ACLS Fellows

Associate Professor, English, Duke University - Fictional Orients: Hybrid Modernity Under Enlightenment Premises, 1682-1789

Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University - Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Religion, Ethnicity, and Modernity in China's Borderland

Professor, English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln - Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period: An Electronic Edition

Professor, History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Grotesque Humor: Race, Sex, and Colonialism in Trade Cards and the Satirical Press

Assistant Professor, History, City University of New York, Hunter College - Designing India: Ideas, Ideologies, and the Making of the Postcolonial State, 1946-1950

Martin Kern

Professor, East Asian Studies, Princeton University - Performance, Poetry, and Cultural Memory in Early China

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine - Cultures of Prevention: HIV/AIDS, Islam, and Warias (male transvestites) in Indonesia

Associate Professor, History, University of Georgia - Louis Mandrin and the Politics of Consumption

Catherine M. Boone

Associate Professor, Government, University of Texas, Austin - Land Rights and National Politics in Africa

Associate Professor, History, University of South Carolina - Sublime Consumption: German Nature Tourism from Romanticism to Ecotourism, 1850-2000

Nicholas B. Breyfogle

Associate Professor, History, Ohio State University - Baikal: the Great Lake and its People

Professor, English, University of California, Irvine - Thinking with Shakespeare

Associate Professor, History, University of California, San Diego - The Quick and the Dead: A Social History of Ideas about the Border between Life and Death in Medieval Europe (1000-1400)

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame - A Renaissance of News: The Italian Market in Printed Political Information, 1470-1527

Assistant Professor, School of Music, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Mapping Medieval Identities in Occitanian Crusade Song

Associate Professor, Women's Studies and Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas - The Center at the Periphery: Eccentric Identities in Contemporary Russian Writing

Associate Professor, English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire

Professor, History, University of Notre Dame - Muslims in Medieval Europe: Muslim Communities in Christian Kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Sicily in the Thirteenth Century, and Atitudes of Christian Kings towards Muslim Subjects

Associate Professor, English, University of Iowa - Siddons Speaks! Theatre Voices, Acoustic Change, and Recorded Memory

Professor, Philosophy, Rice University - Heidegger and the Claims of Reason

Robert R. Perkinson

Assistant Professor, American Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa - Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire

Assistant Professor, History, Macalester College - Shared Saints and Festivals among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Mediterranean 1100-1750

Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California - Christian Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical Antiquity: A Study in Religious Intolerance in the Ancient World

Professor, Classics, History (joint appointment), Bard College - A new edition of Herodotus Book I -- critical apparatus, introduction and commentary

Associate Professor, History, University of Notre Dame - The Cincinnati Bible War of 1869-1872: Law, Confessionalism, and the State in Nineteenth-Century America.

Visiting Professor, Law, Harvard University - Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall and the Constitution of Kenya

Assistant Professor, History, Wellesley College - Lombards and Greeks, Arabs and Normans: Southern Italy in the Early Middle Ages, 600-1100

Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre

Assistant Professor, Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder - Tempered Sovereignty and Regional Centers in Achaemenid Anatolia

Assistant Professor, History, University of New Hampshire - The Science of Citizenship in Latin America

Visiting Lecturer, Music History, New England Conservatory of Music - The Genesis of Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro"

Associate Professor, Art, Rhode Island College - Permissible Delectation of the Spirit: Early Netherlandish Pictures and the Art of Seeing Well

Maram Epstein

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon - Orthodox Passions: Filial Piety in Eighteenth-Century China

Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar - Annals and Sagas: The Historiography of Late Medieval Iceland

Professor, Music, University of Chicago - The Castrato as Myth: A Study of Virtuosity and Abjection, Money and Blood

Associate Professor, English, University of Oklahoma - Power and Art: Patronage and Modern American Literature

Kesha D. Fikes

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago - Emigration from Cape Verde: The Spatial Production of Local Cape Verdean Difference, 1863 to 1975

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, University of Oregon - The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad’s Life in Christian and Early Islamic Sources

Brodwyn M. Fischer

Assistant Professor, History, Northwestern University - Cities after Slavery: Abolition, Property, and Urban Migration in Rio de Janeiro and Recife, 1880-1960

Professor, Classics, New York University - A new edition of Simonides' poems with introduction and commentary

Professor, Music and Program in German Studies, Duke University - Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss's Search for Modern German Opera

Associate Professor, History, Stanford University - Male Same-Sex Union and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century China

Assistant Professor, Law, Societies, and Justice and Internat'l studies, University of Washington - Globalization's Rulebook: Democracy, Trade, and Rights in Latin America

Professor, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question, Human Rights, and the Making of Politics and Culture in Democratic Chile, 1989-2005

Senior Fellow, The Medici Archive Project - Between Court and Ghetto in Early Seventeenth-Century Florence: A Critical Edition of Letters from Benedetto Blanis to Don Giovanni dei Medici

Assistant Professor, French and Italian, Dartmouth College - The Travelers’ Library: Early Modern Exploration and Italian Popular Epic

Professor, Department of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook - The Birth of Cocaine: A Transnational History, 1850-1975

Associate Professor, History, University of Houston - Domestic Insecurity: Gender and Cold War Loyalty Investigations of U.S. Policymakers

David L. Haberman

Professor, Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington - Tree Shrines of Northern India

Assistant Professor, History, Yale University - Images and Practices of Cosmopolitanism in the Commercial Society of Southern Europe, 1500-1800

Professor, History, Brigham Young University - Religious Wars at Home: The Advent and Challenge of Confessionally Mixed Families

Allen Wells

Professor, History, Bowdoin College - Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua

Professor, English/Social and Cultural Analysis (Am Stds), New York University - Once Removed: Abstractionist Aesthetics and African-American Culture beyond Positive Images.

Associate Professor, History, University of Pennsylvania - History Lessons: The Invention of American Jewish Heritage

Assistant Professor, Classics, University of California, Berkeley - Reading the Papyri of a Priestly Family: Social Relations and Cultural Negotiation in Egypt under Roman Rule

Associate Professor, History, Stanford University - Native Places, Global Times: A Century of Regional Rhetoric in Nagano, Japan

Cornelia B Horn

Assistant Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University - Children from Christ to Constantine: Examining children’s roles between the call to asceticism and the attractions of family life in Christian, Greco-Roman, and Jewish literature as a tool to revealing stages of the development of early Christianity.

Associate Professor, RHETORIC, University of California, Berkeley - Lost Dreams and Savage Empires: Going Native & Going French in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World

Associate Professor, History, Catholic University of America - Practicing Peace in Late Medieval Italy

Assistant Professor, English, University of California, Riverside - Addiction and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British and American Fiction