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Stanford Humanities CenterAnnual Report 2006–07

Conversations

8 Campaign Update10 Directors’ Letter12 ResearchWorkshops18 Digital Initiatives22 Public Events30 Fellows50 Publications58 Staff, Board, Committees,

Honorary Fellows60 Endowments and Grants63 Financial Overview64 Be a Friend of the Center

Humanities The humanities include, but are not limited to, the following fields:history, philosophy, languages, literature, linguistics, archaeology, jurisprudence, historyand criticism of the arts, ethics, comparative religion, and those aspects of the socialsciences employing historical or philosophical approaches.This last category includescultural anthropology, sociology, political theory, international relations, and other subjectsconcerned with questions of value. (The National Endowment for the Humanities) Coverandthisspread:STEVECASTILLO

Stanford HumanitiesCenterSo much of our world is invisible.The foundations of our politics, our ideals of beauty andperfection, our moral architecture—even the very notion of humanity—cannot be seenwith the naked eye. Conversations in the humanities assure the preservation, understanding,and communication of this hidden record of human experience and expression.

EngagingConversationsThe Stanford Humanities Center provides a forum for ongoing conversations in the humanities,ensuring the transmission of discoveries and developments in our understanding of humanculture and history.

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MentoringConversationsAt the Stanford Humanities Center faculty and graduate students are equal participants inintellectual exchange. Students infuse conversations with fresh perspectives, while facultybring guidance and depth of knowledge at a critical moment in students’ careers.

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PublicConversationsThe Stanford Humanities Center sponsors rich and wide-ranging public lectures that openthe doors of the university and engage the larger community in stimulating discussions aboutour common humanity.

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Continuing theConversationConversations that begin at the Stanford Humanities Center spark new projects andcollaborations. Support for the Center allows these conversations to contribute to theintellectual and creative life of the university, to advance our human knowledge, and tokeep the humanities visible.

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Campaign Update –Research WorkshopsCampaign SuccessesThe campaign to provide permanent endowment for the researchworkshops has met with great success—your gifts have allowedus to approach completion of the matching funds from the MellonFoundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.Please see page X for the names of those who have contributed tothis campaign.

Campaign Remains OpenContributions to the research workshops campaign are still welcome.Gifts of $100,000 enable one research workshop to carry yourname each year in perpetuity. Support for the workshops vitalizesmultidisciplinary research at Stanford and strengthens the university’sreputation in the humanities.

Peter Bing ChallengeThe Peter Bing Challenge is a 1:1 matching opportunity for formerHumanities Center fellows to name a research workshop in perpetuityin their honor. Contributions from fellows have nearly broughtthe Peter Bing Challenge to completion—please help us make thefinal stretch!

For more information, please contact Assistant Director Susan Sebbard at 650.723.3053, byemail at [email protected], or by letter at 424 Santa Teresa St., Stanford, CA 94305.Youmay also visit our website at http://shc.stanford.edu.

“The workshops create new vistas in thehumanities at Stanford.They provide anopportunity for faculty and students tomeet outside of traditional boundaries andin truly interdisciplinary collaborations.”L I N D A R A N D A L L M E I E R , C O M M U N I T Y V O L U N T E E R

Directors’ LetterThis year, the Humanities Center revived a Stanford tradition underthe title “Conversations at the Stanford Humanities Center.” Eachquarter, members of the local community are invited to a dinnerdiscussion with an expert from the Stanford humanities faculty. Ourkick-off event this spring featured historian James Sheehan, whosparked an animated debate on “Why Europe Will Never Be aSuperpower.” It was a marvelous evening, and we are looking forwardto three more such “Conversations” next year.

Conversations at the Humanities Center are not, however, limited toone evening per quarter. Center fellows spend the year conferringabout their works-in-progress. Research workshop participants shareideas and discoveries at regular meetings. Attendees at HumanitiesCenter events engage with world-renowned experts in philosophy,literature, history, and related fields. And members of the HumanitiesResearch Network meet in person and online to collaborate onresearch projects.

The humanities are a conversation with important works of the past.But new knowledge in the humanities also grows from the intellectualgive and take between teachers and students, between colleagues,as well as humanists and people from other fields. The StanfordHumanities Center is proud to foster this kind of interaction.Theseare dialogues that make a difference. In the following pages, you willsee the considerable results of this year’s many conversations at theHumanities Center.

We hope you will be in touch with us, come to our events, orparticipate in a research workshop. In short, we invite you to join inthe conversation.

Yours sincerely,

John Bender MatthewTiews Susan SebbardAnthony P. Meier Family Associate Director Assistant DirectorProfessor and Director


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“New knowledge in the humanities growsfrom the intellectual give and takebetween teachers and students, betweencolleagues, as well as between humanistsand people from other fields.”J E S S I E L A B O V, B E Y O N D S E A R C H A N D A C C E S SW O R K S H O P, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7

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Stanford’s humanities faculty and graduatestudents, as well as scholars from local institu-tions, explore topics of common intellectualconcern in the Center’s ResearchWorkshops.The workshops spark innovative thinking,incubate careers, and foster engaged and diverseintellectual communities.

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“More than any other place on campus, atthe Global Justice workshop I engagein exactly the kinds of conversations thatbrought me to graduate school in thefirst place.”A D A M R O S E N B L AT T, G L O B A L J U S T I C E W O R K S H O P,2 0 0 6 – 0 7

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ResearchWorkshops

During the 2006–07 academic year, theHumanities Center supported seventeen work-shops. Following is a brief description of each,based on their end-of-year reports.

WorkshopsFiguring the Present:The ContemporaryNovel as Making Sense of the NowT H E M A R T A S U T T O N W E E K S R E S E A R C H W O R K S H O P

This workshop set the goal of establishing an open, interdisciplinaryforum for discussing contemporary literature and thinkingthrough its relationship to current political events. Specifically, weplaced fiction back into a material context which allowed us totreat works as involved with, but differentiated from, other modesof discourse, such as cinematic narrative, journalistic reportage,and non-fiction writing. In these works, we paid close attention toissues of form and narrative structure as a way of characterizingtheir particular strategy of rendering and making sense of eventsin the contemporary world.

Global JusticeT H E L I N D A R A N D A L L M E I E R R E S E A R C H W O R K S H O P

The Global Justice workshop addresses philosophical issuesabout the nature of global justice, social-scientific issues aboutthe roots of global injustice, and political-policy issues aboutstrategies for remedying important injustices. It works from thepremise that the major political and moral issues of our time,from climate change to health and income disparity, transcendthe borders of the nation-state. A lively forum for exchangebetween schools and disciplines, the workshop brings togetherfaculty and graduate students from fields as diverse as education,law, political science, economics, philosophy, history, psychology,business, anthropology, literature, and environmental sciences.This workshop was co-sponsored by the Vice Provost forGraduate Education.

The Philosophical Reading GroupT H E C L A I R E A N D J O H N R A DW AY R E S E A R C H W O R K S H O P

As in its previous seventeen years,The Philosophical ReadingGroup brought together graduate students and faculty for anintense analysis and discussion of one “classical” philosophicaltext.This workshop gives graduate students the opportunity topresent and receive feedback on their doctoral work and aims

to develop a specific intellectual style based on two convictions:first, that a civilized style of debate (in the German sense of“Auseinandersetzung”) may well be the core function of our workin the humanities; and second, that a variety of classical or modernphilosophical texts provides for open, fresh, and lively debates.

Visualizing Knowledge: From Alberti’sWindow to Digital ArraysT H E A N O N Y M O U S N A M E D R E S E A R C H W O R K S H O P

This workshop, a Mellon Sawyer Seminar, brought togethermembers of over forty departments and programs at Stanfordto consider the characteristics of knowledge in visual forms.By exploring questions about the capture, storage, retrieval, andtransmission of visual data, some twenty-three invited speakersfrom the Stanford community, the United States, Canada, andBritain mapped a new trajectory for interdisciplinarity in thearts and sciences. A concluding roundtable considered clusters ofissues that emerged during the year: translating non-visual formsof knowledge into visual representations; the role of instrumentsand computer simulations in shaping knowledge; the exchangebetweenWestern and Japanese visual cultures.This workshop wasco-sponsored by the Vice Provost for Graduate Education.

American Cultures:The Transnational Turnin American StudiesAmerican Cultures examined a recent movement in AmericanStudies, namely, the growing recognition that understandingAmerica requires looking beyond and across the nation’s borders.This “transnational turn” emphasizes dialogue with scholarsfrom international area studies as well as with Americanists fromaround the globe. However, there remains considerable confusionover just what “transnational” means, with the term potentiallydesignating any phenomenon that traverses national boundaries.Our goal was to specify the situatedness and unevenness of theterm amidst its growing ubiquity, both within and beyond academia.

Ancients and ModernsIn its second year, Ancients and Moderns continued to focus onthe evolution of the idea of classical antiquity (not only Greco-Roman but broadly Mediterranean) between late antiquity andthe present. Coordinated by faculty and graduate students fromclassics and history, the workshop explored the reception andreinvention of the classical past over the centuries. In 2006–07,we added art history and political science to the scope of ourenquiry and experimented with the format: we organized twohalf-day workshops, a roundtable discussion of pre-circulatedreadings, and responses to papers by PhD students.


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“This workshop has been unbelievablyhelpful in opening my understanding ofa new field. I had an idea about one tinycorner of it and now I can see a muchwider landscape.”J E S S I E L A B O V, L I T E R A RY S T U D I E S A N D T H E D I G I T A LL I B R A RY W O R K S H O P, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7

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“The graduate students were clearly amongthe intellectual leaders of the workshop.”R I C H A R D R O B E R T S , L AW A N D H I S T O RY W O R K S H O P,2 0 0 6 – 0 7

ArchaeologyThis workshop provides a forum in which cutting-edge develop-ments in archaeology and related fields can be discussed amongStanford’s greater archaeological community.This communityincludes faculty and students from a variety of departments, aswell as people outside of Stanford who are interested inarchaeological modes of inquiry.The workshop invites speakersto present and discuss topics that reflect the diversity ofdisciplinary backgrounds, research interests, and geographicalareas that characterize contemporary archaeological work.

Constructing Space in AsiaThis workshop examined how space and place serve as conceptualcategories that structure the study of Asia. Drawing uponcase studies as varied as the growth of national museums, urbandevelopment in Shanghai, debate in the pages of the popularpress, early twentieth-century theater performance, and Buddhisticonography, the initial year of “Constructing Space in Asia”focused on inviting speakers to consider how space was perceived,conceived, lived, and practiced. The workshop encouragedparticipants to historicize and contextualize the notion of space,seeking a more multifaceted understanding of Asia in its manymanifestations.

Critical Studies in New MediaThis workshop explored a key topic in new media: the politics ofpresence. Notions of presence have long hinged on the relation-ship between the live and the mediated, and on conceptions ofimmediacy, authenticity, and originality. Our seminar examinedemerging media forms ranging from virtual worlds to YouTubeto digital classification systems, with an eye to understandinghow new technologies reframe those relationships.The workshopbrought together faculty and graduate students from severaldisciplines at Stanford, as well as new media designers, practitioners,and theorists from across the United States and Europe.

French CultureWorkshopAs in years past, the 2006–07 French CultureWorkshop soughtto create a unique forum for scholars of French cultural andliterary history.We welcomed a total of ten individual guestspeakers and one group of researchers, with most guestssubmitting a work-in-progress for circulation prior to the work-shop discussion. For our final event we held a roundtable onthe digital Encyclopédie, inviting the University of Chicago’s ARTFLcrew to Stanford to discuss the future of Encyclopédie studiesin the digital age and present the new version of PHILOLOGIC,the search engine that powers the ARTFL database.



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Interrogating Modernity and PostcolonialityThe thematic highlight for this year was the speaker series onthe science of colonialism, which saw lively presentations by PaulGreenough, Kim Fortun, Sandra Hyde, and Kaushik SunderRajan.The workshop also continued to support graduate studentresearch, with highly engaging presentations by Ulka Anjaria,Jonathan Anjaria, and Mukta Sharangpani. Our collaboration withthe Society for Art and Cultural Heritage of India yielded richpresentations from art historians Saloni Mathur and Cathy Asher.Finally, presentations by Engseng Ho and Naveeda Khan broughtperspectives on the relationship between Islam and South Asianmodernity to the fore.

Law and HistoryThe inaugural year of Law and History took up the theme of“The Transplantation of Law.” Participants spent the first fewworkshops discussing major works in this field, before opening theworkshop to presentations of recent research. Although theschedule included a number of visiting speakers, we concentratedon providing a venue for the discussion of work by both facultyand graduate student participants.The workshop culminatedin the spring with an afternoon symposium at which workshopparticipants were invited to discuss work at any stage ofprogress.Throughout the year, the workshop retained a stronginternational focus.This workshop was co-sponsored by theVice Provost of Graduate Education.

Literary Studies and the Digital Library:Beyond Search and AccessParticipants in this workshop spent the year exploring andconceiving novel, technology-driven approaches to literary scholar-ship. Our discussions were informed by the increasing role ofthe digital library in literary work, and colleagues from both theStanford University library and Academic Computing wereregular contributors. Our work was enhanced by visits fromexternal speakers and by informal lectures from workshopparticipants. Our final meeting featured a compelling showcaseof graduate student work in which much of the year’s thinkingwas in evidence.

Logical Methods in the HumanitiesThis unique workshop is devoted to applications of technicalmethods of mathematical logic in foundations, philosophy,linguistics, and other humanities disciplines. In 2006–07, we heardmore than fifteen talks by graduate students and invited speakerson the important topics in that area. During spring quar tersome of the participants (including two students) continued atsome of the most prestigious institutions in Europe.

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Medievaland Early Modern StudiesThis year, the Medieval/Early Modern workshop aimed to providea forum for Stanford scholars who work in the centuriesbetween the ancient world and the modern era. Study of themedieval and early modern periods is by definition interdisciplinary,traditionally comprising languages and literatures, history, arthistory, musicology, philosophy, religion, and other fields in thehumanities and social sciences. A series of fifteen meetingsfeaturing a range of presentations from members of the Stanfordcommunity and invited guests helped graduate students andfaculty capitalize on this strength while addressing the corollaryrisk of fragmentation.

Music, Aesthetics, and Critical TheoryThis year’s workshop provided a forum for graduate studentsand faculty members to explore interdisciplinary topics pertinentto musicology in a setting that yielded stimulating and fruitfuldiscussions. Fall and winter quarter meetings dealt with variousintersections of music and politics, an area of great interest tomany workshop participants. Highlights of these discussions werethe sessions led by eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin (UCBerkeley) and Visiting Austrian Chair Professor Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl. Our spring quarter sessions on film music were alsovery exciting, featuring work-in-progress presentations by fourStanford musicology professors and graduate students.

Translations and Transformations ofClassical TextsIn 2006–07, we hosted a wide range of presentations bytranslators, poets, and scholars, including an exciting practicalsession led by a Stanford faculty member.We explored thefreedoms and constraints of the activity of translation, the aestheticand political implications of translation, and the purposes of thetransformations that have been perpetrated upon the Greekand Latin originals. Again, we saw that translation is a processthat not only illuminates the values and priorities of the receivingculture through its selection and treatment of the ancienttexts, but also provides a new perspective on the ancient textsthemselves.

The Center’s digital initiatives seek to broadenresearch possibilities in the humanities throughnew information technologies.These include theimplementation of digital tools for collaborativescholarship, as well as ongoing discussions aboutthe use and applications of such technologies.

Digital Initiatives

“Thanks to the lectures and workshopson digital matters my perspective hasexpanded enormously.”W I L L I A M T R O N Z O , M A R T A S U T T O N W E E K SF A C U L T Y F E L L O W, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7

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Humanities Research NetworkA study of the spatial history of the railroads. A social and culturalgeography of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro.These projectsrequire input from specialists in diverse institutions, states, andcountries. Until now, there has existed no easy way to forgesuch research teams and collaborate at a distance.

The Humanities Research Network (HRN) provides an onlineforum for scholars to meet and collaborate with colleagues atother universities. A virtual workspace for research teams, HRNalso offers financial support for face-to-face meetings, as well astechnical assistance for continuous collaboration.With HRN’spowerful tools, now being developed in a pilot collaborationwith Stanford’s Academic Computing, scholars can engage withquestions that no single individual could address alone.

humanitiesnetwork.orghumanitiesnetwork.org is the name given to HRN’s virtual work-space. The architecture for this customized content managementsystem draws its inspiration from the interactions of scholarsin the Humanities Center’s research workshops and networkprojects. The humanitiesnetwork.org web environment offerspersonal and group workspaces, community spaces, communicationand web publishing tools, as well as tools for file sharing andcollaborative co-creation.

Humanities Research Network Projects

Spatial HistoryStanford Leader: RichardWhite, HistoryThis project is funded by the Mellon Foundation

The Politics of PresenceStanford Leader: Michael Shanks, Archaeology; Classics

The Terrain of History:The Social and CulturalGeography of Nineteenth-Century Rio de JaneiroStanford Leader: Zephyr Frank, History

GIG (Global Identities Group)Stanford Leader: Paula Moya, English; Comparative Studies inRace and Ethnicity

Revisiting Race in a Genomic AgeStanford Leader: Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Stanford Center forBiomedical Ethics

GISSIGSpecial Interest Group in GeographicalInformation Science (GISSIG)GISSIG brings together faculty and students working with GISand spatial technologies to advance know-how, identify specificareas where interests intersect, and enable the sharing of data,tools, and methodological approaches. In 2007, participants atGISSIG presented on exemplary GIS research agendas, provideda cross-disciplinary analysis of “The Impact of the AmericanCivil War on Post-War Marriage and Subsequent Widowhood,”and discussed approaches to mapping the urban history ofParis and Shanghai.

New Directions in Humanities ResearchAlan LiuProfessor of English, University of California, Santa BarbaraO C T O B E R 5 , 2 0 0 6

Knowledge 2.0?:The University andWeb 2.0

Alan Liu reflected on the relationship between scholarly knowledgeandWeb 2.0 (as the second-generation paradigm of theWorldWide Web is commonly known), moving from practical issuesto the larger social and philosophical implications of the age of“collective intelligence.” Liu is weaver of Voice of the Shuttle andauthor, most recently, of The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work andthe Culture of Information (2004) and the forthcoming LocalTranscendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database.

Sherry TurkleAbby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies ofScience and Technology, MITN O V E M B E R 1 6 , 2 0 0 6

Cyberintimacies

Sherry Turkle spoke on humans’ relationship with technology.She is the founder and current director of the MIT Initiative onTechnology and Self. She has written numerous articles on psycho-analysis and culture and on the “subjective side” of people’srelationships with technology, especially computers. Her booksinclude The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984)and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995).


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John UnsworthDean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and InformationScience, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignJ A N U A RY 1 8 , 2 0 0 7

New Methods for Humanities Research

John Unsworth discussed ways in which information technologiescan support humanities research by sharing the work of theNora Project, which creates text-mining, pattern-recognition, andvisualization software. He has published widely on the topic ofelectronic scholarship and co-chaired the national commissionthat produced the 2006 report on Cyberinfrastructure forHumanities and Social Science, Our Cultural Commonwealth.

Colloquium on CollaborationKeynote speaker:Tom Finholt, Director, Collaboratory forResearch on ElectronicWork, University of Michigan

Panelists: John Bender, Claudia Engel, Zephyr Frank, ChristianHenriot, and Michael Shanks.F E B R U A RY 2 , 2 0 0 7

Speaking on “Cyberinfrastructure and Humanities Research:How to Ensure That Humanities Scholars GetWhat They NeedFrom Systems Built for ‘Big Science,’ ”Tom Finholt addressedthe opportunities and difficulties that cyberinfrastructure presentsfor humanities scholars. Colloquium participants shared their

experiences and ideas about collaboration, focusing especiallyon ways to overcome the challenges collaborative work posesfor humanists used to individual research.

Digital Humanities FellowChristian Henriot, Institut d’Asie Orientale, FrancePlease see page X for more information.

Literary Studies and the Digital Library:Beyond Search and AccessPlease see page X for more information.

“Because of the workshop, I developed astrong interest in the digital humanities.”S A R A H D . A L L I S O N , B E Y O N D S E A R C H A N D A C C E S SW O R K S H O P, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7

The Center brings prominent and innovativethinkers to the Stanford campus to presentleading research in the humanities.These topicalpresentations enrich the life of the communitythrough discussions of human experience,history, and creativity.

Public Events

“Some brains were working away onputting together this marvelous cross-sectionof sciences, social sciences, humanities,and arts.”A N N E W H I S T O N S P I R N , P A N E L I S T, I M A G I N I N GE N V I R O N M E N T C O N F E R E N C E , 2 0 0 6

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During 2006–07, the Humanities Center drewa dazzling array of scholars, writers, musicians,and artists to Stanford to enthrall, challenge, andengage the public with key issues in the artsand humanities. The Center also par ticipatedin a number of rewarding collaborations withother groups and depar tments on campus tooffer lectures, conferences, and other events of atruly multidisciplinary nature. Recordings of manyof the lectures are available via the Center’s web-site at http://shc.stanford.edu/events/archive.htm.

Imaging Environment: Maps, Models, andMetaphorsSpeakers:William Cronon (keynote), Lawrence Buell,Eric Lambin, Elinor Ostrom, Harriet Ritvo, Michael Pollan,José Sarukhán, Candace Slater, AnneWhiston Spirn.

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Fall quarter’s exciting collaboration with theWoods Institute forthe Environment brought together scholars from the humanities,social sciences, and natural sciences to explore the impact ofthe different histories and techniques used to represent theenvironment.The conference featured lectures by such distinguishedintellectuals as William Cronon, Lawrence Buell, and MichaelPollan, multiple panel discussions, and a screening of 10,000 Shovels,a short film by Karen Seto. Also on the program was an eight-channel electroacoustic concert by composer Jonathan Berger,which used satellite photos of the 2006 oil spill in Jiyeh, Lebanon,to set parameters for the processing of sounds and create anauditory display of the disaster. “Sliding Scale,” an art exhibit byGail Wight and co-sponsored by the Stanford Institute forCreativity, accompanied the conference.

Conferences

“Seeing and thinking critically ought to bethe goal of our research, writing, andteaching in the arts and humanities. It’s thiskind of critical work that opens newunderstanding and possibilities for differentand better futures.”J O A N S C OT T, P R E S I D E N T I A L L E C T U R E R , 2 0 0 6 – 0 7



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PresidentialLecturesThe Presidential Lectures bring the most distinguished scholars,artists, and critics of our time to the Stanford campus for lectures,discussions, and a variety of related interactions with faculty,students, and the community at large.

The Presidential Lectures website is created and maintained byStanford University Libraries.To see the work of the contributingcurators, please visit http://prelectur.stanford.edu/home.html.

Talal AsadUniversity Distinguished Professor in Anthropology, CityUniversity of NewYork Graduate Center

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Thinking About Blasphemy and Secular Criticism

Talal Asad’s fall lecture examined the concept of “blasphemy,”and its meanings and uses in theWestern and Islamic worlds.Professor Asad is a leading anthropologist, known for his theoretical

contributions to postcolonial and religious studies. His mostrecent research has focused on the relationship between religion,secularism, and modernity. He is the author of several books,including Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Powerin Christianity and Islam (1993) and Formations of the Secular :Christianity, Islam, Modernity (2003).

JoanW. ScottHarold F. Linder Professor of Social Science, Institute forAdvanced Study

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Cover-up: French Gender Equality and the IslamicHeadscarf

Joan W. Scott delivered the spring Presidential Lecture to ajam-packed Levinthal Hall on the controversial issue of the Frenchlegislation banning headscarves in public schools. Her talkexamined the underlying motives of the legislation, challenging theexplanation that the ban’s principal goal was the emancipationof women. Highly regarded for her seminal work on women andgender, Professor Scott has focused in her latest writings onthe ways in which difference poses problems for democraticpractice. Her most recent books include Only Paradoxes toOffer : French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996) and Parité!:Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (2005).

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Public Events

Bernice Johnson ReagonProfessor Emerita of History, American University;Composer; Songleader; Producer

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Pioneering Gospel Music ComposersSong Culture of the Civil Rights Movement

In March, the Humanities Center and the Institute for Diversityin the Arts welcomed acclaimed historian, composer, musician,and civil rights activist Bernice Johnson Reagon, who electrifiedaudiences as the twenty-ninth Raymond F.West Memorial Lecturer.Reagon’s lecture demonstrations presented historical overviewsillustrated by original recordings, images, and live performance.Theweek included a master class with the student a capella groupTalisman and an open discussion on “Coalition Politics:Turning theCentury.” Reagon’s many publications and productions include IfYou Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me: The African American Sacred SongTradition (2001) and Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: BlackAmerican Freedom Songs 1960–1966 (1997). Reagan’s visit was alsoco-sponsored byThe Research Institute of Comparative Studiesin Race and Ethnicity, Stanford Lively Arts, and the Aurora Forum.

The Raymond Fred West Memorial Lecture Series was established in1910 by Mr. and Mrs. Fred West of Seattle in memory of their son,Raymond, a student at Stanford University.The lectures are devoted tothe subject of “Immortality, Human Conduct, and Human Destiny.”

Max ByrdAuthor

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The Historical Novel

Novelist Max Byrd delivered the annual Bliss Carnochan Lectureto a full house at the Humanities Center, engaging the audiencewith reflections on historical fiction from Homer to Gore Vidal.Byrd has taught English at Yale and UC Davis and is the authorof a number of scholarly books on eighteenth century Englishliterature, including Visits to Bedlam (1974) and London Transformed(1978). He is also the author of four historical novels (Grant:A Novel, Jefferson: A Novel, Jackson: A Novel, and Shooting the Sun)and winner of the Shamus Award for best paperback privatedetective novel.

The Carnochan Lecture is presented annually to honor Bliss Carnochan,the Richard W. Lyman Professor of Humanities, emeritus, and directorof the Humanities Center from 1985–1991.

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Fur ther EventsArt Scavengers: A Stanford Symposiumon Found ObjectsS A N F R A N C I S C O M U S E U M O F M O D E R N A RT, O C TO B E R 1 , 2 0 0 6

Panelists: Chris Chafe, Pamela Lee, Michael Shanks, andJuliana Spahr.

In 1917, Duchamp shocked the art world by exhibiting a signedurinal titled Fountain. Since then, readymades—or found objects—have continued both to find their way into ar tistic practiceand to shock the general public.This symposium, presented incollaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,addressed the role of the found object in contemporary ar t,from the visual arts to music to poetry.

ClassesWithout QuizzesO C T O B E R 1 2 A N D 1 3 , 2 0 0 6

For Stanford’s Reunion Homecoming, the Humanities Centeroffered two ClassesWithout Quizzes. Classics professor SusannaBraund spoke on “Myth Made Modern,” examining the relevanceof Greco-Roman myths to the modern world. Assistant professorof French and Italian Dan Edelstein gave a talk on “When theWorld Spoke French:The Empire of Culture,” in which he exploredhow France established its cultural empire.

Da Ponte Institute VisitJ A N U A RY 1 6 – 1 9 , 2 0 0 7

Virtuality,Virtuosity: Mozart

For a week in January the Humanities Center hosted the DaPonte Institute fromVienna, an international research associationfocusing on librettology, seventeenth and eighteenth centuryopera, and the history of collecting.The week featured presenta-tions on exhibit-making, a lecture by Da Ponte Director HerbertLachmayer, and a discussion with Professor Lachmayer andDa Ponte Institute representatives, Brigitte Felderer and ReinhardEisendle. This special event was jointly sponsored with theSchool of Humanities and Sciences.

Philosophy Talk at the Classic Residenceby HyattF E B R U A RY 1 5 , 2 0 0 7

Aging and theWell-Lived Life

In February, the Humanities Center sponsored a live recordingsession of the Philosophy Talk radio show at the Classic Residenceby Hyatt in Palo Alto. Hosts John Perry and Ken Taylor of theStanford Philosophy Department spoke with Laura Carstensen,an expert on the psychology of aging from Stanford’s Departmentof Psychology.

Why Read Books?F E B R U A RY 2 2 , 2 0 0 7

For Stanford’s yearly Parents’Weekend, the Humanities Centerand the Aurora Forum brought together three virtuoso scholarsto discuss why we read books. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, AlbertGuérard Professor in Literature at Stanford, moderated aconversation between Seth Lerer, Avalon Foundation Professorin the Humanities at Stanford, and Leah Price, professor ofEnglish and American literature at Harvard University.

OrlanPerformance Artist

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This Is My Body…This Is My Software BetweenWestern Culture and Non-Western Culture

Orlan, a performance artist who uses her own body and theprocedures of plastic surgery to make “carnal art,” presented afascinating noontime lecture on her extensive—and oftenliteral—body of work to an enthralled audience. Orlan’s mostfamous and controversial works include, Documentary Study:The Head of Medusa, The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan, This Is MyBody, This Is My Software, and The Kiss of the Artist. Her visitwas co-sponsored by the Drama Department and the StanfordInstitute for Creativity and the Arts.

Troy JollimorePoet; Associate Professor of Philosophy, California StateUniversity at Chico

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How IWrite

Humanities Center fellow Troy Jollimore discussed the ins andouts of writing poetry and philosophy with Hilton Obenzinger,associate director for Honors Writing at Stanford. Jollimore’sfirst book of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory (2006), won the2006 National Book Critics Circle award for poetry.

Public Events

Archive 3.0?: Animating the ArchiveM AY 3 , 2 0 0 7

The Stanford Humanities Center joined with the StanfordHumanities Lab for an afternoon colloquium on the archive.Participants shared projects and thoughts concerning the futureof the archive and discussed possible new archival architecturesenabled by digital information technologies.

Conversations at the Stanford HumanitiesCenterSpeaker: James J. Sheehan, Dickason Professor in theHumanities

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Why EuropeWill Not Be a Superpower

The inaugural “Conversations at the Stanford Humanities Center”brought together Stanford faculty, visiting scholars, and guestsfor an evening of spirited conversation over dinner on the subjectof Europe’s political, military, and economic clout.

Getting Published: A Stanford UniversityPressWorkshop for First-Time AuthorsM AY 1 8 , 2 0 0 7

Geoffrey Burn, director of Stanford University Press, and AlanHarvey, associate director and editor-in-chief of StanfordUniversity Press, offered many first-time Stanford authors valuableadvice about today’s publishing world. Among the topicsdiscussed were what publishers are looking for, how to choosethe right publishing segment for a book, and how best toapproach a publisher.

Freeman Spogli Institute/StanfordHumanities Center Faculty SeminarIn 2006–07, the Humanities Center launched a new seminarseries in conjunction with Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute forInternational Studies on “Ideas and Action on the InternationalStage.”The seminar created a rich interdisciplinary dialogue,combining perspectives from multiple fields in the humanities, thesocial sciences, and the law to find answers to some of today’smost pressing questions. Faculty met twice per quarter at theHumanities Center, each quarter focusing on a different theme:“Freedom,” “Globalization,” and “Imagination.” Seminar sessionsfeatured a brief presentation by a Stanford faculty memberfollowed by a vigorous discussion among participants.

David KennedyDonald J. McLachlan Professor of History

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Freedom

Deborah RhodeErnestW. McFarland Professor of Law; Director, StanfordCenter on Ethics

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Freedom

Judith GoldsteinSakurako andWilliam Fisher Family Director of International,Comparative and Area Studies; Kaye University Fellow inUndergraduate Education; Professor of Political Science

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Globalization

Roland GreeneProfessor of English and Comparative Literature; Head, Divisionof Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

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Globalization

Blakey VermeuleAssociate Professor of English

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Imagination:The Fictional Among Us

Kathleen SullivanStanley Morrison Professor of Law; Director, StanfordConstitutional Law Center

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The Imagination of the Founders

New Directionsin HumanitiesResearchPlease see page X for details.


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“Long after Dr. Reagon’s visit, Stanford willbe a different place, transformed by theintellect, the spirit, and the wisdom shebrings to us.”E S T E L L E F R E E D M A N , E D G A R E . R O B I N S O NP R O F E S S O R O F U . S . H I S T O RY, S T A N F O R D U N I V E R S I T Y


The Center’s year-long residential fellowshipsbring together scholars—from all disciplines,career stages, and academic institutions—inan environment of intellectual discovery andexchange. Fellows spend the year researching,writing, presenting, and discussing works-in-progress in workshops, over lunch, and ininformal conversations.

Fellows

“The balance of solitude and exchange atthe Center was perfect.”C A R O LY N L O U G E E C H A P P E L L , V I O L E T A N D R E W SW H I T T I E R F E L L O W, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7

NICOLECOLEMAN

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American Studies, University of California,Santa CruzE X T E R N A L F E L L O W

I made substantial progress toward the completion ofmy book The Knot of Race:The Challenge of W.E.B. Du Bois’Mid-Centur y Writings. I arrived at Stanford with tworough chapters and I am now well into the final chapter.The fellowship also enabled me to deepen and sharpenmy analysis of Du Bois’ thinking and its value to thepresent, as I’ve shifted my focus somewhat away fromhis understanding of the ontology of race and towardhis insights into how specific, political, and ideological racialprojects emerging at the middle of the twentieth centurywould shape the future world.

EricPorter

History, Stanford UniversityV I O L E T A N D R E W S W H I T T I E R F E L L O W

This has been the most productive year of my career,ever. The conditions were nothing short of idyllic. Idrafted five chapters of Native Places, Global Times: ACentury of Regional Rhetoric in Nagano, Japan, a book onthe emergence and transformation of a Japanese region.Presenting to such a broad and smart communityprompted me to articulate my questions and justify myproject in interdisciplinary terms: scholars from literaturehelped me group the individual “genres” together underthe larger rubric of “modalities,” while visual ar tsscholars helped me access a more precise vocabularyand methodology for analyzing regional maps.

KärenWigen

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“The lunch talks and follow-up discussiontables were seminal, both for expandingmy social and intellectual horizons andfor giving me a chance to try out otherdisciplinary idioms.”K Ä R E N W I G E N , V I O L E T A N D R E W S W H I T T I E R F E L L OW,2 0 0 6 – 0 7

SabrinaFerri

French and Italian, Stanford UniversityG E B A L L E D I S S E R T AT I O N P R I Z E F E L L O W

This was a rewarding and productive year : not onlywas I able to complete my dissertation, “Talking Ruins,Natural History and Philosophy of the ItalianEnlightenment,” but I also participated in the Ancientsand Moderns workshop, where I presented a chapterfrom my dissertation, and wrote the first draft of a forth-coming article on Giambattista Vico.This experiencegave me the resources and support that I needed toconcentrate on my work and bring my research to asuccessful conclusion.

Fellows

“The fellowship enabled me to get morewriting done than I ever thought possible!I was able to achieve my goal of gettingmy doctorate.”M A R I S A G A LV E Z , G E B A L L E D I S S E RTAT I O N P R I Z EF E L L OW, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7

Comparative Literature, Stanford UniversityG E B A L L E D I S S E R T AT I O N P R I Z E F E L L O W

This year I finished my dissertation, “Medieval Songbooks:The Transmission and Reception of Vernacular Lyric.” Itwas my first time both on the job market and preparinga thirty-minute talk from notes for a diverse group ofscholars. I was gratified with the support and feedback,which helped me clarify the major issues of my disserta-tion. I learned so much from the fellows, from practicalknowledge such as job advice and balancing teaching andresearch, to research questions regarding art history,methodology, and how I can apply my project to broaderquestions of humanity-based disciplines.

MarisaGalvez


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English and Academic Computing,Stanford UniversityR E S E A R C H S C H O L A R I N T H E D I G I T A L H U M A N I T I E S

My year was both productive and pleasurable: I completedthree chapters for my book, Beyond Search: AMacroanalytic Method for the Study of Literature, anddeveloped a set of computer-based text analysis tools tosupport this research. On the basis of this work, I wasinvited to give two lectures (Missouri and Illinois), and inJune I presented a paper on the project’s technical aspectsat the Association of Digital Humanities Organizations’2007 meeting. A piece of the software I developed thisyear is now being integrated into the open source XTFapplication developed by the California Digital Library.

MatthewJockers

History, Stanford UniversityV I O L E T A N D R E W S W H I T T I E R F E L L O W

I completed six new chapters (averaging sixty pages each),revised six previously drafted chapters, and reworkedthree ar ticles into chapters of Berneré and Beyond: AHuguenot Family Faces the Revocation. This book usesthe experiences of a single French Protestant family overthe course of five generations to probe the dynamicconsequences of French Calvinism’s criminalization in 1685:families’ decision-making on emigration or conversion,state authorities’ shifting responses to Huguenot resistance,competing measures taken to facilitate or preventescapes, and the complexities of immigrant enclaves andintegration in the receiving cultures.

CarolynLougee Chappell

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Music, Stanford UniversityG E B A L L E D I S S E R T AT I O N P R I Z E F E L L O W

The year proved to be of remarkable intensity in research,creative work, and intellectual discourse. I finished all mycompositional projects—mainly completing the operascene “fremd/strange Medea” (my dissertation), as wellas outlining a story line and compiling materials for amuch larger opera project, of which the scene will be acentral part. Furthermore, I finished a string trio, Bebungen,which premiered at the Witten New Music Festival,and wrote an article on the “fear of influence” in musictheatre, which will be published next year in Volume IIIof the Ligerz-Opernwerkstatt publications.

HansThomalla

Political Science, Northwestern UniversityM A R T A S U T T O N W E E K S F E L L O W

The fellowship year enabled me to make significantprogress on my book, Toward a Democratic Theor y ofJudgment. I wrote two polished chapters and draftedtwo others. One of the chapters (“A Feminist Theory ofJudgment”) will be published in Signs: A Journal of Womenin Culture and Society. Another chapter (“Value Pluralismand the Problem of Judgment”) has been submittedfor review to Political Theory and was presented at TheUniversity of Chicago, UCLA, UC San Diego, and theStanford Political TheoryWorkshop.Thanks to the CenterI anticipate sending this book off to a publisher byJanuary 2008.

LindaZerilli


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“There is nothing like being exposed toother fields, disciplines, and research topicsto make progress on one’s own work byfinding inspiration in how other scholarsexplore a research question.”C H R I S T I A N H E N R I OT, D I G I T A L H U M A N I T I E S F E L L O W,2 0 0 6 – 0 7

History, Institut d’Asie Orientale, FranceD I G I T A L H U M A N I T I E S F E L L O W

On theVirtual Shanghai platform, I examined four topics:the Shanghai Bund, the walled city, public parks andopen spaces, and wartime exposed corpses, with theShanghai Bund topic fully online. I have developed thevarious tools associated with my form of “writing” withnon-textual documents (version 1.0) and built up aconsiderable quantity of visual resources (3,700 images;230 maps). A major achievement was the reconstructionand georectifying of three historical atlases, the creationof a multilingual database of all historical street names,and the geocoding of all the streets in the formerFrench Concession.

ChristianHenriot

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Art and Art History, Stanford UniversityG E B A L L E D I S S E R T AT I O N P R I Z E F E L L O W

My year at the Center was invaluable for my developmentas a scholar. Discussions with other fellows deepenedmy understanding of the interdisciplinary stakes of myproject, “ ‘Not the Romantic West’: Site-Specific Art,Globalization, and Contemporary Landscapes,” and gaveme greater confidence in my ability to articulate myideas to people outside of my field.The Humanities Centerallowed me to start thinking of myself as a professional:I learned a great deal about how to present my workto others and the feedback I received has enriched mywork in ways that will serve me long into the future.

KarenRapp

“It was one of the best years—if not THEbest year—of my academic work! I verymuch appreciated the freedom fromteaching and administrative duties and atthe same time the opportunity to takeadvantage of an unbelievably inspiringintellectual environment.”K O N S T A N T I N P O L L O K , E X T E R N A L F E L L O W, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7


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Philosophy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, GermanyE X T E R N A L F E L L O W

In the course of this year, my research on Immanuel Kant’sphilosophy became both broader in scope and morefocused: I shifted my concern from Kant’s philosophy ofnature to his whole critical project, while limiting it toa specific perspective. I wrote two central chapters ofKant’s Theor y of Normativity in my paradisiac office,surrounded by the professionalism and humanity of fellowsand staff. My work very much benefited from myparticipation in The Philosophical Reading Group, as wellas from feedback to presentations I gave. I also greatlyappreciated the stimulating exchange with people fromStanford’s philosophy department.

KonstantinPollok

Art History, Independent ScholarM A R T A S U T T O N W E E K S F E L L O W

It has been a richly rewarding and productive year forme. Last September I had only a vague outline for mybook, Beyond Influence: The Great Wave as a Global Icon,but conversations with other fellows helped bring thisinto focus. As a result, I have completed three chaptersand know exactly what is required for the remaining two.More importantly,Tuesday presentations and discussionswith scholars outside my own area led me to articulatemore clearly what is at stake in my project. This isespecially important to me, as I want my book to reacha broad audience.

ChristineGuth

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Comparative Literature, Stanford UniversityG E B A L L E D I S S E R T AT I O N P R I Z E F E L L O W

This year, I completed my dissertation “Prosaic Conditions”and went on the job market for the first time. It hasbeen an extremely important year for me, and spendingit at the Stanford Humanities Center has been a wonderfulprivilege. I also completed two articles, both of whichare in press, and presented papers in three academicconventions (the Graduate Student Association, theAssociation for Jewish Studies, and the Modern LanguageAssociation) and at a Stanford conference on Hebrewpoetry.The Center was the perfect setting in which toundergo the transformation from graduate student toprofessional academic.

Na’amaRokem

Philosophy, California State University at ChicoE X T E R N A L F E L L O W

The major result of my year at the Center was, first,that I re-conceptualized many aspects of my book inprogress (current working title: Love’s Vision), and second,that I was able to complete a major portion of the firstdraft. I also wrote a paper extracted from the project(“The Psychology of Exclusivity”), which I presented at aphilosophical workshop in Montreal and will shortlysubmit for publication. I expect to have a complete draftof the entire book by the end of December.

TroyJollimore


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MargaretButler

Classics, Stanford UniversityG E B A L L E D I S S E R T AT I O N P R I Z E F E L L O W

I made good progress on my dissertation, “Of Swordsand Strigils: Social Change in Ancient Macedon.” Afterpresenting a chapter on the writing of historical narratives,I received helpful feedback and references from fellowsworking through similar issues. In a matter of days, I hadlearned about texts and ideas that would have takenmonths to discover on my own; this information willgreatly aid in the chapter’s revision. I also compiled twolarge databases and presented preliminary results at aconference.The paper was well received and will formthe basis of a future work on cultural convergence.

English, Stanford UniversityD O N A L D A N D R E W S W H I T T I E R F E L L O W

I devoted my fellowship year to writing From Hamnetto Hamlet: The World of William Shakespeare, 1596–1601,a new biography of Shakespeare in his thir ties. Myresearch and writing focused on Shakespeare’s interlockingrelationships with publishers, patrons, actors, familymembers, and proper ty holders in his native city ofStratford-upon-Avon. In tandem with this project,Humanities Center researcher Matt Jockers and I developeda comprehensive chronological database, with over1,000 data points, for the life and works of Shakespeare.As a result, my biography will be the first to incorporatea week-by-week narrative of Shakespeare’s personaland professional life.

DavidRiggs

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French and Italian, Stanford UniversityG E B A L L E D I S S E R T AT I O N P R I Z E F E L L O W

My year at the Stanford Humanities Center has beentransformative intellectually, professionally, and personally.Sharing my research with the other fellows provedinvaluable, helping me to locate important sources and tofine-tune my thinking on some of the central themes ofmy dissertation, “Battles of the Self:War and Subjectivityin Eighteenth-Century France.” In this productiveenvironment, I was able to complete two dissertationchapters, an article, and two conference papers.Thisexperience has given me a heightened sense of profession-alism, a newfound confidence in my intellectual voice,and wonderful friendships forged with colleagues in theacademic community.

ChristyPichichero

Program inWriting and Rhetoric,Stanford UniversityI N T E R N A L F E L L O W

This year at the Humanities Center gave me the oppor-tunity to go deeply into the largely uncharted territoryof radio history and theory. It afforded me the time tolisten to hundreds of hours of radio dramas from the1930s and ’40s, visit archives, and develop an account ofhow radio, like film, continues to be central to the waywe experience modern culture. I completed well overhalf of my book, The Sound of Modernity: Orson Wellesand the Voice of Radio, including two theoretical chapterson the disembodied voice and modernism and twochapters on OrsonWelles’ early radio work.

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“The exposure to digital humanities hassolidified my interest in fostering collab-orative scholarship in undergraduate andgraduate teaching.”H I L D E D E W E E R D T, E X T E R N A L F E L L O W, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7

History, University of TennesseeE X T E R N A L F E L L O W

The impact of the nine months I spent at the Centeron my project, News and Identity in Imperial China(10th–13th C), is twofold. First, the interdisciplinary missionof the Center provided impetus to a reconceptualizationand a clarification of its basic arguments and structure.Second, on a smaller scale, frequent conversations andoccasional presentations contributed to the writing ofindividual chapters as other fellows suggested relatedreadings and questioned my findings on information, space,and empire in pre-twentieth century Chinese history.

Hildede Weerdt

Fellows

“The interdisciplinary conversations I havehad at the Center will directly aid me inteaching students to work across disciplinesand to think flexibly about presentingtheir work to varied audiences.”A M Y T A N G , G E B A L L E D I S S E RT AT I O N P R I Z E F E L L O W,2 0 0 6 – 0 7

Visual Arts, University of California, San DiegoM A R T A S U T T O N W E E K S F E L L O W

It was a great year. But I knew it would be as soon as Isaw my office. I wrote the better part of Petrarch’s TwoGardens: Landscape and the Image of Movement there, aswell as a number of papers and lectures. Other pleasureshave been the conversations I’ve had with my colleaguesand Stanford’s exemplary culture in the digital humanities.Thanks to the lectures and workshops on digital matterssponsored by the Humanities Center and the university,my perspective has expanded enormously, and this hashad and will continue to have a profound impact onmy work.

WilliamTronzo


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History, Stanford UniversityE L L E N A N D R E W S W R I G H T F E L L O W

During my year at the Stanford Humanities Center, Imade major progress in my research on Same-Sex Unionand Masculinity in Eighteenth-Centur y China. I spentmost of my time reading legal cases, organizing theminto a Filemaker Pro database, and lifting out the majorthemes and patterns of social practice. I also finished upa related project on polyandry and wife-selling. I foundthe opportunity to present my research especially pro-ductive in clarifying my understanding of chosen kinshipforms and the ways in which reciprocity balanced hierarchywithin same-sex relationships.The routine interactionwith other fellows was extremely stimulating.

MatthewSommer

English, Stanford UniversityG E B A L L E D I S S E R T AT I O N P R I Z E F E L L O W

My year at the Center has been uniquely rewarding.The daily conversations I had about my research helpedme reorient my dissertation, “Postmodern Repetitions:The Politics of Form in Contemporary U.S. Literatureand Art,” in crucial ways.The most concrete outcomeis a new chapter that I hadn’t planned on writing at all,but perhaps more important is the deeper understandingI’ve gained about the project as a whole. In addition,the research presentation—and the many discussionsafterward—have been an important part of my pro-fessional development, preparing me for the job marketand beyond.

AmyTang

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Humanties andInternationalStudies FellowsA collaboration with the Freeman Spogli Institute for InternationalStudies (FSI), this pilot fellowship program promotes intellectualexchange that expands Stanford’s international reputation forexcellence and ensures that the humanities have a positiveimpact on other fields and on society.

In 2006–07, we welcomed Boris Lanin of the Russian Academyof Education in Moscow and Martina Winkler from HumboldtUniversity, Berlin. Both professors pursued projects combininghumanistic perspectives with one of FSI’s five major research centers.

Philology, Russian Academy of Education, RussiaH U M A N I T I E S A N D I N T E R N AT I O N A L S T U D I E S F E L L O W

Before coming here, I had the impression that politicalrhetoric doesn’t really make any sense in Russia, thatit’s simply a “montage of attractions.” After living andresearching here, I have come to understand that in theWestern world the rhetoric of post-Soviet leaders is veryimportant and needs to be treated not only aestheticallybut also philologically.Though that makes writing Symbolsof Power and Political Rhetoric in NIS: The Montage ofAttractions in Totalitarian and Post-Soviet Culture twice ashard, I am happy to have a deeper understanding of theproblem and to have gained this outside view.

BorisLanin

“This experience has changed my workand my teaching, and it will cer tainlycontinue to do so.”M A R T I N A W I N K L E R , H U M A N I T I E S A N DI N T E R N AT I O N A L S T U D I E S F E L L O W, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7


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Summer FellowsIn 2007, the Humanities Center welcomed nine undergraduaterecipients of research grants from theVice Provost of UndergraduateEducation as summer fellows.This pilot program, launched incollaboration with Undergraduate Research and Advising and theStanfordWriting Center, provided young humanities scholars withresearch space at the Center and ongoing mentorship.Workingclosely with author andWriting Center Associate Director HiltonObenzinger, students honed their thesis topics and advancedtheir projects.The first cohort deemed the program a greatsuccess, noting that the Center fostered an intellectual communityin which they could share ideas, find guidance, and remain inspiredduring those otherwise quiet summer months.

Corinna EsdornGerman Studies and History

Andrea FullerAmerican Studies

Victor FusteEnglish and Film Studies

Mei LiArt History and International Relations

Jennifer LiuEnglish and International Relations

James LocusMusic, Political Science, and Sociology

Kate LudwigAnthropological Sciences

Aaron QuiggleComparative Literature

Andrew ZhouMusic and International Relations

History, Humboldt University, GermanyH U M A N I T I E S A N D I N T E R N AT I O N A L S T U D I E S F E L L O W

The year at Stanford gave me the opportunity to focuson the most important chapter in my book, Perceptionsof Property and Ownership among the Russian Elites, 18thand 19th Centuries. It poses the question of property“as a right” and examines the understanding of confiscationamong Russian elites in the eighteenth and nineteenthcenturies. Both the excellent library services at Stanfordand the inspiring atmosphere at the Humanities Centermade it possible for me to clarify the methodologicalapproach, terminology, and structure of my entire project.

Mar tinaWinkler

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UndergraduateResearch FellowsSince 2001–02, the Humanities Center has awarded researchassistant fellowships to Stanford students who wish to workclosely with a faculty fellow on a collaborative research project.By pursuing advanced research with a faculty mentor who hasa real stake in the project, undergraduates experience firsthandthe twists and turns of academic work in progress, receiveone-to-one faculty guidance, and hone their presentation skillsfor an end-of-year research symposium.

The undergraduate fellowship program is funded by a grant fromStanford’s Office of theVice Provost for Undergraduate Education.

Ria CollingwoodCultural and Social Anthropology

Under the direction of Professor Porter, I compiled a bibliographyof both primary and secondary sources on pan-Africanismand wrote a bibliographic essay discussing selected texts. I alsoreviewed papers of relevant individuals and institutions as ameans of charting nuances in pan-Africanist discourse. Our findingsled us to conclude there is no single, real, or accurate form ofpan-Africanism, but that pan-Africanism is, as a whole, constitutiveof the contesting imaginaries spun by individual actors within aspecific social, historical, and spatial context.

Natasha DarInternational Relations; Cultural and Social Anthropology

My project with Professor Lanin focused on the Karzai regime’srhetoric surrounding women’s and human rights. In particular,we examined debates about the “Afghan nation” and competingunderstandings of national identity and citizenship in the post-Taliban era, as well as how the new regime has argued its legitimacydifferently to international and domestic audiences. Speakingwith Professor Lanin about various theories of cultural rhetoric,the comparative symbols of state control, and underlying researchmethodologies has enabled me to achieve a more concreteunderstanding of my project and of the questions that guideresearch and writing in general.

Kevin HilkeEnglish

As an undergraduate research fellow, I explored literaryengagements with changing media of the late-twentieth century,and how those engagements render the human subject as aninseparable part of a globalized, digital media environment.Throughthe course of the year, I researched a wide range of fields (frompop-culture to cultural, literary, and media theory, from sociologyto human-computer interaction)—research that ultimatelyinformed my honors thesis in the English department and providedme with a solid base of knowledge for future study in literature,critical theory, and media studies.

Jeremy NewmanMathematics; English

Two years ago, Professor David Riggs launched Shakebase, anonline database in Shakespeare biography.The ultimate goal of thesite is to find everything we know about Shakespeare and put iton a timeline. As an undergraduate research fellow, I developedand added to the website. In particular, I filled in the years ofShakespeare’s life from 1604 to 1616. I also added further infor-mation and commentary on the texts of Shakespeare’s plays.

Jessica RichmanScience,Technology and Society; Economics

While close reading is often used to understand texts,“far” reading,or macroanalysis, has huge potential to deepen our understandingof literature and the context in which it arises.The objective ofmy project with researcher Matt Jockers was to determine if thereis a significant correlation between economic health as measuredby Gross Domestic Product and what researchers have termed“Gross Novelistic Product,” a measure of literary output in the formof published novels.We hypothesized that certain words wouldcorrelate with varying economic conditions, such as “poverty” witheconomic recession or “war” with the United States Civil War.

MatthewWoodburyHistory; German Studies

Working with Professor Henriot as an Undergraduate ResearchFellow was a highlight of my Stanford career.Through collaborativework we assembled a unique database—drawn from bothpictorial and textual sources—relating to the architectural develop-ment of the Shanghai Bund from its inception until the beginningofWorldWar II.We posted our final results on the web as partof the larger Virtual Shanghai platform, widening our potentialaudience. In addition to developing my own research techniques,the Center’s workshops, lunch conversations, and presentations wereinstrumental in showing me new ways to approach the humanities.


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Undergraduate ResearchFellows(starting from top left to right)Ria Collingwood, Kevin Hilke, JeremyNewman, Jessica Richman, and MatthewWoodbury (not pictured: Natasha Dar)

“Programs like theStanford HumanitiesCenter’s have made megrateful to be a studentat a university whereundergraduates areexposed to work andideas that challenge, build,and intrigue the intellect.”N AT A S H A D A R ,U N D E R G R A D U AT E R E S E A R C HF E L L O W, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7

At the Humanities Center, scholars receive thetime, space, and support to conduct research,debate findings, and complete scholarly projectsthat are informed by their conversationsthroughout the year. Each volume published isa new contribution to our knowledge aboutour world.

Publications

“Several fellows introduced me to thegenre of the nonfiction novel, whichchanged the way I was writing my book,to enhance its interest for both scholarsand a general audience.”C A R O LY N L O U G E E C H A P P E L L , V I O L E T A N D R E W SW H I T T I E R F E L L O W, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7

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Publications

Following are books recently published byHumanities Center fellows. All informationhas been gathered from fellows’ commu-nications. The year in parentheses indicatesthe year the fellow was in residence.

Awards andSpecial MentionTroy Jollimore (2006–07)Won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle award forpoetry for his debut collection Tom Thomson in Purgatory.

Gail L. Mortimer (1983–84)Received the EudoraWelty Society’s 2005 Phoenix Awardfor “Distinguished Achievement in EudoraWelty Scholarship.”

Douglas Northrop (1993–94)Received the 2006 W. Bruce Lincoln Prize for VeiledEmpire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia.

MatthewTiews (2002–03)Won the Modernist Studies Association’s 2006 prizefor the best book for Crowds (Stanford University Press,2006; co-edited with Jeffrey Schnapp).

PublicationsArturo Arias (1994–95)T A K I N G T H E I R W O R D : L I T E R AT U R E A N D T H E S I G N SO F C E N T R A L A M E R I C A

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Joel Beinin (1987–88; 1999–2000)Co-editor (with Rebecca L. Stein)T H E S T R U G G L E F O R S O V E R E I G N T Y : P A L E S T I N E A N DI S R A E L , 1 9 9 3 – 2 0 0 5

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Michael E. Bratman (1990–91)Co-editor (with John Perry and John Martin Fischer)I N T R O D U C T I O N T O P H I L O S O P H Y : C L A S S I C A L A N DC O N T E M P O R A RY R E A D I N G S (Fourth edition)OXFORD UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

S T R U C T U R E S O F A G E N C Y

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T A K I N G O U R S E LV E S S E R I O U S LY A N D G E T T I N G I TR I G H T, by Harry G. Frankfurt (Comments)STANFORD UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

Joan Burbick (1987–88)G U N S H O W N AT I O N : G U N C U L T U R E A N D A M E R I C A ND E M O C R A C Y

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Susan Cahn (1997–98)S E X U A L R E C K O N I N G S : S O U T H E R N G I R L S I N AT R O U B L I N G A G E

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Co-editor (with Jean O’Reilly)W O M E N A N D S P O R T S I N T H E U N I T E D S T AT E S :A D O C U M E N T A RY R E A D E R

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Terry Castle (1986–1987)T H E I L L U S I O N I S T, by Françoise Mallet-Joris(Introduction)CLE I S PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

Gordon Chang (1993–94, 2002–03)Co-editor (with Judy Yung and Him Mark Lai)C H I N E S E A M E R I C A N V O I C E S : F R O M T H E G O L D R U S HT O T H E P R E S E N T

UN IVERS I TY OF C AL I FORN IA PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

Co-editor (with Eiichiro Azuma andYuji Ichioka)B E F O R E I N T E R N M E N T : E S S AY S I N P R E W A R J A PA N E S EA M E R I C A N H I S T O RY


Hilde DeWeerdt (2006–07)C O M P E T I T I O N O V E R C O N T E N T : N E G OT I AT I N GS T A N D A R D S F O R T H E C I V I L S E R V I C E E X A M I N AT I O N SI N I M P E R I A L C H I N A ( 1 1 2 7 – 1 2 7 6 )

HARVARD UN IVERS I TY AS IA CENTER , 2 0 0 7

Jeff Dolven (2003–04)S C E N E S O F I N S T R U C T I O N I N R E N A I S S A N C ER O M A N C E

THE UN IVERS I TY OF CH IC AGO PRES S , 2 0 0 7

William Egginton (1996–97)T H E P H I L O S O P H E R ’ S D E S I R E : P S Y C H O A N A LY S I S ,I N T E R P R E T AT I O N , A N D T R U T H


A W R I N K L E I N H I S T O RY : E S S AY S O N L I T E R AT U R EA N D P H I L O S O P H Y

DAV I E S GROUP, 2 0 0 7

John Felstiner (1983–84, 1996–97,2004–05)F U G AT- M AV E T / T O D E S F U G E (Essay and English translation)EVEN HOSHEN , 2 0 0 5

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (2004–05)Co-editor (with Martin S. Jaffee)T H E C A M B R I D G E C O M P A N I O N T O T H E T A L M U DA N D R A B B I N I C L I T E R AT U R E

CAMBR IDGE UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 7

Sabine Frühstück (2005–06)U N E A S Y W A R R I O R S : G E N D E R , M E M O RY, A N DP O P U L A R C U L T U R E I N T H E J A P A N E S E A R M Y


Publications

Michael Honey (1989–90)G O I N G D O W N J E R I C H O R O A D : T H E M E M P H I SS T R I K E , M A R T I N L U T H E R K I N G ’ S L A S T C A M P A I G N

W.W. NORTON , 2 0 0 7

Lutz Koepnick (1992–93)F R A M I N G AT T E N T I O N : W I N D O W S O N M O D E R NG E R M A N C U L T U R E

THE JOHNS HOPK INS UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 7

Co-author (with Sabine Eckmann)[ G R I D < > M AT R I X ] / S C R E E N A R T S A N D N E WM E D I A A E S T H E T I C S

M I LDRED LANE KEMPER ART MUSEUM , 2 0 0 6

Co-author (with Sabine Eckmann)W I N D O W | I N T E R F A C E . S C R E E N A R T S A N D N E WM E D I A A E S T H E T I C S

M I LDRED LANE KEMPER ART MUSEUM , 2 0 0 7

Co-editor (with Stephan K. Schindler)T H E C O S M O P O L I TA N S C R E E N : G E R M A N C I N E M A A N DT H E G L O B A L I M A G I N A RY, 1 9 4 5 T O T H E P R E S E N T

UN IVERS I TY OF M ICH IGAN PRES S , 2 0 0 7

Co-editor (with Sabine Eckmann)C A U G H T B Y P O L I T I C S : H I T L E R E X I L E S A N DA M E R I C A N V I S U A L C U L T U R E

PALGRAVE MACM I L LAN , 2 0 0 7

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (1993–94)P R O D U C T I O N O F P R E S E N C E : W H AT M E A N I N GC A N N OT C O N V E Y (Russian translation)HOBOE , 2 0 0 6

D I M E N S I O N E N U N D G R E N Z E N D E RB E G R I F F S G E S C H I C H T E (German translation)W I LHELM F INK VERLAG 2006

Ursula Heise (1990–91)EditorJ O U R N E Y TO T H E C E N T E R O F T H E E A RT H , by JulesVerneBARNES AND NOBLE CLASS IC S S ER I E S , 2 0 0 5

Daniel Herwitz (1990–91)Co-editor (with Lydia Goehr)T H E D O N G I O V A N N I M O M E N T : E S S AY S O N T H EL E G A C Y O F A N O P E R A

COLUMB IA UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

Co-editor (with Michael Kelly)A C T I O N , A R T , H I S T O RY : E N G A G E M E N T S W I T HA R T H U R C . D A N T O


Jonathan Holloway (2004–05)Co-editor (with Ben Keppel)BLACK SCHOLARS ON THE LINE: RACE, SOCIAL SCIENCE,AND AMERIC AN THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

UN IVERS I TY OF NOTRE DAME PRE S S , 2 0 0 7


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Pericles Lewis (1993–94)T H E C A M B R I D G E I N T R O D U C T I O N T O M O D E R N I S M


Yoshiko Matsumoto (2005–06)D I V E R S I T Y I N L A N G U A G E : P E R S P E C T I V E S A N DI M P L I C AT I O N S , Y O S H I K O M AT S U M OT O, D AV I D O S H I M A ,O R R I N R O B I N S O N A N D P E T E R S E L L S .

CSL I PUBL IC AT IONS , 2 0 0 7

Leerom Medovoi (1989–90)REBELS: YOUTH AND THE COLD WAR ORIGINS OF IDENTITY

DUKE UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 5

James A. Millward (1987–88)E U R A S I A N C R O S S R O A D S : A H I S T O RY O F X I N J I A N G


Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (1999–2000)E S S A I S S U R L E S C U L T U R E S E N C O N T A C T. A F R I Q U E ,A M É R I Q U E S , E U R O P E

KARTHALA , 2 0 0 6

Kevin Mumford (1990–91)N E W A R K : A H I S T O RY O F R A C E , R I G H T S , A N D R I OT SI N A M E R I C A

NEW YORK UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 7

Gonzalo Munévar (1983–84)V A R I A C I O N E S S O B R E T E M A S D E F E Y E R A B E N D

UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE, PROGRAMA EDITORIAL, 2006

E L A M O D E L D E S T I N O ( S P A N I S H T R A N S L AT I O N O FE N G L I S H : T H E M A S T E R O F F AT E )

UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE, PROGRAMA EDITORIAL, 2006

Stephen Orgel (1989–90)EditorT H E A G E O F I N N O C E N C E , by Edith WhartonOXFORD UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

Co-editor (with Peter Holland)F R O M P E R F O R M A N C E T O P R I N T I N S H A K E S P E A R E ' SE N G L A N D

PALGRAVE MACM I L LAN , 2 0 0 6

John Perry (2002–03)Co-editor (with Michael E. Bratman and JohnMartin Fischer)I N T R O D U C T I O N T O P H I L O S O P H Y : C L A S S I C A L A N DC O N T E M P O R A RY R E A D I N G S (Fourth Edition)OXFORD UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

Jack Rakove (1988–89; 2000–01)EditorF O U N D I N G A M E R I C A : D O C U M E N T S F R O M T H ER E V O L U T I O N T O T H E B I L L O F R I G H T S

BARNES AND NOBLE CLASS IC S S ER I E S , 2 0 0 6

Publications

Denise Schmandt-Besserat (2003–04)W H E N W R I T I N G M E T A R T : F R O M S Y M B O L T O S T O RY

UN IVERS I TY OF TEXAS PRE S S , 2 0 0 7

Chaofen Sun (2003–04)C H I N E S E – A L I N G U I S T I C I N T R O D U C T I O N


Richard Terdiman (1986–87; 1996–97)B O DY A N D S T O RY : T H E P R A C T I C E A N D E T H I C S O FT H E O R E T I C A L C O N F L I C T

JOHNS HOPK INS UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

Richard Vinograd (1993–94)C H I N E S E P A I N T I N G O N T H E E V E O F T H EC O M M U N I S T R E V O L U T I O N : C H A N G S H U - C H I A N DH I S C O L L E C T I O N

I R I S AND B . GERALD CANTOR CENTER FORV I SUAL ARTS , 2 0 0 6

GavinWright (2003–04)S L AV E RY A N D A M E R I C A N E C O N O M I C D E V E L O P M E N T

LOU I S I ANA STATE UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

Steven Zipperstein (1990–91; 1997–98)Co-editor (with Gabriella Safran)T H E W O R L D S O F S . A N - S K Y : A R U S S I A N J E W I S HINTELLECTUAL AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY (with CD)STANFORD UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

Jim Reichert (1999–2000)I N T H E C O M P A N Y O F M E N : R E P R E S E N T AT I O N S O FM A L E - M A L E S E X U A L I T Y I N M E I J I L I T E R AT U R E


Richard L. Roberts (1987–88, 1993–94)Co-editor (with Benjamin N. Lawrance and Emily LynnOsborn)I N T E R M E D I A R I E S , I N T E R P R E T E R S , A N D C L E R K S : A F R I C A NE M P L OY E E S I N T H E M A K I N G O F C O L O N I A L A F R I C A

UN IVERS I TY OF WI SCONS IN PRE S S , 2 0 0 6

Renato Rosaldo (1986–87)R E N AT O R O S A L D O : E N S AY O S E N A N T R O P O L O G Í AC R Í T I C A (edited by Rodrigo Diaz Cruz)C ASA JUAN PABLOS , 2 0 0 6

Co-editor (with Jonathan Xavier Inda)T H E A N T H R O P O L O G Y O F G L O B A L I Z AT I O N : A R E A D E R(Second edition)B LACKWELL PUBL I SH ING , 2 0 0 7

Janice Ross (2001–02)A N N A H A L P R I N : E X P E R I E N C E A S D A N C E


Debra Satz (1990–91; 2001–02)EditorT A K I N G O U R S E LV E S S E R I O U S LY A N D G E T T I N G I TR I G H T, by Harry G. FrankfurtSTANFORD UN IVERS I TY PRE S S , 2 0 0 6


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Fourteenth AnnualCelebration of Publicationsby Stanford Humanities FacultyM A R C H 1 5 , 2 0 0 7

This year marked the fourteenth annual StanfordHumanities Center celebration to honor works written,edited, and recorded by humanities faculty members atStanford and published during the 2006 calendar year.President John Hennessy and Susan Stephens, SeniorAssociate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studiesin the School of Humanities and Sciences, opened thefestivities with congratulatory remarks.

The annual book celebration, which has now expandedto include DVDs, compact discs, and other multimediaworks, featured the traditional roast and some shortinterviews with the authors. On display in LevinthalHall were a total of 86 books, 5 music CDs, and thevery first DVD entry in book celebration history.

Thispage:RODSEARCEY

PeopleDirectorsJohn Bender, DirectorMatthewTiews, Associate DirectorSusan Sebbard, Assistant Director

StaffRobert Barrick, Fellowship AdministratorJerold Blain, Office CoordinatorZoë Bower, Publications and Publicity AssistantJulie Cheng Bui, Event CoordinatorNicole Coleman, Technology Projects ManagerAndres Leroux, Computing ConsultantKent Safford, Workshop Program AdministratorNajwa Salame, Financial Manager

Student StaffWhitney Berry, Undergraduate Research AssistantLibby Greismann, Undergraduate Research AssistantRoxanne Martinez, Fellowship AssistantGrant Munyon, Office AssistantJason Ma, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Advisory BoardSandra Barnes, Anthropology, University of PennsylvaniaCoit Blacker, Political Science, Stanford UniversityAl Camarillo, History, Stanford UniversityTakashi Fujitani, History, University of California, San DiegoHester Gelber, Religious Studies, Stanford UniversityJonathan Holloway, African American Studies and History,

Yale UniversityWilfred Jaeger, Three Arch PartnersBarbara Koenig, Mayo Clinic FoundationNancy Kollmann, History, Stanford UniversityLinda R. Meier, Community VolunteerPaula Moya, English, Stanford UniversityAlex Nemerov, Art History,Yale UniversityDavid Nirenberg, History, Johns Hopkins UniversityWalter Robb, Whole Foods Market, Inc.James Spohrer, IBM Almaden Research CenterPatrick Suppes, Philosophy, Stanford University (emeritus)Ken Taylor, Philosophy, Stanford UniversityWilliam M.Todd, III, Slavic Languages and Literatures,

Harvard UniversityDavidWellbery, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago

E X O F F I C I O M E M B E R S :

Ann Arvin, Dean of Research (as of Nov. 1, 2006)John Bender, Director, Humanities Center

Arthur Bienenstock, Dean of Research (through Oct. 31, 2006)Stephen Hinton, Senior Associate Dean, Humanities and SciencesMatthewTiews, Associate Director, Humanities CenterSara Bible, Senior Associate Dean of Research

Executive CommitteeJohn Bender, Humanities CenterCoit Blacker, Political ScienceAl Camarillo, HistoryHester Gelber, Religious StudiesNancy Kollmann, HistoryPaula Moya, EnglishPatrick Suppes, PhilosophyKen Taylor, PhilosophyMatthewTiews, Humanities Center

Faculty Fellowship Selection CommitteeThomas Christensen, Music, University of ChicagoMichele Elam, English, Stanford UniversitySabine Frühstück, Asian Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraHester Gelber, Religious Studies, Stanford UniversityDavid Nirenberg, History, Johns Hopkins UniversityJohn Perry, Philosophy, Stanford UniversityMatthewTiews, Humanities Center, Stanford University (ex officio)

C H A I R :

John Bender, Humanities Center, Stanford University (ex officio)

Humanities and International StudiesSelection CommitteeJohn Bender, Humanities CenterCoit Blacker, Political ScienceBelinda Byrne, Freeman Spogli Institute for International StudiesAmir Eshel, German StudiesNancy Kollmann, HistoryMatthewTiews, Humanities Center

Honorary FellowsKeith Michael Baker, History, Stanford UniversityArthur Bienenstock, Materials Science, Stanford University (emeritus)Bliss Carnochan, English, Stanford UniversityWanda M. Corn, Art and Art History, Stanford UniversityGeorge G. Dekker, English, Stanford UniversityCharles H. Kruger, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford UniversityJ. Hillis Miller, English, University of California, IrvinePeter Stansky, History, Stanford University (emeritus)Ian P.Watt, English, Stanford University (deceased)HaydenWhite, History of Consciousness, University of California,

Santa CruzHarryWoolf, History of Science, Institute for Advanced Study

(deceased)

People


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Staff(starting from top left to right)Robert Barrick, Jerold Blain, Zoë Bower,Julie Cheng Bui, Nicole Coleman, AndresLeroux, Kent Safford, and Najwa SalameT

hispage:STEVECASTILLO

STEVEGLADFELTEE

Endowments and Grants

The Humanities Center acknowledges giftsfrom loyal friends who have helped build theCenter’s endowment, as well as those providingexpendable funds.

Named Gifts andEndowmentsTheodore and Frances GeballeG E B A L L E D I S S E R T AT I O N P R I Z E F E L L O W S H I P S

Since its inception in 1987, this endowment has provided fullfunding for one dissertation fellowship each year for a StanfordPhD student of par ticular promise. Subsequent gifts fromTheodore and Frances have made it possible to offer up to ninefully funded dissertation fellowships each year.

Anthony and Linda Meier and the MeierFamilyA N T H O N Y P. M E I E R F A M I LY P R O F E S S O R S H I P I N T H E

H U M A N I T I E ST H E L I N D A R A N D A L L M E I E R R E S E A R C H W O R K S H O P

A gift to endowment from Anthony and Linda Meier and theirthree children—Anthony Jr., Eric, and Laura—supports thedirectorship of the Humanities Center.The Chair was establishedin 1987 by the Stanford Board of Trustees. In 2004, Anthonyand Linda Meier established The Linda Randall Meier ResearchWorkshop with their gift to endowment.

The Mericos Foundation, Joanne Blokker,PresidentT H E E L L E N A N D R E W S W R I G H T F E L L O WT H E V I O L E T A N D R E W S W H I T T I E R F E L L O WT H E D O N A L D A N D R E W S W H I T T I E R F E L L O WT H E B L O K K E R R E S E A R C H W O R K S H O P

A 1988 gift to endowment has provided annual funding forStanford faculty fellowships. These fellowships are named forrelatives of JoanneWhittier Blokker, president of The MericosFoundation and longtime friend and supporter of the HumanitiesCenter. In 2005,The Mericos Foundation made a four-year pledgeto endowment to establish The Blokker ResearchWorkshop.

Theodore and Frances Geballe with Geballe Dissertation Fellows

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John and Claire RadwayT H E C L A I R E A N D J O H N R A DW AY R E S E A R C H W O R K S H O P

In 2006, John and Claire Radway established The Claire and JohnRadway ResearchWorkshop with their gift to endowment.

Marta SuttonWeeksM A R T A S U T T O N W E E K S F E L L O W ST H E W E E K S D I S T I N G U I S H E D V I S I T O RT H E M A R T A S U T T O N W E E K S R E S E A R C H W O R K S H O P

MartaWeeks’ original gift, when the Humanities Center hostedits first group of fellows in 1982, has endowed several externalfaculty fellowships each year. An additional gift in 1987 providedfunds to bring to Stanford a visiting distinguished lecturer for staysvarying in duration from one week to one quarter. Marta madeanother generous gift to the Center’s endowment in 1995 tofurther strengthen the Center’s fellowship program. In 2004, Martaestablished The Marta SuttonWeeks ResearchWorkshop.

AnonymousT H E A N O N Y M O U S N A M E D R E S E A R C H W O R K S H O P

In 2005, friends of the Humanities Center established TheAnonymous Named ResearchWorkshop with a gift to endowment.

The AndrewW. Mellon FoundationIn December 2003, the Mellon Foundation awarded theHumanities Center a $1 million matching grant to endow theStanford Humanities Center’s ResearchWorkshops.This awardmarked the launch of the Humanities Center’s campaign to raise$1 million to match this gift.Two successive expendable grantsfrom Mellon have sustained the workshops since their inceptionin 1995.

National Endowment for the Humanities(NEH)In December 2004, the National Endowment for the Humanitiesawarded the Humanities Center a three-year $600,000 challengegrant.The award pledges endowment to support the ResearchWorkshops. In 1997, the Humanities Center was awarded achallenge grant from the NEH to provide endowment supportfor all of the Center’s programs. However, the major portion ofthe endowment was intended to support the Center’s externalfellowships, putting their funding on a permanent financial basis.

GrantsThe Office of the PresidentWith the support of the Office of the President, the Centerarranges the Presidential and Endowed Lectures in the Humanitiesand the Arts, which include and are also supported by theHarry Camp Memorial and Raymond F.West Memorial lectures.Each year these ongoing series present a variety of lectures bydistinguished scholars from around the world.

The Office of the Vice Provost forUndergraduate EducationU N D E R G R A D U AT E R E S E A R C H A S S I S T A N T F E L L O W S H I P S

Through a generous grant from theVice Provost for UndergraduateEducation, the Center completed its sixth year of offeringfellowships to undergraduate research fellows.This fellowshipprogram introduces undergraduate students to the intellectuallife of the Humanities Center and provides opportunities forstudents to receive mentoring from faculty fellows. Faculty, inturn, benefit from the research assistance of these students.

“My year as a Geballe Fellow at theStanford Humanities Center has beentransformative intellectually, professionally,and personally.”C H R I S T Y P I C H I C H E R O , G E B A L L E D I S S E R T AT I O NP R I Z E F E L L O W, 2 0 0 6 – 0 7

Donors

We gratefully acknowledge and thank all our donors.Their gifts are critical to the campaign to secure the future of the research workshops at Stanford.The following list represents new gifts received between September 1, 2006 and August 31, 2007.

Director’s Circle($5,000+)Laurose Richter andBurton Richter

Benefactor($2,000–$4,999)Anne O. DauerGrace Hoagland andLaurence Hoagland, Jr.

Andrea Stryer and Lubert Stryer

Patron($500–$1,999)Barbara Babcock and Tom GreyJohn and Ann BenderJohn BravmanAl CamarilloZephyr FrankHester GelberShirley Brice HeathChristian HenriotDavid KennedyBarbara KoenigCarolyn LougeeDiane MiddlebrookJack RakoveArnold RampersadDavid RiggsRichard RortyPeter StanksyJohn TreatDavidWellberyMarilynYalom and Irvin D.YalomArnold Zwicky

Donor ($100–$499)Anonymous Donor (2)Celia ApplegateGail BedermanJudith BrownSarah BurnsAnna Maria Busse-Berger

Karol BergerCarlo CaballeroGordon ChangVictory Van Dyck Chase andTheodore Chase, Jr.(In Honor of Bliss Carnochan)

George DekkerHilde DeWeerdtFred DretskeRichard EldridgeElizabeth EisensteinRobert FinkEckart FörsterTakashi FujitaniJonathan GreenbergCharles GriswoldChristine GuthElisabeth HansotVan HarveyJonathan HollowayMatthew JockersTroy JollimoreLaurie KoloskiArthur KnightWilliam KuskinJosh LandyBoris LaninAngus LockyerDavid LubinMing-Qian MaGail MahoodMaria MakelaKathryn McKnightMaureen MillerAlex NemerovDavid NirenbergAndrew ParkerKonstantin PollockEric PorterKathryn Potterf *Nancy ReynoldsHarriet RitvoNancy RuttenbergHaun SaussyDenise Schmandt-BesseratJonathan Schofer

Matthew SommerMatthew TiewsWilliamTronzoPeter VargyasRobin ValenzaBarbara AnnWhitmanKärenWigenJonahWillihnganzMartinaWinklerGwendolynWrightTimothyYuAna Celia ZentellaLinda Zerilli

Friend ($1–$99)Anonymous Donor (2)Sandra BarnesJerold BlainJosé BowenMargaret ButlerIlias ChrissochoidisLisa ClaypoolGeorge CollierJane CollierThomas ConlanElizabeth Heckendorn CookJames DawsonCarol DelaneyEstelle FreedmanMarisa GalvezMalick GhachemWendy GriswoldMartin JayStephanie JedDane JohnsonJ. Scott JohnsonNancy KollmannBarnabas MalnayRachel MayGail MortimerPaula MoyaGonzalo MunévarFelicity NussbaumHilton ObenzingerMark Pentecost

Christy PichicheroPeter RailtonKaren RappAnnette RichardsNa’ama RokemJanice RossAmy SchmitterJohn SeeryEmily ShapiroBrent SocknessMort SosnaRoberta StrippoliShannon SweeneyRichard TerdimanHans ThomallaKatie TrumpenerElizabethWahlKendallWaltonThomasWasowGillianWeissLesleyWrightMike Zachary

FoundationsThe Richard & Natalie JacoffFoundation, Inc.

Matching GiftsOracle Corporation

Also gave through a matching gift.

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Financial OverviewEndowment and expendable gifts provide crucial funding for Humanities Center programs.The Center also receives funding for basic expenses and new initiatives from the Dean ofResearch and the Office of the President.

Loyal donors continue to enhance the Center’s endowment, and gifts from former fellowsto the research workshops enjoy extra matching. See page 60 for details and visit our websiteat http://shc.stanford.edu/center/giving.htm.

Fiscal Year September 1, 2006 to August 31, 2007The pie charts reflect the percentages by category of funding sources and program expenses,based on total expenditures of $2.54 million.

Funding SourcesEndowment – 64%

University Funds – 33%

Gifts – <1%

Grants and Contracts – 2%

Designated Funds – <1%

Program ExpensesFellowship Program – 53%

Pilot Programs – 7%

Public Lectures and Conferences – 10%

Workshop Program – 7%

Program Administration – 23%

Be a Friend of the Center

Gifts and Contributionsfrom friends of the Humanities Center are indispensable to its work-shops, fellowships, and outreach.To become a friend, please returnthis form to the address below. All gifts are tax deductible and counttowards The Stanford Challenge, the university’s campaign.

W AY S T O G I V E :

• Write a check• Make an online gift (http://shc.stanford.edu/center/giving.htm)• Make a pledge• Donate your honorarium (http://shc.stanford.edu/center/donatehonoraria.htm)• Transfer stock sales• Make a planned gift (http://bequestsandtrusts.stanford.edu)

Gift OpportunitiesAlthough gifts of $100,000 or greater are required for naming, we welcome contributions ofany size. Every gift makes a difference!

Yes, I would like my gift of $ to count toward the researchworkshops endowment campaign.

Please support the Center by making a tax-deductible donation.

Friend $1–$99Donor $100–$499Patron $500–$1,999Benefactor $2,000–$4,999Director’s Circle $5,000+Named Gift $100,000+

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