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Fellows 1990-1991
Thandeka
- Ford Fellow 1990-91
Philosophy, San Francisco State University
"The Structure of Unity of the Self" [+]
Shahid Amin
- Ford Fellow 1990-91
History, University of New Delhi
"The Structure of Nationalist and Judicial Discourse: The Riot at Chauri Chaura as Metaphor and Event" [+]
Andrew Bell
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1990-91
Classics, Stanford University
"The Politics and Poetics of Roman Spectacle in the First Century B.C." [+]
Michael Bratman
- Internal Faculty Fellow 1990-91
Philosophy, Stanford University
"Joint Intention and Rational Action" [+]
Shirley Brice Heath
- Special Fellow for Research and Development 1990-91
English and Linguistics, Stanford University [+]
Steven Brown
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1990-91
Comparative Literature, Stanford University
"Staging Contingency in Greek Tragedy and Japanese Noh Drama" [+]
Erin Carlston
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1990-91
Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
"Nationalism, Expatriation, and the Marginal Writer" [+]
Julie Cassiday
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1990-91
Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
"The Theater of the World and the Theater of the State: Drama and the Show Trial in Early Soviet Russia" [+]
Xiao-mei Chan
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellow 1990-91
East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University
"A Dialogue Between History, Ideology, and Politics: A Critical Study of Modern Drama in Post-Maoist China" [+]
Paul David
- Ellen Andrews Wright Fellow 1990-91
Economics, Stanford University
"The Economics of Patronage, Intellectual Property, and the Historical Roots of the Institutions of Open Science" [+]
Arnold Davidson
- Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow 1990-91
Philosophy and the History of Science, University of Chicago
"The History and Epistemology of Norms and Deviation" [+]
Gregory Guy
- Internal Faculty Fellow 1990-91
Linguistics, Stanford University
"Creole Language in Latin America" [+]
Robert Harrison
- Internal Faculty Fellow 1990-91
French and Italian, Stanford University
"The Idea of the Forest in the Western Imagination" [+]Professor Harrison received his doctorate in romance studies from Cornell University in 1984, with a dissertation on Dante'sVita Nuova. In 1985 he accepted a visiting assistant professorship in the Department of French and Italian at Stanford. In 1986 he joined the faculty as an assistant professor. He was granted tenure in 1992 and was promoted to full professor in 1995. In 1997 Stanford offered him the Rosina Pierotti Chair. In 2002, he was named chair of the Department of French and Italian. He is also lead guitarist for the cerebral rock band Glass Wave.
Professor Harrison's first book, The Body of Beatrice, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1988. A revised and elaborated version of his dissertation, it deals with medieval Italian lyric poetry, with special emphasis on Dante's early work La Vita Nuova. The Body of Beatrice was translated into Japanese in 1994. Over the next few years Professor Harrison worked on his next book, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization, which appeared in 1992 with University of Chicago Press. This book deals with the multiple and complex ways in which the Western imagination has symbolized, represented, and conceived of forests, primarily in literature, religion, and mythology. It offers a select history that begins in antiquity and ends in our own time. Forests appeared simultaneously in English, French, Italian, and German. It subsequently appeared in Japanese and Korean as well. In 1994 his book Rome, la Pluie: A Quoi Bon Littérature? appeared in France, Italy, and Germany. This book is written in the form of dialogues between two characters and deals with various topics such as art restoration, the vocation of literature, and the place of the dead in contemporary society. Professor Harrison's next book,The Dominion of the Dead, published in 2003 by University of Chicago Press, deals with the relations the living maintain with the dead in diverse secular realms. This book was translated into German, French and Italian. Professor Harrison's most recent book is Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, which appeared in 2008 with the University of Chicago Press, and in French with Le Pommier. In 2005 Harrison started a literary talk show on KZSU radio called "Entitled Opinions." The show features hour long conversation with a variety of scholars, writers, and scientists.
Ursula Heise
- Geballe Dissertation Fellow 1990-91
English, Stanford University
"Temporality and Causation in Postmodern Narrative" [+]
Margo Hendricks
- Ford Fellow 1990-91
English, San Jose State University
"Cultural Property: Patronage and the Professional Women Playwright in Seventeenth-Century England" [+]
Daniel Herwitz
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellow 1990-91
Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles
"Theory in Twentieth Century Art and Aesthetics" [+]
Dane Johnson
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1990-91
English, Stanford University
"'The Flowering of Tradition' Faulkner, Marquez, Walker and the Creation of Literary Value" [+]
Bonnie McElhinny
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1990-91
Linguistics, Stanford University
"Class and Gender Distinctions in Linguistics Usage" [+]
John McWhorter
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1990-91
Linguistics, Stanford University
"The Relationship Between Native Languages, Creole Languages and Social History" [+]
Tyrus Miller
Michael Predmore
- Donald Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow 1990-91
Spanish and Portugese, Stanford University
"The Evolving Aesthetics of Ramon del Valle-Inclan: Liberal and Popular Conceptions of Art" [+]
Julio Ramos
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellow 1990-91
Spanish, University of California, Berkeley
"Politics of Language in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Latin America" [+]
Morton Sosna
- Special Fellow 1990-91
American Studies, Stanford University
"War and Region: The American South and World War II" [+]
Wendy Wall
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1990-91
History, Stanford University
"Systems of Social Classifications: Race and Class in the Western United States" [+]
Elizabeth Wood
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1990-91
Political Science, Stanford University
"Collective Action Under Conditions of Social Oppression" [+]