ILLINOIS PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES
FELLOWS 2011-12 – “BORDERS”
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to six faculty members and seven graduate students from the Illinois campus for the academic year 2011-12.
Faculty Fellows are released from one semester of teaching, with the approval of their departments and colleges. They are also asked to teach one course, during the award year or the year immediately following, on a subject related to their Fellowship. Graduate Student Fellows receive a stipend from the IPRH. All IPRH Fellows are expected to remain in residence on the Illinois campus during the award year, and to participate in the Program’s year-long interdisciplinary Fellows’ Seminar.
The IPRH is delighted to announce the following recipients of the fellowship awards for 2011-12:
FACULTY FELLOWS
Shao Dan
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Bloodline and Borders: Nationality Law and State Succession in China (1909-1997)
Stephanie Hilger
Germanic Languages and Literatures/Comparative and World Literature
Liminal Bodies: Intersexuality in Literary and Medical Discourses
Justine Murison
English
Belief and Unbelief in the Age of Revolutions
Tim Newcomb
English
Cities, Suburbs, and the Borderlands Between: Portrayals of Social Space in Postwar Hollywood Cinema
Leslie Reagan
History
Agent Orange, Film, and Activism in the U.S. and Vietnam
Andrea Stevens
English
The Caroline Culture of Playgoing: Insider Theater in England, 1625-1642
GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS
Anna Bateman
History
Companions: Knowledge, Intimacy, and Empire in British Arctic Exploration, 1818-1859
Matthew Crain
Institute of Communications Research
Border Trouble: Reconfiguring Cultural Production in the Era of Digital Media Convergence
Heidi Dodson – IPRH-Nicholson Fellow
History
Constructing the Missouri Delta: Space and Place in African American Community Development and Activism, 1923-1978
Diana Georgescu
History
“Ceauescu’s Children”: The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist Generation (1965-2005)
Miriam Kienle
Art History
Return to Sender: Ray Johnson and the New York Correspondence School, Mapping “Community at a Distance”
Alexandra Mobley
Institute of Communications Research
A Secret History of Volleyball: American Team Sport and Rhetorics of Counter-Insurgency
Kathryn Walkiewicz – IPRH-Nicholson Fellow
English
Wide Open Spaces: Place, Empire, and U.S.-Indigenous Relations, 1820-1907