New Faculty Fellows

Ph.D., History, University of Chicago - Dissertation: "The Servicing of America: Political Economy and Service Work in Postwar Southern California" - Appointed in History at Tulane University

Ph.D., Department of English, New York University - Dissertation: "Outside In: Noisescapes from Dada to Punk" - Appointed in English at University of Arizona

Ph.D., English/Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh - Dissertation: "Screen Combat: Recreating World War II in American Film and Media" - Appointed in Film and Media Studies at Emory University

Ph.D., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley - Dissertation: "Art History and the Invention of Botticelli" - Appointed in History of Art at Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D., South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago - Dissertation: "The Svasthani Vrata Katha (SVK) Tradition: Translating Self, Place, and Identity in Hindu Nepal" - Appointed in Religion at Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Ph.D., Department of Hebrew and Judiac Studies, New York University - Dissertation: "Reworking Ancient Texts: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature" - Appointed in Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Ph.D., International Relations, University of Southern California - Dissertation: "Constituting United States-China Relations: From the Open Door Era to the Responsible Stakeholder Debate" - Appointed in Political Science at Columbia University

Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Theater and Drama, Northwestern University - Dissertation: "Performing the Passion: A Study on the Nature of Medieval Acting" - Appointed in English and Theater & Dance at University of California, Santa Barbara

Ph.D., Music (History), Case Western Reserve University - Dissertation: "The Metronomic Performance Practice: A History of Rhythm, Metronomes, and the Mechanization of Musicality" - Appointed in Music at Duke University

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Harvard University - Dissertation: "Land Lies in Water: Panoramic Perspectives in Lyric Poetry" - Appointed in English at Stanford University

Ph.D., Women's Studies, University of Maryland, College Park - Dissertation: "Black South African Women Writers: Narrating the Self, Narrating the Nation" - Appointed in English and Institute for African-American and African Studies at University of Virginia

Ph.D., History, Carnegie Mellon University - Dissertation: "A Childcare Crisis: Poor Black and White Families and Orphanages in Pittsburgh, 1878-1929" - Appointed in Women's Studies at University of Pittsburgh

Ph.D., English, University of Pennsylvania - Dissertation: "Shades of Inclusion: The Public Life of Race in Modern American Literature" - Appointed in English at University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D., Musicology, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Dissertation: "Musical (African) Americanization in the New Europe: Hip Hop, Race, and the Cultural Politics of Postcoloniality in Paris, Berlin, and London" - Appointed in Music at University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Dissertation: "The Blessed Placemakers: Violent Crime, Moral Transformation, and Urban Redevelopment in Post-Katrina New Orleans" - Appointed in Anthropology at Brown University

Ph.D., Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania - Dissertation: Radiofimmel ['Radio Mania']: German Radio in Popular Fiction, Film, and the Urban Novel, 1923-1932. - Appointed in Germanic Languages and Literature at Duke University

Ph.D., Religion/Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University - Dissertation: "Ecclesia Laus Corinthiensis: Negotiating Ethnicity Under Empire" - Appointed in Religion at Duke University

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Dissertation: "Politics of Exclusion: Muslim Nationalism, State Formation and Legal Representations of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan" - Appointed in Sociology at Yale University

Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley - Dissertation: "Aspect, Modality, and Tense in Badiaranke" - Appointed in Linguistics at Ohio State University

Ph.D., Art History, University of Chicago - Dissertation: "Pedagogy, Modernism, and Medium Specificity: the Bauhaus and John Cage" - Appointed in History of Art at Amherst College

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania - Dissertation: "Anti-Psychologism, Objectivity, and the Marburg School Neo-Kantians" - Appointed in Humanities Program at Yale University

Ph.D., Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University - Dissertation: "Goethe As a Reader of Kant, 1788-1832: Judgment, Grace, and the Most Desirable Calling" - Appointed in Germanic Languages at University of California, Los Angeles

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles - Dissertation: "Happiness, Pleasure, and the Rational Will: An Essay on Kantian Moral Psychology" - Appointed in Philosophy at Yale University

Ph.D., English, Duke University - Dissertation: "Coons, Queers, and "Human Curiosities": White Fantasies of Black Masculinity, 1840-1915" - Appointed in English at Bryn Mawr College

Ph.D., English, University of California, Santa Barbara - Dissertation: "A Death So Sublime: Theorizing Death and Dying in Medieval England" - Appointed in English at Rice University

Ph.D., History, University of Florida - Dissertation: "Navigating the Dangerous Atlantic: Racial Quarantines, Black Sailors, and United States Constitutionalism" - Appointed in History at California Institute of Technology

Ph.D., American Civilization, Brown University - Dissertation: "Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection in the United States, 1965-1990" - Appointed in History at State University of New York, Stony Brook

Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles - Dissertation: "The Secular Contract: The Divine, the Human and the Politics of Enlightenment" - Appointed in Political Science at Duke University

Ph.D., History, Cornell University - Dissertation: "Political Conspiracy in Florence, 1340-82" - Appointed in History at Stanford University

Ph.D., German, University of California, Irvine - Dissertation: "In der Sprachkolonie: Franz Kafka's World and the Limits of Language" - Appointed in Germanic Languages & Literatures at Ohio State University

Ph.D., East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University - Dissertation: "Fantasies of the Real: Illustrated Gazetteers in Early Modern Japan" - Appointed in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University

Ph.D., Music, University of California, Berkeley - Dissertation: "Modernity Sings: Rethinking Realism in Italian Opera" - Appointed in Music at Columbia University

Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles - Dissertation: "The Great American Songbooks: Modernism, Musical Texts, and the Value of Popular Culture" - Appointed in English at University of Virginia

Ph.D., English, University of Virginia - Dissertation: "Encountering the Human Automaton: Ethics and Alterity in Twentieth-Century American Literature" - Appointed in English at University of California, Santa Barbara

Ph.D., Musicology, Cornell University - Dissertation: "Dedications and the Reception of the Musical Score, 1785-1850" - Appointed in Music at Yale University

Ph.D., Anthropology, Tulane University - Dissertation: "Embracing a Singleton-Daughter: An Emerging Transition of Reproductive Choice in Rural Northeast China" - Appointed in Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis

Ph.D., Germanic Languages, Columbia University - Dissertation: "The Art of Actuality: Radio, Realism and the Hoerfilm 1924-1932" - Appointed in Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University

Ph.D., History, University of Chicago - Dissertation: "From Urban Renewal to Gentrification: Artists, Cultural Capital and the Remaking of New York's SoHo Neighborhood, 1950-1980" - Appointed in History at Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D., Classical Philology, Harvard University - Dissertation: "Written in Stone: Literary Representations of the Statue in the Roman Empire" - Appointed in Classics at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ph.D., Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook - Dissertation: "Fighting for recognition: Identity and the Performance of Violence in Professional Wrestling" - Appointed in Sociology at Brown University

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Dissertation: "Sufis and Self-help Gurus: Islamic Psychology, Religious Authority, and Muslim Subjectivity in Contemporary Indonesia" - Appointed in Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Center for Comparative and International Studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Ph.D., Art & Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, University of Pennsylvania - Dissertation: "Daimon-Haunted Universe: Conceptions of the Supernatural in Mesopotamia" - Appointed in Art History at University of California, Los Angeles

Ph.D., Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin - Dissertation: "The Topographical Transformation of Archaic Rome: A New Interpretation of Architecture and Landscape in the Early City" - Appointed in Art History at Rice University

Ph.D., History, Harvard University - Dissertation: "Soviet and Muslim: the institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia, 1943-1991" - Appointed in History at Washington University in St. Louis

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Princeton University - Dissertation: "Strange Cocktail: Poetics and Practices of Translation in Twentieth Century Modern Hebrew Poetry" - Appointed in Comparative Literature and Judaic Studies at Yale University

Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Dissertation: "The Sky of Our Manufacture: Literature, Modernity and the London Fog from Charles Dickens to Virginia Woolf" - Appointed in English at University of Maryland, College Park

Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University - Dissertation: "Justice in Postwar Reconstruction: Theories from Vitoria to Vattel" - Appointed in Political Science at Yale University

Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley - Dissertation: "Association with foci" - Appointed in Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Dissertation: "Producing the Global Imaginary: Academic Knowledge, Globalization and the Making of the World" - Appointed in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles - Dissertation: "Contra Natura: Sin, Crime, and 'Unnatural' Sexuality in Colonial Mexico, 1530-1821" - Appointed in History at Stanford University

Ph.D., English, Stanford University - Dissertation: "Wipe That Smirk off Your Face: Postironic Literature and the Politics of Character" - Appointed in English at Princeton University

Ph.D., Department of Spanish & Portuguese, New York University - Dissertation: "The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals and Mass Publics in Mexico and Brazil" - Appointed in Spanish and Portuguese at University of California, Santa Barbara

Ph.D., English, University of Rochester - Dissertation: "'Blood at the Root': Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus" - Appointed in English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Tulane University

Ph.D., English, Yale University - Dissertation: "Relief Work: Africa in the American Novel Since 1960" - Appointed in English at New York University

Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles - Dissertation: "Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions" - Appointed in Music & Anthropology at Brandeis University

Ph.D., Islamic Studies/Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University - Dissertation: "Early Islamic Legal Responses to Living under Christian Rule: Reconquista-era Development and 19th-Century Impact in the Maghrib" - Appointed in Middle East, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Dissertation: "The Architecture of Belief: An Essay on the Unbearable Automaticity of Believing" - Appointed in Philosophy at Yale University

Ph.D., English, University of Texas, Austin - Dissertation: "Imagined Intimacies: Women’s Writing, Community, and Affiliation in Eighteenth-Century North America" - Appointed in American Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Ph.D., Modern Thought and Literature/Anthropology, Stanford University - Dissertation: "Subjects of Freedom: Psychologists, Power and Politics in Postsocialist Russia" - Appointed in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University

Ph.D., History of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Dissertation: "Slipped Away: Pregnancy Loss in Nineteenth-Century America" - Appointed in History at Duke University

Ph.D., English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Dissertation: "The Experimental Realism of William Dean Howells" - Appointed in Literature at Claremont McKenna College

Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University - Dissertation: "'A New American Comes Home': Race, Nation, and the Immigration of Korean War Adoptees, GI Babies, and Brides" - Appointed in American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California

Ph.D., English, Vanderbilt University - Dissertation: "Morbid Strains in Victorian Literature from 1850 to the Fin de Siecle" - Appointed in English at Mount Holyoke College

Ph.D., History, University of California, Santa Barbara - Dissertation: "'A Very Simple Sense of Justice': Bella Abzug, Jewish Radicalism, and the Legal Left from the Popular Front to the Cold War" - Appointed in History at Stanford University