Fellows

Fellow of
the Month:
Philip J. Deloria

Philip J. Deloria, professor, University of Michigan Department of History and Program in American Culture, was the 2007-08 John Rich Professor at the Institute for the Humanities. He received his PhD in American Culture from Yale University and received BME and MA from the University of Colorado.

The author of three books and of many articles, Deloria spent his year at the Institute working on his still untitled family memoir. He focused on telling the story of his grandfather, grandmother and great aunt and the personal consequences of his grandparents’ cross-racial marriage (Sioux and "White"). continued....

Deloria's vita

 Chapter from Deloria's book Indians in Unexpected Places, 2004. This chapter on Athletics and the project Deloria worked on this year at the Institute originated at the same time, and that moment is recounted in the chapter.

Link to a website that contains material on Deloria's great aunt, Ella Deloria who worked with anthropologist Franz Boas on collecting Sioux linguistic material.

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Emerging Scholar's Prize

The first Emerging Scholars Prize, with a generous stipend of $25,000, was awarded to Boris Kment, Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture

Barbara Stafford
University of Chicago
"Bits of Behavior/Concepts Prior to Words: The Emotional Intuition of Form"
November 6
4 PM
Michigan League

Events

• STASYS EIDRIGEVICIUS: The Earth of Lithuania with the Wind of Warsaw

  September 08 - October 17, 2008 (9 AM - 5 PM)

  Exhibition of works by Stasys Eidrigevicius September 8 - October 17, 2008 Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm Sponsors: Copernicus Endowment, CREES Institute for the Humanities School of Art and Design

  Institute for the Humanities Gallery 202 South Thayer St, Room 1010

• Brown Bag Lecture: Artists at Work

  October 14, 2008 (12 - 1:30 PM)

  Tirtza Even, Art & Design: "Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains"

  202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

• Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage

  October 21, 2008 (12 - 1:30 PM)

  Vanessa Agnew, German Studies
  "Reenacting the German Past"

  202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

• Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage

  October 28, 2008 (12 - 1:30 PM)

  Vicente M. Diaz: "When Vessels Collide: The Revitalization of Traditional Canoes and Postcolonial Commemorations in the Pacific Islands"

  202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

• Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows

  November 04, 2008 (12 - 1:30 PM)

  Philip Deloria: "The Perils and Poetics of Family Memoir"

  202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022