2014 Fellows and Grantees of the American Council of Learned Societies

2014 FELLOWS AND GRANTEES OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Funded by ACLS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation GEORGE EDMONDSON, Associate Professor, English, Dartmouth College KLAUS MLADEK, Associate Professor, German Studies & Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College A Politics of Melancholia ALLISON BUSCH, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University EMMA AITKEN, Associate Professor, Art, City University of New York, City College Aesthetic Worlds of the Indian Heroine JAY T. JOHNSON, Associate Professor, Geography, University of Kansas SOREN C. LARSEN, Associate Professor, Geography, University of Missouri Being-together-in-place: A Geohumanistic Exploration of Place-based Politics in Postcolonial Settler-States REBECCA JO PLANT, Associate Professor, History, University of California, San Diego FRANCES M. CLARKE, Senior Lecturer, History, University of Sydney Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth MARINA A. RUSTOW, Associate Professor, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University EVE KRAKOWSKI, Postdoctoral Fellow, Judaic Studies, Yale University Documents and Institutions in the Medieval Middle East SUSAN R. GRAYZEL, Professor, History, University of Mississippi LUCY NOAKES, Principal Lecturer, Humanities, University of Brighton Gender, Citizenship, and the Non-Combatant at War in a Democratic State: A Case Study of Civil Defense in Twentieth-Century Britain LISI OLIVER, Houston Chapter Alumni Professor, English, Louisiana State University STEFAN JURASINSKI, Associate Professor, English, The College at Brockport, State University of New York The Laws of Alfred and Ine: An Edition and Interpretive Commentary JEFFREY M. BANISTER, Assistant Research Social Scientist, Southwest Center & School of Geography, University of Arizona STACIE G. WIDDIFIELD, Professor, School of Art, University of Arizona The Visual Culture of Water in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico Funded by the ACLS DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIPS The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation STEVE F. ANDERSON, Associate Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California Technologies of Cinema ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON, Professor, English, Northeastern University Early Caribbean Digital Archive and Network Visualization Project MEGHAN HOWEY, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of New Hampshire Building Geospatial Models of Movement: Past Monumental Landscapes in the Great Lakes ANNE MacNEIL, Associate Professor, Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mapping Secrets K.J. RAWSON, Assistant Professor, Engish, College of the Holy Cross Building the Digital Transgender Archive NICOLAS TACKETT, Associate Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley The Rise of the Chinese Meritocracy: A Digital Approach to the Study of Cultural Change in Tenth-Century China MATTHEW WILKENS, Assistant Professor, English, University of Notre Dame Literary Geography at Scale Funded by the ACLS ACLS FELLOWSHIPS Fellowship Endowment EUGENIA AFINOGUENOVA, Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Marquette University Spaniards at the Prado: A Leisure Culture History, 1819–1939 TANYA AGATHOCLEOUS, Associate Professor, English, City University of New York, Hunter College www.acls.org/awardees Circuits of Disaffection: Criticism, Dissent, and Affect in the Colonial Public Sphere 24 2014 FELLOWS AND GRANTEES OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES CONTINUED FREDRIK ALBRITTON JONSSON, Assistant Professor, History, University of Chicago The British Origins of the Anthropocene: Coal, Climate, and Deep Time, 1784–1884 JEAN M. ALLMAN, Professor, History, Washington University in St. Louis An Intimate History of the African Revolution: Kwame Nkrumah and the Women in Question BETH L. BAILEY, Professor, History, Temple University (Professor Bailey has been designated an ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellow.) The US Army and the Problem of Race, 1965–1985 ROBERT BIRD, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literature & Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago The Stalin Consensus: Aesthetics in an Age of Terror MONICA BLACK, Associate Professor, History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Evil after Nazism: Miracles, Medicine, and Moral Authority in West Germany JAIMIE BLECK, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Notre Dame Listening to Grinw: Everyday Political Discussions about Mali’s Democratic Recovery JOHN P. BODEL, Professor, Classics, Brown University The Ancient Roman Funeral MICHAEL S. BROWNSTEIN, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, City University of New York, John Jay College (Professor Brownstein was Assitant Professor, Humanities, New Jersey Institute of Technology at time of award.) On the Virtues and Vices of Spontaneity ARI Z. BRYEN, Assistant Professor, History, West Virginia University Law and the Boundaries of Authority in the Roman World IVANO CAPONIGRO, Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of California, San Diego Richard Montague: The Simplicity of Language, the Complexity of Life HEEKYOUNG CHO, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature SUZANNAH CLARK, Professor, Music, Harvard University Quirks in Tonality: Aspects in the History of Tonal Spaces DEBORAH R. COEN, Associate Professor, History, Barnard College (Professor Coen has been designated an ACLS/New York Public Library Fellow.) Dynamic Empire: Climate and Circulation in Late Imperial Austria MARY JEAN CORBETT, Professor, English, Miami University Behind the Times: Virginia Woolf in Fin-de-Siècle Context ALYSSA DEBLASIO, Assistant Professor, Russian, Dickinson College The End of Russian Philosophy: Philosophy and Religion at a Crossroads in the Twenty-first Century MICHAEL THOMAS DEMSON, Assistant Professor, English, Sam Houston State University Blighted Corn: Radical Agrarian Romanticism YVONNE ELET, Assistant Professor, Art History, Vassar College Materiality and Metamorphosis: Stucco in the Architecture and Decoration of Early Modern Europe PATIENCE EPPS, Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin Linguistic Diversity and the Amazonian Puzzle HEATHER L. FERGUSON, Assistant Professor, History, Claremont McKenna College The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses CAITLIN A. FITZ, Assistant Professor, History, Northwestern University Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions STEPHANIE J. FITZGERALD, Assistant Professor, English, University of Kansas Red Letters: Print Culture, Alternative Presses, and the Rise of Contemporary Native American Poetry, 1968–1984 DANIELA FLESLER, Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University, State University of New York The Memory Work of Sepharad: New Inheritances for Twenty-first Century Spain 25 2014 FELLOWS AND GRANTEES OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES CONTINUED DEVIN FORE, Associate Professor, German, Princeton University All the Graphs: Soviet Factography and the Emergence of Avant-Garde Documentary SEVERIN FOWLES, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Barnard College Comanche New Mexico: An Archaeology BRENNA W. GREER, Assistant Professor, History, Wellesley College Image Rights: Black Representation Politics and Civil Rights Work in the Postwar United States TOBIAS GREGORY, Associate Professor, English, Catholic University of America Milton’s Strenuous Liberty LILLIAN GUERRA, Professor, History, University of Florida Making Revolutionary Cuba, 1946–1959 FAITH C. HILLIS, Assistant Professor, History, University of Chicago Europe’s Russian Colonies: Community, Politics, and Modernity Across Borders FRANCINE R. HIRSCH, Associate Professor, History, University of Wisconsin–Madison Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A Cold War Story GENE ANDREW JARRETT, Professor, English, Boston University Paul Laurence Dunbar: The First African American Poet Laureate JAMES H. JOHNSON, Professor, History, Boston University Masks and Modern Consciousness ROBERT A. KASTER, Professor, Classics, Princeton University A New Critical Edition of Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars MARION HOLMES KATZ, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University Re-Configuring Muslim Wifehood in the Fourteenth Century MELISSA R. KERIN, Assistant Professor, Art and Art History, Washington and Lee University Materiality of Tibetan Buddhist Shrines: Devotional Objects and Ritual Agents in Tibet, Western Himalaya, and US SUK-YOUNG KIM, Professor, Theater and Dance, University of California, Santa Barbara (Professor Kim has been designated an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow.) Between National Trauma and Global Entertainment: Historicizing the Rise of Korean Pop Music and Digital Media MARWAN M. KRAIDY, Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (Professor Kraidy has been designated an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow.) Creative Insurgency: Arab Dissent in an Age of Revolution KATHERINE M. KUENZLI, Associate Professor, Art and Art History, Wesleyan University Designing Modernism: Henry van de Velde from Neo-Impressionism to the Bauhaus DIETRICH CHRISTIAN LAMMERTS, Assistant Professor, Religion, Rutgers University–New Brunswick Buddhism and Written Law: A History of Dhammasattha Literature in Burma BRONWYN A. LEEBAW, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of California,

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