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ANNUAL REPORT ‒ CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL $25,000 AND HIGHER John P. Birkelund Strachan Donnelley, Ph.D. Karl M. von der Heyden PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL $10,000 TO $24,999 Mr. John F. Adams and Ms. Shannon K. Hackett Mr. Leslie M. Baker, Jr. Peter Benoliel and Willo Carey Blair and Cheryl Effron Mr. Merril M. Halpern Mr. and Mrs. John G. Medlin, Jr. Moore Family Fund of the Triangle Community Foundation Patricia R. Morton Mr. Robert B. Strassler Mrs. Rosaleen Walsh Mr. Stephen H. Weiss John C. Whitehead Winokur Family Foundation One Anonymous Gift SCHOLAR’S COUNCIL $5,000 TO $9,999 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund N. Carpenter Mr. William T. Golden Mrs. Ann B. Goodnight Winthrop and Janet Short Harriet and Edson Spencer Fund One Anonymous Gift DIRECTOR’S COUNCIL PATRON $2,500 TO $4,999 Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Blanchard James J. Burke, Jr. Frances Ferguson* Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Guthrie Geoffrey G. Harpham Carla Hesse* and Thomas Laqueur* Mr. and Mrs. J. Irwin Miller‡ Mr. and Mrs. John H. 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1 ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR

11 WORK OF THE FELLOWS

23 STATISTICS

25 BOOKS BY FELLOWS

29 FINANCIAL STATEMENT

33 SUPPORTING THE CENTER

35 STAFF

37 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

The National Humanities Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national and ethnic origin, handicap, sexual orientation or preference, or age in the administration of its selection policies, educational policies, and other Center-administered programs.

EDITOR DAVID B. RICE COPYEDITOR KAREN CARROLL IMAGES RON JAUTZ, KENT MULLIKIN, ANDREW ROSS DESIGN LESLEY LANDIS DESIGNS THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER’S REPORT (ISSN 1040-130X) IS PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER BY COPYRIGHT © 2004 BY NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER, 7 ALEXANDER DR., P.O. BOX 12256, RTP, NC 27709-2256 TEL 919-549-0661 FAX 919-990-8535 E-MAIL [email protected] WEB WWW.NHC.RTP.NC.US report from the president and

director “What is he doing with that stick?” my guest asked. 1 “He is trying to strike the ball,” I replied. guests—the director of the Netherlands Institute “He doesn’t have the ball.” for Advanced Study—seemed puzzled, and asked “Soon, the ball will be thrown towards home, and why, given the first player’s success, he was still he will try to strike it.” occasionally manifesting anxiety by hopping ‒ “Home?” about and appearing concerned, as if in danger. EPORT

“That’s what that small…plaque in the ground is “He is only partially successful,” I explained. R called—‘home plate.’” “Ultimately, he wants to run all the way around “What does he do if he strikes it?” the bases”—those hard white pillows stuck in the NNUAL

“He runs over there,” I said, pointing. ground—“and ‘score a run’ by touching home A “If he is successful, then, he gets to leave home.” plate. With part of his body or clothing.” To

He was picking it up pretty quickly, which was keep things simple, I did not add, “without him- ENTER C not surprising given that he is a former justice self being touched by an opponent’s hand or glove of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, holding the ball while not standing on the base, as Distinguished Member of the Global Law Faculty long as ‘time out’ had not been called.” (Nor did

at New York University, professor of public law at I go into the infield fly rule, or the deeper conun- UMANITIES H the Humboldt University in Berlin, a recipient of drum of the dropped third strike; I pretended the Major Federal Service Cross with Sash and Star, not to hear the suggestion that “runners” who

and the rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. were not running should be called “waiters.”) ATIONAL N He was delighted to see this particular person— “This is very common,” said the principal of the second baseman for the Durham Bulls— the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the strike successfully, and leave home. Social Sciences and the Humanities, who had sud- After a few more homeward throws that did denly grasped the Odyssean deep structure of the not produce success, however, another of my game. “Young people are very anxious to leave

A Year at the National Humanities Center

August 3–16 “Concept of Language” John E. Joseph of the University of Edinburgh and Talbot June 22–July 3, 2003 J. Taylor of the College of William and Mary “The Making of African American lead the first European American Young Identity: 1865 to 1917” Trudier Harris July 6–19 Scholars’ Summer Institute at the Center. (Fellow 1996–97), Colin A. Palmer “The Poetry of W.B. Yeats” and “Jane A second institute, “Secularization and (Trustee; Fellow 1989–90), and Richard Austen’s Emma” Two groups of young Religion,” led by José Casanova of the J. Powell (Fellow 1995–96) lead a seminar PhDs in literature gather at the Center for New School University in New York and for high school teachers on the identity the first sessions of a three-year program Hans Joas, director of the Max Weber African Americans forged, as a group, of Summer Institutes in Literary Studies Center for Advanced Cultural and Social in the years between the end of the Civil sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Studies in Erfurt, Germany, meets in Erfurt. War and the 50th anniversary of the Foundation. Helen Vendler (Past Trustee) In the summer of 2004, the groups will Emancipation Proclamation. With the leads the exploration of Yeats’s work and switch, with the religion seminar recon- help of these scholars and teachers, Patricia Meyer Spacks (Trustee) guides the PROGRAMS EDUCATION vening at the Center and the language the Education Programs staff begins to young scholars through Emma. A third seminar meeting in Europe. A Web site develop the third in a series of Online seminar, “Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick,” designed by Phillip Barron, who along with EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATION Professional Development Seminar takes place at Yale University, led by Joel Elliott meets the information technol- Toolkits, which groups of high school Richard Brodhead, dean of Yale College ogy needs of the fellows and staff, helps teachers will use to craft and lead their PROGRAMS EDUCATION and the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor the international cohort of young scholars own seminars the following summer. of English, Yale University. communicate throughout the year. SUMMER 2003 2 home, but when they have done so, all they think Academic Disciplines” and “Secularization and about is returning.” Religion.” Between diversions, the SIAS group Explaining the game on this occasion—the approved the second generation, which will begin IRECTOR

D annual meeting of SIAS, or Some Institutes for in the summer of 2005: “Hierarchy, Marginality, Advanced Study, held at the National Humanities and Ethnicity in Muslim Societies” and “The Center in June 2004—was actually far more enter- Political: Law, Culture, Theology.” taining than the game itself, a dreary 6–2 loss for But the most important item on the agenda the Bulls. But this gathering is always entertaining, this time was the question of expansion. To my RESIDENT AND

P and productive as well. great pleasure, we decided to invite the Radcliffe Formed fifteen years ago as an informal little Institute for Advanced Study (led by Center board consortium, SIAS has in recent years begun to member Drew Faust) and the Russell Sage think of itself less as a mere collective and more Foundation to join the group. With the original as an agent in promoting scholarship. Since 2003, six member institutions (the Center, the Institute we have a run a set of innovative seminars where- for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Center for EPORT FROM THE

R in everything is doubled—two leaders, two contin- Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at gents of scholars from two continents, extending Stanford, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced

NNUAL for two weeks in two consecutive summers. As one Study, the Swedish Collegium, and the Wissen- A would expect, two of these seminars are running schaftskolleg zu Berlin) and a new member, the concurrently, one in Europe and one here at the Collegium Budapest, we now number nine. Center. In the summer of 2004, we completed The effects of these meetings go well beyond the the first two-year cycle, with the conclusion of decisions we take. Even as we were, courtesy of the seminars on “The Concept of Language in the Bulls, assessing cultural differences, we were tacitly

September 1 The 26th class of fel- months. By Friday, lows arrives for the September 19, when traditional Labor Day Building Engineer October 1 August 6 picnic. Over the next Corbett Capps offi- The first of three September 13 The Gladys Krieble few weeks they settle cially welcomes the (Alumni) Medieval duPont Fellow, Friends of the Center Delmas Foundation in, meet the staff and class with a succulent Symposium 2002–03), Gail Gibson luncheons brings continues its generous one another, and take roast pig, the fellows Four 2002–03 fellows (Jessie Ball duPont local donors, alumni support of the fellow- part in a round of have already been return to the Center to and Duke Endowment fellows, and other ship program, making project talks, during introduced to North lead a conference titled Fellow 2002–03), and friends to the Archie a new, three-year which Deputy Director Carolina weather, “Clerical Constructions/ Annabel Wharton K. Davis Building to pledge of $225,000. Kent Mullikin grants courtesy of Hurricane Constrictions of Late (Allen W. Clowes meet the class of The new grant will each scholar five min- Isabel. The Center Medieval Culture.” Fellow 2002–03) 2003–04 and hear support one fellow utes in which to sum- is without power for Kalman Bland (Duke present papers and a few words from each year from marize what he or she a few days, but the Endowment and NEH reminisce about how President and 2004–05 through hopes to accomplish pig pickin’ goes on Fellow 2002–03), fleeting a fellowship Director Geoffrey 2006–07. during the next nine as scheduled. Ed Craun (Jessie Ball year is. Harpham. AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 3 reaffirming our common identity as institutes for Center has formed a planning committee chaired advanced study. All of us try to support scholar- by Carl Pforzheimer to chart its course for the next ship, and the larger public interest that is served five years, and the basis for all our planning will be ‒ by scholarship, by offering residential fellowships. the concept of the institute for advanced study. We Our residency programs are all intended to create need to understand what features inform all such EPORT

a multidisciplinary and multinational cohort of institutes and, just as important, the specific differ- R scholars who, freed from ordinary duties and rou- ences that set us apart. First among these differ-

tines and operating in conditions of great freedom ences, of course, is our singular dedication to the NNUAL and collegial support, can pursue their work in humanities. No other institute is so focused; even A ideal conditions. We are all oriented toward the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral ENTER

research, which means that we are pointed simulta- Sciences includes a wide range of disciplines, C neously towards the past and towards the future. including the humanities. The admirable goal of And we are all concerned to find ways to support such institutes as ours is a scholarly community younger scholars, especially those who, having composed of diverse disciplines, a richly harmonic UMANITIES

passed the professional landmark of tenure, are chorus of voices. In this respect, I think that our H poised to launch the major phase of their careers. focus on the humanities serves us well. Intriguing I begin my annual report for the National as it is to imagine the oddly-angled conversations

Humanities Center by focusing on SIAS because that occur when the geologist plunks her lunch tray ATIONAL N we are now in the position of reaffirming our fun- down between the biochemist and the musicolo- damental identity. With the imminent retirement, gist, the result is often a conversation about politics after eight enormously productive years, of John or the weather. Of course, our fellows think about Birkelund as chairman of the board of trustees, the the weather as much as anyone—in hurricane sea-

October 2 Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie presents a paper, October 9 “Black Militias in the GlaxoSmithKline Atlantic World,” to Senior Fellow Frances the Race, Nation, and Ferguson gets the fel- Diaspora Group, one lows’ lecture series of five ongoing semi- off to an enlightened nars organized by the beginning, speaking fellows around topics on “How Children October 27 of mutual interest. Schooled Political Art for Architecture: Other seminars ad- Philosophy: Locke, new work by mixed October 29–30 dress sex and sexual- Rousseau, and Kant media artist Roger The fall meeting of and the Humanities. Lilly Seminar hears ity, the Medieval/Early on Education and Haile of Mebane, the board of trustees The American from Caroline Walker Modern period, Liberty.” Lewis North Carolina, goes is bookended by a Academy gathering Bynum (Trustee), Enlightenment writ- Erenberg (Frank H. on exhibit at the meeting of local fel- features a talk, “The who leads a discus- ing, and musicology, Kenan Fellow) and Center, following an lows of the American Supreme Court and sion of her paper, the last attended reg- Stephen Murray exhibit of mixed pho- Academy of Arts and American Democracy “Seeing and Seeing ularly by four of the (Henry Luce Senior tographic works on Sciences and a ses- 2004,” by Walter Beyond: The Mass record five musicolo- Fellow) also lecture paper by John M. Hall sion of the Lilly Dellinger (NEH Fellow of St. Gregory in the gists in residence. during the fall. of New York City. Seminar on Religion 1988–89), and the Fifteenth Century.” 4 NNUAL EPORT FROM THE RESIDENT AND IRECTOR DECEMBER Mason University, is New MediaatGeorge and Center forHistory and directorofthe and CulturalStudies Professor ofHistory Distinguished of ArtsandSciences Rosenzweig, College Problems.” Possibilities and “Digitizing thePast: deliver apubliclecture, braves acoldrainto Roy Rosenzweig December 4 A R P D nature,” use methods and a vocabulary thatfew nature,” usemethodsandavocabulary todefine“human by linguistswho,whiletrying gists, sociologists,andcognitive scientists—and biologists,primatolo- being studiedby evolutionary ditional humanisticstudyinseveral fields,isnow essential humanendowment andtheobjectoftra- for thehumanities. once reserved are tackling,withincreasing boldness,questions Part ofthereason forthisisthatotherdisciplines as distinctfrom someotherkindofscholarlywork. fident insayingwhatconstituteshumanisticwork years tothepointwhere nobodytodayisfullycon- definition ofthehumanitieshasexpandedover the circle available onlytothecredentialed. Indeed, the tive interaction. iarity thatfostersbothunpredictable andproduc- good jobofrealizing thatidealofascholarlyfamil- assumptions enablesus,Ithink,todoanespecially here basewithahostofsilent share adisciplinary thefactthatallscholars son, more thanmost—but To takejustoneexample,language,thequint- I amnotsayingthatthehumanitiesare aclosed webcast.htm. us/news/rosenzweig- http://www.nhc.rtp.nc. available at Rosenzweig’s talkis video ofProfessor teaching. Adigital ties scholarshipand technology inhumani- use ofinformation ognize theinnovative Center presentstorec- Award, whichthe the RichardW. Lyman the secondrecipientof through 2006–07. from 2004–05 fellow ineachyear grant willsupportone for 2003–04;thenew is theGouldFellow from DukeUniversity, Antliff, anarthistorian at theCenter. Mark porting Frenchstudies commitment tosup- pledge, renewingits three-year, $225,000 Foundation makesa The FlorenceJ.Gould 2 January JANUARY 2004  emergence ofsuchdevelopments andthequestions the future ofscholarship, mustbeasiteforthe Center, insofarasitisdedicatedtobringing forth ing ofthehuman.AndNational Humanities sometimes produce shiftsinourbasicunderstand- shifts,whichreflect and these profound disciplinary out theanswers tolimitedempiricalproblems. tofigure in thelaborattheircomputerstrying and appliedby technicianswhospendtheirdays human condition.It is,rather, being developed philosophers whohave thoughtdeeplyaboutthe years ago.a few This control isnotexercised by and thusour“identity,” thanwasconceivable just give usfarmore control over ourphysicalbeing, New have emergedthat technologiesanddrugs stand otherminds,orthenature oftheemotions. thewayinwhichwe under- the originsofaltruism, the roots ofethicalobligation,humanimagination, as scientistsbutwhoare takingonsuchsubjectsas are beingmadeby scholarswhodefinethemselves humanists cancomprehend. Similar encroachments series. for thespringlecture are alsointhelineup Ritchie (NEHFellow) and JeffreyKerr- Foundation Fellow), and LilyPforzheimer John Carson(Carl J. BouwsmaFellow), Allanbrook (William 1600–1800.” Wendy Reshaping Madrid, Royal Authority: ter, “ASettingfor of thespringsemes- gives thefirstlecture Friday SeniorFellow) (William C.andIda David Ringrose 15 January Scholars inthehumanitiesmustberesponsive to for twodays. The Centerisclosed tral partofthestate. storm slamsthecen- ly adecadeasanice temperatures innear- endures itscoldest North Carolina 25 January class offellows. to selectthe2004–05 1999–2000), arrives Kenan Fellow Christiano (FrankH. ars, includingThomas of distinguishedschol- A selectioncommittee 13 February FEBRUARY MARCH Augustine.” Gabriella Antibiography, and paper, “Biography, discussion ofhis Humanities fora Religion andthe Lilly Seminaron meeting tojointhe the boardoftrustees arrives adayearlyfor Georgetown University, O’Donnell, provostof Trustee James March 24 humanities, we were deviatingfrom ourmission. selves tostrengthening precollegiate teachinginthe might leadsometothinkthat,by committingour- our initiatives inthefieldofeducation. This fact anythinglike for advanced studyhasundertaken clarity over thepastseveral years. No otherinstitute other similarinstitutionshasemergedwithgreat the humanitiesmakestheminescapableforus. Center's focuson,andimpliedresponsibility for, challengedby thesequestions,butthe particularly other instituteforadvanced studyislikelytofeel so often,andnow isclearlyoneofthosetimes.No meters ofthehumanitiesmustberecalibrated every ditionally humanisticfieldsandbeyond. The para- human, inlightofcurrent scholarship, bothintra- mote areassessment ofhumanisticstudy, andthe how tousetheresources oftheCentertopro- planning committeewillhave is,accordingly, sibilities theystimulate. and anxietiestheyprovoke, pos- aswell asthenew A seconddifference between theCenterand One ofthemostprobing conversations the the springsemester. Lilly Seminarduring invited speakerstothe are amongtheother of IndianaUniversity Humanities 1997–98) Religion andthe Elliott (LillyFellowin Angeles, andDyan of CaliforniaatLos oftheUniversity Geary of Florence,Patrick Zarri oftheUniversity africanamer.htm. us/pds/africanamer/ http://www.nhc.rtp.nc. Identity: 1865to1917” of AfricanAmerican Toolkit, “TheMaking Development Seminar Professional the thirdOnline The Centerlaunches March 24 would pursuetheirquietwayswithoutthenoisy versity inwhichscholarsandgraduatestudents Study, kindofuni- wasfounded in1930asanew The firstsuchinstitute,theInstitute forAdvanced ofinstitutesforadvanced studyitself.the history for ourcommitmenttoeducationby lookingat sistent withourdedicationtoadvanced study. Center’s commitmenttoeducationisentirely con- education, beginningwell before college. The erly value them;andthisaudienceiscreated by without anaudienceprepared toreceive andprop- ities cannotflourishatthelevel ofadvanced study course asawhole.In thisholisticview, thehuman- not justoftheacademybutculturaldis- understanding ofthehumanitiesasacomponent that, ourcommitmenttoeducationreflects alarger in thatrespect theyjustifythemselves. But beyond tinguished by theirutilityandprofessionalism, and and theproducts thatemergefrom them,are dis- several excellent reasons. The programs we offer, But theCenterhascommitteditselfinthiswayfor From “TheMakingof AfricanAmericanIdentity:1865to1917” at leastforawhile. seemingly progressiveviewsonrace encouragedblackAmericans, 1913 alsomarkedtheinaugurationof Woodrow Wilson,whose mundane yetcriticalaspectsofliving free(andpoor)intheSouth. supporters onthe“Negroprogress” they hadachievedinthemore an addressinVirginiaapplaudingits blackorganizationsandwhite citizens asequals.Laterintheyear, Booker T. Washington delivered championed hopedespitethenation’s failuretohonor itsblack published inthe portunity? JamesWeldon Johnsonwrotethepoem“FiftyYears,” What hadonedonetofosterequality, tolerance,and economic op- searching. Was thepromiseof theProclamationaliveandwell? in HarrietTubman wassoul- ParkinBoston.Inadditiontorevelry Warrick-Fuller sculptedanemancipationmonumentthatstillstands Philadelphia hostedaspecialProclamationexhibition,andMeta and celebrationswereheldacrossthenationtoheraldevent. oftheEmancipationProclamation, 1913 markedthe50thanniversary One could,infact,mountanotherrationale New York Times on January 1,1913,in whichhe on January

N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ 5 6 distraction of undergraduates. Within a couple of 2003 in a seminar led by Colin Palmer (Trustee; of years, the scholars—one of whom was Albert Fellow 1989–90) of Princeton University, Trudier Einstein—decided that the graduate students Harris (Fellow 1996–97) of the University of IRECTOR

D were themselves a bit noisy, and quietly eliminated North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Richard Powell them, leaving the scholars alone and the Institute (Fellow 1995–96) of Duke University, this is the with no way of fulfilling the specifically educational first of our toolboxes to include works of art along ambitions of its founders. Subsequent institutes with historical documents and literary texts, and it for advanced study adopted this reduced model, is a magnificent piece of work. Indeed, so success- RESIDENT AND

P and so it went until the National Humanities ful was the introduction of art into the toolboxes Center began to explore ways in which this kind that we are now making plans to retrofit our two of orga-nization could, through the use of tech- previous toolboxes with artworks. nology, put advanced scholarship at the service of Intended to serve as professional development teachers. The Center’s education programs repre- resources, these toolboxes have other applications sent a brilliant new solution to an old problem. as well. We have heard recently that classes at EPORT FROM THE

R Last spring, the third of our online professional Harvard and Princeton will be using them as development seminars, or toolboxes, “The Making archives for students to mine; and since the tool-

NNUAL of African American Identity: 1865–1917” went boxes are online, we expect them to be used in A online (http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/pds.htm). more ways by more people with each succeeding Like its predecessors, it represents a collection of year. This past summer, the Center hosted Lee materials with which teachers, collaborating with Mitchell (Rockefeller Fellow 1986–87) of local scholars, can create their own professional Princeton University, Joy Kasson (Delta Delta development seminars. Created in the summer Delta Fellow 1996–97) of the University of

“Communities are like people. They have March 30 bodies, functions, The NEH announces brains, and a soul. March 25 that it has awarded For decades, I have The National “It’s wonderful to be able to come to a place the Center a two-year known that the Humanities Center that is a kind of intellectual oasis, not just grant that will provide National Humanities celebrates its 25th with the quality of the discussion that goes stipends for seven April 27 Center is the brains anniversary. Fellows on here but also with the caliber of the build- fellows in 2005–06 Trustee Assad and the soul of our reflect on “what was ing itself. There’s been something spiritually and 2006–07. The Meymandi completes community. My hum- in the air” during restorative about being here, and I feel as announcement comes his pledge to estab- ble contribution is their fellowship year, though I have been harvesting things that I’ve just a week after the lish the Assad only a token of my followed by a gala at been trying to work on for some time. I had NEH notifies the Meymandi Fellowship, gratitude to the which members of the imagined that this was just a place like many Center that it will the 23rd endowed fel- Center for what it class of 2003–04 another. Now that I’ve been here, I recognize fund a new Online lowship established has given me and all mingle with alumni how distinctive and distinctively generous Professional Develop- at the Center and the the American citi- fellows, current and this place is.” ment Seminar Toolkit first designated to zens as a national past trustees and Frances Ferguson (GlaxoSmithKline Senior Fellow on the colonization bring eminent schol- treasure.” staff, and other and Trustee-Elect), reflecting on the 25th anniversary and settlement of ars to the Center for Assad Meymandi friends of the Center. of the Center America, 1585–1760. short-term visits. (Trustee) MARCH APRIL Franklin (Trustee dents, JohnHope Durr’s correspon- Rights Years. Letters fromtheCivil Virginia FosterDurr, Freedom Writer: on herbooktourfor Bookshop inDurham the Regulator 2001–02) includes (Rockefeller Fellow Patricia Sullivan April 29 and adaptabilityare remarkable”; truly pro- “This ed forthisexcellent project. Its intellectualquality National Humanities Centershouldbecommend- arement opportunities constructed”; “The is rarely thestufffrom whichprofessional develop- project hasalevel ofcreativity andcomplexitythat was justasgratifyingtogetthecomments:“This fying asitwastoreceive thepositive decision,it so you canseewhatpeoplesayaboutyou. Asgrati- send you reviewers’ commentsonyour proposal, the goodthingsaboutNEHisthattheywill National Endowment fortheHumanities. One of andliterature curriculaiswithinsight. his-tory ning thefullrangeoftypicalK–12American the periodfrom 1585to1760. The goalofspan- the development ofthefifth,whichwillfocuson 1877–1920.” Andfundinghasbeensecured for Gilded andtheGritty:toolbox, “The America, that willeventuate, nextspring,inthefourth (Rockefeller Fellow 1990–91),wholedaseminar North Carolina atChapelHill, andLeonFink The fundingtowhichIreferred camefrom the One of Trustee). Woodward (Past and C.Vann Johnson, HugoBlack, Lyndon andLadyBird Eleanor Roosevelt, such luminariesas Durr’s exchangeswith Sullivan toreadfrom and othersjoin 1980–81, ’81–82), Senior Fellow Emeritus; Mellon pling ofNast’s works appearance ofasam- coincides withthe Leuchtenburg’s talk gather forlunch. friends oftheCenter Thomas Nast,asthe of thecartoonist the lifeandworks speaker, discussing ’80–81) istheguest 1978–79, ’79–80, Mellon SeniorFellow (Trustee Emeritus, William Leuchtenburg May 6 MAY seminar forhighschoolteachers,whichgave way University ofKentucky) wassucceededby the Delta Delta Delta Fellow Jeremy Popkin ofthe Deborah CohenofBrown University and2000–01 FacultyLiberal Arts (ledby NEHFellow 2001–02 The Jessie Ball duPont Summer Seminars for the west wingofthebuilding,five seminarsmet. Corbett Cappswasbusyrenovating thestudieson Schramm andhisstaffwere extremely busy. While education programs, andsothissummer, Richard ing thesummerisconsidered ofthe tobe part we were ontherighttrack. inthefield,Ifelt these commentsfrom experts excellence inprofessional development.” Reading have thepotentialofbecomingnationaliconsfor reviewer hasconsidered”; Center’s “The resources thatthis purposeful oftheevaluation instruments and planare themostprofessional, unbiased,and professional development”; assessmenttools “The waytoapproacha cuttingedgeprototype ofanew remarkableposal isnotjustthoughtful,ittruly as spring. walls duringthe appear ontheCenter’s New York City, also Martin Mazorraof on canvasworksby Paintings,” acrylic South. “Mombobilly Museum oftheNew from theLevine loan totheCenter of JohnGellman,on from thecollection Administratively, anythingthathappensdur- School ofMedicine. University ofVirginia atthe psychiatry fessor emeritusof Interaction andpro- of MindandHuman Center fortheStudy the founderof Vamik Volkan, M.D., soring alectureby Foundation, cospon- the LucyDaniels its collaborationwith The Centercontinues September 11” Regression and “Large-Group May 13 year memorable. helped makethe pheric incidentsthat talizes theatmos- member—and immor- staff tions ofevery nizes thecontribu- year. Theworkrecog- musical recapofthe Hammerstein), a to Rodgersand (with apologies fellows of“Carolina” bythe performance 2003–04 featuresa for theclassof The year-end party May 21

N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ 7 8 to two concurrent seminars for younger literary as well with the arrival of comments from NEH scholars led by Frances Ferguson (GlaxoSmithKline reviewers who evaluated our request for fellowship Senior Fellow 2003–04) of the University of support. One described the program as “the most IRECTOR

D Chicago and Susan Stewart of Princeton University. comprehensive proposal [we’ve received]—the jewel The summer schedule concluded with the two- in the crown of all the programs.” According to week SIAS seminar, after which Schramm fled another, “Fellows at NHC are the envy of all aca- the building for his well-earned vacation. demics.” Another noted that the Center “has a Everything that goes under the rubric of educa- stellar record of supporting the most important RESIDENT AND

P tion depends on our fellowship program, our core scholarship taking place in the humanities,” and mission and the basis for everything we do. The added, “I doubt that any comparable institution— class of 2003–04, our twenty-sixth, included forty- if there is one—can match the number and quality one fellows from nine disciplines, sixteen states, of the humanities scholars that the NHC has and four countries. A happy coincidence in the accommodated in recent years.” These comments selection process produced five musicologists— supported a gratifying reversal of the tendency in EPORT FROM THE

R a critical mass, as we discovered when what had recent years for the NEH to cut back its grants. In been a persistent white-noise humming and strum- the classes of 2005–06 and 2006–07, the Center

NNUAL ming in the background suddenly burst forth at will award ten NEH fellowships, disbursing a total A the year-end party as a fully-formed musical review, of $392,000. Other fellows in the class of 2003–04 “Carolina,” performed for an astonished staff. were supported by term grants from the Lilly Those directly connected to the Center value the Endowment (three), the Gladys Krieble Delmas fellowship program by more intimate and human Foundation, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the measures, but we received a more objective view Florence Gould Foundation, the Horace W.

May 25 Pauline Yu (Trustee) June 1 is master of cere- Teachers in the monies as The New “One of humankind’s Roanoke Rapids, York Public Library oldest writing sys- N.C., school dis- hosts the third tems comes to life in trict begin a four- Richard W. Lyman the newest technolo- day seminar con- Award, which the gies of communica- structed from the Library Initiative Center presents tion and interpreta- “Making of African (CDLI). The CDLI is to scholars who have tion in Professor American Identity: an international group made innovative use Englund’s project. He 1865 to 1917” of Assyriologists, of information tech- combines scholarly Professional museum curators, nology to advance eminence with innov- Development and historians of sci- scholarship and ative technique in June 2004 Seminar Toolkit. ence whose mission teaching in the the service of learn- With the help of Throughout June

is to make the form PROGRAMS EDUCATION humanities. Robert ing—and in the ser- Russell Guilfoile administrative wing teachers in the and content of Englund of the vice of all who care and John Harpham, will have new heating Asheville, Green- cuneiform tablets University of deeply about where Corbett Capps begins and cooling units, ville, and Charlotte- from ancient Sumer, California at Los we come from in our the renovation of the carpets, ceilings, and Mecklenburg Babylonia, Assyria, Angeles is the 2004 cultures.” studies in the west paint, and the quar- regions conduct and Persia available recipient in recogni- James J. O’Donnell, wing of the Archie K. ter-century-old desks their own semi- online, eliminating the tion of his scholarly provost of Georgetown Davis Building. At in the studies will nars with the need for scholars to writing and his co- University and chair of the completion of the give way to ergonom- help of faculty travel around the directorship of the the panel of scholars three-year project, ically correct work- from nearby world to study them. Cuneiform Digital that selected Englund the studies and the stations. universities. MAY JUNE EDUCATION PROGRAMS College Faculty. Liberal Arts Seminars for Summer Ball duPont lead theJessie Fellow 2001–02) and Mellon the Humanities Endowment for Cohen (National and DeborahA. Fellow 2000–01) (Delta Delta Jeremy D.Popkin Culture” Material Deciphering Things Tell: “The Tales Experience” and and Historical “Autobiography June 6–26 seven new membershaveseven comeontotheboard, new not seemtovary. Since Iarrived inJanuary 2003, valuable members,buttheoverall strength does bylaws dictateturnover, sowe are alwayslosing of theboard toregenerate oftrustees itself. Our attributes oftheCenterisremarkable capacity Birkelund. carried outby theboard ledby John oftrustees, paign. That campaignwasconceived, planned,and accomplishment ofthe1997–2000capitalcam- more than$45millionwas,ofcourse, thegreat Building theendowment toitscurrent level of thantwodozen fewer fellowships.tions supported Center beganin1978,whenahandfuloffounda- ferent configurationthantheonewithwhich from formerandpresent fellows. dif- This isavery and onewasfundedprimarilyby contributions lowships were fundedby theCenter’s endowment, Societies (sixBurkhardt fellows). Twenty-two fel- Foundation, andtheAmericanCouncilofLearned Goldsmith Foundation, theA.G.Leventis One ofthemostimpressive andreassuring

EDUCATION PROGRAMS Seminar Toolkit. fourth OnlineProfessional Development Guilded andtheGritty”willdebutas 2005, “The way tothe20th.InJanuary gave remade Americaasthe19thcentury urbanization andindustrializationthat nar forhighschoolteachersontherapid (Rockefeller Fellow1986–87)leadasemi- Delta Fellow1996–97),andLeeMitchell Fellow 1990–91),JoyKasson(DeltaDelta 1880–1920” “The GildedandtheGritty:America, June 27 Leon Fink(Rockefeller to know aballfrom astrike. longenough hehasbeeninthiscountry by birth, wisdom thatcharacterizes theboard asawhole. enced executive, Frank exemplifies theworldly of theACLS board isalsoanexperi- oftrustees, dent of Williams Collegeandastintaschairman guished medievalist who,aftertenyears aspresi- tinction andstabilityinitsleadership. Adistin- Birkelund, theboard hasensured continueddis- gathered inoneplace. to saythatsuchtalentandexperienceare rarely the accomplishmentsofthesepeople;sufficeit limitations preclude even aminimalaccountof Richard Brodhead, and Thomas Laqueur. Space von derHeyden, Hunter Rawlings,AlanBrinkley, including W. J. T. Mitchell, Patricia Morton, Karl And, althoughaslightlypre-Beatles Liverpudlian By choosingFrancis Oakley toreplace John

N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ 9 work of the fellows * Endowed by the Research Triangle Foundation history atDuke University.history andart associate professor ofart in France, 1909–1939. Fascism: Myth, Art, andIdeology book manuscript Fellow) completedadraftofhis Mark Antliff of California,Berkeley. professor ofmusic atUniversity Piano Concerto.” Allanbrook is Charles Rosen andMozart’s Ninth Disappointments ofAnalysis: “The drafted anotherarticle, Eighteenth-Century Music for submissiontothejournal “Mozartan article, theFantast,” from Lully toSondheim Endings: ComicMusical Theater work ontwochaptersof InstrumentalCentury Music Comic Mimesis inLateEighteenth- chapters of Bouwsma Fellow) revised three Wye J.Allanbrook The Secular Commedia: (Gould Foundation The Advent of (William J. (William J ENANN T wrote ; ODD B Antliff is L RIAN Happy ; and EE ; began R I B SMAEL EESER K AKER ELLY , , , tion inscholarlyjournals,includ- forpublica- and twootherarticles Journal Burma” for Tattooed Women in Britain and 2005); oneon“Making Faces: Working-Class History journal that isscheduledtoappearinthe Perception inModern Britain,” Problems: Work, Pathology, and ception ofBritish workers, “Color She oncolorper- wrote anarticle ly titled book oncolonialcrime,tentative- tion andtwochaptersofanother 2004) anddraftedtheintroduc- (University ofChicagoPress, of Liberalism inModern Britain Culture ofProperty: The Crisis duction ofherbookcalled Daniels Fellow*) oversaw thepro- Jordanna Bailkin vol. 59(inpress, 2005); , International Laborand The Absence ofMurder. History WorkshopHistory (Josephus (in press, The the University of Washington. andwomen’shistory studies at Bailkin isassistantprofessor of Quarterly Modern City of Freedom: Liberalism andthe also reviewed Patrick Joyce’s History Paula Findlen, appeared in edited by Pamela H.Smith and and Art inEarly Modern Europe Commerce,and Marvels: Science, (2003), andanotheron published in Buckley andHilaryFawcett, was Siècle tothePresent Women’s Fashion from theFin de the Feminine: Representation and India?” Her review of Was Murder Possible inBritish BootandtheSpleen:“The When Breaking theImperial Palette” and ing “Indian Yellow: Making and , vol. 9,no. 1(2004).She (forthcoming 2005). (forthcoming for Albion European History by Cheryl , vol. 35,no. 3 , Fashioning Merchants Left Rule , 11 N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ Lee D. Baker (Benjamin N. Duke 12 Fellow*) completed a draft of a book on the history of anthropol- ogy that explores the field’s partici- pation in the racial politics of cul- ture in the United States. He also published several articles and short pieces including “Affirmative Action and Anthropological Research,” Anthropology News, vol. 44, no. 7 (2003); “Franz Boas out of the Ivory Tower,” Anthropological Theory, vol. 4, no. 1 (2004); “A Model Approach for Studying Race: Provocative Theory, Sound Science, and Very Good History,” L ISA J ANE G RAHAM, JORDANNA B AILKIN, ANNE M ARGARET B AXLEY American Anthropologist, vol. 106, no. 1 (2004); and “Message from the President,” North American Dialogue, vol. 7, no. 1 (2004). His review of Delimiting Anthro- a special collection, The Metaethics in Church/Become a Priest,” in pology: Occasional Inquiries and of Moral Status: Perspectives on the Medieval Christianity in Practice, Reflections, by George W. Stocking, Nature and Source of Human Value edited by Miri Rubin (under con- Jr., appeared in the Journal of (forthcoming, Oxford University tract with Princeton University Anthropological Research, vol. 59 Press, 2006). She wrote a review Press), and “The Founding of the (2003). Baker is associate profes- of David Sussman’s The Idea of Monte di Pietà of Cortona” and sor of cultural anthropology and Humanity: Anthropology and “Church Inventories,” in Medieval African and African American Anthroponomy in Kant’s Ethics for Italy: A Documentary History, edit- studies at Duke University. Essays in Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 1 ed by Frances Andrews, Joanna (2004). Baxley is assistant pro- Drell, and Katherine L. Jansen Anne Margaret Baxley (Delta fessor of philosophy at Virginia (under contract with University Delta Delta Fellow) wrote three Tech. of Pennsylvania Press). He also chapters of her book project on revised his translation and anno- Kant’s theory of virtue and a paper Daniel Bornstein (Lilly Fellow tation of “The Life of Maria of on contemporary ethical theory in Religion and the Humanities) Venice,” which will appear in on virtue, “Does Virtue Silence wrote two chapters and portions Dominican Penitent Spirituality, Competing Reasons?” which has of a third (out of a projected six) edited by Maiju Lehmijoki- been submitted for publication. for his book An Italian Church: Gardner (Paulist Press, forthcom- She also completed the initial Religion, Culture, and Society in ing April 2005). He revised two research for a work in progress Medieval Cortona; drafted an articles, “St Birgitta in Roma on the morality of contempt. She essay, “Sacred Flesh, Holy Bodies: Sancta: A Swedish Princess as revised an article entitled “The Relics, Ascetics, Living Saints,” Roman Saint?” for the journal Practical Significance of Taste in for Medieval Christianity, vol. 4 Birgittiana, and “History and Kant’s Critique of Judgment,” of A People’s History of Christianity Culture in a Provincial Center: which has been accepted for pub- (Fortress Press, forthcoming); and A Universal Chronicle from lication in the Journal of Aesthetics wrote a review essay, “Did Angela Renaissance Rimini” for and Art Criticism (forthcoming of Foligno Exist? A Guide to Renaissance Studies. Bornstein 2005), as well as an essay on Recent Debates,” for Studia is professor of history at Kant’s account of the value of Mystica. He translated, annotated, Texas A&M University. humanity, which will appear in and introduced “How to Behave Thomas Brothers C “Individual Differences andthe tentativelywrote titled anarticle Press, 2006)and forthcoming 1750–1940 Inequalities in France andAmerica, Mental Abilities andNatural tively titled finished abookmanuscripttenta- FoundationPforzheimer Fellow) John Carson atDuke University. history art A. M.CoganProfessor and ofart astical institutions.Bruzelius is cant orders ontraditionalecclesi- citychurches ofthemendi- new about theimpactofburialin began work onabookproject Clowes Fellow, fallsemester) Caroline Bruzelius University. professor ofmusicatDuke Orleans. his book Endowment Fellow) completed HIRSTOPHER Brothers isassociate Louis Armstrong’s New The Measure ofMerit: (Princeton University (Carl andLily C ELENZA (Duke (Allen W. , J AMES P EACOCK nal article, “Decadent Platonisms,nal article, Modern Europe Search forAncient Wisdom inEarly Ritual: LateAntiquity andthe his bookproject (2004). He draftedachapterfor Renaissance Quarterly 1.10,” whichappeared in Decembrio’s Fifteenth-Century Ferrara: Angelo “Creatingarticle, Canonsin University Press (2004),andan been publishedby Johns Hopkins and Latin’s Legacy Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, es onhisbook Societies) putthefinishingtouch- American CouncilofLearned (Burkhardt Fellow ofthe Christopher S.Celenza Michigan. attheUnversityhistory of Carson isassociateprofessor of A. Green andHendrick Hartog. a collectioneditedby Thomas Individualization ofRights” for , L EWIS E De politialitteraria RENBURG , andwrote ajour- The LostItalian Intellectuals and , whichhas , vol. 57 , California, Riverside. attheUniversityhistory of tion. Cogswell isprofessor of has beensubmittedforpublica- in EarlyModern England,” which Prodigall Time’: The EarlofClare’s tomes and Vapors ofaDiseased Symp- “‘The and ajournalarticle, Quarterly Île deRé,”for Buckingham’s Expedition tothe Newsbooks andtheDuke of cle, “‘Published by Authoritie’: arti- Williamsburg,an Virginia); andCulture,American History (Omohundro Institute ofEarly for the Tobacco Colonies,1626–1628,” the State’: Mr. Anys’s Project and wrote achapter, “‘In thePower of –1629 and Political Culture, 1618 Commonwealth: War,Politics, book project, chaptersforhis six offourteen and Fellows’ Fellow) completed Endowment fortheHumanities Thomas Cogswell State University. atMichigan is professor of history to Salvatore Camporeale. Celenza ofasetpapersdedicated as part will besubmittedforpublication Salvatore Camporeale,” which Lorenzo Valla: The Workof “Rhetoric, Philosophy, and 2005). He prepared apapertitled and Early Modern Studies appear inthe Vernacular inRetrospect,” to “Petrarch, Latin,andthe Campanelliana Italian journal Medici,” tobepublishedinthe of Giovanni Nesi toPiero de’ “Anarticle, Unpublished Letter ofthebook.Hepart wrote an Modern,” whichwillalsobecome Late Ancient,EarlyModern, and Virginia andthe Wider World and Manuscript Culture , vol. 67,no. 1(2004); Journal ofMedieval Buckingham’s , andonecalled Bruniana et Bruniana Huntington Library (National (Fall The ; 13 N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ Esther Cohen (Lilly Fellow in Form and Its Consequences,” Elizabeth Garrett Professor of 14 Religion and the Humanities) that has been accepted for publica- Arts and Sciences and professor wrote the greater part of her book tion in a volume of essays, Land, of English at Johns Hopkins on pain in the Middle Ages, tenta- Nation, Culture, being edited by University; she has accepted tively titled The Modified Scream, Peter de Bolla et al.; and another a new position as George W. a review of Daniel Lord Smail’s essay, “Emotion and Belief: From Pullman Professor of English The Consumption of Justice: Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham,” at the University of Chicago. Emotions, Publicity, and Legal accepted for publication in a Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423 volume of essays on the passions, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. (John Hope for H-France , and a review of being edited by Victoria Kahn Franklin Senior Fellow) spent the Lisane Lavanchy’s Écrire sa mort, and Neil Saccamano. Her article year working on a 27-chapter décrire sa vie. Testaments de laïcs on “Coherence and Changes in volume tentatively titled A World lausannois (1400–1450) for the the Invisible World” appeared History of Black Music. He also American Historical Review. She in New Literary History, vol. 35, completed an article, under the prepared an article, “Sacred, no. 2 (2004), and one on working title “Paget Henry Secular, and Unclean: The “Comparing the Literatures: Caliban’s Reason and Its Implica- Contextuality of Emotions,” to Textualism and Globalism” tions for Black Music Scholarship,” be published in Sacred and Secular will appear in the journal ELH for submission to a scholarly jour- in Medieval and Early-Modern (English Literary History). In addi- nal. Floyd is director emeritus Cultures: New Essays, edited by tion she wrote “A Response of the Center for Black Music Lawrence Bessermen (Palgrave to Roger Chartier” for Critical Research at Columbia College Macmillan, forthcoming). Cohen Inquiry. Ferguson was Mary Chicago. is professor of history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

M EREDITIH G ILL, DANIEL B ORNSTEIN, ESTHER C OHEN, GIANNA P OMATA Lewis A. Erenberg (Frank H. Kenan Fellow) wrote a complete first draft of his book project titled The Greatest Fight of Our Genera- tion: Joe Louis and Max Schmeling in the International Arena, to be published by Oxford University Press, and completed a draft of a journal article on the same topic. Erenberg is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago.

Frances Ferguson (GlaxoSmithKline Senior Fellow) wrote two chapters of her book project on education and political liberalism, under the working title What Children Taught Political Philosophy, and coedited (with Helen R. Elam) a collection of essays, The Wordsworthian En- lightenment: Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Hartman (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming). She wrote an essay, “Organic * Endowed by the Research Triangle Foundation Triangle * Endowed by the Research P. Gabrielle Foreman (Rocke- 15 feller Fellow) wrote two chapters and revised three chapters of a book manuscript, Dark Senti- ment: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century, and collected ‒ essays and did reading for a manu- script in progress, Transgressive EPORT

Desires: Representing Miscegenation R and Homoerotics in Nineteenth- Century Literature and Culture. NNUAL

She continued archival research A on the previously unknown last thirty-five years of the life of Harriet Wilson, the first African ENTER C American woman novelist and a spiritualist and reform lecturer, E LIZABETH K ENNEDY, CAROLYN H IGBIE, GABRIELLE F OREMAN and completed work on a new edition of Harriet Wilson’s Our Lisa Jane Graham (Burkhardt Malachi Hacohen (Burkhardt Nig (Penguin Classics, forthcom- Fellow of the American Council Fellow of the American Council of UMANITIES H ing 2005), for which she is coedi- of Learned Societies) wrote one Learned Societies) worked on two tor with Reginald Pitts. She also of five chapters and drafted sec- projects. The first, “Jacob and Esau, prepared an entry on Harriet tions of two others for her book Jewish Emancipation, and the Wilson for Black Women in The Economy of Pleasure in Dilemmas of Multiculturalism,” ATIONAL N America: An Historical Encyclopedia Eighteenth-Century France and traces changes in the telling of the (Oxford University Press, 2004). finished revising an article titled biblical story of Jacob and Esau Foreman is associate professor “Scandal: Law, Literature and in response to the challenges that of English and American studies Morality in the Early Enlighten- emancipation presented to tradi- at Occidental College. ment” to be published in a special tional Jewish-Christian relations. volume of the journal Studies on Hacohen’s research at the Center Meredith J. Gill (Lilly Fellow Voltaire and the Eighteenth Cen- focused on the changes brought in Religion and the Humanities) tury called The Interdisciplinary forth by the rise of ethnonational- completed her book Augustine and Century (forthcoming 2005). In ism. For his second project, “Austria the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge addition, she prepared a review of and the Congress for Cultural University Press, in press, 2005). Carol Blum’s Strength in Numbers: Freedom,” he researched Austria’s For the journal Renaissance Studies, Population, Reproduction, and foremost politico-cultural magazine she wrote a short commemoration, Power in Eighteenth-Century in the postwar period, Forum, “John Shearman (1931–2003): A France for the Journal of which was clandestinely financed Tribute” (vol. 18, no. 2, 2004), Interdis-ciplinary History and by the CIA. He also prepared a and a review of Lisa Jardine and a review of Renee Winegarten’s series of lectures to be given at the Jerry Brotton’s Global Interests: Accursed Politics: Some French University of Haifa, Israel (where Renaissance Art between East and Women Writers and Political Life, he is Bucerius Fellow for summer West (Picturing History) with Jerry 1715–1850 for H-France. Graham 2004) which will be published in Brotton’s The Renaissance Bazaar: is associate professor of history at Hebrew as a book, The Rise, Fall From the Silk Road to Michelangelo Haverford College. and Post-Life of the Central- (vol. 18, no. 3, 2004). Gill is assis- European Jewish Intelligentsia. tant professor of art history at the Hacohen is Fred W. Shaffer University of Notre Dame. Associate Professor of History, Political Science, and Religion at Duke University. 16

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Carolyn Higbie (Robert F. and Jenann Ismael (NEH Fellow) Confront the ‘Rabid Faction’: Margaret S. Goheen Fellow) made good progress on research Black Elites, Black Workers and worked on a book, The Lindian for her book project, Science, the Labor Question in the Jim Chronicle and the Greek Creation Simplicity, and Symmetry. She Crow South,” for African of Their Past (Oxford University rewrote and made substantial American Workers since the Civil Press, 2003); a chapter called additions to a book manuscript, War , edited by Eric Arnesen “Hellenistic Mythography,” to The Situated Self, which has been (University of Illinois Press, forth- appear in the Cambridge Compan- accepted for publication by coming 2005), and another one, ion to Classical Mythology; and Oxford University Press; wrote “Materialism and the Persistence entries on “Timachidas,” “Aristion,” a paper, “Emergent Order: The of Race in the Jim Crow South,” and “Gorgon” for a new edition of Limits of Self-Organization,” that for the journal Historical Fragments of the Greek Historians will be published in Erkentneiss; Materialism (forthcoming 2005). (Brill, forthcoming). She wrote and revised drafts of two other Kelly is lecturer in history at two papers that will appear in vol- papers to be submitted for publi- Queen’s University Belfast. umes of conference proceedings: cation (“Chances Reconsidered” “The Lindian Chronicle and the and “The Self, the Body, and Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy Documentation of Sources,” for Space”). Ismael is assistant (Rockefeller Fellow) wrote the the conference on “Archives in professor of philosophy at introduction for and edited (with the Ancient Near East,” held at the University of Arizona. Agatha Beins) a volume titled Catholic University, Leuven, Women’s Studies for the Future: Belgium; and “Greek Archaeology?” Brian Kelly (Walter Hines Page Foundations, Interrogations, for the conference of the Fellow*) completed five of six Politics, to be published by International Archaeological chapters of his book African Rutgers University Press, and Congress, held in Boston. Higbie Americans and the Labor Move- drafted four of fourteen chapters is associate professor of classics at ment and drafted an introduction of her book Many Strands, One the State University of New York to a reprint of Bernard Mandel’s Woman: Lesbianism, Marriage and at Buffalo. Additional support for Labor: Free and Slave (University Sexuality in an Upper Class Life. her fellowship came from the of Illinois Press, forthcoming Kennedy is professor of women’s A. G. Leventis Foundation. 2005). He also wrote an article studies at the University of called “Industrial Sentinels Arizona. * Endowed by the Research Triangle Foundation Triangle * Endowed by the Research academic year. at Greensboro forthe2004–05 the University ofNorth Carolina at associate professor ofhistory Kerr-Ritchie willbeavisiting Rodriguez (ABC-CLIO,2004). Encyclopedia Social, Political andHistorical Slavery intheUnited States: A Free Labor, North America,”for “Transition from Slave Laborto Raid,” “John Jasper,” and “John Brown,” “Harpers Ferry 2004). He revised fourentries, History for the and Freedom intheNew South Out ofNo Way: ClaimingFamily of Dianne Swann-Wright’s 2005);andareview (forthcoming journal in theAtlantic World,” forthe “Rehearsal for War: Black Militias 2005);anarticle, forthcoming Rodriguez (M.E.Sharpe, World and Abolition inthe Trans-Atlantic The Encyclopedia ofEmancipation on “Samuel Ringgold Ward” for Scribner’s Sons, 2004);anessay ed by Jordan Goodman (Charles and Culture: An Encyclopedia published in andSlave“Slavery Trade,” tobe Atlantic World Emancipation Day intheBlack for hisbook Fellow) wrote five ofsixchapters Jeffrey R.Kerr-Ritchie , editedby Junius P. , vol. 91,no. 1(June Journal ofAmerican Slavery andAbolition , editedby Junius P. Rites ofAugust First: Tobacco inHistory ; anessayon (NEH A Way , edit- S press); a paper on “The Powerpress); apaperon“The by C.Rudolph (Blackwell, in Gothic inNorthern Europe of Medieval Art: Romanesque and Architecture” for Studyon “The ofGothic 2004). He alsowrote achapter of CaliforniaPress (forthcoming, be publishedby theUniversity God, ofAmiens Saint Mary a Contract withtheMother of book, and finishedwork onanother the University ofCaliforniaPress), Interlocutor the Story ofGothic: Building and bookproject of his3-part and beganwork onParts IIand Senior Fellow) completedPart I Stephen Murray TEPHEN A Gothic Sermon: Making M (under contractwith URRAY (Henry Luce(Henry A Companion , A NNE W , edited Telling , to ILLIAMS University. archaeology at Columbia and history professor ofart GEMOB, 2001).Murray is XIVième siècle) dans l’Oise etsesenvirons (XIIième- France, in1998: conference heldinBeauvais, of proceedings ofanintenational review for Scribner’s Sons, inpress); anda Jordan andJ.Kaye (Charles A Supplement oftheMiddle Ages;Dictionary “Gothic Architecture” for on in 2001;press); anentry ence sponsored by theGetty, Turner (transactionsofaconfer- The Artful Mind of Gothic” thatwillappearin Speculum , editedby W. C. (Beauvais: , editedby M. L’art gothique of avolume 17 N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ James Peacock (John G. Medlin, Century,” for Clifford Geertz and forthcoming 2004). She edited, 18 Jr., Fellow) focused on two pro- His Colleagues: A Colloquy, edited translated, and prepared an intro- jects: a Rockefeller Foundation by Richard A. Shweder and Byron duction for Oliva Sabuco: The project on the globalizing South, Good (University of Chicago True Medicine for the Chicago and a Fulbright study of sectarian Press, in press). Peacock is dis- University Press series, The Other and ethnic aspects of conflict and tinguished professor of anthro- Voice in European History. She peace. For the Rockefeller project pology at the University of finished an article, “Medicine for (an ongoing research project fund- North Carolina at Chapel Hill. the Poor: Health Care and Poor ed by the Rockefeller Foundation Relief in 18th- and 19th-century with Peacock as principal investi- Theda Perdue (Archie K. Davis Bologna,” to be published in gator) he coedited vol. 1 (with Senior Fellow) prepared second Health Care and Poor Relief in Lothar Hönnighausen, Marc Frey, editions of two books: The 18th- and 19th-Century Southern and Niklaus Steiner) and vol. 2 Cherokee Removal: A Brief History Europe, edited by Andrew (with Lothar Hönnighausen, Anke with Documents (Bedford/ St. Cunningham and Ole Grell Ortlepp, and Niklaus Steiner) of Martin’s, forthcoming 2005), (Ashgate, in press). Pomata is Regionalism in the Age of Globalism and The Cherokees (Chelsea associate professor of history (University of Wisconsin Press, House, forthcoming 2005). She at Università di Bologna. 2004); coedited (with Harry L. read widely for two other books: Watson and Carrie R. Matthews) one on Indians in the segregated Todd W. Reeser (NEH Fellow) The American South in a Global South, and another on the reasser- finished work on his book World (University of North tion of tribal identity in the South Moderating Masculinity in Early Carolina Press, in press); and after 1970. Perdue is Atlanta Modern France. He completed two drafted all six chapters of his book Distinguished Term Professor chapters of his new book project The Global Mind of the American of History and American Studies Translating Platonic Sexuality in South. At a conference on ethnic at the University of North the Renaissance, one of which, conflict and peace processes, host- Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Re-Reading Platonic Sexuality ed in Washington, D.C., by the Sceptically in Montaigne’s United States Institute of Peace Gianna Pomata (Lilly Fellow ‘Apologie de Raimond Sebond,’” and the Fulbright New Century in Religion and the Humanities) will appear in a volume entitled Scholars Program, he chaired a revised one chapter and wrote two French Renaissance Masculinities, panel on “Identity Matters: new chapters for her book project edited by Philip Ford (Cambridge Ethnic, Religious, and Other Holy Bodies in Early Modern French Studies, Cambridge Cultural Bases of Identity.” He is Medicine and Religion. She wrote University Press). He also coau- coediting (with Patricia Thornton the introduction (with Nancy thored (with Jeff Peters) an article, and Patrick Inman) a volume Siraisi) and an essay, “Praxis “Between Freedom and Memory: titled Identity Matters which Historialis: The Uses of Historia The Early Modern in Barthes’s Le includes papers by eleven of the in Early Modern Europe,” for a Degré zéro de l’écriture,” which researchers. He also wrote the volume she coedited (with Nancy has been accepted for publication foreword for Social Origins Siraisi), Historia: Empiricism and in the journal EMF: Studies in of Religion by Roger Bastide Erudition in Early Modern Europe Early Modern France, in a special (University of Minnesota Press, (MIT Press, forthcoming 2005), issue on contemporary readings 2003); an essay on “Values” for and the introduction (with of the early modern period (forth- the International Encyclopedia of Gabriella Zarri) and an essay, coming 2005). Reeser is assistant the Social and Behavioral Sciences, “Medicina delle monache: pratiche professor of French at the edited by Neil J. Smelser and terapeutiche nei monasteri fem- University of Utah. Paul B. Baltes (Pergamon/Elsevier minili,” for a volume she coedited Science, 2004); and an article, (with Gabriela Zarri), I monasteri “Geertz’s Concept of Culture femminili come centri di cultura in Historical Context: How He fra Rinascimento e Barocco (Rome, Saved the Day and Maybe the Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, David Ringrose (William C. and pices of the Center for Austrian Nancy Scheper-Hughes 19 Ida Friday Senior Fellow) worked Studies at the University of (Distinguished Visitor, fall semes- extensively on his book project, Minnesota (Berghann Books). ter) wrote the preface and intro- Europeans Abroad, 1400–1700: He also wrote a review of Stanley duction, and revised four of twelve Support Networks and Accommoda- J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein’s chapters of her book manuscript tion in the Wider World. He revised Apogee of Empire: Spain and New on the global traffic in organs, ‒ a major article, “A Setting for Spain in the Age of Charles III, The Ends of the Body. She wrote Royal Authority: The Reshaping 1759–1789 for H-Net Reviews. an article, “Parts Unknown: EPORT of Madrid, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Ringrose is professor of history Undercover Ethnography on the R Centuries,” which will be pub- at the University of California, Organs-Trafficking Underworld,” lished with illustrations in a book San Diego. for Ethnography, vol. 5, no. 1 NNUAL

on Baroque cities, under the aus- (2004), and revised another arti- A cle, “Anatomy of a Quilt: The Gees Bend Freedom Quilting Bee,” for Southern Cultures (forth- ENTER C coming, Fall 2004). She revised several chapters for edited vol- umes, including “The Last C AROL S UMMERS, BRAD W EISS, THOMAS C OGSWELL, DAVID R INGROSE Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in Fresh UMANITIES H Organs” for Global Assemblages: Technology and Ethics as Anthropo- logical Problems, edited by Aihwa Ong and Steven Collier (Basil ATIONAL N Blackwell, in press); “Death Squads and Demilitarization” for Order and Disorder in the Post- Colony, edited by Jean and John Comaroff (University of Chicago Press); and “Getting Over: The Politics of the Impossible in the New South Africa” for Violence and Trauma, edited by Robert Lemelson. She collaborated in the making of a 90-minute doc- umentary, Transplant Tourism, on site in Manila with producer David Paperny; it premiered at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association and on CBC TV (Canada). Scheper-Hughes is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Randolph Starn (John P. 20 Birkelund Senior Fellow) did research and drafted two of four essay-chapters for his book Authenticating the Past: Archives, Museums, Libraries, and wrote a related article, “Historians’ Guide to New Museum Studies,” for the American Historical Review. He also wrote reviews of several books, including Gigliola Fragnito, ed., Church, Censorship, and Culture in Early Modern Italy for Common Knowledge; Salvatore Settis, Italia, S.p.a.: L’assalto al patrimonio culturale for Burlington C AROLINE W INTERER, MARK A NTLIFF, CHARLOTTE S USSMAN Magazine; Allen J. Grieco et al., The Italian Renaissance in the Twentieth Century: Acts of an in Zambia: Contested Identities Population in Defoe, Goldsmith International Conference at Villa in a Catholic Mission School, by and Scott” for Blackwell’s I Tatti for Renaissance Quarterly; Anthony Simpson, for the journal Companion to the Eighteenth- and John Agnew, Place and Politics Africa; and two reviews for Africa Century Novel (2004). She did in Modern Italy for Political Quarterly, Africa and the West: some organizational and editorial Science Quarterly. Starn is pro- A Documentary History from the work on a collection she is coedit- fessor emeritus of history and Slave Trade to Independence, by ing (with Jill Heydt-Stevenson), Italian studies at the University William H. Worger and Nancy tentatively titled Recognizing the of California, Berkeley. L. Clark, and Twilight on the Romantic Novel. Sussman is asso- Zambezi: Late Colonialism in ciate professor of English at the Carol Summers (Jessie Ball Central Africa, by Eugenia W. University of Colorado at Boulder. duPont Fellow) drafted five papers Herbert. Summers is professor that will later be published as of history at the University of Brad Weiss (Burkhardt Fellow journal articles and book chap- Richmond. of the American Council of ters: “‘Subterranean Evil’ and Learned Societies) finished his ‘Tumultuous Riot’: Anxiety, Charlotte Sussman (Burkhardt work as editor of a volume enti- Authority and Alienation at Fellow of the American Council tled Producing African Futures: King’s College Budo, Buganda, of Learned Societies) wrote two Ritual and Reproduction in a Uganda, 1942”; “Young Buganda of six chapters for her book pro- Neoliberal Age (Brill, 2004) and and Old Boys: Ideals of Youth ject, Imagining the Population: wrote three of seven chapters and Legitimate Leadership in Literature and Demographic Theory of his book Conflicted Fantasies: Buganda, 1919–1949,” solicited in Britain, 1650–1838, and two Popular Cultural Practices in for a special issue of Africa Today of ten chapters of A Cultural Urban Tanzania. Weiss is asso- on youth in Africa; “Young Africa History of English Literature, ciate professor of anthropology and Radical Visions: Revisiting the 1660–1789 (under contract with at the College of William Bataka in Buganda, 1944–54”; Polity Press). She revised two arti- and Mary. “Grandchildren, Grand-parents cles for publication: “Daughter of and Radical Politics in Late the Revolution: Mary Shelley in Colonial Buganda”; and “Radical Our Times” for the Journal for Rudeness: Ugandan Social Early Modern Cultural Studies Critiques in the 1940s.” She also (Summer 2004), and “Memory wrote a review of ‘Half-London’ and Mobility: Fictions of Barbara Will R College. American literature atDartmouth ciate professor ofEnglish and American Studies inthe forthcoming tion in Western American Literature Together/Writing Apart: Collabora- review ofLindaK.Karell’s edited by Kirk Curnutt; anda Critical Essays onGertrude Stein volume, appear inaforthcoming Flowers ofFriendship,” whichwill Bernard Faÿ, andtheRuthless another essay, Stein, “Gertrude Modernity in forthcoming Stein’sCollaboration,” Vichy “Lost in Translation: Gertrude and the Vichy Dilemma tions: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, for herbook, Learned Societies) wrote achapter of theAmericanCouncil ANDOLPH , vol. 11,no. 4(2004); S TARN Fascist Collabora- (Burkhardt Fellow Modernism/ . Will isasso- , T Journal of HEDA ; anessay, Writing P ERDUE , , , F and theNovel intheLong Starr’s wrote areview ofG.Gabrielle and Timothy Webb. She also Shelley essays called Like This,” fora collection of Poet Like You Doing inaGenre Masquerade, or What’s aMajor wrote anessay, “Shelley’s Gothic Martin (Ashgate,2004),and Downing Thomas andRoberta Operatic Migrations lished inacollectionofessays, La Nonne sanglante ‘Gothic Opera’ andtheFailure of rewrote anessay, “Ghostly Voices: of romanticism andopera.She Romantic Circles a specialeditionofthejournal wrote acriticalintroduction for La Nonne sanglante French forGounod’s failedopera, libretto in Scribe/Delavigne revised hertranslationofthe Delta Fellow, spring semester) Anne Williams RANCES , editedby Alan Weinberg Lyric Generations: Poetry F ERGUSON The Unfamiliar (Delta Delta on thetopic , J ,” tobepub- , editedby (1854), and IYUAN Y U history atStanfordhistory University. position asassistantprofessor of University; shehasacceptedanew atSan Joséof history State Winterer wasassociate professor History lic,” for Neoclassicism intheEarlyRepub- the Sofa: American Women and 2005), andanother, “Venus on of American History in EarlyAmerica,”forthe Republican: The ClassicalImage “From2006), anarticle, Royal to University Press, forthcoming in theEarly Republic American Women andNeoclassicism book wrote twooffive chaptersofher Caroline Winterer at Wake Forest University. English andAmericanliterature Machines A Psychological ofSacred History and tract withPalgrave MacMillan), of Animal Magnetism On Matter andSpirit intheAge Fall 2004), Press ofFlorida, forthcoming Anatomy ofLimbo Coleridge’s and wrote one chaptereachfor andModern Cinema Theology script ofhisbookon Fellow) draftedacompletemanu- Eric G.Wilson at theUniversity ofGeorgia. English andAmericanLiterature of Gothic Walpole, Opera, andtheConception script, research onabook-lengthmanu- Romanticism Eighteenth Century The Melancholy Android: The Mirror ofAntiquity: ‘Monstrous Pleasures’: Horace (forthcoming 2005). (forthcoming Modern Intellectual . Williams isprofessor of . Wilson isprofessor of Melancholia: An Romantic Sleepwalkers: . She continuedher (John E.Sawyer(John (University for (NEH Fellow) (forthcoming (Cornell Esoteric (under con- Studies in Journal , 21 N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT 2003–04 Susan Youens (Horace W. Jiyuan Yu (Hurford Family Lawrence Zbikowski (NEH 22 Goldsmith Fellow) completed Fellow) drafted six chapters of Fellow) completed substantial a draft of her book, Heinrich his book Aristotle, Confucius, and work on three of seven chapters Heine and the Lied (under contract Virtue Ethics; an article on the of his book By Crystal Fountains: with Cambridge University Press). Chinese conception of humanism Music, Language, and Grammar. She also wrote an article, “Ballad for The New Dictionary of the He also completed a book chapter, Politics: Robert Schumann’s History of Ideas (Charles Scribner’s “The Cognitive Tango: Music, Heine Ballads,” for the Journal Sons, 2004); a paper, “The Mind and Brain,” to appear in of Musicology, and a chapter enti- Chinese Encounter with Greek The Artful Mind, edited by Mark tled “Mörike’s Mozart, Wolf’s Philosophy,” for Greek Philosophy Turner, and an article, “Modelling Schubert: ‘Denk‚ es, o Seele!’” for in the New Millennium: Papers in the Groove: Conceptual Structures a European volume of essays com- Honour of Professor Thomas M. in Popular Music,” for the Journal memorating the centenary of the Robinson, edited by R. Rossetti of the Royal Music Association death of Hugo Wolf (1860–1903). (Academic Verlag, forthcoming); (forthcoming Autumn 2004), Youens is professor of music at and another paper, “Human and wrote a review of A Question the University of Notre Dame. Nature and Virtue in Mencius of Balance: Charles Seeger’s and Xunzi: An Aristotelian Philosophy of Music by Taylor Interpretation,” for Dao: A Greer, for Music Theory Spectrum. Quarterly in Comparative Zbikowski is associate professor Philosophy. Yu is associate profes- of music and humanities at the sor of philosophy at the State University of Chicago. University of New York at Buffalo.

T HOMAS B ROTHERS, SAMUEL F LOYD, SUSAN YOUENS, WENDY A LLANBROOK, LAWRENCE Z BIKOWSKI Number of Fellows ...... 41 Institutions Represented Selection Committee for 2003–04 23 26 Senior Scholars United States: 28 Jonathan Freedman MORE THAN 10 YEARS BEYOND PH.D. Center for Black Music Research, English, University of Michigan 15 Young Scholars Columbia College Chicago. . . . . 1 David Gies 10 YEARS OR FEWER BEYOND PH.D. Spanish, Italian & Portuguese College of William and Mary . . . 1 University of Virginia ‒ Columbia University ...... 1 Linda Gordon Gender Female 20 Male 21 Dartmouth College ...... 1 History, New York University Duke University ...... 5 Carla Hesse* EPORT

Disciplines ...... 9 Haverford College ...... 1 History, University of California at R Berkeley Anthropology ...... 3 Johns Hopkins University . . . . . 1 William Lycan* Art History ...... 4 Loyola University Chicago. . . . . 1 Philosophy, University of North NNUAL

Classics ...... 1 Michigan State University . . . . . 1 Carolina at Chapel Hill A English & American Literature . . . 6 Occidental College ...... 1 Bruce Redford, English, Boston University History ...... 17 San José State University . . . . . 1 State University of New York ENTER

Modern Languages: French . . . . . 1 C at Buffalo ...... 2 Musicology...... 5 Texas A&M University...... 1 Representing the Center’s Board: Philosophy ...... 3 University of Arizona...... 2 Steven Marcus,* Vice Chairman Women’s Studies ...... 1 University of California, Patricia Meyer Spacks,* Chair Scholarly Programs Committee

Berkeley ...... 2 UMANITIES

Geographic Representation University of California, H U.S.: 38 scholars from 16 states Riverside ...... 1 * ALUMNI FELLOWS Arizona...... 2 University of California, California ...... 6 San Diego ...... 1 University of Chicago ...... 1 ATIONAL Colorado ...... 1 N Georgia ...... 1 University of Colorado at Statistics Boulder ...... 1 Illinois ...... 3 University of Georgia ...... 1 Indiana ...... 2 University of Michigan ...... 1 Maryland ...... 1 University of North Carolina Michigan ...... 2 at Chapel Hill ...... 2 Cumulative Statistics, 1978–2003 New Hampshire ...... 1 University of Notre Dame . . . . . 2 New York ...... 4 University of Richmond...... 1 Scholars in Residence ...... 921 North Carolina ...... 8 University of Utah...... 1 Senior ...... 610 MORE THAN 10 YEARS BEYOND PH.D. Pennsylvania ...... 1 University of Washington . . . . . 1 Texas ...... 1 Young Scholars ...... 311 Virginia Polytechnic Institute 10 YEARS OR FEWER BEYOND PH.D. Utah ...... 1 and State University ...... 1 Fields Represented ...... 44 Virginia ...... 3 Wake Forest University ...... 1 Scholars from the United States. . . 775 Washington ...... 1 FROM 188 INSTITUTIONS IN 43 STATES Institutions in Other Nations: 3 AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Other Nations: 3 from 3 nations Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1 Scholars from Other Nations . . . . . 146 FROM 103 INSTITUTIONS IN 34 NATIONS Israel ...... 1 Queen's University Belfast. . . . . 1 Books resulting from Fellowships . 875 Italy ...... 1 Università di Bologna ...... 1 United Kingdom ...... 1 books by fellows

published or added to the Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Collection in 2003–04 * Endowed by the Research Triangle Foundation Britain. The Culture ofProperty: The Crisis ofLiberalism inModern Rouge: LouisianaState University Press, 2003. tion of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895. Legacy Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, andLatin’s American CouncilofLearnedSocieties 2003–04). Arnold, 2003. 1987–88). Beghin, Tom Bailkin, Jordanna Deutsch, Sarah Comerford, RichardVincent Censer, JaneTurner Celenza, ChristopherS. Breen, T. H. Oxford University Press, 1998. 1998–99). Bergren, TheodoreA. Press, 2004. American Independence. Marketplace ofRevolution: How ConsumerPolitics Shaped 1870–1940. and theCity: Gender, Space, andPower inBoston, Eufoda, 2003. Jan van Elsacker. Compactdisc.Leuven, Belgium: Performed ontheclavichord by Tom Beghin. Tenor: Pièces decaractère, . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Chicago: University ofChicagoPress, 2004. Sixth Ezra: The Text andOrigin. Ireland. (Pew Fellow 1983–84;1995–96). New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (William J.BouwsmaFellow(William 2002–03). (Rockefeller Fellow 1988-89). (Josephus Daniels(Josephus Fellow* 2003–04). by CarlPhilipp Emanuel Bach. Inventing theNation. London: (Fellow 1983–84). (Jessie Ball(Jessie duPont Fellow New York:UniversityOxford (Burkhardt Fellow ofthe (Andrew W.MellonFellow The Reconstruc- New York: New Women The Baton The Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Humanities Fellow 1994–95). Press, 2004. Culture. Drowning inLaws:Labor LawandBrazilian Political 1989–90). eval Studies, 2004. and Texts, 147. Toronto: Pontifical Institute ofMedia- Hagiographic Translationsand Transformations. 1990–91). Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. English. Penal Practice andCulture, 1500–1900:Punishing the Ferguson, RobertA. Ferguson, PriscillaParkhurst Fasolt, Constantin Ages. Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture intheLaterMiddle Humanities 1997–98). Elliott, Dyan Griffiths, Paul Geggus, DavidPatrick French, JohnD. Franklin, CarmelaVircillo Chicago: University ofChicagoPress, 2004. Accounting for Taste: The Triumph ofFrench Cuisine. of History Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Edited by Simon Devereaux andPaul Griffiths. Chapel Hill: University ofNorth Carolina . Chicago:University ofChicagoPress, 2004. Haitian RevolutionaryStudies. The LatinDossier ofAnastasius thePersian: (Lilly Fellow inReligion andthe (Frank H.Kenan Fellow 2002–03),ed. (Rockefeller Fellow 1995–96). (Delmas Fellow 1996–97). (National Endowment forthe (Andrew W.MellonFellow Proving Woman:Female (Andrew W.MellonFellow (Fellow 1994–95). Reading theEarly Republic. Blacks inthe Studies The Limits 25 N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ 26 Helg, Aline (NEH Fellow 2000–01). Liberty Lowe, K. J. P. (Lilly Fellow in Religion and the and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770–1835. Humanities 2000–01). Nuns‚ Chronicles and Convent Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Henretta, James A. (John Hope Franklin Senior Fellow 2002–03), ed. America’s History. 5th ed. Edited by James Murray, Stephen (Henry Luce Senior Fellow 2003–04). A. Henretta, David Brody, Lynn Dumenil, and Susan A Gothic Sermon: Making a Contract with the Mother Ware. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004. of God, Saint Mary of Amiens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Higbie, Carolyn (Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Fellow 2003–04). The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Owen, Alex (NEH Fellow, 1998–99). The Place of Creation of Their Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the 2003. Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Keating, Peter (Burroughs Wellcome Fund Fellow Ramusack, Barbara N. (NEH Fellow 1986–87). The 2000–01). Biomedical Platforms: Realigning the Normal Indian Princes and Their States. The New Cambridge and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine. History of India, III.6. Cambridge: Cambridge By Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio. Inside University Press, 2004. Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. Smith, Leonard V. (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow 1993–94). Koonz, Claudia (NEH Fellow 1993–94). The Nazi France and the Great War, 1914–1918. By Leonard V. Conscience. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard Smith, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker. University Press, 2003. French sections translated by Helen McPhail. New Approaches to European History. Cambridge: Laqueur, Thomas W. (John P. Birkelund Senior Cambridge University Press, 2003. Winner of the Fellow 2000–01). Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of 2003 Norman J. Tomlinson, Jr., Book Prize of the Masturbation. New York: Zone Books, 2003. U.S. Branch of the Western Front Association for the best work in English published about World War I. Leach, Eleanor Winsor (Delta Delta Delta Fellow 1992–93). The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome Starn, Orin (Duke Endowment Fellow 2001–02). Ishi’s and on the Bay of Naples. Cambridge: Cambridge Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian. New University Press, 2004. York: W. W. Norton, 2004. Routledge, 2003. Durr, Lettersfrom theCivil Rights Years. Fellow 2001–02),ed. Chicago: University ofChicagoPress, 2004. Friends: WomenIntimateLoved Women,1778–1928. Who University Press, 2003. Point/Counterpoint Series. New York: Oxford A Debate. 2001–02). Philadelphia: University ofPennsylvania Press, 2003. Christian: The Conversion ofRoman Cappadocia. Sullivan, Patricia Sterba, JamesP. appear onthesepages. copyright toreprint holdersforpermission thebookjacketsthat The National Humanities Center thanksthepublishersandother Weiss, Brad Vicinus, Martha Van Dam,Raymond Todorova, Maria Leiden: Brill, 2004. Futures: RitualandReproduction inaNeoliberal Age. of LearnedSocieties 2003–04),ed. Identities: Nation andMemory By CarlCohenandJames P. Sterba. Affirmative ActionAffirmative Preference: andRacial (Burkhardt Fellow oftheAmericanCouncil (Delta Delta Delta Fellow 2000–01). (NEH Fellow 2000–01),ed. (Archie K.Davis Senior Fellow (William C.andIda(William Friday Senior (NEH Fellow 1986–87). FreedomFoster Writer:Virginia . London:Hurst, 2004. Producing African New York: New Becoming Balkan 27 N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ financial statement Assets June 30,2004and2003 Statements ofFinancialPosition Office oftheNational Humanities Center. PublicCertified Accountants, are available forreference intheAdministrative Copies oftheauditedfinancialstatements prepared by Grant LLP,Thornton 34,241,662 34,531,850 8,718 4,923 Permanently restricted 79,430 $ 203,574 $ 124,049 Notes payable 265,769 Accounts payableandaccruedexpenses Liabilities andNetAssets Property, furniture,andequipment,net netet 4798141,070,393 44,749,871 14,480 1,865,521 $3,994,335 15,427 $4,461,706 1,641,574 Investments Miscellaneous receivablesandotherassets Pledged contributionsreceivable,net Cash andcashequivalents netitd1,6,1 9,153,806 3,585,162 13,266,518 3,127,482 Temporarily restricted Unrestricted Net assets: Total netassets Total liabilities 11437$47,068,778 $ 51,134,347 $47,068,778 $ 51,134,347 0958046,980,630 50,925,850 0,9 88,148 208,497 042003 2004 29 N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ Statements of Activities 30 Year Ended June 30, 2004

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted restricted restricted Total Revenues, Gains, and Other Support

Contributions and gifts $ 566,259 948,040 290,188 1,804,487

Grants — 651,783 — 651,783

Investment income 1,098,647 — — 1,098,647

Unrealized gain on investments 5,261,978 — — 5,261,978

Miscellaneous Income 13,140 — — 13,140

Contribution – building and facilities 450,000 — — 450,000

Net assets released from restrictions 2,057,503 (2,057,503) — —

Total revenues, gains, and other support 9,447,527 (457,680) 290,188 9,280,035

Expenses and Losses

Fellowship programs 2,516,805 — — 2,516,805

Special programs 1,017,509 — — 1,017,509

Development 351,953 — — 351,953

Management and general 1,441,020 — — 1,441,020

Realized loss on sale of investments 7,528 — — 7,528

Total expenses and losses 5,334,815 — — 5,334,815

Change in net assets 4,112,712 (457,680) 290,188 3,945,220

Net assets, beginning of year 9,153,806 3,585,162 34,241,662 46,980,630

Net assets, end of year $ 13,266,518 3,127,482 34,531,850 50,925,850 e ses n fya ,5,0 ,8,6 4216246,980,630 34,241,662 250,000 645,043 3,585,162 47,111,787 250,000 9,153,806 — 34,115,699 $ 1,483,674 1,050,006 2,649,789 4,233,031 — — 2,287,823 10,346,299 — — — — Net assets,endofyear — — 645,043 Net assets,beginningofyear — 341,400 1,483,674 1,050,006 4,233,031 2,832 450,000 — — 1,070,478 2,287,823 Allowance fordoubtfulaccounts — — 4,205,093 — Realized lossonsaleofinvestments — 341,400 — Management andgeneral Development — — — — Special programs (1,742,781) 3,748,617 — Fellowship programs 1,742,781 Expenses andLosses 375,963 450,000 1,070,478 2,832 4,205,093 2,336,754 Net assetsreleasedfromrestrictions Contribution –buildingandfacilities 1,035,900 $ Realized gainonsaleoffixedasset Unrealized gainoninvestments Investment income Grants Contributions andgifts Revenues, Gains,andOtherSupport Year Ended June 30,2003 Statements ofActivities Total expensesandlosses Total revenues, gains,andothersupport Change innetassets 11243 3,7 2,6 (131,157) 125,963 935,373 (1,192,493) netitdrsrce etitdTotal restricted restricted Unrestricted ,0,8 3,7 7,6 9,818,420 375,963 935,373 8,507,084 ,9,7 5,0 9,949,577 250,000 — 9,699,577 eprrl Permanently Temporarily 31 N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ supporting the center T Enzyklopädie derMusik Musik inGeschichte undGegenwart: Allgemeine the 23volumes publishedtodateof at ChapelHill musicfaculty, retired), whodonated to Howard Smither (University ofNorth Carolina the Robert F. andMargaret S.Goheen Collection; lows whoaddedbookswrittenattheCenterto those whomadein-kindgifts,especiallythefel- the Centerwouldliketoexpress its gratitude to to thoseindividualsandinstitutionslistedbelow, endowment duringtheyear. support In addition and otherinstitutionsthatprovided annualor list oftheindividuals,corporations,foundations, the insidefront andbackpagesofthisreport isa giving from July 1,2003,toJune 30,2004.On ofannualandendowmentBelow isasummary operating costs. covering approximately 45%percent ofitsannual lion onJune 30,that provided expendableincome has apermanentendowment, valued at$45.2mil- other publicandprivate sources. The Centeralso and universities andotherinstitutions,aswell as tions from individuals,corporations,foundations, Hill for their library andtechnicalassistance. Hill fortheirlibrary and theUniversity ofNorth Carolina atChapel Duke University, North Carolina State University, North Carolina. The Centerisalsogratefulto gifts totheCenter'scollectionofbooksabout University ofNorth Carolina Press forcontinuing (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999);andtothe the Hope(John Franklin Senior Fellow), whogave Stuttgart: Metzler, c1994–);toSamuel Floyd International Dictionary ofBlackInternational Composers Dictionary tute supported by grantsandcontribu- tute supported independent, privately incorporatedinsti- he National Humanities Centerisan (Kassel: Bärenreiter; Die nulGvn .$477,033 Annual Giving .$130,000 at ChapelHill and theUniversityofNorthCarolina North CarolinaStateUniversity, Duke University, .$535,383 for theHumanities National Endowment .$1,313,854 and similarsources private foundations, Corporations, .$2,456,270 and operations for programs and otherorganizations foundations, from corporations, External support or whomakelife-incomegiftstotheCenter. who includetheCenterintheirestateplanning to recognize andthankindividualsfamilies of anearly Trustee, John E.(“Jack”) Sawyer, and the Sawyer Society tohonorthelifeandexample The National Humanities Centerhasestablished 558 IndividualGifts Sawyer SocietyMembers Hope Lacy John King G. RonaldKastner John B.Hurford* W. RobertConnor Peter A.Benoliel 7Cret mrt,adps rses .$322,023 67 Current,emeriti,andpasttrustees 1 red .$87,205 212 Friends .$68,305 279 Fellows * Marjorie C.Woods Seth L.Warner John E.Sawyer* John G.Medlin,Jr. Louise McReynolds Deceased 33 N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ staff of the center Staff Accountant Felisha Wilson Operations Manager Pat Schreiber Chief Financial Officer Stephanie Roberts Receptionist andStaff Assistant Bernice Patterson Controller Lynwood Parrish Executive totheDirector Assistant Barbara Mormile Information TechnologyCoordinator Joel Elliott Building Engineer Corbett Capps Dining Room Manager Sue Boyd Dining Room Staff Dot Boatwright Information TechnologyAnalyst Phillip Barron President andDirector Geoffrey Harpham Administration Staff oftheCenter asofJune 30,2004 Coordinator ofFellowship Program Lois Whittington Coordinator ofEditorial Services Karen Carroll Fellowship Program Assistant Marie Brubaker Vice President andDeputy Director Kent Mullikin Fellowship Program DirectorAssociate forCommunications David Rice DirectorAssistant ofDevelopment Virginia Guilfoile and Development Executive forCommunications Assistant Susan Adesman Communications andDevelopment Assistant DirectorAssistant ofEducation Programs Marianne Wason Web Site Administrator Linda Morgan Coordinator ofEducation Programs Koplik Caryn Vice President forEducation Programs Richard Schramm Education Program LibrarianAssociate forCirculation Jean Houston LibrarianAssociate forInterlibrary Loan Betsy Dain Director oftheLibrary Eliza Robertson Library 35 N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT 2003–04 board of trustees Steven Marcus* Conshohocken, PA Quaker ChemicalCorporation, ExecutiveChairman, Committee, VICE CHAIRMAN Peter A.Benoliel* Director, National Humanities Center PRESIDENT Geoffrey G.Harpham* New York,NY Saratoga Partners CHAIRMAN John P. Birkelund* Trustees oftheCenter asofJune 30,2004 * Member, ExecutiveCommittee American Letters,New York University Henry James Professor inEnglish and Denis Donoghue Humanities, Columbia University Julian Clarence LeviProfessor inthe Andrew H.Delbanco North Carolina President, The University of Molly CorbettBroad Provost, ColumbiaUniversity Alan Brinkley Winston-Salem, NC Wachovia Corporation, Retired Chairman, L. M.Baker Princeton University University Center forHuman Values, Professor ofPhilosophy andthe Laurance S.Rockefeller University K. AnthonyAppiah UBS Warburg LLC, New York, NY Managing Director, TREASURER Blair Effron* Chicago, IL Schiff Hardin & Waite, General Partner, SECRETARY John F. Adams* University of Virginia Edgar F. 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