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Stipendiary Faculty Fellows

American Studies
David McWhirter
, "Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn: Reading the New York Edition Photo-Frontispieces"

Anthropology
Alston Thoms, "Persistent Ancient Foodways at Native America's Cultural Crossroads in Texas: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives from San Antonio and Vicinity"

Architecture
Nancy Klein, "Architectural Development of the Athenian Acropolis in the Archaic and Early Classical Period"

Communication
Joel Iverson, "Belonging and Community: Analyzing the Ba of Relocated Citizens from Hurricane Katrina"

Comparative Literature
Brett Cooke, "Theory of Mind and the Evolution of Russian Literature"

Economics
Dror Goldberg, "Paper Money, Playing Cards, and Domino Blocks"

English
Nandini Battacharya, "Rapture, Rupture: Law, Cinema and Sectarian Attitudes in India Since 1947"
Angie Cruz, "In Search of Caridad: A Biomythography of My Mother"
Marian Eide, "The Lure of Violence: Political Brutality in Twentieth-Century Aesthetics"
Elizabeth Ho, "'South of Nowhere:' Recovering [from] History in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace"

J. Lawrence Mitchell, "Fighting Words: Boxing and Literature in Britain and America"
Britt Mize, "The Vercelli Book: A Complete Edition and Translation"
Patrick Muana, "Constructions of Black Masculinity in Black British Writing 1940-2000"
Patricia Phillipy, "Our English Sappho: The Letters and Works of Elizabeth Russell"

European and Classical Languages and Cultures
Federica Ciccolella, "Greek Schoolbooks in Renaissance Italy"

Film Studies
Anne Morey
, "A History of Christian Filmmaking in the United States"

Hispanic Studies
Enrique Mallen
, "The On-Line Picasso Project: A Relational Database Architecture"

History
Albert Broussard
, "African American Migration to the Far West, 1945-1980"
Benjamin Brower, "Policing Piety: The Hajj in Colonial Algeria: 1830-1939"

Performance Studies
Donnalee Dox
, "Methods and Sites for a Study of Somatic Spirituality"

Political Science
Diego von Vacano
, "The Color of Citizenship: Racial Identity in Latin American Political Thought "

Psychology
Takashi Yamauchi
, "On the Creative and Destructive Potential of Categorical Labels"

Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences
Amanda Stronza, "Local Voices and Local Impacts: Using Ethnography to Evaluate Ecotourism in the Peruvian Amazon"


Religious Studies
Robert S. Mackin, "Papal Volunteers, Ivan Illich and the Origins of Liberation Theology in Latin America"

Sociology
Robert S. Mackin
, "Papal Volunteers, Ivan Illich and the Origins of Liberation Theology in Latin America"

Women's Studies
Sara Alpern
, "Before the Glass Ceiling: Early 20th Century U.S. Businesswomen"

American Studies
Patrick Burkart
, "Cyberliberties"

Anthropology
Deborah Carlson, "Early Greek Amphora Stamps: Monograms, Meaning, and Motivation"

Architecture
Vivian Paul, "Medieval Design and Construction Methods at the Cathedral of Narbonne"

Communication
Heidi Campbell, "Reading New Media Religiously: Technological Discourse in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Communities"

Comparative Literature
Craig Kallendorf, "Scholars, Writers, and Artists: The Pessimistic Aenid in 20th Century Culture"

Economics
Dror Goldberg, "Why Did Massachusetts Invent Modern Currency?"

English
Juan Alonzo, "The Mexican 'Badman' and the American Western"
Dennis Berthold, "The Traditional Turn: A Revalution of the Hawthorne-Melville Relationship"
Giovanna Del Negro, "Recovering the Jewish Women Comic Giants of the 1950s and Early 1960s"
Robert Griffin, "Criteria"
Elizabeth Ho, "Writing Dwelling: Alternate Cartographies of Hong Kong"
Shona Jackson, "Between Myth and Nation: 'Limbo' Genesis and Caribbean Postcoloniality"
Stephanie Kerschbaum, "The (In)Visibility of Difference: An Examination of Interpersonal and Textual Engagement in a Postsecondary Literacy Classroom"
Victoria Rosner, "'Speak Up for Yourself, Now,' Doris Commanded: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Doris Lessing's Postcolonial Literary Legacies"

European and Classical Languages and Cultures

Manuela Marchesini, "Merchants of Enchantments"

Film Studies
Terence Hoagwood
, "Adaptational Art"

History
Leah DeVun
, "Chemical Reaction: Alchemy and Apocalyptic Thought in the Late Middle Ages"
Sylvia Hoffert, "Money, Power, Philanthropy, and Reform: A Tale of Four Women"

Hispanic Studies
Juan Galdo
, "Allegory and Nation in 20th Century Peruvian Narrative Fiction: Vallejo, Alegria, Arguedas, Vargas Llosa, Scorza, Gutierrez"

Performance Studies
Kathryn Woodard
, "Asserting Identity in Postmodern Piano Music: Musical Representation in the Works of Contemporary Asian Composers"

Philosophy
Gregory Pappas
, "What is the Role of Experience in Identifying and Studying Cultures?"

Political Science
Elisabeth Ellis
, "The Received Hobbes"

Psychology
Jyotsna Vaid
, "Humorous Discourse and Worldview: Insights from Bilingualism"

Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences
Ulrike Gretzel, "Representations of Sensory Experiences in Online Travel Narratives"


Religious Studies
Anat Geva
, "Frank Lloyd Wright's Sacred Architecture: Faith, Form, and Building Technology"

Sociology
Kathryn Henderson
,
"A Global Perspective on Grass-Roots 'Green' Building Techniques, Philosophies, and Discourses in the Negotiation for Supportive Building Codes"

Women's Studies
Carolyn Clark
, "Hurt and Pain: The Impact of Domestic Violence on the Lives of Incarcerated Women"

Academic Year 2004-2005

American Studies
Susan Stabile,
"American Antiquities: The Curiosity Cabinet Revisted, 1800-1840"

Anthropology
Thomas A. Green, "Native Versus Analytical Categories in the Classification of Martial Traditions"

Architecture
Gregor Kalas, "An Eighth Century Chapel at S. Maria Antiqua in Rome"

Communication
Eric W. Rothenbuhler, "Radio and American Culture in Transition, 1947-1962"

Comparative Literature
Richard J. Golsan, "The Visualization and Spatialization of History in Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder"

English
Juan Alonzo, "Articulation and Containment: Chicano/a Images on Screen, 1981-2002"
Dennis Berthold, "Democracy and Its Discontents: A Transitional Approach to Melville's Ideology"
Douglas Brooks, "'In Her the Painter Had Anatomized': Ekphrastic Interiority and Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece"
Kimberly Brown, "Reel/Real Identities: Cross-racial Espionage in Contemporary Film and Literature"
Pamela Matthews, "Reimagining The Sheltered Life: Catherine Turney Adapts Ellen Glasgow"
Mary Ann O'Farrell, "Jane Austen, Encyclopedically"
Claudia Nelson, "Domestic Frontiers: Rhetorical Uses of the Stepparent in Victorian England"
Patricia Phillippy, "Women in Document and Monument in Early Modern England"

European Studies
Larson Powell, "Technological Intuition: Electronic Media and Subjectivity, Germany/Japan"
Bob Shandley
, "Hollywood Runaways: American Filmmaking in Post-War Europe"

Film Studies
John Lenihan,
"Laughing at the Cold War: Film Comedies, 1947-1964"

History
Lauren Clay
, "The Architecture of Theatre in Eighteenth-Century France"
Olga Dror, "The Cult of Princess Lieu Hanh: 'Mother of the Vietnamese People'"

Hispanic Studies
Sarah Misemer
, "Moving Forward, Looking Back: Essays on Literature and Trains"

Performance Studies
Roger Schultz
, "Theatres of Antiquity: An Encyclopedia of Graeco-Roman Theatres in the Mediterranean"

Philosophy
Colleen Murphy
, "Criminal Trials and Truth Commissions: Vehicles for Political Reconciliation?"

Political Science
Judy Baer
, "Feminist Revision: Post-Liberalism and Imperative Jurisprudence"

Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences
Tazim Jamal, "Conceptualizing Dark Tourism: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of 'Darkness'"


Religious Studies
Leah DeVun
, "Chemical Reaction: John of Rupescissa, Alchemy, and the Apocalypse in the Late Middle Ages"
Maura Ives
, "Christina Rossetti's Hymns: Gender, Genre, and the Material Text"

Sociology
Barbara Finlay
, "The Rise and Decline of Fife, a Rural Community in Texas"

Women's Studies
Victoria Rosner
, "Living a Woman's Life: Heilbrun and the Legacies of American Feminism"

Academic Year 2003-2004

Anthropology
Shelley Wachsmann, "The Persian War Shipwreck Survey"

Architecture
John Alexander, "Continued Research on Carlo Borromeo's Early Architectural Patronage"

Classical Studies
Frederica Ciccolella, "Studying Classical Languages in the Renaissance"

Communication
Jennifer Mercieca, "'We the People,' The Rhetorics of Republicanism and the American Political Fiction, 1776-1845"

Comparative Literature
Giovanna del Negro, "The Funny Side of Islam: Gender, Religion and Humor in the Stand-up Comedy of Shazia Mirza"

English
Dennis Berthold, "Shadowing the Risorgimento in Herman Melville's Clarel"
Kimberly Nichele Brown, "Reel Identities: Revolutionary Passing and Subversive Masking in Contemporary Film and Literature"
Susan B. Egenolf, "Varnished Tales: Romantic Women Writers and the Presence of the Past"
Marian Eide, "The Lure of Violence: Poltical Brutality in Twentieth-Century Esthetics"
Pamela R. Matthews, "Dreaming of Joan: Plath, Rich, and Woman in the 20th Century"
Mary Ann O'Farrell, "A Rhetoric of Jane Austens"
Sally Robinson, "Marketing Authenticity: Masculinity, Consumer Culture and the Logic of Feminization"
Victoria Rosner, "Interior Designs: Modernism and the Reconstruction of Private Life"

Film Studies
Manuel Martín Rodriguez, "No Kidding: Hispanics in Films for Children"

History
Troy Bickham, "The Imagined Frontier: The Impact of American Indians on British Culture during the Eighteenth Century"
Rebecca Schloss, "The Distance between the Color White and All Others: The Struggle over White Identity in the French Colony of Martinique, 1802-1848"


Modern and Classical Languages

Hilaire Kallendorf, "The Comedia as Casuistry"
Brett Cooke, "A New Mimesis: Natural Psychology and the Development of Characterization"

Performance Studies
Donnalee Dox, "Somatics and Spirituality"

Philosophy
Roger Sansom, "Culture from an Evolutionary Perspective"

Political Science
Lisa Ellis, "Provisional Liberalism"

Religious Studies
Armando Alonzo, "The Origins of a Border Society, Texas and Mexico, 1700-1865"

Sociology
Joseph Jewell, "'Bourgeois in Black, White and Brown': Moral Reform and the Making of Minority Middle Classes in Three Cities, 1870-1900"

Women's Studies
Virginia Adan-Lifante, "Hurt but Free: Domestic Violence in America's Dream and The Women Who Walked Into Doors"

Academic Year 2002-2003

Anthropology
Michael Alvard, "Cultural Identities and Collective Action among Big Game Hunters"

Comparative Literature
Jennifer Goodman, "Early Yiddish Romances"

English
Siraj Ahmed, "Merchant Empire: A Literary History of Early British India"
Harriet Andreadis, "Female Masculinity in Early Modern England"
Douglas Brooks, " 'In such a questionable shape': Paternity and Print in Early Modern England"
Marian Eide, "The Lure of Violence: Political Brutality in Twentieth-Century Aesthetics"
Margaret Ezell, "1645-1714: Authors, Readers, and Literary Life"
Mary Ann O'Farrell, "Jane Austen and the Cultural Imagination"
Victoria Rosner, "Interior Designs: Modernism and the Reconstruction of Private Life"

Film Studies
Anne Morey, "Women and Children in Film Noir"

History
Lora Wildenthal, "Against History: West Germans in Human Rights Work, 1949-1989"
Leor Halevi, "On the Role of Death Rites in Defining Early Islamic Culture"

Modern and Classical Languages
Larson Powell, "The Screen of the Ear: Music and Sound in German Postwar Film
Richard J. Golsan, "Tzvetan Todorov and the Morals of 'Contemporary History'"

Performance Studies
David Willborn, "Bass Trombone and Piano Repertoire"

Philosophy
Gary Varner, "Sustaining Animals: Envisioning Humane Sustainable Communities"

Political Science
Ed Portis, "Democratic Culture and Cultural Democracy"

Religious Studies
Donnalee Dox, "Christian Discourses on Theatre and Theatricality from Augustine to the Fourteenth Century"

Speech Communication
Kathy Miller, "Portraits of Compassion in the Workplace: Health Care and Human Service Workers Who Deal with Birth and with Death"

Women's Studies
Joseph Jewell, "A League of Their Own: The Social Reform Activities of Black and Hispanic Women's Clubs in Atlanta and Albuquerque, 1880-1920"

Academic Year 2001-2002

Anthropology
Thomas A. Green, "Authenticity, Invented Tradition and Martial Folk Biography"

Classical Studies
Christopher F. Konrad, "Fasti consulares Capitolini"

Comparative Literature
Siraj Ahmed, "Intellectuals and People: Radical Aesthetics in Theory and Practice"

English
Douglas Brooks, "All the King's Printers: The Imprint of Royal Authority in Early Modern England"
Kimberly Brown, "Revolutionary Divas and the Emergence of the Decolonized Text: Black Women's Images, Ideologies and Subjectivities from the 1970s to Present"
Mary Bucholtz, "Language, Style, and Texas Youth Identities"
M. Jimmie Killingsworth, "Ecopoetics and Normality"
Pamela Matthews, "Joan of Arc in America, 1776-2000"
David McWhirter, "Abstraction and Empathy: The Politics of Form in Literary Modernism"
Giovanna Del Negro, "'Our Little Paris': Modernity, Performance and the Passegiata in a Central Italian Town"
Sally Robinson, "Masculinity and the Seductions of Consumer Culture"

Film Studies
Terence Hoagwood, "Art of Adaptation"

History
Chester Dunning, "Pushkin's Boris Godunov"
Andrew J. Kirkendall, "The Origins of 'Consciousness Raising': Paulo Freire and the Politics of Literacy in Brazil and Chile, 1950 to 1969"

Modern and Classical Languages
Melanie Hawthorne, "Gendered Identity as Social Construction in Nineteenth-Century French Literature"
Ralph Schoolcraft, "Literary Gaullism"

Performance Studies
Donnalee Dox, "Cultural Production of Spirituality in Contemporary Religious Performances"

Philosophy
Theodore D. George, "Hegel's Conception of Political Community"

Political Science
Cary Nederman, "The Medieval Roots of Political Economy"

Religious Studies
D. G. Myers, "Canonizing the Holocaust"

Speech Communication
Antonio La Pastina, "Thinking about the Other: Constructing Brazil in the US Imaginary"

Women's Studies
Anne Morey, "Canadian Women Directors"

Academic Year 2000-2001

Anthropology
Sylvia Grider, "Function and Meaning of Spontaneous Shrines at Disaster Sites"

Classical Studies
Elise P. Garrison, "Suicidal Females in Greek Mythology"

Comparative Literature
D. G. Myers, "New Bible from Auschwitz: Holocaust Faith and Doubt"

English
Siraj Ahmed, "Enlightenment in Reverse"
Harriette Andreadis, "Sappho"
Douglas Brooks, "All the King's Printers"
W. Bedford Clark, "Three Catholic Converts"
Marian Eide, "A Wounded Body"
Katherine Kelly, "Mapping Modern Drama"
Jerome Loving, "Dreiser Biography"
David McWhirter, "Abstraction and Empathy"
Sally Robinson, "Expressive Repression"
Victoria Rosner, "Home Erotics"

Film Studies
Robert Shandley, "Italian Neo-realism around the World and Back Again"

History
Ernest Obadele-Starks, "'Freebooters and Smugglers': Slave Trafficking in Nineteenth-Century America"
Di Wang, "Teahouse and Public Life: Social, Cultural, and Political Transformation in Chengdu"

Modern and Classical Languages
Anke Finger, "Vilem Flusser: The Freedom of the Migrant"
Manuel Martin-Rodriguez, "No Kidding: Hispanics in Films and Books for Children"

Performance Studies
Howard Jonathan Fredrics, "Composition of a Work for Orchestra with Interactive Electronics and Dance"
Roger Schultz, "The Theaters of Ancient Greece and Turkey"

Philosophy
Scott Austin, "Dialectic from Parmenides to Hegel"
Matthew McGrath, "The Question of Abstract Objects"

Political Science
Judith Baer, "Feminist Revision: Post-Liberalism and Imperative Jurisprudence"

Religious Studies
Hugh McCann, "Creator of Heaven and Earth"

Speech Communication
Tarla Peterson, "Communication Among Stakeholders in an Environmental Dispute: A Case Study in Participatory Democracy"

Women's Studies
Sarah N. Gatson, "Gender, Class, and Racial Power: Property, Slavery, and White Women in 19th-Century Missouri Courts"

Academic Year 1999-2000

Anthropology
Bruce Dickson

English
Harriette Andreadis
Mary Bucholtz
Marian Eide
Pamela Matthews
David McWhirter
Mary Ann O'Farrell
Patricia Phillippy
Victoria Rosner
Susan Stabile

History
Cynthia Bouton
David Vaught

Modern and Classical Languages
Brian Imhoff
Enrique Mallen

Philosophy
Linda Radzik

Speech Communication
Barbara Sharf

Academic Year 1998-1999

English
Douglas Brooks
Marian Eide
Craig Kallendorf
Kate Kelly
Pamela Matthews
David McWhirter
Mary Ann O'Farrell
Susan Stabile
Lynne Vallone

History
Armando Alonzo
Carol Higham

Modern and Classical Languages
Anke Finger
Stephen Miller

Philosophy
Michael Hand

Speech Communication
Vanessa Beasley