The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute is pleased to announce its Residential Faculty and Dissertation Fellowship awards for 2016-17:
External Faculty Fellowships:
Robert T. Chase (History - Stony Brook University)
“Civil Rights on the Cell Block: Prisoners’ Rights Movements and the Construction of Carceral States, 1945-1995”
Leo J. Garafalo (History – Connecticut College)
“Forging a Place in the Spanish Empire: Black European Sailors, Soldiers, and Traders to the Americas”
UConn Faculty Fellowships
Anna Mae Duane (English) - “Strange Place Blues: The Unusual Education of Three African American Leaders”
Mark Healey (History) – “Waterscapes of Power in the Dry Lands of Argentina, 1880-2000”
Daniel Hershenzon (Literatures, Cultures & Languages) – “Captivity, Commerce, and Communication: Early Modern Spain and the
Mediterranean”
Daniel Silvermint (Philosophy) – “Complicit Identities: The Ethics of Looking Out for Yourself”
Christine Sylvester (Political Science) – “Objects of War: Whose Wars Are on View?”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Anthropology) - “Homo Ritualis. Extreme Rituals as Social Technologies”
UConn Dissertation Fellowships:
Jeffrey R. Egan (History- Draper Fellowship Award) – “Watershed Decisions: The Environmental History of the Quabbin Reservoir, 1880-1940”
Melanie Meinzer (Political Science- Draper Fellowship Award) – “Contested Consciousness: Foreign Aid and Palestinian Education in the West Bank and Jordan”
Troy Messick (Linguistics) – “The Morphosyntax of Self-Ascription: A Cross-Linguistic Study”
George Moore (English) – “The Return of Dagon: Failed Iconoclasm in Early Modern English Literature”
For more information, contact: UCHI at uchi@uconn.edu