Former Honorary Fellow Anna Blume will speak on “The Aesthetics of Effigy Mounds” on Saturday, October 24 from 1-3 pm in the UW Arboretum Visitor Center. Registration is required. Dr. Blume conducted the research for …
News and Announcements
Short news items relevant to the Institute and current or past fellows including award announcements, calls for papers, new fellowship offerings, new publications, and changes at the IRH.
Craig Werner Co-Authors New Book
Doug Bradley and former Senior Fellow Craig Werner have co-authored We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War (University of Massachusetts Press, October 2015). For more information, click here or here.
Rachel Feldhay Brenner Wins Book Prize
Former Senior Fellow Rachel Feldhay Brenner is receiving the 2015 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies for her book, The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from …
Henry Drewal’s Lecture Postponed
Former Senior Fellow Henry Drewal’s Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture has been postponed. New lecture date TBA. For more information about this lecture, click here.
Catherine Bates Wins the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
Former Solmsen Fellow Catherine Bates has received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences for her book Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (Oxford University Press). For more …
Todd W. Reeser Weighs in on Academic Debates about Trigger Warnings
Former Solmsen Fellow Todd W. Reeser (French, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pittsburgh) directs a program in which faculty recommend that students avoid using terms indicative of sexist language. For a discussion …
Claudia Card
With regret, the Institute announces the passing of former Senior Fellow Claudia Card. For more information, click here.
Susan Friedman Publishes a New Book
IRH Director Susan Friedman has published a new book, titled Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, with Columbia University Press. For more information, click here.
Emily Callaci Receives ACLS Fellowship
Resident Fellow Emily Callaci has received a 2015 ACLS Fellowship for her book project, titled Ujamaa Urbanists: Street Archives and City Life in Socialist Tanzania. For more information, click here.
Mary Louise Roberts at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Former Senior Fellow Mary Louise Roberts will speak about her book, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France, in October at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Citizens. For more information, click …