Yale Bulletin and Calendar

January 28, 2000

Volume 28, Number 18

University fellowships will support
junior faculty's research projects

Eighteen junior faculty members will be able to give greater focus to their research with the support of University fellowships.

The faculty members will receive the awards for the academic year 2000-2001. The fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding junior faculty members to help advance their research at a critical period in their careers. The recipients are freed from classroom teaching responsibilities and are given leave with salary to allow them to concentrate on their research.

Twelve of this year's fellowships are in the humanities, one is in the natural sciences, and five are in the social sciences. The humanities fellowships are funded by an endowment established through the bequest of the late Susan A. Ensign Morse of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and by the Sid R. Bass Fellowship Fund. The natural and social science fellowships are funded by support from the Sid R. Bass Fellowship Fund, the Wendell W. Anderson Fellowship Fund, the Chauncey Keep Hubbard Fellowship Fund, the Allan Shelden Fellowship Fund, the Weyerhaeuser Family Teaching Fellowship Fund and the Woods Fellowship Fund.

The fellowship winners and their research topics are:

Humanities fellowships

Nigel Alderman, assistant professor of English -- a study of the interaction of epic ambition and regional imaginative focus in British modernist poetry.

Michael Anderson, assistant professor of classics -- an analysis of erotic desire in ancient Greek prose fiction.

Timothy Barringer, assistant professor of history of art -- a study of the representation of work in Victorian visual culture.

Vilashini Cooppan, assistant professor of comparative literature -- an inquiry into the complexities of ethnic identification through a study of writings by Indians in South Africa.

Elizabeth Dillon, assistant professor of English -- a reading of American fiction of the early Republic within the context of the transnational global economy.

Hillary Fink, assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures -- a study of Tolstoy's continuing debt to Rousseau.

Joanne Freeman, assistant professor of history -- a history of the culture of honor in the United States from the early Republic to the Civil War.

Matthew Giancarlo, assistant professor of English -- a study of literary interpretations and recreations of parlement in English literature in the age of Chaucer.

John Halle, assistant professor of music -- composition of a large-scale musical work for the St. Lawrence String Quartet.

Robert Holzer, assistant professor of music -- a reinterpretation of musical culture in 17th-century Italy.

Cristina Moreiras-Menor, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese -- the writing of a book to be called "The Culture of Democracy: Spectacle, Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Spain."

Michael Trask, assistant professor of English -- a study of literature, reform and the problem of surplus in turn-of-the-century American culture.

Natural sciences fellowship

David Wu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering -- completion of a series of papers on kinetics of phase transformation, including grain growth, nucleation, crystal growth, glass transition, diffusion and coarsening.

Social sciences fellowships

Lawrence King, assistant professor of sociology -- an inquiry into the causes for the variety of political economic regimes that evolved in Eastern Europe after Communist rule.

Victoria Murillo, assistant professor of political science -- a study of the interaction of political and economic power in the spread of privatization in new democracies in the developing world.

Mark Packard, assistant professor of psychology -- an inquiry into the neurobiological workings of multiple memory systems and their implications for the role of memory in drug addiction.

Alastair Smith, assistant professor of political science -- a study of the role of electoral timing in parliamentary democracies.

Eric Worby, assistant professor of anthropology -- a comparison of the economic development and cultural imagining of industrial power in a colonial and a post-colonial African setting.

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