OHC announces 2012–13 fellowship awards

The Oregon Humanities Center supports exciting and innovative research by faculty and graduate students. Humanities scholars expand and illuminate our understanding of human experience through the exploration and interpretation of a wide range of cultural questions.

Faculty Research Fellowships
provide a term free of teaching to pursue research full time as part of a community of scholars

Mark Carey, Clark Honors College: “Encounters with Ice: How Glaciers Shaped Society, Advanced Science, and Captured our Imagination” (Fall)

Matthew Dennis, History and Environmental Studies: “American Relics: The Politics of Public Memory” (Spring) Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship

Gantt Gurley, German and Scandinavian: “The Wandering Jew in Long Romanticism” (Fall)

Katharina Loew, German and Scandinavian: “Techo-Romanticism: Special Effects in German Silent Cinema” (Spring)

Jeffrey Ostler, History: “The Destruction and Survival of American Indian Nations, 1754-1900” (Spring) Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship

Michael Stern, German and Scandinavian: “The Existential Gesture” (Spring) Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies

Courtney Thorsson, English: “Revolutionary Recipes: Foodways and African American Literature” (Fall) Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies

David Vazquez, English: “Latina/o Literature and the Cross-Currents of U.S. Environmentalism” (Fall)


Faculty Teaching Fellowships
provide a summer stipend for course development plus course enrichment funds

Pedro García-Caro, Romance Languages: SPAN 328 U.S. Hispanic Literature: Herencia Cultural (Spring) Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities

Ben Saunders, English: ENG 280 Introduction to Comic Studies (Fall) Sherl K. Coleman and Margaret E. Guitteau Teaching Professorship in the Humanities

Daniel Wojcik, English: ENG 410/510 Apocalypse Now and Then: The End of the World in American Culture and Consciousness (Fall).


Graduate Dissertation Fellowships
provide one term free of teaching to allow full-time work on the dissertation (awarded in collaboration with the UO Graduate School)

Meagan Evans, English: “Sounding Silence: 20th-Century American Experimental Feminist Poetics” (Fall)

Linda Konnerth, Linguistics: “Descriptive Grammar of Karbi” (Spring)

Carrie Adkins, History: “Women and the Transformation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 1870-1920” (Winter)

Alternate:
Emily Gilkey, History: “‘To Be A Woman Like Any Other’: Infertility and Alternative Forms of Family Creation in 19th Century France” (Winter)


Graduate Research Support Fellowships
provide up to $1000 in dissertation support during the fellowship year

Feather Crawford, History: “Settler Culture, Everyday Life, and Imperial Republicanism in the Florida Borderlands”

Lucy Schultz, Philosophy: “The Master and the Genius: East-West Perspectives on Art, Nature, and the Self”

Shu Yang, EALL: “The Shrew Is Back: Revisiting ‘New Woman’ Image in Early-Twentieth-Century China”

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