Humanities Institute announces Fellows

The Humanities Institute has announced its fellowship awards for 2008-2009. The recipients are:

External Faculty Fellowship Awards:
Barbara Fultner (Philosophy, Denison University)
Meaning, Intersubjectivity, and Social Practice: Social Theories of Meaning

Stuart Liebman (Cinema Studies and History, Queens College, CUNY)
The Representation of Atrocity: The Cold War and Early Holocaust Cinema

UConn Faculty Fellows:
Amanda Bailey (English)
Of Bondage: Human Capital and the Early Modern Theater

Jonathan David Bobaljik (Linguistics)
(Grammar of) Itelmen: A Language on the Brink

Rosa Helena Chinchilla (Modern & Classical Languages)
Literary Patronage in Spain (1500-1560)

Jeremy Pressman (Political Science)
Sixty Years of Conflict: The Central Historical Themes in Arab-Israeli Relations

Helen Rozwadowski (History)
Always the Last Frontier: The 1960s Ocean

Nancy Shoemaker (History)
New England Indians and the American Whaling Industry