Fellowship: the Newsletter of the Woodrow Wilson National

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THE WOODROW WILSON PARTNERSHIP IN DETROIT TEACHING FELLOWSHIP WW Ohio Teaching Fellowship Expands ...... 3 Teaching Fellows Receive Early Accolades ...... 4 WW Hosts Second Teaching Fellows’ Convening ...... 5 The Game Changers ...... 5

Salamishah Tillet MN ’99, CEF ’10: The Arts: Weapon of Change, Tool of Healing . . . .6

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Edward Tenner WF ’65 ...... 7 Alycia Meriweather of DPS guides discussion at a late August session with new mentors and the WKKF-WW Michigan Teaching Alice Dreger CN ’94 ...... 8 Fellows in Detroit. Photo: Woodrow Wilson Foundation JOIN A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY OF FELLOWS BOOK SPOTLIGHT ...... 10 “ o matter what university you’re from,” says clinical placement,” says Constance K. Bond, the Follow the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Online! Rachel Brownstein WF ’58 NAlycia Meriweather, “you’re part of this De- Foundation’s Vice President for Teaching Fellowships. “It would be a distraction that none of us could afford, Stephanie Coontz WF ’66 troit project. I have to feel comfortable that you’re working with my kids. I have to see the evidence of or manage. o make the most of the remarkable network of Woodrow Wilson Fellows, the Foun- Carol Gilligan WF ’58 your effectiveness. If Fellows from one campus fail, Tdation has expanded its online presence. Please come join our virtual community. “Beyond that, Detroit really needs these teachers—every Mary Beth Norton WF ’64 everyone fails—and we cannot afford to fail.” The Woodrow Wilson Foundation has Facebook pages for both the Foundation as a whole one of them—to be fully prepared to make a significant impact in some challenging classrooms,” Dr. Bond adds. and the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships. We’re also on Twitter. Join organizations like NOTES ON FELLOWS . . . .12 Ms. Meriweather, executive director of the Office of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNCF Special Programs Corporation, and NEA Today Science and director of the Detroit Mathematics and “Coordinating efforts across the four campuses not only Carl Strikwerda CN ’81 Science Center, is the Detroit Public Schools’ (DPS) made sense, it actually has given us a way to create a new in following the Foundation through social media. We’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest First Newcombe College articles written by Woodrow Wilson Fellows and across a range of fields. Keep up with the liaison to a groundbreaking four-campus partnership model for teacher preparation within public classrooms.” President ...... 12 coordinated by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. scholarship and commentary, connect with the community, join the conversation – “like” the The partnership involves a highly structured approach Recent Publications/ The participating universities—Eastern Michigan Uni- Foundation on Facebook and follow us on Twitter today. Subscribe to our YouTube chan- to Fellows’ year of clinical immersion in a Detroit Accomplishments ...... 12-13 versity, Michigan State University, the University of nel to see videos from Woodrow Wilson events, hear Fellows and other honorees speak, classroom, which provides substantially more on-the- Michigan, and Wayne State University—are preparing clips from the recent WFYI-produced Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship documentary job preparation than the typical “student teaching.” FOUNDATION UPDATES The Game Changers, and more as it becomes available. Fellows to teach in the Detroit Public Schools. Audra Watson, Woodrow Wilson program officer and New WW Trustee: All are part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Woodrow On Facebook, visit www.facebook.com/WoodrowWilsonFoundation and former Executive Director of Teacher Development John Katzman ...... 14 Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship, which also in- www.facebook.com/WWTeachingFellowship . for the New York City Department of Education, ex- WW Welcomes cludes Grand Valley State University and Western plains. “In too many instances, cooperating teach- On Twitter, follow @WWFoundation and @WoodrowWilsonTF . Ambassador Gadsden ...... 14 Michigan University working in their regions. ers”—those who mentor teacher candidates—“are Subscribe to the Foundation’s YouTube channel at In Detroit, with four nearby campuses placing Fellows simply those who put their hands up for the assign- www.youtube.com/WoodrowWilsonFndn . for clinical work and mentoring, the effort requires ment. They may be well-prepared, or not. They may special coordination and collaboration. “With the be willing to let teacher candidates be hands-on in the major challenges that DPS faces, it made no sense to classroom, or not. They may present information in ask them to help us prepare Fellows from four differ- ways that align with what’s offered in university TEL: 609-452-7007 • FAX: 609-452-0066 • WEB: WWW.WOODROW.ORG ent campuses with four different visions of effective Continued on page 3 FELLOWSHIP

EDITOR’S NOTE WW TEACHING PARTNERSHIP IN DETROIT MISSION Continued from page 1 in their field and tie it in to what we do in math class,” he ver the years, staff at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation have often The mission of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is to identify and says. Wanda Bright of Henry Ford High School echoes Orun across Fellows’ names in news stories or bylines or book re- seminars, or not.” As a result, Ms. Watson says, stan- develop leaders and institutions to address the critical challenges in education. The the sentiment: “I know I’m going to grow as a teacher be- views. Every time, there’s a little frisson of pride here in the office. dard approaches to mentoring during new teachers’ Foundation supports its Fellows as the next generation of leaders shaping American clinical placements may or may not be effective. cause I’m expecting to learn from the mentees as well.” institutions, and also supports innovation in the institutions where they will lead. Now, more and more, Fellows’ work appears online. A national news story Overall, Dr. Bond notes, the Detroit partnerships are on the Internet quotes a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. A professional associa- In the Detroit program, by contrast, mentors for the both unusual and powerful. “To have four universities BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2011-12 tion’s weekly eblast features a new blog post by a Mellon Fellow. A Face- WKKF-WW Michigan Teaching Fellows from all four that typically compete with each other partnering in this book item links to a video created by one of the Woodrow Wilson Teaching campuses have been hand-selected; they met in June FREDERICK L. A. GRAUER, CHAIR WF ’69 WILLIAM LILLEY III WF ’59 way is extraordinary. To have them engaging so thor- Barclays Global Investors/ iMap Data Inc. Fellows, or a Newcombe Fellow shows up on TED (www.ted.com). 2011 for an orientation and professional development session. The four universities’ program directors also oughly with the school district is a step beyond that. And BlackRock (ret’d) FRANK LORENZO As scholarly publication evolves, traditional academic work finds new elec- met as a group in summer 2011 to set common expec- to be developing this network of teachers—many of the WALTER W. BUCKLEY, JR., CHAIR-ELECT Savoy Capital, Inc. tronic venues. At the same time, Fellows increasingly take their scholar- tations—across campuses—for each mentor’s work Fellows are going to be teaching side-by-side with their Buckley Muething Capital Management NANCY WEISS MALKIEL WF ’65 ship to broader audiences online. This issue of Fellowship looks at some of with Fellows at specific points in the school year. More- mentors after they’re certified—creates a critical mass GEORGE CAMPBELL, JR. Princeton University the “digital intellectuals” among the Foundation’s 20,000 Fellows. We pro- over, Fellows from all four universities participated in a of strong teachers who can learn from each other in an The Cooper Union for the KAREN OSBORNE file in-depth two Fellows who continue to publish well-received, thought- Detroit orientation in July 2011, then joined the men- ongoing way. In two decades of working with teacher Advancement of Science & Art The Osborne Group ful books, and have also created significant online presences. They are tors in August for a workshop to open a dialogue and preparation, this is one of the most promising ap- From left: Fellows Matt Scheick and CHRISTEL DEHAAN Jenna Bourdeau talk with Wanda Bright MATTHEW PITTINSKY changing the way a wider readership views the world. discuss expectations before school started. The men- proaches I have ever seen.” Christel House International Parchment, Inc. of Henry Ford High School about This issue also features other Fellows who are changing worlds and lives. tors will continue to meet throughout the year, building It is also, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation hopes, a mentoring and professional development. JANE PHILLIPS DONALDSON JUDITH A. RIZZO More than 600 Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows across three states their capacity to work with new teacher candidates. model that can be used to strengthen teaching in districts Photo: Woodrow Wilson Foundation Phillips Oppenheim The James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for are now teaching or preparing to teach; we look at some of their ac- They also will convene again with the Fellows several nationwide, particularly in distressed areas that have dif- JENNIFER GRUENBERG Educational Leadership and Policy complishments. We also explore the work of a WW Career Enhancement times during the year, learning from progress made ficulty attracting and retaining strong teachers. “Districts Marx Realty & Improvement Co. (ret’d) MYRON S. SCHOLES Fellow whose passion for art and activism not only shapes her own re- across the program. “We are keeping mentor develop- stand to benefit from taking steps like these,” says Ms. N. GERRY HOUSE Stanford University Graduate School search, but also gives others hope. ment and effectiveness at the heart of the Fellows’ Meriweather. “I’m not interested in replicating medioc- The Institute for Student Achievement of Business school-based experience,” Ms. Watson says. rity. Instead, we are creating teachers who will have seen Many more of you among the Foundation’s Fellows and friends are cre- THOMAS C. HUDNUT JEFFREY L. SKELTON effective teaching in an urban setting, and [as Fellows] Harvard-Westlake School Resultant Capital ating change, online and offline, in ways large and small. We’re eager to The DPS mentors are embracing the opportunity. As a they will be here for three years, so we’re not putting all know about it, and to let others know about it. You can find the Founda- new teacher, says Craig McKee of Marcus Garvey Acad- JOHN KATZMAN MARVIN J. SUOMI this effort and time into folks who are going to leave us. 2tor, Inc. KUD International LLC tion now on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (see back page). You can also emy, “I had to learn a lot from just bumping my head… If send email to [email protected], or write us with pen and I could help [new teachers] transition into the classroom “This is an opportunity to be innovative, to do some- SHIRLEY STRUM KENNY WF ’56 LUTHER TAI more easily, that’s what I’ll do.” He also sees the Fellows, Stony Brook University, State Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. ink—long live the old school—at the masthead address. In any medium, thing new. If it goes well, it can become a standard we love to hear from you. many of them career changers, as classroom resources. part of teacher preparation. That’s very exciting.” University of New York JAY P. URWITZ “I’m going to help them take some of what they learned CARL F. KOHRT WF ’65 WilmerHale

Battelle Memorial Institute (ret’d) GEORGE A. WEISS JAN KRUKOWSKI George Weiss Associates, Inc. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS ISSUE: WW Ohio Teaching Fellowship Expands Jan Krukowski & Co. PAUL J. WEISSMAN ARTHUR LEVINE Centenium Advisors LLC AP = ACADEMIC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW In May, Chancellor Jim Petro of the University System of Ohio an- The Woodrow Wilson National JOHN C. WILCOX WF ’64 CEF = CAREER ENHANCEMENT FELLOW nounced that the Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellowship would ex- Fellowship Foundation Sodali Ltd. pand from four to seven university campuses in Ohio. CN = CHARLOTTE NEWCOMBE FELLOW Fellowship, the newsletter of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship The three new campuses—Ohio University, the University of Dayton, Foundation, is published semi-annually in spring and fall. Issues are also posted GT = GETTY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW and the University of Toledo—join four others already involved in the online at www.woodrow.org/newsletters. Email inquiries may be directed to H = HONORARY WW Teaching Fellowship: John Carroll University, the Ohio State Uni- [email protected]. versity, the University of Akron and the University of Cincinnati. MN = MELLON FELLOW THE WOODROW WILSON Chancellor Petro and Woodrow Wilson Foundation president Arthur National Fellowship Foundation PP = PUBLIC POLICY FELLOW Levine also announced the selection of Ohio’s inaugural class of Woodrow MAIL: P.O. Box 5281 • Princeton, NJ 08543 Wilson Teaching Fellows at the Ohio Statehouse on May 17. Each of the LOCATION: 5 Vaughn Drive, Suite 300 • Princeton, NJ 08540 WF = WOODROW WILSON FELLOW 65 Fellows in the 2011 class will receive a $30,000 stipend to complete a PHONE: 609-452-7007 • FAX: 609-452-0066 a blend of private and public support has been key. In Ohio, the Chancel- WS = WOMEN’S STUDIES FELLOW special intensive master’s program in teacher preparation. http://www.woodrow.org lor’s Office allocated support from both state and federal programs to the CHAIR OF THE BOARD: Frederick L.A. Grauer WF ’69 WWTF = WOODROW WILSON TEACHING FELLOW The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships recruit accomplished career Fellowship, complemented by support from a consortium of six private PRESIDENT: Arthur Levine changers and outstanding recent college graduates in science, technology, Ohio funders: The Cleveland Foundation, George Gund Foundation, engineering and mathematics (the STEM fields) who will prepare for math Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, GAR Foundation, Battelle Memorial FELLOWSHIP NEWSLETTER STAFF: and science teaching positions in their state’s urban and rural schools. Institute and The Battelle Fund at the Columbus Foundation. Andrea Beale, writer LET US KNOW YOUR RECENT NEWS! Antoinette Marrero, writer Comments, suggestions, and news of recent accomplishments are Ohio launched its Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship in March 2010, Learn more about the 2011 Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellows and the Beverly Sanford, editor welcome; please email the Fellowship newsletter staff at joining Indiana and Michigan as host states for the Fellowship. In each state, Teaching Fellowship program at www.wwteachingfellowship.org. [email protected], or call 609-452-7007 x131. 2 FALL 2011 FELLOWSHIP 3 FELLOWSHIP

EDITOR’S NOTE WW TEACHING PARTNERSHIP IN DETROIT MISSION Continued from page 1 in their field and tie it in to what we do in math class,” he ver the years, staff at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation have often The mission of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is to identify and says. Wanda Bright of Henry Ford High School echoes Orun across Fellows’ names in news stories or bylines or book re- seminars, or not.” As a result, Ms. Watson says, stan- develop leaders and institutions to address the critical challenges in education. The the sentiment: “I know I’m going to grow as a teacher be- views. Every time, there’s a little frisson of pride here in the office. dard approaches to mentoring during new teachers’ Foundation supports its Fellows as the next generation of leaders shaping American clinical placements may or may not be effective. cause I’m expecting to learn from the mentees as well.” institutions, and also supports innovation in the institutions where they will lead. Now, more and more, Fellows’ work appears online. A national news story Overall, Dr. Bond notes, the Detroit partnerships are on the Internet quotes a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. A professional associa- In the Detroit program, by contrast, mentors for the both unusual and powerful. “To have four universities BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2011-12 tion’s weekly eblast features a new blog post by a Mellon Fellow. A Face- WKKF-WW Michigan Teaching Fellows from all four that typically compete with each other partnering in this book item links to a video created by one of the Woodrow Wilson Teaching campuses have been hand-selected; they met in June FREDERICK L. A. GRAUER, CHAIR WF ’69 WILLIAM LILLEY III WF ’59 way is extraordinary. To have them engaging so thor- Barclays Global Investors/ iMap Data Inc. Fellows, or a Newcombe Fellow shows up on TED (www.ted.com). 2011 for an orientation and professional development session. The four universities’ program directors also oughly with the school district is a step beyond that. And BlackRock (ret’d) FRANK LORENZO As scholarly publication evolves, traditional academic work finds new elec- met as a group in summer 2011 to set common expec- to be developing this network of teachers—many of the WALTER W. BUCKLEY, JR., CHAIR-ELECT Savoy Capital, Inc. tronic venues. At the same time, Fellows increasingly take their scholar- tations—across campuses—for each mentor’s work Fellows are going to be teaching side-by-side with their Buckley Muething Capital Management NANCY WEISS MALKIEL WF ’65 ship to broader audiences online. This issue of Fellowship looks at some of with Fellows at specific points in the school year. More- mentors after they’re certified—creates a critical mass GEORGE CAMPBELL, JR. Princeton University the “digital intellectuals” among the Foundation’s 20,000 Fellows. We pro- over, Fellows from all four universities participated in a of strong teachers who can learn from each other in an The Cooper Union for the KAREN OSBORNE file in-depth two Fellows who continue to publish well-received, thought- Detroit orientation in July 2011, then joined the men- ongoing way. In two decades of working with teacher Advancement of Science & Art The Osborne Group ful books, and have also created significant online presences. They are tors in August for a workshop to open a dialogue and preparation, this is one of the most promising ap- From left: Fellows Matt Sheick and CHRISTEL DEHAAN Jenna Bourdeau talk with Wanda Bright MATTHEW PITTINSKY changing the way a wider readership views the world. discuss expectations before school started. The men- proaches I have ever seen.” Christel House International Parchment, Inc. of Henry Ford High School about This issue also features other Fellows who are changing worlds and lives. tors will continue to meet throughout the year, building It is also, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation hopes, a mentoring and professional development. JANE PHILLIPS DONALDSON JUDITH A. RIZZO More than 600 Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows across three states their capacity to work with new teacher candidates. model that can be used to strengthen teaching in districts Photo: Woodrow Wilson Foundation Phillips Oppenheim The James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for are now teaching or preparing to teach; we look at some of their ac- They also will convene again with the Fellows several nationwide, particularly in distressed areas that have dif- JENNIFER GRUENBERG Educational Leadership and Policy complishments. We also explore the work of a WW Career Enhancement times during the year, learning from progress made ficulty attracting and retaining strong teachers. “Districts Marx Realty & Improvement Co. (ret’d) MYRON S. SCHOLES Fellow whose passion for art and activism not only shapes her own re- across the program. “We are keeping mentor develop- stand to benefit from taking steps like these,” says Ms. N. GERRY HOUSE Stanford University Graduate School search, but also gives others hope. ment and effectiveness at the heart of the Fellows’ Meriweather. “I’m not interested in replicating medioc- The Institute for Student Achievement of Business school-based experience,” Ms. Watson says. rity. Instead, we are creating teachers who will have seen Many more of you among the Foundation’s Fellows and friends are cre- THOMAS C. HUDNUT JEFFREY L. SKELTON effective teaching in an urban setting, and [as Fellows] Harvard-Westlake School Resultant Capital ating change, online and offline, in ways large and small. We’re eager to The DPS mentors are embracing the opportunity. As a they will be here for three years, so we’re not putting all know about it, and to let others know about it. You can find the Founda- new teacher, says Craig McKee of Marcus Garvey Acad- JOHN KATZMAN MARVIN J. SUOMI this effort and time into folks who are going to leave us. 2tor, Inc. KUD International LLC tion now on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (see back page). You can also emy, “I had to learn a lot from just bumping my head… If send email to [email protected], or write us with pen and I could help [new teachers] transition into the classroom “This is an opportunity to be innovative, to do some- SHIRLEY STRUM KENNY WF ’56 LUTHER TAI more easily, that’s what I’ll do.” He also sees the Fellows, Stony Brook University, State Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. ink—long live the old school—at the masthead address. In any medium, thing new. If it goes well, it can become a standard we love to hear from you. many of them career changers, as classroom resources. part of teacher preparation. That’s very exciting.” University of New York JAY P. URWITZ “I’m going to help them take some of what they learned CARL F. KOHRT WF ’65 WilmerHale

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s the 2009 Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching a project on aquatic invasive species, which was se- SECOND TEACHING FELLOWS’ CONVENING AFellows wrapped up their first year of teaching lected for presentation from among 40 submissions. this summer, three received local and national honors. In the project, Ms. Miracle’s ninth-grade classes reating classrooms that support, engage, and Candice Kissinger WWTF ’10, just beginning her first conducted research on local aquatic invaders (such Cchallenge learners—that was the focus of the year of teaching at a high-need rural school this fall, as zebra mussels), as well as on how to design in- second annual convening of Woodrow Wilson Teaching enjoyed interacting with educators who have already teractive lessons, and then created educational sta- Fellows, held in Indianapolis on July 15. Fellows from the experienced what she is about to go through. “The tions for the seventh graders. Both grades created 2009 and 2010 cohorts, the first two in Indiana, joined chance to talk to people who have been through their informative materials for local marinas to distrib- faculty and staff from the partner universities—Ball first year is really, really valuable,” she says. “The fa- ute, and also critiqued each other’s work. The sub- State, IUPUI, Purdue, and the University of Indianapo- cilitators today had excellent things to share. They ject areas covered included environmental science lis—for networking and problem-solving activities. Var- didn’t bring in lightweights to do this; they brought in as well as geography. ious speakers shared motivational and personal stories people who had experience.” about their classroom experiences, and Fellows took Ms. Kissinger, a veteran industrial researcher with Photo: Courtesy of Discovery “The ninth graders were really excited,” Ms. Mir- part in workshops on building relationships to support Education/Siemens STEM Academy. more than 30 years’ experience, emphasized the im- acle reports. “I saw them take a lot of ownership in learning, designing rigorous STEM learning experiences, their work that they hadn’t taken before. They portance of events like the convening for new teach- n David Johnson WWTF ’09, a pre-algebra teacher and teaching for mastery. Education professionals from were excited to share what they know, and some ers. “We’re not experts yet, especially those from my at Lynhurst 7th and 8th Grade Center in Indi- New York City, Detroit, and Indianapolis led sessions. of them learned how to use their time better. It group, [so] don’t get cocky, you know? Nothing worse anapolis, was selected for the weeklong Siemens was also good for the school community—there “I think the classes we have and workshops like this do a than hubris to knock you down. Stay humble, keep in STEM Academy, held in Washington, D.C. in early were actual friendships formed between the sev- pretty good job of preparing you for what schools’ [human mind that you don’t even know a tenth of it yet. August. The institute admitted just 50 of the 4,000 enth and ninth graders.” resources] departments and the principals are looking for,” You’re about ready to jump into the abyss. You need middle- and high-school science teachers who ap- says Todd Oneacre WWTF ’09 . “I was part of the first co- all the help you can get, so this is a parachute. I really plied to the program, which focused on bringing Not only will the project be repeated this year, it hort, so it’s neat to see [the Foundation] trying to improve appreciate this kind of get together. We always learn technology into math and science curricula. will be expanded to include land-based invasive the program, make it a little better year after year.” something from each other.” species, and the cross-grade approach will be used “It was a whirlwind,” Mr. Johnson says. “We were in other subjects. “It opened some doors here,” on the go from 7:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. every day. says Ms. Miracle, who will present the project again And it was amazing how cutting-edge the informa- at the national conference of the National Science tion was.” Among other activities, participants met Public Television Showcases Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows Teachers Association in spring 2012. with Carl Wieman, Nobel Laureate in Physics and For nearly two years, cameras from WFYI— Indi- n Hwa Tsu WWTF ’09 White House science education advisor; got a be- anapolis’ Emmy Award-winning public television was recognized as hind-the-scenes tour at the Smithsonian Institution; station—followed the first-ever class of Woodrow North Central High visited Discovery Education’s headquarters; and Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows as they prepared School’s 2010-2011 talked with Geoff Colvin, author of Talent Is Over- to teach math and science in high-need urban and First-Year Teacher of rated, who argues that motivation matters more rural high schools. The result: The Game Changers, the Year. “I know than innate ability. “That’s empowering for students a new hourlong documentary from WFYI. who have a preconceived idea about what they can there are so many accomplish, who feel like they can only reach a cer- things I could have From the moments when Fellows pack up their old of- tain level,” Mr. Johnson comments. “It really touched done better, but it’s fices or graduate from college to their first days teach- me; I could see my students in that approach, and nice to be recog- ing in classrooms of their own, The Game Changers how my mindset affects them.” nized,” says Mr. Tsu, explores the challenges, joys, and disappointments that who teaches physics Photo: Courtesy of the come with classroom teaching. In the documentary, Mr. Johnson was excited by the Academy’s ongoing at the Washington University of Indianapolis. leaders such as President Barack Obama and Indiana opportunities. “To go from being a mortgage bro- Township (IN) school. Before entering teaching, Mr. Governor Mitch Daniels call for a new corps of out- ker and math tutor in 2009 to sitting there with in- Tsu did doctoral work in biomedical engineering at standing teachers, particularly in math and science, to dividuals working on doctorates in educational Tim Devlin WWTF ’09 works with a student in a Purdue University. Interviewed for a July 2011 Ed- maintain national competitiveness in industry and tech- scene from The Game Changers. Photo: WFYI technology and be able to make some valuable ucation Week article on the Woodrow Wilson nology and to provide the neediest children with the contributions, to bring some cultural awareness— education they deserve. Meanwhile, the Fellows—a Teaching Fellowship, Mr. Tsu reflected on his Fel- screening for Fellows and friends; it aired for the the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and the Univer- former chief financial officer, an engineer, a stay-at- lowship: “The part that prepared me the most was first time later that week, and continues to run on sity of Indianapolis prepared me for all that.” home mom, a college valedictorian, and others, all with just the actual experience of being in the classroom affiliated public television stations around Indiana. strong math and science backgrounds—discover for n The National Council for Geography Education chose and being mentored by classroom teachers. I have The Woodrow Wilson Foundation is working with themselves what it means to work daily in the class- Amanda Miracle WWTF ’09, who teaches science seen how the classroom gets set up, how they deal WFYI to explore possibilities for distribution to room with the young people who need them most. at the Hammond Science and Technology Academy in with establishing culture, establishing expectations, other public television stations around the country rather than student-teaching, where I drop in for Hammond, Indiana, as a co-presenter for its annual Funded by the Lilly Endowment, The Game Chang- this fall. Several one- to three-minute clips are avail- six weeks and then I drop out.” Photo: D. Todd Moore/ national conference. Ms. Miracle and staff from the Illi- ers premiered in Indianapolis with a special June 13 able online at www.woodrow.org/gamechangers. University of Indianapolis nois-Indiana Sea Grant program had jointly developed

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4 FALL 2011 FELLOWSHIP 5 FELLOWSHIP DIGITAL INTELLECTUALS THE ARTS—WEAPON OF CHANGE, TOOL OF A WORLD OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE HEALING FOR SALAMISHAH TILLET Analyzing the positive and negative results of technology, innovation

paigns, and policies to end it.” Through the s a safety pin really safe? Why do we use so much award to complete his research, which more recently “ he arts can give you a sense both of how the Girl/Friends Leadership Institute, A Long Walk Home Ipaper in a supposedly “paperless” environment? has expanded to include topics like the safety pin. Tworld is and how the world was,” says is both working with the high school students to ad- Could the smartphone in your pocket, which contains Based on his research into the history of safety pins, Salamishah Tillet MN ’99, CEF ’10 . “Even though it’s dress gender violence and training the girls to continue some of your most personal information, betray you? the medical literature about swallowing safety pins, not history, per se, a lot of the work that I do deals their work through college. Throughout his career, technological and cultural histo- and the specialized instruments that were developed with the past, and the arts can give us a sense of the rian Edward Tenner WF ’65 has focused on such ques- to extract safety pins from the windpipes of small chil- past. Through the arts, we can time-travel to places As a result of her 2010 Career Enhancement Fellow- tions about unintended consequences of technology. dren, Dr. Tenner concluded that the safety pin was ac- and people and worlds that we weren’t a part of. As ship from the Foundation, Dr. Tillet was able to finish tually one of the most dangerous household objects. an academic and as a teacher, I think the arts give us a her debut book, Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial While observing the results of computerization as a way of imagining beyond what our minds can do. They Democracy in Post-Civil Rights America, this year. Slated science editor at Princeton University Press, Dr. Ten- The book that the award made possible, Why Things Bite give us a sense of the future, but also an alternative for release in July 2012 with Duke University Press, ner began to form an interest in unintended conse- Back (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), led to a speaking tour in the world in the present.” Sites of Slavery will “examine how post-civil rights quences. In the 1980s, an early user of a PC, email, United States and Germany and a media tour in England. African American artists, writers, and intellectuals re- and the Internet, he began to research and write on On a subsequent lecture tour, Dr. Tenner worked in a fur- An activist, writer, and assistant professor of English imagine slavery both as a metaphor for post civil rights the history of technology. niture history museum archive with the most important and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylva- citizenship and as a model for racial democracy, in set of papers on the history of the reclining chair. These nia, Dr. Tillet incorporates the arts into almost every- “I had the idea in the late 1980s,” he says, “that no- their art and in their rhetoric.” enriched a chapter on reclining chairs in his next book, thing she does: her scholarship on the poetics and body had written on paradoxes that I was seeing Our Own Devices (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003). (Given the im- politics of the civil rights movement, her exploration around me”—the seeming paradox, for instance, of Photo: Courtesy of Salamishah Tillet portance of recliners in American cultural history, Dr. Ten- of musical responses to the upheavals of that era, the increase in paper usage with the installation of ner is surprised serious studies have been so rare.) The and—perhaps most personally—her work toward more computers and the discussion of a paperless of- book also examines other inventions that shape and are ending sexual violence. fice. In a Harvard Magazine essay called “The para- shaped by relationships between technology and the Photo: Jerry Bauer doxical proliferation of paper,” Dr. Tenner examined, In the late 1990s, Dr. Tillet and her sister Scheherazade body, from bottle-feeding to keyboards to helmets. for the first time, the reasons for this phenomenon. used the visual and performing arts to create Story of a “When you look at [those reasons] retrospectively, The purpose of his books, Dr. Tenner says, is to help Rape Survivor (SOARS), a multimedia performance fo- yes, it all makes sense,” he says, but it was a challenge stretch people’s imaginations by giving them examples cused intimately on Dr. Tillet’s own healing and recov- to untangle them and to look at the interaction be- and analyses of unexpected positive or negative scenar- ery as a survivor. They took the SOARS performance tween human behavior and new technology.” ios from history that they can draw on when analyzing around the country to various colleges, universities, the risks of newly developed technology. In the years and community centers, “sharing the story of using the Having begun to explore this subject, Dr. Tenner soon since Our Own Devices came out, one technological de- arts and activism as a weapon of change and a tool of Photo: Courtesy of Salamishah Tillet envisioned a larger project that would systematically velopment stands out to Dr. Tenner—the smartphone. healing,” says Dr. Tillet. In 2003, they founded A Long examine the reasons for the paradoxes and negative “Smartphones are capable of doing so many things— Walk Home, a nonprofit organization that uses art results of technology. He received a Guggenheim Also a cultural blogger for TheRoot.com, Dr. Tillet is Continued on page 9 therapy and the visual and performing arts to end vio- currently working on two other projects: a co-edited lence against girls and women. book on musical responses to the deaths of 1960s civil The two sisters soon noticed that their events at- rights leaders and a new book of her own on Nina Si- A number of Fellows are active in of contemporary philosophers on issues,” on member of the first class of Fellows, Mr. Manring tracted both women of color and men — two groups mone, the civil rights icon and musician. “This comes the blogosphere. A few of note are: which other Fellows also appear occasionally. has been chronicling his journey and experience. highly underrepresented in the larger movement to out of my desire to go back to the period of the Civil Gary Becker WF ’51 Brian Leiter CN ’92 Paul R. Pillar WF ’69 H end sexual violence. “We also realized,” says Dr. Tillet, Rights movement and look at how black radical Becker-Posner Blog: One of the blogosphere’s early and prolific aca- The National Interest “that teenage girls are the population most vulnera- thought and African American artists, like Nina Si- http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/ demics, law professor and philosopher Brian http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar ble to sexual violence, and they’re the ones with the mone, were using both their poetics and their politics Economist Gary Becker and American jurist Leiter maintains several blogs and websites. Visit Paul R. Pillar is a contributing editor to The Na- fewest resources.” to change the world,” Dr. Tillet says. and legal theorist Richard Posner explore cur- http://leiterreports.typepad.com/ to learn more. tional Interest where he writes a daily blog an- rent issues in economics, law and policy. alyzing current U.S. politics. To address this issue, the Tillet sisters created As she interweaves her research with the arts, Dr. Ina Lipkowitz CN ’88 Girl/Friends Leadership Institute in Chicago. “It’s been Tillet says it’s the “tangible feeling of pleasure” in the Alice Dreger CN ’94 (See profile on p. 8.) “Words to Eat By” – Psychology Today Edward Tenner WF ’65 amazing working with the young women, just to see arts that keeps her going. “There’s a way in which Visit http://www.alicedreger.com/blogs.html to http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/words-eat The Atlantic access Alice Dreger’s blogs, including “Fetishes them take on this issue,” says Dr. Tillet. “Some of artists—who are not always dealing in the real, but in Ina Lipkowitz analyzes the connection be- http://www.theatlantic.com/edward-tenner I Don’t Get” (Psychology Today); “One Foot In: tween language and food. Edward Tenner (see profile above), a historian of them are survivors, and some of them belong to fam- the realm of the imagination—allow us as audience members or as readers to just travel with them. I think, Thoughts on Academia”; “Sex Research Hon- technology and culture, blogs for The Atlantic. Artwork from Dr. Tillet’s forthcoming ilies of survivors, but the various forms of violence eypot”; posts on the Bioethics Forum; and Keith Manring WWTF ’09 as a writer, as a teacher, and as an activist, there’s so book Sites of Slavery. they see or experience are so much a part of their re- other writing. “Emerging Species” To learn more, visit Photo: Chester Higgins ality that they really want to figure out tools, cam- much potential and power in the artistic realm.” http://emspecies.wordpress.com/ www.woodrow.org/newsletters. Gary Gutting WF ’64 H Formerly an IndyStar journalist, Keith Manring left Do you have a blog you’d like Fellowship to know Gary Gutting blogs frequently for “The Stone,” the profession to become a teacher through the about? Email us at [email protected]. a NYTimes.com blog that “features the writing Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship. A

6 FALL 2011 FELLOWSHIP 7 FELLOWSHIP DIGITAL INTELLECTUALS THE ARTS—WEAPON OF CHANGE, TOOL OF A WORLD OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE HEALING FOR SALAMISHAH TILLET Analyzing the positive and negative results of technology, innovation

6 FALL 2011 FELLOWSHIP 7 FELLOWSHIP DIGITAL INTELLECTUALS ALICE DREGER: AT THE INTERSECTIONS A WORLD OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE Continued from page 7 do. “The inventor of the Michelin steel-belted radial tire lice Dreger CN ’94 works at intersections—the in- moment to educate. I put a media advisory up on my own taking pictures, recording video, and even banking. actually came from the company’s graphic arts shop,” Atersection of medicine and ethics, of research and website that went through the same questions reporters They’ve become navigation devices and teaching ma- Dr. Tenner explains. “They transferred him to R&D be- activism, of traditional academic work and publications for were asking me. I just wanted to get some of them not to chines. So many of the things that people developed mas- cause of his creative approach to problems, and he the general public. And she works with people whose say ‘she has two sets of genitals,’ not to say ‘you’re a man sive, specialized computers for in the late 20th century came up with the geometry of the steel-belted radial anatomy falls between classical categories, and who find if you have a Y chromosome.’ I was stunned when some- now are all being packed into these portable devices.” tire. Their most important product came from some- themselves carving out identities in those intersections. body wrote to me and said, ‘I read your quote in USA And the unintended consequences of smartphones? As body who would have been disqualified by a résumé Today,’ and I thought ‘I didn’t talk to USA Today this week.’ While her work encompasses the experience of individ- users pour more and more of their personal information screening program for having the job that he did.” It was a quote from the media advisory. And so a few mil- into them, Dr. Tenner wonders about what will happen uals with a range of birth anomalies—conjoined twinning In recent years, Dr. Tenner has taken his work into the lion people got the story a little closer to right.” when people lose these devices, and about growing ap- and dwarfism, for example—she is particularly known for blogosphere. Having previously written for The Atlantic, prehension concerning the risks of hacking. “So this little her work with those who are intersex. As defined by the As much as Dr. Dreger is in the public eye, “there’s a lot he was invited to provide outside commentary for the miracle in your pocket also has a demonic side,” Dr. Ten- Intersex Society of North America, intersex is “a general of stuff that people never see that I do,” she says, such as magazine’s website. Since 2009, his blog posts have ad- ner says. “It might very well betray you.” term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is consultancy work with doctors and scientists and help- dressed a wide variety of subjects, including current po- born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t ing individuals with birth anomalies that reach out to her. Now a visiting scholar in the Rutgers University School litical issues, the ongoing debate over replacing cursive seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.” “Every day I get emails from people seeking help with Photo: Stephen Anzaldi/Northwestern of Communication and Information, an affiliate of handwriting skills with keyboarding in schools, and an some issue. Sometimes I can just send them to other University Relations Now professor of clinical medical humanities and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and a article on the unintended consequences of chess soft- websites and groups. But a few times a year I’ll run into bioethics in Northwestern University’s Feinberg School TED conference speaker earlier this year, Dr. Tenner is ware, called “Rook Dreams,” discussing the impact of somebody who really needs personal service, for whom of Medicine, Dr. Dreger first became interested in inter- at work on a new book about positive unintended con- chess computers on the game of chess. His blog can be it’s not enough to say ‘you need to join this support sex and other birth anomalies while researching her dis- sequences of negative events. Many of the people Dr. found at http://www.theatlantic.com/edward-tenner . group’—someone who really needs to sertation, Hermaphrodites and the Tenner is studying for his new book did work they had- figure out what it says in their medical Read more about Edward Tenner at Medical Invention of Sex (Harvard Uni- n’t expected to do, and perhaps weren’t qualified to charts from the 1960s and 1970s. They www.woodrow.org/newsletters. versity Press, 1998), which examines have a Xerox copy of a Xerox copy and how doctors and scientists treated in- the handwriting’s unclear and the terms tersex people in the late 19th and early are unfamiliar. I’ll sit down with them Dan Dennett WF ’63 H of the Khmer Rouge. He recounts his mother’s 20th centuries and how they are WW TEDTalks and say, ‘Let’s figure this out.’ And I’ll In addition to Alice Dreger and Edward Tenner, Cute, sexy, sweet and funny — an evolutionary riddle cunning and determination to save her children. treated in present-day medicine. Read- call a bunch of docs and they’ll help me several Woodrow Wilson Fellows have partici- http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/485 Doris Kearns Goodwin WF ’64 ing case studies, getting to know people pated in TEDTalks. Visit www.woodrow.org/ Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? out.” She has written about helping in- Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis with various birth anomalies, and hear- newsletters for more information. Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you dividuals discover surgeries done at http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/363 ing about their medical histories led Dr. wouldn’t expect,. birth to address their intersex, and—in Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can Dreger become to become an activist Alice Dreger CN ’94 (See profile at left.) one particularly poignant essay—about Is anatomy destiny? Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes learn from American presidents. for change in how the current system helping a mother find information on http://www.ted.com/talks/alice_dreger_is_anat http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/116 treats this population. Marc Pachter WF ’64 the stillborn conjoined twins taken omy_destiny.html Starting with the simple tale of an ant, Dan The art of the interview Alice Dreger observes that it’s often a fuzzy line Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, Historical research and contemporary Photo: Harvard University Press from her years before. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/708 between male and female, among other anatom- making a powerful case for the existence of activism, Dr. Dreger says, “come to- Marc Pachter reveals the secret to a great inter- Dr. Dreger is currently finishing her next book—“a mem- ical distinctions. Which brings up a huge question: memes — concepts that are literally alive. gether on issues of evidence. I want to know what’s view and shares extraordinary stories of talking oir of other people’s lives” tentatively titled Galileo’s Mid- Why do we let our anatomy determine our fate? going to help and what’s going to hurt. So I look at the ev- Can we know our own minds? with Steve Martin, Clare Booth Luce and more. dle Finger: Science and Identity Politics in the Internet Age. idence—and sometimes the evidence goes against what Edward Tenner WF ’65 (See profile on page 7.) http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/102 “It’s a first-person account of having worked inside, and Martin Seligman WF ’64 H activists say or want, and I have to disagree with them. Unintended consequences Dan Dennett argues that not only don’t we un- having investigated the history, of scientific controversies. What positive psychology can help you become http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_tenner_un- derstand our own consciousness, but that half Being trained in the history and philosophy of science, http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/312 It’s an attempt to examine where we are now in the intended_consequences.html the time our brains are actively fooling us. I’m still, at the end of the day, a big old science geek, and Martin Seligman talks about psychology—as a world in terms of how scientists and doctors interact with Every new invention changes the world — in ways I really want to know: What does the evidence show?” A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren field of study and as it works one-on-one with activists. Since I’ve been on both sides and have been sym- both intentional and unexpected. Historian Ed- http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/94 each patient and each practitioner. As it moves Her commitment to change and mass education has pathetic to both, I feel well-positioned to care about them ward Tenner tells stories that illustrate the under- Dan Dennett calls for all religion to be taught in beyond a focus on disease, what can modern both and to try to come up with solutions to the way that appreciated gap between our ability to innovate made Dr. Dreger a significant presence in the media schools, so we can understand its nature as a psychology help us to become? and our ability to foresee the consequences. and online. “I always wanted to write in mainstream we deal with issues of human identity. A lot of the book natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The James Surowiecki MN ’88 venues,” she says, “but it’s also clear that the Web is is about trying to live the life of a historian but still remain Liz Coleman WF ’58 Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to The moment when social media became the news a place where you can directly access people’s minds very much engaged with our changing world.” Liz Coleman’s call to reinvent liberal arts education be moral, one must deny evolution. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/390 and work for change.” She cites the case of Caster Se- http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/558 Visit Dr. Dreger’s website at www.alicedreger.com to read Sophal Ear PP ’94 James Surowiecki pinpoints the 2005 tsunami menya, a South African runner whose sex was called Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a her blogs—“Fetishes I Don’t Get” (Psychology Today); Escaping the Khmer Rouge as the moment when social media became an into question by sports officials, as an example. call-to-arms for radical reform in higher educa- “One Foot In: Thoughts on Academia”; “Sex Research http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/592 equal player in the world of news-gathering. tion, proposing a truly cross-disciplinary educa- Sophal Ear shares the compelling story of his “I dropped everything and made sure that I used that for Honeypot”—posts on the Bioethics Forum and more. tion—one that dynamically combines all areas of a moment of international sex education,” says Dr. family’s escape from Cambodia under the rule Read more about Alice Dreger at study to address the great problems of our day. Dreger. “For the first time, the whole world was ready to www.woodrow.org/newsletters. talk about sex anomalies, and I thought: here’s a perfect 8 FALL 2011 FELLOWSHIP 9 FELLOWSHIP DIGITAL INTELLECTUALS ALICE DREGER: AT THE INTERSECTIONS A WORLD OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE Continued from page 7 do. “The inventor of the Michelin steel-belted radial tire lice Dreger CN ’94 works at intersections—the in- moment to educate. I put a media advisory up on my own taking pictures, recording video, and even banking. actually came from the company’s graphic arts shop,” Atersection of medicine and ethics, of research and website that went through the same questions reporters They’ve become navigation devices and teaching ma- Dr. Tenner explains. “They transferred him to R&D be- activism, of traditional academic work and publications for were asking me. I just wanted to get some of them not to chines. So many of the things that people developed mas- cause of his creative approach to problems, and he the general public. And she works with people whose say ‘she has two sets of genitals,’ not to say ‘you’re a man sive, specialized computers for in the late 20th century came up with the geometry of the steel-belted radial anatomy falls between classical categories, and who find if you have a Y chromosome.’ I was stunned when some- now are all being packed into these portable devices.” tire. Their most important product came from some- themselves carving out identities in those intersections. body wrote to me and said, ‘I read your quote in USA And the unintended consequences of smartphones? As body who would have been disqualified by a résumé Today,’ and I thought ‘I didn’t talk to USA Today this week.’ While her work encompasses the experience of individ- users pour more and more of their personal information screening program for having the job that he did.” It was a quote from the media advisory. And so a few mil- into them, Dr. Tenner wonders about what will happen uals with a range of birth anomalies—conjoined twinning In recent years, Dr. Tenner has taken his work into the lion people got the story a little closer to right.” when people lose these devices, and about growing ap- and dwarfism, for example—she is particularly known for blogosphere. Having previously written for The Atlantic, prehension concerning the risks of hacking. “So this little her work with those who are intersex. As defined by the As much as Dr. Dreger is in the public eye, “there’s a lot he was invited to provide outside commentary for the miracle in your pocket also has a demonic side,” Dr. Ten- Intersex Society of North America, intersex is “a general of stuff that people never see that I do,” she says, such as magazine’s website. Since 2009, his blog posts have ad- ner says. “It might very well betray you.” term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is consultancy work with doctors and scientists and help- dressed a wide variety of subjects, including current po- born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t ing individuals with birth anomalies that reach out to her. Now a visiting scholar in the Rutgers University School litical issues, the ongoing debate over replacing cursive seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.” “Every day I get emails from people seeking help with Photo: Stephen Anzaldi/Northwestern of Communication and Information, an affiliate of handwriting skills with keyboarding in schools, and an some issue. Sometimes I can just send them to other University Relations Now professor of clinical medical humanities and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and a article on the unintended consequences of chess soft- websites and groups. But a few times a year I’ll run into bioethics in Northwestern University’s Feinberg School TED conference speaker earlier this year, Dr. Tenner is ware, called “Rook Dreams,” discussing the impact of somebody who really needs personal service, for whom of Medicine, Dr. Dreger first became interested in inter- at work on a new book about positive unintended con- chess computers on the game of chess. His blog can be it’s not enough to say ‘you need to join this support sex and other birth anomalies while researching her dis- sequences of negative events. Many of the people Dr. found at http://www.theatlantic.com/edward-tenner . group’—someone who really needs to sertation, Hermaphrodites and the Tenner is studying for his new book did work they had- figure out what it says in their medical Read more about Edward Tenner at Medical Invention of Sex (Harvard Uni- n’t expected to do, and perhaps weren’t qualified to charts from the 1960s and 1970s. They www.woodrow.org/newsletters. versity Press, 1998), which examines have a Xerox copy of a Xerox copy and how doctors and scientists treated in- the handwriting’s unclear and the terms tersex people in the late 19th and early are unfamiliar. I’ll sit down with them Dan Dennett WF ’63 H of the Khmer Rouge. He recounts his mother’s 20th centuries and how they are WW TEDTalks and say, ‘Let’s figure this out.’ And I’ll In addition to Alice Dreger and Edward Tenner, Cute, sexy, sweet and funny — an evolutionary riddle cunning and determination to save her children. treated in present-day medicine. Read- call a bunch of docs and they’ll help me several Woodrow Wilson Fellows have partici- http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/485 Doris Kearns Goodwin WF ’64 ing case studies, getting to know people pated in TEDTalks. Visit www.woodrow.org/ Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? out.” She has written about helping in- Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis with various birth anomalies, and hear- newsletters for more information. Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you dividuals discover surgeries done at http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/363 ing about their medical histories led Dr. wouldn’t expect,. birth to address their intersex, and—in Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can Dreger become to become an activist Alice Dreger CN ’94 (See profile at left.) one particularly poignant essay—about Is anatomy destiny? Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes learn from American presidents. for change in how the current system helping a mother find information on http://www.ted.com/talks/alice_dreger_is_anat http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/116 treats this population. Marc Pachter WF ’64 the stillborn conjoined twins taken omy_destiny.html Starting with the simple tale of an ant, Dan The art of the interview Alice Dreger observes that it’s often a fuzzy line Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, Historical research and contemporary Photo: Harvard University Press from her years before. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/708 between male and female, among other anatom- making a powerful case for the existence of activism, Dr. Dreger says, “come to- Marc Pachter reveals the secret to a great inter- Dr. Dreger is currently finishing her next book—“a mem- ical distinctions. Which brings up a huge question: memes — concepts that are literally alive. gether on issues of evidence. I want to know what’s view and shares extraordinary stories of talking oir of other people’s lives” tentatively titled Galileo’s Mid- Why do we let our anatomy determine our fate? going to help and what’s going to hurt. So I look at the ev- Can we know our own minds? with Steve Martin, Clare Booth Luce and more. dle Finger: Science and Identity Politics in the Internet Age. idence—and sometimes the evidence goes against what Edward Tenner WF ’65 (See profile on page 7.) http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/102 “It’s a first-person account of having worked inside, and Martin Seligman WF ’64 H activists say or want, and I have to disagree with them. Unintended consequences Dan Dennett argues that not only don’t we un- having investigated the history, of scientific controversies. What positive psychology can help you become http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_tenner_un- derstand our own consciousness, but that half Being trained in the history and philosophy of science, http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/312 It’s an attempt to examine where we are now in the intended_consequences.html the time our brains are actively fooling us. I’m still, at the end of the day, a big old science geek, and Martin Seligman talks about psychology—as a world in terms of how scientists and doctors interact with Every new invention changes the world — in ways I really want to know: What does the evidence show?” A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren field of study and as it works one-on-one with activists. Since I’ve been on both sides and have been sym- both intentional and unexpected. Historian Ed- http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/94 each patient and each practitioner. As it moves Her commitment to change and mass education has pathetic to both, I feel well-positioned to care about them ward Tenner tells stories that illustrate the under- Dan Dennett calls for all religion to be taught in beyond a focus on disease, what can modern both and to try to come up with solutions to the way that appreciated gap between our ability to innovate made Dr. Dreger a significant presence in the media schools, so we can understand its nature as a psychology help us to become? and our ability to foresee the consequences. and online. “I always wanted to write in mainstream we deal with issues of human identity. A lot of the book natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The James Surowiecki MN ’88 venues,” she says, “but it’s also clear that the Web is is about trying to live the life of a historian but still remain Liz Coleman WF ’58 Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to The moment when social media became the news a place where you can directly access people’s minds very much engaged with our changing world.” Liz Coleman’s call to reinvent liberal arts education be moral, one must deny evolution. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/390 and work for change.” She cites the case of Caster Se- http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/558 Visit Dr. Dreger’s website at www.alicedreger.com to read Sophal Ear PP ’94 James Surowiecki pinpoints the 2005 tsunami menya, a South African runner whose sex was called Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a her blogs—“Fetishes I Don’t Get” (Psychology Today); Escaping the Khmer Rouge as the moment when social media became an into question by sports officials, as an example. call-to-arms for radical reform in higher educa- “One Foot In: Thoughts on Academia”; “Sex Research http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/592 equal player in the world of news-gathering. tion, proposing a truly cross-disciplinary educa- Sophal Ear shares the compelling story of his “I dropped everything and made sure that I used that for Honeypot”—posts on the Bioethics Forum and more. tion—one that dynamically combines all areas of a moment of international sex education,” says Dr. family’s escape from Cambodia under the rule Read more about Alice Dreger at study to address the great problems of our day. Dreger. “For the first time, the whole world was ready to www.woodrow.org/newsletters. talk about sex anomalies, and I thought: here’s a perfect 8 FALL 2011 FELLOWSHIP 9 FELLOWSHIP

BOOK SPOTLIGHT: THE LIVES OF WOMEN JOINING THE RESISTANCE Carol Gilligan WF ’58 1950s through the 1970s and ’80s as a period of mis- SEPARATED BY THEIR SEX: In 1982, Carol Gilligan published In a Different Voice: reading Austen. In subsequent years, changing cultural Women in Public and Private in the Psychological Theory and Women‘s Development, a views led to “the sexing up and sending up of Jane groundbreaking book about women’s psychological Colonial Atlantic World Austen in cultural history.” Dr. Brownstein also looks and moral development. Called by Harvard Univer- Mary Beth Norton WF ’64 at biographical scholarship on Austen, from explo- sity Press “the little book that started a revolution,” Mary Beth Norton’s latest book could be considered rations of Austen’s local and intellectual circle to stud- it is considered one of the most widely read and in- the fourth volume of a genealogy of gender in early ies that extend “Austen’s physical neighborhood to fluential contemporary books on gender and human American history, falling historically between her book include other writers, some of whom she was aware development. Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the of and others she could not have known about, and Forming of American Society, which covered the settle- the accepted ideas of what it meant then (and means Having studied initially with Lawrence Kohlberg, Dr. ment period to approximately 1670, and her first now) for a person to read and write and publish sto- Gilligan famously articulated her own model of moral book, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience ries about personal relationships.” development, arguing that Kohlberg’s developmental of American Women, 1700-1800. stages did not take into account differences of gender. Professor of English at Brooklyn College and the Instead, she proposed, men and women determine Described by Dr. Norton as a prequel to her first book, CUNY Graduate Center, Dr. Brownstein is the author moral and ethical decisions differently: While Separated by Their Sex takes into account certain influ- of two critically acclaimed books, Becoming a Heroine: men make decisions in terms of justice, focusing on ences the author initially did not consider in Liberty’s Reading About Women in Novels and Tragic Muse: individual rights, women make moral and ethical de- Daughters—particularly transatlantic influence on early Rachel of the Comédie-Française. cisions based on “care”—on how one takes care of American culture. “In the 1970s, early American histo- self and others. rians like myself tended to examine the colonies more A STRANGE STIRRING: “I did not anticipate that by following in [Lawrence in isolation than we do now,” she explains. “My research The Feminine Mystique and American for [Separated by Their Sex]…has revealed how much Kohlberg’s and Erik Erikson’s] footsteps (as they had published material in eighteenth-century America orig- Women at the Dawn of the 1960s followed Freud and Piaget), I would find myself in for- inated in the home country. Even Stephanie Coontz WF ’66 bidden territory,” Dr. Gilligan recalls in Joining the Re- when essays were not reprinted Betty Friedan’s 1963 bestseller, The sistance. “It was one thing to bring men’s lives into from English sources, colonial au- Feminine Mystique, elicits extreme history and generalize from men’s experience. To do thors attempted to imitate English reactions, notes Stephanie Coontz. so with women broke a silence.” models, in both form and con- It has been both praised and blamed “My research began with questions about voice,” she tent…Separated by Their Sex fo- “for destroying single-handedly, and writes. “Who is speaking, and to whom? In what body? cuses on changing ideas, primarily as almost overnight, the 1950s consen- Telling what stories about relationships? In what societal related to developing gendered def- sus that women’s place was in the and cultural frameworks? My ear had been caught by two initions of public (male) and private home.” In A Strange Stirring, Ms. things: a silence among men, and an absence of reso- (female).” Coontz does not weigh in on the de- nance when women said what they were really thinking bate but instead delivers a biogra- Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon and feeling. By inquiring into what men were not saying phy—of the book itself and of the Alger Professor of History at Cor- and by providing some resonance for women, I heard a women most affected by it at the nell University. Her work on gen- voice that had been held in silence. It was like shifting the time of its publication. der in early American history also frequency and suddenly hearing a station that had been includes In the Devil’s Snare: The “I wanted to tell the story of the gen- jammed. I wrote In a Different Voice to make sense of a Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. eration of women who responded dissonance between women’s voices and the voice of most fervently to what Friedan had prevailing psychological theories. In the process I realized the extent to which we, meaning both men and WHY JANE AUSTEN? to say—a group of women whose experiences and emo- women, had been telling false stories about ourselves.” Rachel M. Brownstein WF ’58 H tions are poorly understood today, even by their own daughters and granddaughters. Many books and movies In Joining the Resistance, Dr. Gilligan revisits In a Differ- “The book boasts no bright new take on Jane Austen,” made about ‘the greatest generation.’ But the subjects ent Voice forty years later, reflecting on the evolution of admits Rachel Brownstein of her latest work Why Jane of these stories are almost invariably men…What do we her own thinking over time and interweaving her own Austen? “Over the years Jane’s has become an in- know about those men’s wives and daughters?” life experiences with the development of her key ideas. creasingly familiar and finally a bold-face name,” Dr. Brownstein states as she sets out to answer for the Ms. Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Dr. Gilligan is currently University Professor at New surge in “Jane-o-mania” through “experiments and ex- Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Her previ- York University and a Visiting Professor at the Uni- plorations in what might be called—if the term is very ous books include Marriage, a History; The Way We versity of Cambridge. In 1998 she received the Heinz broadly defined—biographical criticism.” Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap; Award in the Human Condition for “courageously and The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with challenging long-held assumptions about human de- Dr. Brownstein’s “essay” moves through her own America’s Changing Families. velopment in a way that has transformed assumptions changing thoughts about Jane Austen. She sees the of what it means to be human.”

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10 FALL 2011 FELLOWSHIP 11 FELLOWSHIP NOTES ON FELLOWS RECENT PUBLICATIONS Mark Auslander CN ’90—The Accidental Slave- Ina Lipkowitz CN ’88—Words to Eat By: Five Foods owner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an Ameri- and the Culinary History of the English Language (St. Thomas J. Sargent WF ’64 H Awarded can Family (University of Georgia Press, 2011) Martin’s Press, 2011) 2011 Nobel in Economics Russell Banks WF ’68—Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel Eric MacGilvray MN ’93—The Invention of Market Macroeconomist Thomas J. Sargent WF'64 H was (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2011) Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2011) awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sci- ences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in October 2011. Rosalind C. Barnett WF ’59 H and Caryl Rivers—The Michael Mandelbaum WF ’68 and Thomas L. Fried- Dr. Sargent shares the prize with Christopher A. Sims Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes man—That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in of Princeton University “for their empirical research About Our Children (Columbia University Press, 2011) the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (Far- rar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.” Currently Roy Blount Jr. WF ’63—Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Busi- of Text (Sarah Crichton Books, 2011) Mark A. Noll WF ’68—Jesus Christ and the Life of the ness at New York University and a Senior Fellow at the Mind (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2011) Hoover Institution, Dr. Sargent is the 14th Woodrow Winnifred Brown-Glaude WS ’01—Higglers in Photo: NYU Stern Wilson Fellow to receive a Nobel Prize. Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica (Vander- Kathy Peiss WS ’78—Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of bilt University Press, 2011) an Extreme Style (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) Silvia Dominguez WS ’02—Getting Ahead: Social Richard Pells WF ’63—Modernist America: Art, Carl J. Strikwerda CN ’81 Named Elizabethtown College President Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks (NYU Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Cul- Press, 2010) ture (Yale University Press, 2011) On August 1, 2011, Carl J. Strikwerda became the fourteenth president of Elizabethtown (PA) College. Formerly dean of the faculty of Nina Eliasoph CN ’90—Making Volunteers: Civic Life Paul R. Pillar WF ’69 H—Intelligence and U.S. For- arts and sciences at the College of William & Mary, Dr. Strikwerda is a after Welfare’s End (Princeton University Press, 2011) eign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform (Columbia University Press, 2011) professor of history specializing in modern European history and the Samuel Fleischacker CN ’87—Divine Teaching and history of globalization. Not only is he the first Newcombe Fellow to the Way of the World: A Defense of Revealed Religion Sophia Rosenfeld MN ’88—Common Sense: A Polit- become a college president, but, in addition, Elizabethtown College (Oxford University Press, 2011) ical History (Harvard University Press, 2011) participates in another program of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foun- dation: The Newcombe Scholarship, which provides financial support Claire Fontijn WS ’92 with Susan Parisi— editors, Irina Carlota Silber CN ’99—Everyday Revolution- for undergraduate studies to women 25 and older. Nicholas Wolter- Fiori Musicali: Liber Amicorum Alexander Silbiger (Har- aries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El storff WF ’53, American philosopher and Noah Porter Emeritus Pro- monie Park Press, 2010) Salvador (Rutgers University Press, 2010) fessor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University, will deliver the Marjorie Garber WF ’66—The Use and Abuse of Lit- Vivasvan Soni AP ’00—Mourning Happiness: Narra- keynote address at the inauguration. Photo: Elizabethtown College erature (Pantheon Books, 2011) tive and the Politics of Modernity (Cornell University Press, 2010) Stephen Greenblatt WF ’64 H—The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W.W. Norton, 2011) Jonathan Steinberg WF ’55—Bismarck: A Life (Ox- AWARDS & HONORS APPOINTMENTS ford University Press, 2011) Jeffrey Hause MN ’84 and Claudia Eisen Murphy— Alexander Edmonds AP ’02 received the 2011 The Very Rev. Dr. Jane Shaw CN ’93 was ap- translators, Disputed Questions on Virtue by Thomas Eric Tagliacozzo MN ’92 and Wen-chin Chang—edi- Diana Forsythe Prize from the Society for the An- pointed the eighth Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Aquinas (Hackett Publishing, 2010) tors, Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Net- thropology of Work (SAW) for his book Pretty Modern: Francisco, CA. She also recently published Octavia, works in Southeast Asia (Duke University Press, 2011) Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. The award cel- Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Craig Koslofsky CN ’93—Evening’s Empire: A His- ebrates the best book or series of publications in the Followers (Yale University Press, 2011). tory of the Night in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Jeremy Wells AP ’00—Romances of the White spirit of Diana Forsythe’s feminist anthropological re- University Press, 2011) Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in In April 2011, Jonathan Sunshine WF ’66 H became a search on work, science, and/or technology, including American Literature, 1880-1936 (Vanderbilt Univer- Senior Fellow in the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center. Charles Landesman WF ’54—Leibniz’s Mill: A Challenge biomedicine. sity Press, 2011). to Materialism (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) Neil Lutsky WF ’70, Kenan Professor of Psychol- OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS ogy at Carleton College, received the American Psy- chological Foundation’s 2011 Charles L. Brewer Cristina Maria Cervone CN ’02 was selected to be Five Fellows Named 2011 Guggenheim Fellows a 2011-12 Radcliffe Fellow by the Radcliffe Institute Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award for Estelle Brenda Freedman WS ’74, Edgar E. Robin- Kevin M. F. Platt MN ’89, Professor of Slavic Lan- for Advanced Study at Harvard University. As a Rad- “exemplary career contributions to the teaching of son Professor in U.S. History, Stanford University: guages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania: cliffe Institute fellow, Cervone will work on her liter- psychology.” The political response to rape in American history. The making of Russian history from Peter the Great ature project, Vernacular Poetics of Metaphor: Middle to Putin. Robert Putnam WF ’63 and co-author David English and the Corporate Subject. Michael Gordin MN ’96, Professor of History, Campbell were awarded the 2011 Woodrow Wil- Princeton University: Scientific babel: communication David Stuart MN ’89, Schele Professor in Over the last thirty years, Bodo Reichenbach WF ’65, son Foundation Award from the American Political and identity in Western chemistry since the fall of Latin. Mesoamerican Art and Writing, University of Texas has been working on translating the works of Bô Yin Râ Science Association for their work American Grace: at Austin: The origins of Maya hieroglyphic writing. Anne Dawson Hedeman GT ’88, Professor of How Religion Divides and Unites Us. The prize is (J.A. Schneiderfranken (1876-1943)—a German painter Art and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois: Vi- awarded annually to the best book from the past and philosopher. Of his forty works, Dr. Reichenbachhas sual translation and the first French humanists. year on government, politics or international affairs. translated and published seventeen titles through The Kober Press, most recently On Prayer (2010). 12 FALL 2011 FELLOWSHIP 13 FELLOWSHIP NOTES ON FELLOWS RECENT PUBLICATIONS Mark Auslander CN ’90—The Accidental Slave- Ina Lipkowitz CN ’88—Words to Eat By: Five Foods owner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an Ameri- and the Culinary History of the English Language (St. Thomas J. Sargent WF ’64 H Awarded can Family (University of Georgia Press, 2011) Martin’s Press, 2011) 2011 Nobel in Economics Russell Banks WF ’68—Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel Eric MacGilvray MN ’93—The Invention of Market Macroeconomist Thomas J. Sargent WF'64 H was (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2011) Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2011) awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sci- ences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in October 2011. Rosalind C. Barnett WF ’59 H and Caryl Rivers—The Michael Mandelbaum WF ’68 and Thomas L. Fried- Dr. Sargent shares the prize with Christopher A. Sims Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes man—That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in of Princeton University “for their empirical research About Our Children (Columbia University Press, 2011) the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (Far- rar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.” Currently Roy Blount Jr. WF ’63—Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Busi- of Text (Sarah Crichton Books, 2011) Mark A. Noll WF ’68—Jesus Christ and the Life of the ness at New York University and a Senior Fellow at the Mind (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2011) Hoover Institution, Dr. Sargent is the 14th Woodrow Winnifred Brown-Glaude WS ’01—Higglers in Photo: NYU Stern Wilson Fellow to receive a Nobel Prize. Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica (Vander- Kathy Peiss WS ’78—Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of bilt University Press, 2011) an Extreme Style (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) Silvia Dominguez WS ’02—Getting Ahead: Social Richard Pells WF ’63—Modernist America: Art, Carl J. Strikwerda CN ’81 Named Elizabethtown College President Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks (NYU Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Cul- Press, 2010) ture (Yale University Press, 2011) On August 1, 2011, Carl J. Strikwerda became the fourteenth president of Elizabethtown (PA) College. Formerly dean of the faculty of Nina Eliasoph CN ’90—Making Volunteers: Civic Life Paul R. Pillar WF ’69 H—Intelligence and U.S. For- arts and sciences at the College of William & Mary, Dr. Strikwerda is a after Welfare’s End (Princeton University Press, 2011) eign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform (Columbia University Press, 2011) professor of history specializing in modern European history and the Samuel Fleischacker CN ’87—Divine Teaching and history of globalization. Not only is he the first Newcombe Fellow to the Way of the World: A Defense of Revealed Religion Sophia Rosenfeld MN ’88—Common Sense: A Polit- become a college president, but, in addition, Elizabethtown College (Oxford University Press, 2011) ical History (Harvard University Press, 2011) participates in another program of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foun- dation: The Newcombe Scholarship, which provides financial support Claire Fontijn WS ’92 with Susan Parisi— editors, Irina Carlota Silber CN ’99—Everyday Revolution- for undergraduate studies to women 25 and older. Nicholas Wolter- Fiori Musicali: Liber Amicorum Alexander Silbiger (Har- aries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El storff WF ’53, American philosopher and Noah Porter Emeritus Pro- monie Park Press, 2010) Salvador (Rutgers University Press, 2010) fessor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University, will deliver the Marjorie Garber WF ’66—The Use and Abuse of Lit- Vivasvan Soni AP ’00—Mourning Happiness: Narra- keynote address at the inauguration. Photo: Elizabethtown College erature (Pantheon Books, 2011) tive and the Politics of Modernity (Cornell University Press, 2010) Stephen Greenblatt WF ’64 H—The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W.W. Norton, 2011) Jonathan Steinberg WF ’55—Bismarck: A Life (Ox- AWARDS & HONORS APPOINTMENTS ford University Press, 2011) Jeffrey Hause MN ’84 and Claudia Eisen Murphy— Alexander Edmonds AP ’02 received the 2011 The Very Rev. Dr. Jane Shaw CN ’93 was ap- translators, Disputed Questions on Virtue by Thomas Eric Tagliacozzo MN ’92 and Wen-chin Chang—edi- Diana Forsythe Prize from the Society for the An- pointed the eighth Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Aquinas (Hackett Publishing, 2010) tors, Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Net- thropology of Work (SAW) for his book Pretty Modern: Francisco, CA. She also recently published Octavia, works in Southeast Asia (Duke University Press, 2011) Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. The award cel- Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Craig Koslofsky CN ’93—Evening’s Empire: A His- ebrates the best book or series of publications in the Followers (Yale University Press, 2011). tory of the Night in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Jeremy Wells AP ’00—Romances of the White spirit of Diana Forsythe’s feminist anthropological re- University Press, 2011) Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in In April 2011, Jonathan Sunshine WF ’66 H became a search on work, science, and/or technology, including American Literature, 1880-1936 (Vanderbilt Univer- Senior Fellow in the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center. Charles Landesman WF ’54—Leibniz’s Mill: A Challenge biomedicine. sity Press, 2011). to Materialism (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) Neil Lutsky WF ’70, Kenan Professor of Psychol- OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS ogy at Carleton College, received the American Psy- chological Foundation’s 2011 Charles L. Brewer Cristina Maria Cervone CN ’02 was selected to be Five Fellows Named 2011 Guggenheim Fellows a 2011-12 Radcliffe Fellow by the Radcliffe Institute Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award for Estelle Brenda Freedman WS ’74, Edgar E. Robin- Kevin M. F. Platt MN ’89, Professor of Slavic Lan- for Advanced Study at Harvard University. As a Rad- “exemplary career contributions to the teaching of son Professor in U.S. History, Stanford University: guages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania: cliffe Institute fellow, Cervone will work on her liter- psychology.” The political response to rape in American history. The making of Russian history from Peter the Great ature project, Vernacular Poetics of Metaphor: Middle to Putin. Robert Putnam WF ’63 and co-author David English and the Corporate Subject. Michael Gordin MN ’96, Professor of History, Campbell were awarded the 2011 Woodrow Wil- Princeton University: Scientific babel: communication David Stuart MN ’89, Schele Professor in Over the last thirty years, Bodo Reichenbach WF ’65, son Foundation Award from the American Political and identity in Western chemistry since the fall of Latin. Mesoamerican Art and Writing, University of Texas has been working on translating the works of Bô Yin Râ Science Association for their work American Grace: at Austin: The origins of Maya hieroglyphic writing. Anne Dawson Hedeman GT ’88, Professor of How Religion Divides and Unites Us. The prize is (J.A. Schneiderfranken (1876-1943)—a German painter Art and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois: Vi- awarded annually to the best book from the past and philosopher. Of his forty works, Dr. Reichenbachhas sual translation and the first French humanists. year on government, politics or international affairs. translated and published seventeen titles through The Kober Press, most recently On Prayer (2010). 12 FALL 2011 FELLOWSHIP 13 FELLOWSHIP

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