Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 28, 2000

Volume 28, Number 30

Center has announced winners of the first
Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowships in Humanities

The first two Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellows in the Humanities have been appointed to the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC).

The new fellows, El Mokhtar Ghambou and Vivasvan Soni, were selected in an intensive national competition which eventually brought the dossiers of some 70 finalists to the selection committee of the center. The Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellows will teach a single course each semester and will have the rest of their time free for research and writing. They will meet weekly with other fellows of the center and will be free to join faculty seminars, working groups and other activities at the WHC.

Ghambou recently completed a doctorate in comparative literature at New York University with a dissertation on "Nomadism and its Frontiers." He will begin his teaching at Yale as a member of the staff of Literature 120a, "Fiction and the Forms of Narrative."

Soni just finished his dissertation at Duke University on the topic "Affecting Happiness: The Emergence of the Modern Political Subject in the Eighteenth Century." He will teach "The Western Literary Tradition" in the Directed Studies Program.

The Woodrow Wilson Fellowships respond to a long-felt need for a time of transition between graduate study and professional employment. It is expected that the fellows will be able to develop their dissertation research in publishable form, while benefiting from dialog with scholars from a number of different fields, and begin their teaching careers in established interdisciplinary courses under the leadership of experienced faculty.

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