The Institute for the Humanities has awarded fellowships to seven faculty and five graduate students.
Fellows take part in a weekly seminar, though most of their time is devoted to research and writing.
Click on each name to read about the projects underway this year. Examples include competing memories of a single place, contested appropriations of folkloric traditions, and conflicting claims to symbols of rootedness and authenticity. He will assess how the political economy of the early Islamic world arose in relation to older Arabian notions in dramatically different circumstances. An International History from the Eugenics Movement to the Cairo Conference. To do so, she turns to the work of Charles Darwin and his contemporary, Lewis Henry Morgan, the founder of American anthropology.