Fellows 2008-2009

Ellen Amster

Position title: UW System Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
History, UW-Milwaukee

Medicine and the Saints

Anupam Basu

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

Rabblement of Rascals: Representing Criminality, Poverty and Social Change in Early Modern England

Esther K. Bauer

Position title: UW System Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
Foreign Languages, German, UW-Stevens Point

Bodily Desire - Desired Bodies: Gender and Desire in Early Twentieth-Century Novels and Paintings

Robert F. Berkhofer

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
History, Western Michigan University

Fabricating Histories

Michael Bernard-Donals

Position title: Resident Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

Conflations of Memory: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Representation of Atrocity

Stéphane Blond

Position title: David Woodward Cartography Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
History, Economy and Science, University d'every-val d'Essone, France

Administrative Maps in Europe, 1650-1800

Rachel Feldhay Brenner

Position title: Senior Fellow (2008-2013)

Address:
Hebrew Studies, UW-Madison

Polish Writers' Diaries and Literary Writings from Warsaw 1939-1945: Moral Autonomy and Empathy in the Reality of German Occupation and Genocide

David Chan

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point

Rethinking the Ethics of War and Justice

Norlisha F. Crawford

Position title: UW System Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
English; African American Studies, UW-Oshkosh

Chester Himes' Rewriting of Race, Class and Gender in His Harlem Detective Series

Loretta Freiling

Position title: Assistant (1959-2010)

Loretta Freiling, the remarkable staff person who helped Marshall Clagett establish the Institute in 1959, continued to work for the Institute until her second retirement in 2010. In many ways, she was the “human face”…

Susan Stanford Friedman

Position title: IRH Director (2007-2017)

Address:
Hilldale Professor in the Humanities and the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies Emerita, UW-Madison

IRH Director (2007-2017)

Valerie Garver

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
History, Northern Illinois University

Textiles in the Carolingian World, c.715-c.915

Ann W. Harris

Position title: Assistant to the Director (2009-2021)

Ann Wysor Harris joined the Institute for Research in the Humanities in July 2009. Before this she held positions in the Deans’ office at UW-Extension, at the Small Business Development Center, and at the School…

Brian Hyer

Position title: Resident Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
Music, UW-Madison

Mimetic Failure and the Autistic Sublime in a Schubert Song

Len Kaplan

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2008-2011)

Address:
Law, UW-Madison

Beyond the Liberal State and Book of Job

Robert André Lafleur

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2008-2010)

Address:
History and Anthropology, Beloit College

Heaven is Round, Earth is Square: Calendars and Cosmology on China’s Sacred Mountains

Jean B. Lee

Position title: Senior Fellow (2005-2010)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

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B. Venkat Mani

Position title: Resident Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
German, UW-Madison

Transposed Signs of Modernity: German Orientalism and the Indian 'Timespace' (1786-1990)

Nancy Rose Marshall

Position title: Resident Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
Art History, UW-Madison

The Fleshly School: Matter in Books and Bodies in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Catherine Martin

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
English, University of Memphis

Milton and the Culture of Italy

David Morgan

Position title: Senior Fellow (2005-2010)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

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John Niles

Position title: Senior Fellow (2004-2009)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

Anglo-Saxon Mentalities

Barbara Obrist

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2003-2023)

Address:
Directeur de recherche émérite, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Laboratoire SPHERE, Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire), Université Paris Diderot

La cosmologie médiévale. Textes et images II: le XIIe siècle

Tejumola Olaniyan

Position title: Senior Fellow (2007-2011; 2012-2013)

Address:
African Languages and Literature; English, UW-Madison

Enchanting Modernity: A Cultural Biography of the Postcolonial African State

Jonathan Z. S. Pollack

Position title: Madison Area Technical College Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
History, Madison Area Technical College

Universities and American Jewish Business Networks, 1865-1940

V. Narayana Rao

Position title: Senior Fellow (2005-2010)

Address:
Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison

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Andrew Ruis

Position title: William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
History of Science, UW-Madison

Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Food Service and Children's Nutrition in Early 20th Century America

Andrew Scheil

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
English, University of Minnesota

The Matter of Babylon: Figures of the City in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond

Russ Shafer-Landau

Position title: Resident Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
Philosophy, UW-Madison

Meaning and the Good Life

Tanya Tiffany

Position title: UW System Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
Art History, UW-Milwaukee

Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville

Lee Palmer Wandel

Position title: Senior Fellow (2004-2009)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

Religions in Augsburg, 1450-1750

David Lay Williams

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
Political Science and Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point

Noble and Nefarious Lies: Deception in Western Political Thought

Louise Young

Position title: Resident Fellow (2008-2009)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

Beyond the Metropolis: Local Moderns in Interwar Japan