September 20, 2004

Humanities Fellows Announced For 2004-05

The University's Humanities Institute has announced this year's Fellows and their projects.

External Fellows are:
Elisabeth Frost, professor of English, Fordham University
"In Another Tongue: Image, Text, and the Body in Contemporary Feminist Art and Poetry"

Peg O'Connor, professor of women's studies and philosophy, Gustavus Adolphus College
"Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life: Feminist Meta-Ethics"

UConn Fellows are:
Fakhreddin Azimi, associate professor of history
"Reinventing Authoritarian Rule in post-1953 Iran"

John Davis, professor of history
"The Jews of San Nicandro"

Cornelia Dayton, associate professor of history (deferred to 2005/2006)
"Self and Sanity in Pre-Asylum New England"

Jean Marsden, professor of English
"Drama and Eighteenth-Century Culture"

Sherri Olson, associate professor of history
"Peasant Culture and the Village Court: Medieval England's 'Invisible World'"

Osvaldo Pardo, associate professor of modern & classical languages (deferred to 2005/2006)
"Between Law and Religion: Honor in Early Colonial Latin America"

V. Penelope Pelizzon, assistant professor of English
"The Monongahela Book of Hours and New Poems"

Janet Watson, associate professor of history
"Telling War Stories: National Identity, Conservatism, and the Memory of the Second World War in Britain, 1979-1995"

Graduate Student Dissertation Fellows are:
Andreas Prieto, modern & classical languages
"The Natural History of South American Jesuits: Nature, Evangelization , and Political Propaganda in South America, 1588-1676"
Chandra Wells, English
"Befriending the Other(ed) Woman: Fictions of Interracial Female Friendship"