Fellow-Category: Humanities

Lillian Guerra

Lillian Guerra is the author of many scholarly essays as well as three books: Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico (1998), The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (2005), and Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption and Resistance, 1959–1971 (2012). Her creative writings include contributions to the works

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Ann Gold

Ann Grodzins Gold is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University.  Gold’s research and teaching are rooted in more than thirty years of ethnographic engagement with religion and culture in provincial North India.  Located in a single region, her fieldwork and writings concern diverse topics: pilgrimage, gender, expressive traditions,

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Randall Fuller

Randall Fuller, Chapman Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, is the author of Emerson’s Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists (Oxford UP, 2007), a co-edited collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journals (Ohio State UP, 2010), and From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature (Oxford UP, 2011), which won the

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Devin Fore

Devin Fore is an Associate Professor of German at Princeton University, where he also teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Program in Media + Modernity. After receiving his Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University in 2005, he taught briefly as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Cornell. Though he writes increasingly

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Joyce Flueckiger

Joyce Flueckiger is a professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University. She specializes in performance studies, anthropology of religion, and religions of South Asia, with a particular focus on gender. As the daughter of Mennonite missionaries, she grew up in India until the age of eighteen. She returned to the U.S. to attend

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David Engerman

David C. Engerman is Ottilie Springer Professor of History at Brandeis University, where he has taught international history and modern American history since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998.  His Berkeley dissertation, revised, appeared as Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development (Harvard, 2003)

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Arienne Dwyer

Arienne Dwyer’s work bridges linguistic typology and ethnography, critical discourse analysis, indigenous advocacy, and digital humanities. She is known for identifying Chinese Inner Asia as a language convergence area (Sprachbund), and for her work in Uyghur language and cultural studies. She views Inner Asia as having a common grammar of linguistic and cultural practices, where

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Alexandra Wettlaufer

Alexandra K. Wettlaufer is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is Trice Professor and Associate Director of the Plan II Honors Program and a core faculty affiliate in Women’s and Gender Studies.  She received her A.B. from Princeton University in comparative literature (summa cum laude), followed

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Bonna Wescoat

Bonna Daix Wescoat is a classical archaeologist whose primary research centers on the intersection of architecture, ritual, and place in ancient Greek sacred contexts. A graduate of Smith College, she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to continue her study in Britain. There she earned an M.A. in the archaeology of the Roman Empire at the

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Jacob Dalton

Jacob Dalton, Khyentse Foundation Distinguished University Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, teaches in the departments of East Asian Lanuages and Cultures and South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also an active member of Berkeley’s Group in Buddhist Studies.  He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University

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Will Crutchfield

Will Crutchfield has been involved for many years in the study and performance of Italian opera, first as a coach and accompanist, later as a writer of scholarly and journalistic articles, and since 1995 as the conductor of a repertory embracing nearly seventy operas by Handel, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, and Verdi.  The line

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Thomas Crow

Thomas Crow is Rosalie Solow Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.  He was previously Director of the Getty Research Institute, Robert Lehman Professor Art History at Yale, and Chair of Art History at Sussex University in the U.K.  His teaching includes later modern and contemporary art along with French art from

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Donald Crafton

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies stated, when conferring the Award of Distinction in the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship on Donald Crafton’s Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation (2013), that “This study takes us on a deep and provocative journey through cinematic animation through the concept of ‘animation performativity.’ Blending

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John Watkins

John Watkins is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where he holds affiliate appointments in History, Medieval Studies, and Italian Studies.  He co-chairs the Institute for Global Studies’ Research Collaborative on the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East.  After graduating from Indiana University, Watkins completed an M.Phil. in Renaissance

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Sarah Cole

“In diverse forms and spirits we are making over the world,” H. G. Wells wrote in 1933, “so that the primary desires and emotions, the drama of individual life will be subordinate more and more, generation by generation, to beauty and truth, to universal interests and mightier aims. This is our common role.” It is

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William Chittick

William C. Chittick grew up in Connecticut, attended the College of Wooster in Ohio, and discovered Rumi during a junior year at the American University of Beirut. In 1966 he enrolled in the University of Tehran, where he completed a Ph.D. in Persian literature with a dissertation on Jami, a fifteenth-century follower of the Andalusian

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Emily Thompson

Emily Thompson is a historian of technology who studies late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Her research explores the cultural history of sound, music, noise, and listening, and she focuses on how these phenomena and activities intersected with technologies like the phonograph, motion pictures, and architecture. Before she became a historian, Thompson worked as a

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Myriam J. A. Chancy

Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph. D., is a Haitian-Canadian/American, writer/scholar and photographer; she obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa at the age of twenty-four as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Fellow, awarded to her at the age of twenty while completing her M.A. in African American Literature at

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