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Howard Foundation announces 11 recipients of 2000-01 fellowships
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown
University, has announced 11 recipients of $20,000 fellowships for the 2000-01
academic year. This year, the fellowships were awarded in anthropology,
philosophy and sociology. Next year, the Foundation will award fellowships in
painting, sculpture and art history.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation,
administered by Brown University, announced 11 fellowships of $20,000 each for
the 2000-01 academic year. The recipients, representing the fields of
anthropology, philosophy and sociology, were selected from among 167 scholars
nominated by administrative officers of colleges, universities and cultural
institutions throughout the country. The 2000-01 fellows and their projects
are:
- Randolph Clarke, associate professor of
philosophy, University of Georgia: “Libertarian Free Will: The Prospects
for a Naturalistic Account.”
- Gerald Creed, associate professor of
anthropology, Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of
New York: “Contesting Community: Ritual and Social Relations in Rural
Bulgaria.”
- Robert Desjarlais, assistant professor of
anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College: “Sensory Biographies among
Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists.”
- Roger Gould, associate professor of
sociology, University of Chicago: “Dominance, Honor and
Conflict.”
- John Kelly, associate professor of
anthropology, University of Chicago: “Technography: Science in the History
of Cultures, and Questions for a New Anthropology of Knowledge.”
- Pauline Kleingeld, assistant professor of
philosophy, Washington University at St. Louis: “Citizens of the World:
Philosophical Transformations of Cosmopolitanism in Late Eighteenth-Century
Germany.”
- Annelise Riles, assistant professor of
anthropology, Northwestern University School of Law: “Formalism and Its
Critics: An Ethnography of Legal Knowledge Practices in the United States and
Japan.”
- Margaret Somers, associate professor of
sociology, University of Michigan: “From Poverty to
‘Perversity’: 200 Years of Welfare Reform – from Speenhamland
and the New Poor Law (1795-1834) to the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Act (1996).”
- Christian Wildberg, associate professor of
philosophy, Princeton University: “A Translation and Commentary of
Aristotle’s Cosmological Treatise ‘On the
Heavens.’”
- Jennifer Whiting, associate professor of
philosophy, Cornell University: “The Contingency of Self.”
- Laurie Whitt, associate professor of
sociology, Michigan Technological University: “Biocolonialism and
Indigenous Peoples.”
The Howard Foundation Board of Administration has announced that fellowships
in the 2001-02 academic year will be awarded in the fields of painting,
sculpture and art history. The Foundation’s Web address is
www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/howard.
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