Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients

Art History, Columbia University - Toward a Socialist Architecture, 1928-1953

English Literature, Stanford University - Attention and Reading: A Cognitive Approach to Literary Focus

Anthropology, New York University - Behold the Black Caiman: Mediating Modernity, Sentiment, and Indigeneity among the Ayoreo Indians of the Gran Chaco
In residence at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe during academic year 2010-11; August 1, 2010 through July 31, 2011

Modern European History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Making “Recoveries”: The Cultural Politics of Territorial Appropriation in a German-Polish Industrial Borderland, 1922-1971

History, Yale University - The Hungry Steppe: Soviet Kazakhstan and the Kazakh Famine, 1921-1934

History, Duke University - Relief and Resistance: Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State
In residence at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University during academic year 2010-11

History of Science, Harvard University - Regulating the Scientific Machine: Print, Classification, and Community in the Natural Sciences, 1889-1920

History, University of California, Berkeley - Recall to Life: Imperial Britain, Foreign Refugees, and the Development of Modern Refuge, 1789-1921

Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Carving Knowledge: Printed Images, Accuracy, and the Early Royal Society of London

Ethnomusicology, New York University - Gender, Music, and the Public Sphere in Twentieth-Century Ireland
In residence at the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, Smith College during academic year 2010-11

History, Vanderbilt University - Imagining Atlantic Bodies: Health, Illness, and Death in the Early Modern African-Spanish Caribbean
In residence at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University during academic year 2011-12

Media Studies, Brown University - Wherefore Art Thou? Video Games and Aesthetic Discourse

History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Episodes in Political Illusion: The Proliferation of War Imagery in Nineteenth-Century France, 1804-1856

History, University of Chicago - A Political Education: Race, Politics, and Education in Post-Civil Rights Chicago
In residence at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University during academic year 2010-11

Cultural Anthropology, Duke University - Cosmetic Citizenship: Beauty, Affect, and Social Inequality in Southeastern Brazil

Philosophy, Stanford University - Socratic Philosophy

Geography, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Islamic Urban Governance: A Transnational Perspective

English, University of Iowa - Geographies of Reclamation: Writing and Water in the Columbia River Basin, 1855-2009
In residence at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies during academic year 2010-11: August 1, 2010 through July 31, 2011

History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Forging a Punishing State: The Punitive Turn in American Social and Criminal Policy, 1968-1980
In residence at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University during academic year 2010-11; September 1, 2010 through August 31, 2011

Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Bankruptcy, Guns, or Campaigns: Explaining Armed Organizations’ Post-War Trajectories

Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, New York University - Revamping Ancient Texts: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Narratives