2005-2006 Fellowships in the Humanities

Long-Term Fellowships

LLOYD LEWIS FELLOW IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Mark Elliott
Assistant Professor of History, Wagner College
In Quest of a Color-Blind America: The Life and Times of Albion Tourgée

MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS IN THE HUMANITIES
Laura Matthew
Assistant Professor of History, Marquette University
Neither and Both: The Mexican Conquistadors of Colonial Guatemala

Anthony Pollock
Assistant Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Citizen Spectator: Aesthetic Experience and the Engendering of English Public Culture, 1709-1757

Ethan Shagan
Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University
Violence and the Via Media: The Ideal of Moderation in England, 1500-1700

MONTICELLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION FELLOW
Jane Calvert
Assistant Professor of History, St. Mary's College of Maryland
"Dissenters in Our Own Country": Eighteenth-Century Quakerism and the Origins of American Civil Disobedience

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES FELLOWS
Matt Cohen
Assistant Professor of English, Duke University
Positioning the Word in Early New England

James Epstein
Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
The Politics of Colonial Sensation: Britain and Trinidad in the Age of Revolution, 1797-c.1810

Betsy Erkkilä
Professor of English, Northwestern University
Writing the Revolution: Literature and Politics in Revolutionary America

Long-term Faculty Fellows

ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF THE MIDWEST FACULTY FELLOWS
Robert Bennett
Professor of Classics, Kenyon College
Glenn McNair
Assistant Professor of History, Kenyon College
The Problem of Slavery and Visions of Freedom in Western Culture

COMMITTEE ON INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION FACULTY FELLOW
Cameron B. Wesson
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Landscapes of Memory, Landscapes of Power: Muskogee Creek Cosmology, Architecture & Social Space

NEWBERRY LIBRARY UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR FACULTY FELLOWS
Laura Hostetler
Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ellen McClure
Assistant Professor of French, University of Illinois at Chicago
Exchange Before Orientalism

Short-term Fellowships

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES FELLOW
David Irving
Ph.D. Candidate in Music, University of Cambridge
Music, Society and Culture in Eighteenth-century Manila

AUDREY LUMSDEN-KOUVEL FELLOW
Carmen Menchini
Researcher in History, University of Pisa
The Influence of Classical Sources in the Rhetorical Propaganda of the Medici Family: The Case of Pietro Angeli da Barga

LESTER J. CAPPON FELLOW IN DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Massimo Scalabrini
Assistant Professor of Italian, Indiana University at Bloomington
Unpublished Works by Lodovico Castelvetro in the Newberry Library: A Critical Edition

CENTER FOR GREAT LAKES CULTURE/MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FELLOW
Timothy Willig
Instructor in History, Indiana University at South Bend
Restoring the Chain of Friendship: British Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783-1812

COMMITTEE ON INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS
Kelly Branam
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Indiana University
Political Change in Crow Country, 1948 to the Present

James Buss
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Purdue University
The Winning of the West with Words: Clearing the "Middle Ground" for American Pioneers

Dennis Christafferson
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Indiana University
From Convert to Missionary: The First Generation of Sioux Clergy in the Episcopal Church

Jill Doerfler
Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Fictions and Fractions: Reconciling Citizenship Regulations with Cultural Values Among the White Earth Anishinaabeg

C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Michigan State University
"Shall We Now Adopt a Wise Indian Policy?": Reformers, Native Peoples, and the Controversies of Assimilation

Joel Helfrich
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Minnesota
Sacred Sites, Scientific Rites: The Struggle over Mount Graham (dzil nchaa si'an)

Michel Hogue
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin
Marking the Medicine Line: Race and Nation Along the Forty-Ninth Parallel

MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION FELLOW
Thomas Augst
Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota
The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Citizenship

SUSAN KELLY POWER AND HELEN HORNBECK TANNER FELLOW
Mishuana Goeman
Assistant Professor of English and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
Unconquered Women, Unconquered Nation: Cartographic Encounters in 20th Century Native Women's Writing

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION FELLOWS IN THE HUMANITIES
Elizabeth J. Nesbitt
Ph.D. Candidate in American Indian Studies, University of Arizona
Land Tenure for the Miami Nation in Indiana

Waste'Win Young
Tribal Historian, Standing Rock Dakota/Lakota Nation
"Iyan Woslate Wo'Oyake": The History and Culture of Standing Rock

SOUTH CENTRAL MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION FELLOW
Michael Winship
Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin
A.C. McClurg and Co. and American Book Distribution, 1870-1920

SHORT-TERM FELLOWS IN THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY
Surekha Davies
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of London
Representations of Amerindians in European Cartography and the Reception of New World Knowledge, c. 1492-1648

Peter Kastor
Assistant Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis
An Accurate Empire: Describing America, 1776-1840

Scott Kirsch
Assistant Professor of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The National Map in a Global Age: A Study of Science, Territoriality and Governance in the U.S. and Philippines during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

NEWBERRY LIBRARY SHORT-TERM RESIDENT FELLOWS
Gina Bloom
Assistant Professor of English, Lawrence University
Playing Boys: Early Modern Youth and Masculinity

Maria Bollettino
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin
Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War

Elena Bonora
Associate Professor of History, University of Parma
"In spiritu lenitatis": The Debate on Religious Concessions and the European Politics of Pope Pius IV (1560-1565)

Robert Brightman
Professor of Anthropology, Reed College
Representations of "Indian Culture" in Tribal Newspapers

Tess Chakkalakal
Assistant Professor of English, Williams College
The Uncle Tom Trade: Fictions of the Black Home in 19th Century America

Richard Christen
Associate Professor of Education, University of Portland
Hand and Mind: An Educational Idea in theory and Practice, 1870-2000

Michael Crawford
Lecturer in History, University of Arizona
New World Rules for Old World Status: Hidalgos in Colonial Mexico

Charles Fanning
Professor of English, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
James T. Farrell's O'Neill-O'Flaherty Pentalogy: New Editions of Five Novels for the University of Illinois Press

Jamie Ferguson
Ph.D. Candidate in English, Indiana University at Bloomington
Faith in the Language: Renaissance Bible-Translation and Literary Language

Martha Few
Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona
Colonial Medicine and Healing Cultures in Guatemala, 17th-19th Centuries

Cory Gavito
Ph.D. Candidate in Music, University of Texas at Austin
Printed Alfabeto Song and Venetian Popular Culture, 1600-1650

Katharina Hering
Ph.D. Candidate in History, George Mason University
The History of the Department of Genealogy at Newberry Library 1887-1950

Theresa Kemp
Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire
"From Eve's Fair Hand": Anne Clifford Reading and Writing the Sentence of Genesis

Aaron Kitch
Assistant Professor of English, Bowdoin College
Theater, Economics, and Psychology in Early Modern England

Gretchen Long
Assistant Professor of History, Williams College
Soldier to Freedman: Wounds, Illness, and Masculinity

Micki McElya
Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Alabama
Clinging to Mammy: Narratives of the Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century U.S. Culture

Kathryn Muller
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Queen's University
The Kaswentha Ethic: From an Ancient Ideology to the Two Row Wampum

Scott Newstok
Assistant Professor of English, Gustavus Adolphus College
How To Do Things with Epitaphs: The Early Modern English Epitaph in its Extra-Funerary Contexts

Wendy Plotkin
Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State University
Deeds of Mistrust: Race, Housing and Restrictive Covenants in Chicago, 1900-1953

Jennifer Snead
Director of the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
A "Strife of Words": John Wesley and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture

Christopher Strangeman
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
The Enlightenment and the English College at Douai, 1715-1794

David Tengwall
Professor of History, Anne Arundel Community College
The Fight for Portugese Independence

Holly Tucker
Associate Professor of French, Vanderbilt University
Graftings: Early-Modern Sex and Masculinity

Joseph Wycoff
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Washington
Disciplining the Managerial Subject: Discourses of Political Economy in the United States, 1820-1920

ARTHUR WEINBERG FELLOW
Hilary Mac Austin
Historian and Writer
A Real American Family: The Prescott-Carringtons as a Reflection of American History

Special Awards and Fellowships

FRANCES C. ALLEN FELLOWS
Laura Bathurst
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
Ethnogenesis of the Tacana

Jill Doerfler
Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Fictions and Fractions: Reconciling Citizenship Regulations with Cultural Values Among the White Earth Anishinaabeg

Theda Julia GoodFox
Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies, University of Kansas
Manifest Medicine, Healing Cultures: Indigenous Physicians, the Indian Service, and the Decolonization of Health Care, 1862-1931

BRITISH ACADEMY EXCHANGE FELLOW
Hagith Sivan
Assoicate Professor of History, University of Kansas
Land of Conflict: Palestine in Late Antiquity

COMMITTEE ON INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION WORKSHIP INSTRUCTOR
Wesley Thomas
Assistant Professor of Anthropology & International Studies, Indiana University
[Re-]Situating Indigenous Genders and Sexualities

ÉCOLE DES CHARTES EXCHANGE FELLOWS
To the École des Chartes:
Suzanne LaVere
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Northwestern University
Scholastic Exegesis of the Song of Songs

To the Newberry Library:
Jean-Baptiste Raze
Archiviste Paléographe, École des Chartes
French Notarial Documents

WEISS/BROWN PUBLICATION SUBVENTION AWARDS
Carla Zecher
Director of the Center for Renaissance Center, Newberry Library
Sounding Objects: Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance France (U. of Toronto Press)

Rebecca Gerber
Associate Professor of Music, State University of New York, Potsdam
Trent, Castello del Buonconsiglio, MS 88 (University of Chicago Press)

Kelley Harness
Associate Professor of Music, University of Minnesota
Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence (University of Chicago Press)

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