January 22, 2004

Faculty honors

Three Northwestern faculty members have received 2002-03 fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). They are:

Peter J. Carroll

Peter J. Carroll, assistant professor of history, who was awarded a Library of Congress Fellowship in International Studies by the ACLS and the Library of Congress

Sarah E. Fraser, associate professor of art history, who received a fellowship from the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China (CSCC) Program for American Research in the Humanities in China

Miguel Vatter, assistant professor of political science, who is the recipient of a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship

Carroll, who specializes in modern Chinese history, was funded for a study of Suicide, Modernity and Imagining Society in China, 1900-1950. His interests include urban history, Chinese modernism, popular and material culture, gender/sexuality and nationalism.

A Fulbright recipient, Carroll also has held fellowships with the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges, the International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, and the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

His current research is on the development of cultural, scientific and commercial exhibitions as a means of promoting mass education and modernization in China.

Fraser’s major interests are in the history of Chinese painting from the 6th through 20th centuries, Tibetan painting, and pan-Asian Buddhist art. Her award is for a project, Between Qinghai and Gansu: New Directions in Chinese Paintings and Archaeology. She will be affiliated with the Sichuan Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Chengdu.

Fraser directs an international research project for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a 3D digital archive featuring wall paintings and manuscripts from western China in a multimedia environment.

Vatter’s project is Law and Interpretation in the Situation of Modernity: The Problem of Legal Application in Twentieth-Century German Thought. He is the author of “Between Form and Event: Machiavelli’s Theory of Political Freedom,” as well as articles on republicanism, theories of freedom, contemporary democratic theory and 20th-century Continental philosophy.

His current research concerns the early modern origins of republicanism and liberalism and the development and critique of rule of law in later modernity.

Edmund J. Wilson

Edmund J. Wilson, who retired in 2002 as associate dean for master’s degree programs and student affairs at the Kellogg School of Management, has been appointed to the board of trustees of Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.

Wilson, who will serve a five-year term, majored in history and received a bachelor’s degree from Bates in 1962.

Wilson continues to serve as associate dean emeritus and ambassador at large at Kellogg, working on special initiatives.