Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellows
2008-2009
Director
Susan Stanford Friedman, English; Gender and Women’s Studies
UW-Madison Senior Fellows
Rachel Brenner, Hebrew and Semitic Studies
Jean B. Lee, History
David Morgan, History
John Niles, English
Tejumola Olaniyan, African Languages & Literature and English
V. Narqayana Rao, Languages and Cultures of Asia
Lee Palmer Wandel, History
UW-Madison Law School Fellow
Len Kaplan
UW-Madison Faculty Fellows
Brian Hyer, Music, “Mimetic Failure and the Autistic Sublime in a Schubert Song.”
Michael Bernard-Donals, English, “Conflations of Memory: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Representation of Atrocity.”
B. Venkat Mani, German, “Transposed Signs of Modernity: India in German Linguistics, Philosophy, Literature, and Cinema (1786-1988).”
Nancy Marshall, Art History, “Nineteenth-Century British Poet and Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.”
Russ Shafer-Landau, Philosophy, “Meaning and the Good Life.”
Louise Young, History, “Beyond the Metropolis. Local Moderns in Interwar Japan”
Solmsen Fellows
Robert F. Berkhofer, History, Western Michigan University, “Forgeries and Historical Consciousness in Medieval Europe.”
Valerie Garver, History, Northern Illinois University, “Textiles in the Carolingian World, c.715-c.915.”
Catherine Martin, English, University of Memphis, “Milton in Italy: Reconsidering a Poetic and Political Journey.”
Andrew Scheil, English, University of Minnesota, “The Matter of Babylon: Figures of the City in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond.”
UW-Madison Dissertation Fellows
Coleman Dissertation Fellow in the History of Science:
Andrew Ruis, History of Science, “Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Food Service and Children’s Nutrition in Early 20th Century America”
Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow:
Anupam Basu, English, “‘Loitering lusks and lazy lorels’: Thomas Harman’s Caveat for Common Cursitors Vulgarly Called Vagabonds and the Transformation of Poverty”
UW-System Fellows
Ellen Amster, History, UW-Milwaukee, “ Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956”
Esther K. Bauer, Foreign Languages, German, UW-Stevens Point, “Bodily Desire–Desired Bodies. Gender and Desire in Early 20th Century Novels and Paintings”
Norlisha F. Crawford, English; African American Studies, UW-Oshkosh, “Chester Himes’ Rewriting of Race, Class and Gender in his Harlem Detective Series”
Tanya J. Tiffany, Art History, UW-Milwaukee, “Diego Velázquez’s Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville”
David Woodward Cartography Fellow
Stéphane Blond, History, Economy & Science, University d’every-val d’Essone, France, “Administrative maps in Europe, 1650-1800”
Madison Area Technical College Fellow
Jonathan Pollack, History, “Universities and American Jewish Business Networks, 1865-1940
Honorary Fellows
Robert Lafleur, History and Anthropology, Beloit College, “Chinese Historiography”
David Williams, Political Science and Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point, “Noble and Nefarious Lies: Deception in Western Political Thought”