Institute Director Daniel Herwitz, who chaired the selection meetings, said, “Next year’s fellows will inaugurate the Institute’s new space at Thayer and Washington Streets with an extraordinary range of projects, from medical and cultural questions about addiction to investigations into the kind of writing appropriate to cities: Fordist and ancient.”

The outside evaluators for the faculty fellowship selection process were Linda Hutcheon (English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto), Richard Lim (History, Smith College) and Michael Steinberg (History, Music and Cogut Humanities Center, Brown University). Helping to select the graduate student fellows were Kathryn Babayan (Near Eastern Studies), George Hoffmann (Romance Languages) and Lydia Liu (Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature).