CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Six faculty members and eight graduate students from the Illinois campus have been awarded fellowships by the Ilinois Program for the Research in the Humanities for 2010-2011. The fellowships support research and writing over the coming academic year on topics proposed by the recipients.
Faculty fellows and graduate student fellows are expected to remain in residence on the Illinois campus during their award year and participate in IPRH’s yearlong interdisciplinary Fellows’ Seminar. Faculty fellows are released from one semester of teaching with the approval of their departments and colleges; however, they are asked to teach one course during the award year or the following year on a subject related to their fellowship. Graduate student fellows receive a stipend from IPRH.
“Among the greatest privileges of serving as IPRH director is the ability to spend time around our seminar table, learning from the work of our faculty and graduate student fellows,” said Dianne Harris, the director of IPRH. “I am delighted to welcome the 2010-11 class of IPRH fellows, whose work spans numerous disciplinary boundaries and forges important new intellectual pathways in humanities scholarship.”
The new IPRH Faculty Fellows, their departments and projects:
Timothy Cain, educational organization and leadership, “Faculty Unions Before Their ‘Abrupt Appearance’: Professors, Instructors and Graduate Students in the AFL and CIO”
Tamara Chaplin, history, “French Kiss: Mediating Sex in Postwar France (1945-2000)”
Ryan Griffis, art and design, “Regional Inquiry Studio”
Bruce Levine, history, “The Second American Revolution: The Destruction of Slavery and Slave Society in the U.S.”
Erik S. McDuffie, gender and women’s studies and African American studies, “Garveyism in the Urban Midwest: The Making of Diaspora in the American Heartland”
Audrey Petty, English, “High-Rise Stories: Voices From Chicago Public Housing”
The graduate student fellows, their departments and projects:
Nicholas Brown, landscape architecture, “Landscape, Justice, and the Politics of Indigeneity: Mapping White Possession and Settler Indigeneity in Alberta/Montana”
Urmitapa Dutta, psychology, “The Margins Strike Back: Contested Identities, Everyday Violence and Tribal Youth in India’s North-east”
Sarah Frohardt-Lane, history, “Race, Public Transit and Automobility in
World War II Detroit”
Alison D. Goebel, anthropology, “Reconfiguring Middle Class Whiteness: Global Capitalism, Race and Small City Space in the United States”
Natalie Havlin, English, “Cultures of Migration: Race, Space and the Politics of Alliance in U.S. Print and Visual Culture, 1910-1939”
Cory Spice Holding, English, “The Rhetoric of Gesture in British Elocution”
Kwame Holmes, history, “From the Black Metropolis to the Rainbow City: Black and Gay Community Development in Post-Riot Washington, D.C., 1968-1985”
Spencer Snow, English, “Reading the Map: The Nationalization of Geographic Space, Reading Publics, and the Shaping of 19th-Century American Identity, 1803-1898”
Two of the graduate fellows, Brown and Snow, have been designated Nicholson-IPRH Fellows for 2010-2011, with the support of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Nicholson Endowment Fund.
The Nicholson Endowment is a gift of Grace W. Nicholson (1906-1998), who pursued undergraduate studies in liberal arts and sciences, and John A. Nicholson
(1891-1986), a professor emeritus and faculty member in the department of philosophy for 33 years. Established in 1999, the Nicholson Endowment provides support for academic programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and excellence in the study of the humanities on campus.
Three external scholars also will join the IPRH fellows. Searches are under way for one Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, to be appointed jointly by IPRH and the Illinois Informatics Institute, and two Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in the Humanities, funded by a recent $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. IPRH will announce the appointments later in the spring semester.
More information about the IPRH fellowship programs is available online or by contacting Christine Catanzarite, the senior associate director at IPRH.
