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Fellowships

Previous Individual Research Fellows

2007-2008

Bowern BW Claire Bowern
 Assistant Professor of Linguistics. “A Comparative Grammar of Bardi.” Dr. Bowern will continue her research on aboriginal languages of Australia ’s northwest coast by exploring their historical relationships and changes. She will revise her dissertation for publication as a reference grammar of the Bardi language, including information on phonology, morphology, and syntax. Dr. Bowern's research's will benefit from her having recently been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation grant.
Henze BW

Matthias Henze
 Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Associate Professor of Biblical Studies in Religious Studies. “Eschatology and Torah: the Place of 2 Baruch in Early Judaism.” Dr. Henze is researching a Jewish text of the late first century C.E., that was written by the “historical losers.” He claims that the purpose of the text was to provide a vision for Judaism that is both viable and creative, to minimize further fragmentation of the Jewish community, and to create a sustainable Jewish society.

Wildenthal BW Lora Wildenthal
 Associate Professor of History. “The Politics of Human Rights Activism in West Germany.” Dr. Wildenthal will examine the language of human rights among the heirs of the Nazi disaster, proposing that it constituted a series of political interventions in a democratizing political culture. Dr. Wildenthal’s innovation consists in contextualizing human rights activism within this specific domestic realm rather than focusing on the role of the Western Allies. She is also planning a workshop for historians at Rice next spring, “Human Rights, International Law, and Refugees in Twentieth-Century Europe.”

2006-2007:

2005-2006

  • Kirsten Ostherr, Department of English: "Contagion and the Nation"
  • Meredith Skura, Department of English: "Rethinking the Origins of English Autobiography"

2004-2005

  • Richard E. Grandy, Department of Philosophy: "Soft Borders, Bright Colors: The Cognition and Metaphysics of Everyday Objects"
  • Caroline Quenemoen, Departments of Art History and Classical Studies: "Architecture and the Empire: The Significance of the Palatine Complex for Roman Identity Formation in Italy and the West"

2003-2004:

  • Deborah Harter, Department of French Studies: "Imaging Excess: Portraits of Pathology from Balzac to Kafka, Géricault to Silence of the Lambs" (postponing until AY 2004-2005)
  • Christopher Kelty, Department of Anthropology: "Two Bits: How the Internet Thinks About Information, Law and Money"
  • George Sher, Department of Philosophy, "Illusions of Control"
  • Richard Smith, Department of History, "Ordering the World and Fathoming the Cosmos: The Yijing (I-Ching or Classic of Changes) in Global Perspective"

2002-2003

  • Lynne Huffer, Department of French Studies: "Ethical Encounters: Literature, Philosophy, Politics"
  • Susan McIntosh, Department of Anthropology: "Ancient Ghana and Mali"
  • Honey Meconi, Shepherd School of Music: "Hildegard and Music"

2001-2002

  • Michel Achard, Department of French Studies: "Impersonal Constructions: Grammar, Culture and Cognition"
  • Allen Matusow, Department of History: "Ronald Reagan and American Culture"
  • Sherrilyn Roush, Department of Philosophy: "Knowing in the World"

2000-2001

  • Werner Kelber, Department of Religious Studies, "Figurations of Remembering: Process of Reconstructing the Past of Jesus in Early Christianity"
  • Suzanne Kemmer, Department of Linguistics, "Causatives in Luo"
  • Paula Sanders, Department of History, "Making Cairo Medieval"

1999-2000

  • Steven Crowell, Department of Philosophy, "Heidegger and Transcendental Philosophy; or, Foundationalism with a Human Face"
  • Colleen Lamos, Department of English, "'I'm not a Lesbian: I Just Loved Thelma': Lesbian Disavowals in Modern Literature"
  • Donald Morrison, Department of Philosophy, "Conceptions of Analytic Method in Later Greek Philosophy"

1998-1999

  • Carl Caldwell, Department of History, "Planning Metaphysics: Ernst Bloch's Principle of Hope and the Plan in the German Democratic Republic"
  • Jane Chance, Department of English, Medieval Mythography, vol. 2 From the School of Chartres to the Court at Avignon, 1177-1350
  • Eugenia Georges, Department of Anthropology, "The Procreative Body in Postwar Greece: Transformations in Popular and Expert Discourses, Practices, and Meanings"
  • Eric Margolis, Department of Philosophy, "Concepts and Innateness"

1997-1998:

  • Joseph Manca, Department of Art and Art History, "Moral Essays on the Early Renaissance"
  • John H. Zammito, History Department, "'Are We Being Theoretical Yet?' Philosophical Historicism and Historical Practice"

1996-1997:

  • Michael Maas, History Department, "The Conqueror's Gift: Ethnography, Ethnicity, and the Roman State in Late Antiquity"
  • Daniel Sherman, Department of French Studies, "The Construction of Memory in Interwar France".
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