INSTITUTE FELLOWS -- 2008-2009

Senior Fellows:

Susan Friedman (English), Director

Rachel Brenner (Hebrew & Semitic Studies)

Jean B. Lee (History)

David Morgan (History)

John Niles (English)

Tejumola Olaniyan (African Languages & Literature and English)

V. Narqayana Rao (Languages and Cultures of Asia)

Frank Salomon (Anthropology)

Lee Wandel (History)

UW-Madison

Brian Hyer (Music), "Mimetic Failure and the Autistic Sublime in a Schubert Song"

Michael Bernard-Donals (Music), "Conflations of Memory: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Representation of Atrocity"

B. Venkat Mani (German), "Transposed Signs of Modernity: India in German Linguistics, Philosopy, Literature, and Cinema (1786-1988)"

Nancy Marshall (Art History), "Nineteenth Century British Poet and Painter Dante Gabriel Rosetti"

Ross Shafer-Landau (Philosophy), "Meaning and the Good Life"

Louise Young (History), "Beyond the Metropolis. Local Moderns in Interwar Japan"

Solmsen Fellows

Robert F. Berkhofer (Medieval Europe, Western Michigan University), "Forgeries and Historical Consciousness in Medieval Europe"

Valerie Garver (Medieval History, Northern Illinois University), "Textiles in the Copenhagen World, c. 715-c.915"

Catherine Martin (Renaissance and 17th Century English, University of Memphis), "Milton in Italy: Reconsidering a Poetic and Political Journey"

Andrew Scheil (Medieval Literature; Anglo Saxon Studies, University of Minnesota), "The Matter of Babylon: Figures of the City in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond"

Coleman Dissertation Fellow in the History of Science

Andrew Ruis (History of Science), "Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Foodservice and Children's Nutrition in Early 20th century America"

Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow

Anupam Basu (English), "'Loitering lusks and lazy lorels' : Thomas Harman's Caveat for Common Cursitors Vulgarly Called Vagabonds and the Transformation of Poverty"

Woodward Cartography Fellow

Stephane Blond (History, Economy & Science, University d'every-val d'Essone, France), "Administrative maps in Eugope, 1650-1800"

Systems Fellows

Ellen Amster (Middle East and Islamic History, UW-Milwaukee), "Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956"

Esther K. Bauer (German Literature, UW-Stevens Point), "Bodily Desire--Desired Bodies. Gender and Desire in Early 20th Century Novels and Paintings"

Norlisha F. Crawford (English, African American Literture, UW-Oshkosh), "Chester Himes' Rewriting of Race, Class and Gender in his Harlem Detective Series"

Tanya J. Tiffany (Art History, UW-Milwaukee), "Diego Velaquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville"