Latin American History, Department of History 2011 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship With the support of the Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship in Summer 2011, Prof. Mark Thurner conducted museum research in Paris, France; Milan, Turin, and Rome, Italy; and Athens, Greece. His visits contributed toward ongoing research tracing the genealogy of museums and artifacts relating to […]
Chinese Language & Literature, Department of Languages, Literatures & Culture and Department of Religion 2011 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship During the summer of 2011, with the support of the Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship, Dr. Mario Poceski, Associate Professor in the Department of Religion, conducted extensive research in Japan for his forthcoming book. Tentatively titled The […]
Art and Art History 2011 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship As a 2011 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow, Assistant Professor Guolong Lai conducted research in Singapore, Beijing, and Taipei. With the support of the Rothman endowment, Prof. Lai has begun a new project on how the art, architecture, and significant places of early China have been preserved […]
Russian Language & Literature, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures 2011 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship Over the summer of 2011, with the support of the Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship, Prof. Ingrid Kleespies revised and completed her book, A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature. This book, which will be published with Northern […]
Languages, Literatures and Cultures 2012 Faculty Summer Fellow Prof. Galina Rylkova was awarded a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship to support research for her second book project, “Creative Lives: The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer.” This project explores how a representative selection of Russian writers from the last 150 years understood concepts of success, […]
Center for European Studies and Political Science 2012 Faculty Summer Fellow Prof. Conor O’Dwyer used his 2012 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship to fund research on his current project, “Culture Clash: Internationalization, Europeanization, and Gay Rights in Postcommunist Europe.” This project explores the effect of European integration on the politics of gay rights in postcommunist Europe. […]
Spanish and Portuguese Studies 2012 Faculty Summer Fellow Prof. Shifra Armon used her 2012 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship to complete a chapter of her second book-length manuscript, A Compass for Conduct: Performing Masculinity in Early Modern Spain. Although previous scholarship has asserted that the seventeenth-century decline of the Spanish Empire precipitated a crisis of masculinity, […]
Classics 2013 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship Prof. Robert Wagman used the Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship to work on a book project titled Beliefs of Modern Greece (BMG), an annotated English translation of Leo Allatius’ De Graecorum hodie quorundam opinationibus from 1645. BMG is the first comprehensive treatment of Greek folklore ever published and has never […]
Classics 2013 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship Prof. Jennifer Rea used her 2013 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship to complete her book project Empire Without End: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Augustan Poets. In this book, she explores classical narratives, such as Vergil’s Aeneid, that permeate our culture. What, she asks, are the costs of empire without […]
Religion 2013 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship Professor Robert Kawashima used his 2013 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship to continue work on his book manuscript The Archaeology of Ancient Israelite Knowledge. Kawashima’s book examines the intellectual-historical significance of Israelite religion within the context of the ancient Mediterranean world. Dr. Kawashima investigates what is often referred to as […]