May 27, 2004

Kaplan Center announces fellows

The Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities has announced fellows and affiliates for the 2004-05 academic year.

The fellows, who will focus on their current research projects, are:

Christopher Herbert (English) plans to use his two-course teaching reduction to explore “The Indian Mutiny and the Victorian Soul.”

Tessie Liu (history) will spend her year-long fellowship examining “Universalism Transformed: Race-Thinking and the Rise of the Cultural Nation in Modern France.”

Jorge Coronado (Spanish and Portuguese) intends to work on “Displaced Modernities in the Andean Avant-Garde.”

Axel Mueller (philosophy) will devote the year to “Realism and Pragmatism: Two Aspects of Empirical Knowledge.”

Virginia Kerr is the new Library Fellow. She will explore “Renaissance and Baroque Library Buildings: Early Views.”

Faculty Affiliates are Christine Froula (English), Daniel Richter (classics), John Peffer (art history), Helen Thompson (English) and Harvey Young (theatre).

Graduate Affiliates are Todd Hedrick (philosophy), Ho Alan Chan (French and Italian) and Terence McDonnell (sociology).

In 2004-05 three Lane Humanities Professors will lead quarterly humanities seminars and speaker series on three distinct topics. They are:

Linda Zerilli (political science) in the fall: “Rethinking Political Universalism in a Multicultural World.”

Jane Winston (French and Italian) in the winter: “Race, Gender, Transnationality.”

Peter Carroll (history) in the spring: “Cities as Modern Utopia/Distopia in Europe, Asia, and America.”