Marta Vicente
Humanities Fellow
Marta will work on her book project, "Sex as Imitation: Family and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Spain." The book examines how sexual identity is situated at a crossroad between nature, nurture and acts of individual choice.
The winner of the 2007 Byron Caldwell Smith Award, Professor Cudd's book, Analyzing Oppression, is cited by the Award Committee as a direct, thorough and systematic investigation of the concept of oppression, "beautifully written, elegantly organized and accessible to both scholars and non-specialists ...."
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Susan K. Harris is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture. She has MA degrees from Stanford and Cornell and a PhD in English and History from Cornell. Harris specializes in 19th-Century American literature, both women's fiction and the writings of Mark Twain. Her books include 19th-Century American Women's Novels (Cambridge University Press, 1990); The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain (CUP, 1996); and The Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess (Palgrave, 2002). She also edited Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) and has written over twenty articles, essays and chapters on Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Women's Fiction. View Vita (PDF) |
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Donald Worster is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History. Born in California in 1941, he grew up in western Kansas and attended KU where he earned a BA degree in 1963 and an MA degree in 1964. He earned his PhD in American History and Literature at Yale University in 1971. A trailblazer in the field of environmental history, Worster has served as president of the American Society for Environmental History and is general editor of the Cambridge University monograph series, "Studies in Environment and History." His most recent book, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (Oxford University Press, 2001), won the Byron Caldwell Smith Award. His other books include Rivers of Empire (1985), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; the Bancroft prizewinning Dust Bowl (1979); and Nature's Economy (1994, second edition). |
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Maryemma Graham will spend her Humanities Fellowship semester working on her book "Fugitive Texts, Stolen Literacy: A History of the African American Novel." This book will examine African American novels and how they have been employed by authors to write themselves, individually and collectively, into history. |
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Paul Kelton, Humanities Fellow, will question an 'ecological imperalism' narrative that has gone unchallenged in explaining Europe's rise to global dominance. His book will demonstrate how the Cherokees adapted to environmental changes, refused to yield their homeland, and in the end had to be forcefully removed. |
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Margaret Rausch will spend her Humanities Fellowship semester finishing chapters three and four of her book on Ishelhin (Berber) women's ritual gatherings. The book examines the evolving significance of the gatherings for their participants as members of an ethnic minority, activists in an historical educational campaign, as adherents to a local religio-cultural tradition and as interlocutors in contemporary debates about gender, ethnicity and Islam. |
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Marta Vicente, Humanities Fellow, will work on her book project, "Sex as Imitation: Family and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Spain." The book examines how sexual identity is situated at a crossroad between nature, nurture and acts of individual choice. Individuals shaped their sexuality by imitating family members and in early modern society divisions between sex and gender were sometimes blurred. |
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Maria Velasco will use the Creative Work Fellowship to create a contemporary mandala for the tall glass windows in the Mutidisciplinary Research Building on West Campus. The mandala will become an emblem of the mutidisciplinary efforts that inspired the very name and purpose of the building. Her website is www.mariavelascostudio.com. |
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Christine Anderson is the Richard and Jeannette Sias Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities. While residing at the center, she will complete her dissertation on the emergence of a female politics in London between 1890 and 1914, which examines how notions of 'modernity' performed on stage shaped a political consciousness and a new femininity for middle-class women. |
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Katja Esson, an independent filmmaker, is the Simons Public Humanities Fellow. During the fall, she will conduct research for her film Poetry of Resilience, a film about seven poets who survived human atrocities and their stories of transformation. She will also do preliminary work on two other projects, one about three generations of a Native American family who have worked as skyscraper construction workers in New York City, and another entitied Breast Side Story about the cultural complexities behind the simple act of breastfeeding. |
