National Humanities Center Annual Report 2013 – 2014

Celebrating 35 years The humanities are a curious combination of involvement and

detachment; of the search for scientific objectivity and irrepressible

personal idiosyncrasy; of piety toward the past and the critique

of the past; of private passion and public commitment.

– Charles Frankel, “Why the Humanities?”

Ideas, A Publication of the National Humanities Center (1979)

Annual Report 2013– 2014 T able of Contents

5 Report from the President and Director

10 sCHolarly Programs Work of the Fellows Statistics Books by Fellows

32 Education Programs

34 Human Rights and the Humanities

36 Financial Statements 3

38 Supporting the Center The Campaign for the National Humanities Center Annual Giving Summary Center Supporters

46 Staff of the Center

48 Board of Trustees

Editor Donald Solomon • Copyeditor Karen Carroll Images Ron Jautz and Joel Elliott • Design Barbara Schneider

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Annual Report 2013– 2014 The year just concluded marks a milestone for the National Humanities Center, the successful—indeed, more than successful—completion of a four-year comprehensive capital campaign, “Where the Humanities Take Root.” With an initial goal of $13M, the campaign finally realized almost $19M, a figure that included endowment for t seven fellowships and $1.5M in new endowment for the Center’s programs in education. At the beginning of the campaign, the Center’s total endowment was $56M; at the end, it was over $79M.

Such support testifies not only to the generosity of the Center’s contem- porary supporters, but also to the enduring strength of the Center’s original conception of an institute for advanced study dedicated to strengthening the humanities. Since the Center opened its doors in 1978, over 1,300 scholars have been part of the Center’s community of Fellows. The Center’s programs in 5 education have established a reputation for excellence and innovation. And the Center’s outreach programs have drawn participants and interest from all over the world.

Virtually none of this could have been confidently predicted when the Center was founded. At that time, talk of the latest “crisis in the humanities” was everywhere, and the nation as a whole was experiencing what President Carter called a “malaise.” But the Center’s founders, listed on p.50, were not cautious people. Confident about the future and secure in their own judgment, they created an institution for which there were precedents but no real models. In recognition of their commitment, courage, and vision, the most recent fellowship to be endowed in the campaign was named the Founders’ Fellowship.

Building and maintaining an institution like the Center is an act of sustained philanthropy. This concept has a long history. Aeschylus described Prometheus as “humanity-loving” (philanthropos tropos) for bestowing the gift of fire on our remote ancestors, a gift that enabled them to distance themselves from a state of nature and embark on a properly human career of creativity and American meaning in describing what has become advancement. And Socrates uses the noun form, known as Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. perhaps for the first time, to describe the spirit in which he would engage his neighbors and other We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people. . . . God passersby in confounding walks down the garden has predestinated, mankind expects, great things from path of inquiry, for their benefit. From the outset, our race; and great things we feel in our souls. . . . And philanthropy was linked to the betterment of the let us always remember, that with ourselves—almost human condition. for the first time in the history of earth—national selfishness is unbounded philanthropy; for we cannot In the early days, however, philanthropy was not do a good to America, but we give alms to the world. necessarily a career one would aspire to. The first philanthropist just mentioned was punished for his By the end of the nineteenth century, the tide had good work by being chained to a rock while an eagle definitely turned, and the career of philanthropy was came each day to eat his liver, while the second, as being taken up by people who had other options. Andrew was widely reported, drank himself to death. But over Carnegie and Andrew W. Mellon, to take two prominent time, philanthropy acquired better associations, flourishing examples, devoted as much energy and commitment to especially in the United States. In his novel White- giving their money away as they had to earning it in the Jacket, Herman Melville gave the term a distinctively first place. 6

September 16–27 Project Talks Shortly after Labor Day, as the fellowship year begins, Fellows gather daily before lunch to present 5-minute talks on their projects. These talks not only demonstrate the intellectual breadth of Fellows’ research but reveal common themes and interests that Fellows will pursue in ad hoc seminars and discussion groups during the year.

September 26 Public Lecture Charles McGovern (Kent R. Mullikin Fellow) from The College of William and Mary kicks off this year’s public lecture series with a talk entitled “Popular Music, Race, and Citizenship in the U.S. from Swing to Soul.” The series continues monthly throughout the fall with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (John Hope Franklin Fellow) from Harvard University presenting “Sacred Witness: Religion and the Black Freedom Struggle,” Martha S. Jones (William C. and Ida Friday Fellow) from the University of Michigan on “Overturning Dred Scott: Race, Rights, and Citizenship in Antebellum America,” and Jane Ashton Sharp (NEH Fellow) from Rutgers University discussing “Absorbing Abstraction: The Politics of Painting in Moscow (1950s–60s).”

Jane Sharp

Annual Report 2013– 2014 Carnegie’s 1889 essay “The Gospel of Wealth” is a kind included not direct job training but books and works of of Book of Genesis for modern philanthropy. Noting that art, which are “certain to give pleasure and improve when he had visited Indian tribes, he observed very little the public taste . . . in this manner returning their distinction between the tepee of the chief and those of surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the the rest of the tribe, Carnegie denounced the decadence, forms best calculated to do them lasting good.” waste, and corruption resulting from the extreme inequality Traditional forms of giving had not permitted Carnegie produced by modern capitalism. Rather than merely to distribute his wealth fast enough to suit his accumulating vast resources to be enjoyed by his heirs, impatient nature and had failed to address the root Carnegie argued, the wealthy man ought to commit causes of social ills, so he invented a new mechanism, himself to the welfare of others, furthering the cause of the private foundation, which enabled him, as one social justice and earning “the affection, gratitude, and writer put it, to do “good works in gross.” admiration of his fellow-men.” Many American philanthropists of the early twentieth Carnegie continued the strong association of philanthropy century shared Carnegie’s conviction that the humani- with humanism and in fact turned it in the direction of ties and the arts were identified with the deeper the humanities. The best thing the philanthropist could interests of mankind. The Hearst Foundation, for do, he believed, was to “place within its reach the example, stressed its intention to extend to “people ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.” These ladders of all backgrounds” the “opportunity to build healthy,

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October 22–23 Board of Trustees Meeting The Center’s trustees gather for their fall meeting. On Thursday evening, October 22nd, the literary biographer Blake Bailey (Meymandi Distinguished Visitor) gave a talk about the lives of writers John Cheever, Richard Yates, Charles Jackson, and Philip Roth. Among the items of business taken up during its Friday meeting was the election of three new trustees: Thomas L. Jones, Holden Thorp, and Ben Vinson III. The board also bestowed emeritus status on long-serving trustees Merril M. Halpern, Herbert S. Winokur, Jr., and former chair and Fellow Alan Brinkley.

December 2 The Fellows’ Tree As part of a long-standing tradition, Fellows and staff gather with their families to decorate a tree in the Birkelund Lounge with ornaments they have made along with those contributed by Fellows from previous years.

January 16 Public Lecture Local friends, Fellows, and staff gather to hear “Bridging the Rhine: A Musical Journey from German Romanticism to French Neoclassicism,” a performance and talk by Michael Puri (Delta Delta Delta Fellow) from the University of Virginia. Later in the spring, Julie Greene (Rockefellow Foundation Fellow) from the University of Maryland discusses “Moveable Empire: Race, Labor, and the Making of U.S. Global Power, 1865 to 1917 ”; Jocelyn Olcott Michael Puri (Frank H. Kenan Fellow) from Duke University presents “What Woman?: The Challenge Jane Sharp of Transnational Feminisms,” and Martin Summers (Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Fellow) from Boston College discusses “Melancholy and the ‘Madness of Fanaticism’: The Multiple Narratives of Black Insanity in Antebellum America.”

productive and inspiring lives.” The Danforth Foundation, So close is the association between the two concepts established in 1927 by the founder of the Ralston that one might even say that the humanities are not Purina Company, supported higher education as a merely supported by philanthropy, but represent the way of promoting morally uplifting goals that included academic form of philanthropy. “charitable and humanitarian purposes and. . . the well-being of mankind.” The end of the philanthro- Throughout much of the past century, humanistic pist’s efforts may have been stated in windy terms, learning was supported primarily by private individuals but the means were quite concrete, and specifically and foundations, with assistance from the National educational. Not only Hearst and Danforth, but John Endowment for the Humanities, which was founded D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Henry Luce, and the in 1965. In recent years, the Endowment has played a descendants of Andrew W. Mellon all targeted higher decreasing role, and many of the private foundations education in their philanthropic giving. that once supported scholarship—and numerous new philanthropic organizations, some with vast Philanthropy and the humanities in fact share many resources—have turned their attention elsewhere. Still, goals. Both want to give people access to a tradition the core of philanthropic support for the humanities in the of human achievement, to benefit posterity, and to United States has always been private rather than contribute to cultural enrichment. Both represent the public. This fundamental fact has, I am convinced, been investment of the present in the undetermined future. decisive in forming the character of the humanities in 8

February 7– 8 Selection Committee The eight members of the fellowship selection committee meet to make final selections for the Class of 2014–15. Members of the committee include Mia Bay (History, Rutgers University), Mary Elizabeth Berry (History, University of California, Berkeley), Peter Holland (Shakespeare Studies, University of Notre Dame), Christia Mercer (Philosophy, Columbia University), Gary Tomlinson (Music, Yale University), and Eugene Wang (East Asian Art History, Harvard University). Trustee William C. Jordan (History, Princeton University), chairman of the scholarly programs committee of the Center’s board also attends the meeting.

March 20–21 “Human Rights and the Humanities” The Center welcomes attendees for its third annual conference on “Human Rights and the Humanities.” Highlights of this year’s conference include an opening keynote address from Steven Pinker, Harvard University, as well as presentations from K. Anthony Appiah, Princeton University; Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ); Lynn Festa, Rutgers University; Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University; Stephen Hopgood, SOAS University of London; Walter Johnson, Harvard University; Robert Pippin, University of Chicago; and Gregory Radick, University of Leeds.

Steven Pinker

Annual Report 2013– 2014 America, which has preserved, to a greater extent than Carol Vorhaus, director of development. Contributors is common elsewhere, the perspective of the individual. are listed elsewhere in this report, but special thanks If interpretation, judgment, and evaluation still prevail go to those who contributed major endowment gifts: in humanistic scholarship in the United States, much of James and Janet Averill, John Birkelund, Merril Halpern, the credit must go to those private individuals and Abby and Howard Milstein, Bill and Sandra Moore, foundations that have supported such study, freeing it Patricia and Thruston Morton, Carl and Betty Pforzheimer, from the necessity of providing immediate bottom-line the estate of Philip L. Quinn, Joshua and Julia Ruch, justifications for the spending of tax dollars. Jonathan Weiss and Barbara Asch, Ruth and Morris Williams, and a few key individuals who wish to remain This, then, is the tradition in which “Where the anonymous. During the time of the campaign, the board Humanities Take Root” participates—an American of trustees was led by Alan Brinkley and Peter Benoliel. tradition of private support for humanistic and broadly social ends. Special thanks and recognition must go to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which contributed Credit for the success of the campaign goes generally endowment funds supporting seven fellowships. The to all the hundreds of people who contributed to it, Foundation has been behind the National Humanities but specifically to a few. Carl Pforzheimer and Patricia Center from the beginning, and its support has been Morton cochaired the campaign, which was staffed by both reassuring and inspiring. 9

April 10–11 Board of Trustees Meeting The Board of Trustees conducts their spring meeting. Festivities on Thursday evening, April 10, surrounding the impending conclusion of the Center’s fundraising campaign “Where the Humanities Take Root” include a talk by Janet Browne from Harvard University on “The Hidden Darwin: Money and Natural History” and the announcement of a gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation establishing the Founders’ Fellowship, the Center’s thirtieth endowed fellowship.

June 1–20 Jessie Ball duPont Summer Seminars for Liberal Arts College Faculty Two seminars convene for liberal arts faculty. “Constructing Childhood: Words and Pictures” is led by Laurie Langbauer (Fellow 2011–12), professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Globalization and the Varieties of Modern Capitalism,” is led by Edward Balleisen (Fellow 2009–10), associate professor of history and public policy, Duke University.

Janet Browne Scholarly Programs A

Annual Report 2013– 2014 A visitor to the Center on the occasion of its dedication ensuring that Fellows have access to the latest library thirty-five years ago would have been greeted by a sound then databases and other digital tools, Ms. Robertson has so ubiquitous as to be hardly noticed: the chatter of dozens of developed a library program that includes research technology typewriters. From the vantage of the scholarly programs office, seminars for Fellows and staff. It was, therefore, with a what has changed most about the Center since its dedication mixture of congratulations and sadness that the Center is the way Fellows think about and use technology. This is not honored Ms. Robertson in anticipation of her June 30, 2014, to say that technology has not always played an important role retirement. This occasion followed by only six months the in shaping the ways scholars conduct research and present retirement of Jean Houston, who served for thirty years as Aarguments. But what has changed is the degree of attention the Center’s associate librarian, securing interlibrary loans that is now paid to the means and media of humanities from local universities for use by Fellows. Ms. Robertson’s scholarship. It is hard to imagine the inaugural cohort of and Ms. Houston’s retirements come at the end of a year Fellows having an animated discussion of the implications of that demonstrates the hybridity of humanities research analog modes of communication on their work. Now, almost today: the library procured over 8,000 books for Fellows this daily, Fellows can be heard energetically debating the virtues year while also facilitating innovative digital research and of open access publishing; the relative merits of e-books and sponsoring luncheon seminars on a range of issues related print publications; the applicability of copyright law to digital to digital humanities. Particularly illustrative was the images and texts; the significance of social media for library’s response to a Fellow’s fruitless search for a record humanities scholars; and the long-term viability of Massive of a television interview conducted in Mexico in 1975. Not Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The 2013–14 class of Fellows only did library director-designate Brooke Andrade find a exemplifies the diversity of attitudes and approaches humanities U-matic recording of the interview, but she arranged for this scholars are bringing to digital research. now-defunct medium to be digitized so that readable DVDs could be given both to the Fellow and to the library that 11 Several Fellows completed projects intended to be seen only provided the U-matic tape. through digital means: complex websites and multimedia installations were the final fruit of years of research. Others The Center’s engagement with digital humanities extends actively broadcast their research or engaged in outreach beyond its support for the work of its Fellows to include a through social media, participating in international news new summer program. Digital humanities pioneer Willard programs via Internet videoconferencing services. Almost all McCarty will co-convene with Matthew Jockers the first of them relied on Skype to remain in contact with students and iteration of a four-year suite of summer institutes funded colleagues and even conducted doctoral examinations and by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The seminar, Digital participated in conferences while seated in their studies at the Textual Studies, will take place for one week each summer Center. While it is true that all Fellows now rely at least to for two successive years, and will bring scholars to the some extent on digital research tools, many hesitate to adopt Center for an intensive introduction to the history, practice, purely digital modes of publication. For some, it is an aesthetic and philosophy of digital textual analysis. issue: reading a book just feels better. Others are reluctant to commit fully to digital publication out of fear that their work will become inaccessible: the rapidity with which “new” technologies are rendered obsolete these days makes a few hundred sheets of acid-free paper bound into a codex seem the surest way to preserve knowledge for future generations.

That the Center is able to accommodate every style of research currently pursued by Fellows is attributable in no small part to the vision and expertise of Eliza Robertson, who has directed our library services for the past twelve years. Along with Eliza Robertson Jean Houston Work of the Fellows 2013–2014

Annual Report 2013– 2014 B arbara R. Ambros Luis E. CÁrcamo- Jinhua Chen (Burkhardt Fellow of the Huechante (Henry Luce Fellow, fall semester) American Council of (National Endowment for the Learned Societies) Humanities Fellow) Chen worked on several chapters for forthcoming volumes he coedited Ambros completed work on her book Cárcamo-Huechante worked on his including “The Making and Remaking Women in Japanese Religions, book The Sounds of an Indigenous of a Sacred Site in Medieval China: forthcoming from NYU Press. She Nation: Sonic Poetics and Politics in A Case Study on the Basis of the wrote “Pilgrimage in Japan” for Oxford Contemporary Mapuche Culture in Shicheng Stone Image” in Sacred Bibliographies in Buddhism, “The Third Chile. He revised “Indigenous Space and Spatial Sacredness: The Path of Existence: Animals in Japanese Interference: Mapuche Use of Radio Composition and Development of the Buddhism” for Religion Compass, and in Times of Acoustic Colonialism” for Spatial Factors in Medieval Chinese coauthored “Tenrikyō” for the Handbook Latin American Research Review (2013) Religions; “Faya (?–629), a ‘Villain-Monk’ of East Asian New Religious Movements. and “Las trizaduras del canto mapuche: Brought Down by a Villain-General: In addition, she began work on “Gender Lenguaje, territorio y colonialismo A Forgotten Page in the History of Bending and Gender Affirmation: Tracing acústico en la poesía de Leonel Lienlaf” Sui-Tang Monastic Warfare and the Anan koshiki” for the Japanese Journal for Revista de Crítica Literaria Latino- State-Samgha Relations” in Samgha of Religious Studies and “Hidy, Hidy, americana (2014). In addition, he wrote and State in Medieval East Asia; and Little Rascal: Anime, National-Identity “Mapuche Historians Write and Talk “A Rediscovered Page in the Sui-Tang Politics, and Raccoons as a Non-Native Back: The Background and Role of Vinaya History: The Vinaya Tradition at Species in Japan.” Ambros is associate ¡…Escucha, winka…! Cuatro ensayos the Twin Chanding Monasteries” in professor of religious studies at the sobre Historia Nacional Mapuche y Vinaya Texts and Transmission History: University of North Carolina at un epílogo sobre el futuro (2006)” for New Perspectives and Methods. He also Chapel Hill. E-misférica (2014), and “Ficciones de wrote “Zibo Zhenke (1543–1603) and circulación y domicilio” for Insula the Yunju Temple” in Mingdai fojiao yu (2014). Cárcamo-Huechante is associate Beijing; “Who Is ‘He’?”: A Reconstruction professor of Spanish at the University of the Life of a Sixth-Century Monk of Texas at Austin. Misidentified as a Disciple of the Second Chan Patriarch Huike (487–593), with Special Reference to His Religious Background” for inclusion in a volume of conference proceedings; and “From Central Asia to Southern China: The Formation of Identity and Network in the Meditative Traditions of Fifth–Sixth-Century Southern China (420–589)” for Fudan Journal. Chen is professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia.

13 Christian de Pee Lynn Mary Festa Nora E. Fisher Onar (Burkhardt Fellow of the (M. H. Abrams Fellow) (Delta Delta Delta Fellow) American Council of Learned Societies) Festa made substantial progress on her Fisher Onar worked on her project book All Things Human in Eighteenth- Post-Western Liberalism(s): Sources and De Pee spent the year working on his Century Britain and completed a chapter Patterns from Istanbul to Tehran and book Visible Cities: Text and Urban for a Blackwell Companion on “The began writing Acts of State: Turkish Space in Middle-Period China, Eighth 1790s.” Festa is associate professor of Politics as Performance. She also wrote through Twelfth Centuries and wrote an English at Rutgers University. the introduction for and edited Imagining introduction to Senses of the City: Istanbul: Identity, Cosmopolitanism, and Perceptions of Hangzhou in the Southern the City; cowrote “From Metropolis to Song (1127–1179), which he coedited. Microcosm: The EU’s New Standard of De Pee is associate professor of history Civilization” for Millennium (2014); and at the University of Michigan. cowrote “Critical Junctures?: Complexity and the Post-Colonial Nation-State” for the International Journal of Intercultural Studies (2014). Fisher Onar is assistant professor of politics and international relations at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul and research associate of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford.

Annual Report 2013– 2014 14 Harvey J. Graff Julie M. Greene Cindy Hahamovitch (Birkelund Fellow) (Rockefeller Foundation Fellow) (John E. Sawyer Fellow)

Graff completed Undisciplining Greene worked on her book Movable Hahamovitch created a 500-page Knowledge: Pursuing the Dream of Empire: Labor, Race, Movement, and the timeline on forced labor covering two Interdisciplinarity in the 20th Century, Making of U.S. Empire, 1877–1917. She hundred years and divided into Atlantic under contract with Johns Hopkins also wrote “Not So Simple: Reassessing World, Indian Ocean World, and Pacific University Press, and “The ‘Problem’ the Politics of the Progressive Era AFL” World sections. This timeline will form of Interdisciplinarity in Theory, Practice, for Labor: Studies in Working-Class the basis of several articles and a book. and History.” He began work on History of the Americas (2013) and “The She also worked on “Slavery’s Stale Searching for Literacy: The Social and Wages of Empire: Capitalism, Expan- Soil: Indentured Servants, Guestworkers, Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies, sionism, and Working-Class Formation,” and the End of Empire” for Working the under contract with Routledge. Graff is forthcoming in Laboring the Empire: Empire. Hahamovitch is Class of ’38 Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies Class, Race, and U.S. Imperialism. Professor of History at The College of and professor of English and history at Greene is professor of history at the William and Mary. The Ohio State University. University of Maryland.

15 Chad Heap Evelyn Brooks Heather Hyde Minor (Walter Hines Page Fellow*) Higginbotham (National Endowment for the (John Hope Franklin Fellow) Humanities Fellow) Heap made substantial progress on his book “A Dangerous Subject to Study”: Higginbotham worked on three chapters Hyde Minor wrote the last four chapters The History of Sociological Studies of of her book The Great Question of of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Lost Homosexuality in the United States. Human Rights in American History. Words and gathered images for the Heap is associate professor of American Higginbotham is Victor S. Thomas book from European and American studies at George Washington University. Professor of History and of African collections. Hyde Minor is associate and African American Studies at professor of art history in the School of Harvard University. Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Annual Report 2013– 2014 16 Andrew Jewett Martha S. Jones Elizabeth L. Krause (John G. Medlin, Jr. Fellow) (William C. and Ida (GlaxoSmithKline Fellow) Friday Fellow) Jewett worked on his book Against the Krause worked extensively on her book Technostructure: Fearing Science in Jones worked on her book Birthright Tight Knit: A Biography of Globalization. Modern America. He also wrote a Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in She also cowrote “‘Calling the Question’: chapter on “Science and Religion in Antebellum America; coedited Toward The Politics of Time in a Time of Postwar America” for The Worlds of an Intellectual History of Black Women, Polarized Politics” for Cambio (2013); American Intellectual History, and for which she contributed an essay “Strategic Authenticity and Voice: worked on three journal articles: “Histories, Fictions, and Black Womanhood New Ways of Seeing and Being Seen “The Columbia Naturalists and the Bodies: Rethinking Race, Gender, and as Young Mothers through Digital Birth of Religious Studies in America,” Politics in the Twenty-First Century”; and Storytelling” for Sexuality Research “American Conservatives and the wrote “Forgetting the Abolition of the and Social Policy (2014); and “ ‘Ho un Social Sciences in the 1950s,” and Slave Trade in the United States: How luogo dove lavoro e un luogo dove abito’: “M. C. Otto and the Shifting Politics of History Troubled Memory in 2008” for Diversità e separazione in un distretto Anti-Naturalism.” Jewett is associate Distant Ripples of the British Abolitionist industriale in transizione” for Mondi professor of history and of social Wave: Africa, the Americas and Asia. Migranti (2014). Krause is professor studies at Harvard University. She contributed “Emancipation’s of anthropology at the University of Encounters: Seeing the Proclamation Massachusetts Amherst. through Soldiers’ Sketchbooks” and “History and Commemoration: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150” for the Journal of the Civil War Era (2013), and “Who Here Is a Negro?” for Michigan Quarterly Review (2014). She began work on “The Slaves’ Emancipation: How Lincoln’s Proclamation Became Law.” In addition, she was the guest editor for Proclaiming Emancipation at 150, a special issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era (2013). Jones is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, associate professor of history, associate professor of Afroamerican and African studies, and visiting professor of law at the University of Michigan.

*Supported by an endowment fund established by the Research Triangle Foundation 17 Anna Krylova Marixa A. Lasso Michael Lurie (Benjamin N. Duke Fellow*) (Donnelley Family Fellow) (Archie K. Davis Fellow)

Krylova worked on several chapters of Lasso worked on her book Building La Lurie made considerable progress on her book Imagining Socialism in the Zona: Landscaping Urban Development his book Not To Be Born Is Best: Greek Soviet Century, under contract with at the Panama Canal, 1904–1914. Lasso Pessimism Revisited and finished two Cambridge University Press, and drafted is associate professor of history at Case articles, one on Iamblichus’s Life of “Gender: A History of the Category, Western Reserve University. Pythagoras as a neoplatonic biography 1980s–the present.” Krylova is associate and a manifesto of a neoplatonic professor of modern Russian history at paideia, and the other on Aristotle’s Duke University. concept of tragic hamartia in the context of his action theory. While at the Center, Lurie was appointed professor of classics at Dartmouth College.

Annual Report 2013– 2014 18 Lee Manion Timothy W. Marr Charles F. McGovern (National Endowment for the (National Endowment for the (Kent R. Mullikin Fellow) Humanities Fellow) Humanities Fellow) McGovern completed four chapters of Manion completed work on his book Marr worked on his book “Mohammedans his book Body and Soul: Citizenship Narrating the Crusades: Loss and under the American Flag”: Moro-American and Race in American Popular Music, Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern Relations in the Muslim Philippines 1930–1970 and two journal articles. Literature (Cambridge University Press, from which was published “Diasporic McGovern is associate professor of 2014) and wrote two chapters of The Intelligence in the American Philippine history and American studies at The King Is Emperor: Sovereignty, Justice, Empire: The Transnational Career of College of William and Mary. and Theories of Empire in Late Medieval Dr. Najeeb Mitry Saleeby” in Mashriq & Literature. He also drafted an article on Mahjar: A Journal of Middle East Migration Renaissance English crusading romances. Studies (2014). Marr is Bowman and Manion is assistant professor of English Gordon Gray Distinguished Term at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

*Supported by an endowment fund established by the Research Triangle Foundation 19 Jocelyn H. Olcott Russell A. Powell Michael James Puri (Frank H. Kenan Fellow) (Robert F. and Margaret S. (Delta Delta Delta Fellow) Goheen Fellow) Olcott made considerable progress on Puri worked on his book Ravel Among her book “The Greatest Consciousness- Powell completed half of his book the Germans. He also wrote an essay, Raising Event in History”: The 1975 Genetic Engineering and the Future of “On the Lecture-Recital,” replete with International Women’s Year Conference Humanity: A Philosophical Exploration sound clips, for “Musicology Now,” and the Challenges of Transnational of the Biotechnology Revolution, which the official blog of the American Feminism. Olcott is associate professor has been solicited by Oxford University Musicological Society. Puri is associate of history at Duke University. Press, and worked on a number of professor of music at the University articles that are being published in of Virginia. leading international journals. Powell is assistant professor of philosophy at Boston University.

Annual Report 2013– 2014 20 Sumathi Ramaswamy Anna Christina Louise Rice (Duke Endowment Fellow) Ribeiro (Allen W. Clowes Fellow) (Philip L. Quinn Fellow) Ramaswamy completed a draft of her Rice completed four chapters of her book Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest Ribeiro made substantial progress on book Conclusion: Art for the Academic of the World as Globe and continued her book Poetry: Philosophical Thoughts Defense in Seventeenth-Century Rome. work on her digital project Going Global on an Ancient Practice and published She also wrote “The Unveiling of in Mughal India: A Digital Muraqqa’. two of the chapters: “The Spoken and Mochi’s Veronica,” forthcoming in She also revised “Art on the Line: the Written: An Ontology of Poems” in Burlington Magazine; “The Pre-Mochi Cartography and Creativity in a Divided The Philosophy of Poetry, and “Heavenly Projects for the Veronica Pier in St India” for Mapping the Transition from Hurt: The Joy and Value of Sad Poetry” Peter’s” and “Bernini and the Frame of Colony to Nation. Ramaswamy is in Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of the Volto Santo,” forthcoming in The professor of history and international Negative Emotion in Art. She completed Eternal Baroque: Studies in Honour of comparative studies at Duke University. an entry on “Poetry” for the second Jennifer Montagu; and “The Cuckoldries edition of The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. of Baccio del Bianco,” forthcoming in She also contributed “The Philosophical Cuckoldry, Impotence and Adultery in Importance of Aesthetics” to a philosophy Europe, 15th–17th Century. Rice is blog, and began work on several papers: associate professor of art history at “The Excitement of Aesthetics,” “The New York University. Mona Lisa or Your Life,” “Memento Mori Art and the Art of Memento Mori,” and “Conceptions of Art and the Intentionalism Debate.” Ribeiro is associate professor of philosophy at Texas Tech University.

21 Jane Ashton Sharp Stephen J. Shoemaker Holly M. Smith (National Endowment for the (Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, (Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Humanities Fellow) spring semester) Foundation Fellow)

Sharp worked on her book Another Art: Shoemaker completed work on a book Smith completed ten chapters of her Abstract Painting in Moscow after the about early Christian devotion to Mary book Making Morality Work, under Thaw and drafted a chapter for an of Nazareth. Shoemaker is professor contract with Oxford University Press. anthology. Sharp is associate professor of religious studies at the University She revised “The Subjective Moral Duty of art history at Rutgers University. of Oregon. to Inform Oneself before Acting” for the journal Ethics, and “Dual-Process Theory and Moral Responsibility” for an edited volume to be published by Oxford University Press. Smith is distinguished professor of philosophy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Annual Report 2013– 2014 22 Claire Sponsler Noel Kimiko Sugimura Martin A. Summers (William J. Bouwsma Fellow, (Fellows’ Fellow) (Ruth W. and A. Morris spring semester) Williams, Jr. Fellow) Sugimura drafted three chapters of Sponsler worked on her book Reading her book “Perplexity of Contending Summers completed three chapters of the Beauchamp Pageant, a study of Passions”: Milton and His Readers. his book Race, Madness, and the State: reading practices in the late medieval She also wrote “Milton and Matter,” A Social History of Saint Elizabeths period. She also wrote an essay on forthcoming in Oxford Handbooks Online; Hospital and Washington, DC’s African John Lydgate for a volume on medieval “ ‘A Fine Paradisaical Notion’: Materialism American Community, 1855–1987. English literature. Sponsler is professor and Readings of Paradise Lost in the Summers is associate professor of of English at the University of Iowa. ‘Long Restoration ’ ” for Milton and the history and African and African diaspora Long Restoration; and “Eve’s Reflection studies at Boston College. and the Passion of Wonder in Paradise Lost ” for Essays in Criticism (2014). Sugimura is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University.

23 Carol Symes John N. Wall, Jr. Ellen R. Welch (Burkhardt Fellow of the (Hurford Family Fellow) (Josephus Daniels Fellow*) American Council of Learned Societies) Wall wrote three chapters of his book Welch made extensive progress on her Hearing Donne: The Experience of book Diplomacy and the Performing Arts Symes worked on her book Bodies of Preaching in Early Modern London. in Early Modern France. She also wrote Text: Acts of Writing and the Work of He also worked on “Virtual Paul’s Cross: “Constructing Universality in Early Documentation in Northwestern Europe, The Experience of Public Preaching after Modern French Treatises on Music and 1000–1215. She wrote the introduction the Reformation” for Paul’s Cross and Dance” in Music and Diplomacy from and coedited Pandemic Disease in the the Culture of Persuasion in England, the Early Modern Era to the Present Medieval World: Rethinking the Black 1520–1640; “Recovering Lost Acoustic and “Cervantes and the Domestication Death, the special inaugural double Spaces: St. Paul’s Cathedral and Paul’s of Romance in Seventeenth-Century issue of The Medieval Globe (2014), Churchyard in 1622” for the online French Theater: Jean Rotrou’s Les deux and contributed an essay on “Ancient journal Digital Studies / Le champ pucelles” for the journal Republics of Drama in the Medieval World” for The numérique; and “Transforming the Letters. Welch is associate professor Reception of Greek Drama. Symes is Object of Our Study: The Early Modern of French and francophone studies at Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar and Sermon and the Virtual Paul’s Cross the University of North Carolina at associate professor of history, theatre, Project” for the online Journal of Digital Chapel Hill. and medieval studies at the University Humanities. Wall is professor of English of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. at North Carolina State University.

Annual Report 2013– 2014 *Supported by an endowment fund established by the Research Triangle Foundation 24 In addition to Fellows , these scholars were in residence at the Center during the 2013–14 academic year:

Sylvia Chong James Maffie University of Virginia University of Maryland

Jtona han Dorsey Abigail Manzella University of Missouri Texas Tech University (fall semester)

Jean Hébrard Vernon Hyde Minor École des Hautes Études University of Illinois en Sciences Sociales (spring semester)

Scott R. Nelson The College of William and Mary

25 statistics class of 2013–2014

Annual Report 2013– 2014 Number of Fellows (36)

Gender Ages rANk Female 21 30–39 6 Assistant Professor 5 Male 15 40–49 16 Associate Professor 19 50–59 10 Professor 11 60–69 4 Independent Scholar 1

Disciplines (11) Institutions (23) Anthropology...... 1 Boston College...... 1 Art History...... 3 Boston University...... 1 Classics...... 1 Case Western Reserve University...... 1 English...... 6 College of William and Mary...... 2 French...... 1 Duke University...... 3 History...... 14 George Washington University...... 1 Music History/Musicology...... 2 Georgetown University...... 1 Philosophy...... 3 Harvard University...... 2 Political Science...... 1 New York University...... 1 Religion...... 3 North Carolina State University...... 1 Spanish/Portuguese...... 1 Ohio State University...... 1 Rutgers University...... 3 Geographic Representation Texas Tech University...... 1 United States University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign...... 2 (33 scholars from 13 states) University of Iowa...... 1 District of Columbia...... 2 University of Maryland...... 1 Illinois...... 2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst...... 1 Iowa...... 1 University of Michigan...... 2 Maryland...... 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...... 3 Massachusetts...... 5 University of Oregon...... 1 Michigan...... 2 University of Texas, Austin...... 1 New Jersey...... 3 University of Virginia...... 1 New York...... 2 Yeshiva University...... 1 North Carolina...... 7 Ohio...... 2 Institutions in Other Nations (2) Oregon...... 1 Bahçeşehir University, Turkey...... 1 Texas...... 2 University of British Columbia, Canada...... 1 Virginia...... 3

Other Nations (3 scholars from 3 other nations) Canada...... 1 Russia...... 1 Turkey...... 1

27 books by Fellows Published or added to the Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Collection in 2013—2014

Annual Report 2013- 2014 Barish, Evelyn (Walter Hines Page Fellow*, 1993–94). The Double Life of Paul de Man. New York: Liveright, 2014. Boone, Joseph Allen (M. H. Abrams Fellow and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2009–10). The Homoerotics of Orientalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Bruzelius, Caroline (Allen W. Clowes Fellow, 2003–04). Preaching, Building, and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Clarke, Randolph (Delta Delta Delta Fellow, 2012–13). Omissions: Agency, Metaphysics, and Responsibility. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Collini, Stefan (Birkelund Fellow, 2012–13), ed. Two Cultures?: The Significance of C. P. Snow, by F. R. Leavis. With an introduction and notes by Stefan Collini. Canto Classics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Desai, Gaurav (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2001–02; Burkhardt Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, 2009–10). Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Awarded the René Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, 2014. Farmer, Jared (Donnelly Family Fellow and Fellows’ Fellow, 2009–10). Trees in Paradise: A California History. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013. Floyd-Wilson, Mary (John G. Medlin Fellow, 2008–09). Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Gershoni, Israel (Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow, 2004–05). `Almah ve-satan: Mitsrayim veha-Natsizm, 1935–1940 [Dame and Devil: Egypt and Nazism, 1935–1940]. 2 vols. Sidrah le-historyah [History Series]. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2012. Greenspan, Ezra (John Hope Franklin Fellow, 2011–12). William Wells Brown: An African American Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. ———, ed. William Wells Brown: Clotel and Other Writings. New York: Library of America, 2014. Hagemann, Karen (John G. Medlin Fellow, 2011–12), ed. Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945–1989. Edited by Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2014. Jackson, John L., Jr. (Lilly Fellow in Religion and the Humanities, 2005–06). Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Kasson, John F. (John G. Medlin Fellow and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2009–10). The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014.

*Supported by an endowment fund established by the Research Triangle Foundation 29 Kennedy, Dane Keith (Birkelund Fellow, 2010–11), ed. Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World. Reinterpreting History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Klubock, Thomas Miller (Burkhardt Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, 2005–06). La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory. Radical Perspectives. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. Kwass, Michael (Gould Foundation Fellow, 2001–02). Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Leighten, Patricia (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 1995–96). The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Lindsay, Lisa A. (2004–05), ed. See Sweet, John Wood, ed., Biography and the Black Atlantic. Luzzi, Joseph (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2004–05). A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. MacLean, Nancy (John Hope Franklin Fellow, 2008–09). Scalawag: A White Southerner’s Journey Through Segregation to Human Rights Activism. By Edward H. Peeples and Nancy MacLean. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. Manion, Lee (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2013–14). Narrating the Crusades: Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Michaels, Paula A. (Burkhardt Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, 2008–09). Lamaze: An International History. Oxford Studies in International History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Mitchell, Robert (Duke Endowment Fellow, 2012–13). Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Morse, Ruth (Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow, 2012–13), ed. Hugo, Pasternak, Brecht, Césaire. Great Shakespeareans, vol. 14. London: Continuum, 2013. Paxton, Frederick S. (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2006–07). The Death Ritual at Cluny in the Central Middle Ages; Le rituel de la mort à Cluny au Moyen Âge central. By Frederick S. Paxton and Isabelle Cochelin. Disciplina Monastica, 9. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.

Annual Report 2013– 2014 30 Pfau, Thomas (Duke Endowment Fellow, 2010–11). Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Richards, Eliza (Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow, 2010–11), ed. Emily Dickinson in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Somerset, Fiona (Duke Endowment Fellow, 2006–07). Feeling Like Saints: Lollard Writings after Wyclif. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. Suzuki, Seiichi (Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Fellow, 2012–13). The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic Innovation. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 86. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. Sweet, John Wood (Center Fellow, 2011–12), ed. Biography and the Black Atlantic. Edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet. Early Modern Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Turner, Henry S. (M. H. Abrams Fellow, 2010–11), ed. Early Modern Theatricality. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Warner, Ding Xiang (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2004–05). Transmitting Authority: Wang Tong (ca. 584–617) and the “Zhongshuo” in Medieval China’s Manuscript Culture. Sinica Leidensia, 113. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Weil, Rachel (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2006–07). A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III’s England. Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Welsh, Alexander (Josephus Daniels Fellow*, 2008–09). The Humanist Comedy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Werth, Paul W. (Frank H. Kenan Fellow, 2007–08). The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia. Oxford Studies in Modern European History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Wolf, Susan R. (William C. and Ida Friday Fellow, 2012–13), ed. Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction. Edited by Susan Wolf and Christopher Grau. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Wong, Dorothy C. (Henry Luce Fellow, 2011–12), ed. China and Beyond in the Mediaeval Period: Cultural Crossings and Inter-Regional Connections. Edited by Dorothy C. Wong and Gustav Heldt. Cambria World Sinophone Series. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2014.

*Supported by an endowment fund established by the Research Triangle Foundation 31 Education Programs S

Annual Report 2013– 2014 Surprises in the workplace are often unwelcome, but this year Not all of the evaluations we receive are so glowing, but the education programs experienced one that we celebrated generally the 1,693 teachers in 48 states who participated wholeheartedly. Unbeknownst to anyone on the education in the webinars found them effective in both providing fresh programs staff, the Center’s reference librarian, now our head material to use with students and deepening understanding librarian, Brooke Andrade, nominated the Center’s new of the subject at hand, and those subjects ranged from the interactive lessons for the teaching award bestowed annually real pirates of the Caribbean to the poetry of Robert Frost by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), a prestigious global to Vietnamese perspectives on the Vietnam War. network that supports education and research. In April we Slearned that we had won. The award recognizes educators In 2013–14 we offered the forty-fourth and forty-fifth “who incorporate primary source materials in the classroom Jessie Ball duPont Summer Seminars for Liberal Arts in new and innovative ways.” The citation hailed the Center’s College Faculty. In “Constructing Childhood: Words and work as “an innovative program that embodies an impressive Pictures” Center Fellow Laurie Langbauer, professor of collaboration of timeliness, collaboration, convenience, and English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, educational excellence.” led nineteen scholars through an exploration of the ways British and American artists and scholars of the nineteenth Awards weaken modesty, so we are going to give in to the and twentieth centuries defined childhood. At the same temptation to brag a little. The innovation that impressed the time seventeen scholars studied the evolution of global CRL resulted from our 2013 decision to see if we could bring capitalism under the direction of Center Fellow Edward the interactivity of e-learning software to the interpretation Balleisen, associate professor of history and public policy of texts. We knew that task would be a challenge. Everything at Duke University. we read warned against using the software in “text-heavy environments,” and the humanities are nothing if not text- Finally, we must note the sad fact that two longtime 33 heavy. The software works best, we were advised, with members of the education programs staff retired this year. images and animation. Undeterred, we forged ahead, using Linda Morgan joined the Center in 1983 as a manuscript the software to embed interactive exercises in our close typist. When word processing desktops and laptops reading lessons. We developed ways to highlight language, rendered that job obsolete, she embraced the machines illustrate rhetorical strategies, and promote analysis. To see and became the Center’s webmaster. The handsome and what we did, go to America in Class® Lessons on the web and convenient pages users encounter when they visit our sites select the lessons on Frederick Douglass or Benjamin Franklin are her handiwork, and we thank her for making us look or John Adams and his son. In a communication after the good. Marianne Wason, the assistant director of education award was announced, a CRL staff member commented on programs, came to the Center in 1997 to help design and how much he had learned and how easily he had done it run teacher professional development seminars. As the simply by clicking through our interactive exercises. program mix evolved, her duties changed, and she became the chief architect of the Center’s online teaching anthologies, While we are in bragging mode, let us quote from the now used by thousands of teachers throughout the nation. evaluation of a participant in one of the twenty-four Both have our deep gratitude and sincere best wishes. professional development webinars we offered in 2013–14:

“I LOVE being able to learn from my home computer. I also love the rich content I gain from your presenters. I am a resource room special education teacher. I have been teaching for almost 30 years and certainly know the grade content. Yet the America in Class web series gives me such great insights and greatly enriches my knowledge! Thank you!” Marianne Wason, assistant director of education programs,and Linda Morgan, website administrator Human Rights and the Humanities O

Annual Report 2013– 2014 On March 20–21, 2014, the Center held its third and final conference on Human Rights and the Humanities. Over the past three years the Human Rights and the Humanities project has brought together distinguished historians, philosophers, scholars of literature and culture, anthropologists, political scientists, and others from around the world to share their insights and help us better understand human rights not only as a matter of political and social interest but as a historical and cultural phenomenon and a subject worthy of extended ethical consideration.

This year’s conference opened with a keynote address on “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker from Harvard University. In his talk, Pinker presented data that, he argues, demonstrate a Oprecipitous decline in violence over the past few centuries. He further argued that this decline is not due to changes in human biology or to efforts to circumvent inherent violent tendencies, but to a number of changes in culture and economic circum- stances that favor peaceable motivations.

The following day's sessions featured other distinguished scholars discussing, among other things: how shifts in thinking about “the human” during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have helped to shape current thinking; the ways that no- tions of a common humanity and discourse surrounding the dehumanizing effects of slavery have played a part in the abolition of and, later, the scholarship about slavery; and how the contemporary regime of human rights activism and humanitarianism, based on assumptions about a universalized human subject, may need to be revisited.

In addition to Steven Pinker, this year’s speakers included: K. Anthony Appiah, New York University Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study Lynn Festa, Rutgers University 35 Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University Stephen Hopgood, SOAS, University of London Walter Johnson, Harvard University Robert Pippin, University of Chicago Gregory Radick, University of Leeds

They were joined by moderators Michael Gillespie from Duke The Human Rights and the Humanities initiative has been University; Nora Fisher Onar from Bahçeşehir University; made possible through the generous support of the Research Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham from Harvard University; and Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, Duke University, North Martha S. Jones from the University of Michigan. Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. As with previous year’s events, this year’s speakers and moderators gathered on Saturday morning for a workshop, led by Michael Gillespie, to share their thoughts about, and experiences of, teaching undergraduates about human rights issues. Their contributions, and those of previous years’ participants, will be used in developing an online pedagogical resource for collegiate instruction that will launch in 2015. Above: Conference speakers and moderators (front row, l-r) Saidiya Hartman, Steven Pinker, Lynn Festa, Martha Jones, Stephen Hopgood; (middle row, l-r) Nora Fisher Onar, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Gregory Radick; (back row, l-r)​ K. Anthony Appiah, Geoffrey Harpham, Michael Gillespie, Robert Pippin, Walter Johnson, and Didier Fassin. At right: 2014 conference attendees Financial Statements

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION June 30, 2014

ASSETS CURRENT ASSETS: Cash and cash equivalents $ 191,409 Accounts receivable 2,700 Grants receivable, current portion 637,252 Promises to give - annual fund 180 Prepaid expenses 23,352 TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 854,893

NONCURRENT ASSETS: Investments, at fair value 78,717,921 Grants receivable, net of current portion 439,412 Promises to give - endowment 223,594 Property and equipment, net 672,149 TOTAL NONCURRENT ASSETS 80,053,076

TOTAL ASSETS $ 80,907,969

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS CURRENT LIABILITIES: Accounts payable and accrued expenses 200,380 Current portion of leases payable 4,170

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 204,550

Leases payable, net of current portion 16,116

TOTAL LIABILITIES 220,666

NET ASSETS: Unrestricted 926,561 Temporarily restricted 27,597,363 Permanently restricted 52,163,379 TOTAL NET ASSETS 80,687,303

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $ 80,907,969

Annual Report 2013– 2014 36 Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets For the year ended June 30, 2014

Temporarily permanently U unrestricted restricted restricted total

SUPPORT AND REVENUE: Contributions, gifts and grants $726,660 1,012,553 2,374,308 4,113,521 Investment income 88 7,298,120 - 7,298,208 Realized loss on investments (4,370) (17,906) - (22,276) Unrealized gain on investments - 1,411,791 - 1,411,791 Consulting and conference income 2,551 - - 2,551 In-kind contributions 15,816 - - 15,816 Miscellaneous income 37,874 - - 37,874 778,619 9,704,558 2,374,308 12,857,485

Net assets released from restrictions 4,607,582 (4,607,582) - - 5,386,201 5,096,976 2,374,308 12,857,485

EXPENSES: Program services: Fellowship programs 2,878,981 - - 2,878,981 Education programs 1,330,086 - - 1,330,086 Communications 270,851 - - 270,851 Total program services 4,479,918 - - 4,479,918 Supporting Services: Management and general 513,611 - - 513,611 Fundraising 408,716 - - 408,716 TOTAL EXPENSES 5,402,245 - - 5,402,245

CHANGES IN NET ASSETS (16,044) 5,096,976 2,374,308 7,455,240

NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR 942,605 22,500,387 49,789,071 73,232,063

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $ 926,561 27,597,363 52,163,379 80,687,303

Notes accompanying Financial Statements are available upon request. 37 Supporting The Center T

Annual Report 2013– 2014 The National Humanities Center is an independent, privately The Campaign for the National incorporated institute supported by grants and contributions Humanities Center from individuals, corporations, foundations, universities, and For the past four years the Center has been conducting a other institutions, as well as other public and private sources. capital campaign to increase the resources available for its fellowship, education, and outreach programs and to help The Center also has a permanent endowment, valued at solidify its position as the leading independent research $80.7 million on June 30, 2014, that provided expendable income institute for humanities in the world. On June 30, 2014, the Tcovering approximately 60 percent of its annual operating costs. campaign drew to a close, having raised $19 million in endowment gifts, grants, and annual fund gifts. In July 2010 the Center launched a comprehensive capital Highlights of the campaign included: campaign to raise $13 million. Contributions to the Center’s • $10 million in new endowment for the establishment of Annual Fund, as well as grants and gifts to the Center’s new fellowships endowment, are counted toward the campaign total. • Significant development of the Center’s online resources and award-winning tools for teaching American history On the following pages are a recap of campaign progress, a and culture summary of annual and endowment giving from July 1, 2013 • Creation of the multiyear public initiative “Human Rights to June 30, 2014, and a list of individuals, corporations, and the Humanities” to consider the ways in which the foundations, and other institutions that provided annual or humanities help us understand the complex questions endowment support during the year. surrounding human rights • Over $2 million in annual giving from Center trustees, In addition to the institutions, trustees, Fellows, and other Fellows, and friends to provide immediate, unrestricted 39 friends noted in this section, the Center is also grateful to support for day-to-day operations Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for their library and technical assistance.

Annual Giving Summary Corporations, private foundations, and similar sources…………………..$2,976,432 Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill……………………...$155,000

Annual Fund Individual Gifts Participation Rate Amount Current, past, and 67 63% $433,281 emeritus trustees Fellows 281 25% $64,739 Friends 104 N/A $63,640 Totals 452 $561,660

A list of all contributors to the campaign during the past twelve months can be found on page 41. Additional information about the Campaign, including details about giving opportunities, is available at the website nhccampaign.org or by contacting Carol Vorhaus, director of development, by e-mail [email protected] or phone (919) 406-0101. Center Supporters

Annual Report 2013– 2014 Endowment Gifts 2013–14 President’s Council – $10,000+ Anonymous Fellows’ Fellowship Peter Benoliel and Willo Carey Lynne Rudder Baker* Cees de Bruin The Barrington Foundation, Inc. Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Ruth E. Chang* and Kit Fine* on behalf of Vivian Donnelley Edward H. Cohen* in memory of Strachan Donnelley Rachel Blau DuPlessis* Thomas C. Foley and Leslie Fahrenkopf Foley Robert S. DuPlessis* Merril and Dolores Halpern Frances Daly Fergusson Shepard Krech III and William C. Jordan JJR Foundation of the Jewish Geoffrey G. Harpham Communal Fund Catherine Gallagher* and Martin Jay* Carla Hesse* and Thomas Laqueur* Moore Family Fund of the Triangle Kevin M. Guthrie Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham* Community Foundation Cindy Hahamovitch* and Scott Nelson Dan* and Helen* Horowitz Patricia R. and Thruston B. Morton Cammie and Barnes Hauptfuhrer J. Paul Hunter* Elizabeth Oberbeck Anna Ragland Hayes William Chester Jordan C. Allen Parker Elizabeth* and Howard Helsinger Cara W. Robertson* Tom Scherer and Georgia Nugent Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham* The Teagle Foundation Inc. Raymond J. Wiacek in honor of Jean Houston and Eliza Robertson Pauline R. Yu Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. William Chester Jordan Philip S. Khoury Kent R. Mullikin Fellowship Scholars Council – $5,000+ Jane Craven and Bill Kwapil Anonymous John P. Birkelund Carla Hesse* and Thomas Laqueur* Norman Fiering* William D. Cohan William E.* and Jean Anne Leuchtenburg D. X.* and J. C. Warner Frances Daly Fergusson William G. Lycan* Franke Family Charitable Foundation Elizabeth Mansfield* Education Endowment Howell Family Charitable Gift Fund for Kent and Miriam Mullikin JJR Foundation of the Jewish Chrystal G. Stefani of the Renaissance Char and Jim Murphy Communal Fund Charitable Foundation Inc. Francis Oakley* Patricia R. and Thruston B. Morton Shepard Krech III* Jocelyn H. Olcott* Carl and Betty Pforzheimer Richard and Jane Levy in memory of Phoebe Allen Olcott Sally and Russell Robinson Cynthia and John C. O’Hara Suzy and Alfred Purrington Tom Scherer and Georgia Nugent Sally and Russell Robinson Thomas E. Quay, Esq., and Winnifred Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Foundation, Inc. Cutler, Ph.D. General Endowment John C. Whitehead William Trent Ragland, Jr. Peter Benoliel and Willo Carey Bruce Redford* David X. Carrier* Director’s Council/Patron – $2,500+ Louise Rice* Carolyn and W. Robert Connor Geoffrey G. Harpham JSR Fund of the Triangle Robert and Jean Hollander Deborah and Paul Resnick Community Foundation Philip S. Khoury in memory of Rashelle G. Altschul Richard and Sharon Schramm Richard and Jane Levy Winthrop A. Short Patricia Meyer Spacks* Estate of Sheila M. Lund† Claire Sponsler* and Jeff Porter Abby and Howard Milstein Director’s Council/Member – $1,000+ Robert K. Steel Family Foundation Cynthia and John C. O’Hara Anonymous H. Holden and Patti W. Thorp Raymond J. Wiacek Professor Edna G. Bay* James L. Van Cleve* Charles and Archie Blanchard Ben Vinson III* ANNUAL FUND 2013–14 in memory of Bill Joslin and Carol and Jim Vorhaus in honor of Mary Joslin Mrs. Rosaleen M. Walsh Chairman’s Council – $25,000+ Seth L. Warner John F. Adams Joseph M. Bryan, Jr. Mary Brown Bullock in memory of Emily R. Warner Jim and Janet Averill Winokur Family Foundation Carl and Betty Pforzheimer Caroline W. Bynum Carolyn and W. Robert Connor Mr. R. Peyton Woodson, III Lawrence and Lucy Ricciardi Pauline R. Yu Cara W. Robertson* Jonathan D. Culler* and Cynthia Chase Courtney Lederer and Mark Thierfelder Professor Emilie P. de Luca Benefactor – $500+ Barbara Asch and Jonathan Weiss Frances Ferguson* in memory of Wendy Allanbrook* Anonymous Robert* and Priscilla* Ferguson Michael A. Bernstein* in honor of Kent R. Mullikin in honor of Ilene H. Nagel Kate Flint* M. Evan Bonds*

*Fellow 41 Katherine G. and Thomas* A. Brady, Jr. Harriet Ritvo* Larry Eugene Jones* in honor of Beverly Bouwsma Martin J. Rody Martha S. Jones* Richard M. Burian* Thomas W. and Susan D. Ross in honor of 3 generations of women’s Professor Sir David Cannadine* Philip D. Schuyler* historians at the NHC: Anne Firor Scott*, Jinhua Chen* in memory of Robert B. Martin* Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham*, and Mia Bay* my lifelong gratitude to NHC and its class of 1988–89 Charles and Annette Kahn wonderful staff Holly M. Smith* Betsy Krause* and Chris Brashear Carol J. Clover* Terry Smith* in honor of Eliza Robertson and Patricia Curd* Don Solomon and Patrick Carroll Jean Houston in honor of the entire staff of NHC Diana Sorensen Joshua Landy* Gerald* and Ida Early Philip* and Joan* Stewart Richard F. Laxar Lynn M. Festa* Barry and Winnifred* Sullivan Lawrence* and Joanna Lipking Dr. and Mrs. F. Owen Fitzgerald Timothy Tackett* and Helen Chenut Ted* and Joby* Margadant Ruth* and Stephen Grant Ellyn and Jimmy Tanner Timothy W. Marr* Fund of the Triangle Community Foundation Professor Emeritus Charles M. Weiss in honor of John and Joy Kasson Ezra Greenspan* Ruth Bernard Yeazell* John Matthews* and Veronika Grimm Pickett and Bob Guthrie Sarah Maza* Karen Halttunen* Sponsor – $250+ Charles F. McGovern* in honor of David Brion Davis Anonymous (3) in honor of Brooke Andrade and Fred W. Anderson* Cassie Mansfield Louise Antony* Mary P. McPherson Blake Bailey Philip* and Deborah* Nord Mia E. Bay* Jeremy D. Popkin* Kalman P. Bland* and Annabel J. Wharton* Sam Taylor and Nancy Reed Jane and Daniel* Bornstein Mark Richard* and Nancy Bauer Henry and Sory Bowers Eliza and Dav Robertson Kathryn J. Burns* Philip Rupprecht* James Buzard* Ruth and David* Sabean Scott E. Casper* David Schoenbrun* and Kearsley Stewart Andrew Cayton* in memory of Carroll Wood Stewart Roger Chickering* Donald M. Scott* Suzannah Clark* Stephanie J. Shaw* Lucy C. Daniels Noel K. Sugimura* Dick and Marlene Daugherty Martin Summers* Christian de Pee* Carol Symes* and Tom Wilson Bruce Redford The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Dorothy* and John* Thompson in recognition of Stanley Chojnacki* Stephanie and Sean Tucker James C. Dobbins* Henry Turner* and Rebecca Walkowitz* Michael Ann Holly Pepper and Roddey Dowd Raymond Van Dam* Andrew Jewett* Laura Edwards* and John McAllister Nan S. Weiss Dane Kennedy* Maud Ellmann* and John Wilkinson* Ellen R. Welch* Berta and James Laney Fund Dr. Mary B. Kilburn and Dr. Eric Ellwood Richard Will* of The Community Foundation Theodore* and Donna Evergates in memory of Wendy Allanbrook* for Greater Atlanta John and Nancy Garman David* and Carolyn Wills Deidre Lynch* and Thomas Keirstead* Ellen Gruber Garvey* Rosemary and Smedes York Professor Steven Marcus* and Mary Ellis Gibson* and Charles D. Orzech* Alex Zwerdling* Professor Gertrud Lenzer* Julie M. Greene* and Jim Maffie Rex* and Donna Martin in memory of Hank and Helen Greene and Associate – $100+ in honor of Geoffrey Harpham Cornelius Maffie and in honor of Elaine Anonymous (10) Louis Menand Maffie and Marianne asonW M. H. Abrams Barbara* and Thomas* Metcalf Vartan Gregorian Barbara R. Ambros* Dr. and Mrs. Assad Meymandi J. William Harris* in honor of Eliza Robertson James Olney* and Laura O’Connor Chad Heap* Lorraine Aragon* Huston Paschal Jean M. Hébrard George E. Ashley Pine Tree Foundation of New York in honor of all NHC international Fellows Professor James Axtell Robert B. Pippin and Residents Lynne Rudder Baker* Katherine Preston* Angela K. Hodge, M.D. Anthony P. Bale*

Annual Report 2013– 2014 42 Edward J. Balleisen* Paula J. Giddings* Marixa A. Lasso* in honor of David Brion Davis, on the Eugene Goodheart* Lisa Levenstein* occasion of the publication of The Problem Robert Goodrich Nerys Levy of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation Sabine Hake* David Levering Lewis* Evelyn Barish* Fran and Joe Hall Robert H. Lewis Judith and Colin Batten Thomas* and Dorothy Haskell Ann Baker and Michael Lienesch* Paula C. Blank* Robertson Hatch Marjorie and Quentin Lindsey Margaret Bockting in memory of Robert F. Goheen Joseph Loewenstein* and Lynne Tatlock Tink and Joe Bolster Julie C. Hayes* Michael* and Nancy Lofaro Mr. and Mrs. J. Miles Branagan John F. Heil* Robert M. Longsworth* Timothy* and Susan Breen Judson S. Herrman* Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan* Richard and Cynthia Brodhead Dr. John A. Hodgson* Michelle Massé* Vernon* and Georganne Burton Gerald Holton Sean McCann* Richard* and Claudia Bushman Jasper Hopkins* Tom and Colette McCarty Judith A. Byfield* Alfred Hornung* Terence McIntosh* Mary Baine Campbell* Margaret E. Humphreys* Mimi M. McKinney Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante* in memory of Mary Humphreys in memory of Claude McKinney in honor of Eliza Robertson and the James B. Hurlock Martin Meisel* NHC librarians, the NHC staff, and Heather Hyde Minor* Martin* and Carolyn Melosi Cassie Mansfield in honor of Cassie Mansfield Carolyn Merchant* Vincent* and Patricia Carretta Gail Minault* Randolph K. Clarke* Craig A. Monson* Joel Conarroe Brenda Murphy* and George Monteiro in honor of Geoffrey Harpham Lawrence* and Margaret Victoria Nees Rita M. Conner Mr. and Mrs. Philip Nelson Walter H. Conser Robert S. Nelson* David I. Copp* James W. Nickel* Paul B.* and Margaret C. Courtright Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe* Edwin* and Marlys Craun Drs. Rudy and Louise Pariser John E. Crowley* David S. Peterson* Edwin M. Curley* Henry Petroski* Lewis M. Dabney* Drs. Peter and Sophia Petrusz Andrew Delbanco* Richard W. Pfaff* Kent R. Mullikin and Sally Robinson A. A. Donohue* Gerald J. Postema* Kathleen DuVal* and Marty Smith Russell A. Powell* Richard M. Eaton* Vernon Hyde Minor Wilf Prest* and Sabina Flanagan Georgia and Morris* Eaves in memory of Richard A. Preston* Suzanne Raitt* Robert R. Edwards* and Emily R. Grosholz* class of 1989–90 Barbara N. Ramusack* Dyan H. Elliott* Kenneth Janken* and Patricia Puglisi Joanne Rappaport* James Engell* and Ainslie Brennan Peter Jelavich* Andrews Reath* James Epstein* Sheridan W. Johns* Charlotte Orth and Kenneth Reckford Judith Evans-Grubbs* Mr. and Mrs. John R. Jordan, Jr. Peter Redfield and Silvia Tomásková Molly A. Faries* Gil Joseph* Anna Christina S. Ribeiro* Sarah B. Farmer* in memory of Patricia Pessar in honor of NHC’s kitchen staff, Leon Fink* Elizabeth Kennedy* and Bobbi Prebis James Getkin and Tom Reed Nora E. Fisher Onar* Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie* Marilynn Richtarik* and Matt Bolch Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.* Haig Khachatoorian Peter* and Trudi Riesenberg Mary Floyd-Wilson* Mi Gyung Kim* David Larkin Robb Winfried* and Brigitte Fluck Jerod and Anne Kratzer in memory of Adelaide S. Robb Jan Fokkelman* Jack and Marian Krause Kellie P. Robertson* Jaroslav T. Folda* in honor of Betsy Krause* Prof. Lorraine Hale Robinson Marjorie Diggs Freeman Anna Krylova* W. J. Rorabaugh* in honor of Jean Houston John Kucich* Ellen Ross* Ernestine Friedl* and Merel H. Harmel Ewa Kuryluk* David H. Sanford* Ginger S. Frost* Peter G. Lake* Lars Schoultz* in honor of Geoffrey Harpham Sanford A. Lakoff* Ellen W. Schrecker* Frank and Carole Gailor George R. and Faith F. Lamplugh John R. Searle

*Fellow 43 Mary Ann and Ronald* Witt Sherry B. Ortner* Dorothy C. Wong* Cynthia Radding* Harold D. Woodman* Erik K. Redling* Anne M. Wyatt-Brown Paul K. Saint-Amour* in memory of Bertram Wyatt-Brown* in honor of Eliza Robertson David E. Simpson* Friend – $1.00 + George and Karin Stephens Anonymous (9) Hugh M. Thomas* Al Adams Jane Tompkins* Michael C. Alexander* Julia Daniels and Robert Trullinger John J. Allen* W. Alan Tuttle Judith H. Anderson* Stephen D. White* Association for Information Science Diana Sorensen and Technology Companies, Foundations, and W. B. Carnochan Institutional Gifts Jane Sharp* John Carson* The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations in honor of Elizabeth Mansfield and the Professor Mark R. Cohen Duke University NHC Library and librarians Edward E. Curtis IV* Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Daniel J. Sherman* Alan C. Dessen* The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. David E. Shi* Sarah Jane Deutsch* The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Stephen J. Shoemaker* Morris Dickstein* National Endowment for the Humanities Sydney* and Molly Shoemaker Marie Drew-Bear* North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Robert L. Simon* Sid and Meg Eaton North Carolina State University Leonard V. Smith* Gabrielle C. Falk Research Triangle Foundation of Philip A. Stadter* Katharine M. Gilbert North Carolina Orin Starn* Professor Jack G. Goellner* The Teagle Foundation Inc. Randolph Starn* Harvey J. Graff* Triangle Universities Center for Sharon T. Strocchia* in honor of Eliza Robertson and Advanced Studies Inc. Jean Strout the NHC library services University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in memory of S. Cushing Strout* Aline Helg* Mary C. Sturgeon* Fred Colby Hobson, Jr.* Companies and Foundations That Paul E. Szarmach* Robert and Jean Hollander Matched Annual Fund Gifts Richard Talbert* Jenann Ismael* Anonymous Blair H. and Lee D. Temkin Family Donor G. Ronald Kastner, Ph.D. BD Matching Gifts Program Advised Fund of the Jewish Community William and Victoria Keogan The Dowd Foundation Foundation of the Milwaukee Jewish Verdery and Mary Ann Kerr Genworth Foundation Federation, Inc. Timothy Kircher* The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Hugh and Judy Tilson Lloyd S. Kramer* Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program Herbert F. Tucker* Sanjay Krishnan* The Rockefeller Foundation Leslie Tuttle* and Jonathan Earle Raymond T. LaManna The Teagle Foundation Inc. Helen E. Ullrich, M.D.* Susan H. Langdon* Richard W. Unger* Carlton and Emily Lee Gifts in Kind Helen Vendler Pamela O. Long* including additions to the Robert H. Martha J. Vicinus* Michèle Longino* and Margaret S. Goheen Collection Patricia Waddy* Joseph Luzzi* and Helena Baillie of Books by Fellows John* and Terry Wall Michael Maas* in honor of Geoffrey Harpham in honor of Kent R. Mullikin Neil W. Bernstein* Chris Waters* Gregory Maertz* Edward H. Cohen* Gennifer Weisenfeld* Erin Malloy-Hanley Stefan Collini* Paul W. Werth* Lee Manion* Jared Farmer* Hugh West* Abigail Manzella Mary Floyd-Wilson* Alexandra Wettlaufer* Nelson H. Minnich* Jan P. Fokkelman* Robert Whitman William A. and Pamala Q. Muller Israel Gershoni* Barbara Will* and Michael Ermarth Mr. and Mrs. David Neunert Eugene Goodheart* John F. Wilson* Jonathan* and Agatha Ocko Ezra Greenspan*

Annual Report 2013– 2014 *Fellow †Deceased 44 Jean M. Hébrard Sawyer Society Members Howard/Merrell The Sawyer Society recognizes those who have included a legacy gift to the Center Margaret E. Humphreys* in their estate plans. Randal M. Jelks* William C. Jordan Anonymous Hope Lacy† John F. Kasson* Professor Edna G. Bay* Mrs. Nancy Lewis Gavin A. Kelly* Peter Benoliel Sheila M. Lund† Mary Kinzie* W. Robert Connor Professor Louise McReynolds* Robert E. Mitchell* Mr.† and Mrs. R. F. Goheen John G. Medlin, Jr.† Jonathan K. Ocko* Merril Halpern William M. Moore, Jr. Henry Petroski* Robert and Jean Hollander John E. Sawyer† Thomas Pfau* John B. Hurford† David E. Shi* Bruce R. Redford* Jenann Ismael* Mrs. Rosaleen M. Walsh Eliza C. Richards* G. Ronald Kastner, Ph.D. Seth L. Warner Joshua Ruch John King* Marjorie C. Woods* Behnam Sadeghi* Shepard Krech III* Rebecca J. Scott* Ellen F. Stroud* Seiichi Suzuki* Henry S. Turner*

We make every effort to be accurate in our lists of donors; please notify us of any errors in spelling or attribution. 45 Staff of The Center as of June 30, 2014

Annual Report 2013– 2014 Administration Library Geoffrey Harpham Eliza Robertson President and Director Director of the Library

Barbara Mormile Brooke Andrade Executive Assistant to the Director Associate Librarian for Interlibrary Loan and Reference

Finance and Operations Sarah Harris Assistant Librarian Stephanie Tucker Chief Financial Officer Education Programs Matt Carroll Richard R. Schramm Building Engineer Vice President for Education Programs

Joel Elliott Caryn Koplik Information Technology Coordinator Assistant Director for Education Programs / Marketing

Jim Getkin Linda Morgan Dining Room Manager Website Administrator

Lesley Orr Elizabeth G. Taylor Receptionist and Staff Assistant Coordinator of Education Programs

Lynwood Parrish Marianne Wason Controller Assistant Director of Education Programs / Online Resources

Tom Reed Dining Room Staff 47 Felisha Wilson Staff Accountant

Communications and Development Carol Vorhaus Director of Development

Martha Johnson Executive Assistant for Communications and Development

Don Solomon Lynwood Parrish Director of Communications

Fellowship Program Elizabeth Mansfield Vice President for Scholarly Programs

Marie Brubaker Fellowship/Education Administrative Assistant

Karen Carroll Coordinator of Editorial Services

Lois P. Whittington Richard R. Schramm and trustee Tom Scherer Coordinator of Fellowship Program Board of Trustees as of June 30, 2014

Annual Report 2013– 2014 Officers William C. Jordan•, Dayton-Stockton Cara W. Robertson*•, Independent Peter A. Benoliel • (Chairman), Chair- Professor of History, Princeton University Scholar and Attorney, Santa Monica, CA man Emeritus, Quaker Chemical Corporation, Conshohocken, PA Philip S. Khoury, Ford International Sally Dalton Robinson•, Professor of History, Associate Provost, Charlotte, NC Geoffrey G. Harpham • (President), MIT, Cambridge, MA Director, National Humanities Center Thomas W. Ross, President, The Thomas Laqueur*, Helen Fawcett University of North Carolina John F. Adams • (Secretary), Private Distinguished Professor of History, Investor, Chicago, IL University of California, Berkeley Joshua Ruch, Managing Partner, RHO Capital Partners, New York, NY Lawrence R. Ricciardi • (Treasurer), Richard Levy, President, H.B.D., Inc., Senior Advisor: IBM Corp., Jones Day, and Greensboro, NC Thomas Scherer•, Deputy General Lazard Frères & Co., LLC, Greenwich, CT Counsel, American International Group, Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Inc., New York, NY James H. Averill•, Retired Partner, Bass Professor of English, Harvard University Wellington Management Company, Radnor, PA Diana Sorensen, Dean for the Arts Patricia R. Morton•, Founder, PRM and Humanities, Harvard University Advisors, Charlotte, NC Richard H. Brodhead, President, Mark E. Thierfelder•, Partner, Duke University Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck, Dechert, LLP, New York, NY Author, Greenwich, CT Mary Brown Bullock, Executive H. Holden Thorp, Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor, Duke Kunshan University John O’Hara, Managing Director and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Senior Advisor, Rockefeller Financial, Washington University in St. Louis William D. Cohan, Author and New York, NY Journalist; Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair, Ben Vinson III*, Dean of the New York, NY C. Allen Parker, Presiding Partner of Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY George Washington University Cees J. de Bruin, Chairman, Indofin 49 Group, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Robert B. Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Jonathan G. Weiss•, Co-Head, Nef Professor of Philosophy, University Investment Banking & Capital Markets, Gerald L. Early*, Merle Kling Professor of Chicago Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, New York, NY of Modern Letters, Washington University in St. Louis Bruce Redford*, University Professor Raymond J. Wiacek, Partner, Jones and Professor of Art History and English, Day, Washington, DC Leslie Fahrenkopf Foley, Attorney, Boston University Greenwich, CT A. Morris Williams, Jr., President, Williams & Company, Frances Ferguson*, Ann L. and West Conshohocken, PA Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of English, University of Chicago Pauline R. Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies, Catherine Gallagher*, Eggers Profes- New York, NY sor of English Literature Emerita, University of California, Berkeley

Kevin Guthrie, President, ITHAKA/ JSTOR, New York, NY

Michael Ann Holly, Starr Director Emeritus, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

Thomas L. Jones, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal, New York, NY A. Morris Williams, Jr.

*Fellow • Executive Committee TRUSTEES EMERITI Meyer H. Abrams John P. Birkelund Alan Brinkley* Caroline Walker Bynum W. Robert Connor Andrew H. Delbanco* Blair W. Effron Jean Bethke Elshtain* Merril M. Halpern Gertrude Himmelfarb Robert Hollander William E. Leuchtenburg* Steven Marcus* Martin E. Marty Assad Meymandi, M.D., Ph.D., DLFAPA William M. Moore, Jr. Francis Oakley* Colin A. Palmer* Carl H. Pforzheimer III Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Anne Firor Scott* John R. Searle Patricia Meyer Spacks* Isaac Shapiro Herbert S. Winokur, Jr.

FOUNDERS Meyer H. Abrams Morton Bloomfield† Frederick Burkhardt† Charles Frankel† First Director, 1977–79 The Honorable Robert F. Goheen† Steven Marcus* Henry Nash Smith† Gregory Vlastos*† John Voss†

*Fellow †Deceased

The National Humanities Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national and ethnic origin, sexual In all their myriad forms, the humanities seek not just to represent the orientation or preference, or artifacts, documents, or events of the past, but to acquaint us with the age in the administration of its dynamic processes that brought these things into being. The authentic selection policies, educational humanistic response to life is not veneration but astonishment at, policies, and other Center- and gratitude for, the miraculous fact that, from the tumult of history, administered programs. anything worthy of enduring admiration has survived at all. ​– Geoffrey G. Harpham​, News of the National Humanities Center (2013)

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