ILLINOIS PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES
FELLOWS 2013–14 — “THE BODY / BODIES”
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 seven faculty members and seven graduate students from the Illinois campus for the academic year 2013–14.
Faculty Fellows are released from one semester of teaching, with the approval of their departments and college, and receive a research allocation. 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 yearlong interdisciplinary Fellows Seminar.
The IPRH is delighted to announce the following recipients of the fellowship awards for 2013–14:
FACULTY FELLOWS
Andrew Gaedtke
English
“The Machinery of Madness: Mind, Body, and Disability”
Craig Koslofsky
History
“Skin in the Early Modern World, 1450-1750”
Jennifer Monson
Dance
“Live Dancing Archive”
Fiona Ngô
Asian American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies
“Structures of Sense”
Robert Rushing
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and Comparative and World Literature
“Descended from Hercules: A Peplum Century”
John Senseney
Architecture
“Tools, Machines, and the Body in Greek and Roman Architecture”
Roderick Wilson
History and East Asian Languages and Cultures
“Waterbodies: The Reengineering of Rivers and Communities in the Formation of Modern Japan, 1868-1945”
GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS
Megan Condis (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow)*
English
“The Politics of Gamers: Bodies and Identity in Digital Culture”
Corey Flack
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
“True Flesh: The Body as Nexus of Community, Identity, and Salvation in Dante’s Commedia”
In Hye Ha
English
“The Poetics of Logistics and the Making of British Knowledge, 1660-1800”
Emily Pope-Obeda
History
“‘When In Doubt, Deport!’: U.S. Deportation and the Local Policing of Global Migration during the 1920s”
T.J. Tallie
History
“Limits of Settlement: Racialized Masculinity, Sovereignty, and the Imperial Project in Colonial Natal, 1850-1897”
Jennifer Thomas
Landscape Architecture
“Madness, Landscape and State-Craft: The Nineteenth-Century Insane Asylum System of New York State”
Pui-Sze Priscilla Tse (IPRH-Nicholson Fellow)*
School of Music (Musicology)
“Queering the Body: Musical Gendering of Cross-dressing Performance in Cantonese Opera, and Cultural, Sexual, and Identity Politics in Contemporary Hong Kong”
* Through the generous support of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) and the Nicholson Endowment Fund, two of the graduate fellowship recipients have been designated as IPRH-Nicholson Fellows. The Nicholson Endowment is a gift of Grace W. Nicholson (1906–1998), who pursued undergraduate studies in LAS, and Professor Emeritus John A. Nicholson (1891–1986), a faculty member in the Philosophy Department at Illinois for 33 years. The Nicholson Endowment, which was established in 1999, provides support for the academic programs in LAS and excellence in the study of the humanities on campus.