National Humanities Center Annual Report 2004 2005 The National Humanities Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national and ethnic origin, handicap, sexual orientation or preference, or age in the administration of its selection policies, educational policies, and other Center- administered programs.

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“I have thanked my lucky stars…”  ANY TIMES OVER THE PAST TWO AND A HALF YEARS, MI HAVE THANKED MY LUCKY STARS THAT I WORK AT THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER, BUT NEVER MORE FERVENTLY THAN THIS MORNING, AUGUST 29, 2005. As I am writing, at around 6:00 a.m., I am keep- ground), Piety and Desire (just a short walk), ing an eye on CNN, which is tracking the course white and black, rich and poor, elegance and vul- of Hurricane Katrina as it bears down on New garity. This may be the last day in the history of a Orleans, the city I inhabited, in a state of mingled city that has given America the best of its music, ecstasy and disbelief, for seventeen years before a good portion of its literature, most of its good moving to North Carolina in January 2003. A food, and much of its soul. New Orleans has few minutes ago, the storm took a slight jog to always inspired exotic analogies. When Andrew the east, which means that the winds will be about Jackson’s wife entered the city, she wrote to a 30 miles per hour slower than they might have friend, “Great Babylon is come up before me"; been; but even so, it is horribly clear that much of this morning, people are speaking of Pompeii the city will be lost, recoverable only by memory and Atlantis. inflected by that mix of fatality, decay, sweetness It is difficult to focus on the business of writing of spirit, and transcendent joy that gave the place an annual report in a time of crisis, but it is espe- its distinctive and irreplaceable feel. Everything in cially in such times that one often discovers a New Orleans is close to its opposite: life and death capacity to focus on something else other than the (the living below sea level, the dead above the crisis itself. Having made this discovery on several  occasions in the past, I am struck by how often ness of ourselves. It is the only science in that something else is something drawn from which human beings step before us in their the cultural past, from that vast archive of deeds, totality. The inner history of the last thou- IRECTOR

D events, and documents that have survived the sand years is the history of mankind achiev- forces of destruction to become part of a past that ing self expression: this is what philology, a magically appears to be continuous, stable, and historicist discipline, treats. This history con- reassuring—a tradition that includes Babylon, tains the records of man’s mighty, adventur- Pompeii, and Atlantis. The past lays down deposits ous advance to a consciousness of his human RESIDENT AND

P like silt, which protect us from the storms of exis- condition and to the realization of his given tence. potential. All the rich tensions of which our This was fully understood by the great philolo- being is capable are contained within this gist Erich Auerbach who, having been forced to course. An inner dream unfolds whose scope leave Nazi Germany, emigrated to Istanbul, where and depth entirely animate the spectator…. he produced one of the most widely admired The loss of such a spectacle…would be an EPORT FROM THE R scholarly books ever written, Mimesis: The impoverishment for which there can be no Representation of Reality in Western Literature. possible compensation.

NNUAL Shortly after finishing this book, he wrote an A Auerbach is referring here to history as a schol- essay called “Philologie der Weltliteratur,” arly practice, but it is impossible not to think that which contains the following passage: he is also pondering the loss of the world in some History is the science of reality that affects more direct, immediate, and material sense. He us most immediately, stirs us most deeply had, after all, just witnessed the destruction of his and compels us most forcibly to a conscious- own “world,” and had already begun the recon-

A Year at the National Humanities Center .-. Summer Institute for High School Teachers of History, Literature, and Art Leon Fink (Rockefeller Fellow 1990–91), Joy Kasson (Delta Delta Delta Fellow 1996–97), and Lee Mitchell (Rockefeller Fellow 1986–87) lead a group of high school teachers through .- an exploration of “The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1880–1920,” Education Programs drawing on historical documents, literature, and art from the decades Summer Institutes in Literary Studies after the Civil War to ask broad questions about memory, progress, for College and University Faculty people, power, and empire during the time of Reconstruction, Susan Stewart of the University of western expansion, and the rise of the robber barons. The Pennsylvania introduces a group of Education Programs young PhDs in literature to “Five staff work with the Major Odes” and Frances Ferguson scholars and (GlaxoSmithKline Senior Fellow 2003–04) EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATION teachers to turn guides a second group through a careful the seminar into reading of Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental the fourth module Education. The seminars mark the second in the online Tool- year of a three-year program sponsored box Library. by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATION  SUMMER 2004  struction of that world through scholarship. The present but also permits or forces the present to world could be reclaimed by this means, but if the measure itself against the example of the past. historical record of human acts and imaginings “Humanism,” he said, had been lost—and many were—there could be is a word I continue to use stubbornly despite “no possible compensation” because the imagina- the scornful dismissal of the term by sophisti- tion, the human creative faculty, would be cated post-modern critics. By humanism I deprived of materials and tools, and crippled mean…[using] one’s mind historically and in its attempts to imagine the future. rationally for the purposes of reflective under- For various reasons, I have been thinking in standing. Moreover humanism is sustained recent months about Edward Said, the controver- by a sense of community with other inter- sial Columbia University scholar who died of preters and other societies and periods: strict- leukemia in September 2003. As a political activist ly speaking therefore, there is no such thing as well as a scholar, Said had been for many years as an isolated humanist.…Humanism is cen- an embattled figure, making as many enemies as tered upon the agency of human individuali- admirers, living in an atmosphere of constant tur- ty and subjective intuition, rather than on bulence and occasional danger. And yet, in his last received ideas and approved authority… book, written in the shadow of death, he turned humanism is the only and I would go so far to the scholarly discipline in which he had been as saying the final resistance we have against trained. Humanism and Democratic Criticism the inhuman practices and injustices that argues that the best resource for productive think- disfigure human history. ing in times of crisis is the humanistic tradition, which not only makes the past available to the Said particularly valued the philological work

.-  .- . European-American Young Scholars’ . Friends of the Center Summer Institutes Luncheon Public Lecture For a second summer, young scholars from The Center welcomes Bruce Redford (Allen Europe and the United States gather on local friends and W. Clowes Fellow) two continents for broad interdisciplinary . alumni fellows back kicks off the fall pub- seminars, thanks to a grant from The to the Archie K. Davis lic lecture series with Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The group Labor Day Picnic Building to meet the a talk on “Eros and studying “Secularization and Religion” Many of the thirty- Corbett Capps on new fellows. After a the Antique: Sire under the guidance of José Casanova of nine fellows (and September 17 and reception and lunch, William Hamilton in the New School University and Hans Joas two distinguished the pre-lunch project Distinguished Visitor Enlightment Naples.” of the Max Weber Center for Advanced visitors) who make up talks—in which Thomas Cogswell Later in the fall, Cultural and Social Studies, which met in the Class of 2004–05 Deputy Director Kent enlightens and enter- Deborah Harkness Erfurt, Germany, in 2003, reconvenes at

EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATION are the guests of Mullikin allots each tains those who have (John E. Sawyer the National Humanities Center. The semi- honor at the Center’s fellow five minutes to the upcoming presi- Fellow) and Roger nar on “The Concept of Language in the traditional Labor Day characterize the book dential elections on Chickering (John P. Academic Disciplines,” led by John Joseph Picnic. Two other he or she plans to their minds with Birkelund Senior of the University of Edinburgh and Talbot long-standing tradi- write—help the fel- anecdotes about Fellow) lecture, Taylor of the College of William and Mary, tions, the pig pickin’ lows and the staff get electoral politics in respectively, on the moves from the Center to the University orchestrated by acquainted socially seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution of Edinburgh. Building Engineer and academically. England. and Total War. SEPTEMBER OCTOBER  of Auerbach because this work represented the ety at large, stressed in so many immediate ways, purest form of humanism, the most decisive artic- benefits from having forty scholars pursue their ulation of a universal, rather than a local, perspec- work in conditions of slightly unreal leisure and IRECTOR

D tive. Most surprisingly, Said, often a bitter critic amplitude. Auerbach’s account of philology is, I of American foreign policy, asserted that the nat- think, as powerful a response as can be given to ural home for such a perspective was the United such questions; and the fact that as politically States, where “the energies, the jolts, the surprises engaged a scholar as Said endorses that account and swerves of what is always present and arriving implies that the humanities in general represent RESIDENT AND

P here in some form as the new and different” were not a force of quietism or reaction, but rather a most vividly experienced. Said lived for many constantly nourishing factor of depth, creativity, years in New York, but New Orleans surely and confidence. provided more than its share of jolts, surprises, The task implied by both Auerbach and Said and swerves. is one of making the past, which always threatens Faced now with the loss of that city, and of to deteriorate into inertia, stasis, or flatness, a EPORT FROM THE R the portion of the world that surrounds it, the resource for present reflection and future imagin- humanistic perspective—which drew me to the ing. This is in fact the quiet rationale behind the

NNUAL academic life many years ago and then to the scholarly retrieval, re-creation, or reactivation of A National Humanities Center—provides no history that goes on at the Center; supporting this replacement or compensation, of course, but it activity is the single premise underlying all of our does give the mind another subject, another per- operations and programs. The material and docu- spective, and a kind of relief that is not trivial. On mentary remains of the past must be constantly occasion, I am asked to explain exactly how soci- fertilized by present thought in present contexts,

. . Board of Trustees Richard W. Lyman Award The Center’s trustees man of the board. in Bireklund’s honor, Robert K. Englund, Award, travels to teaching, teaches at gather for their fall In recognition of “The Old Europe and the third recipient of North Carolina to UCLA, where he co- meeting. On the agen- Birkelund’s many the New.” Several of the Richard W. Lyman deliver a free public directs the Cuneiform da is a celebration of accomplishments, Birkelund’s fellow lecture, “Would We Digital Library John P. Birkelund, five of the scholars trustees make a total Have Noticed the Initiative, an inter- who steps down from who have held the of $150,000 in Loss of the Iraq national group of the board after twelve John P. Birkelund endowment gifts Museum? The Case Assyriologists, muse- years of service, the Senior Fellowship to name the John P. for Virtual Duplicates um curators, and his- past eight as chair- speak at a conference Birkelund Lounge, at of Cultural Heritage torians of science Collections.” Englund, whose mission is to who received the make the form and award for his innova- content of cuneiform tive use of informa- tablets from ancient tion technology in the Sumer, Babylonia, service of humanities Assyria, and Persia scholarship and available online. OCTOBER NOVEMBER  so that the right things are repeated, and repeated here, and the seminars that arise spontaneously in the right way. among the fellows each year are both signs of a The fellowship program that was our first and routine that has become creative through repeti- remains our primary purpose is, I think, a shining tion. instance of appropriate repetition, a testament to Much of the creativity arising within the fellow- the idea that “there is no such thing as an isolated ship program is provided by the fellows themselves, humanist.” The class of 2004–05 included scholars but last year the Center, responding to a widely- from eighteen states and three other countries. perceived need to support the crucial discipline They were supported by term grants from the of literary studies, sponsored a seminar in this National Endowment for the Humanities (five), field, bringing in such visitors as John Guillory the Lilly Endowment (three), the Gladys Krieble (New York University), Jonathan Culler (Cornell Delmas Foundation, the Jessie Ball duPont University), Frances Ferguson (University of Foundation, the Florence J. Gould Foundation, Chicago), Denis Donoghue (New York Univer- the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the A. G. sity), Toril Moi (Duke University), Peter Mallios Leventis Foundation, and the American Council of (University of Maryland), and Ariel Dorfman Learned Societies (two Burkhardt fellows); twenty- (Duke University). two were funded by the Center’s endowment. In Another way the Center itself can foster creativi- 2006–07, we will welcome our one thousandth ty is through the careful selection of invited senior scholar to the Center. The cumulative effect of the scholars. More so than most other institutes for work that has been produced here in conditions of advanced study, the Center works by applications singular collegiality is difficult to describe, but the rather than invitations, but it does invite a small books and articles that were conceived and written number of senior scholars each year. In 2004–05,

. Sexuality Seminar the north end of the “The thing that gives Thomas Laqueur me the most gratifi- throughout the year, Center’s Commons, in cation has been the (Trustee; John P. as do seminars on life his honor. The distin- association with an Birkelund Senior guished scholar and incredible group of Fellow 2000–01) stories and literary administrator Francis individuals. By that leads a discussion of studies, giving fel- I mean the board, lows an informal . Oakley is elected to the emeriti and for- the first two chapters opportunity to dis- The Fellows’ Tree succeed Birkelund as mer members of the of his book Solitary chair, and Richard board who come to Sex. The sexuality cuss readings on top- The fellows and staff, Brodhead, Frances the meetings, the seminar meets ics of broad interest. with help from their Commons, and fellows, and the Wendy Allenbrook Ferguson, Thomas J. staff. I have seldom children, decorate a Scherer, Hedrick associated with peo- tree in the Birkelund (Distinguished Smith, and Robert K. ple of such diverse Lounge with orna- Visitor) and Edward Steel are elected as interests and back- ments contributed by Curtis (National grounds, and whose Endowment for the trustees. company I enjoyed twenty-seven classes so much.” of fellows. Santa Humanities Fellow) John P. Birkelund, Claus descends the lead a spirited sing-a- Chairman Emeritus spiral staircase in the long of holiday tunes. DECEMBER  Roger Chickering of Georgetown University was As I wrote in last year’s annual report, the humani- the John P. Birkelund Senior Fellow, and Bruce ties are being transformed by new research in a Redford of Boston University was the Allen W. number of scientific disciplines, research that is IRECTOR

D Clowes Fellow. The final authority for determining providing striking new answers to old questions such invitations rests with the Scholarly Programs about the nature of the human. As the institution committee, headed by Colin Palmer. most directly involved in the evolution of the One innovation in the routine of the fellowship humanities, the Center is not merely a home for program holds particular promise. The endow- creativity, but an agent as well. In April, a group RESIDENT AND

P ment gift by board member Dr. Assad Meymandi of six scholars from local universities and else- enables us to bring in scholars as distinguished vis- where in the country convened at the Center to itors for periods of up to one month, scholars who conceptualize a program of fellowships and events would otherwise be unable to come to the Center. with the provisional title of “Transformations of In April, the eminent Harvard biologist Professor the Human/Humanities.” In next year’s annual E. O. Wilson became the first Meymandi fellow, report, I will have more to report about this EPORT FROM THE R engaging in a structured but spirited dialogue initiative. with board member Thomas Laqueur, and an Of course, the most impressive variation to be

NNUAL even more spirited and unstructured dialogue played on the fellowship program over the past A with the fellows and board members following year was the Center’s education programs, which this exchange. In coming years, we hope to have continue to explore ways in which advanced several Meymandi Fellows each year. scholarship can be applied to the broader public As the example of Wilson suggests, not all such purpose of precollegiate education. In the spring visitors will be humanists in the traditional sense. of 2005, the fourth online seminar toolbox went . Friends Luncheon . Orin Starn (Duke Public Lecture Endowment Fellow A crowd of two hun- 2001–02) is the guest . dred fills the Com- of honor as the mons to hear Timothy Selection Committee Center welcomes its Tyson (John Hope friends to lunch. Greeted politely but Franklin Fellow) deliv- Starn discusses the warily by the fellows er a public lecture, book he wrote during in residence, six “Miss Amy’s Witness: his fellowship, Ishi’s Center’s friends, and scholars meet to Why the History of Brain: In Search of an introduction to select the class the Civil Rights include Gregg Mitman America’s Last “Wild” winter in the Triangle of 2005–06. Movement Is (Mostly) (GlaxoSmithKline Indian. A light dusting for the out-of-town Wrong.” Lisa Lindsay Senior Fellow) on of snow and ice fellows. At the final (Fellows’ Fellow) allergy and landscape makes the Archie K. friends luncheon, on warms up the crowd on the Western fron- Davis Building glitter, a warmer day in May, with her saxophone, tier, Cara Robertson but slippery roads Benjamin Isaac and Bernice Patterson on Lizzie Borden and and a mass exodus (Robert F. and (Receptionist) sings her bloody axe, and from schools and Margaret S. Goheen three gospel numbers Mary Favret (Delta workplaces make for Fellow) will speak on before Tyson takes Delta Delta Fellow) a long, slow drive “Racism, Ancient and the podium. Other on viewing war from home for many of the Modern." spring lectures a distance.  JANUARY FEBRUARY  online. Created by a team of teachers led by made by an anonymous friend of the Center, a former fellows Leon Fink, Joy Kasson, and Lee group of fifteen trustees contributed and pledged Mitchell, “The Gilded and the Gritty: America, $1.3 million to the education programs’ endow- 1877–1920” consists of an extravagant gathering ment. These gifts have raised the Center’s endow- of primary documents, images, and pedagogical ment over the $50 million mark for the first time, tools, a treasure trove of materials from which and will, when fully paid, raise the endowment teachers anywhere can create professional develop- of the education programs to over $4 million. ment seminars in various formats. With these tool- Not long after the news that the match had been boxes, we hope not simply to lead the field of pro- met, the education program received two grants: fessional development for school teachers, but to $75,000 from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation transform it by orienting it towards primary doc- to increase dissemination of the programs in uments and materials. In the summer of 2005, school districts across North Carolina; and the Center’s toolboxes were used in seminars $600,000 from Wachovia Bank to create two attended by more than 250 teachers in eight new toolboxes on the subject of African-American districts in four states. history and literature. These toolboxes, which The toolboxes have been and will continue will both be created in 2006–07 in partnership to be subject to stringent assessment and refined with the Association for the Study of African accordingly, but they have repeatedly received the American Life and History, Inc., located on the highest praise from scholars, teachers, grant evalu- campus of Howard University, will frame our ators, and independent assessment agencies. And existing toolbox, “The Making of African- they received the very highest form of praise this American Identity, 1865–1917.” spring when, in response to a $1 million challenge Also in the summer of 2005, the Center hosted . Board of Trustees More than a century coming memoirs. of teaching, writing, Another highlight is “Having been a fellow and making American a panel discussion led in the 1990s and a history is present by Thomas Laqueur member of the board . during a Thursday and E. O. Wilson, the for much of the past .- evening dinner for first scholar to hold decade, I have come Free Live Music to believe that the Teacher Professional trustees, fellows, and the Meymandi Family Center is the best Just a night after featuring Conjunto Development friends, as one emi- Fellowship, which of the American Timothy Tyson’s lec- 23, led by Robin Training Workshop nent alumni fellow brings distinguished centers focusing on ture, another crowd Moore (William J. More than twenty and trustee, William short-term visitors to the humanities and of two hundred fills Bouwsma Fellow). social sciences. It education profession- Leuchtenburg, intro- the Center. On Friday, is one that breeds the Center for a con- Lisa Lindsay stands als from Connecticut, duces another, John Francis Oakley pre- in its fellows not cert of old-time in on sax for a few Florida, New Jersey, Hope Franklin, who sides over his first only gratitude but Cuban dance music numbers. New York, and North reads from his forth- meeting as chairman. also genuine affec- tion for the place.” Carolina convene at Francis Oakley, Edward the Center to learn Dorr Griffin Professor how to craft profes- of the History of Ideas sional development Emeritus and president seminars from the emeritus, Williams College; chairman of Center’s Online the board, National Seminar Toolboxes. Humanities Center MARCH APRIL  a Jessie Ball duPont seminar for college teachers, are facing the future, determined to preserve what led by two recent fellows, Annabel Wharton of we have established, and committed to making Duke University and Lewis Erenberg of the every aspect of the Center’s operations as creative IRECTOR

D University of Chicago, followed by two concurrent as it can be. seminars for younger literary scholars sponsored by From the long view, 2004–05 will be remem- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by bered as the year that John Birkelund handed the Deidre Lynch of Indiana University, a fellow in baton to Francis Oakley after a long and brilliantly 2000–01, and Peter Stallybrass of the University successful run as chairman of the board. A distin- RESIDENT AND

P of Pennsylvania. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy guished medievalist and college president (Williams was the subject of Lynch’s seminar, and “Benjamin College), Oakley brings a wealth of worldly wis- Franklin: Reader, Writer, and Printer” came under dom, energy, and good will to the task. In honor the close scrutiny of Stallybrass’s group. of John Birkelund’s distinguished tenure, the With the completion this summer of a sched- board of trustees raised funds to endow the John uled three-year overhaul of the Center’s furniture, P. Birkelund Lounge, formerly the Point Lounge. EPORT FROM THE R carpets, and air-conditioning units, the Center, From a more immediate perspective, several Corbett Capps reports, is as sound structurally as events hosted by the Center stand out. On

NNUAL it is financially. With the hiring in June of Joshua February 16, an overflow crowd of more than two A Bond as director of development, the Center’s staff, hundred people, some of whom had come many traditionally one of its most impressive attributes, miles, attended a talk by Timothy Tyson, the John is at full strength. And with the board of trustees’ Hope Franklin Fellow. Tyson’s book Blood Done planning committee, chaired by Carl Pforzheimer, Sign My Name had appeared several months earlier, due to deliver its final report in the fall of 2005, we attracting wide attention, including a nomination . “Receiving the Lyman Education Award means a great Programs deal to me. This time Endowment around, the award is . Challenge Met being given for work Richard W. Lyman that…might have Trustees of . Award been considered the National John M. Unsworth selected him, praises service rather than research—but, in Humanities accepts the 2005 Unsworth as a pio- fact, we have much Center pledge Richard W. Lyman neer who “has done research to do in $1.3 million to Award at a ceremony more than any other learning how to col- match a $1 mil- in Chicago’s Newberry single individual to laborate, publish, and do scholarship… lion challenge Library. Trustee make it possible for in new media.” grant from an James O’Donnell, others to do rich and John M. Unsworth, anonymous chair of the commit- original work in the founding director of the PROGRAMS EDUCATION donor. The gifts Poetry Reading tee of scholars who humanities.” Institute for Advanced will more than Piotr Sommer Technology in the double the (Hurford Family Humanities at the endowment University of Virginia and Fellow) reads—in dedicated to dean of the Graduate both Polish and School of Library and the Center's English—from Information Science at education pro- Continued, his col- the University of Illinois grams. lection of poems. at Urbana-Champaign. APRIL MAY  for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award. The the best of current technology and the best of cur- following night, Robin Moore, the William J. rent scholarship.” Bouwsma Fellow and a musicologist from Temple But the most memorable single event of the last University whose field is Cuban music of the 1940s year occurred on the night of Thursday, April 7, to the 1960s, put theory into practice, to the ani- when John Hope Franklin—a fellow, trustee, mated delight of another two hundred people. trustee emeritus, and ongoing inspiration—read, to The Center gathered another crowd in May, an audience comprised of fellows, staff, and board this time at the Newberry Library in Chicago, members, a chapter from his forthcoming memoir. where I had the pleasure of presenting the fourth The introduction by Bill Leuchtenburg—fellow, Richard W. Lyman Award to John Unsworth of trustee, trustee emeritus, and ongoing inspira- the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In tion—was so eloquent a testimonial to the friend- its first three years, this award, which recognizes ship between the two men, and to friendship itself, outstanding achievement in the application of that perhaps only John Hope could have followed information technology in service of humanities it without producing a sense of anticlimax. scholarship and teaching, went to highly decorated The evening represented the most productive scholars of Romantic and Victorian literature, possible use of memory: a refusal to relinquish American history, and the language and culture what must be preserved to the forces of oblivion, of the ancient Near East. In 2005, we honored an an insistence on telling once again the story of individual who, in the words of our trustee James J. “man’s mighty, adventurous advance to a conscious- O’Donnell, “has done more than any other single ness of his human condition and to the realization individual to make it possible for others to do rich of his given potential.” and original work in the humanities that draws on

.- Jessie Ball . duPont Summer Annual Fund Seminars for Liberal Arts The fiscal year ends College Faculty with 513 individuals— Annabel Wharton trustees, fellows, and (Mellon Fellow other friends of the 1985–86; Allen Center—contributing Z. Smith Reynolds W. Clowes Fellow .-. $454,536 to the Gift 2002–03) leads Summer Institute for High School Annual Fund. The The Z. Smith the Center will pro- an exploration of Teachers of History, Literature, and Art Annual Fund supports Reynolds Foundation vide training in a “Space: Familiar, Three scholars—Emory Elliott and Karen the Center’s programs makes a $75,000 seminar model of Sacred, Contested Orhdahl Kupperman, both alumni fellows, and operations in grant to the National professional develop-

EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATION Compulsory”; a and Maurie McInnis of the University of many ways; gifts from Humanities Center to ment that embodies second group, Virginia—lead “American Beginnings: alumni fellows, for strengthen the teach- the standards adopted led by Lewis America, 1492–1760.” The Center’s educa- example, will make it ing of American by the state in 2003 Erenberg (Frank tion programs staff works with the schol- possible for Madeline history and literature to help teachers con- H. Kenan Fellow ars and the teachers to craft “American Dobie of Columbia in school districts tinuously improve 2003–04), tackles Beginnings” into the fifth module in the University to hold the across North Carolina. their content knowl- “Sports, Culture, online Toolbox Library, due to launch Fellows’ Fellowship in In collaboration with edge and instructional

and Society." PROGRAMS EDUCATION in January 2006. 2005–06. five state universities, skills. JUNE Work  of the Fellows 2004-05

ROGER CHICKERING

JULIA CLANCY-SMITH

ISRAEL GERSHONI

MATTHEW C. GIANCARLO wrote a chapter revised an article completed a draft of an eight-chapter monogr

Wye (Wendy) J. Allanbrook DISTINGUISHED VISITOR Migrations: Trans-Mediterranean Settlement in wrote two chapters for her book The Secular Nineteenth-Century North Africa, c. 1800–1881. ‒ Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth- She also wrote a chapter, “The Peopling of Algiers: Century Instrumental Music (under contract with Exoticism, Erasures, and Absence, c. 1830–1900,” EPORT

University of California Press); the introduction to be included in the volume The Walls of Algiers, R and parts of a chapter for her book project Happy edited by Zeynep Celik (The Getty Research

Endings: Comic Musical Theater from Lully to Institute Press, forthcoming 2005); an article, NNUAL A Sondheim. Allanbrook is professor of music at “1830: Algiers,” for Mediterranean Source Book, the University of California, Berkeley. edited by Miriam Cooke and Grant Parker (Duke ENTER University Press, forthcoming 2006); and another on C Roger Chickering JOHN P. BIRKELUND SENIOR FELLOW “Women, Gender and Missionary Education: North completed the final six chapters of his manuscript, Africa” for Economics, Education, Mobility and Space,

tentatively titled The Great War in Freiburg, vol. 4 of Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Culture, UMANITIES H 1914–1918: A Historical Essay, which will be pub- edited by Suad Joseph (Brill, forthcoming 2006). She lished in English by Cambridge University Press and revised an article, “Women, Gender and Migration in German by the Schoeningh Verlag. He also wrote Along a Mediterranean Frontier: Pre-Colonial ATIONAL N a chapter, “Die Universität im Ersten Weltkrieg,” Tunisia, c. 1815–c. 1870,” that appeared in the for the Festschrift to commemorate the 550th journal Gender and History (vol. 17, no. 1, 2005); anniversary of the founding of the Albert-Ludwigs- a chapter, “Crossings: Intellectuals as Travelers in University in Freiburg. He wrote a paper, “A Tale the Mediterranean Borderland, Khayr al-Din Pasha, of Two Tales: Grand Narratives of War in the Age of c. 1820–1877,” for L’Individu et la société dans le Revolution,” which he presented at a conference on monde méditerranéen, edited by Odile Moreau “War in the Age of Revolution, 1776–1815,” held (CNRS, forthcoming 2006); and another on at the German Historical Institute in Washington, “Changing Perspectives on the Historiography D.C.; papers from the conference will be published of Imperialism: Women, Gender, and Empire” for in a volume coedited by Roger Chickering and Stig Historians and Historiography of the Modern Middle Foerster (Cambridge University Press). Chickering East, edited by Israel Gershoni and Amy Singer is professor of history at Georgetown University. (University of Washington Press, forthcoming 2006). In addition, she revised a previously published arti- Julia Clancy-Smith NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE cle, “The Colonial Gaze: Islam, Gender, and HUMANITIES FELLOW completed a draft of an eight- Identities in the Making of French Algeria, chapter monograph under the tentative title 1830–1962” (in Domesticating the Empire: Languages 

THOMAS E. KAISER

EDWARD E. CURTIS, IV

DING XIANG WARNER wrote several forthcoming journal articles completed his book drafted four of six chapters

of Gender, Race, and Family Life in French and Dutch Lynda Coon LILLY FELLOW IN RELIGION AND THE

Colonialism, 1830–1962, edited by Julia Clancy- HUMANITIES drafted two chapters for her book ‒ Smith and Frances Gouda [University Press of manuscript Priestly Bodies: Gender and Spatial Virginia, 1998]), for translation into French and Practice in the Carolingian Monastery of Fulda. EPORT

publication in Nouvelles Questions Féministes (Paris). She also wrote a chapter, “Gender and Sexuality, R Clancy-Smith is associate professor of history at 600–1100,” for the Cambridge History of

the University of Arizona. Christianity, vol. 3, Early Medieval Christianity, c. NNUAL A 600–1100, edited by Thomas Noble and Julia Thomas Cogswell DISTINGUISHED VISITOR wrote Clancy-Smith (Cambridge University Press, forth- ENTER several forthcoming journal articles including coming 2006), and an article, “The Carolingian C “John Felton, Popular Political Culture and the Desert,” that will appear in the Dutch Review of Assassination of the Duke of Buckingham” for Church History (vol. 86, forthcoming 2006).

Historical Journal; “‘In the Power of the State’: Coon is associate professor of history at the UMANITIES H William Anys’s Project and the Tobacco Colonies, University of Arkansas. 1626–28” for English Historical Review; and “The

Earl of Clare’s The Prodigal and Early Modern Edward E. Curtis, IV NEH FELLOW completed his ATIONAL Manuscript Culture” for the Review of English book Becoming Muslims: Religion in the Nation of N Studies. He also wrote (with Peter Lake) a chapter, Islam, 1960–1975. Curtis was assistant professor of “‘Full of Sorrow and Woe’: Popularity, the Duke religious studies at the University of North Carolina of Buckingham and the 1628 Revival of Henry at Chapel Hill; he has accepted a new position as VIII,” forThe Public Sphere in Early Modern associate professor of religious studies and Millen- England (Manchester University Press, forthcoming). nium Scholar of the Liberal Arts at Indiana Cogswell is professor and chair of the Department University- Purdue University Indianapolis. of History at the University of California, Riverside. 

MARGARET ELLEN HUMPHREYS

ANDREW H. MILLER

DEBORAH HARKNESS

JULIE CANDLER HAYES

MICHAEL ALLEN GILLESPIE completed the editing of a collection of essays completed the manuscript for his book 

Tony Day FRANK H. KENAN FELLOW drafted four of Andrea Frisch GOULD FOUNDATION FELLOW, FALL

six chapters for a book on literature in Java, Empty SEMESTER worked extensively on her book Classical ‒ Chest in a Glass House: The World of Literature in Amnesia: Forgetting Differences in Early Modern a Postcolony. Day is an independent scholar. France. She also worked on an article, “Montaigne EPORT

and the Ethics of Memory,” for the journal Esprit R Mary A. Favret DELTA DELTA DELTA FELLOW com- créateur (forthcoming 2006). Frisch is assistant pro-

pleted one chapter and drafted another for her fessor of French at the University of Maryland. NNUAL A six-chapter book The Ground of War: Wartime in

British Romanticism. She wrote a paper, “War and Israel Gershoni HORACE W. GOLDSMITH FELLOW wrote ENTER

Everyday Life in Britain,” which she presented at seven out of ten chapters for his book Egypt in the C a conference on “War in the Age of Revolution, Second World War, 1938–1945 and edited (with 1776–1815,” held at the German Historical Amy Singer and Hakan Erdem) Narrating History:

Institute in Washington, D.C.; papers from the Histories and Historiographies of the Twentieth- UMANITIES conference will be published in a volume coedited Century Middle East (University of Washington H by Roger Chickering and Stig Foerster (Cambridge Press, forthcoming 2006). Gershoni is professor University Press). She also wrote an article, “Every- of Middle Eastern studies at Tel-Aviv University. ATIONAL day War,” that will appear in the online journal N ELH (vol. 72, no. 3, 2005). Favret is associate pro- Matthew C. Giancarlo WALTER HINES PAGE FELLOW* fessor of English at Indiana University–Bloomington. wrote the last five of seven chapters, completing a draft of his book project With One Voice: Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England. Giancarlo is associate professor of English at Yale University.

*Supported by an endowment fund established by the Research Triangle Foundation 

JAMES LESHER

PHYLLIS WHITMAN HUNTER

LAWRENCE P. JACKSON did research and wrote four chapters for her book revised one chapter and wrote three chapters fo

Michael Allen Gillespie DUKE ENDOWMENT FELLOW Julie Candler Hayes JESSIE BALL DUPONT FELLOW completed the manuscript for his book Modernity completed seven of eight chapters for her book ‒ as a Theological Problem. He also wrote a chapter Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and “Where Did All the Evils Go?” for another book England, 1600–1800 and wrote a review article, EPORT

called Speak No Evil (University of Chicago Press, “Tobias Smollett and the Translators of the Quijote,” R forthcoming) and an occasional essay, “Things That that appeared in Huntington Library Quarterly (vol.

Go Bump in the Night: Or Is There a German 67, no. 4, 2004). As coeditor (with Judith Zinsser), NNUAL A Jewish Professor under Your Bed Reading Plato,” she completed the editing of a collection of essays for submission to a popular journal. Gillespie is and coauthored the introduction for Emilie Du ENTER Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor Châtelet, Philosophe: A Tercentenary Volume, to be C of Political Science and professor of philosophy published in 2006 by the Voltaire Foundation at at Duke University. Oxford University. Hayes is professor of French

at the University of Richmond. UMANITIES H Deborah Harkness JOHN E. SAWYER FELLOW complet-

ed drafts of five out of six chapters of her book The Margaret Humphreys BURKHARDT FELLOW OF THE

Jewel House of Art and Nature: Elizabethan London AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES did re- ATIONAL and the Social Foundations of the Scientific Revolution search and wrote four chapters for her book project N (under contract with Yale University Press) and an Intensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers in article,"Nosce Teipsum: Curiosity, the Humoral the American Civil War (under contract with Johns Body, and the Culture of Therapeutics in Late Hopkins University Press); did research for a another Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century England,” book on the impact of the Civil War on American that will appear in Curiosity and Wonder from the medicine (also under contract with Johns Hopkins Renaissance to the Enlightenment, edited by R. J. W. University Press); and wrote an article, “A Stranger Evans and Alexander Marr (Ashgate, forthcoming in Our Camps: Typhus in the American Civil War,” 2005). Harkness is associate professor of history at for the Bulletin of the History of Medicine (forth- the University of Southern California. coming Summer 2006). Humphreys is professor of history and associate clinical professor of medicine at Duke University. 

RICHARD JAFFE

LYNDA COON

NELSON H. MINNICH wrote a journal article submitted two papers reading and doing research for her book project

Phyllis Whitman Hunter ROCKEFELLER FELLOW, FALL Richard Jaffe LILLY FELLOW IN RELIGION AND THE

SEMESTER worked on her project Geographies of HUMANITIES worked extensively on his book ` ‒ Capitalism: Imagining Asia in Early America. manuscript Seeking S´akyamuni- (under contract Hunter is associate professor of history at the with University of Chicago Press), completing two EPORT

University of North Carolina at Greensboro. chapters and beginning work on two others. Jaffe R is associate professor of religion at Duke University.

Benjamin Isaac ROBERT F. AND MARGARET S. GOHEEN NNUAL A FELLOW drafted the first chapter of his book Greek Thomas E. Kaiser GOULD FOUNDATION FELLOW,

and Roman Warfare and wrote a postscript with SPRING SEMESTER wrote the introduction and two ENTER

comments and additions for the second, paper- chapters for his book project Devious Empire: Marie C back edition of his book The Invention of Racism in Antoinette and French Austrophobia and an entry on Classical Antiquity (Princeton University Press, forth- “Marie-Antoinette” for the online SIEFAR (Société

coming 2006). He also wrote two journal articles: Internationale pour l’Etude des Femmes de l’Ancien UMANITIES “Roman Organization in the ‘Arabah in the Fourth Régime) Dictionnaire des femmes de l’Ancienne France H Century” for Crossing the Rift, edited by Piotr (2005). He also revised a chapter, “Catilina’s Bienkowski and Katharina Galor, forthcoming as Revenge: Conspiracy, Revolution, and Historical ATIONAL a special issue of Levant, and “Latin in Cities of the Consciousness from the Old Regime to the N Roman Near East” for Studies in Honour of Fergus Consulate,” that will appear in Conspiracy in the Millar, edited by Richard Alston, forthcoming as a French Revolution, edited by Thomas E. Kaiser, special issue of Ancient West & East. Isaac is Lessing Peter Campbell, and Marisa Linton (University Professor of Ancient History at Tel-Aviv University. of Manchester Press, forthcoming 2006). Kaiser Additional support for his fellowship came from is professor of history at the University of the A. G. Leventis Foundation. Arkansas at Little Rock.

Lawrence P. Jackson JOSEPHUS DANIELS FELLOW, *

FALL SEMESTER revised one chapter and wrote three chapters for his book Song in the Front Yard: A Cultural History of African American Writers and Critics, 1935–1960 and two essays, “1989: A Year as a Man in the Street” and “To Danville.” Jackson is associate professor of English and African American Studies at Emory University.

*Supported by an endowment fund established by the Research Triangle Foundation 

JOEL MARCUS

JOSEPH LUZZI

LISA LINDSAY

BENJAMIN ISAAC wrote an introduction and compiled a critical edition of the principal decrees completed two chap

Bruce Kapferer ARCHIE K. DAVIS SENIOR FELLOW, James Lesher DELMAS FELLOW completed a draft of

SPRING SEMESTER wrote the introduction (with his book Saphêneia: Ideals of Truth and Clarity from ‒ Angela Hobart) and a chapter, “Sorcery and Beauty,” Homer to Aristotle and submitted two papers, “The for Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Concept of Saphêneia from Homer to Socrates” and EPORT

Construction and Experience, which he coedited with “Saphêneia in Plato’s Divided Line,” for publication R Angela Hobart, and two chapters for volumes he in scholarly journals. Lesher is professor of philoso-

edited: “Introduction: Oligarchic and Corporate phy at the University of Maryland. NNUAL A Power and the State” for Oligarchs and Oligarchies and “Introduction: The Social Construction of Lisa Lindsay FELLOWS’ FELLOW spent much of the ENTER Reductionist Thought and Practice” for The Retreat year reading and doing research for her book project C of the Social: The Rise and Rise of Reductionism. All A South Carolinian in Colonial Nigeria: One Family’s three volumes will be published by Berghahn Books History and the African Diaspora. She finished an

in 2005. He wrote two chapters, “Ritual and the article, “A Tragic Romance, a Nationalist Symbol: UMANITIES H Virtual” and “Dynamics of Ritual Formation,” that The Case of the Murdered White Lover in Colonial will appear in Theorizing Rituals: Classical Topics, Nigeria,” for the Journal of Women’s History (vol. 17, no. 2, 2005) and wrote a book review for the Theoretical Approaches, Analytical Concepts, edited by ATIONAL N Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek, and Michael Strausberg, International Journal of African Historical Studies. Numen Book series (Brill, 2005), and completed Lindsay is associate professor of history at the three out of eight chapters for a book monograph, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Philosophical Depth of Ritual. He wrote a journal article, “New Formations of Power: The Oligarchic- Corporate State and Anthropological Ideological Discourse,” for Anthropological Theory (Sage Publications) (in press); and another one, “Wild Sovereignties,” for the Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (Jordan) (in press). Kapferer is professor of social anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway; adjunct professor at James Cook University; and honorary professor at University College London. 

GREGG MITMAN

MAURA NOLAN

BRUCE REDFORD

REX MARTIN completed three of six chapters of his book revised and completed his book wrote three chapters f

Joseph Luzzi NEH FELLOW wrote drafts of four of the Rex Martin WILLIAM C. AND IDA FRIDAY SENIOR FELLOW six chapters in his book Celluloid Muse: The Poetry of wrote a paper, “Rawls on International Distributive ‒ the Italian Cinema; contributed two entries, “Auto- Economic Justice: Taking a Closer Look,” and co- biography” and “Translation,” for the Encyclopedia authored (with coeditor David Reidy) a substantial EPORT

of Italian Culture (Routledge, forthcoming 2006); introductory essay, “Reading Rawls’s The Law of the R and completed an article, “Echoes of Andromache Peoples,” for a collection of sixteen papers which they

in Inferno 10,” for the journal Dante Studies (vol. coedited, entitled Rawls’s Law of Peoples: A Realistic NNUAL A 123, forthcoming 2005). Luzzi is assistant professor Utopia? (Blackwell, forthcoming 2006). He wrote an of Italian at Bard College. article, “Just Wars and Humanitarian Interventions,” ENTER for the Journal of Social Philosophy (vol. 36, no. 4, C Joel Marcus HENRY LUCE SENIOR FELLOW finished 2005); a shorter revised version under the title writing his book Mark 9–16: A New Translation “Walzer and Rawls on Just Wars and Humanitarian

with Introduction and Commentary, Anchor Bible Interventions” will be published in Intervention, UMANITIES H Series (Doubleday, forthcoming), and wrote an arti- Terrorism, and Torture: Challenges to Just War cle, “Crucifixion as Parodic Exaltation,” that is forth- Theory in the 21st Century, edited by Steven Lee coming in the Journal of Biblical Literature. Marcus (Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming 2006). In addi- ATIONAL N is professor of New Testament and Christian Origins tion, he wrote an article, “Rawls on Human Rights: at Duke Divinity School. Liberal or Universal?” to be published in Thin Universalism: Principles in a Plural World, edited by B. A. Haddock, Peri Roberts, and Peter Sutch (Routledge, forthcoming 2006); an ency- clopedia entry on “Conceptions of Rights in Philosophy” for the IVR Encyclopedia of Juris- prudence, Legal Theory, and Philosophy of Law (http://encyclopedia.ivr2003.net), 2005, and another on “RAWLS, John [Bordley], 1921–2002” for New Makers of Modern Culture, edited by Justin Wintle (Routledge, forthcoming 2006); and two review articles for History and Theory and Ethics. Martin is professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas. 

KEVIN OHI

JOHN PALMER

PIOTR SOMMER wrote an introduction and compiled a critical edition of the principal decrees completed two chap

Andrew H. Miller DELTA DELTA DELTA FELLOW com- International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, pleted the introduction and two chapters of his eight- Washington, D.C., 2–7 August 2004, edited by ‒ chapter book Improving Occasions. Miller is associate Uta R. Blumenthal and Kenneth J. Pennington professor of English at Indiana University–Bloomington. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, forthcoming). EPORT

Minnich is professor of Renaissance and R Nelson H. Minnich LILLY FELLOW IN RELIGION AND Reformation history and church history at

THE HUMANITIES completed two chapters and began the Catholic University of America. NNUAL A work on a third for a projected book on the Fifth

Lateran Council to be published by Ferdinand Gregg Mitman GLAXO SMITH KLINE SENIOR FELLOW ENTER

Schöningh in Paderborn, Germany. He wrote an completed three of six chapters of his book C introduction and compiled a critical edition of the Breathing Space: An Ecological History of Allergy in principal decrees of the Fifth Lateran Council to be America, to be published by Yale University Press,

published in the 4th edition of Conciliorum oecu- and wrote an essay, “In Search of Health: Landscape UMANITIES menicorum decreta, edited by Giuseppe Alberigo and Disease in American Environmental History,” H and Alberto Melloni (Istituto per le scienze religiose, for the journal Environmental History (vol. 10, forthcoming), and a chapter, “From Constance to no. 2, 2005). Mitman is professor of medical ATIONAL Trent: A Historical Overview,” for The Church, the history, history of science, and science and N Councils, and Reform: Lessons from the Fifteenth technology studies at the University of Century, edited by Gerald Christianson, Thomas Wisconsin–Madison. M. Izbicki, and Christopher M. Bellitto (forthcom- ing). He compiled a lengthy index for Controversies: Robin Moore WILLIAM J. BOUWSMA FELLOW substan- Responsio ad epistolam paraeneticam Alberti Pii, tially revised and completed his book on music mak- Apologia adversus rhapsodias Alberti Pii, Brevissima ing in socialist Cuba, tentatively titled Music and scholia, vol. 84 of Collected Works of Erasmus, edited Revolution (University of California Press, forthcom- by Nelson H. Minnich, translated by Daniel Sheerin, ing 2006). Moore was associate professor of music and annotated by Nelson H. Minnich and Daniel history at Temple University; he has accepted a Sheerin (University of Toronto Press, 2005). In addi- new position as associate professor of music at tion, he revised a talk he gave, “The Official Edition the University of Texas at Austin. (1521) of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512–17),” for publication in the Proceedings of the Twelfth 

CARA W. ROBERTSON

BRUCE KAPFERER wrote the introduction, revised two chapters, and drafted the conclusion to his book-length study

Maura Nolan CARL AND LILY PFORZHEIMER FOUNDA- cles including “Of Red Queens and Garden Clubs:

TION FELLOW finished her book John Lydgate and the The Manchurian Candidate, Cold War Paranoia, ‒ Making of Public Culture (Cambridge University and the Historicity of the Homosexual” for Camera Press, 2005) and an article, “Lydgate’s Literary Obscura (58, vol. 20, no. 1, 2005), “‘The Author of EPORT

History: Chaucer, Gower, and Canacee,” for the “Beltraffio”’: The Exquisite Boy and Henry James’s R journal Studies in the Age of Chaucer (vol. 27, 2005). Equivocal Aestheticism” for ELH (vol. 72, no. 3,

She wrote three chapters for her new book English forthcoming 2005), “Autobiography and David NNUAL A Fortune: The Early History of a Literary Idea. Nolan Copperfield ’s Temporalities of Loss” for Victorian is assistant professor of English at the University of Literature and Culture (vol. 33, no. 2, forthcoming ENTER Notre Dame. 2005), and “‘The novel is older, and so are the C young’: On the Queerness of Style” for The Henry Kevin Ohi BENJAMIN N. DUKE FELLOW* began drafting James Review (forthcoming). Ohi is assistant pro-

two of five chapters, and revised two others, for his fessor of English at Boston College. UMANITIES book On the Queerness of Style: Henry James and the H

Erotics of Form. He also began drafts of several com- John Palmer BURKHARDT FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN

missioned chapters for forthcoming edited collec- COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES drafted eight of ATIONAL tions including “Annunciation and Voyeurism in eleven chapters of his book Parmenides and Presocratic N Almodovar’s Talk to Her” in Politics and Perversion Philosophy. Palmer is associate professor of philoso- in Contemporary Film, edited by Frances Restuccia phy at the University of Florida. et al.; “‘The diminutive…all monumental and the monumental all diminutive’: Knowledge and Desire in ‘The Tree of Knowledge’” in Henry James and the New Formalisms, edited by Sheila Teahan and Eric Savoy; and “Queer Maud-Evelyn.” He revised the manuscript for his book Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and several journal arti-

*Supported by an endowment fund established by the Research Triangle Foundation 

MARY A. FAVRET

KARIN SCHUTJER

GEORGIA WARNKE did research for two chapters, wrote one chapter, and began writing another wrote the complete

Bruce Redford ALLEN W. CLOWES FELLOW, FALL Pete Sigal ROCKEFELLER FELLOW wrote four of eight

SEMESTER wrote the introduction, revised two chapters of his book manuscript The Flower and the ‒ chapters, and drafted the conclusion to his book- Scorpion: Sexuality in Early Nahua Culture and length study, Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique Society and coedited (with John F. Chuchiak) a spe- EPORT

in Eighteenth-Century England. Redford is University cial edition on Sexuality and Gender in the Colonial R Professor, director of the University Professors Americas of the journal Ethnohistory (forthcoming).

Program, and professor of art history and English Sigal was associate professor of history at California NNUAL A at Boston University. State University, Los Angeles; he has accepted a new position as associate professor of history at Duke ENTER Cara W. Robertson wrote five of seven chapters of University. C her book The Trial of Lizzie Borden (under contract

with Random House). Robertson is an independent Piotr Sommer HURFORD FAMILY FELLOW spent the

scholar. year working on his book project America as the UMANITIES New Center (Changes in the Concept of “the Native” H Karin Schutjer NEH FELLOW did research for two vs. “the Foreign” in Polish Poetry after 1968). Sommer chapters, wrote one chapter, and began writing is a poet and translator of Anglo-American poetry ATIONAL another, for her four-chapter book Goethe’s Wanderers into Polish, as well as the editor of the journal N and the Wandering Jews: Identity, Idolatry, Modernity. Literatura na Swiecie (Warsaw). Schutjer is associate professor of German at the University of Oklahoma. 

PETE SIGAL

TIMOTHY TYSON

ROBIN MOORE spent theyear working onhisbookmanuscript,completedthetextualanalysis,wrote thecomplete losophy attheUniversity ofCalifornia,Riverside. Hermeneutics ofIdentity the completemanuscriptforherbook of Chineseliterature atCornell University. Confucian Legacy uscript two oftheprojected five chaptersofherbookman- focus ofherstudy, andwrote theintroduction and Chinesetextthatisthecentral a seventh-century analysis ofthe on herbookproject; shecompletedthetextual University. Studiesthe CenterforDocumentary atDuke School andwillalsobeaseniorresearch scholarat accepted avisitingprofessorship atDuke Divinity at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison; hehas novel. Tyson wasprofessor ofAfro-American studies historical familymemoirandpart which ispart spent theyear working onhis bookmanuscript, Timothy Tyson Georgia Warnke Ding XiangWarner Textual Production and theCreation ofa Zhongshuo JOHN HOPE FRANKLINSENIORFELLOW JOHN G.MEDLIN,JR.,FELLOW . Warner isassistantprofessor NEH FELLOW . Warnke isprofessor ofphi- (Discourses ontheMean), worked extensively After Sex: A wrote Andrea Frisch Tony Day Thomas Cogswell Wye (Wendy) J.Allanbrook (clockwise from topleft) Fellows Not Shown inGroup Photos  N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ Statistics 

Number of Fellows 39

Gender Female 14 ...... Male 25

Ages 30–39 ...... 15 40–49 ...... 8 50–59 ...... 10 60–69 ...... 6

Rank Assistant Professor . . . . . 9 Associate Professor . . . . 13 Professor...... 14 Independent Scholar . . . . 3

Disciplines ...... 17 Anthropology ...... 1 Chinese...... 1 Classics ...... 1 Creative Writing ...... 1 English & American Literature . . . . . 6 English & Art History ...... 1 French ...... 2 German...... 1 Government, Law, & Political Science . 2 History ...... 12 History of Science ...... 1 Italian ...... 1 Middle Eastern & African Studies. . . . 1 Musicology ...... 1 Philosophy ...... 4 Religion ...... 2 Theology...... 1 oad.1 Poland .1 Norway .2 Israel Other Nations: .1 Wisconsin. .1 Virginia .1 Pennsylvania. .1 Oklahoma .8 North Carolina .2 New York .2 Massachusetts .1 Maryland. .1 Kansas .3 Indiana .1 Georgia. .1 Florida .2 District ofColumbia. .1 Connecticut. .5 California .2 Arkansas. .1 Arizona U.S.: Geographic Representation 35 scholarsfrom18states 4 from3nations University of Bergen, Norway . .1 . University ofBergen,Norway Tel-Aviv .2 University, Israel. Institutions inOtherNations .1 Yale University .2 University ofWisconsin-Madison. .2 University ofSouthernCalifornia .1 University ofRichmond .1 University ofOklahoma .1 University ofNotreDame. University ofNorthCarolina University ofNorthCarolina .1 University ofMaryland .1 University ofKansas .1 University ofFlorida . .1 University ofCalifornia,Riverside .1 University ofArkansasatLittleRock .1 University ofArkansas. .1 University ofArizona .1 Temple University .2 Indiana University .1 Georgetown University .1 University. Emory .4 Duke University. .1 Cornell University .1 Catholic UniversityofAmerica California StateUniversity, .1 Boston University .1 Boston College .1 Bard College Institutions intheUnitedStates Institutions Represented tGenbr .1 at Greensboro .2 at ChapelHill . 1 Los Angeles . 2 . 26 from Fellowships. .890 from Fellowships. Books resulting in 34nations from 103institutions .150 Scholars fromOtherNations District ofColumbia 43 statesandthe from 191institutionsin . .809 Scholars fromU.S. .44 Fields Represented 10 yearsorlessbeyondPhD .329 Younger Scholars more than10yearsbeyondPhD .630 Senior Scholars .960 Scholars inResidence Cumulative Statistics1978–2005 * FELLOW Patricia MeyerSpacks*,ViceChairman Colin Palmer*,ChairofScholarly Steven Marcus*, ViceChairman Representing theCenter’s Board: Barbara J.Packer Philip G.Nord Barbara J.Newman Michael C.Grossberg* Edwin M.Duval* Thomas D.Christiano* Selection Committeefor2004–05 Programs Committee at LosAngeles English, UniversityofCalifornia History, PrincetonUniversity Northwestern University English andReligion, History, IndianaUniversity French, Yale University Philosophy, UniversityofArizona  N ATIONAL H UMANITIES C ENTER A NNUAL R EPORT ‒ Books by Fellows  published or added to the Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Collection in 2004–05 University Press, 2004. Law. MoralDetermination: Foundations forInternational Fellow 2001–02). Fordham University Press, 2005. Change in Tudor-Stuart England. Investments: Metaphor ofCultural andtheDynamic the Humanities Fellow 1995–96). Princeton University Press, 2005. of Nineteenth-Century British Novels. Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work Press, 2004. Turn. History, Theory, Text: Historians andtheLinguistic Brundage, W. Fitzhugh Anderson, JudithH. *Supported by an endowment fundestablishedby theResearch Triangle Foundation Clark, ElizabethA. Buzard, James Bullard, MelissaMeriam Buchanan, Allen University Press, 2005. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press ofHarvard Past:The Southern andMemory. AClashofRace X ( 1998–99), ed. Rinascimento, 2004. auspices ofIstituto Nazionale diStudi sul ( _____, ed. Rinascimento, 2003. auspices ofIstituto Nazionale diStudi sul 1487–1488 1486–1487 Oxford Political Theory. Oxford: Oxford Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Lettere, ). Firenze: Giunti-Barbèra, underthe Lettere ). Firenze: Giunti-Barbèra, underthe (NEH Fellow 1997–98). (John G.Medlin, Jr., Justice, Legitimacy, andSelf- (Henry Luce Fellow 2001–02). by Lorenzo de’ Medici. Vol. XI (National Endowment for , by Lorenzo de’ Medici. Vol. (NEH Fellow 1995–96). (Delta Delta Delta Fellow New York: Translating Princeton: History. Reason. Fellow 1991–92). and Work. the Humanities 2002–03). Presocratic Thought. The LegacyofParmenides: Eleatic Monism andLater Hampshire, U.K.:Ashgate,2003. Vincente Aldershot, andLuis R.Corteguera. Early Modern Spanish World. 2001–02), ed. Curd, Patricia Corteguera, LuisR. Cohen, Deborah Flynn, ThomasR. Early, GeraldLyn Leiden: Brill, 2004. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae,vol. 72. 2000–01). Drijvers, JanWillem Delbanco, Andrew Dabney, LewisM. New York: Farrar, Straus andGiroux, 2005. 2001–02). Routledge, 2004. Deborah Cohen andMaura O’Connor. 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