Fellowships allow LSA faculty to tackle projects

Ten professors from LSA have been awarded the Michigan Humanities Award fellowship for 2004-05.

LSA and the Office of the Vice President for Research recently honored the faculty with the one-year fellowships. The honor enables recipients to conduct scholarly work related to their area of study, says LSA Associate Dean Michael Schoenfeldt.

"This is time for them to go into their rooms and finish their projects," he says. "It's so important that in a time of budget crunch, U-M is supporting the humanities. We've got the resources on the ground to help faculty do their work, but finding time is a problem. An opportunity like this is invaluable."

The Michigan Humanities Award winners for 2004-05 are:

Judith Irvine (Department of Anthropology) will explore the relationship between imperial expansion and the acquisition of linguistic knowledge in the 19th century. She plans to complete a book entitled "Colonizing African languages: Ideologies of Language, Politics of Empire";

Janet Richards (Department of Near Eastern Studies) will study how ancient Egyptians crafted notions of identity, society and the sacred through studying the life of an Egyptian official. She will write a monograph entitled "Individual and Society in Ancient Egypt: Deciphering Weni the Elder";

Allan Gibbard (Department of Philosophy) proposes to examine ideas of meaning and normativity. Gibbard's project will investigate the interdependence of ethical theory, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind in the production of normative judgments;

Scott Spector (Department of Germanic Languages, Department of History) plans to complete a book entitled "Violent Sensations: Sexuality, Crime and Utopia in Berlin and Vienna, 1860-1914." Spector will explore the complex articulations linking sexuality, violence and criminality to the modern European discourse of selfhood;

David Halperin (Department of English) will complete a book exploring the cultural icons and collective activities of gay men. The book will analyze how gay men's cultural practices function as a way of organizing their subjectivity;

Sara Blair (Department of English) will analyze the critical role of Harlem in the production of visual and literary cultures and use her award to write a book entitled "Harlem Crossroads: The Novel and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century";

Frieda Ekotto (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures) will study the significance of Jean Genet's work on conceptions of race and universality. She plans to use her award to finish a book entitled "The Aesthetic of Race: Which Color is Black? Jean Genet as a Negritude Thinker";

Maria Montoya (Department of History, Program in American Culture) will complete a book entitled "Creating the American Home: From Company Towns to Suburban Landscape, 1900-1960." She will analyze the dynamic relationship between the workplace and the home in a time of rapid change;

Vassilis Lambropoulos (Department of Classical Studies) will analyze episodes of hubris in post-classical tragedy from Shakespeare to Camus and write a book entitled "Tragic Hubris";

Andreas Schonle (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures) will look at the ways that both literature and gardens promote socially significant forms of behavior. Schonle will finish a book entitled "Picturesque Textuality: The Politics of Landscape Design in Imperial Russia."

The recipients were chosen from a pool of 25 applicants by a panel appointed by LSA Dean Terrence J. McDonald.

The award goes to LSA tenured, full-time faculty engaged in major scholarly and creative projects in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

Faculty must have completed four terms of full-time teaching since their last leave. Winners were chosen based on the merit of their proposed project and record of scholarly and pedagogical achievement.

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