Fellows 2012-2013

Gregory Aldrete

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
History and Humanistic Studies, UW-Green Bay

Armor, Battles, and Riots

Robert Asen

Position title: Resident Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Communication Arts, UW-Madison

Democracy, Deliberation, and Education: The Challenges and Opportunities of Local Policymaking

Meridith Beck Sayre

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
History of Science, UW-Madison

The Process of Conversion: A Biography of the Jesuit Relations

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

Matthew H. Brown

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison

Nollywood Genres: The Form and Politics of Cinema in Nigeria

Russ Castronovo

Position title: Resident Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies, UW-Madison

Propaganda 1776

Winson W. Chu

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Modern Central European History, UW-Milwaukee

"Reconciliation Kitsch": Multicultural Tropes and Overcoming the Past in Germany and Poland

Laurie Beth Clark

Position title: Resident Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Art, UW-Madison

Always Already Again: Trauma Tourism and the Politics of Memory Culture

Elisabetta Cova

Position title: UW System Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Classics, UW-Milwaukee

Space, Function and Social Practice in the Roman Houses of Pompeii

Janet Downie

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Classics, Princeton University

Myth in the Landscape: Ancient Heroes and Hellenic Culture in Imperial Asia Minor

Henry Drewal

Position title: Senior Fellow (2010-2014)

Address:
Art History; Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison

The Senses in Understandings of Art: A Sensorium of Yoruba Peoples

Mary Agnes Edsall

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013)

A Road of the Affections: Rhetoric, Catechesis, and the Cultivation of the Christian Self, A.D. 1-1150

Ivan Ermakoff

Position title: Resident Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Sociology, UW-Madison

Enacting State Persecution: The Police and Anti-Semitic Policy from a Comparative Perspective, 1940-1944

Damián Fernández

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
History, Northern Illinois University

An Invisible Class in a Silent Land. Aristocracies and Society in Late Antique Atlantic Iberia (ca. 300-600)

Sarah Florini

Position title: A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2014)

Address:
Communication Arts, UW-Madison

Remembering the Past, Reframing the Present: Digital Media, Hip Hop, and the Mnemonic Work of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

Ellery Foutch

Position title: A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2013)

Address:
Art History, UW-Madison

Arresting Beauty: The Perfectionist Impulse of 19th-century Art and Culture

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)

Kenneth George

Position title: Senior Fellow (2011-2013)

Address:
Anthropology, UW-Madison

Companionable Objects, Companionable Conscience: Ethics and the Predicaments of Dwelling with Things

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

John W. Hall

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

Dishonorable Duty: The U.S. Army and the Removal of the Southeastern Indians

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…

Pernille Ipsen

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Gender and Women's Studies; History, UW-Madison

A Peculiar Custom: Euro-African Marriage in an Atlantic Slave Trading Town

Katie Jarvis

Position title: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

Politics in the Marketplace: The Popular Activism and Cultural Representation of the Dames des Halles during the French Revolution

Elizabeth Johnson

Position title: A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2013)

Address:
Geography, UW-Madison

Animating Futures, Reanimating Biopolitics: Biomimetic Science and Empire

Theresa Kaminski

Position title: UW System Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
History, UW-Stevens Point

Angels of the Underground: A World War II Story of Love, Resistance, and Survival

Stacy S. Klein

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
English; Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University

The Militancy of Gender and the Making of Sexual Difference in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Ervin Kosta

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2012-2013)

"Ethnic Affinities" in the Metropolis: Boundary making in the contemporary urban landscape

Kerry Lefebvre

Position title: Robert J. Reinhold Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Classics, UW-Madison

With You in that Dress: Cultus and Elegy in Rome

Bradley Moore

Position title: William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, UW-Madison

Healthy Comrades: Czechoslovak Hygiene Services and the Pursuit of a Communist Modernity, 1948-1958

Mary Murrell

Position title: A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2014)

Address:
Anthropology, UW-Madison

The Open Book: Digital Form in the Making

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

Jodie Parys

Position title: UW System Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Spanish, UW-Whitewater

Archiving the Epidemic: Cultural, Literary and Visual Responses to HIV/AIDS in Spanish America

Trevor Pearce

Position title: A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2013)

Address:
Philosophy, UW-Madison

Pragmatism and Biology: Organism, Environment, and Evolution in Early American Philosophy

Jonathan Z. S. Pollack

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2018-2020)

Address:
History, Madison Area Technical College; Honorary Scholar, George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies

Success from Scrap and Second-hand Goods: Jewish Business in the Midwest, 1890-1930

Todd W. Reeser

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
French and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance

Mary Louise Roberts

Position title: Senior Fellow (2010-2014)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

Liberators and Intruders: The American Presence in France, 1944-1946

Mary Louise Roberts

Position title: Senior Fellow (2010-2014)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

D-Day through French Eyes: Memoirs of Normandy 1944

Ellen Samuels

Position title: Resident Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Gender and Women's Studies and English, UW-Madison

Double Meanings: Representing Conjoined Twins

Manu P. Sobti

Position title: UW System Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UW-Milwaukee

The Sliver of the Oxus Borderland: Medieval Cultural Encounters between the Arabs and Persians

Jeffrey Steele

Position title: Resident Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

The Visible and Invisible City: Antebellum Authors and the Literary Construction of New York City

James H. Sweet

Position title: Resident Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

Diaspora’s Democracy: The International Dimensions of Slavery in the Making of the United States

Jerome Tharaud

Position title: A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2014)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

Evangelical Space: Art, Experience, and the Ethical Landscape in America, 1820-1860

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

André Wink

Position title: Senior Fellow (2009-2013)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

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

Lisa Woodson

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013)

Address:
Slavic Languages and Literature, UW-Madison

The Legend of Kitezh in Russian Literature