WSD Handa Center Medieval and Early Modern Studies, shc.stanford.edu/inside-center Co-sponsored with Ho Center for Human Rights and International for Buddhist Studies at Stanford Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Justice, Martin Luther King, Jr. Department of Art and Art History, Research and Education Institute Center for South Asia, Department of Religious Studies, University Libraries, Department of History, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
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All gifts received through 2020–21 count Gifts to endowment have made it possible toward the Stanford Humanities Center's to carry out the Center’s mission and 40th anniversary fundraising initiative. to secure its core activities in perpetuity.
The Stanford Humanities Center gratefully acknowledges the following The dates in parentheses indicate the year the endowment was established. individuals and organizations that made gifts in support of the Humanities Center between September 1, 2019 and August 31, 2020.
DIRECTOR'S CIRCLE ($10,000+) Betsy Morgenthaler FRIEND (<$100) HUMANITIES CENTER DIRECTORSHIP Marta Sutton Weeks Research UNIVERSITY SUPPORT Anonymous Laura Aryeh Murawczyk Gonzalo Munevar* Anthony P.Meier Family Workshops (2004, 2007) With the support of the Office of the Midori and William Atkins Kathleen Heenan and Clarence Professorship in the Humanities Marta Sutton Weeks President, the Humanities Center stag- Joanne Blokker Olmstead *Former Fellow (1987) Blokker Research Workshop (2005) es the Presidential and Endowed Lec- Diana Bowes Maria Antonia Paterno-Castello **Also gave through a matching gift Linda and Tony Meier; Anthony The Mericos Foundation, Joanne tures in the Humanities and the Arts, Oya and Thomas Christopher The Seaver Institute Meier, Jr., Eric Meier, and Laura Blokker, President which include and derive additional Kristin and John Clark Andrea and Lubert Stryer MATCHING GIFTS Meier Fisher funds from the Harry Camp Memo- Research Workshop in Honor of Ellen and Gerald Cromack The Walt Disney Company rial and Raymond F.West Memorial John Bender (2005) Leslie and George Hume SPONSOR ($5OO+) FELLOWSHIPS endowments. Each year these ongoing Anonymous Lauren and Daniel Lazar Andrew Aguilar* Marta Sutton Weeks Fellows (1982) series present a variety of lectures by Patricia and David Nelson Kimberly Oden and Donald Brewster Marta Sutton Weeks Claire and John Radway Research distinguished scholars, writers, and Workshop (2006) Laurose Richter Victory Van Dyck Chase and Stanford Humanities Center artists from around the world. Claire and John Radway William Riley Theodore Chase, Jr. Dissertation Prize Fellows (1987,1998) Mary Anne Rothberg and In honor of Bliss Carnochan Theodore and Frances Geballe Humanities Center Fellows Research The Humanities Center also gratefully Andrew Rowen Cheryl Parnell and Samuel Workshop (2008) acknowledges support from the Dean Donald Andrews Whittier, Violet Juliet and Peter Seymour Dickerman ** Peter S. Bing and Humanities of Research and the Office of the Vice Andrews Whittier, and Ellen Andrews Katherine and Dhiren Shah Arnold Rampersad* Center Fellows Provost for Undergraduate Education. Wright Fellows (1988) William Reller The Mericos Foundation, Joanne BENEFACTOR ($5,000+) VISITORSHIP FOUNDATION GRANTS Blokker, President Grace and Laurance Hoagland ASSOCIATE ($100+) The Marta Sutton Weeks Foundation grants to endowment are Roberta and Charles Katz Michael Bratman* Hume Humanities Honors Distinguished Visitor (1987) supporting the Humanities Center’s Linda and Tony Meier Carlo Caballero* Fellows (2013) Marta Sutton Weeks fellowships and workshops in perpetuity. John A. Radway, Jr. Tzi-cker Chiueh Leslie P.and George H. Hume Sally and Thomas Freed EXPENDABLE NAMED GIFTS The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation PATRON ($1,0OO+) Anil Gangolli RESEARCH WORKSHOP PROGRAM Expendable gifts designated in support (2003) Rocky Barber Gretchen and Richard Grant Research Workshop Program (2007) of specific activities help to sustain The Mericos Foundation (1988) Audrey and David Egger Charitable Loring Guessous Anonymous programs not funded by endowment. National Endowment for the Fund at the Jewish Community Eric Hsu Humanities Foundation of Greater Mercer Laurie Koloski* INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH WORKSHOPS Oya and Thomas Christopher (1978, 1986, 1995, 2004) Amy and John Jacobsson Ashley Tindall Linda Randall Meier Research The Christopher Family Aly Kassam-Remtulla Workshop (2004) International Visitor Vickie and Steven Mavromihalis Linda and Tony Meier $20,000 to support the residency Joanne and Joel Mogy of one international visitor (2017) 62309 text 62309_text_48 STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER 2019—2020 ANNUAL REPORT 1 48 49 49
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50 GIVING OPPORTUNITIES 51 GIVING OPPORTUNITIES 20 text 62309 text 62309 Giving Opportunities Staff, Advisory Council, Financial Honorary Fellows Highlights You can give to change the world, or you FISCAL YEAR SEPTEMBER 1, 2019 can give so the world understands it needs TO AUGUST 31, 2020 to change. Functional expense breakdown based on total program expenditures of $3,900,163.
Celebrate the Center’s 40th anniversary by making STAFF Peter Seymour PROGRAM EXPENSES gifts and pledges in support of our core programs Robert Cable Douglas Emmett Inc. Communications Manager Dafna Zur as well as new initiatives such as a digital platform, Maridee Charlton East Asian Languages and Cultures, career-launching fellowships, and original pro- Office Coordinator Stanford University Andrea Davies gramming. Find all the giving opportunities at Associate Director EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS shc.stanford.edu/support. Carol Guthrie R. Lanier Anderson Workshop Administrator Senior Associate Dean for Humanities Kelda Jamison and Arts, School of Humanities and Unrestricted, expendable gifts are particularly Fellowship Program Manager Sciences helpful in enabling the work of the Center to Andres Le Roux Giovanna Ceserani Computing Consultant continue to thrive in these challenging times.You Director, Center for Spatial Nicole Daniela Lopez-Hagan and Textual Analysis may make such gifts to the following funds. Mellon Program Administrator Susan Dackerman Jenny Martinez Director, Cantor Arts Center International and Academic Andrea Davies Programs Manager Associate Director, Stanford Eric Ortiz Humanities Center Events Planner Roland Greene Najwa Salame Director, Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship Program 57% Finance Manager Kathryn Moler Susan Sebbard Vice Provost and Dean of Research Workshop Program 5% Assistant Director Serena Rao Public Lectures & Conferences 4% Patricia Terrazas Senior Associate Dean for Finance Pilot Programs 5% Building and Reservations and Administration, Office of Research Administrator Program Administration 25% HONORARY FELLOWS International Scholars 4% ADVISORY COUNCIL Ann Arvin William Atkins Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases, One Concern Stanford FUNDING SOURCES Annual Fund Director's Fund Ways To Give Kristin Kennedy Clark Keith Michael Baker Non-profit Consultant, Education History, Stanford Gifts of Any Amount Gifts of $10,000 and Above Every Gift Supports the Humanities and the Arts John Bender Fred Donner English, Stanford Near Eastern Languages and Arthur Bienenstock • Make an online gift—one-time or Unrestricted Annual Fund gifts help Contributions to the Director’s Fund Civilizations, University of Chicago Materials Science, Stanford* sustain programs not funded by endow- enable the Humanities Center’s leader- recurring (shc.stanford.edu/support) Paula Findlen Bliss Carnochan • Write a check (payable to History, Stanford University English, Stanford* ment and facilitate campus partnerships ship to advance the most urgent needs Stanford University) Mark Greif Wanda M. Corn that benefit the wider community such and priorities of the Center. As members • Make a multi-year pledge by sending English, Stanford University Art & Art History, Stanford* as manuscript review workshops, of the Director’s Circle, donors at this an email to Susan Sebbard at Niloofar Haeri J. Hillis Miller [email protected] Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University English, University of California, Irvine* international visitor residencies, and level help the Center to strengthen core Roberta Katz Aron Rodrigue • Donate your honorarium (shc.stanford. co-sponsored events. programs, promote new initiatives, and Director, Charles and Roberta History, Stanford edu/support/donate-your-honorarium) Katz Family Foundation amplify the significance of the human- Peter Stansky • Transfer stock sales Regina Kunzel History, Stanford* ities on campus and beyond. • Make a planned gift History, and Gender and Sexuality Caroline Winterer Studies, Princeton University History, Stanford Linda R. Meier Western Region Advisory Board, Endowment 74% Institute of International Education, Inc. All gifts are tax deductible. For more information about supporting the Humanities Center, Mary Anne Rothberg Rowen University Funds 10% please contact Assistant Director Susan Sebbard at [email protected] or 650.723.3053. Provenance Productions *Emeritus/Emerita Expendable Gifts 16% 62309 text 62309 text
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2 52 ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE 59726_cover 20 text 62309 The Stanford Humanities Center confronts this moment in history and culture with insights into the questions that define our world.
The Center has nurtured, inspired, and amplified the work of preeminent humanities scholars since its founding in 1980.We promote the exchange of ideas and examine how knowledge is made and practiced in the world. Under Roland Greene’s leadership, the Center continues to launch new initiatives that distinguish us as a leader among the world’s humanities centers.Your support is an investment in experiences—fellowships, workshops, lectures, and more—that will enrich research in and across the disciplines for the next 40 years.
Thank you!
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