Chinese Language & Literature, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures 2010 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship With the support of a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship (2010), Dr. Richard Wang spent May through August in China. There he pursued his research into princely patronage of Daoism during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). His trip to China allowed him […]
Department of English 2010 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship With the support of the Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship, Dr. Amy Abugo Ongiri spent the summer months of 2010 at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and the Freedom Archives in San Francisco. She used these archives to find significant primary source material on radical movements in […]
Political Science 2010 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship Ana Margheritis spent the summer of 2010 in Spain and France researching the changing identity of Argentinean and Ecuadorian immigrants to Southern Europe with the support of a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship. Her research interests focus on the political dimension of transnational migration. Building upon previous work on […]
Jewish Studies and Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures 2010 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship With the support of the Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship, Professor Dragan Kujundzic spent the summer of 2010 preparing and filming a documentary on J. Hillis Miller. Miller, as a leading American literary critic and scholar, was a founder of “deconstruction” philosophy […]
Hebrew Language and Literature 2010 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship As a 2010 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow, Professor Todd Hasak-Lowy visited Israel as part of ongoing research on Israeli films dealing with the 1982-2000 conflict in Lebanon. His research focused specifically on the films Beaufort (2007), Waltz with Bashir (2008), and Lebanon (2009). With the support […]
Arabic Linguistics, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures 2010 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship Over the summer of 2010, Dr. Youssef Haddad revised and completed a book on comparative syntax with the support of the Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship. Dr. Haddad is interested in the syntax structure of various languages, and has been working on the […]
Greek Studies 2010-2011 Library Enhancement Grant When Professor Gonda Van Steen joined the faculty of the Department of Classics at the University of Florida in 2009, she found the modern Greek holdings in the Library to be in need of significant expansion. Dr. Van Steen immediately recognized a need to build more comprehensive holdings in […]
Director, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art 2010-2011 Library Enhancement Grant The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, with the assistance of a Library Enhancement Grant provided by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, has made significant book acquisitions in support of the freshman humanities course, “What is the […]
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Chinese Studies) 2010-2011 Library Enhancement Grant The University of Florida is home to the largest pool of Chinese scholars in the state. Not only are there four scholars specializing in the language and culture of China currently in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, there are also scholars working on […]
Department of History 2010-2011 Library Enhancement Grant The University of Florida is home to a large and growing group of scholars of Central and Eastern Europe. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union this region has emerged with a distinct and fascinating identity, and UF has been leading […]