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Stanford Humanities Center Annual Report 2008-09

Stanford Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4015 T 650.723.3052 humanities F 650.723.1895 http://shc.stanford.edu around the globe stanford humanities center Stanford Humanities Center Annual Report 2008–09

Founded in 1980, the Stanford Humanities Center is a multidisciplinary research institute at Stanford dedicated to advancing knowledge about culture, philosophy, history, and the arts.

The Center’s fellowships, research workshops, and public events strengthen the intellectual and creative life of the university, foster innovative scholarship and teaching, and enrich our understanding of the human experience.

6 10 Geballe Research Workshops Events For more information on the The Center’s research work- The Humanities Center invites Stanford Humanities Center, shops bring together faculty and experts from around the world visit our new website at: graduate students to explore to Stanford to share the results http://shc.stanford.edu new areas of inquiry, sparking of their research into human “The Humanities Center is a sanctuary at the heart of the university. It has innovation in a broad spectrum values, creativity, and experience. the intellectual vigor and collegiality that make Stanford exceptional, while of established and emerging Recordings are available providing relief from administrative cares and making it possible for the disciplines. at http://shc.stanford.edu/ fellows to focus on research and writing.” intellectual-life/video- David Holloway, Donald Andrews Whittier Fellow, 2005–06 podcasts.

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Director’s Letter 4 International Programs 5 New Website 13 Staff, Committees, Honorary Fellows 26 Financial Overview 27 Fundraising Priority 29 Be a Friend of the Center 30

14 22 28 Fellows Publications Giving The Center’s year-long residential The Humanities Center gives Gifts from individuals and fellowships bring together scholars the time, space, and organizations are indispensable to scholars — from all disciplines, support to conduct research, funding the Center’s workshops, career stages, and academic debate findings, and complete fellowships, outreach, and research institutions — in an environment scholarly projects. Each volume initiatives. We gratefully acknowl- of intellectual discovery and published is a new contribution to edge and thank all our donors. exchange. our understanding of the world.

The humanities include, but are not limited to, the following fields: history, philosophy, languages, literature, linguistics, archaeology, jurisprudence, history and criticism of the arts, ethics, comparative religion, and those aspects of the social sciences employing historical or philosophical approaches. This last category includes cultural anthropology, sociology, political theory, international relations, and other subjects concerned with questions of value. (The National Endowment for the Humanities) p h o t o s l e f t t o r i g h t : Nicole Coleman; Corrie Goldman; Steve Gladfelter 1 humanities: around the globe

Languages

Music

Political Theory

The Stanford Humanities Center brings together national and international experts to examine the rich record of human experience and expression.

Classics

Literature

history

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Religious Studies

Anthropology

Slave Migrations in the United States. Moche art of Peru. Law and State in the Soviet Union. Stanford Humanities Center fellows’ projects touch every corner of the globe to explain some of the most important dynamics of the modern and ancient world.

Linguistics

Archaeology

Art History

Philosophy

3 Director’s letter I am delighted to present this report on the activities of the Stanford Humanities Center in 2008–09. The pages that follow show that this was a marvelous year of intellectual exchange, exciting events, and new programs. It was also, of course, a tumultuous year nationally and internationally — and at Stanford as well. But I am glad to say that although the economic downturn has caused us to recalibrate our activities, the Humanities Center has continued its commitment to supporting high- level work in the humanities, and thanks to prudent financial planning and the generous support of friends of the Center, we expect to be able to maintain the excellence of our programs into the future. This year’s nineteen vibrant research workshops were the first to bear the new program name established as part of our successful endowment campaign: The Theodore and Frances Geballe Research Workshops. Our cohort of twenty-eight residential fellows shared ideas and works in progress throughout the year, and we sponsored a large number of stimulating public events, including a very lively celebration of the fiftieth “The humanities cover all areas anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. We also entered into a of the globe, and the Center is new affiliation with the Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, undertaking a major initiative to engage further with humanists bringing these postdoctoral fellows into the community of humanists from around the world.” at the Center. My goal, as director of the Humanities Center, is to carry on this rich tradition of intellectual interaction, while expanding the Center’s programming to further engage with the humanities on an international level. In my first year as director, we launched a pilot program of short- term international visitors in collaboration with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and other Stanford units. The first visitors are arriving in 2009–10, and we are very excited to add their perspectives to the intellectual environment at Stanford. We are also working to sponsor research workshops with peer institutions abroad and to find other ways of engaging with the international community of humanists. The international visitors program is now our highest development priority (see p. 29). I look forward to reporting on the success of these efforts in the coming years. For now, let me just say how happy I am to be leading such an intellectually stimulating organization, and how grateful I am to the directors who preceded me, as well as to the wonderful staff, and to everyone else who has been a part of making the Humanities Center such an outstanding institution.

Aron Rodrigue Anthony P. Meier Family Professor and Director

4 p h o t o : John Todd International Programs “The Stanford Humanities Center The Center’s international programs represent a concerted is the most research-friendly effort to understand the cultural and historical dimensions environment I have experienced. of global complexity. The lunch talks and follow-up question-and-answer sessions In collaboration with the Freeman Spogli Institute for were greatly rewarding, both in International Studies and other units on campus, the Center sharpening my understanding of my own project and in helping is offering short-term visitorships to bring distinguished me to better appreciate other international scholars to Stanford to share their research with areas of the humanities.” faculty and students. To view a roster of visiting scholars for Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren, Humanities and International 2009–10, visit our website at: http://shc.stanford.edu/people/ Studies Fellow, 2008–09 visiting-scholars. The Center will also sponsor intensive workshops organized with peer institutions abroad to strengthen ties among international scholars in the humanities and promote in-depth study of crucial issues affecting our world. The goals are: • To bring high-profile international humanities scholars to Stanford to engage with faculty and students • To increase the Center’s intellectual participation in global debates on vital issues • To raise the profile of the Center and of the humanities on the world stage. This program dovetails with the goals of Stanford’s International Initiative to engage faculty and students in discussion on issues of global concern and to encourage innovative faculty research. See page 29 for details on funding needs.

p h o t o : Nicole Coleman 5 The Theodore and Frances Geballe Research workshops

With the conclusion of our fundraising campaign on July 1, 2008, the Humanities Center’s workshop program was named the Theodore and Frances Geballe Research Workshop Program. Six individual workshops have also been named in honor of Center donors (see the listing on page 28). We are profoundly grateful to the Geballes, and to our other donors, for their deep and ongoing commitment to the Center and for their recognition of the important work accomplished by these workshops. Their generosity and shared dedication has provided a robust foundation for the workshops’ future vitality.

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During the 2008–09 academic year, of which succeeded in engendering environmental criticism — that has not the Humanities Center supported interdisciplinary communication in a been adequately addressed through nineteen workshops. Following is a distinct way: Symposium on Linguistic coursework. brief description of each, based on Relativity; Spatial Relations; and Language, their end-of-year reports. Communication, and Rational Agency. Environmental Norms, Institutions, Aesthetics Project Constructing Space and Policy in Asia The Aesthetics Project seeks to create Environmental Norms examines key a bridge between philosophy and This workshop examines how space issues of environmental ethics and literature by addressing topics such and place serve as conceptual policy. This year’s workshop was as the relations between particular categories structuring our understanding incredibly successful. It brought together philosophers and literary works; the of Asia by drawing on concrete objects a new community of scholars — faculty, use of philosophical frameworks in and sites such as landscapes, maps, graduate students, and visitors — across interpreting art and literature; and architecture, townships, and iconography. disciplines as varied as law, biology, philosophical readings of literature and The workshop highlights included talks philosophy, political science, earth literary readings of works of philosophy. by newly arrived professor Haiyan systems, classics, history, economics, In addition to our regular sessions, we Lee, professor Jim Reichert, and visiting engineering, and education. The hosted a talk by Denis Dutton on his speaker Christine Marran. workshop culminated with a day-long new book The Art Instinct and a one- event in which participants and others day symposium on the intersection presented papers on the topic of of evolutionary studies, literature, and Construction of the workshop. the arts. Meaning This workshop provides a forum French Culture Archaeology for addressing developments in the treatment of meaning in linguistic Workshop The Archaeology workshop brings theory and setting them in a larger The 2008–09 French Culture Workshop together people from different depart- context to provide opportunities sought to create a unique forum for ments to synthesize the various for interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. scholars of French cultural and literary approaches to archaeology and redefine With these goals in mind, the history. Topics discussed this year the relationships between prehistorical workshop featured twelve invited ranged from eighteenth-century archaeology and historical archaeology. presentations, many on two timely French road construction to alcoholism We organized a total of twenty-two themes chosen to reflect the research in France during World War I. The lectures, which covered archaeology interests of student participants: welcoming atmosphere of this well- across all regions and specialities, “Crosslinguistic Perspectives on the known workshop has continued to including American historical archaeology, Construction of Meaning” and attract both presenters and participants African archaeology, South American “Comparison.” from across the Bay Area and the world. archaeology, classical archaeology, Chinese archaeology, Islamic archaeology, and DNA analysis. Ecocriticism Global Justice Ecocriticism investigates environmental Linda Randall Meier Cognition and narratives and paradigms, considering Research Workshop Language such fundamental concepts as nature preservation, evolution, species, This workshop examines questions This interdisciplinary workshop inves- biodiversity, purity/impurity, filth, and of global justice, such as poverty, tigates how language works and how pollution. Our greatest success this inequality between nations, oppres- it interacts with the other cognitive year has been bringing together students sive regimes, identity, human rights, processes that shape the human and faculty working on environmental and our duties to one another. This experience. Our biggest successes this issues within the humanities and intro- year, the workshop brought together year were three conferences, each ducing them to an evolving field — a remarkable group of Stanford faculty

7 and graduate students from a variety interests and requests of our regular and Cultures of Medieval France at of academic disciplines, including participants and shifted the workshop’s the Collège de France. As in all previous education, law, political science, eco- focus to “Law, War, and Revolution.” years, we reserved the spring quarter nomics, philosophy, history, psychology, for a one-day colloquium whose topic business, anthropology, literature, and this year was “The Descent of Grace.” environmental sciences. The Global Multidisciplinary Justice Workshop is cosponsored by Approaches to the Program on Global Justice. Medieval and Early The Postcolonial Modern Studies City International Humanities Center This workshop brings together Heritage Ethics Fellows Research scholars from the humanities, the Workshop social sciences, and the professional This workshop brings international disciplines to re-examine notions of experts in law, human rights, indigenous This workshop brings together faculty urbanism in light of the growing issues, and policy into discussion with and graduate students working on the importance of urban spaces through- archaeological practitioners facing centuries between the ancient world out the world. Our workshop meetings cultural preservation issues and tensions and the modern era. One of the most were a great success. Academics from on the ground. Our meetings this year unusual meetings was the visit of the Bay Area, the East Coast and from featured seasoned academics and Caroline Walker Bynum, who came abroad were invited to share a book current students, and covered a panoply to Stanford in conjunction with the chapter or article in progress. Invited of topics. Every speaker took his or her Humanities Center. She met with gradu- speakers included, among others, audience to a different corner of the ate students for a frank conversation Charles Hirschkind (UC Berkeley), globe, while opening the discussion about the state of the field of medieval Philippe Bourgois (University of to universal questions of human rights and early modern historical studies. Pennsylvania), and Lucia Sa (The and ethical codes of conduct. University of Manchester). The Philosophical Law and History Reading Group Seminar on Blokker Research Claire and John Radway Enlightenment Workshop Research Workshop and Revolution, 1660–1830 Law and History focuses on the The Philosophical Reading Group transplantation of legal institutions meets on a weekly basis to discuss Research Workshop in in different historical contexts and philosophical texts chosen in advance. Honor of John Bender examines current issues related to the In addition to our weekly meetings, The Seminar on Enlightenment and “rule of law” and the implementation we hosted professor Christian Benne Revolution crosses national boundaries of democracy in transitional societies. from the University of Southern and disciplines to investigate an The first quarter of our workshop Denmark, Odense, who is considered extremely rich historical period, with was dedicated to the theme of “Art one of the more innovative Nietzsche a focus on the categories of and the Law,” while in the winter and specialists, and professor Michel Zink, “Enlightenment” and “Revolution.” spring quarters we responded to the who holds the Chair in the Literatures This year was a year of experimentation,

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in which the Seminar collaborated Working Group with other workshops at the Stanford on the Novel Humanities Center and introduced new formats to supplement the Marta Sutton Weeks standard pre-circulated paper and Research Workshop workshop discussion. This workshop provides a forum to discuss research on the novel in relation Social Ethics and to the general theoretical problems surrounding the form. We held nine Normative Theory events this past year: eight book Marta Sutton Weeks discussions and one discussion of a Research Workshop critic’s work in preparation for his visit to campus. The texts we studied This workshop brings together scholars ranged historically from the eighteenth from disciplines such as philosophy, to the twenty-first centuries, and political science, economics, and law culturally from Egypt to early America to discuss the norms that guide the to South Africa. behavior of individuals and groups. We kicked off the year with guest speaker Mark Schroeder, whose work Workshop in develops Hume’s theory of moral Poetics reasoning in novel ways. Pamela Hieronymi from UCLA explored The Poetics workshop focuses on the whether we are responsible for our theoretical and practical dimensions thoughts and feelings. And our third of the reading, criticism, and theoretical guest speaker, Martin Stone, gave a elaboration of poetry. Our most remarkable and original paper on the successful meetings were those that origins of legal positivism. featured visiting professors from other universities. This year’s highlights were Michael Eskin (German, Columbia), The Value of Music Carrie Noland (French, UC Irvine), The Value of Music examines several Haun Saussy (Comparative Literature, essential musicological questions about Yale), and Jahan Ramazani (English, the composition, production, and University of Virginia). consumption of music from a multidisciplinary perspective. The workshop Workshops in gathered students from Stanford’s graduate community to develop Development and individual research projects and discuss Co-Sponsored the work of scholars from other Workshops universities. Visiting scholars included Logical Methods in the Humanities professors Jann Pasler (UC San Diego) and Tamara Levitz (UCLA), and our Phenomenology of Memory much-respected visiting respondents Space, Time, and God: Problems in were professors Richard Taruskin (UC Cultural Epistemology Berkeley) and Suzanne Cusick (New York University). Wealth of Nations

9 Events

Featured Event Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, October 16–17, 2008 Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo was first released in theaters in1958 . To mark the film’s fiftieth anniversary, the Humanities Center and the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages organized an informal celebration of the film’s importance. The event was not just a scholarly discussion of Hitchcock’s masterpiece, but also a chance for enthusiasts to comment on the impact the film has had on their own lives. Over 800 people attended a special screening and presentation at the Stanford Theatre, and the colloquium the following day featured experts and amateurs in a lively discussion of the film’s multiple resonances.

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Presidential Lectures Lectures on “Christian Materiality” March 5–6, 2009 “Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Julian Bell The Presidential Lectures website is Miracles in the Later Middle Ages” Painter and Critic created and maintained by Stanford “Holy Pieces: Attitudes Toward Parts “Verbal BubbleWrap; or, University Libraries. To see the work and Wholes in Late Medieval Devotion” The Contradictions of Art Writing” of contributing curators, please visit Seminars: http://prelectur.stanford.edu/home.html. “The Presence of Objects: Medieval May 13–14, 2009 Anti-Judaism in Modern Germany” Adam Gopnik October 1, 2008 “Seeing and Seeing Beyond: The Mass Author and New Yorker Writer Robert Wilson of St. Gregory in the Fifteenth Century” “Why Write About Writing?; or, Theater Director and Visual Artist How Dr. Johnson Can Save Your Life.” “1. Have You Been Here Before” “2. No This Is The First Time” Bliss Carnochan An Evening with Robert Wilson Lecture Conversations at April 3, 2009 October 27, 2008 the Stanford Felicity Nussbaum Seyla Benhabib Humanities Center Professor of English, University of Eugene Meyer Professor of Political California, Los Angeles “Conversations” revives a Stanford Science and Philosophy, Yale University “The Invention of Celebrity” tradition of dinner talks by faculty. The “Cosmopolitan Norms, Human Rights, evening kicks off with a presentation, and Democratic Iterations” after which guests participate in a dinner discussion and Q&A with the speaker. January 12, 2009 Colloquium Daniel C. Dennett October 16–17, 2008 November 12, 2008 University Professor Celebration of the Robert Harrison Austin B. Fletcher Professor of 50th Anniversary of Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Philosophy, Tufts University Hitchcock’s Vertigo Literature and Chair of the “The Evolution of ‘Why’ as the Key to Department of French and Italian, Free Will” Presenters: Richard Allen, Jean-Marie Apostolidès, Stanford University Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Marilyn Fabe, “Gardening Lessons: Cultivating the Soil, April 13, 2009 Cultivating the Soul” James M. McPherson Roland Greene, and Jeff Kraft. George Henry Davis ’86 Professor Moderators: Pavle Levi and Kristine Samuelson February 10, 2009 of American History Emeritus, Aron Rodrigue Princeton University Anthony P. Meier Family Professor “But There Was No Peace: and Director, Stanford Humanities The Aftermath of the Civil War” Arts Critics in Center Residence “Coexistence and Conflict: Muslims and This series engages with one of the Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire” Raymond F. West most essential arenas of arts criticism: Memorial Lecture journalistic daily and weekly writing April 21, 2009 Series for the public. It is co-sponsored by the Caroline Winterer Stanford Institute for Creativity and Associate Professor of History, Stan- February 23–26, 2009 the Arts, the School of Humanities and ford University Caroline Walker Bynum Sciences, and the Drama Department. “Are we Rome or Greece? America’s Professor of European Medieval Infatuation with Antiquity” History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University

11 Faculty Seminar and the Woods Institute for the CONSUMPTION AND Environment; Director, Program on THE ENVIRONMENT This quarterly interdisciplinary seminar Food Security and the Environment series, co-sponsored by the Freeman “Our Daily Bread: Global Pressures on April 30, 2009 Spogli Institute for International Studies Food and Water” Douglas Kysar (FSI), brought together faculty from Respondent: Debra M. Satz, Philosophy Professor of Law, Yale University across the university around the theme Co-sponsored by Woods Institute for of “Cultures, Community, and Conflict.” May 15, 2009 the Environment and the Workshop Robert Gregg on Environmental Norms, Institutions, October 31, 2008 Teresa Moore Professor of Religious and Policy. James J. Sheehan Studies, Emeritus; Director, the Abbasi Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Program in Islamic Studies Emeritus Philosophy Talk “Religion in Modern Life” “The Rise of the Civilian State in at the Classic Postwar Europe” Respondent: Tanya Luhrmann, Residence by Hyatt Respondent: Stephen D. Krasner, Anthropology International Relations May 28, 2009 “Money and Morality” January 9, 2009 Faculty Forum on Neil Malhotra David Brady Humanities and Arts Assistant Professor of Political Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Economy, Graduate School of Business, Professor in Leadership Values, January 27, 2009 Stanford University Graduate School of Business; Professor Gerhard Casper John Perry of Political Science; Senior Fellow, the President, Emeritus; Peter and Helen Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Hoover Institution, Stanford Institute for Bing Professor in Undergraduate Philosophy, Emeritus, Stanford University Economic Policy Research, and FSI Education; Professor of Law; and Senior Kenneth Taylor “Election 2008: Transformation or Fellow at FSI Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Business as Usual?” Philosophy, Stanford University Respondent: David Kennedy, History May 26, 2009 Stephen Hinton February 6, 2009 Professor of Music; Senior Associate Co-sponsored Helen Stacy Dean for Humanities & Arts Senior Fellow, FSI; Senior Lecturer, Events Stanford Law School During 2008–09, the Humanities Center “Human Rights for the 21st Century: Classes Without co-sponsored numerous events with Sovereignty, Civil Society, Culture” Quizzes other units on campus. For a complete Respondent: Russell Berman, listing of these events, please visit our Comparative Literature October 9, 2008 website at http://shc.stanford.edu/ Gordon Chang events/cosponsored0809. April 24, 2009 Professor of History; Director of the Rosamond L. Naylor Asian American Studies Program Professor of Environmental Earth “U.S. - China Relations in Historical Systems Science; Senior Fellow, FSI Perspective”

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As some of you may have discovered, • A media section with streaming The site aims to give visitors a better we recently updated the look and feel video and audio podcasts of past understanding of the Center’s activities of the Humanities Center website. As events and the reach of humanities research. part of this effort, we also redesigned • An online view of fellows’ publica- the information architecture of the site. tions, with links to Amazon and To explore the many new features of We are excited about the successful book reviews the site, go to http://shc.stanford.edu. completion of this project and hope • Feature space dedicated to that you will enjoy the results. spotlighting fellows’ research and collaborative work The new website is designed to improve access to information about • A new minicalendar for events and the Center’s fellowships, workshops, a comprehensive listing of all events research collaborations, and public taking place at the Humanities Center events, and to highlight the impact of • An enhanced news section to these programs. New features include: promote fellows’ research.

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“The warm collegiality of the fellows this year and the helpfulness of the staff at the Center were a major bonus. They not only facilitated productive work on my own topics; the way in which presentations and other collective activities were organized provided me with a wealth of insights into a broad range of research in the humanities.” John Hatcher, Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow, 2008–09

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Rachel Ahern Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow During my year at the Humanities Center, I completed and successfully defended Department of Classics, my doctoral dissertation on the rhetoric of Homeric speech. I also spent time Stanford University interviewing for academic jobs and obtained a tenure-track assistant professor The Artifice of Discourse: Homeric position in the University of Oklahoma classics department. I graduated from Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric Stanford in June and will be taking up my new position in the fall.

Arto Anttila Internal Faculty Fellow My year at the Stanford Humanities Center was a wonderful opportunity for me Department of Linguistics, to focus on my research on rhythm and variation in language. The reasons are Stanford University all too obvious: a quiet, secluded office, well-balanced meals, and the freedom Choice and Chance: Rhythm to work without many time constraints. The fellowship year also significantly in Language improved my cross-departmental network within Stanford, and I look forward to maintaining these contacts beyond our year at the Center.

Martin Berger Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow During my time at the Center, I completed a solid draft of my book project on Department of History of Art civil rights photography. I also finished two articles and wrote and delivered three and Visual Culture, professional talks. The major benefit was unquestionably the time that the University of California, Santa Cruz fellowship provided me to dedicate myself to research and writing. It’s impossible In Black and White: Civil Rights to exaggerate how helpful this has been. Without the fellowship, my book would Photography, Race, and 1960s America have taken several years to complete.

Megan Bryson Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow I wrote several chapters of my dissertation, which addresses the relationship Department of Religious Studies, between ethnicity and gender in Chinese religion. I also learned how to locate Stanford University my dissertation project within a larger field. My dissertation incorporates The Transformations of Baijie Shengfei: religious studies, history, and anthropology, and working among scholars from a Gender and Ethnicity in Chinese Religion range of fields helped me integrate these different approaches. Discussions with other fellows and feedback on my Tuesday presentation allowed me to present my research to a wider academic community rather than just the sub-field of Asian religions.

Terry Castle Ellen Andrews Wright Faculty Fellow Though it was not part of my initial research plan, I ended up writing an Department of English, autobiographical essay about sexuality and academic life. The unstructured time, Stanford University multifarious resources, and delightful companionship of fellow writers and The Professor scholars at the Center provided me with the mental and emotional freedom to pursue — at length — a somewhat unconventional project. The essay, titled “The Professor,” will be the final piece in a collection of my essays to be published in January 2010 by HarperCollins.

15 Guoqiang Dong Humanities and International Over the year, I finished five book chapters and three new journal articles. I also Studies Fellow published two book manuscripts. One of them, The Chinese Cultural Revolution: Department of History, Oral History of Fourteen Nanjing University Teachers and Students, is directly Nanjing University, China related to my fellowship project. Besides these concrete and visible fruits, the The Cultural Revolution at Nanjing daily contact between Center fellows, the numerous academic events, and the University as Social History instructive feedback, all served to enlarge my academic perspective and enrich my understanding of the humanities.

Johanna Drucker Digital Humanities Fellow My main project went from an idea to a full-blown, nearly complete manuscript Department of Information Studies, and proof of concept design. I was able to read extensively across many fields University of California, Los Angeles and disciplines, sometimes taking advantage of recommendations by colleagues. Diagramming Interpretation The manuscript will be a short book, polemical and suggestive, rather than exhaustive. I was also able to complete a number of other projects of various scales and types, such as the second volume of a mémoire-à-clé called Poetry Wars: Expansions and Success 1977–1990.

Dan Edelstein Internal Faculty Fellow During my fellowship at the Humanities Center, I was able to write a new book, Department of French and Italian, tentatively entitled The Genesis of the Enlightenment, and oversee the production Stanford University stages of my first book, The Terror of Natural Right (University of Chicago Press, Myth and Enlightenment 2009). I also spent a great deal of time on a digital humanities project called “Mapping the Republic of Letters,” working in close collaboration with Nicole Coleman, my co-fellow Caroline Winterer, and a team of other colleagues.

Jan Estep Arts Practitioner/Writer Fellow I spent the year revisiting Wittgenstein’s original texts and surveying the secondary Department of Art, literature about his ideas. I will present my research in a keynote lecture at the University of Minnesota University of Lapland in the fall. I argue against a common notion of “privacy” and Searching for Ludwig Wittgenstein: “subjectivity” concerning art, using Wittgenstein’s argument against the possibility A Word is Worth 1/1000 of an Image of a private language to do so. I was also able to create three new works this year: an artist book, an illustrated map, and a short article.

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Brian Ferneyhough Donald Andrews Whittier During my fellowship year, I investigated the integral relation pertaining between Faculty Fellow duration, rhythm, and iteration, and undertook to overlap extremely short Department of Music, segments of musical material with much longer ones, thus calling into question the Stanford University validity of both immediate apperception of figural gesture and unidirectional, As If The Time Were Now process-directed procedures. The work includes two compositions, both of which stand in a close relationship to one another, in that they follow an identical formal skeleton, but illuminate it in complementary (positive/negative) fashion.

Rhonda Goodman Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow The presentation I was required to give during my fellowship year proved to Department of Art and Art History, be the turning point for my dissertation. My topic examines many different Stanford University media — architecture, material culture, paintings, and sculptures — so the challenge The Visual Culture of Slave Auctions in was to tell an interdisciplinary story of the visual culture of slave auctions with Nineteenth-Century North America many moving parts. Receiving feedback from scholars across disciplines solved several issues, and one suggestion even shaped an entire chapter.

John Hatcher Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow During the course of the year, I made progress with my project on the nature Faculty of History, and origins of England’s economic and social exceptionalism. I also began working University of Cambridge on a new means of measuring the welfare of the bulk of the population through The Origins and Evolution of England’s the reconstruction of the budgets of peasant farmers. I completed drafts of two Economic and Social Exceptionalism articles on this subject and another on the ways in which fiction can be used to assist in the writing of history.

Margaret Jackson External Faculty Fellow The diversity of approaches and intellect found in such great abundance at the Department of Art and Art History, Center impacted my work in ways that I believe will have lasting effect. I began University of Miami the year by finishing the proofs on an earlier book and starting work on a Semasiography in the Americas fledgling project on Moche visual notation. I also wrote two new articles, gave a number of outside lectures, and began work on a new research proposal resulting from my interactions with the Stanford Archaeology Center and the Archaeology workshop.

Jonathan Kramnick Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow Early on in the year I completed the work on one book, Actions and Objects, Department of English, from Hobbes to Richardson (Stanford University Press, 2010), and began the Rutgers University research for another in earnest. That project on consciousness yielded two Problems of Consciousness articles and a great deal of reading in eighteenth-century science, philosophy, and in Eighteenth-Century Literature literature. Along the way, I also became interested in recent work on evolutionary and Philosophy models for literary study and wrote an article critical of attempts to view literature as an adaptation.

17 Joshua Landy Internal Faculty Fellow My new book, How to Do Things with Fictions, will examine the ways in which Department of French and Italian, readers may fine-tune their mental capacities via an engagement with specific, Stanford University carefully crafted literary narratives. Thanks to the generosity of the Humanities How to Do Things with Fictions Center, I was able to complete all but the introduction. I also published four articles, twice hosted a radio show, co-organized a one-day event on “Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts,” and co-edited a volume on The Re-Enchantment of the World.

Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren Humanities and International I have never experienced such a short yet productive year. I embarked on a Studies Fellow book project on Mongolian collective identities and drafted two long articles that Department of Cultural Anthropology, will form chapters of my book. My exposure to the Freeman Spogli Institute/ National University of Mongolia Stanford Humanities Center Faculty Seminars led me to return to a paper on Ethnic and National Identities in Modern Mongolia’s political system’s transformation; the paper is now under review. Mongolia: A Culture of Divisions In addition, I completed a paper on thirteenth- to fourteenth-century Mongol collective identity.

Yen-Ling Liu Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow Thanks to the support from the Center, I finished my dissertation, which examines Department of Music, Franz Liszt’s symphonic works in relation to the concept of monumentality. My Stanford University primary argument is based on historiographical, aesthetic, and analytical parameters. Music for the People, Music for the Liszt’s symphonic works embody the monumental style, which was established Future: Monumentality as Expressive by Beethoven’s symphonies; some of Liszt’s works also function as sounding and Formal Ideal in the Symphonic monuments displayed on ceremonial occasions in which diverse rhetorical strategies Poems of Franz Liszt are used to communicate with the audience in a direct manner.

Yair Mintzker Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow My year at the Center was a wonderful, productive experience. I completed Department of History, my dissertation, published two articles, worked with an undergraduate research Stanford University fellow on the “spatial turn,” and began an experimental project on the trial and The Defortification of the German City, execution of Joseph Suss Oppenheimer in 1730s Stuttgart. I am especially grateful 1689–1866 for the opportunity to get to know, and productively engage with, the other fellows. Their advice and support helped me get a job as an assistant professor of history at Princeton University.

Dina Moyal Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow Alongside providing superb conditions for writing and creating, the Center gave Department of History, me the opportunity to frame my work in a broad interdisciplinary context and Stanford University interact with great scholars. During this year, I wrote the core chapters of my Did Law Matter? Law, State, dissertation and managed to define the main argument of my study. My project and Individual in the Soviet Union, became much more informed and better contextualized, which is critical for the 1953–1985 next stage of turning a dissertation into a book.

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Natalie Phillips Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow I completed two more chapters of my dissertation and presented on Tristram Department of English, Shandy at Stanford’s Center for the Study of the Novel. In March, I spoke on Stanford University distraction in Betsy Thoughtless at the annual American Society for Eighteenth- Distraction: Dramas of Attention Century Studies conference. I revised a paper on attention and the eighteenth- in Eighteenth-Century Literature, century reader for a volume on the history of reading, and am working on 1747–1818 a second article, “Tis Tris —: Literature, Memory, and the History of Cognitive Science,” recently solicited for publication in Modern Philology.

Alon Rachamimov External Faculty Fellow This year, I set up the theoretical framework for my book, wrote a chapter on Department of History, camp domesticity, and expanded and translated the chapter on camp theaters Tel Aviv University into German. In addition, I contributed a chapter on military captivity during the Islands of Men: two world wars to the Cambridge History of War. This chapter will be the first Shifting Gender Boundaries in World synthesis of the history of military captivity during the first half of the twentieth War I Internment Camps century. Finally, I contributed two review pieces, to the American Historical Review and Aspasia.

Judith Richardson Internal Faculty Fellow The primary benefit of my fellowship year was having the luxury to search around Department of English, in a variety of archival haystacks, and to read widely and deeply in ways that will Stanford University give real cultural richness and texture to my book on plants as both objects of Vegetable Matters: Plant Life and obsession and social paradigms in nineteenth-century America. With this latitude, Nineteenth-Century American Culture I completed a chapter on afflicted trees in the late nineteenth century and drafted the introduction and a first chapter on “Revolutionary Plantations.”

Stephanie Shaw Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow It has, without a doubt, been a productive year. I spent a significant amount of time Department of History, rewriting a book on W.E.B. Du Bois and made important progress on my book Ohio State University on slave migrations. As a consequence of presenting this work to the Women’s Slave Migrations, Generations, and History Study Group, the complete organization of the book is now crystal clear, Antebellum Eras: Female Slaves in the and now that I know how the story ends the final chapter will be easy to write. Nineteenth-Century South I also wrote and revised an essay on the historiography of slavery for a book on Southern history that is being produced for secondary school teachers.

p h o t o s : Nicole Coleman 19 Jason Stanyek External Faculty Fellow I had an extremely productive year. I co-authored a long essay entitled “Deadness: Department of Music, Technologies of the Intermundane” that was accepted by TDR, the top Performance New York University Studies journal. I completed two other essays on Brazilian music and gave the Around the World Goes Around: annual endowed lecture at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane Performing Brazilian Music and Dance University. Most importantly, I was able to make substantial progress on my main in the United States project: a book about Brazilian music and dance in the United States.

Kenneth Taylor Violet Andrews Whittier I spent my year at the Center completing a draft of a book that purports to Faculty Fellow plumb the depths of the distinctively human capacity to be governed and guided Department of Philosophy, by norms. In Toward a Natural History of Normativity, I defend an account of Stanford University the nature of normativity and of the human capacity for what I call normative or Toward a Natural History of Normativity rational self-management.

Lela Urquhart Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow This was a wonderful year for me. The intellectual and moral support of both Department of Classics, fellows and staff was invaluable during the final stages of my dissertation, and Stanford University they will forever be due my gratitude. Being a part of the Center also facilitated Colonial Religion and Local Societies my navigation of the academic job market this year. I will be joining the history in the Archaic Western Mediterranean department at Georgia State University in 2010, after spending a year in Italy on (750–400 BCE) a Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

Caroline Winterer Internal Faculty Fellow I began work on a project about Americans who wrote systematically about Department of History, monarchy and monarchism in the nineteenth century, which is generally thought Stanford University of as the age of democracy. I also had the chance to wrap up a number of other Americans and Monarchy projects, which, happily, will be published in the next year or two. Finally, the Center in the Age of Democracy was the ideal staging area for the new, collaborative project entitled, “Mapping the Republic of Letters,” which involves faculty from several humanities departments.

The Center’s fellowships are made possible by support from the following individuals, foundations, and Stanford offices: The Esther Hayfer Bloom Estate, Theodore H. and Frances K. Geballe, Mimi and Peter Haas, Marta Sutton Weeks, the Mericos Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the office of the Dean of Humanities and Sciences. The Humanities and International Studies Fellowships are jointly sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Arts Practitioner/Writer fellowship is jointly sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Creativity & the Arts.

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Undergraduate SUMMER FELLOWS Katherine Martinez “The Root of Citizen Opposition: Research Fellows In 2009, the Humanities Center A Study on Resident Opinion in welcomed seven undergraduate Each year, the Center offers fellowships Palo Alto, CA” to advanced undergraduates to work recipients of research grants from the with a faculty or dissertation fellow on Vice Provost for Undergraduate a collaborative research project. This Education as summer fellows. This Phillip Mayer program is made possible by a grant pilot program, launched in 2007 in “Senior Thesis in Wind Ensemble from Stanford’s Office of theV ice collaboration with Undergraduate Composition” Provost for Undergraduate Education. Advising and Research and the Stanford Writing Center, provides Katrina Mendoza Blair Foley young humanities scholars with offices “Milk and the Evolution of the Gay and resources at the Center and the Male Stereotype” Music opportunity to explore the research (worked with Brian Ferneyhough) process with their colleagues. The Altered Notation in Non-Linear Time program is led by Hilton Obenzinger, associate director for Honors Carlos Fonseca and Advanced Writing, the Hume Comparative Literature Writing Center. (worked with Yair Mintzker) The History and Significance of the “Spatial Turn” Anuk Arudpragasam “Is Meaning Normative?” Hannah Krakauer Philosophy and Religious Studies Alexander Berger (worked with Dan Edelstein) “State Appellate Court Decisions Examining Voltaire’s Correspondence in Education Finance Cases: More than Politics?” Eric Messinger Comparative Literature Jay de la Torre (worked with Joshua Landy) “Getting Hitched: An In-Depth Philosophy and Literature Exploration of Same-Sex Unions and Their Ramifications” Andre Zollinger International Relations Shelley Gao (worked with Jason Stanyek) “The Ideological Development of Understanding Musical Globalization Elizabeth Churchill Brown and Freda in Rede Globo Utley: Two Conservative, Anticommunist Journalists in 1940s and 1950s American Politics”

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Following are books recently published University Press, 2007), was chosen Anna Maria Busse Berger by Humanities Center fellows. All by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding (2001–02) information has been gathered from Academic Title in 2008 and was a La musica medievale e l’arte della fellows’ communications. The year finalist in the anthologies category for memoria (Italian translation) in parentheses indicates the year the ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the FogliVolanti Edizioni, 2008 fellow was in residence. Year Award for 2007. Karol Berger (2003–04) Jared Farmer (2003–04) Potega smaku. Teoria sztuki (Polish Awards Won the 2009 Francis Parkman Prize translation) from the Society of American Historians slowo/obraz terytoria, 2008 Karol Berger (2003–04) for On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow: An Essay Received the 2008 Marjorie Weston and the American Landscape (Harvard on the Origins of Musical Modernity Emerson Award of the Mozart Society University Press, 2008). of America for the best scholarly (paperback edition) work on Mozart published in English in University of California Press, Benjamin Lazier (2007–08) 2008 2007 for Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow: Won the 2008 John Templeton Award An Essay on the Origins of Musical for Theological Promise for God Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi Modernity (University of California Interrupted: Heresy and the European (1999–2000) Press, 2007). Imagination Between the World Wars Editor (Princeton University Press, 2008). Empire Lost: France and its Ariela Gross (1993–94) Other Worlds Won the 2009 J. Willard Hurst Prize Richard Steven Street Lexington Books, 2009 for outstanding scholarship in sociolegal (1999–2000) history from the Law and Society Received the Wyeth Award from the Co-editor (with Isidore Ndaywel) Association for What Blood Won’t Tell: College Art Association for Everyone Images, mémoires et savoirs. Une A History of Race on Trial in America Had Cameras: Photography and histoire en partage avec Bogumil (Harvard University Press, 2008). Farmworkers in California, 1850–2000 Koss Jewsiewicki. (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Karthala, 2009 Robert Harrison (1990–91) Won Italy’s most prestigious book Jayna Brown (2003–04) prize, the Premio Napoli, for Gardens: Publications Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers An Essay on the Human Condition and the Shaping of the Modern (University of Chicago Press, 2008). H. Samy Alim (2007–08) Duke University Press, 2008 Co-author (with Awad Ibrahim and Jonathan Holloway Alastair Pennycook) Terry Castle (2008–09) (2004–05) Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Introduction Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics Victorine (by Maude Hutchins) Science, and American Thought in of Language New York Review of Books the Twentieth Century (Notre Dame Routledge, 2008 Classics, 2008

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Gordon Chang (1993–94; Richard Eldridge (1993–94) Michael Dylan Foster 2002–03) Editor (2001–02) Co-editor (with Mark Johnson and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Paul Karlstrom) and Literature Monsters and the Culture of Yokai Asian American Art: A History, 1850–1970 Oxford University Press, 2009 University of California Press, 2008 Stanford University Press, 2008 Literature, Life, and Modernity Nancy Fraser (1984–85) Rachel Cohon (1992–93) Columbia University Press, 2008 Adding Insult to Injury: Social Justice Hume’s Morality: Feeling and Fabrication Jan Estep (2008–09) and the Politics of Recognition Oxford University Press, 2008 Co-author (with Michael Agnew and Verso Books, 2008 Thomas Conlan (1997–98) the NECC Actors) Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Weapons and Fighting Techniques of Doing Time, Nothing But Time Space in a Globalizing World the Samurai Warrior, 1200–1877 AD Jan Estep (artist book), 2009 Columbia University Press, 2008 Amber Books, 2008 Escalas de justicia (Spanish translation) Johannes Fabian (2005–06) Editorial Herder, 2008 Mary Jean Corbett (1987–88) Ethnography as Commentary: Writing Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and from the Virtual Archive Marjorie Garber (1989–90) Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf Duke University Press, 2008 Shakespeare and Modern Culture Cornell University Press, 2009 Pantheon, 2008 John Felstiner (1983–84; Clifton Crais (1994–95) 1996–97; 2004–05) Denise Gigante (2003–04) Co-author (with Pamela Scully) Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Life: Organic Form and Romanticism Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: Guide to Nature Poems Yale University Press, 2009 A Ghost Story and a Biography Yale University Press, 2009 Editor Princeton University Press, 2008 The Great Age of the English Essay: Paula Findlen (1998–99) An Anthology George Dekker (1997–98) Co-editor (with Wendy Wassyng Yale University Press, 2008 Touching Fire: A Forestry Memoir Roworth and Catherine M. Sama) Hooper, Trish Publications, 2009 Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (1993–94) Guoqiang Dong (2008–09) Stanford University Press, 2009 Co-author (with Antonio Ortuño) Modern Chinese: Liberalist Intellectuals Contra las buenas intenciones and Their Political Trends: 1910–1930 Stuart Finkel (1998–99) Tumbona Ediciones, 2008 Fellows Press of America, 2009 On the Ideological Front: The Russian Co-author (with Robert Pogue Intelligentsia and the Making of the Personal Experience During the Cultural Harrison, Michael R. Hendrickson, and Soviet Public Sphere Robert B. Laughlin) Revolution: The Oral History of Yale University Press, 2007 Geist und Materie: Zur Aktualität von Fourteen Teachers and Students of Erwin Schrödinger Nanjing University Suhrkamp, 2008 Cozy House Publisher, 2009

23 In Praise of Athletic Beauty (Cantonese David Holloway (2005–06) Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren translation) Stalin a bomba: Soveˇtský svaz a jaderná (2008–09) Horizon Media Co./Shanghai energie, 1939–1956 (Czech translation) Selling of Good Father’s Name: Century Publishing Ltd, 2008 Academia, 2008 Legitimacy, Pride, and Commodity In Praise of Athletic Beauty (Korean Sunrise Publishing, 2008 translation) Elizabeth Hutchinson Dolbegae, 2008 (1994–95) Mark McGurl (2002–03) The Indian Craze: Primitivism, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and Robert Pogue Harrison Modernism, and Transculturation in the Rise of Creative Writing (1990–91) American Art, 1890–1915 Harvard University Press, 2009 Co-author (with Hans Ulrich Duke University Press, 2009 Gumbrecht, Michael R. Hendrickson, Felicity Nussbaum (1991–92) and Robert B. Laughlin) Margaret Jackson (2008–09) Co-editor (with Saree Makdisi) Geist und Materie: Zur Aktualität von Moche Art and Visual Culture in The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Erwin Schrödinger Ancient Peru Between East and West Suhrkamp, 2008 University of New Mexico Press, Oxford University Press, 2009 2008 Stefan Helmreich (1994–95) Jann Pasler (1993–94) Troy Jollimore (2006–07) Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Composing the Citizen: Music as Public The Solipsist Microbial Seas Utility in Third Republic France Bear Star Press, 2008 University of California Press, University of California Press, 2009 2009 Barbara Koenig (2002–03) Ursula Heise (1990–91) Co-editor (with Sandra Soo-Jin Lee Rob Reich (1997–98; 2001–02) Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: and Sarah S. Richardson) Co-editor (with Debra Satz) The Environmental Imagination of Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age Toward a Humanist Justice: The Political the Global Rutgers University Press, 2008 Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin Oxford University Press, 2008 Oxford University Press, 2009 Joshua Landy (1999–2000; Daniel Herwitz (1990–91) 2008–09) Michael Saler (2001–02) The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Co-editor (with Michael Saler) Co-editor (with Joshua Landy) Mass Consumption The Re-Enchantment of the World: The Re-Enchantment of the World: Columbia University Press, 2008 Secular Magic in a Rational Age Secular Magic in a Rational Age Stanford University Press, 2009 Stanford University Press, 2009 Co-editor (with Ashutosh Varshney) Midnight’s Diaspora: Critical Encounters Seth Lerer (2000–01) Debra Satz (1990–91; 2001–02) with Salman Rushdie Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History Co-editor (with Rob Reich) The University of Michigan Press, from Aesop to Harry Potter Toward a Humanist Justice: The Political 2008 University of Chicago Press, Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin 2008 Oxford University Press, 2009

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Haun Saussy (2001–02) Sven Spieker (2002–03) William Tronzo (2006–07) Co-editor (with Jonathan Stalling and The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy Editor Lucas Klein) MIT Press, 2008 The Fragment: An Incomplete History The Chinese Written Character as a Getty Publications, 2009 Medium for Poetry Peter Stansky (2003–04) Editor Fordham University Press, 2008 Bloomsbury as Publisher: Virginia and St. Peter’s in the Vatican Leonard Woolf and the Hogarth Press Cambridge University Press, 2008 Robert A. Schapiro (1985–86; Arion Press, 2008 1986–87) Polyphonic Federalism: Toward the Daniel J. Walkowitz (2001–02) Jennifer Summit (1998–99) Protection of Fundamental Rights Co-editor (with Lisa Mayaknauer) Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in University of Chicago Press, 2009 Contested Histories in Public Space: Early Modern England Memory, Race, and Nation University of Chicago Press, 2008 J.B. Shank (1994–95) Duke University Press, 2009 The Newton Wars and the Beginning of Sibyl Schwarzenbach the French Enlightenment David Wellbery (1982–83) (2002–03) University of Chicago Press, 2008 Co-editor (with Gerhard Neumann) On Civic Friendship: Including Women Die Gabe des Gedichts: Goethes Lyrik in the State James Sheehan (2004–05) im Wechsel der Töne Columbia University Press, 2009 Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Rombach, 2008 Transformation of Modern Europe Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008 Mark Swislocki (1999–2000) Steven Zipperstein (1990–91; Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food 1997–98) Laurie Shrage (1998–99) Culture and the Urban Experience Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and You’ve Changed: Sex Reassignment and in Shanghai the Furies of Writing Personal Identity Stanford University Press, 2008 Oxford University Press, 2009 Yale University Press, 2009

Sixteenth Annual Celebration of Publications by Stanford Faculty This year marked the sixteenth annual Stanford Humanities Center celebration to honor works written, edited, and recorded by Stanford humanities faculty members and published during the 2008 calendar year. On display in Levinthal Hall were a total of sixty-seven books and fiveCD s.

p h o t o : Corrie Goldman 25 Staff, Committees, Honorary Fellows

Director Roberta Katz, Faculty Fellowship Aron Rodrigue, Associate Vice President of Strategic Selection Committee Anthony P. Meier Family Professor Planning, Stanford University Gavin Jones, and Director Barbara Koenig, English, Stanford University Biomedical Ethics and Medicine, Barbara Koenig, Staff Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Biomedical Ethics and Medicine, Robert Barrick, Nancy Kollmann, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Fellowship Program Manager History, Stanford University Nancy Kollmann, Zoë Bower, Linda R. Meier, History, Stanford University Communications Coordinator Community Volunteer Rob Reich, Nicole Coleman, Alex Nemerov, Political Science, Stanford University Academic Technology Specialist Art History, Yale University Maurice Samuels, Corrie Goldman, Walter Robb, French, Yale University Stanford University Humanities Whole Foods Market, Inc. Matthew Tiews, outreach Officer James Spohrer, Stanford Humanities Center Andres Le Roux, IBM Almaden Research Center (ex officio) Computing Consultant Patrick Suppes, William Tronzo, Kent Safford, Philosophy, Stanford University Art and Art History, University of Workshop Program Administrator (emeritus) California, San Diego Najwa Salame, William M. Todd, III, Chair: Aron Rodrigue, Stanford Financial Manager Slavic Languages and Literatures, Humanities Center (ex officio) Susan Sebbard, Harvard University Assistant Director David Wellbery, germanic Studies, University of Chicago Honorary Fellows Beth Stutsman, Keith Michael Baker, Office Coordinator Sylvia Yanagisako, Anthropology, Stanford University History, Stanford University Sonja Sulcer, John Bender, Event Coordinator Ex Officio Members English, Stanford University Matthew Tiews, Arthur Bienenstock, Associate Director Ann Arvin, Dean of Research Materials Science, Stanford University Marie-Pierre Ulloa, (emeritus) Sara Bible, Executive Officer for International Bliss Carnochan, Programs Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration, Office of the English, Stanford University (emeritus) Wanda M. Corn, Student Staff Dean of Research Stephen Hinton, Art and Art History, Stanford University Roxanne Martinez, (emerita) Fellowship Assistant Senior Associate Dean for Humanities & Arts, School of George G. Dekker, Lily Xu, English, Stanford University (emeritus) Office Assistant Humanities and Sciences Aron Rodrigue, Charles H. Kruger, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford Advisory Board Members Director, Stanford Humanities Center Matthew Tiews, University (emeritus) Sandra Barnes, J. Hillis Miller, Anthropology, University Associate Director, Stanford Humanities Center English, University of California, Irvine of Pennsylvania (emeritus) Coit Blacker, Executive Committee Peter Stansky, Political Science, Stanford University History, Stanford University (emeritus) Al Camarillo, Coit Blacker, Political Science Al Camarillo, History Ian P. Watt, History, Stanford University English, Stanford University (deceased) Hester Gelber, Religious Studies Hester Gelber, Hayden White, Nancy Kollmann, History Religious Studies, Stanford University History of Consciousness, University of Jonathan Holloway, Aron Rodrigue, Stanford Humanities California, Santa Cruz (emeritus) Center African American Studies and History, Harry Woolf, Yale University Patrick Suppes, Philosophy (emeritus) History of Science, Institute for Wilfred Jaeger, Matthew Tiews, Stanford Humanities Advanced Study (deceased) Three Arch Partners Center Sylvia Yanagisako, Anthropology

26 Financial overview Stanford Humanities Center Annual Report 2008–09

Gifts to endowment provide crucial funding for Humanities Center programs. The Center also receives funding for basic expenses and new initiatives from the Dean of Research and the Office of the President.

Fiscal Year September 1, 2008 to August 31, 2009 The pie charts reflect the percentages by category of program expenses and funding sources, based on total program expenditures of $3.28 million.

Program Expenses Fellowship Program – 51% Workshop Program – 8% Public Lectures and Conferences – 9% Pilot Programs – 11% Administration – 21%

Funding Sources Endowment – 75% university Funds – 23% Expendable Gifts – 1% Grants and Contracts – 1%

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DONORS NAMED GIFTS Workshop in Honor of John Bender AND GRANTS (2005) The following individuals made gifts to Anonymous the Research Workshop Campaign The Humanities Center is grateful for or the Humanities Center Innovation the vital gifts to endowment since its Claire and John Radway Research Fund between September 1, 2008 and founding, which have made it possible Workshop (2006) August 31, 2009. to carry out its mission and secure its Claire and John Radway core activities in perpetuity. The dates Humanities Center Fellows Research Director’s Circle ($5,000+) in parentheses indicate the year the Workshop (2008) Rhoda and Elliott Levinthal endowment was established. Former Fellows and Peter S. Bing Claire and John Radway Laurose and Burton Richter Visitorship Mary Anne Rothberg and Named Gifts Andrew Rowen Humanities Center Directorship The Weeks Distinguished Visitor (1987) Marta Sutton Weeks Benefactor ($2,000–$4,000) Anthony P. Meier Family Professorship in the Humanities (1987) Grace and Laurance Hoagland RECENT GRANTS Andrea and Lubert Stryer Linda and Tony Meier; Anthony Jr., Eric, and Laura Meier National Endowment for the Hu- Patron ($500–$1,999) manities Ann and John* Bender Fellowships $600,000 challenge grant to endow Marie and Leonard Collins Marta Sutton Weeks Fellows (1982) Stanford Humanities Center research Wanda* and Joe* Corn Marta Sutton Weeks workshops (2004) Hamilton Cravens* Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellows The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Loring Guessous $1 million matching grant to endow Arnold Rampersad* (1987, 1998) Theodore and Frances Geballe Stanford Humanities Center research Paul Robinson* workshops (2003) Marilyn and Irvin Yalom Donald Andrews Whittier, Violet Andrews Whittier, and Ellen Andrews $120,000 three-year “bridging” grant Donor ($100–$499) Wright Fellows (1988) to support Stanford Humanities Victory Van Dyck and The Mericos Foundation, Center research workshops* (2005) Theodore Chase Joanne Blokker, President The Office of theV ice Provost for Dan Edelstein* Undergraduate Education Jonathan Holloway* Research Workshop Program Undergraduate Research Assistant Laurie Koloski* Fellowships* (2001–09) Jennifer Summit* Theodore and Frances Geballe Research Workshop Program (2007) Barbara Whitman * Expendable Mike Zachary Theodore and Frances Geballe

Friend ($1–$99) Individual Research Workshops OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Jerold Blain Linda Randall Meier Research With the support of the Office of the Michael Bratman* Workshop (2004) President, the Humanities Center stages Elizabeth Wahl Linda and Tony Meier the Presidential and Endowed Lectures in the Humanities and the Arts, which * Former Fellow Marta Sutton Weeks Research Workshops (2004, 2007) include and derive additional funds Marta Sutton Weeks from the Harry Camp Memorial and Raymond F. West Memorial lectures. Blokker Research Workshop (2005) Each year these ongoing series present The Mericos Foundation, a variety of lectures by distinguished Joanne Blokker, President scholars from around the world.

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“The daily contact with other International Visitors Program fellows, the numerous academic Short-Term Residencies events, and the instructive feedback from colleagues, enlarged As a pilot in 2009–10, the Stanford Humanities Center and my academic perspective and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) enriched my understanding of will offer up to four short-term residencies to international the humanities. But perhaps the major benefit of the fellowship scholars. Residencies will be approximately four weeks long. was the time for reading, thinking, While in residence, scholars will give seminars and interact and writing, and the opportunity with fellows at the Humanities Center, participate in a to develop more direct contacts research group at one of the FSI centers, and engage with with American academics.” Dong Guoqiang, departments and other units on campus. Humanities and International The Humanities Center is seeking funds to extend this Studies Fellow, 2008–09 program, allowing continued opportunities for short-term residencies for international scholars in the years to come. The Center would also like to expand the program to include longer visits where appropriate and to include scholars whose work may be of interest to the broader humanities community on campus.

Funding Goals Naming Opportunities $60,000 to $90,000 per Naming opportunities exist year expendable for individual residencies as $1.2M to $1.8M to endow well as for the entire program. Gifts at these levels will fund For information about making stipends for four to six a gift in support of this pro- scholars, travel to and from gram, contact Susan Sebbard the country of origin, and at 650.723.3053 or by email local housing costs. at [email protected].

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Annual gifts from friends of the Humanities Center are indispensable to funding its workshops, fellowships, outreach, and research initiatives. To help the Center fulfill its mission, please consider a gift of any size. You can use the enclosed remit envelope or visit our website for more giving options. All gifts are tax deductible and count towards The Stanford Challenge, the university’s campaign.

GIVING OPPORTUNITIES International Programs The Humanities Center’s top fundraising priority is to develop a robust program that expands Stanford’s participation in international debates on vital issues concerning the humanities and raises the Center’s institutional profile on the world stage. The Center currently seeks expendable funds to support four to six international scholars annually for short-term residencies. Humanities Center Innovation Fund Annual gifts to the Innovation Fund vitalize the humanities at Stanford. These unrestricted gifts are indispensable to enabling the Center to pursue its goals in promoting the scholarship of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Planned Giving Planned gifts, such as bequests and life income gifts, are an effective way to realize your philanthropic goals. Giving by bequest costs nothing now, but allows you to help secure the future of the Stanford Humanities Center. Bequests also offer significant tax advantages. To learn more about bequests, as well as the full range of life income gifts such as charitable remainder trusts and charitable gift annuities, please contact Susan Sebbard (see below). You may also contact Stanford’s Office of Planned Giving directly at 800.227.8977, ext. 54358, or [email protected]. Or you may visit their website at http://bequests andtrusts.stanford.edu.

WAYS TO GIVE • Make an online gift (http://shc.stanford.edu) • Make a recurring online gift (monthly/quarterly/semi-anually/annually) • Write a check (payable to Stanford University) • Make a pledge • Donate your honorarium (http://shc.stanford.edu/support/donate-your- honorarium) • Transfer stock sales • Make a planned gift We welcome gifts at all levels. Every gift is appreciated! For more information, please visit our website at http://shc.stanford.edu/support, or contact Assistant Director Susan Sebbard at [email protected] or 650.723.3053.

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