Department of Classics 2019 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Dr. Yates received a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship for her project titled “The ‘Chain-Saw’ in Archaic Greek quarries on Naxos and Paros”. Investigating the mysterious grooves in the stone surrounding the unfinished Apollonas Colossus on Naxos, this project proposes the ancient Greeks’ usage of a large ‘chain […]
Department of English 2019 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Dr. Yan received a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship for her project titled “Correspondences on the Human Frame: Anatomy, Literature, and Form in the Victorian Era”. In 1828, a national crisis erupted in Britain following the revelation that the unmet demand for anatomical subjects in medical schools had […]
Department of English 2019 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Dr. Steverson received a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship for her project titled “African American Literature and Disability: Toward a Black Critical Disabilities Studies Approach”. Representations of disability permeate African American literature, from the beginning of the African American literary tradition to the contemporary period. In African American Literature […]
Department of History 2019 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Dr. Caputo received a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship for her project titled “A Jew in the Margins: Petrus Alfonsi and the Figure of the Medieval Convert”. Petrus Alfonsi converted from Judaism to Christianity in the early 12th century and quickly rose to a position of significance in […]
Department of Religion and Center for Jewish Studies 2017 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow During the summer of 2017, with the support of the Rothman Fellowship, Dr. Kawashima began research on his proposed book project, The Pentateuch: An Interpretation, his attempt to read that narrative stretching from Genesis through Deuteronomy as if it was a novel, […]
School of Architecture 2017 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Dr. Baweja received a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship for her project titled “Tropical Architecture in Australia,” which is part of a broader book project on “Tropical Architecture in Florida.”
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies 2017 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Dr. Armon received a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship for her book project titled “Staging Curiosity: Skepticism, and Science on the Spanish Stage, 1650-1750.” She traveled to Spain for archival research on late seventeenth-century drama and ways of knowing.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies 2018 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Dr. Chauca received a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship to finish conducting research for my current book project titled “Missionary Polemics and the Making of Early Modern Amazonian Knowledge”, which is under contract with Routledge’s Studies in Global Latin America Series. Thanks to the Rothman […]
School of Music 2018 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Dr. Butler received a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship for her project titled “The Operatic Prima Donna and Celebrity Culture.” She traveled to the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL for archival research to consult the Howard Mayer Brown Collection of opera librettos, the rich holdings of manuscript musical […]
Department of History 2018 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Dr. Harland-Jacobs received a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship for her project titled “The Catholic Question and the British Empire, 1710s-1830s.” She used the funds to write the last chapter of the manuscript, and put the entire first draft of the book through a final revision before submitting. Harland-Jacobs’ […]