The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute is pleased to announce its Fellowship Awards for 2015-16:
External Faculty Fellowships
Peter Constantine “Translation and annotation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s autobiography
Between the Millstones”
Joshua Schechter “Reasoning and Rationality: The Epistemology of our Most Basic Patterns of Inference”
UConn Faculty Fellowships
César Abadía-Barrero “Health Ruins: From Post-Colonial to Post Neoliberal ‘Medical Care’ in
Columbia”
Susan Einbinder “Eleh Ezkerah: Trauma and Medieval Jewish Literature”
Hassanaly Ladha “The Idea of Africa: Hegel, Architecture, and the Political Subject”
Diane Lillo-Martin “Sign Language Acquisition: Archiving and Sharing”
Natalie Munro “A 30,000 year history of human foraging and farming in the Aegean: the view
from Franchthi Cave, Greece”
Brad Simpson “The First Right: Self Determination and the Transformation of International
Politics”
Peter Zarrow “The Utopian Impulse in Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1890-1940”
Dissertation Fellowships
Joanna A. MacGugan “Competing authorities and contested spaces: Dying in Dublin in the reign of Edward I”
Christiana Salah “The Popular Invention of the Victorian Governess, 1815-2015”
Draper Dissertation Fellowships
Hilary Bogert-Winkler “Prayerful Protest and Clandestine Conformity: Alternative Liturgies and the Book of Common Prayer in Interregnum England”
Allison B. Horrocks “The Family and the Home as the Nursery of Humanity”: Flemmie Kittrell and the International Politics of Home Economics
For more information, contact: uchi at 486-9057