September 29, 2003

Humanities Fellows Named

The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute has announced this year's Fellows and their projects:

Residential Fellows
Cynthia MacDonald (Philosophy, University of Canterbury, NZ), "Self-Knowledge: Entitlement, Privilege, Authority"

Sonya Stephens (French, University of London, U.K.), "The Art of the Unfinished: Forms of the non finito in Nineteenth-Century France"

UConn Fellows
Peter Baldwin (History), "American Night: A History of Urban Public Space, 1800-1930"

Rae Beth Gordon (Modern & Classical Languages/French), "Primitivism, Pathology, and the Idea of Modernity in Popular Culture"

Kenneth Gouwens (History), "Clement VII and the Crisis of the Renaissance Papacy"

Joel Kupperman (Philosophy), "Values in Ethics"

Michael Orwicz (Art & Art History), "Gauguin's Brittany: Representations of Regionalism, Nationalism, and Modernism in the Early Third Republic"

Sylvia Schafer (History), "Liberty, Equality, Alterity: Law and the Government of Difference in Modern France"

UConn Graduate Fellows

Charles McGraw (History), "Every Nurse is not a Sister: Sex, Work, and the Invention of the Spanish-American War Nurse"

Timothy Nulty (Philosophy), "Davidson and Heidegger on the Nature of Truth"

For more information about the Humanities Institute, its programs, or its Fellows, go to www.humanities.uconn.edu.