Fellows 2009-2010

Richard Avramenko

Position title: Resident Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
Political Science, UW-Madison

The Fullness of Time: Tocqueville and the Democratic Moment

Mary Beltrán

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
Communication Arts and Chicana/o and Latino/a Studies, UW-Madison

Post-Race Pop? Interrogating Strategies for Ethnic Diversity in Millennial Media Culture

Florence Bernault

Position title: Resident Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

Struggles for the Sacred

Susan David Bernstein

Position title: Resident Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

Roomscape: Reading Space in the British Museum

Daniel Birkholz

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
English, University of Texas at Austin

We Have to Invent Him: Harley Lyrics, Hereford Maps, and the Life of Roger de Breynton, c. 1290-1351

Costica Bradatan

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
Philosophy, Texas Tech University

Philosophy as an Art of Dying

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

Cindy I-Fen Cheng

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
History and Asian American Studies, UW-Madison

Locating Race in Cold War America

Preeti Chopra

Position title: Resident Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
Languages and Cultures of Asia; Design Studies, UW-Madison

The City and its Fragments: Colonial Bombay, 1854-1918

Leslie Midkiff DeBauche

Position title: UW System Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
Communication Arts, UW-Stevens Point

History of the American Girl

Kristen Ehrhardt

Position title: Robert J. Reinhold Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
Classics, UW-Madison

Drinking Alfresco: The Erotics of the Pastoral Sympotic Mode

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)

David Goldstein

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
English, York University

Eating Otherwise: Food, Ethics, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

Richard Goodkin

Position title: Senior Fellow (2009-2014)

Address:
French and Italian, UW-Madison

Connecting the Dots: The Calculus of Personality in French Fiction and Film

Rob Harper

Position title: ACLS Fellow Resident (2009-2010)

Address:
History, UW-Stevens Point

Revolution and Conquest: Violence and State Formation in the Ohio Valley

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…

Douglas Howland

Position title: UW System Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
History, UW-Milwaukee

Laws of Land and Sea: State-Building in Modern Japan

Len Kaplan

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2008-2011)

Address:
Law, UW-Madison

Beyond the Liberal State and Book of Job

Kristina Kosnick

Position title: Germaine Brée Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
French and Italian, UW-Madison

Queer Writing Matters: Literary Performativity in Contemporary Queer Women's Writing in French

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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Beth Lew-Williams

Position title: ACLS Fellow Resident (2009-2010)

Address:
History, Stanford University

The Chinese Must Go: Immigration, Violence and Deportation in the 19th-Century Pacific Northwest

Mara Loveman

Position title: Resident Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
Sociology, UW-Madison

The Naturalization of Social Divides: Towards a New Sociology Race

Kate Merz

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

Imperial India on Trial: Crime, Punishment, and Colonialism, 1880-1940

Julia Mickenberg

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination, 1905-1945

David Morgan

Position title: Senior Fellow (2005-2010)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

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Julia K. Murray

Position title: Senior Fellow (2009-2011)

Address:
Art History, UW-Madison

Mysteries of Kongzhai: Relic, Representation, and Ritual at a Shrine to Confucius

Mark Netzloff

Position title: UW System Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
English, UW-Milwaukee

Beyond the State: The Writings of English State Agents in Early Modern Europe

Rob Nixon

Position title: Senior Fellow (2009-2012)

Address:
Rachel Carson Professor of English, UW-Madison

The Nations Within

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 (2009-2010)

Address:
History, Madison Area Technical College

Prosperity and Transience: Jewish Life in Madison, Wisconsin, 1850-2000

V. Narayana Rao

Position title: Senior Fellow (2005-2010)

Address:
Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison

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Brian Sandberg

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
History, Northern Illinois University

'Martial Acts Virtuously Enacted by Women': Gender and Violence in the French Wars of Religion

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color

Stephanie Spadaro

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
French and Italian, UW-Madison

Sentimental Literature: Directing the Flows of Sympathy in Enlightenment and Francophone Texts

Claire Wendland

Position title: Resident Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
Anthropology; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Medical History and Bioethics, UW-Madison

Giving Birth to Death: African Mothers’ Bodies and Expert Imaginations

Craig Werner

Position title: Senior Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2013)

Address:
Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison

Love, Righteousness and Reconciliation: Politics and Theology in the Civil Rights, Black Power and American Indian Movements

Andrea Westlund

Position title: UW System Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
Philosophy, UW-Milwaukee

Autonomy in Relation

André Wink

Position title: Senior Fellow (2009-2013)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World

Shannon Withycombe

Position title: William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010)

Address:
History of Science, UW-Madison

All Was Going Wrong: Pregnancy Loss in Nineteenth-Century America