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External Fellows
2006-2007
Farid Abdel-Nour (Political Science, San Diego State University), “Political Responsibility: How Individuals are Answerable for Their Polity”
Ronald Doel (History, Oregon State University), “Ewing’s Mansion: Ethics, Science, and the Production of Knowledge During the Cold War”
Jenefer Robinson (Philosophy, University of Cincinnati), “Emotion as Process”
2005-2006
Michaele Ferguson, Political Science, U. Colorado, Boulder, "Sharing Democracy"
Kathrin Koslicki, Philosophy, Tufts University, "The Language of Counting and Measuring"
Keith Watenpaugh, History, Le Moyne College, "The Generation of 1900: The Arab Intellectual Between Islam and Modernity" George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Distinguished Fellow in Democracy and Diversity
Betsy Duquette, English, Gettysburg College, “Loyal Subjects: Problems of Race, Nation, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America”
2004-2005
Marian Eide, English, Texas A&M University, “the Lure of Violence: Political Brutality in Twentieth-Century Aesthetics”
Jennifer Ritterhouse, History, Utah State University, “Learning Race: Racial Etiquette and the Socialization of the Children in the Jim Crow South”
Dana Luciano, Assistant Professor, English, Hamilton College: “Revisions of Mourning: Loss, Nationality and the Longing for Form in Nineteenth Century America”
2001-2002
Shannon Miller, Associate Professor, English, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, " Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth Century Writing by Women."
Shawn Michelle Smith, Assistant Professor, English, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, "Photography on the Color Line."
2000-2001
Carol Poster, Associate Professor, English, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, "Figural Rhetoric."
Craig Kallendorf, Professor, English, Modern and Classical Languages, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, "The Other Virgil: The Subversive Aeneid in Early Modern Europe."
1999-2000
Jacueline Taylor, Professor of Phlosophy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. "Administrative Aesthetics: 'Having a Mind' and 'Buying American.'"
Martha Woodmansee, Professor of English, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. "Defining Intellectual Property: The German Contribution, 1774-1850."
1998 - 1999
Kirsten Fischer, Assistant Professor, History, University of South Florida, Tampa Florida. "Dangerous Liaisons: The Racial Politics of Illicit Sex in Colonial North Carolina."
Alyce Jordan, Assistant Professor, Humanities, Arts and Religion, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. "Visualizing Kingship in the Windows of the Suite-Chapelle in Paris."
Meg Schoerke, Assistant Professor, English, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California. "Another Weeping Woman": Modernist Poetry, Women Poets, and Grief.
1997 - 1998
James Bono, Associate Professor, History and Medicine, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York. "Figuring Science: Metaphor, Narrative, and the Cultural Location of Scientific Revolutions.
Irène d'Almeida, Associate Professor, French and Italian, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. "Contemporary Griottes: A Critical Anthology of Women's Poetry in Francophone Africa."
Kathryn Edwards, Assistant Professor, History, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. "Visitations: The Haunting of an Early Modern Town."
1996 - 1997
Carol Harrison, Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. "The Uses of Emulation: Sociability and the Making of the French Bourgeois."
Laura Mayhall, Assistant Professor of History, Catholic University Washington, DC. "Re-thinking Suffrage: Gender and Citizenship in Britain, 1900-1930
Mary Ann Witt, Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. "Fascist Aesthetics and the Search for Modern Tragedy."
1995 - 1996
Arkady Plotnitsky, Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, "The Other Mirror: A Gender Genealogy of the Abstract."
William Spellman, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Ashville, NC, "John Locke and Christian England."
Mart Stewart, Assistant Professor of History, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. "A Cultural History of Climate in America."
1994 - 1995
Jane Chance, Professor of English, Rice University, Houston, Texas. "Medieval Mythography: From the School of Chartres to the Age of Christine de Pizan, 1177-1475."
Robert Corber, Assistant Professor of English, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA, "Gay Male Cultural Production in the Cold War Era."
Peter Rudnytsky, Associate Professor of English, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, "Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition."
1993 - 1994
Laurie Langbauer, Associate Professor of English, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. "Women and Realism: The Cultural Limits of the Everyday in the Late-Victorian Novel."
David Mapel, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. "Reconstructing Realism: Moral Philosophy and International Relations."
1992 - 1993
Peter Digeser, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, California. "The Democratic Soul and Liberal Cruelty."
Janet L. Larson, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. "The Victorian Woman's Bible: Interpretation and Cultural Discourse in Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti and Their Contemporaries."
John Rogers, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. "Chaos and Consensus: The Culture of Speculation in Revolutionary England."
James Swan, Associate Professor of English, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York. "Impairment and Conversion: Narratives of the Deaf and Blind."
1991 - 1992
Henry Abelove, Professor of English, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. "The Emergence of Heterosexuality."
Joel Bernard, Independent Scholar, Portland, Oregon. "From Reformation to Reform: Religion and the Origins of the American Temperance Movement."
Katherine C. Grier, Independent Scholar, 1990-91 National Endowments for the Humanities Fellow and Visiting Scholar, University of Utah. "Regarding Animals: Popular Thought about Animals and Animal-Human Interaction in the Middle-class American Household, 1820-1920."
Jane Hunter, Associate Professor of History, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. "Realizing the Female Self: The Experience of Late-Victorian Girlhood."
Elizabeth Kuznesof, Professor of History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. "The Family in Colonial Latin America: A History of Cultural Encounter, Social Transformation, and Demographic Change, 1492-1825."
James Swindler, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. "Social Intentions: Collective Action and Responsibility."
1990 - 1991
Harold A. Veeser, Associate Professor of English, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. "Edward Said, Crossover Critic: Life, Thought, Politics."
1989 - 1990
Teresa Ebert, Assistant Professor of English, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island. "The American Other: Articulating a Post-modern Feminist Cultural Critique."
University of Utah Faculty Fellows
2006-2007
Chrisoula Andreou (Philosophy, University of Utah), “Environmental Damage and Self-Control”
Anne Keary (History, University of Utah), “Comparing Cross-Cultural Histories: Christianity, Colonialism and Cross-Cultural Translation in Eastern Australia and Northwestern America”
Nancy A. McLaughlin (S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah), “Conservation Easements: An Experiment in Land Preservation”
Angela Smith (English, University of Utah), “’Hideous Progeny’: Eugenics, Disability and Classic Horror Cinema”
2005-2006
Mark Button, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Spring Aldrich Fellow, "Democratic Humility and the Virtues of Late Modernity"
Claudio Holzner, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fall Aldrich Fellow, "Contrasting Voices of Mexico's Democracy"
Isabel Moreira, Associate Professor of History, "Purgatory: Punishment and Mediation in the Early Medieval Afterlife"
Margaret Wan, Assistant Professor of Languages, Spring Aldrich Fellow, "Cultural Literacies: Popular Literature and Local Culture in Late Imperial China"
2004-2005
Nadja Durbach, Assistant Professor of History, “Exhibiting Freaks: Constructing the Modern British Body, 1830-1914”
Daniel J.H. Greenwood, Professor, Quinney College of Law, “The Metaphors of Corporate Law”
Joseph Metz, Assistant Professor of Languages and Literature, “Writing in the Margins: Gender, Nation, and the Figuration of Austria as Inner Colonial Space, 1840-1940”
Ronald Smelser, Professor of History, “The Myth of the Eastern Front: An American Perspective”
2003-2004
Vincent J. Cheng, Professor, Department of English (Fall; Virgil Aldrich Fellowship)
Cynthia Stark, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy (Fall, Virgil Aldrich Fellowship
Karen Lee Ashcraft, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication (Spring, Virgil Aldrich Fellowship)
Mariam G. Thalos, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy (Spring, Virgil Aldrich Fellowship)
2001-2002
Kimberly Lau, Assistant Professor, English, Women Studies, "The Anatomy of a Movement: Women, Activism, and Embodiment Theory."
Marouf Hasian, Jr., Associate Professor, Communication, "Collective Memories and Anglo-American Holocaust Trials."
Edward Rubin, Assistant Professor, Linguistics, "Modifier Phrase, Bare Phrase Structure, and Functional Categories."
Janet Theiss, Assistant Professor, History, "Dealing with Disgrace: Chastity and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China."
2000-2001
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Professor, Political Science, "What are the Possibilities for a More Humanistic Social Science? The Case of Political Science."
Eric Laursen, Associate Professor, Language and Literature, "Engineers of the Human Soul: Proletarian Theory and the Fantastic in Russian Literature of the 1920's."
Jacqueline Osherow, Associate Professor, English, Creative Writing Program, "Take Words With You."
1999-2000
Howard Horowitz, Professor of English. "Administrative Aesthetics: 'Having a Mind' and 'Buying American.'"
Susie Porter, Assistant Professor of History. "In the Shadows of Industrialization: Women in the Mexican Work Force, 1880-1940."
Lars Rodseth, Professor of Anthropology. "From Lhasa to Salt Lake City: Cosmopolitan Travel and Cultural Transformation Among Tibetans in Exile."
1998 - 1999
Thomas Carter, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture. Vernacular Architecture of the Western United States.
David Mickelsen, Associate Professor of English. "Marvelous Transport: 'Magical Realism' and Possession."
1997 - 1998
Stephen Downes, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. "Ontology, Phylogeny and Concepts of Scientific Development."
Elizabeth Peterson, Assistant Professor of Art History. "Reading Medieval Illustration"French Gothic Psalters in Devotional Settings."
1996 - 1997
Robert Goldberg, Professor of History. "Enemies Within: The Idea of Conspiracy in Modern America."
Mark McPhail, Associate Professor of Communication. "Taking the Opposition: Theoretical and Practical Explorations in The Rhetoric of Conflict."
1995 - 1996
Stuart Culver, Assistant Professor of English. "The Magic of Oz: L. Frank Baum, Spiritualism and the Aesthetics of Humbug."
Don Garrett, Associate Professor of Philosophy. "Induction and Altruism."
1994 - 1995
Margaret Battin, Professor of Philosophy. "Sex's Consequences: Global Population Growth, Teen Pregnancy, and the Issue of Reproductive Rights in the Light of New Developments in Contraceptive Technology."
Gillian Brown, Associate Professor of English. "The Consent of the Governed: Problem of Agency in Early American Culture."
1993 - 1994
Deen Chatterjee, Associate Professor of Philosophy. "World Hunger and the Problem of Excessive Obligations."
Karen Lawrence, Professor of English. "The Post modernism of Christine Brooke-Rose."
Deborah Porter, Assistant Professor of Languages and Literature. "Crossing Boundaries: Myth, History and the Generation of Chinese Fiction."
1992 - 1993
Marianna DiPaolo, Assistant Professor of Linguistics. "Variation in English and the Construction of Ethno-Religious Identity in the Salt Lake Valley."
James R. Lehning, Associate Professor of History. "Memory, History and Popular Culture."
Esther Rashkin, Associate Professor of Languages and Literature. "Psychoanalysis and the Text: A New Perspective on the Political Unconscious."
1991 - 1992
Carol Georgopoulos, Assistant Professor of Linguistics. "Natural Sciences and the Humanities: the Contribution of Linguistics."
Susan Miller, Professor of English. "American Common Writers: Textures of Gender, Class, Occupation, and Region in Early American Texts."
1990 - 1991
Christine Oravec, Associate Professor of Communication. "Sublime Discourse: Nature, Gender, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric."
Kathryn Stockton, Assistant Professor of English. "Bottom Values: Black Fictions vs. White Critical Theories?"
1989 - 1990
Margaret Brady, Associate Professor of English. "Mormon Women's Expressive Culture."
Leslie P. Francis, Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Philosophy. "Plans, Legitimate Expectations, and the Justice of Redistribution."
Dean L. May, Associate Professor of History. "Individualism and Community in the American West."
Paul E. Johnson, Associate Professor of History. "Dangerous Play: A Life of Sam Patch, 1799-1829."
University of Utah Graduate Fellows
2006-2007
Jonathan Moyer (Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Utah), “Interaction of the Mormon Church and the Republican Party in Local and National Politics”
Katie R. Sullivan (Ph.D. candidate, Communication, University of Utah), “How is Sexuality Discursively Constructed in the Profession of Massage Therapy?”
2005-2006
Kyeong-Kyu Im, Ph.D. candidate, English, “Empire and Diasporic Formation of Asian America”
Tracy Marafiote, Ph.D. candidate, Communication, “Boundaries of Identity, Earth and Institution: A Cultural History of the Wilderness Society and the Wilderness Act of 1964”
2004-2005
David C. Hawkins, Ph.D. candidate, English, “Dark Adaptation,” a poetry manuscript project.
Carolina Webber, Ph.D. candidate, Communication, “A Case Study of a State Court Systems Organizational Communication Processes”
2003-2004
Hale Yilmaz, Ph.D. candidate, History, "Learning, Resisting, Living: Negotiating the Kemalist Reforms in Trabzon, 1923-1938"
2002-2003
Brian Kubarycz, Ph.D. Candidate, English (Tanner Graduate Fellowship)
Justen Mark Olsen, Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy (Tanner Graduate Fellowship)
Jason Pickavance, Ph.D. Candidate, English (Tanner Graduate Fellowship
Eileen Wallis, Ph.D. Candidate, History (Tanner Graduate Fellowship)
2001-2002
Katie Pearce-Sassen, Department of History, "A Cultural Study of the Eagle Forum and Concerned Women for America in the Battle Over the Equal Rights Amendment."
Ryan Spellecy, Department of Philosophy, "Ulysses Contracts and Mental Illness."
2000-2001
Carl Sederholm, Department of English, "Early American Literature and the influence with the occult."
Lora Knight, Department of History, " Women and Eugenics in Germany and the U.S.,1900-1940."
1999-2000
Faith Childress, Department of History, "Education and the Founding of Modern Turkey."
John Joseph Vespa, Department of English, "Romantic Geography: Poetry, Politics, and the Wordsworthian Sense of Place."
Michaela Welk, Department of Languages and Literature, "Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Concept of history."
1998 - 1999
Perthenia Eilers, Department of Communication. "The Historical and Rhetorical Conjuncture of Aesthetics and Consumption in Practices of Scenic Tourism in Yellowstone National Park, 1870-1916."
Gary Entz, Department of History. "Paradise on the Plains: The Development of Communal Alternatives in Kansas, 1865-1900."
1997 - 1998
Kim Engdahl Coates, Department of English. "The Art of Being Ill: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Aesthetics, 1910-1935."
Elaine Glick, Department of Languages and Literature. "Toward a Feminist Film Practice: Women's Discourse and Representation in New German Cinema."
1996 - 1997
Christopher Diller, Department of English. "An Interdisciplinary Study of Aesthetic Educational Practices in 19th and 20th Century America."
Drora Oren, Department of Languages and Literature. "Reading the Human Body in The Book of Esther."
1995 - 1996
Susan Anderson, Department of English. "20th Century American Poetry and Politics."
Gerda Saunders, Department of English. "Renaissance Art and Art Criticism in Relation to Michelangelo."
1994 - 1995
Robert Dow, Department of Philosophy. "The Theoretical Status of an Ethic of Care: Exploring the Place of Care in Moral Theory and Practice."
Dolly Rauh, Department of History. "Author/Activist Mike Quin and the San Francisco Left, 1933-47."
1993 - 1994
Shehong Chen, Department of History. "China Politics, American-China Policy and Chinese Americans, 1911-1928."
Melanee Cherry, Department of Political Science. "Women's StudiesThe Feminist Case Within Bureaucracy."
1992 - 1993
Mark Fiege, Department of History. "Culture, Environment, and Irrigation Along the Snake River in Idaho, 1864-1990."
Solomon Namala, Department of Economics. "Deconstructing the Development Discourse."
Hootan Shambayati, Department of Political Science. "The Rentier State and Pressure Groups: A Comparison of Iran and Turkey."
Chun-hui Yang, Department of Languages and Literature. "Social Structure and Narrative Structure: A Study of Shen-xian-zhuan (The Lives of the Taoist Immortals)."
1991 - 1992
Karoline McKelvy Krauss, Department of Languages and Literature. "A Post-Structuralist Analysis of The Castle by Franz Kafka."
Salam Noor, Middle East Studies Program. "The International Relations of the Palestine Liberation Organization."
Ursula Pimentel, Department of Art History. "A Catalog of Dutch and Flemish Art in the University of Utah Museum of Fine Arts."
Gregory Smoak, Department of History. "The American Indian Ghost Dance Movements of the Late Nineteenth Century.
1990 - 1991
Marianne Barnett, Department of English. "MisgivingsA Fragmented Novel."
Alan R. Davison, Department of Languages and Literature. "El Corno Emplumado Bridge Between the Americas."
1989 - 1990
Janet Ellingson, Department of History. "The Kirtland Period (1830-1840) in Mormon History, in the Context of American Religious History."
Julie Nichols, Department of English. "Mormon Women's Expressive Culture, Creative Writing, Feminist and Literary Theory, and Narrative Forms."
Janet Ore, Department of History. "Twentieth-century Domestic Material Culture and Modernity."
Dean Rehberger, Department of English. "The American Civil War and the Historical Novel; A Study in Genre, Ideology, and Form."
University of Utah Undergraduate Fellows
1997 - 1998
Diane Wright, History & Middle Eastern Studies
1996 - 1997
David Anderson, English
Chris Myers, English/Anthropology
1995 - 1996
Eric Sprague, History
Beverly Plonsky-McGavock, Philosophy
1993 - 1994
Cory Memmott, Latin American Studies
Atul Shah, English