Davis Fellows 2011-12
We're pleased to announce the Fellows for 2011-12 under the topic of Authority and Legitmation
Paul Friedland, Independent Scholar
Topic: Humane Slaughter: Animals, Human Beings and the Sovereign Right to Kill
Year
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth University
Topic: Crusade, Liturgy, Ideology, and Devotion (1095-1400)
Second Semester
Doris Garraway, Northwestern University
Topic: Performing Sovereignty: Power, Print and Spectacle in the Haitian Kingdom of Henry Christophe
First Semester
Polly Jones, University of Oxford
Topic: Burying Stalin? Remembering Stalin(ism) and Rethinking Authority and Legitimation in the Post-Stalinist Soviet Union
First Semester
Christine Philliou, Columbia University
Topic: Authority Displaced: Ottoman Intellect in a Modern World
Second Semester
Jonathan Rieder, Barnard College
Topic: The Art of Legitimation: Indignation and Authority in "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Fall Semester
Hilda Sabato, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Topic: The Republican Experiment in Spanish America
Second Semester
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, University of Warsaw
Topic: Zydokommuna (Judeo-Commune). Nationalistic Legitimization of Communist Rule in Poland in 1944-1956
Year