Fellows 2013-2014

Gregory Aldrete

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
History and Humanistic Studies, UW-Green Bay

Hammers, Axes, Bulls, and Blood: Practical Aspects of Roman Animal Sacrifice

Mirela Altic

Position title: David Woodward Cartography Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

Mapping the Nations: The 19th Century Cartography between Imperial Politics and National Movements - A Case Study of Croatia

Justine Andrews

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Art and Art History, University of New Mexico

Gothic Architecture in Cyprus: French, Byzantine, and Crusader Influence

Valerie Barske

Position title: UW System Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
History, UW-Stevens Point

Making Waves, Moving Empires: Embodying Trauma, Activism, and Colonialism in Postwar Okinawa

Meridith Beck Sayre

Position title: William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
History of Science, UW-Madison

The Process of Conversion: A Biography of the Jesuit Relations

Ayelet Ben-Yishai

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
English, University of Haifa, Israel

The Persistence of Realism in the Indian Novel in English

Michael Y. Bennett

Position title: UW System Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
English, UW-Whitewater

The Cambridge Introduction to the Absurd

Leslie Bow

Position title: Senior Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2013-2017)

Address:
English and Asian American Studies, UW-Madison

Racist Love: Asian Americans and the Fantasy of Race

Karen Britland

Position title: Resident Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

Networks of Secrecy in the English Civil Wars and Interregnum

Christy Clark-Pujara

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison

“Attended with Many Disadvantages and Evils:” Enslaved and Free Blacks in Rhode Island, 1652–1842

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

Anne Duncan

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Command Performance: Tyranny and Theater in the Ancient World

Mary Agnes Edsall

Position title: ACLS Fellow Resident (2013-2014)

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

Nan Enstad

Position title: Resident Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

The Jim Crow Cigarette: Following Tobacco Road From North Carolina to China and Back

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

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)

Brian Goldstein

Position title: A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

A City Within a City: Community Development and the Struggle Over Harlem

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

Sarah Groeneveld

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

Animal Endings: Species Necropolitics in Contemporary Transnational Literature

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…

Marguerite Helmers

Position title: UW System Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
English, UW-Oshkosh

Sites of War and Words: Rhetorics of Domesticity on the Western Front, 1914-1918

Kelly Jakes

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Communication Arts, UW-Madison

Popular Music and Resistance in Occupied France, 1940-1944

Eunjung Kim

Position title: Resident Fellow (2013-2014)

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

Curative Violence: Habilitating Disability, Gender, and Nation in Korea

Alexander Kupfer

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Cinema Studies, New York University

The Celluloid Campus: University Extension, College Football, and Nontheatrical Cinema

Ben LaBreche

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
English, University of Mary Washington

Tragedy of Reason: Liberty in the Age of Milton

Richard Leson

Position title: UW System Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Art History, UW-Milwaukee

The Material Life of Jeanne of Flanders

Keisha Lindsay

Position title: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2013-2014)

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

Separate Schools for Black Boys?: Rereading Intersectionality, Experience, and Progressive Politics

Tomislav Longinović

Position title: Senior Fellow (2013-2018)

Address:
German, Nordic, and Slavic, UW-Madison

The Secret of Translation: Emerging Border Cultures

Joseph Marchal

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Religious Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, Ball State University

Biblical Figures, Ancient Figures, Queer Figures: Perverse Feminization and Pauline Argumentation

Daegan Miller

Position title: A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2015)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

Witness Tree: Landscape and Dissent in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Gregory Milton

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
History, University of South Florida

Cultures of Debt: Christian, Muslim and Jewish Society in Iberia (1000-1500)

Micah Morton

Position title: Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Anthropology, UW-Madison

From Blood to Fruit: Akha ancestral burdens and the pursuit of a modern authenticity in mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China

Mary Murrell

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

Address:
Anthropology, UW-Madison

The Open Book: Digital Form in the Making

Steven Nadler

Position title: Senior Fellow (2013-2017)

Address:
William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, UW-Madison

Becoming Spinoza: The Making of a Philosopher

Steven Nadler

Position title: Senior Fellow (2013-2017)

Address:
William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, UW-Madison

Descartes’s Fable: The Book That Made Philosophy Modern

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

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

Ronald Radano

Position title: Senior Fellow (2013-2017)

Address:
African Languages and Literature and Music, UW-Madison

The Secret Animation of Black Music

Ronald Radano

Position title: Senior Fellow (2013-2017)

Address:
Music, UW-Madison

Sound Commodities, Embodied Forms: Race, Value, and the Animated Properties of US Black Music

Matthew Francis Rarey

Position title: Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Art History, UW-Madison

Revolting Visions: Contesting Aesthetics in Brazil’s Era of Slave Rebellion

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Position title: Resident Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

The American Ways of Wisdom and Wonder: Seeking the Good Life in the 20th-Century United States

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

Benedict Robinson

Position title: Solmsen Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
English, Stony Brook University

Grammars of Mood: How the Seventeenth Century Invented a New Language of the Emotions

Amanda Rogers

Position title: A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2015)

Address:
Art History, UW-Madison

Politics, Gender and the Art of Religious Authority in North Africa: Moroccan Women’s Henna Practice

Ellen Sapega

Position title: Resident Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison

City of Disquiet: Imagining Lisbon at the End of the 20th Century

Manu P. Sobti

Position title: Honorary Fellow (2013-2014)

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

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

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

Brett Whalen

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
History, UNC-Chapel Hill

The Last Papal Monarch: Innocent IV and the Thirteenth-Century World Order

Louise Young

Position title: Senior Fellow (2013-2017)

Address:
History, UW-Madison

Sociology and the "Social Question" in Prewar Japan

Molly Zahn

Position title: Kingdon Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
Religious Studies, University of Kansas

Textual Transfigurations: The Genres of Scriptural Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism

Jordan Zweck

Position title: Resident Fellow (2013-2014)

Address:
English, UW-Madison

Letters that Matter: Anglo-Saxon Epistolarity and Early English Media