CELEBRATE THE FELLOWS THURSDAY
MAY 12, 2022
CELEBRATE THE Welcome by Roland Greene
DIRECTOR OF THE STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER THE ANTHONY P. MEIER FAMILY PROFESSOR OF THE HUMANITIES
What Difference Do We Make? RESEARCH AT THE STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER
How does the research conducted at the Humanities Center make a difference in the world? How do our fellows manage to keep that difference in sight as they do the work of scholarship? Three current fellows will give responses to these questions, followed by a general discussion with Q&A.
Eli Cook
HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA
Choose-Your-Own-Captivity: Choice Architects and the Analog Origins of Digital Capitalism
Lucía Martínez Valdivia ENGLISH, REED COLLEGE
Audiation: Listening to Writing
Traci Parker
AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
Beyond Loving: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Black Freedom Movement
The Center's fellowships are made possible by gifts and grants from the following individuals, foundations, and Stanford offices: The Esther Hayfer Bloom Estate, Theodore H. and Frances K. Geballe, Mimi and Peter Haas, Marta Sutton Weeks, the Mericos Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the offices of the Dean of Research and the Dean of Humanities and Sciences.
FELLOWS 2022 About the Speakers Eli Cook is an associate professor at the University of Haifa where he specializes in the history of
American capitalism and economic thought. His first book, The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life, won the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s Best Book Award as well as the Morris D. Forkosch Best Book Prize from the Journal of the History of the Ideas.
Lucía Martínez Valdivia is associate professor of English literature and humanities at Reed College, where she teaches courses on early modern poetry, poetics, and humanist thought. Her first monograph, Common Meter: A Revised History of English Poetry, 1548–1948, is currently under review, and she has published various articles and chapters on early modern English poetry and prosody.
Traci Parker is an associate professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). She earned her PhD in history from the University of Chicago.
Roland Greene
assumed the directorship of the Stanford Humanities Center in September 2019. As Director of the Center, he holds the Anthony P. Meier Family Professorship in the Humanities. He is also the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. A member of the Stanford faculty since 2001, he is professor of English and comparative literature. His research and teaching focus on early modern culture from 1500–1700, specifically the literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world, and with poetry and poetics from the Renaissance to the present. Greene is the author or editor of seven books, most recently Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes (2013). His current project is a rethinking of Baroque literature and art. Greene is also the editor in chief of the fourth edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012), considered the leading reference book on poetry. He is a past president of the Modern Language Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
About the Stanford Humanities Center For more than 40 years, the Stanford Humanities Center has sponsored advanced research in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences by investing in experiences—fellowships, workshops, lectures, and other events—that enrich research in and across the disciplines. Through a partnership with the renowned Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), the Humanities Center embraces emerging digital methods to complement traditional kinds of analysis and interpretation. Together, the Stanford Humanities Center and CESTA serve as the hub of an international network of fellows, visiting scholars, students, and alumni. For further information, please visit shc.stanford.edu.
Stanford Humanities Center Fellows 2021–2022 Rushain Abbasi
MELLON FELLOWSHIP OF SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Patricia Alessandrini
INTERNAL FACULTY FELLOW Department of Music, Stanford University
J. G. Amato
SHC DISSERTATION PRIZE FELLOW Department of History, Stanford University
R. Lanier Anderson
DONALD ANDREWS WHITTIER INTERNAL FELLOW Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
Anubha Anushree
CAREER LAUNCH FELLOW Department of History, Stanford University
Daniele Biffanti
SHC DISSERTATION PRIZE FELLOW Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Riley Brett-Roche
CAREER LAUNCH FELLOW Department of History, Stanford University
BuYun Chen
EXTERNAL FACULTY FELLOW Department of History, Swarthmore College
Eli Cook
EXTERNAL FACULTY FELLOW Department of History, University of Haifa
Phoebus Cotsapas
SHC DISSERTATION PRIZE FELLOW Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Pablo Seward Delaporte
SHC DISSERTATION PRIZE FELLOW Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Ksenia Ershova
MELLON FELLOWSHIP OF SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Margaret Galvan
DISTINGUISHED JUNIOR EXTERNAL FELLOW
Department of English, University of Florida
Kirstin Haag
SHC DISSERTATION PRIZE FELLOW Department of Music, Stanford University
Daniel Hernández
SHC DISSERTATION PRIZE FELLOW Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University
Ana Ilievska
MELLON FELLOWSHIP OF SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung
MELLON FELLOWSHIP OF SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
David Kazanjian
MARTA SUTTON WEEKS EXTERNAL FELLOW Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Radhika Koul
SHC DISSERTATION PRIZE FELLOW Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Tanya Marie Luhrmann
VIOLET ANDREWS WHITTIER INTERNAL FELLOW Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Lucía Martínez Valdivia
EXTERNAL FACULTY FELLOW Department of English, Reed College
Jeff Nagy
CAREER LAUNCH FELLOW Department of Communication, Stanford University
Michelle K. Oing
MELLON FELLOWSHIP OF SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University
Traci Parker
EXTERNAL FACULTY FELLOW Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Rhodes Pinto
MELLON FELLOWSHIP OF SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
Ali Qasmi
EXTERNAL FACULTY FELLOW Department of History, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Amanda Reid
MELLON FELLOWSHIP OF SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES Department of Theater & Performance Studies, Stanford University
Margarita Lila Rosa
MELLON FELLOWSHIP OF SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Shu-mei Shih
MARTA SUTTON WEEKS EXTERNAL FELLOW Department of Comparative Literature & East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Nigel Smith
MARTA SUTTON WEEKS EXTERNAL FELLOW Department of English, Princeton University
Hannah Smith-Drelich
JEFF AND SARA SMALL CAREER LAUNCH FELLOW Department of English, Stanford University
John Tennant
MELLON FELLOWSHIP OF SCHOLARS I N THE HUMANITIES Department of Classics, Stanford University
Sharika Thiranagama
INTERNAL FACULTY FELLOW Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Anna Toledano
SHC DISSERTATION PRIZE FELLOW Department of History, Stanford University
Lora Webb
SHC DISSERTATION PRIZE FELLOW Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University
Carolyn Zola
SHC DISSERTATION PRIZE FELLOW Department of History, Stanford University