Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts

Director

Susan Stewart is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and also a member of the associated faculty of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton. A poet and critic, she teaches the history of poetry and the philosophy of literature. Her most recent books of criticism are The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making, forthcoming in November; Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, which won the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism in 2003 from Phi Beta Kappa and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2004; and The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics, a collection of her writings on contemporary art. Her most recent books of poetry are Red Rover, Columbarium, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle award, and The Forest. Her translation, Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini, appeared in 2009 with Princeton University Press. She also has translated Euripides' Andromache with Wesley Smith and the poetry and selected prose of the Scuola Romana painter Scipione with Brunella Antomarini. Her song cycle, "Songs for Adam," commissioned by the Chicago Symphony with music by the composer James Primosch, had its world premiere with baritone Brian Mulligan and the CSO, Sir Andrew Davis conducting, in October 2009. A former MacArthur Fellow, Professor Stewart has served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 and in the Spring of 2009 she received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Executive Director

Mary Harper received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation on Gérard de Nerval and the nineteenth-century European "voyage en Orient." Her current research projects include a study of women's memoirs in early nineteenth-century France; law and narrative in mid nineteenth-century France; and the accounts of nineteenth-century European travellers to the Middle East with particular focus on questions of gender, colonialism, and the interplay of ethnography and aesthetics. She has published articles on Gérard de Nerval's Voyage en Orient and "Temple d'Isis," Delacroix's "Femmes d'Alger," and nineteenth-century French literature and historiography. Her teaching at Princeton University has included courses on nineteenth-century European literature and culture, the modern French novel, and Orientalism.

Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellows

New Fellows 2011-14

Hannah Freed-Thall holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California-Berkeley. Her dissertation, “Spoiled Distinctions: Everyday Aesthetics in French Modernism,” examines the relation between art and the ordinary in 20^th-century fiction and philosophy. The project identifies three experimental aesthetic concepts that destabilize hierarchies of taste: Marcel Proust’s “quelconque” (or “whatever”), Roland Barthes’ “nuance,” and Nathalie Sarraute’s “douceâtre” (or “sickly-sweet”). Freed-Thall’s articles have appeared or are forthcoming in New Literary History, Modern Language Notes, and Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. At Berkeley, she taught a wide range of courses in French and Comparative Literature, from “Shakespeare in the World” to “Adventures in the Contemporary French Novel.” In 2011-2012 she will offer a fall course in the French department on emotion in modernity, and in the spring will participate as a member of the faculty team in Humanistic Studies 217-218, a course which explores interdisciplinary approaches to Western culture since the Renaissance. At Princeton she will prepare her dissertation for publication while pursuing research on a second book project, tentatively titled “‘C’est vraiment dégueulasse’: The Rhetoric of Revulsion in 20^th-century France.” 

Douglas A. Jones, Jr. holds a joint Ph.D. in Drama and Humanities from Stanford University, where his dissertation, “The ‘Common Sense’ of Slavery: Race, Performance, and a ‘Peculiar’ America, 1817-1861,” won the Wendell Cole Memorial Prize for Distinguished Dissertation. This study forms the core of his book manuscript, which considers how proslavery ideology conditioned the social, political, and cultural landscapes of the post-slavery north in the decades before the Civil War. This project reflects Jones’ broader research interests, namely, the cultural and literary history of the early national and antebellum United States, 19th and 20th century African American literature, the cultural history and historiography of slavery, publics, and theories of race and performance. In these areas, he has published a number of journal articles, reviews, and essays in edited collections. His most recent publication, “An Ambivalent Beginning: Slavery, Performance, and the Design of African American Theatre,” is the opening essay in the forthcoming collection, The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre (Harvey Young, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2012). Jones has delivered a wide range of scholarly talks at national and regional conferences as well as given invited lectures at a number of universities. At Stanford, he earned several fellowships and grants for his scholarly work and his teaching and mentorship there was recognized with a Service Award to Undergraduate Life. In 2011-2012, he will teach an upper-level seminar in the fall, “The Drama of Making America: Staging Race from the Revolution to the Civil War,” and a Freshman Seminar in the spring, “Slavery and American Culture.” Jones is also the Resident Faculty Fellow of Wilson College at Princeton.

Joel Lande completed his Ph.D. in 2010 at the University of Chicago in the Department of Germanic Studies. His dissertation, “Nomadic Stages: On the Emergency of Literary Drama in the Age of Enlightenment,“ explores the lines of filiation that run from the itinerant stage of the Early Modern period to the seminal achievements of Lessing, Lenz, and Goethe. This study analyzes the medial and generic dimensions of the Enlightenment project to alter the cultural locus of the theater. Lande has won numerous grants to support his studies at the University of Chicago, including the Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship. His extensive teaching experience includes courses at all levels of the curriculum in both German language and literature, among these a number of self-designed courses on drama in the Enlightenment period. Lande has published articles in the Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte as well as in essay collections on Karl Philipp Moritz and K.W.F. Solger. Two projects currently underway are a conference volume that treats the notion of figura in the 17th century, and an examination of folk-theatrical forms in the postwar Viennese avant-garde. In the course of his studies, Lande spent extended periods of time in Basel, Berlin, and Konstanz. At Princeton, Lande will coordinate and lecture in the two-semester sequence, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture: Antiquity to the Modern Period (HUM 216-219), a course that fits particularly well with his interest in the semantics of classical literary forms in the modern period.    At Princeton Lande will also be the Resident Faculty Fellow of Forbes College.

Ellen Lockhart has recently finished a PhD in Musicology at Cornell University. Her dissertation, entitled "Moving Statues: The Rise and Fall of Pygmalion, 1770-1815," charted the development of an aesthetic of animation within opera, dance, and music theory on the Italian peninsula. This research has been published in the form of articles in Eighteenth-Century Music and the Cambridge Opera Journal. While at Cornell, Ellen organized a conference on musical travels and the eighteenth-century musicologist Charles Burney, which featured a complete staging of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's opera The Cunning Man (arr. Burney). Her critical edition of Donizetti's Betly for Ricordi was published by Recordi in 2011, and she is currently reconstructing an early version of Puccini's La fanciulla del West for a 2012 performance conducted by Riccardo Chailly (with a complete critical edition to follow). Ellen recently completed a DAAD Fellowship on "Media (Theory), Performance (Theory), and Mise-en-Scene," led by David Levin at the University of Chicago. At Princeton, she will study theories of operatic media and performance in the first half of the nineteenth century, and lead seminars on editing opera (with Wendy Heller) and French and Italian opera industries of the eighteenth century. Ellen is also the Resident Faculty Fellow of Butler College at Princeton.

Tey Meadow holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University and a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law. Her work examines the ways social institutions such as law, politics and the family respond to challenges to gender and sexual classifications. She is currently at work on a book, entitled Raising Transgender, which examines the first generations of parents actively supporting and facilitating gender nonconformity in their children. The dissertation, from which the book is based, won the Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship from the American Sociological Association. Tey's previous projects include a study of how U.S. courts cope with individuals who seek to alter their legal gender and a comparative historical analysis of the law and politics of same sex marriage in South Africa and the United States. Her work has received support from the American Sociological Association, The Social Science Research Council, the Institute for Public Knowledge, and New York University. Tey maintains an active commitment to public sociology and LGBT human rights; she currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, has held a Bennett Fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, and contributed to reports on LGBT youth for the National Institutes of Health. Her teaching experience includes courses ranging from general surveys of sociology and law to specialized courses on sexual diversity, transgender studies and Islamic law and human rights at a number of universities in the United States and South Africa. During the 2011-2012 academic year, she will teach a lecture course in Sociology on “Sex, Gender, Sexuality” and a Freshman Seminar entitled “From Mars and Venus: Cultural Ideas of Male/Female Difference.”
 

2010-2013
 

Simon Grote completed his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on early modern European and late antique intellectual history. He also holds an A.B. in History (Harvard College) and an M.Phil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History (Cambridge University). In the book he is now preparing, provisionally entitled The Origins of Modern Aesthetic Theory, he aims to rewrite the early history of modern aesthetic theory in Scotland and Germany by situating its origins in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century theology, moral philosophy, and natural law theory. While working on this book, he plans to expand his focus to include early eighteenth-century Swiss aesthetic theories against the background of Swiss Pietism. His research in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany has been supported by Jacob Javits, Gates-Cambridge, Fritz Thyssen, and DAAD Fellowships, among other awards. He has published articles on the moral theories of Shaftesbury and Francis Hutcheson, the German Pietist background of Alexander Baumgarten’s aesthetics, the fourth-century Brevarium of Festus, and the career of George Santayana at Harvard University. His teaching experience at Berkeley included undergraduate seminars on Augustine and his modern intellectual legacy, and on Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment. At Princeton, he has taught a seminar on the Enlightenment, and collaborated in the team-taught Humanistic Studies course exploring interdisciplinary approaches to Western culture from Antiquity to the Renaissance.  His teaching in 2011-12 includes a lecture course on German history from Martin Luther to Napoleon, and the latter half of the team-taught Humanistic Studies course from the Renaissance to Modernity.  He is also Associate Director of the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows.

Christina Halperin holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation, “Materiality, Bodies, and Practice: The Political Economy of Late Classic Figurines from Motul de San José, Petén, Guatemala,” examines Late Classic (ca. A.D. 600-900) Maya state and household relations through the production, circulation, imagery and use of ceramic figurines. Her dissertation research, supported by Wenner-Gren, NSF and Fulbright fellowships among other awards, calls attention to the ritual participation of common peoples, women, and children in the production of both household and state. She has published extensively on topics such as Classic Maya Textile Production, Polychrome Pottery Production, Ancient Maya Water Ideology, Social Power and Sacred Space, and has recently co-edited a book on “Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena” (2009), which was awarded a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. In addition she has conducted excavations and cave surveys at numerous sites in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize. As a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois and Lecturer at UC Riverside, Halperin taught a wide range of courses including "Archaeological Theory,” “Ritual Economy,” "Introduction to World Prehistory" and “Gender and Archaeology.” At Princeton in 2011-12 she will teach a seminar on Pre-Columbian Maya Art, which will involve a student trip to Guatemala, and a Freshman Seminar on Ancient Pottery.

Janet Vertesi received her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University in 2009, where her dissertation analyzed the use of images to both conduct scientific investigations of Mars and plan robotic operations on its surface, demonstrating how interactions with and around Mars Rover images create a social space that is both public and political. She holds a B.A. in Religion, Literature and the Arts from the University of British Columbia, and an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University. She has won many awards for her undergraduate and graduate work, including NSF, Mellon, Sage, SSHRC, and History of Science Society/NASA History Office Fellowships; and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Irvine's Informatics Department. Her numerous publications cover a variety of topics in the history and sociology of science, technology, and visual studies, including “Picturing the Moon: Hevelius and Riccioli’s Visual Debate” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, “Pygmalion’s Legacy: Cyborg Women in Science Fiction,” and an award-winning article published in Social Studies of Science (2008): “’Mind the Gap’: The London Underground Map and Users’ Experience of Urban Space.” At Princeton Vertesi is completing her manuscript, Seeing Like a Rover: Images in Interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, and co-editing a new volume of the classic Representation in Scientific Practice. She is also conducting a second interdisciplinary research project, “The Social Life of Spacecraft,” funded by an NSF Social Computational Systems grant, which introduces a comparative ethnographic aspect (a study of the Cassini mission to Saturn) to her analysis of the socio-technical organization of space missions. She continues her work in interdisciplinary studies in informatics with current publications at CHI focusing on technologies in transnational contexts. Her teaching experience as a graduate student included such courses as the history of computers, science in the public arena, and the sociology of science, as well as a Freshman seminar she designed on the relationships between science and art. At Princeton she is teaching courses on The Sociology of Technology and Critical Approaches to Human-Computer Interaction.

2009-2012
 

On Barak earned a Joint Ph.D. in History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from NYU. He is revising for publication his dissertation, "Egyptian Times: Temporality, Personhood and the Techno-Political Making of Modern Egypt, 1830-1930," which explores the history of communication and transportation in Egypt. Through examining the introduction of new technologies such as the railway and telegraph, the study retraces the development of unique practices of timekeeping, conviviality, and personhood. Barak also holds a Joint B.A. in Law, Arabic Language and Literature from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and an M.A. in Islamic Studies from Leiden University, Netherlands. His work was supported by numerous scholarships and awards, including an NSF dissertation grant and an SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship. Among Barak's publications are several works of prose and poetry; translations of short stories, essays and poetry from both English and Arabic into Hebrew; a study of Islamic chat rooms, "Names without Faces" (2006); and "Scraping the Surface: The Techno-Politics of Modern Streets in Turn-of-Twentieth-Century Alexandria," published in Mediterranean Historical Review (2009). He is currently collaborating with photographer Xenia Nikolskaya on a book project about empty spaces in Cairo. In addition he has served as a news editor, literary critic, and legal correspondent for Israeli newspapers. His teaching at Princeton has included a graduate seminar, Modernity and its Critics in the Middle East, and a seminar on the modern history of Egypt. In the Spring he will teach a seminar titled Energy and Empire, which is also the subject of his new research project. 

Cullen Blake received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University. He has conducted research on many topics, exploring such questions as the nature of the most energetic explosions in the universe and the rate of occurrence of extrasolar planets orbiting stars much smaller than our Sun. His dissertation, "Ultracool Dwarfs and Their Companions," explored the development of new techniques for making precise measurements of small stars known as brown dwarfs. These new experimental techniques may one day enable the detection of Earth-like extrasolar planets orbiting small stars. Today, these techniques enable astronomers to better understand the physical properties of brown dwarfs, enigmatic objects with properties intermediate between those of small stars and giant planets like Jupiter. As a graduate student, Cullen was supported by a fellowship from the interdisciplinary Harvard 'Origins of Life in the Universe’ Initiative, and he was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. While at Harvard, Cullen taught a number of undergraduate science courses and received an award for distinction in teaching. He has been involved in several programs that provide undergraduates with research experience and has helped advise students working on both undergraduate and Masters' theses. At Princeton, Cullen will continue to search for planets outside our solar system, teach undergraduate astronomy courses, and work to establish a nation-wide program to match talented high school students who are hoping to become involved in scientific research with young scientists who will act as their mentors.

Russ Leo holds a Ph.D. from the Program in Literature at Duke University. His dissertation, "Affect Before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza," investigates affective approaches to faith in order to account for the revelatory and revolutionary possibilities of poetry, theology and philosophy in early modernity. His interdisciplinary interests span early modern studies, theology, gender and sexuality studies, philosophy and literary theory. He earned a B.A. in English from SUNY College at Fredonia, and at Duke won numerous scholarships for his graduate work, including grants to attend The Folger Institute in Washington, D.C. He also received graduate certificates in Feminist Studies and Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Duke University. Leo has published on topics ranging from Augustine and Milton to Spinoza and Lacan.  Since arriving at Princeton, Leo has taught a Freshman Seminar on gender, belief and agency in early modern drama and poetry; courses in English, including " The Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Literature, Art and Culture" and "Reformation Poetry and Drama"; and also served on the faculty for Humanistic Studies 217-218. In the coming year he will teach "The English Drama to 1700," a survey of texts and dramatic techniques from the late Middle Ages to the Restoration in which students will follow the vicissitudes of sin and sexuality on the English stage.  At Princeton Leo will develop his earlier investigations of affect and faith into a more comprehensive book project, tentatively titled Reformation Tragedy: Affect and Necessity, a work that examines the philosophico-theological purchase of tragedy in early modernity by tracing the importance of tragedy across diverse early modern disciplines, looking closely at work by William Shakespeare, Fulke Greville, Milton, and the Dutch dramatic society Nil Volentibus Arduum, as well as Calvin, Daniel Heinsius, David Pareus, Spinoza, and the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century editors and translators of Aristotle's Poetics.  He will also begin a series of articles on Milton, Spinoza and the larger contexts of seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch poetry and drama as well as a history of affect and politics in psychoanalytic writing.  Leo will join the Faculty in the English Department at Princeton University in Fall 2012.

Nikolaos Panou received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University with a dissertation on "How to do Kings with Words: Byzantine Imperial Ideology and the Representation of Power in Pre-Phanariot Admonitory Literature." His research examines the ways power and authority were conceptualized and represented in pre-modern philosophical discourse, with a particular focus on moral and political works produced in the Ottoman Balkans in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He has won numerous fellowships and awards for his graduate studies, including a Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Research Grant and the Aristides Evangelus Phoutrides Scholarship in Modern Greek Studies. During 2008-2009, he held the Hannah Seeger Davis Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Princeton's Program in Hellenic Studies. His scholarly interests extend over a number of fields, such as reception studies, late antique rhetoric and ideology, medieval hagiography, early modern moral and political thought, Romanticism, Surrealist literature and art, and film studies. While a graduate student at Harvard, he taught a wide range of courses in the Department of the Classics and the Core Curriculum, as well as in The Greek Institute, where he offered a series of self-designed seminars on modern Greek literature and culture. At Princeton he will conduct an extensive study of the Phanariot Enlightenment and the impetus for change and modernization it introduced to the Ottoman Empire. He is also in the process of editing, with Hester Schadee, a collective volume on tyranny and conceptions of bad kingship from Antiquity to the Renaissance. In the last two years he has taught courses on topics ranging from late medieval representations of power to applied ethics, also joining in Spring 2011 the faculty team of Humanistic Studies 216-219, a course exploring interdisciplinary approaches to Western culture from Antiquity to the present. This year he will co-teach with Professor Anthony Grafton a course on the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, focusing on the role of this intellectual controversy in redefining concepts such as mimesis and originality, objectivity and imagination, tradition and innovation, decline and progress.

Hester Schadee has completed a D.Phil. in History at Oxford University, where she also earned a B.A. in Ancient and Modern History and an M.Phil. in Greek and Roman History. Schadee’s research interests are the Intellectual History of Renaissance Italy, and Classical Reception studies. Her dissertation, “Julius Caesar in the Early Italian Renaissance,” which she is currently revising for publication, examines the reception of Caesar in humanist prose, vernacular poetry, the visual arts and spectacle. Schadee's articles on Caesar have appeared in major journals of Renaissance and Classical studies, and she has won numerous awards and scholarships, including the Senior Paget Toynbee Prize (2007) for Dante studies. At Oxford, she served as tutor in Early Modern History and as a teaching assistant for specialist classes on Renaissance Art and Culture, as well as tutoring at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. During her first two years at Princeton, Schadee coordinated and lectured in the team-taught, two-semester sequence course, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture: Antiquity to the Modern Period (HUM 216-219), teaching on subjects ranging from Herodotus to Simone de Beauvoir. Last spring she also co-convened a neo-Latin reading seminar for graduate students under the title “Latin Letters about Latin Letters,” and a one-day conference, The Second Day of the Bad King. In the coming academic year she will be an adviser for Junior Projects and Senior Theses in the fields of Italian Humanism, Classical Reception, and European Visual Culture 1300-1700. Schadee’s own projects include a co-edited volume with Nikos Panou, Evil Lords: Theory and Representation from Antiquity to the Renaissance; a translation for the I Tatti Renaissance Library entitled Poggio on Princes and Tyrants, together with David Rundle; and a chapter in the Cambridge Companion to Caesar, under the heading “The General as a Writer: Caesar’s Nachleben in Political Memoirs.” 

Kerim Yasar holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and a B.A. in Music from Wesleyan University. His book manuscript, Electrified Voices: Auditory Technology and Culture in Prewar Japan examines the roles played by the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and sound film in the discursive, aesthetic, and ideological practices of Japan from 1868 to 1945. He has won numerous fellowships over his graduate career, including the Fulbright, Weatherhead, Orient Finance, and Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho) Research Scholarship. He has published translations from Japanese in a variety of genres and media, from contemporary Japanese novels to selections from pre-modern verse anthologies to subtitles for over seventy Japanese films in the Criterion Collection and Janus Film libraries. Yasar has also gained broad and deep teaching experience in Japanese Studies. He was Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese at Boston University from 2008-9, where he taught courses entitled "Sound Worlds in Japanese Popular Culture," "Masterpieces of Classical Japanese Literature," "Literature of the Fantastic in Modern Japan," and "Representations of the Family in Japanese Cinema." At Princeton he has been part of the faculty team teaching the year-long interdisciplinary sequence "East Asian Humanities,” and during the Spring 2012 semester will be teaching a course on the linguistic and literary features of cinematic screenplays. 

Current Faculty Fellows
 

Scott Burnham holds a B.M. from Baldwin-Wallace College, an M.M. in Music Composition from Yale University School of Music, and a Ph.D. in Music Theory and Analysis from Brandeis University. His scholarly interests include the history of tonal theory, problems of analysis and criticism, and 18th- and 19th-century music and culture. Burnham has taught graduate seminars on the music of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, as well as analytical issues in tonal music, and the history of tonal theory from Rameau to Schenker; he also teaches undergraduate music theory and analysis and has taught on the Humanities 216-218 team. His study of the values and reception of Beethoven's heroic-style music, Beethoven Hero (1995), won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society of Music Theory. In 2010 his book Sounding Values: Selected Essays was published by Ashgate Press.  He shares his home with his wife Dawna Lemaire, a registered music therapist, and their three children.

Miguel A Centeno is Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, with a joint appointment in the Woodrow Wilson School. From 2003 to 2007, he served as the founding Director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.  From 1997-2004 he also served as Master of Wilson College at Princeton. He has published many books as author or editor including Democracy within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico (2nd. 1997), Blood and Debt: War and Statemaking in Latin America (2002), The Other Mirror: Grand Theory and Latin America (2000), Discrimination in an Unequal World (2010) and Global Capitalism (2010). He is currently working on several book projects including: Paper Leviathans: State Building in the Iberian World and War and Society, as well as an essay on the rise and fall of neoliberalism. Through the Mapping Globalization project, he has worked on improving the quantitative scholarship available on globalization. In 2000, he founded the Princeton University Preparatory Program, which provides intensive supplemental training for lower-income students in three local high schools.  For this work, he was recently awarded the Jefferson Award for Public Service and the Bonner Foundation Award. From 1980 to 1985 he worked in advertising and private marketing consulting, dealing with the US Hispanic Market.

Caryl Emerson received her B.A. in Russian Literature from Cornell University, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin.   Her research interests include Russian 19th-century prose (especially Dostoevsky and Tolstoy); the Russian critical tradition (especially Bakhtin); Pushkin; Russian music and opera; Eastern and Central European prose; and most recently Russian drama, Soviet-era criticism of Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw, and the adaptation of 19th-century classics to the Stalinist stage. Emerson has taught undergraduate courses on Tolstoy’s War and Peace; Russians and the Devil; the 19th-c. Russian novel and short story, the 20th-c. Eastern European novel, and graduate courses on Russian Approaches to Literature and Culture (Formalists, Bakhtin, Cultural Semiotics); Tolstoy; Readings in Russian Philosophy, and Soviet-era theater. She is author of The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (1997), The Life of Musorgsky (1999), The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature (2008), and most recently All the Same the Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition, a collection of her essays from 1985-2010. Her current research centers on the 20th-c. Russian modernist prose-writer, playwright and philosopher of theater, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.

Denis Feeney works on Latin literature and Roman culture more broadly, including especially Roman religion and time. After earning his first degree at Auckland University, New Zealand, he received a D.Phil. from Oxford University (1982), and came to Princeton in 2000. In addition to articles on Latin literature (particularly on his favorite Latin poets, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, and Ovid), he has written three books. The Gods in Epic (Oxford, 1991) investigated the problem of how gods were represented in (especially Latin) epic, focusing on the problems of fiction involved in negotiating the boundaries between Roman religion and epic forms of representation. His second book, Literature and Religion at Rome (Cambridge, 1998), looked more broadly at the problem of the interaction between the literary and religious systems of Rome, framing the issues in terms of a dialogue between the way scholars tend to read Greek culture and Roman culture more generally. His third book, Caesar’s Calendar (California, 2007), based on his Sather Classical Lectures of 2004, examined Roman constructions of time, in terms of synchronism, historical vs. mythical time, and calendrical time. He is currently working on a book, tentatively entitled Roman Horizons, about why Rome developed a literature in Latin when it shouldn’t really have done so.

Daniel Garber, Ph.D. Harvard, 1975. Garber joined the Philosophy Department faculty at Princeton in 2002. He is also an Associate Member of both the Program in History of Science and the Politics Department. Garber’s principal interests are the relations between philosophy, science, and society in the period of the Scientific Revolution. Garber is the author of Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics (1992) and Descartes Embodied (2001), and is co-editor with Michael Ayers of the Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1998). Most recently he published Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (2009). Garber is also the co-editor with Donald Rutherford of the Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, an annual. He is currently working on a variety of topics, including studies of Aristotelianism and its opponents in early seventeenth-century France. In addition, he is the editor-in-chief of a new edition of the works of the seminal seventeenth-century thinker, Jacobus Fontialis.

Stan Katz, (Ph.D. Harvard University) is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He is also a commentator on higher education policy. Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions. He is the editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States and of the Encyclopedia of Legal History (OUP, 2009). At Princeton he is a Lecturer with rank of Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, and Director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.  President Obama awarded him the National Medal of the Humanities in 2011.

AnneMarie Luijendijk  joined the Princeton faculty in 2006 after receiving her doctorate from Harvard Divinity School.   At Princeton she is the Melancthon W. Jacobus University Preceptor in Religion (2009-2012).  A scholar of New Testament and Early Christianity and a papyrologist, Luijendijk is interested in the social history of early Christianity, using both literary texts and documentary sources. Her book Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri (Harvard University Press, 2008) investigates papyrus letters and documents pertaining to Christians in the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus in the pre-Constantinian period.  She currently is at work on two books.  One, provisionally entitled Forbidden Oracles? The Gospel of the Lots of Mary, entails the publication of a 5th- or 6th-century Coptic manuscript containing Christian oracular answers.  The other is a book on Christian manuscripts, the development of the New Testament canon and material culture.

Carolyn Rouse (www.uncertainsuffering.com) is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on why people accept systems of inequality.  Her work on race and inequality examines the discourses and practices that are used to rationalize forms of suffering as well as to negate them. Rouse’s fieldwork focuses on four domains; religion, medicine, education and development. Each of these domains provides different cultural strategies for social transformation. For African American Muslims, Qur’anic exegesis becomes a tool for negotiating within the ummah and for imaging new social and personal possibilities. In biomedicine, scientific authority and operationalized treatment protocols are used to legitimate suffering and to redirect health care resources.  Education and development are tools for shaping the subjectivity and sociality of the poor. Rouse is the author of Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam (2004) and Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease (2009). She is finishing a co-written book entitled Televised Redemption: The Media Production of Black Jews, Christians and Muslims. Her current book project, Development Hubris: Adventures Trying to Save the World, examines discourses of charity and development and is tied to her project building a school in a fishing village in Ghana. In addition to being an anthropologist, Rouse is also a filmmaker. She has produced, directed, and/or edited a number of documentaries including Chicks in White Satin (1994), a film about a lesbian wedding; and Purification to Prozac: Treating Mental Illness in Bali (1998).

Carol Rigolot (Ph.D. University of Michigan), Executive Director of the Humanities Council, is a member of the French and Italian department. She has published five books about the Nobel Prize-winning French poet-diplomat Saint-John Perse and about the literary figures who surrounded him, including T.S. Eliot. With John McPhee, she has co-edited two volumes of favorite writings by distinguished writers who have taught at Princeton. The most recent is The Princeton Reader (Princeton University Press, 2010).  

Gideon Rosen (Ph.D., Princeton, 1992) joined the faculty in 1993, having taught previously at the University of Michigan. His areas of research include metaphysics, epistemology and moral philosophy. He is the author (with John Burgess) of A Subject With No Object (Oxford, 1997). Gideon Rosen is Chair of the Council of the Humanities and Director of the Program in Linguistics.

Old Dominion Faculty Fellows in the Society of Fellows

This program offers faculty members the opportunity to spend a year of academic leave in the Humanities Council, pursuing research and participating in the Society of Fellows.
 

Isabelle Clark-Decès has conducted fieldwork in South India since 1990.  Her first line of research focused on Tamil ritual and the transformations of the participants' social relations, identities and experiences: Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals (as Isabelle Nabokov); No One Cries for the Dead: Tamil Dirges, Rowdy Songs and Graveyard Petitions; and The Encounter Never Ends: a Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals.  She is the editor of the volume: A Companion to the Anthropology of India, which explores how ongoing discussion about the nature and effects of modernity and globalization is shaping debate around new thematic foci, emerging empirical problems, and changing ethnographic methods in the anthropological study of India.  She is currently writing a book-length ethnography of marriages with close-kin in Tamil Nadu (South India), both as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent past, and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present.  This study, The Right to Marry One's Own: Tamil Kinship in a Field of Relations, seeks to make a contribution to the ways in which anthropologists interpret kinship and social change in a global world and transnational liberal economy.  She teaches courses on India, ritual, kinship theory and ethnography, and directs the Program in South Asian Studies.    

Diana Fuss has taught at Princeton since 1988, after receiving her PhD from Brown University in English and Semiotics. She is the author of Dying Modern: A Little Book on Elegy (forthcoming from Duke UP), as well as three other books: Essentially Speaking (1989), Identification Papers (1995), and The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped Them (2004).  In 2005 The Sense of an Interior won the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize for outstanding scholarly book of the year. Fuss is also the editor of several volumes: Human, All Too Human (Selected Essays of the English Institute), Pink Freud, and Inside/Out, which won both the ALA and VLS best book awards.  Over the years she has published on a variety of topics, from fashion photography to literary corpses, and is a past recipient of NEH and ACLS Fellowship Awards as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship.   Fuss is a Senior Fellow at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell, and a Trustee of Colby College.  

Alexander Nehamas received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1971, and joined the faculty at Princeton University in 1990.  He is Professor in Philosophy, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Comparative Literature.  His interests include Greek philosophy, philosophy of art, European philosophy and literary theory.  His books include: Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (2007);  Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates (1999);  The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (1998);  Plato's "Phaedrus" (1995) and Plato's "Symposium"(1989) (translations and commentaries, with Paul Woodruff);  Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985).  In 2001 Nehamas was awarded the Mellon Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Award and the International Nietzsche Prize, and he has been the recipient of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships among others.  In 1992-93 he was invited to deliver the Sather Classical Lectures at UC Berkeley, and in 2008 the Gifford lectures at the University of Edinburgh.  He has served as President of the American Philosophical Association, and he received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2011.