ILLINOIS PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES
FA L L 2012
| L E T T E R F R O M T H E D I R E C TO R | As all of us who work at the University of Illinois know, our humanities and arts faculty excel in the production of outstanding new knowledge, scholarship, and creative practices. With our exceptional library, special collections, and many other outstanding resources, Illinois remains an excellent environment for humanities research, whether that work follows traditional models or more innovative pathways. I’ve always believed that a distinctive aspect of intellectual life on our campus is the extent of cross-disciplinary conversation in which our faculty and students engage. Deep and sustained intellectual exchange with colleagues across the campus—including those in the sciences, in law, and in business, to name a few general categories—has become truly common practice for many. Despite our exceptional campus resources, they are nevertheless uneven, as is the case on every university campus no matter its size, wealth, or status. If we are to sustain robust research efforts in the humanities nationwide, and to raise the visibility of the work we do, we can no longer think in terms of institutional boundaries and their containment of particular assets. Scholars who require resources not at their own institution, whether powerful computational tools, an exceptional and specific library collection, a specialized performance or exhibition space, and/or the shared expertise of colleagues, must be able to find the support—both institutional and financial—to access those resources and to collaborate with colleagues at sometimes distant institutions. By working together, the public and private universities of the 21st century can build (and in some cases rebuild) the humanities; apart, Dianne Harris
we are likely to see continued struggle. Resulting from this belief in the importance of cross-institutional collaboration is an exciting development for the fifteenth year of the IPRH: our recent receipt of a new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that is intended to fund the planning of an extensive consortium of fifteen humanities centers. (You can find further details about the Mellon grant at right.) In addition to our gratitude to the Mellon Foundation, I wish to thank Dean Ruth Watkins for helping us secure campus matching funds for portions of the project; Janelle Weatherford in the Office of Foundation Relations; Professors Ted Underwood and Charles Wright for leading the pilot projects; and to IPRH Associate Director Nancy Castro. Inviting fifteen partners to work with us to strengthen the humanities in our fifteenth year provides, I think, some sense of where the IPRH—and the humanities at Illinois—now stand not only on our campus, but also on a national stage. As many of you know, former IPRH Associate Director Christine Catanzarite accepted a new position as the Director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) in January of 2012. Chris devoted her outstanding organizational skills to the IPRH for more than fourteen years, assisting with the implementation of hundreds of programs and events. Her tenure began along with the establishment of the IPRH, and she successfully created the film series that ran under her talented guidance and attracted a devoted following. We wish her much success in her new position! In February, we were most fortunate to welcome Dr. Nancy Castro into the role of Associate Director. With a PhD in English, and a range of experiences in higher education, publishing, and in foundation relations, Nancy brings an outstanding set of skills to the position. Together, we are creating some new initiatives that we hope will expand our impact across the campus. In order to reach undergraduates, we are launching our first “Inside Scoop” events. In an informal conversation facilitated by an invited undergraduate participant, faculty members will discuss the moments of creative discovery that ignited and have sustained their passion for their work. Our goal is not to convert undergraduates to humanities majors, but to help students of any major gain a deeper and richer sense of the creative excitement that underpins humanities scholarship. The first of these events will take place this fall, with participation from Professor Jonathan Ebel (Department of Religion), Professor Jane Desmond (Department of Anthropology), and undergraduate student Tara McGovern (Department of Anthropology). This fall also sees the launch our first public readings by members of the Creative Writing faculty. The September event will feature readings from recent publications, by Philip Graham and Alma Gottlieb, and from Janice Harrington. Harry Liebersohn (Department of History) will provide commentary since his work—like the works by Philip, Alma, and Janice—focuses on memory and memoir.
| ON THE COVER | IPRH Annual Theme 2013–14, page 11 Tricia Rose, visiting speaker, November 1 Stephanie Hilger Essay, “Bodies, Borders, Revolution” page 10 David Harvey, visiting speaker, November 8
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In the spring, Audrey Petty and LeAnne Howe will read from their recent publications. Both events are intended to evolve into conversations between the writers and members of the audience. We will once again be participating in this year’s Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF), with two events, one on November 10th and one on November 11th. Thanks to former IPRH Director, Professor of Anthropology, and CHF Artistic Director Matti Bunzl, the IPRH will sponsor lectures by Anthropology Professors Lisa Lucero and Ripan Malhi. We hope you’ll consider joining us in Chicago for these events, as well as for our exciting, on-campus line-up of speakers that includes lectures by Feisal Mohamed, Tricia Rose, David Harvey, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Richard Graff, Richard Pithouse, and a workshop with ACLS Director of Fellowship Programs Nicole Stahlmann, as well as symposia in the fall and spring (please see our calendar online). We also continue to support events planned by our faculty through the Event Grants Program, and to support both the Odyssey Project and the Education Justice Project through in-kind as well as modest financial backing. I remain grateful to all who make our work possible, especially Ruth Watkins, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ruth’s unwavering support of our endeavor frequently goes above and beyond the call of duty, and we are all most fortunate to count her as a true ally. I also remain grateful to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, whose funding helps support our faculty and graduate student fellowships. As we welcome our fifteenth cohort of IPRH Fellows and our third pair of Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows, and as we initiate this year of Revolution-themed events and consortial planning, I look forward to another year of stimulating conversations, challenging seminars, and new opportunities for creative engagement. I hope to see you at our events, in the IPRH building, and around the campus. With best wishes for the 2012–13 academic year,
| T H E H U M A N I T I E S W I T H O U T WA L L S | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $100,000 to IPRH to fund the planning of an extensive consortium of humanities institutes in the Midwest and beyond. Titled “Humanities Without Walls,” the grant will make possible a series of planning meetings, led by IPRH Director and Principal Investigator Dianne Harris, that will lead to the creation of a road map for cross-institutional collaboration among faculty and graduate students at the thirteen institutions that belong to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), plus the University of Notre Dame and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Two pilot programs, funded partially by the grant and partially by matching funds from the Urbana campus, will run throughout the year in parallel to the planning meetings, serving as proofs of concept for the project. Professor Ted Underwood (English) will lead a pilot collaboration titled “The Uses of Scale in Literary Studies” with colleagues at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, using the HATHI Trust Research Center as a focus of their collaborative activities. Professor Charles Wright (English and Program in Medieval Studies) will lead, in primary collaboration with colleagues at Notre Dame, a project titled “Performing the Middle Ages,” which involves faculty participants from many CIC institutions, including the University of Iowa, Indiana University, Ohio State, the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, Purdue, and the University of Chicago.
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Once the planning phase is complete, IPRH plans to seek opportunities to fully fund the creation of a multi-institutional consortium of humanities centers that would serve as a re-granting program to facilitate collaborative projects not possible by other means. In this era of decreasing support for the humanities nationwide, and particularly in public universities such as the many represented in the CIC, the creation of opportunities to raise the visibility of the humanities and to catalyze innovative synergies in humanistic inquiry proves increasingly essential. By leveraging the strengths of these distinctive campuses across institutional boundaries, the “Humanities Without Walls” project aims to create new avenues for collaborative research, teaching, and the production of scholarship in the humanities, forging and sustaining areas of inquiry that cannot be created or maintained without cross-institutional cooperation. As Ruth Watkins, Harry E. Preble Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has observed, the project has “excellent potential to expand the visibility and impact of humanistic scholarship across the great research universities of the Midwest, and well beyond to the national and international scholarly scene.”
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| C A R L A H U S TA K | The IPRH is delighted to welcome Dr. Carla Hustak, who joins us this fall as one of two new Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities. Dr. Hustak will spend two years at Illinois conducting research on her project (see right), participating in IPRH and other campus activities, and teaching courses in the Department of History.
Carla Hustak
Project Abstract Planting Rhythms: Plant Eugenics, Organic Farming, and Experimental Gardens, 1890–1930 My project will explore the early twentieth-century cultural and scientific fascination with plant-breeding. I intend to intervene in historiographies of botany, food, and sexuality by considering how plant and human bodies were intimately interwoven. In particular, I build on my previous
Carla Hustak received her doctorate in History
research into the intersecting worlds of botany, farming,
at the University of Toronto in 2010. Her
and sex reform where similar anxieties, practices, and
research interests lie at the intersection of
scientific discourses jointly shaped eugenic movements
histories of emotions, gender, sexuality, colo-
for breeding better plant and better human bodies. This
nialism, science, and ecology. She is currently
project contributes a new narrative of the famous case of
revising her dissertation into a book manuscript
Luther Burbank’s horticultural experiments in California by
entitled, “Radical Intimacies: Affective Potential
focusing on what Burbank’s experiments tell us about sex
and the Politics of Love in the Transatlantic Sex Reform Move-
as a process managed across human and plant bodies.
ment, 1900-1930.” She argues that the sex reform movement
Moreover, my project seeks to locate Burbank’s gardens
was defined by a politics of love that constructed white middle
and their cultural popularity amid broader developments
class bodies as emotionally “civilized” in their capacity to experi-
of plant-breeding. To do so, I will consider how Burbank’s
ence sexual instincts at the higher evolutionary stage of love.
gardens can be understood in relationship to experiments
Dr. Hustak has two forthcoming publications: “Saving Civilization
at the Illinois agricultural college. My work seeks to tell
from the ‘Green-Eyed’ Monster: Emma Goldman and the Sex
a story about human-plant intimacies located within the
Reform Campaign Against Jealousy, 1900-1930” in the Journal
wider developments of agricultural colleges as sites of sex
of Transnational American Studies, and “Love and Happiness in
experimentation that decentered the ‘human’ and brought
Sex Education Pedagogies: The Russells, Beacon Hill School,
in discourses of eugenics and sex reform movements. This
and Teaching ‘Sex-Love,’ 1927-1943” in the Journal of the
project addresses an important lacuna in the histories of
History of Sexuality.
food and sexuality where Malthusianism as a question of
At the University of Illinois, she will be working on her postdoctoral project “Planting Rhythms: Plant Eugenics, Organic Farming, and Experimental Gardens, 1890-1930.” In the History Department, she will be teaching a course on the “Cultural History of Emotions in the U.S.” during the 2012 Fall Semester.
reproduction and food supply has not been pushed to an inquiry into how genetic productions of food intimately and complexly interweave plant and human bodies in processes of sex and digestion. My work cuts across the themes of race and diaspora studies, history of science/technology, Empire and colonial studies, and memory studies.
THE IPRH FACULTY FELLOWSHIP HAS ALLOWED ME TO MAKE CONNECTIONS WITH COLLEAGUES ON CAMPUS THAT I WOULD PROBABLY NOT HAVE MADE OTHERWISE. THE FELLOWS SEMINAR IS A TRUE LEARNING COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS FROM DIFFERENT HUMANITIES DISCIPLINES ACROSS CAMPUS. Stephanie Hilger, Germanic Languages and Literatures/Comparative and World Literature, and IPRH Faculty Fellow 2011–12
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| A H A LYA S AT K U N A R AT N A M | The IPRH is pleased to introduce Dr.
Project Abstract
Ahalya Satkunaratnam, who arrives at Illinois this fall as one of two Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in the
After Sri Lanka’s Civil War
Humanities. Dr. Satkunaratnam will spend
My research looks at Bharata Natyam, a popular dance
two years in residence conducting research
practice in Sri Lanka, through ethnographic study of
on her project (see right), participating in IPRH
women artists and their dance practices, articulated
and other campus activities, and teaching
examinations of choreography, and investigations of
courses in the Department of Gender and
the political significance of dance practice in contexts
Women’s Studies and the Department of
of conflict. Looking at cultural practice after the war
Dance.
between the rebel army, Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Dancer and scholar, Ahalya Satkunaratnam received her Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies Ahalya Satkunaratnam
Feminist Movement: Bharata Natyam Dance Practice
from the Department of Dance at University of California, Riverside in 2009. Her monograph in progress, “Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Bharata Natyam Practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka,” examines women’s experiences with, and resistance to, war and ethnic-based nationalism
Eelam (LTTE), and the Sri Lankan Government, I show how women dance practitioners use choreography and performance to address ethnic divisions, subvert nationalism, and advocate for peace. My research expands scholarship in Bharata Natyam practice by exposing Sri Lankan understandings of the dance form, which have transnational journeys, in large part, due to the war.
through popular dance practice in Sri Lanka. She will bring her
Considering the ways in which dance is utilized post-
investment in the intersections of transnational feminism with
conflict, I show that dance is integrated in several
performance to her teaching at Illinois, where she will offer a
“reconciliation” initiatives by the state. My project also
course on “Performance, Gender, and Nationalism“ in fall 2012.
looks at the ways in which female dance practitioners in Sri Lanka have been and continue to engage with
Dr. Satkunaratnam’s doctoral research was generously
feminist, intellectual and anti-war movements. I also pay
supported through a 2006–2007 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award (DDRA) from the U.S. Department of Education. Recently awarded a research fellowship by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, she continues to conduct new research in “post-conflict” Sri Lanka. Her article, “Staging War: Performing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka” is forthcoming in Dance Research Journal.
special attention to choreography as visions for freedom and peace by looking at the ways in which culturally significant narratives drawn from religious and literary canons are imbued with new contemporary and feminist meaning. Finally, my project addresses transnational movement of dance practice through an examination of the dispersal of practitioners to India, Australia, Canada and Europe in recent years in order to escape conflict.
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| I P R H FA C U LT Y F E L L O W S 2012ͳ13 | Faculty Fellows receive one semester of release time in the semester of their choice during the fellowship year, and research funds in the amount of $2,000. The IPRH compensates the faculty members’ home departments for the semesters of release. IPRH Faculty Fellows are also asked to teach a course—during the fellowship year or the year immediately following—on a subject related to the fellowship project. Through these courses, the Fellows illustrate the connection between exceptional research and outstanding teaching, and continue the conversation on the fellowship topic long after the year has ended. Descriptions of the courses proposed by this year’s Faculty Fellows can be found on the IPRH website.
C AT H A R I N E G R AY English “Unmaking Britain: War Poetry and News Culture, 1638–1665” Abstract: My second book project restores the violent political upheavals and civil wars that characterized mid-seventeenth-century Britain to the poetry of the period. To do so, I locate this poetry within both the messy material realities of early modem warfare and the busy, emerging news culture that increasingly reported these realities. My book reveals a range of poets, faced with domestic war and regicide, struggling with bloody and disorienting images of a rapidly-mutating nation state. Caught at the transformational moment between revolutionary ruin and revolutionary regeneration, they imagine Britain’s political coherence at its most compelling as it vanishes from view.
BONNIE MAK Graduate School of Library and Information Science “Implications of a Digital Revolution” Abstract: Notably absent in the current rush to digitize newspapers and books are critical investigations of the processes and products of this work. Such examinations are forestalled, I argue, by a rhetoric of revolution that determines how the phenomenon should be constituted and studied, just as it continues to do for the so-called printing revolution of the fifteenth century. My analysis of digitizations exposes the ways in which historical sources are being reconfigured for digital transmission as part of the “information revolution,” and considers the consequences of this reconfiguration for humanities scholarship, cultural heritage, and the making of meaning.
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F A R A N A K M I R A F TA B Urban and Regional Planning “Between Homeland and Heartland: How Migrants and their Families in Mexico and Togo Revitalize the American Midwest” Abstract: This project concerns the rapid and radical transformation of the social landscape in the U.S. heartland, due to transnational labor recruitment by the meat-processing industry. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in Illinois, Mexico and Togo, I examine this transformation at two levels: I) the global: a less examined aspect of free market revolution that “outsources” the free work of care to immigrants’ communities of origin; II) the local: a quiet and under-the-radar transformation that takes place outside the formal structures of politics to allow immigrants to make a former sundown town their new multi-racial home in Illinois.
K AT H R Y N O B E R D E C K History “Solution for Revolution? : Urban Blight, Domestic Hygiene, and Transnational Politics of Sanitation in Chicago, Illinois and Durban, South Africa, 1910s–1960s” Abstract: Demographically distinct in scale and racial geography, Chicago, Illinois and Durban, South Africa also share historical dimensions of racialized space that can comparatively illuminate transnational perspectives on urban hygiene engaged from below. This project traces these continuities through successive projects of sanitary segregation, hygienic uplift, and urban renewal in which black, brown, white and not-quitewhite groups contested definitions of hygiene and “urban blight” from diverse perspectives. In the process, it interrogates visions of “revolution” as they have been conceptually transformed from class-based upheavals that individualizing regimes of “hygiene” can forestall to transformative biopolitics of the self engaged through such regimes.
ANKE PINKERT Germanic Languages and Literatures “Transforming the Humanities through Higher Education in Prison” Abstract: Incarcerated people in the US shape an invisible and largely forgotten population. The dominance of postmodern theory in the last decades has stalled our capacity to imagine how education might change the carceral state. Drawing on recent discussions about the public role of the university, this project examines new ways in which the Humanities — as field, theory, pedagogy, and ethical practice — can promote revolutionary social transformation through higher learning in prison. In particular, I propose to explore the potentially transformative and reparative effects of Holocaust education for incarcerated men in the Education Justice Project engaging with critical concepts such as difference and violence, forgiveness and social responsibility.
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M AT T H E W T H I B E A U LT
History
School of Music (Music Education) and Education (Affiliate)
“Oh, Freedom; The Revolutionary Dreams of Emancipation, 1861–1877” Abstract: The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, both about to celebrate sesquicentennials, effected a confiscation of property greater than that seized in any other revolution prior to 1917. This transformation, so conditioned by the actions of the slaves themselves, opened vast space for further movements towards freedom. This book describes what freed people did in that space and how their continuing example emboldened others to seek their own “Jubilees,” primarily an eight-hour day for workers and suffrage for women. The story of Reconstruction thus becomes revolutionary as well as constitutional, national as well as sectional, and full of meaning for coalition building today.
“Spinning Sounds: 20th Century Revolutions in Music from Performance to Recording to Data” Abstract: “Spinning Sounds: 20th Century Revolutions in Music from Performance to Recording to Data” investigates trajectories of change in music that originate in twin revolutions that bookend the 20th century, namely, the transition from live performance to sound recording, and the rise of music as computable new media. The project is framed by a humanistic account of how technological innovation has inspired and been inspired by changes in musical practice. Accounts of technological change drawn from sound studies, accounts of musical change drawn from key people, and short stories where musical culture is central ground the book.
| I P R H G R A D UAT E S T U D E N T F E L L O W S 2012ͳ13 | Graduate Student Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend and a tuition and fee waiver from the IPRH. Two of the graduate fellowship recipients—Jill Fitzgerald and Diana Georgescu have been designated IPRH-Nicholson Fellows for 2012–13. The Nicholson Endowment is a gift of Grace W. Nicholson, who pursued undergraduate studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor Emeritus John A. Nicholson, a faculty member in the Philosophy Department at Illinois for 33 years. The Nicholson Endowment, which was established in 1999, provides support for the academic programs in LAS and excellence in the study of the humanities on campus.
JILL FITZGER ALD IPRH-NICHOLSON FELLOW
DIANA GEORGESCU IPRH-NICHOLSON FELLOW
English
History
“Rebel Angels: Political Theology and the Fall of the Angels Tradition in Old English Literature”
“‘Ceauşescu’s Children’: The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist Generation (1965–2005)”
Abstract: My dissertation explores the changing face of political and ecclesiastical institutions in Anglo-Saxon England. I focus on how the biblical story of the angelic rebellion in heaven informed Anglo-Saxon political and theological structures, specifically during the crises attending the Benedictine Reform and renewed Viking attacks of the tenth and eleventh centuries. My project looks at what this narrative’s core repertoire of themes can tell us about the ways in which medieval Christians conceptualized authority by examining how Anglo-Saxon authors appropriated this revolution narrative as they worked through issues of church and state in legal charters as well as Old English poetry and prose.
Abstract: Hailed as the embodiment of the revolutionary communist project of social and individual transformation during Nicolae Ceauşescu’s regime, Romania’s “last socialist generation” was reclaimed as the guarantee of redemption from authoritarian communism following the 1989 Romanian Revolution. Making this border generation its analytical category, my project explores the regimes of identity and memory ushered in by the inception and collapse of the Cold War. It revisits the dominant representation of socialist citizens as inhibited liberal subjects in East European scholarship and examines the political uses of socialist nostalgia in the post-communist context of democratization and fragmentation of social memory.
“EVERY TIME I HIT A RUT IN MY WRITING DURING THE YEAR, IT WOULD BE TIME FOR ANOTHER MEETING OF THE IPRH FELLOWS SEMINAR. OUR EXCITED DISCUSSIONS WOULD REMIND ME WHY I LOVE WHAT I DO AND REINVIGORATE ME TO RETURN TO MY DISSERTATION AND TACKLE THE MORE THEORETICALLY OR STRUCTURALLY DIFFICULT PIECES OF THE PROJECT THAT WOULD OTHERWISE PROVE TO BE EASY ROADBLOCKS TO EFFICIENT INTELLECTUAL PROGRESS.” Katie Walkiewicz, English and IPRH Graduate Student Fellow 2011–12
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AIMEE RICKMAN
History
Human and Community Development
“Between Two Worlds: How Americans and Soviets Connected, Collided, and Made Each Other After the Bolshevik Revolution”
“Living Docility and Dissent: U.S. Small-Town Girls’ Social Media Use Within Social Marginalization”
Abstract: This dissertation examines a series of formative encounters between Russians and Americans following the Bolshevik Revolution. Intimate, violent, sometimes ambivalent, and often productive, these interactions occurred through battle, economic and technological exchange, migration, and cultural and scientific interpretation. They reveal how the transnational aftereffects of revolution did not separate Americans and Russian Soviets as scholars have assumed. I argue that they spurred new modes of connection and interest that offered people in the United States and Russia an array of overlapping meanings and resources for understanding what it meant to be American and what it meant to be Soviet.
Abstract: Adolescence bounds young women within hostile social conditions. In this project, I conduct a rural ethnography with young women to investigate how social media sites like Facebook may support their countercultural interests and their revolutionary impulses. Building upon the work of communication and culture scholar Mary Gray and of cultural historian Nancy Lesko, this research uses queer, feminist, and critical theory to consider how social media use by rural young women marginalized within Western adolescence represent attempts at disrupting or even overthrowing their existing social order. It also examines how these attempts absorb, further, and dispel interests in social reordering.
H O L LY H O L M E S
S T E P H A N I E S E AW E L L
Musicology
History
“‘Sou do mundo, Sou Minas Gerais [I am of the world. I am Minas Gerais]’: Popular Music, Politics and Regionalism in Belo Horizonte, Brazil”
“The Black Freedom Movement and Community Planning in Urban Parks in Cleveland, Ohio, 1945–1977”
Abstract: My research traces the evolution of the popular music collective—the Clube da Esquina [Corner Club] —and its use of music as a form of protest against the Brazilian military dictatorship’s strict censorship, torture, and disappearance of citizens (1964–1985). While archival research of regime-era police documents provides a broad picture of the clandestine resistance movements in the region, ethnographic work with individual members of the collective explores their negotiation between the competing identities of musical artist and social activist. As Brazil nominates its first Truth Commission, this project reveals music as a powerful force of collective memory and social change.
Abstract: My project examines how Civil Rights and Black Power activists challenged de facto segregation at Cleveland, Ohio public parks and changed the cultural landscape of the city in the process. My study starts from the premise that public parks were important spaces on the urban landscape. When access to these spaces was denied or limited along lines of race, gender, sexuality, or class, parks became material representations of the often silent but understood fault lines of power that fractured urban landscapes. My dissertation argues that revolutionary black planning visions challenged those fault lines and transformed the vernacular landscape of Cleveland.
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OCTOBER
27 NEH Summer Stipend application deadline, 5:00 p.m. Application guidelines can be found on the IPRH website.
12 IPRH Fall Reception 7:00–9:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m., remarks by Chancellor Phyllis Wise
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29– Collaborative Research Project 31 Event: “Experimental and Empirical Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness,” Conference See page 20 for details.
14 IPRH Event Grants Program submission deadline, 5:00 p.m. Proposal guidelines can be found on page 31. 18 Memory/Memoir: Readings and Discussion by Philip Graham (English), Alma Gottlieb (Anthropology), Janice Harrington (English), and Harry Liebersohn (History) 7:30 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
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Third Annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture: Feisal Mohamed (English) “Republican Political Theology in the Age of Hobbes” 4:00 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor Opening Remarks by Provost Ilesanmi Adesida A reception will follow the lecture.
4–5 Collaborative Research Project Event: “American Religions/ American Literatures” Conference See page 20 for details.
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Lecture: Tricia Rose (Africana Studies, Brown University) “Black Cultural Politics in a Color Blind Nation” 4:00 p.m., Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum Co-Sponsored by IPRH and the Spurlock Museum A reception will follow the lecture. Lecture: David Harvey (Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics) IPRH “Revolution” Theme Lecture 7:30 p.m., Foellinger Auditorium A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.
MARCH 10 Conversation: Ripan Malhi (Anthropology UI) “How Did We Get Here?”—with Stephani Levi 4:00 p.m., Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center 77 East Randolph Street, Chicago Co-sponsored by IPRH and the Chicago Humanities Festival For program details and ticket information, visit the Chicago Humanities Festival website (www.chfestival.org). 11
Lecture: Lisa Lucero (Anthropology UI) “Lessons From the Ancient Maya,” 3:00 p.m., First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple 77 West Washington Street, Chicago Co-sponsored by IPRH and the Chicago Humanities Festival For program details and ticket information, visit the Chicago Humanities Festival website (www.chfestival.org).
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IPRH Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowship application deadline, 5:00 p.m. Application guidelines can be found on pages 34 and 35.
JANUARY 30 Lecture: Richard Graff (Writing Studies, University of Minnesota)
FEBRUARY 21 Lecture: Nicholas Mirzoeff (Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University) 4:00 p.m., 3rd floor, Levis Faculty Center A reception will follow the lecture.
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Lecture: Richard Pithouse (Political and International Studies, Rhodes University) IPRH “Revolution” Theme Lecture: “Thought Amidst Waste” 4:00 p.m., Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum Co-sponsored by IPRH and the Spurlock Museum. A reception will follow the lecture.
13 IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities application/nomination deadline, 5:00 p.m. Information about the application/nomination process can be found on page 32.
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IPRH-Mellon Spring Symposium 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Half Ballroom West, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 South Lincoln Ave, Urbana A complete program will be available on the IPRH website in early 2013.
16 ACLS Fellowship Workshop with Nicole A. Stahlmann (Director, Fellowship Programs, American Council of Learned Societies) 24 IPRH Prizes for Research Award Ceremony and Reception 4:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
MAY 15 Reading Group applications due
22 Panel: The Future of Authorship (Brown Bag Lunch) Noon, IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall Participants to include Nicholas Mirzoeff and UI faculty. 27 MEMORY/MEMOIR: Readings and Discussion by LeAnne Howe (English/American Indian Studies) and Audrey Petty (English) 7:30 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
Please visit www.iprh.illinois.edu throughout the year for additions to this calendar of events. We invite you to join us on Facebook for updates and announcements of IPRH activities.
AS SOMEONE WHOSE TRAINING HAS BEEN DIVIDED BETWEEN THE HUMANITIES AND THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES, THE IPRH SEMINAR HAS GIVEN ME A MUCH BROADER EXPOSURE TO THE HUMANITIES, INTRODUCING ME TO NEW SUBJECT AREAS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES EACH WEEK. THIS HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY HELPFUL FOR MY OWN WORK, BOTH IN RESEARCH AND TEACHING…. AN IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR ME WAS WHEN I WAS PUSHED TO CONSIDER WHAT MY HUMANISTIC INSIGHTS BRING TO AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION INVOLVING SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS. Duncan Keenan-Jones, Classics and IPRH-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow 2011–13
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| B O D I E S, B O R D E R, R E VO LU T I O N | My interest in bodies began with the French Revolution. As I was researching a book on literary representations of the fall of the ancien régime, I discovered two types of bodies. There were, on the one hand, allegorical personifications of political ideals such as liberty, tolerance, and republicanism and, on the other, individual physical bodies affected by the Revolution’s social and political upheaval. Although iconographic representations of Liberty as a female figure in a fluttering dress abound in primary and secondary sources and constitute a privileged topic in scholarship on the period, I became far more interested in the depiction of the individual bodies of fictional characters and fictionalized historical figures. Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century authors staged their consciousness of momentous change in the body politic as the story of an individual character’s body. The bodies of these writers’ predominantly female protagonists all diverge, in one way or another, from the gender norms of their time. This is nowhere more visible than in those novels that portray the adventures of crossdressed female soldiers on the battlefields of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. In Bodies that Matter (1993) Judith Butler responds to a question that she was asked repeatedly: “What about the materiality of the body…?” (ix). Yes, indeed, what about the materiality of the body? What about the bruised and battered bodies of cross-dressed soldiers, who dreaded the inquisitive eye of the battlefield surgeon more than the weapon of their opponent? There is no denying that we all inhabit a physical body that manifests itself through its materiality. And yet, the way we perceive and ultimately treat this body is profoundly shaped by cultural constructions and performances. As Butler argues in Stephanie M. Hilger
response to her critics, the body is more than pre-cultural and pre-linguistic matter, and, therefore, it matters to us beyond its mere physicality.
The trials and tribulations of individual bodies during and after the French Revolution appear in medical textbooks that highlighted the body’s constructed nature in almost a comically absurd way. In his Anatomy of the Bones of the Human Body, the early nineteenth-century scientist John Barclay included drawings that exaggerated those body parts that had emerged as the site for the political debate concerning gender roles: the skull and the pelvis. Barclay argued that sexual difference was found not only in the genitals but also in the entire human body. The female skeleton was depicted with an extremely narrow ribcage, a disproportionally small skull, and extraordinarily wide hips. In case his readers did not follow his argument, Barclay accompanied the female skeleton with the picture of an ostrich and the male skeleton with the drawing of a horse. The illustration of the female skeleton begs questions about the real-life body serving as the model. Perhaps it was a woman with unusually large hipbones and a small skull who was selected to highlight women’s domestic destiny. Or it might have been, as cultural critic Londa Schiebinger ventures, the skeleton of a woman whose bones were deformed by decades of wearing a corset, which had squeezed her literally into her time’s gender roles. Or, like the Greek painter Xeuxis (5th century BC), the anatomist could have assembled the skeleton from different women, each representing a specific body part in its supposed perfection. Bodies are not merely pre-cultural and pre-linguistic; they are constructed, shaped, and deformed by regulatory cultural ideals as well as individual desires. The early nineteenth-century exaggeration of the differences between male and female bodies affirmed the very fact that anatomists strove to deny, namely that these bodies’ commonalities by far exceeded their differences. The biological basis for the gender binary was questioned further by bodies hovering on the dividing line between male and female. Ancient Greek mythology explained the physical reality of these liminal bodies with the myth of Hermaphroditus. The son of Hermes and Aphrodite charms the nymph Salmacis to such a degree that she fuses their bodies, thereby creating not the perfect male or the perfect female, but the perfect human form. Over the course of the past two millennia, the representation of this liminal body gradually changed from an image of perfect grace to that of a grotesque monster, and then, beginning in the
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early eighteenth-century, to a mistake of nature in need of medical intervention. The eighteenth-century scientist and poet Albrecht von Haller wrote an entry on the “hermaphrodite” for the Encyclopédie and argued that the Enlightenment anatomist could shed light on the intersex body and ultimately classify it correctly as either male or female. This normalizing tendency continued in subsequent centuries, only with different tools. The pen of the eighteenth-century encyclopédiste was replaced first with the microscope of the nineteenth-century scientist, then the scalpel of the twentieth-century surgeon, and, eventually, the banner of the twenty-first century activist. The classification, scrutiny, and normalization of the intersex body highlights, in a particularly powerful way, the fact that bodies are contested realities embedded in their time’s body politic. Bodies matter and they do so in ways that defy disciplinary boundaries. They are objects not only of scientific study but also of humanistic inquiry. Looking at them from both perspectives may not lead to easy solutions to sociopolitical dilemmas but can raise relevant questions that still occupy public attention. The eighteenth-century debates on the king’s body sound familiar in an electoral year when, most recently, a major television network juxtaposed photos of potential candidates and invited experts to discuss who had the most presidential chin, using pictures of past presidents as reference points. The story of a social body is always the story of an individual body. And, a chin is more than just a chin.
Stephanie Hilger is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Comparative and World Literature. She is the author of Women Write Back: Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805 (2009). She is currently completing “The Warrior and the Traveler,” a book on the portrayal of the French Revolution in German literature. Her new project, “Liminal Bodies,” explores the representation of intersexuality in literary and medical narratives. For this project, she was awarded a fellowship from the LAS Program of Faculty Study in a Second Discipline (2012-2013). Professor Hilger also takes her interdisciplinary interests to her teaching, for which she received the 2011–2012 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lynn Martin Award for Distinguished Women Teachers. Professor Hilger was an IPRH Faculty Fellow during the 2011–12 academic year.
| A N N UA L T H E M E 2013͵14: T H E B O DY/B O D I E S | The IPRH theme for the 2013–14 academic year is “The Body/Bodies.” Taken in the singular, “the body” typically conjures a corporeal presence that can be human or otherwise. When pertaining to an animate figure, the body is a specific subject that is governed by physiological and environmental parameters, but also by historically and culturally specific structures such as the law, medicine, religion, language and much more. The body is a marker and a sign; it can be an encumbrance or a site of celebration; it may be free or incarcerated; disguised and deceptive, or candidly expressive; it can create just as it can also destroy and be destroyed. Questions about the body may include investigations of the “natural,” the biological or somatic (from the cellular to the genomic, and from the flesh to the viscera), or the representational; they may focus on the sensory and the sexual, and/or on mind-body interfaces. As an organism, the “body” has offered analogical possibilities for other systems, and investigations of those connections are welcome. One could also consider the term as pertaining to the inanimate or to collectivities and discernible masses—bodies of knowledge, bodies of work, bodies of water, the body politic— with all the implications such usages might carry. The IPRH welcomes applications from all disciplines and departments with an interest in humanities and humanities-inflected research. We invite applications from faculty and graduate students that focus on any aspect of the body/bodies. The theme also provides an opportunity for artists to consider the relevance of the body/bodies in their creative practice.
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| I P R H AT T H E C H I C A G O H U M A N I T I E S F E S T I VA L |
C H I C A G O H U M A N I T I E S F E S T I VA L October 14, 21, and November 1 – 11, 2012 in venues around downtown Chicago Theme 2012: America Tickets go on sale September 6 to CHF members, and September 19 to the general public. The full schedule and ticket details can be found at www.chicagohumanities.org. IPRH is honored to partner with the Chicago Humanities Festival to co-sponsor the following lectures by Illinois Anthropology professors Ripan Malhi and Lisa Lucero.
R I PA N M A L H I
understanding, suggesting an intriguing model that turns on multi-tiered colo-
How Did We Get Here?
nizations along with settlements in Beringa. University of Illinois professor
A Conversation With
Ripan Malhi is at the forefront of this scholarly revolution, which also involves
Stephani Levi
the development of novel research collaborations with native communities.
Saturday, November 10
Malhi discusses his research with Stephanie Levi, founder of Science is
4:00 to 5:00 p.m., Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural
Sexy, which gives Chicagoan non-scientists and scientists alike a short, sweet taste of science in their everyday lives through a series of Night Labs.
Center (77 East Randolph Street,
Ripan Malhi is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University
Chicago)
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a molecular anthropologist, whose
When did humans come to the Americas? And how? Those are some of the oldest (and greatest) questions of anthropology. Theories abound—but they are obsolete. Over
work integrates population genetics, phylogenetics, ancient DNA analysis, and field research in collaboration with Native American communities. His recent research includes exploration of when and how the First Americans arrived in North America.
the last few years, new genetic research technologies have upended our
LISA LUCERO
Lisa J. Lucero is a Professor of
Lessons from the
Anthropology at the University
Ancient Maya
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Sunday, November 11 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple (77 West Washington Street, Chicago)
Her interests focus on the emergence and demise of political power, ritual, water management, climate change and civilization, and the Classic Maya. She has been conducting
University of Illinois archeologist
archaeology projects in Belize
Lisa Lucero has been digging up
for over 20 years; her most
the secrets of the ancient Maya
recent project involves heading
for more than 20 years. Her most
diving expeditions into cenotes
far-reaching discovery, though, is
looking for ancient Maya offerings
a recent one and carries implica-
and evidence for climate and
tions for our own era. At the
landscape histories (supported by
height of Maya Classic culture,
National Geographic Society and
around the year 800, several multiyear droughts may have hastened the end of the civilization’s ruling kings. Lucero’s research centers on the resilience and water management practices of the commoners, helping her understand the importance of rituals, strategy, and conservation to their ingenuity and perseverance. Hear her talk about the ideas Maya history may offer for present-day sustainability.
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National Science Foundation).
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Antoinette Burton delivers the annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities.
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Contacts: Mike Hamilton, Education (mike.hamilton@prin.edu) and
INCLUSIONS AND EXCLUSIONS IN SOCIAL COMMUNITY & ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATICS
Christine Hedlin, English (hedlin2@illinois.edu)
Contacts: Sharon Irish, Graduate School of Library and
AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY READING GROUP
BRITISH MODERNITIES GROUP
Information Science (slirish@illinois.edu), Tad Andracki, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Contacts: Shawn Ballard, English (ballard6@illinois.edu) and Brandon
(andrack2@illinois.edu), and Charlotte Roh, Graduate School of
Jones, English (bdjones4@illinois.edu)
Library and Information Science (croh2@illinois.edu)
THE CONTEMPORARY MIND-SCIENCES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HUMANITIES AND INTERPRETIVE THEORY
JAPANESE FILM AND SOCIETY
Contacts: Melissa Littlefield, English/Kinesiology and Community
Contact: John Wheeler, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Health (mml@illinois.edu) and Bruce Michelson, English/Campus
(jbwheel2@illinois.edu)
Honors Program (brucem@illinois.edu)
THE KOREA WORKSHOP READING GROUP
CRITICAL INQUIRY OF SPATIAL PERSPECTIVES
Contacts: Nancy Abelmann, Anthropology, Asian American
Contact: Sara Alsum-Wassenaar, Art +Design
History (kimjw@illinois.edu), Elizabeth LaCouture, Korean
(alsumwa2@illinois.edu)
Family in Comparative Perspective Postdoctoral Fellow
DANVILLE CRITICAL STUDIES READING GROUP
(formerly “Japanese Film Reading Group”)
Studies, EALC (nabelman@illinois.edu), Jungwon Kim, EALC,
(elacoutu@illinois.edu), and Erica Vogel, Anthropology, CEAPS, EALC, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (evogel@illinois.edu)
Contacts: Peter Odell Campbell, Department of Communication,
KOREAN HISTORY READING GROUP
Education Justice Project (pcampbe3@illinois.edu) and Anne E.
Contacts: Yoonjeong Shim, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Parsons, Department of History (UIC), Education Justice Project,
(yshim@illinois.edu), Jung Wook Pyo, EALC (pyo5@illinois.
UIUC (aparso2@uic.edu)
edu), and So Jung Kim, EALC (skim194@illinois.edu)
DIGITAL LITERACIES Contacts: Jonathan Stone, English, Center for Writing Studies
LABOR AND WORKING CLASS HISTORY READING GROUP
(jwstone2@illinois.edu), Melissa Larabee, English, Center for Writing
Contacts: Zach Sell, Graduate Student Coordinator
Studies (melissa.k.forbes@gmail.com), and Kaitlin Marks-Dubbs,
(sell4@illinois.edu) and James Barrett, Faculty Coordinator,
English, Center for Writing Studies (marksdu1@illinois.edu)
History (jrbarret@illinois.edu)
DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE
MULTICULTURALISM, DIVERSITY, GLOBALIZATION OR SOMETHING ELSE?
Contacts: Anna María Escobar, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Examining the Intersection of International and Domestic
(aescobar@illinois.edu) and Zsuzsana Fagyal, French (zsfagyal@
Minority Students as American Higher Education Internationalizes
illinois.edu)
Contact: Lucinda Morgan, Educational Policy Studies
EAST EUROPEAN READING GROUP (EERG) Contact: Zsuzsanna Magdo, History (zmagdo2@illinois.edu)
EXPERIMENTAL PRAGMATICS Contacts: Nikos Vergis, Linguistics (vergis1@illinois.edu) and Nyssa Bulkes, Linguistics (ccoughle@illinois.edu)
(lmorgan4@illinois.edu)
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL THEORY Contacts: Okla Elliott, Comparative and World Literature (elliot12@illinois.edu), Matt Nelson, Comparative and World Literature (menelso2@illinois.edu), and Nancy Blake, Faculty
GLOBAL INDIGENEITY
Advisor, Comparative and World Literature (nblake@illinois.edu)
Contacts: Josh Levy, History (jalevy2@illinois.edu) and Kyle T. Mays,
WORLD HISTORIES FROM BELOW
History (ktmays2@illinois.edu)
Contacts: Kathryn Oberdeck, History (kjo@illinois.edu) and
HISTORY OF EDUCATION READING GROUP
Antoinette Burton, History (aburton@illinois.edu)
Contacts: Suzanne Reilly, Educational Policy, Organization and
YOUTH, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE
Leadership (smreilly@illinois.edu) and Samuel Byndom, Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership (byndom1@illinois.edu)
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Contact: Deborah Stevenson, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (dstevens@illinois.edu)
| M E L LO N N E W D I R E C T I O N S F O R H U M A N I T I E S FA C U LT Y | Shao Dan, a 2011–12 IPRH Fellow and Associate Profes-
a year of full-time study leading to an LLM. His study will continue in the
sor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, received a
summers of 2013 and 2014, with training and research in France and Egypt.
prestigious New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew
“A background in law will inform significantly my current work on religious
W. Mellon Foundation in spring 2012. She was one of 15
liberty in the early modern period and today, which aims to examine the issue
scholars nationwide to be so recognized. This marks the
as a Gordian knot of cultural and legal traditions,” explains Mohamed. “It will
third year in a row that the Mellon Foundation has invited
also have longer-term applications for my scholarly interest in global justice.
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to nominate
Here, too, we might discern theological underpinnings in attempts to assert a
Shao Dan a faculty member, and each time, the campus nominee has succeeded in the highly competitive selection process.
Feisal Mohamed, Professor of English, won a fellowship in 2011, and Associ-
morally just supra-national sovereignty, an intersection between religion and politics also at work in the ‘modern Islamism’ taking shape before our eyes in the wake of the Arab Spring.”
ate Professor of Political Science Samantha Frost, a 2010 recipient, was the
Professor Frost set out to consider how political theorists
first Illinois faculty member to receive the award.
should modify and expand concepts of political judgment
Mellon New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities,
and political action if the biological forces and processes at
broadly understood to include the arts, history, languages, area studies, and
work in human thinking and action are taken into account.
zones of such fields as anthropology and geography that bridge the humanities
She employed her New Directions Fellowship to take
and social sciences, to acquire systematic training outside their own areas
a full load of courses in biology for 18 months. Of her
of special interest. In addition to facilitating the work of individual faculty
experience as a Fellow, Frost remarks, “It was amazing, a
members, these awards are intended to benefit humanistic scholarship more generally by encouraging the highest standards in cross-disciplinary research. Professor Shao plans to undertake formal training in law, focusing on western philosophy of law, U.S. legal history, comparative law, and the sociology of law. Such training is critical to advancing her current research into what legal scholars term “legal transplant,” or the importation of legal codes and institutions. “Legal training will enable me to contextualize the significant roles that cultural idioms play in the process of legal transplantation and to theorize the social implications of the re-interpretation and implementation of these codes and concepts in the recipient community,” Shao said. “The support of this fellow-
Samantha Frost
fundamentally transformative experience. It changed the way I look at the world as well as the way I think about my
research.” Frost is currently working on a book called “Biology for Humanists,” which aims to provide language, concepts, and models of biological processes so that humanists can develop more detailed and substantive accounts of the complex interactions between body and culture in the materialization or incorporation of discursive norms. She is also working with other faculty on campus to develop research and instructional programs on systems biology, which is a field that explores the mutual shaping of culture and biology over a long temporal frame.
ship will impact my long-term research interest in tracing the historical roots of
“We are pleased and honored that the Mellon Foundation has recognized
contemporary problems that arise in East Asia when the
three distinguished Illinois faculty with New Directions Fellowships in three
transplantation of legal codes elides, or even collides with,
consecutive years,” said Janelle Weatherford, director of the Office of Founda-
local customs, social realities, and value systems, given
tion Relations, which administers the Mellon New Directions competition at
an over-emphasis on the law’s content at the expense of
Illinois and manages the campus relationship with the Mellon Foundation.
sensitivity to local history and culture.”
“This is a highly competitive program, and Illinois’s three Fellows have been given a unique opportunity to pursue subjects and research methods outside
Professor Mohamed (IPRH Fellow in 2008–09) was
their areas of disciplinary expertise.” IPRH congratulates Professors Shao,
also awarded his Mellon New Directions Fellowship to undertake formal study of law. In 2011–12, he completed
Feisal Mohamed
Mohamed, and Frost on their innovative forays in new scholarly directions.
GRADUATE FELLOW ACHIEVEMENTS IPRH also wishes to congratulate 2011–12 IPRH Graduate Fellows Annaliese Jacobs (History) and Miriam Kienle (Art History) for their success in receiving 2012 pre-doctoral fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
and British identity, one with enduring power for an imperial nation. Keinle received a Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art to support work on her dissertation, “Community at a
Jacobs received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship to support
Distance: The Networked Art of Ray Johnson,” which focuses on the
work on “Companions: Knowledge, Intimacy, and Empire in British Arctic Explo-
progenitor of the “mail art” movement. Keinle’s dissertation is particularly
ration, 1818–1859,” which examines the networks of knowledge and intimacy
interested in how Johnson’s work deconstructs the modern subject,
crucial to early nineteenth century British Arctic exploration, focusing on the
confronting new forms of liberation and domination that emerged with the
complex web of “companions”—wives, indigenous guides, sailors, and brother
expansion of global capitalism and communication technologies during
officers—who navigated and narrated the Arctic from the 1820s to the 1850s.
the 1960s. In addition to visiting various archives, Keinle will draw on the
Jacobs’ work explores how these intertwined networks of knowledge and
fellowship support to collect oral histories from many of Johnson’s aging
intimacy ultimately constructed a close association between polar exploration
collaborators before it is no longer possible to do so.
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Empires From Below Symposium: Marcus Rediker Keynote
SYMPOSIA EMPIRES FROM BELOW Keynote Speakers Marcus Rediker (Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, History, University of Pittsburgh) “The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic History from Below” Julia Clancy-Smith (Research Fellow 2012, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and History, University of Arizona), “Barbary Coasts: How Mediterraneans Came to Be” Tony Ballantyne (History, University of Otago, New Zealand), “Water and the Dynamics of Colonial Domination in Southern New Zealand” Participants Antoinette Burton (History, Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies) Karoline P. Cook (History/IPRH-Mellon Fellow 2011–13) Christina DeLisle (American Indian Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies) Patricia Goldsworthy-Bishop (History Western Oregon/
Marcus Rediker
IPRH-Mellon Fellow 2010–11) Annaliese Jacobs (History) Duncan Keenan-Jones (Classics/IPRH-Mellon Fellow
BEYOND UTOPIA? ART, THEORY, AND THE COMING OF ‘SPRING’
2011–13)
A Conference on aesthetics, politics, and new revolutionary
Faranak Miraftab (Urban and Regional Planning)
movements.
Robert Morrissey (History)
Co-organized with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Emanuel Rota (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
(http://criticism.english.illinois.edu/events.htm).
Gabriel P. Solis (Music/African American Studies/Anthropology) Mark D. Steinberg (History)
LECTURES Antoinette Burton (History, Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies), Second Annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities “The Body in/as World History” Eugene Wang (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University),“What Happened to the First Emperor’s
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IPRH Film Series—Borders
Postmortem Spirit? Or Did He Have One? —Rethinking the First Qin
The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today
Emperor’s Tomb and its Auxiliary Burial
No Country for Old Men
Pits.” Co-sponsored by East Asian
The Commitments
Languages and Cultures, the Center
Casablanca
for East Asian and Pacific Studies, and
Valley Girl
the Center for Advanced Study.
The Thin Blue Line
Teddy Cruz (Visual Arts, University
Three Kings
of California, San Diego),“Performing
Workshops
Neighborhoods: Creating Acts of
Faculty Grant/Fellowship Writing Workshop
Citizenship.” IPRH “Borders” Theme Lecture.
Eugene Wang
Gwendolyn Wright (Architecture, Columbia University; and co-host of the PBS series “History Detectives”),“‘History
Graduate Student Grant/Fellowship Writing Workshop (co-sponsored with the Graduate College)
Other Events
Detectives’ and Humanities Directives”
Gallery Conversation: “Atomic Light and the Photography
Rayvon Fouché (History), Chicago Humanities Festival,
of Harold Edgerton”
“Game-Changer: Technology in Sports”
Participants: Kevin Hamilton (Art and Design/New Media),
John Unsworth (Vice-Provost for Library and Technology Services and Chief Information Officer, Brandeis University), “Merchants of Light, Depredators and Pioneers: I’ll take my
Ned O’Gorman (Communication), and Christine Catanzarite (IPRH/Cinema and Media Studies)
digital humanities with Bacon!” IPRH State of the Art Digital
Faculty Research Slam – “No endnotes! No evidence!
Humanities Lecture.
No boredom!”
Javier Durán (Spanish and Border
Participants: Mimi Thi Nguyen (Gender and Women’s Stud-
Studies, University of Arizona),“Virtual
ies/Asian American Studies), Sharra Vostral (History/Gender
Divides: Biometrics, Borders and
and Women’s Studies), Gabriel Solis (Musicology/African
Bodies.” IPRH “Borders” Theme
American Studies), Lilya Kaganovsky (Slavic Literatures and
Lecture.
Languages/Comparative Literature), Pat Gill (Communication/Gender and Women’s Studies), and Spencer Schaffner
Panel Discussions
(English and Writing Studies). Organized by Stephanie Foote
OCCUPY!
(English/Gender and Women’s Studies).
Panelists
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Course
Susan G. Davis (Communication), Sarah Lazare (South Asian and Middle
“The 1970s and the Film School Generation” – Fall 2011
Eastern Studies), John Nerone (Media
Taught by Christine Catanzarite ((IPRH/Cinema and
and Cinema Studies), and Christian Sandvig (Communication)
Media Studies). Gwendolyn Wright IPRH Opening Reception
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| 2011ͳ12 P O S TͳD O C TO R A L F E L L O W S | KAROLINE COOK In 2011–2012, Cook published two articles: “‘Moro de linaje y nación’: Religious Identity, Race, and Status in New Granada,” a chapter in volume three of a collection entitled Jahrbuch für Rassismusanalyse: Analysis of Racism, edited by Max Hering Torres, María Elena Martínez, and David Nirenberg (forthcoming, Berlin: LIT VERLAG, 2012), and “Muslims and the Chichimeca in New Spain: the Debates over Just War and Slavery” in the Anuario de Estudios Americanos (forthcoming December 2012). Cook presented papers at two conferences at the University of Illinois: “The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe” in October 2011, and the IPRH Symposium: “Empires from Below” in April 2012. During the academic year, she also presented her work at the Presidential Session of the Congress of Latin American History and the American Historical Association, the Latin American Studies Association, and the New York University Atlantic History Workshop. Cook also received a Newberry Renaissance Consortium grant to conduct research at the Newberry Library in the summer, toward completing her book manuscript, “Forbidden Crossings: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America.” In 2012–2013 she will teach two courses at Illinois, one on Latin America to Independence and one on the History of Mexico. Courses Taught: Latin America to Independence (HIST 105), History Global Encounters: Narratives of Conquest, Exploration and Settlement (HIST 498), History
DUNCAN KEENAN-JONES In 2011–12, Keenan-Jones, in addition to participating in the yearlong IPRH Fellows Seminar, had a book chapter accepted for publication, submitted a journal article that is under review, and made several presentations of his research. He taught two classes in the Department of Classics, one graduate and one undergraduate seminar. He also gave a guest lecture entitled “Roman Aqueduct Travertine” for a graduate Civil and Environmental Engineering seminar (CEE 551: Open Channel Hydraulics) and observed and assisted with a Campus Honors Program course (CHP 395: Biocomplexity), including a field trip to Yellowstone National Park. Keenan-Jones’s chapter, “Large-scale water management projects in Roman Central-Southern Italy” is to be published in 2012 by Columbia University Press in a book entitled The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History, edited by W. V. Harris. An article, “Social allocation of the Aqua Augusta’s water: the pipe stamp evidence (first century BC - fourth century AD)” has undergone peer review and is currently being revised for resubmission to the Papers of the British School at Rome. A further article, on the use of limestone (or travertine) deposits for the reconstruction of the history and functioning of the aqueducts of ancient Rome, is being prepared in collaboration with geologists and civil engineers from the University of Illinois and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. This has arisen from Keenan-Jones’s IPRH research project: “Water, Society and Environment in Ancient Rome and its Hinterland.” Keenan-Jones has also been preparing a prospectus for the conversion of his PhD thesis into a monograph. Keenan-Jones was invited to give a lecture on “Lead contamination in the water supply of Pompeii” as part of the Central Illinois Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America public lecture series. He also presented a paper, “Imperial water consumption and control in Ancient Rome,” at the IPRH Spring Symposium: “Empires from Below.” A poster entitled “Travertine Records of The Last Flow of Water in Ancient Rome’s Anio Novus Aqueduct,” on which Keenan-Jones was lead author, was presented at the School for Earth, Society and Environment (SESE) and the Institute for Genomic Biology Fellows Symposium. Courses Taught: Investigating the Ancient World: History, Archaeology and the Scientific Method (CLCV520), Classics Rome and its Hinterland (CLV491), Classics
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KRISTINE NIELSEN This past academic year, Nielsen completed the final year of her Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the IPRH. In January 2012, she conducted research at several archives in Berlin, thanks to her Mellon postdoctoral research funds. During 2011–12, Nielsen published two journal articles, one of them in Danish: “Vittigheden som politisk våben” (Wit as a Political Weapon) in an issue on image wars, Periskop – forum for kunsthistorisk debat 15 (2012): 98-123, and ”Reframing the Workers’ Militia Monument in Post-Unification Berlin” in an issue titled “3D-Sculpture-Installation-Monument,” Passepartout 32 (2011): 229-247. This fall 2012, Nielsen begins her appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Illinois Wesleyan University. Courses Taught: Iconoclasm and the Monstrous (ARTH 495), Program in Art History Aesthetics and Politics (GER 576/CWL 581), Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Clockwise from top left: Karoline Cook and Duncan-Keenan Jones with Gabriel Solis, Associate Professor and Chair of Musicology, at the IPRH opening reception; Karoline Cook at the “Empires from Below” IPRH spring symposium 2012; Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows at a luncheon with their invited faculty mentors (including Carol Symes, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Irene Small, Anke Pinkert, Brett Kaplan, John Senseney, and Ravon Fouché).
THE IPRH STAFF (DIANNE, CHRIS, NANCY, AND STEPHANIE) HAVE CREATED A WELCOMING AND POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE LIKE NO OTHER I’VE ENCOUNTERED IN ACADEME. IN SHORT, THE IPRH FELLOWSHIP WAS AS CLOSE TO AN IDEAL INTELLECTUAL EXPERIENCE AS I HAVE EVER HAD OR HOPE TO HAVE. I WILL REMEMBER THIS YEAR APPRECIATIVELY FOR THE REST OF MY CAREER. Tim Newcomb, English and IPRH Faculty Fellow 2011–12
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| C O L L A B O R AT I V E R E S E A R C H P R O J E C T S ͳ 2011ͳ12 Y E A R I N R E V I E W | IPRH introduced the Collaborative Research Projects awards, a new faculty funding initiative, in fall 2010. Below are the events we are proud to have supported in the second year of the program. These awardees were selected through a competitive review of applications. The projects were chosen for their intellectual engagement with humanities scholarship and the cross-disciplinary appeal of the public events to be undertaken. For the 2012–13 academic year, the program has been reconceived as the IPRH Event Grants Program. Updated application guidelines can be found on the IPRH website and on page 31 of this newsletter.
AMERICAN LITERATURES, AMERICAN RELIGIONS: PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES Project Organizers: Jonathan Ebel (Religion)
students from Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Foreign Language departments, and will take place from August 29 to 31, 2012. Featured Speakers:
Justine S. Murison (English)
Kate Beeching (University of the West of England) “Corpus
This two-day conference, which will take place on October 4–5,
approaches to politeness, pragmatic ambiguity and semantic
2012, will bring together scholars from the fields of American
change”
literature and religious studies who have worked extensively on the
Jean-François Bonnefon (CNRS, Toulouse) “Experiments on
intersections of literature and religion. The aim of the conference
Politeness and Reasoning”
will be sustained reflection on the dynamics, trends, and methods
Holly Cashman (University of New Hampshire) “Regulating the
within and between the disciplines of literary and religious studies.
(Un)acceptable: Announcements, Insults and (Im)polite Society”
Featured Speakers:
Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University) “The Prosody of
W. Clark Gilpin (Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service
(Im)politeness”
Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity and Theology in
Thomas Holtgraves (Ball State University) “Face-Work and
the Divinity School, University of Chicago)
Utterance Interpretation”
Tracy Fessenden (Religion and Literature, Arizona State University) Michael Warner (English, Yale University)
EMPIRICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO POLITENESS AND IMPOLITENESS
Bruce Fraser (Boston University) “Cell phone etiquette across the ages” Conference website: http://www.liar3.illinois.edu/
THE MEDIEVAL GLOBE Project Organizers:
Project Organizers:
Elizabeth Oyler (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Marina Terkourafi (Linguistics)
D. Fairchild Ruggles (Landscape Architecture)
Kiel Christianson (Educational Psychology/Beckman Institute)
Eleonora Stoppino (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
Andrea Golato (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Carol Symes (History)
Zsuzsanna Fagyal (French)
“The Medieval Globe” is a threefold collaborative project that
Anna Maria Escobar (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
comprises a symposium, a graduate seminar, and a new periodi-
Tania Ionin (Linguistics)
cal publication. The symposium, “The Medieval Globe: Commu-
Duane Watson (Psychology)
nication, Connectivity and Exchange” was free and open to the
All languages have means of modulating the politeness of
public and took place from April 12 to 14, 2012. A keynote lecture
utterances, along with non-linguistic means. The interface
by Linda Komaroff (Curator of Islamic Art at the Los Angeles
between these linguistic and non-linguistic means, alongside
County Museum of Art) opened the program and was followed
the social norms of the culture and individual differences of
by two days of extraordinary papers and discussion among
any given speaker-listener pair, make for a complex dynamic
participants, who included Illinois faculty and graduate students
outside of which the purely linguistic signal cannot be adequately
as well as a dozen distinguished guests. The symposium offered
understood. This project is a state-of-the-art conference that
a forum and model for dramatically re-envisioning and expanding
addresses the latest developments in im/politeness research with
medieval studies, drawing national and international attention to
the aims of producing a thoroughly social account of language
the humanities at Illinois, and exploring the ways in which the
and identifying new areas for international and cross-disciplinary
humanities can meaningfully address the issue of a changing
collaboration. The conference brings together faculty and graduate globe. Many of the presentations and conferences fostered by
BECAUSE MY FELLOW “BORDERS” SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS HAD DEEPLY THOUGHT ABOUT SPATIAL THEORY, THESE SCHOLARS WERE ABLE TO HELP ME FURTHER CONCEPTUALIZE THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CATEGORIES SUCH AS “RURAL” AND “URBAN” AS WELL AS THE INTERSECTION OF THESE CATEGORIES WITH RACE. I CAN THINK OF FEW OTHER VENUES THAT PROVIDE GRADUATE STUDENTS WITH SUCH SUBSTANTIAL FEEDBACK ONCE THEY REACH ABD STATUS. Heidi Dodson, History and IPRH Graduate Student Fellow 2011–12
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the symposium will crystallize in the inaugural issue of The Medieval
QUEER PERFORMANCE SERIES
Globe, which will be published in 2014.
Project Organizers:
Featured Speakers:
Martin Manalansan (Anthropology/Asian American Studies)
Jonathan Conant (Brown University), Kathleen Davis
Jennifer Monson (Dance)
(University of Rhode Island), Margot Fassler (University of Notre
Chantal Nadeau (Gender and Women’s Studies)
Dame), Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin),
Richard T. Rodríguez (Latina and Latino Studies/English)
Sharon Kinoshita (University of California at Santa Cruz),
Siobhan Somerville (English/Gender and Women’s Studies)
Elizabeth Lambourn (Stanford University and DeMontfort
This visiting speaker series on Queer Performance featured
University, England), Carla Nappi (University of British Columbia),
two experimental performance artists, Jennifer Miller and
Michael Puett (Harvard University), Christian Raffensperger
Alina Troyano (as Carmelita Tropicana), both widely recognized
(Wittenberg University), and Nicolás Wey-Gómez (California
for their important roles in expanding the possibilities for
Institute of Technology).
using performance to explore the politics of sexuality, gender,
THE ODYSSEY PROJECT SEMINAR SERIES Project Organizers: Dale Bauer (English) Cris Mayo (Education Policy, Organization and Leadership) Spencer Schaffner (English/Writing Studies) This cross-disciplinary project on humanities-based adult education focuses on lower-income and/or minority students, and will help us to develop stronger and more diverse bridges between the university and the community. For the last seven years, the Odyssey Project (funded by the University of Illinois and the Illinois Humanities Council) has offered free introductory humanities courses
race, and social justice. Each speaker presented a lecture/ performance that was free and open to the public. Both events took place at 7:30 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium of the Spurlock Museum and were very well attended. Each of the speakers also met with the Queer Studies Reading Group and with groups of undergraduate students as part of their visits. Featured Performances: Jennifer Miller, “How To Wear a Beard: Reflections on a Life in the Sideshow, the Circus, and the Academy,”
QUEER PERFORMANCE SERIES | UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
jennifermiller
Tuesday, October 25, 2012.
How to Wear a Beard
slightly above the federal poverty level. This project will help us to
Carmelita Tropicana,
Reflections on a Life in the Sideshow, the Circus, and the Academy
better understand not only our own program but also the growing
“Ole/Ghost and Perfor-
national focus on returning and nontraditional students, especially the
mance Art Manifesto,”
needs of students to be prepared in humanities and critical thinking.
Friday, November 4, 2012.
to members of the Champaign-Urbana community who live at or
This seminar series will allow local and visiting participants to discuss
Tuesday, Oct 25 7:30pm Spurlock Museum 600 S. Gregory | Urbana Free and open to the public.
the integration of university research and teaching with public engagement, and to investigate models for growth and funding. Featured Speakers: Emily Auerbach (Director of Odyssey Program and English, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Saturday May 5, 2012
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| I P R H P R I Z E S F O R R E S E A R C H I N T H E H U M A N I T I E S 2011ͳ12 W I N N E R S |
The IPRH celebrated the faculty and graduate student recipients of the 2011–12 IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities at an award reception on Wednesday, April 25, in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Dean Ruth Watkins
FACULTY PRIZES
GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES
Winner:
Winner:
Yasemin Yildiz, Associate Professor of
Derek Attig, History
Germanic Languages and Literatures
“‘A Place Dedicated to Quiet’: The End
“Governing European Subjects: Tolerance and
of Library Segregation and the Ordering
Guilt in the Discourse of ‘Muslim Women,’”
of Public Space,” written for History 599:
published in Cultural Critique 77.1 (2011):
Dissertation Research and Writing in Fall
70-101.
2011. Professor Kathryn Oberdeck, Director.
Honorable Mentions:
Honorable Mentions:
Susan Koshy, Associate Professor of
Ben Bascom, English
English and Asian American Studies
“Loneliness, Longing, and
“Minority Cosmopolitanism,” published in
the Queer Shape of Empire,”
PMLA 126.3 (2011): 592-609.
written for Professor Trish
Alma Gottlieb, Professor of Anthropology Philip Graham, Professor of English
Loughran’s English 547: The Psychic Life of Empire in Fall 2011.
“Mad to Be Modern,” published in Being
Pei-lin Wu, Comparative
There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally. Ed.
and World Literature
Sarah Davis and Melvin Konner. (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011); excerpted from Braided Worlds, by Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
“Aesop’s Fables in Ancient China,” written for CWL 599 Thesis Research in Fall 2011. Professor Emeritus, Michael Palencia-Roth, Director.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE Tara McGovern, Anthropology “Children of the Revolution: Youth Organization and Political Consciousness in Post-War Northern Morazán, El Salvador,” written for LAST 170: Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies in Fall 2011, taught by Eduardo Herrera.
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| T H E O DY S S E Y P R O J E C T |
Odyssey Director Cris Mayo leads a Philosophy class for the Odyssey Project.
The Odyssey Project completed its sixth year in spring 2012. Since fall 2006, the Odyssey Project has offered a free, college-accredited course in the humanities to members of the Champaign-Urbana community who fall at or near the poverty level. The yearlong course offers students intensive study in philosophy, art history, literature, U.S. history, and
of IPRH, where the Odyssey Project was initiated at Illinois and was incubated for its first five years. The IPRH continues to provide some financial support as well as space for our graduate student coordinator and our weekly classes. Through its programs, Odyssey helps keep alive the public service mission of the Morrill Act that founded the University of Illinois.
critical thinking and writing. Classes taught by University of Illinois faculty and graduate students take place every Thursday from September to May in the seminar room at IPRH or at the Douglass Branch Library in Champaign. Tuition is free, as are books, transportation, and childcare.
We are pleased to announce that nine students graduated this past May. Students who complete the course receive six credits of transferable humanities credit from Bard College and have used that credit to complete degrees already in progress or begin their higher education studies. Several students have continued their education
The Odyssey Project is made possible by the generous financial and institutional support of the Office of the Chancellor, the College of Education, and the Illinois
beyond Odyssey at the University of Illinois and Parkland College, as well as the University of Denver, Stanford, and Eastern Illinois University.
Humanities Council. This year we’ve moved into the College of Education and are creating connections with other community-based educational programs, Education Justice Project (directed by Professor Rebecca Ginsburg) and Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth (SOLHOT, directed by Professor Ruth Nicole Brown), as well as drawing on the instructional talents of a number of our graduate students there. We continue to be grateful for the support
Instructors for 2011–12 were Odyssey Faculty Director Cris Mayo (Education Policy, Organization and Leadership/Gender and Women’s Studies), philosophy; Jennifer Burns (Art History), art history; Spencer Schaffner (English/Writing Studies), literature; Kathryn Oberdeck (History), U.S. history; and Odyssey Graduate Student Coordinator Michael Burns (English/Writing Studies), critical thinking and writing.
TEACHING ODYSSEY IN 2012–13 Cris Mayo (Education Policy, Organization and Leadership/Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Faculty Director of Odyssey), philosophy Spencer Schaffner (English/Writing Studies), literature Samuel Byndom (Education Policy, Organization and Leadership), U.S. history Adrienne Johnson (Education Policy, Organization and Leadership), art history Carmen Ocon (Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership), coordinator
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| E D U C AT I O N J U S T I C E P R O J E C T | The Education Justice Project (EJP) offers academic programs to men incarcerated at Danville Correctional Center. In spring 2012, it completed its fourth year of serving Danville students. The core of EJP’s program is upper-division U of I courses, which are taught at the prison by university faculty and advanced graduate students. Class size is limited to fifteen to ensure quality of instruction. In addition to courses, EJP offers a range of extracurricular activities, including writing and math workshops, a mindfulness discussion group, guest lecture series, theatre group, Chicago violence project, English as a Second Language program, reading groups, and tutoring. EJP students help to shape extracurricular activities and serve on program committees, including the evaluation committee. With the assistance of colleagues in education, EJP embarked this year on a multi-stage evaluation, with the aim of producing data that will support efforts to widen access to higher education nationwide. In addition to the launch of its evaluation program, other highlights of the past year included two Shakespeare performances at the prison, in conjunction with a course entitled “Shakespeare’s Worlds” taught by University of Illinois History professor Carol Symes; and receiving a National Endowment for the Humanities grant that will allow EJP to build a model prison Carol Symes and EJP students take questions after a Shakespeare performance.
computer lab. IPRH is pleased to provide modest financial support and office space for the Education Justice Project.
| IPRH ON THE WEB | The IPRH website continues to undergo numerous upgrades and expansions, so that it can be a more comprehensive resource for IPRH activities and humanities-related announcements— and we invite you to visit the site regularly for updated information about the IPRH and its programs. You will find a detailed calendar of events; application guidelines and deadline information for our campus fellowship program, external Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities, the Event Grants Program, the IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities, and other opportunities. Additional materials will be added throughout the year, so please bookmark the site and check it regularly for new announcements and opportunities. In addition to details about upcoming events and application deadlines, the site features the following: IPRH Media– podcasts of lectures and panel discussions organized by the IPRH; video recordings of select events; and archives of past IPRH events. IPRH Blog – a provocative collection of blog postings by members of the UI community, curated and edited each year by a faculty Blog Editor; our editor for 2011–12 (which is archived on our site) was Professor Susan Davis of the Department of Communication, and the Blog Editor for the new year is Professor Timothy Cain of the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership. External Opportunities – a wide-ranging list of resources for humanities-related funding, including visiting positions and residential fellowships; non-residential grants and virtual groups; library, and museum funding; calls for papers; and other short- and long-term funding opportunities. IPRH History – publications by past IPRH Faculty, Graduate Student, and Post-Doctoral Fellows; a roster of Fellows and Advisory Committee members from 1997 to the present; conferences, symposia, lectures, panel discussions, and arts initiatives organized by the IPRH; and other IPRH projects, from reading groups to collaborations with other campus units.
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| ABOUT THE IPRH EXPERIENCE | JUSTINE S. MURISON
MIRIAM KEINLE
The faculty fellowship I held during the
IPRH has been crucial to the develop-
year 2011–2012 with the IPRH was
ment of my dissertation. Receiving an
intellectually invaluable. The course
IPRH pre-doctoral fellowship not only
releases provided to me, supported
gave me the time, space, and resources
by the fellowship, in the fall semester
for researching and writing, but also
of 2011 afforded me the opportunity
a supportive environment in which to
to begin researching and writing my
discuss ideas with my peers in the
new book project, tentatively titled
humanities. Particularly invaluable were
“Suspensions of Disbelief: Secularism
the fellows seminars, in which all those
and American Fiction, 1790-1865.” The
in residence at the IPRH gathered to
reading I did that semester solidified the
workshop one another’s texts. As a
basic outlines of the project, its scope,
scholar in the early stages of disserta-
and its intervention. The Fellows Seminar, likewise, gave me the push I
tion writing, these seminars provided me with much needed feedback on
needed to begin preliminary writing on the project. The seminar itself was an
my own work as well as important insights into how my peers were framing
intellectual and social delight above and beyond its direct impact on my own
their scholarship. Because the Fellows ranged from advanced to emerging
work. Over the years I have been involved in a fair number of interdisciplinary
scholars, each coming from divergent approaches and disciplines, our conver-
seminars. Too often they devolve into disciplinary stand-offs. Rather than
sations differed from those I have experienced in other seminar settings. For
a generous exchange of ideas and methods, other seminars have often
me, this dynamic dialogue was most essential. I am truly grateful to have
become exercises in disciplinary boundary making. This was not the case
been a fellow at such an exceptional and community-enriching institution.
with the IPRH seminar. Dianne Harris produced a congenial but intellectually rigorous environment for our exchanges. In all, the Fellows Seminar at the IPRH was the warmest and most productive interdisciplinary seminar I have participated in.
A NOTE FROM THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Near the conclusion of the hurly-burly that was my first year at Illinois (9/11 happened but a few weeks after I quitted the island of Manhattan for East Central Illinois), I had the opportunity to attend the “Reproduction” theme conference organized by IPRH. For someone interested in reproductive and eugenic logics and literature, this event proved an intellectual homecoming of the best kind. The following 2002–03 academic year, I had the even greater fortune of participating, this time as a Fellow, in the enriching yearlong seminar on the theme of “the South.” In the early days of my time at Illinois, then, IPRH was there to inspire and support me, as both a scholar and prairie newcomer. Now, quite a few years hence, I am delighted to return to IPRH in this my new capacity as Associate Director to help further its evolving mission in support of the humanities on our campus. All of us who have passed through IPRH know that no one can fill Chris Catanzarite’s shoes, and I am honored to take the baton from so indefatigable an advocate for the humanities. I am grateful to Dianne Harris for this opportunity to serve under her keen-eyed leadership. I look forward to our year of exciting programming ahead and welcome the privilege of seeing all the many faces, familiar and new. I hope yours will greet me at our next event.
OUR DISCUSSIONS OVER THE ACADEMIC YEAR COMPRISE A SERIES OF MASTER CLASSES CONSISTING OF CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, HEARTY ENCOURAGEMENT, AND USEFUL WISDOM FOR NAVIGATING THE HUMANITIES IN BOTH THEORETICAL AND PRAGMATIC WAYS. THE IPRH’S PRESENCE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CAMPUS REMAINS AN IMPORTANT SITE FOR COLLABORATION AND COLLEGIALITY ACROSS COLLEGES AND RANKS OF SCHOLARS. Sasha Mobley, Institute of Communications Research and IPRH Graduate Student Fellow 2011–12
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Javier Durán
Julia Clancy-Smith
Nancy Castro
Duncan Keenan-Jones
Jay Rosenstein
Occupy!—John Nerone, Susan Davis, Christian Sandvig
John Unsworth
Gwendolyn Wright audience
Teddy Cruz
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Mark Steinberg
| P U B L I C AT I O N S A N D P R O J E C T S BY H U M A N I T I E S FA C U LT Y | IPRH is proud to share this list of selected publications, produced by Illinois humanities faculty during the past year. A more detailed list appears on our website—and we invite faculty whose work does not appear here to contact us with relevant information, so we may add those publications to our online archive. James R. Barrett, History The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Mutlti-Ethnic City. (New York: Penguin Press, 2012).
Ericka Beckman, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese “An Oil Well Named Macondo: Latin American Literature in the Time of Capital,” PMLA, 127:1 (2012): 145-151.
Eric Benson, Art + Design ----Napier, Pamela, “Connecting Values: Teaching Sustainability to Communication Designers,” Design and Culture: The Journal of a Design Studies Forum. Spring 2012.
Allistair Black, Graduate School of Library and Information Science “‘We don’t do public libraries like we used to’: Attitudes to public library buildings in the UK at the start of the twenty-first century,” Journal of Librarianship & Information Science, 43:1 (March 2011), pp. 30-45. “‘New beauties’: the design of British public library buildings in the 1960s,” Library Trends 60:1 (Summer 2011) (Issue on Library design: from past to present), pp. 71-111. “‘A valuable handbook of information’: The staff magazine in the first half of the twentieth century as a means of information management.” In T. Weller (ed.), Information history in the modern world. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 130-154.
Zack Browning, Music Secret Pulse Innova Recordings (innova 817) January 31, 2012 Contains original compositions Hakka Fusion, Secret Pulse, String Quartet, Flying Tones, and Moon Thrust. Artists: Cadillac Moon Ensemble; Ensemble Unity; JACK Quartet; University of Central Florida Percussion Ensemble. Howler Back Innova Recordings (innova 800) May 31, 2011 Original composition Howler Back for saxophone quartet recorded on CD “Dedication” by PRISM Saxophone Quartet
Antoinette Burton, History A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles. (Duke University Press, 2012). Brown Over Black: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation. (Three Essays Collective, 2012).
Jodi A. Byrd, English/American Indian Studies The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2011).
Martin Camargo, English “From Liber versuum to Poetria nova: The Genesis of Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Masterpiece,” Journal of Medieval Latin 21 (2012): 1-16.
Eleanor Courtemanche, English The ‘Invisible Hand’ and British Fiction, 1818-1860: Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Kenneth Cuno, History “Women with Missing Husbands: Marriage in Nineteenth Century Egypt,” in Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Historiography of Egypt: In Honour of Nelly Hanna, ed. Nasser Ahmed Ibrahim (Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 2012), 156-70. “Middle East.” World Book Encyclopedia (22 vols.; Chicago: World Book, 2012), 13:530-35. This updates the 2005 World Book article.
Ramona Curry, English “Benjamin Brodsky (1877-1960): The Trans-Pacific American Film Entrepreneur – Part Two, Taking A Trip Thru China to America.” Journal of AmericanEast Asian Relations, 18.2 (2011): 142-180. “Making Connections: Benjamin Brodsky and Early Trans-Pacific Cinema Historiography.” Chinese Cinema: Tracing the Origins (in Chinese). Ed. Ainling Wong. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive, 2011), 94-109.
Christine Taitano DeLisle, American Indian Studies Program “‘Guamanian-Chamorro by Birth but American Patriotic by Choice’: Subjectivity and Performance in the Life of Agueda Iglesias Johnston,” Amerasia Journal 37.3 (2011): 61-75.
Vicente M. Diaz, American Indian Studies Program “Tackling Pacific Hegemonic Formations on the American Gridiron,” Amerasia Journal 37.3 (2011): 90-113. “Voyaging for Anti-Colonial Recovery: Austronesian Seafaring, Archipelagic Rethinking, and the Re-mapping of Indigeneity,” Pacific Asia Inquiry 2.1 (Fall, 2011): 21-32.
Anna Maria Escobar, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese “Revisiting the Spanish Perfect: Semantic analysis of Andean Colonial Documents.” Lingua 122.5 (2012): 470-480. “Chapter 20 - Spanish in contact with Amerindian languages.”The Handbook of Spanish Linguistics, ed. by J. I. Hualde, A. Olarrea, and E. O’Rourke. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2012), 65-88.
Zsuszanna Fagyal, French Yaeger-Dror, M. and Zs. Fagyal. “Analyzing prosody: Best practices for the analysis of prosody.” In: Di Paolo, M. and Yaeger-Dror, M. (eds.) Sociophonetics: A student guide. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011), 119-30.
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Christopher Fennell, Anthropology “Examining Structural Racism in the Jim Crow Era of Illinois,” in The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Post-Emancipation Life, edited by Jodi Barnes. (University of South Carolina Press, 2011), 173-189. “Literate Inversions and Cultural Metaphors in Edgefield Stoneware,” in “Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery,” edited by Charles R. Ewen, Historical Archaeology 45(2): 156-162 (2011). “Early African America: Archaeological Studies of Significance and Diversity,” Journal of Archaeological Research 19(1): 1-49 (2011).
Margaret C. Flinn, French “Giving a Face to the Conflict: Contemporary representations of women in Franco-North African film.” International Journal of Francophone Studies. 14:3 (October 2011). 339-363.
Christopher Freeburg, English Melville and the Idea of Blackness: Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Karen Fresco, French ----, and Anne D. Hedeman, eds. Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe. (The Ohio State University Press, 2011).
Rebecca Ginsburg, Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership At Home With Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg. (University of Virginia Press, 2011).
Lauren M. E. Goodlad, English “Victorian Geopolitics and the Geopolitical Unconscious.” In The Victorian World, “Routledge Worlds” series. Ed. Martin Hewitt. (London: Routledge, 2012), 175-190. “Parliament and the State.” In Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 3. Ed. John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012), 444-460. “The Mad Men in the Attic: Seriality and Identity in the Narrative of Capitalist Globalization.” Modern Language Quarterly 73.2 (June 2012): 201-35.
Alma Gottlieb, Anthropology “Two Visions of Africa: Reflections on Fieldwork in an ‘Animist Bush’ and in an Urban Diaspora,” The Restless Anthropologist: New Fieldsites, New Visions (University of Chicago Press, March 2012). “Promoting an Anthropology of Infants: Some Personal Reflections,” in AnthropoChildren: Perspectives ethnographiques sur les enfants et l’enfance/Ethnographic Perspectives on Children & Childhood 1 (1) (2012) (special issue: “Les anthropologies de l’enfance et des enfants: D’un regard à l’autre/Crossing Glances on Anthropological Approaches of Children & Childhood”), a peer-reviewed, biannual online international journal edited at the University of Liège. Online: http://popups.ulg.ac.be/AnthropoChildren/sommaire.php?id=121.
Jennifer A. Greenhill, Art & Design “Troubled Abstraction: Whiteness in Charles Dana Gibson and George Du Maurier,” Art History, vol. 34 (September 2011): 732-53. Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012).
Ryan Griffis, Art & Design ----, Lize Mogel and Sarah Ross. Global Cities, Model Worlds, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, January - March 2012. ----, Lize Mogel and Sarah Ross. Global Cities, Model Worlds. The 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial, The Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. September - December 2011.
Janice N. Harrington, English The Hands of Strangers, (BOA Editions, 2011).
Waïl S. Hassan, Comparative and World Literature ---- and Susan Muaddi-Darraj, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz. (MLA publications, 2012). “Jorge Ahmad.” Comparative Literature Studies. Special issue on Jorge Amado and World Literature. Vol. 49:3 (August 2012). “Edward Said and Memoirs of Palestinian Exile.” Revista Litteris no. 8 (September 2011). www.revistaliteris.com.br
Anne D. Hedeman, Art & Design “Advising France through the Example of England: Visual Narrative in the Livre de la prinse et mort du roy Richart (Harl. MS. 1319)” Electronic British Library Journal, 2011. http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2011articles/article7.html “Translating the Past: Laurent de Premierfait and the Visualization of Antiquity” Medieval Manuscript, Their Makers and Users. A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), 27-50.
Valerie J. Hoffman, Religion / Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies The Essentials of Ibadi Islam (Syracuse University Press, 2012).
Kristin Hoganson, History “Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1865-1900,” Journal of American History, 98.4: 1025-1051.
Nils P. Jacobsen, History Juan Bustamante y los limites del liberalismo en el Altiplano: La rebelión de Hunacané, 1866-1868 (Lima: SER, 2011).
C Stephen Jaeger, Germanic Languages and Literatures Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). “Aura and Charisma: Two Useful Concepts in Critical theory,” New German Critique 114 (2011).17-34.
Laurie Johnson, Germanic Languages and Literatures “Werner Herzog’s Romantic Spaces.” A Companion to Werner Herzog. Ed. Brad Prager. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 510-527. “Das ‘ewig ringende, nie seyende Sein.’ Schelling und das Unheimliche.” Phantasmata. Techniken des Unheimlichen. Eds. Martin Doll, Rupert Gaderer, Fabio Camilletti, and Jan Niklas Howe. (Vienna and Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2011), 241-257.
Brett Kaplan, Comparative and World Literature Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory. (Routledge, 2011).
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Craig Koslofsky, History Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe. (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Michael J. Kral, Psychology “Postcolonial suicide among Inuit in Arctic Canada.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. (2012). Hong, J.S., Espelage, D.L., & Kral, M.J. (2011). “Understanding suicide among sexual minority youth in America: An ecological systems analysis.” Journal of Adolescence, 34, 885-894.
Peter Lasersohn, Linguistics “Context, relevant parts, and (lack of) disagreement over taste” Philosophical Studies. 156. 3: 433-439. Springer, 2011. “Mass nouns and plurals.” Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, vol. 2, ch. 46, pp. 1131-1153, ed. by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner. Mouton de Gruyter, 2011.
Bruce Levine, History “‘The Vital Element in the Republican Party’: Antislavery, Nativism, and Abraham Lincoln,” in the Journal of the Civil War Era, vol. 1 (December 2011): 481-505. “The Myth of Black Confederates,” in Race, Slavery and the Civil War: The Tough Stuff of American History and Memory, ed. James O. Horton and Amanda Kleintop. (Richmond: Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, 2011). “The Economic Divisions that Contributed to Civil War,” in Major Problems in American History, ed. Elizabeth Cobbs-Hoffman, Edward J. Blum, and Jon Gjerde, 3rd ed., vol. 1 (Beverly, Mass.: Wadsworth, 2011).
Melissa M. Littlefield, Kinesiology & Community Health ----, and Jenell M. Johnson. The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain. (University of Michigan Press, 2012).
Alejandro Lugo, Anthropology Guest editor. “Dossier: Celebrating and Engaging Renato Rosaldo’s Culture and Truth,” published in Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies, 37.1 (Spring 2012). “Introduction: Renato Rosaldo’s Border Travels.” Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies. 37.1 (Spring 2012): 119-143.
Vicki Mahaffey, English Editor, Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue. (Syracuse University Press, March 2012).
Bonnie Mak, Library and Information Science How the Page Matters. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011). “On the uses of authenticity.” Archivaria 73 (Spring 2012). Julia Pollack and Bonnie Mak. “A Cabinet of Curiosity: the Library’s Dead Time.” Figure One Gallery, Champaign, IL. February 17th-18th, 2012.
Laurence Mall, French “L’Avoir-été et le n’être-plus: le travail de la mémoire révolutionnaire dans Le Nouveau Paris (1798) de L. S. Mercier.” MLN 126.4 (September 2011): 889-904. “L’ego-philosophie à la manière de Diderot (Réfutation d’Helvétius).” Littérature 165 (mars 2012): 16-30. “Politiques de l’auteur” Le Magazine Littéraire 514 (December 2011), Special issue on Rousseau: 58-59.
Martin F. Manalansan, Anthropology “Horizons of Hope: Queer Futures and the Legacy of Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy.” Voices: A Publication of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. 11. 1 (Fall 2011): 16-18. “Servicing the World: Flexible Filipinos and the Unsecured Life.” In A. Cvetkovich et.al. (eds.) Political Emotions. (New York: Routledge, 2010), 215-228. “Homophobia at Gay Central.” In Homophobias: Lust and Loathing Across Time and Space. David Murray, (ed.) (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 34-47.
Areli Marina, Art History/Architecture/Medieval Studies The Italian Piazza Transformed: Parma in the Communal Age. (University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012). “From the Myth to the Margins: The Patriarch’s Piazza at San Pietro di Castello in Venice,” Renaissance Quarterly 64, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 353–429.
Robert Markley, English “The Eighteenth-Century Novel, and the Pacific.” The Cambridge History of the English Novel. Ed. Robert Caesario and Clement Hawes. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 196-212. “Time.” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, vol. 1. Ed. Tom Cohen. (New York: Open Humanities Press, 2012), 1-21. “A Brief History of Chronological Time.” Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 44 (2009), 59-75. Published May 2011.
Jean-Philippe Mathy, French Melancholy Politics: Loss, Mourning, and Memory in Late Modern France. (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011).
Robert McKim, Religion On Religious Diversity. (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Evan M. Melhado, History/ Med Humanities & Soc Sciences American Health Reformers and the Social Sciences in the Twentieth Century. Ch. 17 in A Master of Science History: Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie, 297-325. Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Vol. 30. Ed. Jed Z. Buchwald. (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2012).
Heather Hyde Minor, Architecture “G.B. Piranesi’s Diverse Maniere and the Natural History of Ancient Art,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 56/57 (2012): 323-351.
Armine Kotin Mortimer, French For Love or for Money: Balzac’s Rhetorical Realism. (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2011). http://www.ohiostatepress.org/index. htm?books/book%20pages/mortimer%20for.html Graphic Spaces: Veyron Illustrates Sollers.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 15: 3 (June 2011): 329–37. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ pdf/10.1080/17409292.2011.577618
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Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, Dance ----, and Luc Vanier. Dance and the Alexander Technique: Exploring the Missing Link. (University of Illinois Press, 2011).
Lori Humphrey Newcomb, English “Chapbooks.” In The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, vol. I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660, ed. Joad Raymond. (Oxford University Press, 2011), 471-90. “Romance.” In The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, vol. I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660, ed. Joad Raymond. (Oxford University Press, 2011), 363-76.
Kathryn J. Oberdeck, History ----, and Frank Tobias Higbie. “Labour and Popular Print Culture,” Chapter 11, The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, v. 6: US Popular Print Culture, 1860-1920 ed. Christine Bold (Oxford University Press, 2012), 233-251.
Robert Pahre, Political Science “Showdown at Yellowstone: The Victims and Survivors of Ecosystem Management,” Journal of the West 50(1): 66-73, Winter, 2012. “Fort Davis National Historic Site: An Indian Fort Without Indians,” Studies in Symbolic Interaction 37: 3-27, 2011. “No Longer Circling the Wagons: Many National Parks Get Indian Stories Wrong,” Indian Country Today, 7 September, pp. 20-25, 2011.
Robert Dale Parker, English How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies, 2nd edition. (Oxford University Press, 2011). Editor, Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies. (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Dana Rabin, History “London: 1660-1850.” In Places of Encounter: Time, Place and Connectivity in World History. Edited by Aran MacKinnon and Elaine McClarnand MacKinnon. (New York: Westview Press, 2012). “Imperial Disruptions: City, Nation, and Empire.” In The Gordon Riots: Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain. Edited by Ian Haywood and John Seed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). “In a Country of Liberty?’: Slavery, Villeinage and the Making of Whiteness in the Somerset Case (1772).” History Workshop Journal 72 (2011): 5-29.
David Roediger, History ----, with Elizabeth Esch. The Production of Difference. (Oxford University Press. 2012).
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Landscape Architecture Editor, On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites, (Springer, 2012).
Daniel Schneider, Urban and Regional Planning Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem, (MIT Press, 2011).
Markus S. Schulz, Sociology Bachika, Reimon and Markus S. Schulz (eds.) Values and Culture: The Social Shaping of the Future, Current Sociology, 59.2 (2011).
Rhona D. Seidelman, Program in Jewish Culture &Society “Conflicts of Quarantine: The Case of Jewish Immigrants to the Jewish State.” American Journal of Public Health. 102.2 (February 2012): 243-252.
Mark D. Steinberg, History Petersburg Fin de Siècle (Yale University Press, 2011). ----, and Valeria Sobol, eds., Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe, co-edited with Valeria Sobol (Northern Illinois University Press, 2011).
Eleonora Stoppino, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Genealogies of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Medieval Imagination in the “Orlando furioso.” (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011). “Pages Filled with Dreams: Notes on the Reorganization of Epic Cycles in Fifteenth Century Italy,” in Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe, ed. Karen Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman. (Columbus: Ohio State University, 2011): 75-85.
Robert Tierney, East Asian Languages and Cultures “Othello in Tokyo: Performing Race and Empire in Early Twentieth Century Japan.” Shakespeare Quarterly, 62.4 (Dec 2011): 514-41. “Ethnographer and Writer in Colonial Taiwan” and translation of “Demon Bird” (Macho) by Sato Haruo. in Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context and Critique, ed. Michele Mason and Helen Lee. (Stanford University Press, 2011), 109-140.
Sharra Vostral, Gender and Women’s Studies “Rely and Toxic Shock Syndrome: A Technological Health Crisis,” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 84.4 (December 2011): 447-459. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3238331/
Robert Warrior, American Indian Studies “Vandalizing Life Writing at the University of Illinois: Heap of Birds’s Signs of Indigenous Life,” Profession 7 (2011): 44–50.
Gillen Wood, English “‘What is Sustainability Studies?’” ALH. 24.1 (2012): 1-15. “Leigh Hunt’s New Suburbia: An Eco-historical Study in Climate Poetics and Public Health.” ISLE 18.3 (2011): 527-52.
Yasemin Yildiz, Germanic Languages and Literatures Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012).
THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE PROGRAM, AND ONE THAT IS SORELY NEEDED FOR THOSE OF US IN THE HUMANITIES WHO TRADITIONALLY DON’T HAVE AS MANY FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AS THOSE WHO WORK IN OTHER DISCIPLINES, ESPECIALLY THE SCIENCES. IN PARTICULAR, THE MIX OF SCHOLARS FROM DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES AND, IMPORTANT, FROM DIFFERENT STAGES OF THEIR CAREER, IS THE IPRH’S GREATEST STRENGTH. Andrea Stevens, English and IPRH Faculty Fellow 2011–12
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| I P R H E V E N T G R A N T S P R O G R A M 2012ͳ13 | We are pleased to announce the third year of an opportunity for significant funding to Illinois faculty: the IPRH Event Grants Program (formerly known as the Collaborative Research Projects). The IPRH invites proposals for funding a public event (or series of events) that will be of interest to faculty in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences. This year, the opportunities for grant awards are divided into two categories:
Large Grants:
the successful applicants; please
Up to three awards will be made in the amount of $5,000 each.
note that funds may be used
Events can take the form of a lecture, a performance, a speaker series,
for honorarium payments, but
or other equivalent public presentation of humanities scholarship.
individual honoraria should not
Grants will be awarded through a competitive review of applications by
exceed $1,000, and no more than
members of the Advisory Committee. Criteria for selection include:
10% of the award may be used for
• the intellectual content of the proposed event • the feasibility of the plans • the potential appeal to the campus and broader scholarly communities Projects submitted to the IPRH Large Grants competition should have the potential to attract faculty from multiple disciplines and be of sufficiently broad interest to engage an audience from across the humanities and across campus. For conferences and symposia, please see the Co-Sponsorship Grants below. The proposed event(s) will ideally take place during the 2012–13 academic year, but must be scheduled no later than October 2013. The expectation is that IPRH will be the PRIMARY sponsor for the chosen events and credited as such.
food and beverages. Reasonable travel, facility rental, and publicity costs will also be allowed. Deadline: Friday, September 14 at 5:00 p.m.
Application Instructions: Applicants must submit the following materials to the IPRH by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 14. Please indicate clearly at the top of the proposal whether the application is to the Large- or Co-Sponsorship Grants program.
Co-Sponsorship Grants:
1. A proposal narrative of no more than two pages that incorporates
Up to five awards will be made in the amount of $1,000 each.
the following information:
Co-Sponsorship Grants may be used as supplementary funds for a
A description of the proposed event (including proposed speak-
conference/symposium, or to assist in bringing a speaker to campus.
ers/presenters and an informal budget).
Grantees will be selected through a competitive review of applications by members of the Advisory Committee. Criteria for selection include: the intellectual content of the proposed event the feasibility of the plans the cross-disciplinary value of the event
A rationale for the event, including its scholarly significance and the benefits of holding the event at Illinois. 2. A one-page CV for each member of the project’s Steering Committee.
the potential appeal to the campus and broader scholarly communities
Please submit all materials (compiled as a single PDF file) to the
The proposed event will ideally take place during the 2012–13
IPRH at iprh@illinois.edu by the deadline date. Application materials
academic year, but must be scheduled no later than October 2013.
should be single-spaced, in a 12-point font, with one-inch margins. Materials submitted after the deadline or that do not follow the
Terms of Award: Grantees in both categories will be responsible for travel, hotel, and meal arrangements for their events. Event organizers must coordinate event dates with IPRH, to insure there are
stated guidelines will not be considered. Questions about the IPRH Event Grants Program can be addressed to Nancy Castro at 244-7913 or ncastro@illinois.edu.
no competing IPRH-sponsored events. IPRH can assist LargeGrant recipients with event logistics. IPRH will help publicize both Large- and Co-Sponsorship-Grant events. The IPRH name must be included in all publicity materials. Detailed guidelines for the authorized use of funds will be given to
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| I P R H P R I Z E S F O R R E S E A R C H I N T H E H U M A N I T I E S, 2012ͳ13 | IPRH has recognized outstanding humanities research in numerous ways during its fifteen-year existence. From fellowship awards that provide release time and stipends, to support for reading groups that investigate matters central to the humanities, to conferences and symposia that disseminate humanities scholarship to wide academic and general audiences, IPRH has always been committed to the support and advancement of humanities research in the broadest sense. IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities allow us to celebrate excellence in humanities scholarship, and we are pleased to solicit submissions and nominations for the 2012–13 academic year. These prizes recognize outstanding humanities research at the University of Illinois, with awards given at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. The awards will be presented at a reception in late April 2013. (For more information about the winners for 2011–12, see page 22.) Submissions are invited from scholars in all sectors of the university with focus on the humanities and humanities-inflected research. Eligibility: The awards are open to all full-time U of I students and faculty. Application deadline: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. Submission procedures: All submissions must be accompanied by a completed nomination form, which can be downloaded from the IPRH website. The submissions must contain NO references to the applicant’s name or other identifying details. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be disqualified from consideration. Please email the submission and the nomination form as two separate attached pdf documents to iprh@illinois.edu. Please note that scans of journals or book pages are not acceptable. Submissions should be in manuscript form, double-spaced, with all identifying details removed, and conform to the length limitations. Selection: The applications will be read by a selection committee comprised of members of the IPRH Advisory Committee, one or two invited members of the faculty, and the IPRH Director and Associate Director (both of whom serve on the committee in an ex officio capacity). Submissions will be judged in a blind review process; names and other identifying details must not be included in the essay itself. The essays will be evaluated on their scholarly merit, the intellectual rigor of the questions being posed, and the quality of the writing. Faculty: $500 (awarded as research funds) * Submission must be double-spaced and single-sided, with a length of 15–25 pages (exclusive of notes); the submission may be an excerpt of appropriate length from a longer work. * Submissions must have been published between January 1, 2012 and the application deadline in a book, journal, edited collection, or peer-reviewed electronic or online publication. (Accepted but still forthcoming works are not eligible.) * The submission may be nominated by a full-time U of I faculty member, or self-nominated. Graduate Student: $500. * Submissions must be double-spaced and single-sided, with a length of 10–20 pages (exclusive of notes). Excerpts of an appropriate length from a longer work are acceptable. * The submitted essay must have been completed for a U of I course taken for credit during the 2012–13 academic year, or the submission may be an excerpt of appropriate length from the graduate student’s thesis, dissertation, or equivalent research project. * The submission may be nominated by the thesis director/faculty member who taught the course for which the paper was written, or self-nominated, with the signature approval of the faculty member/ thesis director on the nomination form. Undergraduate Student: $500. * Submissions must be double-spaced and single-sided, with a length of 10–20 pages (exclusive of notes). * The submitted essay must have been completed for a U of I course taken for credit during the 2012–13 academic year. * The submission may be nominated by the faculty member of the course for which the paper was written, or self-nominated, with the signature approval of the faculty member on the nomination form. Questions about these awards and the nomination procedures should be addressed to Nancy Castro at ncastro@illinois.edu.
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| M E L L O N P O S TͳD O C G U I D E L I N E S 2013ͳ15 | The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks to hire two Post-Doctoral Fellows for two-year appointments starting in Fall 2013. The Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities will spend the two-year term in residence at Illinois; will conduct research on the proposed project; and will teach two courses per year (both graduate and undergraduate) in the appropriate academic department. The Fellows will also participate in the IPRH Fellows Seminar, a yearlong interdisciplinary workshop, and will be encouraged to participate in activities related to their research available through IPRH, in the teaching department, and on the Illinois campus. Each Post-Doctoral Fellow will give a public lecture on his or her research. The search for Mellon Fellows is open to scholars in all humanities disciplines, but we seek applicants whose work falls into one of the following broad subject areas: Race and Diaspora Studies History of Science/Technology Empire and Colonial Studies Memory Studies Eligibility Applicants must have received a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline between January 1, 2008 and August 31, 2012. Please note that these are external fellowships; current full- and part-time faculty members at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign as well as current U of I graduate students and scholars who received their doctorates from the U of I are not eligible for these awards. Terms The appointment will begin on August 16, 2013, and the successful applicants must be on the Illinois campus by that date for orientation. The Post-Doctoral Fellows will be required to live within 20 miles of Champaign-Urbana during the academic years of the appointment. The fellowship carries a $45,000 annual stipend, a $2,000 research account, and a comprehensive benefits package. Application Guidelines Applications must be submitted online at this URL: https://my.atlas.illinois.edu/submit/go.asp?id=464. Applicants will be asked to create a password-protected account, to which they can return multiple times. The application system opens September 1, 2012. No paper or emailed applications will be accepted. The online application must be completed and submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on October 29, 2012. In addition to completing the online application form, applicants must submit the following application materials through the online system: A one-page abstract, with project title (250-300 words). A detailed narrative statement (2,000 words) describing the research project the applicant will undertake during the term of the fellowship. The narrative statement should explain how the proposed project would make a contribution to the applicant’s research and advance the larger field of study; how the project would articulate with one of the four designated subject areas; and the anticipated outcomes of the proposed research. Applicants must address why the proposed research can be undertaken successfully at the University of Illinois, and should include details about programs, individual scholars, and resources at the U of I that would enrich the project. A curriculum vitae (maximum 10 pages). A sample syllabus for a course (undergraduate or graduate) related to the applicant’s research project that could be taught by the applicant as part of the fellowship. Three (3) letters of recommendation to be uploaded by the applicant’s referees. We recommend entering recommenders’ names and emails early in the online application process. The application system will generate an email request for letters of recommendation to those referees whose names and emails you submit, and the email will provide a link to the recipient for uploading the letter. Please note that you must enter your personal contact information first before you can proceed to entering references. Doing so enables the system to insert your name in the email request to your referees. In order for the system to generate those emails, however, you must click “continue” after entering your referees’ names and emails—even if you are doing nothing else in your application at that time. Applications for which all three letters of recommendation have not been uploaded by 5:00 p.m. on October 29th will be deemed incomplete and will not be considered. The letters of recommendation should come from senior colleagues who are familiar with the applicant’s work and the proposal being made for the fellowship. Letters must address the specifics of the project being proposed for the fellowship, the applicant’s research and teaching skills, and the contributions the proposed project would make to the broader scholarly community. (Note: Only three letters will be accepted.) Because the letters must address the specifics of the proposal and the position being sought, we strongly discourage applicants from sending general dossier files. Deadline Online applications must be complete and submitted, including all letters of support uploaded, by 5:00 p.m. on October 29, 2012, after which the application portal closes. The application system can be found at: https://my.atlas.illinois.edu/submit/go.asp?id=464. Deadline extensions will not be granted. The review committee will consider only complete applications. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that all documentation is complete, and that referees submit their letters before the deadline. Notification All applications will be acknowledged via e-mail, and all applicants will be notified when the search has concluded. Please do not contact IPRH about the status of an application; because of the volume of applications IPRH receives, we are unable to answer questions about individual applications. Questions about these fellowships may be addressed to Dr. Nancy Castro, Associate Director of IPRH, at ncastro@illinois.edu or (217) 244-7913.
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| APPLICATION GUIDELINES | FACULTY FELLOWSHIP AWARDS | Please read carefully. The submission guidelines and terms of the fellowship
incomplete and will not be considered. All letters must be uploaded through
have undergone significant changes this year.
the application portal. No paper or emailed copies will be accepted.
Applications are invited from full-time, tenured or tenure-track U of
In the narrative statement, the applicant should describe his or her
I faculty members for selection as IPRH Faculty Fellows for the 2013–14
research in reasonable detail, explaining its relevance to the IPRH theme for
academic year. The fellowship will provide release time for one semester
2013–14 and its significance to the broader scholarly community at Illinois
in residence, and $2,000 in research funds, to enable Fellows to develop
and elsewhere. The statement should also indicate the applicant’s willingness
research projects related to the broad theme of “The Body/Bodies” and to
to participate in IPRH activities, especially the Fellows Seminar.
participate in the year’s activities, including the yearlong interdisciplinary Fellows Seminar and other related programming. The IPRH is especially interested in fostering interdisciplinary work.
All IPRH Fellows are expected to maintain residency on the Illinois campus during the award year. Faculty members who have previously held an IPRH fellowship may not reapply to IPRH for five years following the
Applications must be submitted online at this URL: https://my.atlas.
award year. Faculty members are likewise prohibited from holding IPRH
illinois.edu/submit/go.asp?id=481. Applicants will be asked to create a
fellowships and Center for Advanced Study, or other campus release-time
password-protected account, to which they can return multiple times. The
awards simultaneously. Only full-time tenured and tenure-track U of I faculty
application system opens in mid-September 2012. No paper or emailed
are eligible to apply for the awards. Applicants should make certain that their
applications will be accepted. The online application must be completed
teaching and research obligations do not prevent them from participating fully
and submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on December 7, 2012.
in IPRH activities, and should identify in the narrative statement any other
In addition to completing the online application form, applicants must
applications being made for either sabbatical leave or for other campus or
submit the following materials through the online system (documents
external grants and fellowships.
should be double-spaced, and in 12-point Times New Roman font):
The applications will be reviewed by the members of the IPRH Advisory
• A 100-word abstract with project title
Committee, who will make their award recommendations to IPRH; the IPRH
• A current curriculum vitae (maximum 10 pages)
Director and Associate Director serve on the committee in an ex officio capacity. Submissions will be evaluated on the following criteria: scholarly
• A statement of 2,000 words describing the faculty member’s research on the
promise of the project, and the applicant’s preparation to undertake the
proposed project (materials that exceed the required length will not be considered).
proposed research; the quality of the narrative proposal; relationship to the
• A pdf of a signed statement on letterhead by the executive officer
annual theme; and the letters of support.
of the applicant’s primary department, attesting to the department’s
Online applications must be complete and submitted, including all
willingness to release the applicant from all regular teaching duties other than
letters of support uploaded, by 5:00 p.m. on December 7, 2012, after which
thesis direction for one semester in 2013–14. (Executive officers of campus
the application portal closes. The application system can be found at https://
units who submit an application to IPRH must include a letter from the dean
my.atlas.illinois.edu/submit/go.asp?id=481. Deadline extensions will not be
of their college, approving the application and any release time that would
granted. The review committee will consider only complete applications. It is
result from a successful proposal.)
the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that all documentation is complete,
• Two (2) letters of recommendation to be uploaded by the
and that referees submit their letters before the deadline. Be sure that the
applicant’s referees.
application documents are complete, and please proofread all materials carefully,
IPRH recommends entering recommenders’ names and emails early in the
as no changes are possible once you click “submit.”
online application process. The application system will generate an email
All applications will be acknowledged via e-mail, and all applicants
request for letters to those whose names and emails the applicant submits,
will be notified in the latter part of the spring 2014 semester, when
and the email will provide a link for uploading the letter. Please note that
the search has concluded. Please do not contact IPRH about the status of
applicants must enter their personal contact information first before they can
an application; because of the volume of applications IPRH receives, we are
proceed to entering references. Doing so enables the system to insert the
unable to answer questions about individual applications.
applicant’s name in the email request to referees. In order for the system to
Questions about these fellowships may be addressed to Nancy Castro at
generate those emails, however, the applicant must click “continue” after
ncastro@illinois.edu or 244-7913.
entering referees’ names and emails—even if nothing else is to be done in the application at that time. Applications for which both letters of recommendation have not been uploaded by 5:00 p.m. on December 7, 2012 will be deemed
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| APPLICATION GUIDELINES | GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP AWARDS | Please read carefully. The submission guidelines and terms of the fellowship
entering referees’ names and emails—even if nothing else is to be done in the
have undergone significant changes this year.
application at that time. Applications for which both letters of recommendation
Applications are invited from current U of I graduate students for selection as IPRH Graduate Student Fellows for the 2013–14 academic year. The fellowship will enable advanced graduate students to develop their
have not been uploaded by 5:00 p.m. on December 7, 2012 will be deemed incomplete and will not be considered. All letters must be uploaded through the application portal. No paper or emailed copies will be accepted.
dissertations or research projects related to the IPRH annual theme of “The
In the narrative statement, the applicant should describe his/her research
Body/Bodies,” and to participate in the year’s activities, including the yearlong
in reasonable detail, explaining its relevance to the IPRH theme and its
interdisciplinary Fellows Seminar and related programming. Graduate Student
significance to the broader scholarly community at Illinois and elsewhere. The
Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend and a tuition and fee waiver.
statement should also indicate the applicant’s willingness to participate in IPRH
Applications must be submitted online at this URL: https://my.atlas.
activities, especially the Fellows Seminar.
illinois.edu/submit/go.asp?id=482. Applicants will be asked to create a
All IPRH Fellows are expected to maintain residency on the Illinois
password-protected account, to which they can return multiple times. The
campus during the award year. Applicants should make certain that their
application system opens in mid-September 2012. No paper or emailed
teaching and research obligations do not prevent them from participating fully
applications will be accepted.
in IPRH activities, and should identify in the narrative statement any other
The online application must be completed and submitted no later
applications being made for other campus or external grants and fellowships.
than 5:00 p.m. on December 7, 2012.
Graduate Fellowship recipients may not hold other Graduate College
In addition to completing the online application form, applicants must
fellowships (Intersect, Dissertation Completion) concurrently with their IPRH
submit the following materials through the online application system
Fellowship. Graduate students who have previously held an IPRH fellowship
(documents should be double-spaced, and in 12-point Times New Roman font):
may not reapply.
• A 100-word abstract with project title
The applications will be reviewed by the IPRH Advisory Committee,
• A current curriculum vitae, including a list of all graduate courses taken, papers published, presentations made, and assistantships and fellowships held (maximum 5 pages).
who will make their award recommendations to the IPRH; the IPRH Director and Associate Director serve on the committee in an ex officio capacity. Submissions will be evaluated on the following criteria: scholarly promise of the project, and the applicant’s preparation to undertake the proposed
• A statement of 2,000 words describing the student’s research on the
research; the quality of the narrative proposal; relationship to the annual theme;
proposed project, including preparation to undertake this research and all
and the letters of support.
progress on the project to date (materials that exceed the required length will not be considered).
Online applications must be complete and submitted, including all letters of support uploaded, by 5:00 p.m. Central Time on December
• A pdf of the student’s official transcript, which has been emailed to the
7, 2012, after which the application portal closes. The application system
student directly from the registrar’s office (rather than scanned from a paper copy).
can be found at: https://my.atlas.illinois.edu/submit/go.asp?id=482. Deadline
The applicants must request this electronic delivery from the registrar’s office.
extensions will not be granted. The review committee will consider only
• Two (2) letters of recommendation to be uploaded by the applicant’s
complete applications. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that all
referees, one of which must come from the faculty member supervising documentation is complete, and that referees submit their letters before the deadline. Be sure that the application documents are complete, and please the student’s dissertation or equivalent research. Recommendation letters should speak to the applicant’s abilities and achievements, to his/her
proofread all materials carefully, as no changes are possible once you click
progress on the project, and to the intellectual value of the project itself.
“submit.”
IPRH recommends entering recommenders’ names and emails early in the
All applications will be acknowledged via e-mail, and all applicants will
online application process. The application system will generate an email
be notified in the latter part of the spring semester, when the search
request for letters to those whose names and emails the applicant submits,
has concluded. Please do not contact IPRH about the status of an application;
and the email will provide a link for uploading the letter. Please note that
because of the volume of applications IPRH receives, we are unable to answer
applicants must enter their personal contact information first before they can
questions about individual applications.
proceed to entering references. Doing so enables the system to insert the
Questions about these fellowships may be addressed to Nancy Castro at
applicant’s name in the email request to referees. In order for the system to
ncastro@illinois.edu or 244-7913.
generate those emails, however, the applicant must click “continue” after
DEADLINE FOR IPRH FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS FOR 2013–14: DECEMBER 7, 2012
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Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 www.iprh.illinois.edu Telephone: (217) 244-3344 Fax: (217) 333-9617 E-mail: iprh@illinois.edu
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the
IPRH Staff
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was established
Dianne Harris, Director | harris3@illinois.edu | 244-3344
in 1997 to promote interdisciplinary study in the humanities, arts,
Nancy Castro, Associate Director | ncastro@illinois.edu | 244-7913 Stephanie Uebelhoer, Office Support Associate | suebelho@illinois.edu | 244-3344
and social sciences. The IPRH grants fellowships to Illinois faculty
The Odyssey Project
and graduate students, and in fall 2010 welcomed the first Mellon
Cris Mayo, Director | Inquiries: odysseyproject@illinois.edu | 244-3344
Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities, supported by a six-year
Education Justice Project
grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Rebecca Ginsburg, Director | rginsbur@illinois.edu
The IPRH coordinates and hosts numerous lectures, symposia, and
IPRH Advisory Committee 2012-13
panel discussions on a wide variety of topics, and provides awards
Stephanie Foote, English/Gender and Women’s Studies Ryan Griffis, Art + Design
that recognize excellence in humanities research to faculty and
Marcus Keller, French
students. The IPRH supports faculty-driven initiatives for interdis-
John Randolph, History
ciplinary public programming in the humanities through its Events Grants Program, and provides support to faculty and graduate
Richard T. Rodriguez, English and Latina/o Studies Eleonora Stoppino, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese David Sussman, Philosophy
student reading groups. The 2012–13 academic year marks the seventh year of the Odyssey Project, a free nine-month humanities course offered to members of the Champaign-Urbana community who live at or near the poverty level. The course—which is supported by the Office of the Chancellor, the College of Education, and a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council—is taught by Illinois faculty. The IPRH is also in its fifth year of affiliation with the Education Justice Project,
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a prison education program supported by the Illinois Humanities Council and individual donors.
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