Acls Fellowships 2012 Fellows and Grantees of the American Council of Learned Societies
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excerpted from American Council of Learned Societies Annual Report, 2011-2012 2012 FELLOWS AND GRANTEES OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Funded by the ACLS ACLS FELLOWSHIPS Fellowship Endowment RACHEL ABLOW, Associate Professor, English Literature, State University of New York, Buffalo Speaking Pain in Victorian Literature and Culture GABOR J. AGOSTON, Associate Professor, History, Georgetown University War, Empire, and the Making of Europe: Ottomans, Habsburgs, and Russians, 1500–1800 RUHA BENJAMIN, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Boston University Provincializing Science: Mapping and Marketing Ethnoracial Diversity in the Genomic Age LAUREN BERLANT, Professor, English, University of Chicago Matter of Flatness LILA CORWIN BERMAN, Associate Professor, History, Temple University Jewish Urban Journeys through an American City and Beyond CATHERINE BESTEMAN, Professor, Anthropology, Colby College An Unexpected Life: Somalis, Mainers, and the New Global Normal ELIZABETH S. BLACKMAR, Professor, History, Columbia University (Professor Blackmar has been designated an ACLS/New York Public Library Fellow.) American Alchemy: The Vexed Relation of Land and Capital, 1776–2008 KRISTIN C. BLOOMER, Assistant Professor, Religion, Carleton College Possessed by Mary: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Spirit Possession in Tamil Nadu, South India ANNA C. BRICKHOUSE, Associate Professor, English and American Studies, University of Virginia The Unsettlement of America: The Story of Don Luis de Velasco M. BRADY BROWER, Assistant Professor, History, Weber State University Animal Republic: Social Biology and the Evolution of French Republicanism, 1870–1914 VICTOR CASTON, Professor, Philosophy and Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The Stoics on Mental Representation and Content DAVID E. CHINITZ, Professor, English, Loyola University Chicago The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, vol. 6: 1940–1946 DARREN DOCHUK, Associate Professor, History, Washington University, St. Louis (Professor Dochuck was Associate Professor, History, Purdue University at time of award.) Anointed with Oil: God and Black Gold in Modern America MARY AGNES EDSALL, Visiting Assistant Professor, English, University of Massachusetts, Boston A Road of the Affections: Rhetoric, Catechesis, and the Cultivation of the Christian Self, A.D. 1–1150 JAMAL J. ELIAS, Professor, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania Mevlevis after Rumi: Religion, Culture, Legitimacy, and the Rise of the Ottomans, 1300–1750 BRAD EVANS, Associate Professor, English Literature, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Black Cats, Butterflies, and the Ephemeral Bibelots: Recovering the Modernity of America’s Fin de Siècle CARMELA VIRCILLO FRANKLIN, Professor, Classics, Columbia University The Liber Pontificalis of Pandulphus Romanus: From Schismatic Document to Renaissance Exemplar VICTOR A. FRIEDMAN, Professor, Balkan and Caucasian Linguistics, University of Chicago (Professor Friedman has been designated an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow.) Balkan Languages and Identities: Macedonia as Macrocosm, Mesocosm, and Microcosm ROBERT GOULDING, Associate Professor, History of Science, University of Notre Dame Renaissance Optics between Experiment and Imagination: The Mathematical Practice of Thomas Harriot NOAH D. GUYNN, Associate Professor, French, University of California, Davis Risk and Risk Management, Resistance and Disguise in Medieval French Farce MONA F. HASSAN, Assistant Professor, Religion, Duke University Longing for the Lost Caliphate: Religious Imaginaries of State and Community among Premodern and Modern Muslims ANDREA K. HENDERSON, Professor, English Literature, University of California, Irvine www.acls.org/awardees Algebraic Art 20 PADHRAIG HIGGINS, Associate Professor, History, Mercer County Community College “The Rights of the Poor”: Poverty and Everyday Life in Eighteenth-Century Dublin MARGARET D. JACOBS, Professor, History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Where Have All the Children Gone? The Fostering and Adoption of American Indian Children in Non- Indian Families, 1880–1980 SARAH H. JACOBY, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Northwestern University Self, Society, and Sentiment in the Autobiographical Writings of a Tibetan Female Visionary ADRIAN JOHNS, Professor, History, University of Chicago The Intellectual Property Defense Industry DOROTHY YIN-YEE KO, Professor, History, Barnard College (Professor Ko has been designated an ACLS/Frederic Wakeman Fellow.) Body, Text, and Stone: The Crafting and Connoisseurship of Inkstones in Eighteenth-Century China ANTHEA KRAUT, Associate Professor, Dance, University of California, Riverside Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance HANNAH LANDECKER, Associate Professor, Sociology and the Center for Society and Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles American Metabolism: Food, the Body, and Time ALAN LIU, Professor, English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara “Media, History” and “Digital, Humanities” MORAMAY LOPEZ-ALONSO, Assistant Professor, History, Rice University (Professor Lopez-Alonso has been designated an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow.) Urban Ejidos: The Agrarian Origins of Urban Development Problems in Post-revolutionary Mexico MANLING LUO, Assistant Professor, Traditional Chinese Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China EMILY MACKIL, Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley Economics, Institutions, and State-Formation in Archaic Greece: Property, Exchange, Legal Order, and the Development of the Polis BERTIE MANDELBLATT, Adjunct Assistant Professor, History, University of Toronto Feeding the French Atlantic: Slavery, Empire, and Food Provision in the French Caribbean, 1626–1789 LAURA MATTHEW, Assistant Professor, Latin American History, Marquette University Circulations: Death and Opportunity in Southern Pacific Mesoamerica, 1480–1630 MICHELLE ANN McKINLEY, Associate Professor, Law, University of Oregon Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Activism in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Lima, 1593–1700 KARLINE McLAIN, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Bucknell University (Professor McLain has been designated an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow.) The Afterlife of Shirdi Sai Baba: The Growth of a New Religious Movement in India CAROLYN MERCHANT, Professor, Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics, University of California, Berkeley Ideas of Nature: Emerging Concepts of Nature and Law in the Scientific Revolution MOSES EBE OCHONU, Associate Professor, African History, Vanderbilt University The Caliphate’s Burden: Hausa-Fulani Subcolonialism and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria SULEIMAN OSMAN, Assistant Professor, American Studies, George Washington University (Professor Osman has been designated an Oscar Handlin Fellow.) The New Localism: Neighborhood Activism and Slow-Growth Politics in North America and Europe in the 1970s MARGARET W. PEARCE, Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Kansas Fostering Climate Dialogue with Cartography: A Model for Incorporating Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Knowledge KENNETTA HAMMOND PERRY, Assistant Professor, History, East Carolina University London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Belonging LISA PON, Associate Professor, Art History, Southern Methodist University Venice and the Early Modern Plague 21 2012 FELLOWS AND GRANTEES OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES CONTINUED SARAH S. RICHARDSON, Assistant Professor, History of Science and Gender Studies, Harvard University The Maternal Imprint: Situating the Science of Maternal Effects, 1900–Present SANJAY RUPARELIA, Assistant Professor, Political Science, The New School Enacting a Right to Basic Social Welfare: India’s Great Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective MICHAEL G. SARGENT, Professor, English, City University of New York, Queens College Completion of the Critical Edition of Book II of Walter Hilton’s “Scale of Perfection” FRANZISKA SERAPHIM, Associate Professor, History, Boston College War Criminals and Social Integration in Postwar Japan and Germany, 1945–1960 M. ERIN J. SHAY, Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder Morphology and Syntax of Pévé CANDACE A. SLATER, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley Beset by Marvels: Wonder, Change, and Violence in Northeast Brazil RICHARD JEAN SO, Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago Coolie Democracy: U.S.-China Cultural and Literary Networks, 1929–1955 LOUISE K. STEIN, Professor, Musicology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Opera, the Transformation of Naples, the Marquis del Carpio, and Alessandro Scarlatti SCOTT K. TAYLOR, Associate Professor, History, University of Kentucky (Professor Taylor was Associate Professor, History, Siena College at time of award.) A Genealogy of Addiction: Stimulants in Early Modern Europe KRISTA THOMPSON, Associate Professor, Art History, Northwestern University Photography, Screen, and Spectacle in Contemporary African Diasporic Cultures KATHERINE J. THOMSON-JONES, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Oberlin College The Philosophy of Digital Art ALICE Y. TSENG, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University Conspicuous Construction: New Monuments to Imperial Lineage in Modern Kyoto RICHARD M. VALELLY, Professor, Political Science, Swarthmore