Fellowships

Current Fellows | Senior | Junior/Post-Doctoral | Graduate Dissertation Completion
Poetics | Distinguished Visiting Professorship | Summer Research Fellows | Alumni of the Center

Current Fellows 2007-2008

SENIOR FELLOWS
Tenured Faculty of Emory University

Harvey Klehr is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History.
His research focuses on American radicalism and Soviet espionage in
the United States. His most recent books, co-authored with John Haynes, are Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (2000), In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage (2003), and Early Cold War Spies (2006). He currently serves on the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. While at the Center, he will work on "The Vassiliev Archive: KGB Espionage in the United States."

Judith A. Miller, Associate Professor, Department of History, is the author of Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 (1998) and co-editor of Taking Liberties: The Problems of a New Order in France, 1794-1804 (2002) with Howard G. Brown. Professor Miller is a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques. While at the Fox Center, she will be working on "The Political Uses of Fear in the Late French Revolution, 1794-1815."

Laurie L. Patton is Professor of Early Indian Religions in the Department of Religion. She has conducted extensive research in Pune, Maharashtra, for the book she will be working on, Grandmother Language: Women and Sanskrit in Maharashtra and Beyond. Her scholarly interests include the interpretation of early Indian ritual and narrative, comparative mythology, literary theory in the study of religion, and women and Hinduism in contemporary India. Her translation of the Bhagavad Gita is forthcoming.

Polly J. Price, Professor of Law, is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, and holds both a B.A. and an M.A. in American History from Emory. She has taught torts, legal methods, American legal history, and Latin American legal systems. The author of numerous articles as well as a book, Property Rights, Professor Price will use her FCHI fellowship to complete a biography of the late Judge Richard S. Arnold, Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Rebecca R. Stone, Associate Professor in the Art History Department and Faculty Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas in the Michael C. Carlos Museum. She has published Art of the Andes from Chavín to Inca (1996), and Seeing with New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (2002). Professor Stone’s research focuses on the role of shamanic visions in ancient Central and South American art and architecture and she is writing a book to be entitled Flowers in the Dark: Visions and the Artistic Enterprise in Ancient Central and
South America.

JUNIOR and POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Mary Dzon (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Tennessee and an active member of the Marco (Medieval/Renaissance) Institute. Her interests include the medieval life cycle, romances, theology and devotional literature written in both Latin and Middle English. Building upon her PhD thesis, Professor Dzon is currently working on a monograph on late-medieval images and conceptualizations of the child Jesus.

Robin L. Thomas (Ph.D., Columbia University) is an art historian specializing in Italian architecture. His interests include early-modern urbanism, the social function of buildings, music and space, and the intellectual formation of the architect. His current project examines the remaking of Naples under King Charles Bourbon (1734-59), and addresses the political, social, economic, and cultural importance of the royal building program.

GRADUATE DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWS
Candidates of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Emory University

Anthony F. Mangieri (Department of Art History) is completing his dissertation, "The Virgin Sacrificed: Images of Iphigeneia and Polyxena
in Greek and Roman Art." In his dissertation, he explores the representations of Iphigeneia and Polyxena within the historical, political, social, religious, and gendered contexts in which they were created. He aims to write a cultural history of the figure of the sacrificial virgin in Greek and Roman art that focuses on iconological questions of interpretation and meaning.

Cathy Marie Ouellette (Department of History) is completing her dissertation, "The Nation Triumphs: Region and Nation-Building in Postcolonial Republican Brazil," which examines emerging collective consciousness and state-building in the Americas through the history of one region in postcolonial Brazil. These sources reveal how elites in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, utilized discourses of cleanliness, war, gender, and positivism to construct a republican state in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-centuries.

Lauren Rule (Department of English) is completing her dissertation, "Romantic Revisions: Novels of the Americas De-scribing Empire." By examining the intersections between British Romantic poetry and more recent writing of the Americas, this dissertation illuminates how and why novelists' engagement with Romantic poetry contributes to critiques of empire in an American, postcolonial context.

Senior Information

FCHI Senior Fellowships are offered annually for tenured members of the Emory University faculty for an academic year of study and residence in the Center.
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Junior/Post-Doctoral Information

The FCHI Junior and Post-Doctoral Fellowships are offered to visiting scholars for an academic year of study, teaching, and residence in the Center.
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Graduate Dissertation Completion Information

FCHI Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowships are available to up to four students, currently enrolled in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Emory University, for
an academic year of residence in the Center to finish their dissertations.
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Fellowship in Poetics Information

The FCHI announces a new Junior/Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics, funded by a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, for an academic year of study, teaching, and residence in the Center.
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Distinguished Visiting Professorship

In alternate years, the Fox Center for Humanistic inquiry brings to Emory an eminent humanities scholar with an international reputation in interdisciplinary research for a semester in residence in a humanities department or program as a FCHI Fellow,
to teach, do research, present public lectures and discussions, and participate in the intellectual life of the Center.

Summer Research Fellows

Each summer Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, in partnership with the
Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, offers short-term fellowships to visiting scholars to support scholarly use of the Library’s research collections.
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