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2005-2006
Faculty Fellows
David Caron - Michigan Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor - Romance Languages
"The Contested Ghetto: French Republicanism and the Politics of Community"
Gregory Dowd - Helmut F. Stern Professor
Professor - History/American Culture
"'Bad Birds,' 'Flying Reports,' and Frontier Rumor in Early America"
Sara Forsdyke - John Rich Professor
Assistant Professor - Classical Studies
"Politics and Popular Culture in Ancient Greece"
Howard Markel - John Rich Professor
Professor of History of Medicine and of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
"The Anatomy of Addiction: A Cultural, Social and Medical History of Addiction in the United States, 1900 to the Present"
Khaled Mattawa - Hunting Family Professor
Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing)
"Amorisco and A Typography of Strangers"
Christi Merrill - Michigan Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Languages and Cultures
"Memory with an Active Verb: Lessons in Translating Hindi"
Steve Mullaney - John Rich Professor
Associate Professor - English
"The Work of the Stage: Trauma and Collective Identity in the Age of Shakespeare"
Marianetta Porter - Helmut F. Stern Professor
Associate Professor - Art and Design
"Memory Breeze"
Elisha Renne - Michigan Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor - Anthropology/CAAS
"The Spiritual, Social, Spatial Connections of Yoruba Religious Textiles"
James Robson - Helmut F. Stern Professor
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
"Inside Asian Images: Religious Icons in the Context of Local and Ritual Practice"
Catherine Sanok - A. Bartlett Giamatti Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor - English/Women's Studies
"English Legends: Gender, Religion, and National Identity in Pre-modern England"
Andrew Shryock - Charles P. Brauer Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Anthropology
"Welcome and Trespass: The Politics of Hospitality in Jordan and Beyond"
Andrea Smith - Human Rights Fellow
Assistant Professor of Native American Studies, American Culture and Women’s Studies
"'Glocal' Organizing: The U.S. Human Rights Movement"
Louise K. Stein - Steelcase Research Professor
Professor - Musicology
"Spaniards at the Opera: Operas, Patrons, Singers, and the Publics in Madrid, Rome, Naples, and Lima, 1659-1701"
Jamie Tappenden - Michigan Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Philosophy
"Riemann and Frege: A Study in the Emergence of Contemporary Logic and Mathematics"
Jason Weems - Hunting Family Professor
Assistant Professor - Art History (UM-Dearborn)
"Barnstorming the Prairies: Flight, Aerial Vision, and the Idea of the Midwest, 1920-1940"
Patricia Yaeger - A. Bartlett Giamatti Faculty Fellow
Professor of English
"Luminous Trash: America in an Age of Conspicuous Destruction"
Norman Yoffee - Steelcase Research Professor and Helmut F. Stern Professor
Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology
"Winds of Desolation: A History and Archaeology of the Mesopotamian City of Kish"
Graduate Fellows
Diana Bullen - Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
History of Art
"The Visual Culture of the Central Italian Foundling Hospital, 1400-1600"
Claire Decoteau - Michigan Graduate Student Fellow
Sociology
"The Diseased Body Politic and the Corporeality of HIV/AIDS in South Africa"
Philip Duker - James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
Music Theory
"Diving into Mnemosyne’s Waters: Exploring the Depths of Memory and Musical Experience"
Didem Ekici - Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
Architecture
"Bruno Taut's Vision of the 'Orient': Creating a Universal Architecture"
Julen Etxabe - Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
Law
"Laws in Tragic Conflict: Sophocles' Antigone and Judicial Decision-Making"
Kim Greenwell - Michigan Graduate Student Fellow
Sociology
"Between Nation, Empire and Colony: Unsettling Events and English-Canadian Identity in the Nineteenth-century British Empire"
Asli Gür - Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow
Sociology
"Educating the 'Orient': Transculturation of Foreign Educational Practices and Imperial Imagination in the Ottoman Empire (1857-1914)"
Edin Hajdarpasic - Michigan Graduate Student Fellow
History
"Beyond ‘Nation vs. Empire’: Reform, Social Movements and the Search for Justice in Late Ottoman Bosnia"
Andrew Highsmith - Michigan Graduate Student Fellow
History
"America is a Thousand Flints: Race, Class and the End of the American Dream in Flint, Michigan"
Myeong-seok Kim - Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow
Asian Languages
"Theories of Emotion in Early Chinese Confucian Texts"
Sumiao Li - James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow
English/Women's Studies
"Fashionable People, Fashionable Societies: Gender, Fashion, and Print Culture in Britain, 1820-1860"
Kristina Luce - Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow
Architecture
"Revolutions in Parallel: The Rise and Fall of Drawing Within Architectural Design"
Marti Lybeck - Michigan Graduate Student Fellow
History
"Gender, Sexuality and Belonging: Female Homosexuality in Germany, 1890–1933"
Bhavani Raman - Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow
History
"Document Raj: Scribes, Writing and Society in Early Colonial South India"
Visiting Fellows
Louis Andriessen, Netherlands Visiting Professor and Artist-in-Residence
In residence, February 5 – 19, 2006
Jaq Chartier, Artist
In residence, January 8 – 14, 2006
David Henry Hwang
Playwright, New York City
In residence, January 2007
Marian Hobson, Professor of French at Queen Mary, University of London
Norman Freehling Visiting Professor
In residence, Winter 2006
Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, Handspring Puppet Company and Yaya Coulibaly, Sogolon Puppet Company
In residence, October 17 – 30, 2005
German Kim
History and Korean Studies, Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi
Mellon Global Fellow
In residence, Fall 2006
Bob Mankoff
Cartoon Editor, The New Yorker
Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts
In residence, March 5 – April 6, 2007
Nicolette Molnár, Stage Director
Mellon Arts and Knowledge Fellow
In residence, Winter 2006
Livia Monnet, Professor of Comparative Literature, Film, and Media Studies, University of Montreal
In residence, February 12 – 25, 2006
Lawrence N. Powell, Professor of History, Tulane University, New Orleans
Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture
In residence, September 12 – October 13, 2005
Charles Stewart
Anthropology, University College London
In residence, March 5 – April 6, 2007
Sekou Sundiata
Poet and Performance Artist
Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts
In residence January 7- 21, 2007
Neferti Tadiar
History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Mellon Global Fellow
In residence, October 29 – November 12, 2006
