2009 Mellon Fellows
Daniel Berger
University of Pennsylvania
"We Are the Revolutionaries": Visibility, Protest, and Racial Formation in 1970s Prison Radicalism
Lydia Brandt
University of Virginia
Reliving Mount Vernon: Replicas and Memory, 1893-1934
Jun Hee Cho
Columbia University
Court in the Market: The Burgundian Capital (Mechelen) during the reign of Charles the Bold, 1467-77.
Martin Gutmann
Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Fighting for the Nazi New Order: Neutral Elites in the Service of the German Waffen-SS
Robert Herr
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Puppets and Proselytizing: Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Revolutionary Mexico's Didactic Theater
Kristine Hess
University of Chicago
Mount Sinai and the Monastery of Saint Catherine: Depicting 'Place' and 'Space' in Pilgrimage Art
Nicholas Johnson
The Ohio State University
Musica Caelestia: Hermetic Philosophy, Astronomy, and Music at the Court of Rudolf II
Erin Lambert
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Singing God's Image: Rethinking Religious Difference Through Sixteenth-Century Visual and Musical Culture
Pedro Monaville
University of Michigan
Global 1968 in Kinshasa: From a Student Massacre to Ruins in a Postcolonial University
Lindsay Moore
George Washington University
Women at Law in England and the Chesapeake, 1630-1700
Virginia Myhaver
Boston University
The 'New American Revolution': Cultural Politics and the 1976 American Bicentennial
Daphna Oren-Magidor
Brown University
Dealing with Infertility in Early Modern England
Jamie Rosenthal
University of California, San Diego
Of Bonds and Bondage: Gender, Slavery, and Transatlantic Intimacies in the Eighteenth Century
Danielle Terrazas Williams
Duke University
Negotiating Colonial Hierarchies: Mulata Women with Wealth in Seventeenth-Century Central Veracruz
Jaime Wadowiec
Binghamton University
The Afterlives of Empire: Immigration and the Politics of Difference in Decolonized France, 1962-1974
Kimberly Welch
University of Maryland, College Park
Subordinate Southerners and the Local Legal Culture in the Old South
2008 Mellon Fellows
Alex Borucki
Emory University
From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in Montevideo, 1770-1850
Simonetta Marin
University of Miami
The Reform of Popular Piety in the Closing Years of the Venetian Republic
Noah Millstone
Stanford University
Manuscript Separates and the Culture of Political Opposition in England, 1615-1640
Tracy Neumann
New York University
The Urban History of Deindustrialization: Pittsburgh and Hamilton, Ontario
Lata Parwani
Tufts University
Sindhis Between Region, Religion and Nation
Martin Renner
University of California, Santa Cruz
From Sun to Soil to Stomach: The Intellectual History of a Forgotten Link Between Ecology, Agronomy, and Nutrition, 1920-60
Kellie Warren
Tulane University
Pan-American Modernism
Alice Wolfram
Yale University
The Making of the Middle-Class Family: Property, Inheritance and the Urban Family Economy in the British Atlantic World, c. 1670-1780
Winnie Wong
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
After the Copy: China, Dafen Village, and the Hand-Painted Art Product
2007 Mellon Fellows
Ahlman, Jeffrey
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rebuilding the Pan-African Bridge: Kwame Nkrumah, the Algerian Revolution, and the Decolonization of Africa, 1954-66
Amsterdam, Daniel
University of Pennsylvania
The Roaring Metropolis: The 1920s and the Making of the American Public Sector
Broadwell, Peter
University of California, Los Angeles
Musical Depictions of Pirates and Bandits in British Culture, 1650-1900
Domingues de Silva, Daniel
Emory University
Crossroads - Slave Frontiers of Angola, c. 1780-1864
Hunter, David
University of Maryland, College Park
Jim Crow Goes Abroad: Race and the American Nation during World War II
Johnson, Rebecca
Yale University
Oriental and Occidental Tales: A History of the Novel in Translation
Kashanipour, Ryan
University of Arizona
A World of Cures: Spanish and Indigenous Healing in the Atlantic World, 16th - 18th Centuries
Lopez-Duran, Fabiola
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eugenics in the Garden: Architecture, Medicine, and Landscape from France to Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century
Mongey, Vanessa
University of Pennsylvania
The Cosmopolitan Republics: The Gulf of Mexico between 1783-1836
Styer, Catherine
University of Pennsylvania
This Christian and Charitable Work: Barbary Pirates, Slave Redemption, and the Formation of British Atlantic Identities, 1600-1776
Tran, Nu-Anh
University of California, Berkeley
Contested Identities: Nationalism in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1975
Tsultem, Uranchimeg
University of California, Berkley
Urga: Nomadic City of the Mongols
Webel, Mari
Columbia University
Locating the Laboratory: German Tropical Medicine and Sleeping Sickness Research in East Africa 1898-1914
2006 Mellon Fellows
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
University of Chicago
Private Modernities: Beirut Homes on the Eve of Nationalism
Allison Abra
University of Michigan
Public Dancing and the People's War in Britain, 1939-1945
Hieu V. Ho
Temple University
Village Histories: Social and Political Change in Rural Central Vietnam
Iza Hussin
University of Washington
The Making of Islamic Law: Local Elites and Colonial Authority in Malaya
Riyaz Latif
University of Minnesota
Toward the Meaning of Marinid Madrasa: Study of Documentary Sources
Jonathan Levy
University of Chicago
The Ways of Providence: Risk and Freedom in America, 1830–1910
Clifford Murphy
Brown University
That Old Mill: A History of Country Music in New England, 1925–present
Jose Emmanuel Raymundo
Yale University
From the Symptoms to the Lesions: Leprosy, Democratic Citizenship and Nation Building in the Philippines
Sarah Waheed
Tufts University
The Scenic Obscenities of Sa'adat Hasan Manto: Urdu Literary and Popular Cultures 1870–1955
Man Xu
Columbia University
Places and Objects: Interpreting Women's Space in Fujian and Jiangxi during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Joshua Yumibe
University of Chicago
The Intermedial Aesthetics of Applied Color Technologies in Silent Cinema
2005 Mellon Fellows
Kevin Bartig
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Composing for the Red Screen: Sergei Prokofiev's Film Scores
Ellen Boucher
Columbia University
An Imperial Investment: British Child Emigration to Australia and Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1967
Vanesa Casanova-Fernandez
Georgetown University
Of Moors and Men: The Construction of Masculinities on the Spanish-Moroccan Frontier, Ceuta 1640-1799
Zeynep Celik bei Opitz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kinaesthetic Impulses: Space, Performance, and the Body in German Architecture, 1870-1918
Hallie Franks
Harvard University
Imaging Power: Royal Ideology for the Rise of Macedon
Carolina Giraldo Botero
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Excess in Baroque Lima and Santa Fe de Bogota: A History of Crime, Ecstasy, and Disease in the New World
Sarah Hamill
University of California, Berkeley
Sculpture's Frame: On the Photography of David Smith, 1931-1965
Laura Anne Kalba
University of Southern California
The Abstract in Everyday Life: The Production, Diffusion, and Reception of Color in Nineteenth Century Paris
Loretta Kim
Harvard University
Migration, Commemoration, and Sibe Identity
Andrew Manson
Columbia University
Architecture, Archaeology and Urbanism in 'La Grande Roma': The Via dell'Impero and the Palazzo del Littorio Competition
Maximilian Owre
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United in Divisions: National Identity in Bourbon Restoration France (1814-1830)
Dassia N. Posner
Tufts University
The Fantastical and the Grotesque: Hoffmanniana in Russian Silver-Age Theatre, 1905-1925
Lindsay Weiss
Columbia University
Toward an Archaeology of Apartheid: the Origins of Segregation in the Diamond Fields of Kimberley, South Africa
Susie Woo
Yale University
Remembering the Forgotten War: Orphans and Brides of the Korean War
2004 Mellon Fellows
Kaveh Askari
University of Chicago
American Cinema and the Pictorial Tradition 1894-1918
Prateeti Ballal
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Discipling the Nations: Religion and Colonial Intervention in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century India
Monica Black
University of Virginia
Life After Death in Three Berlins: A Comparative History of Death in War and Peacetime, 1945-1955
Samuel Breene
Duke University
Mozart's Violin Sonatas and Gestures of Embodiment: Toward a New Model of Performance Practice
Meghan Callahan
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
The Politics of Architecture: Suor Domenica da Paradiso and Her Convent of La Crocetta in Post-Savonarolan Florence
Katarzyna Grochowska
University of Chicago
Music Life of the Convent of St. Clare at Stary Sacz, 1280-1450
Michelle King
University of California, Berkeley
Infanticide as an Object of Knowledge in China, Late 19th-Early 20th Century
Abel López
University of Maryland
'In the Middle of the Mess': The Formation of Middle-Class Identities in Colombia, 1920-1950
Sarah Miller
University of Chicago
Inventing 'Documentary' in American Photography, 1930-1945
Anna Taylor
University of Texas at Austin
Carolingian Verse Saints' Lives: Education, Patronage and Monastic Memory
Ioanna Theocharopoulou
Columbia University
Modern Architecture and Modern Life: Informal Urbanization in Postwar Athens (1949-1974)
2003 Mellon Fellows
Sarah Abramowicz
Columbia University
English Child Custody Law and the Victorian Novel
Alan Barenberg
University of Chicago
From Prisoners to Miners: A Social History of Vorkuta, 1943-1964
Kate Bartel
UCLA
Portal of the Skies: Music as Devotional Act in Early Modern Europe
Kathryn Clippinger
Cornell University
Comparative Family Ethnicity on the New York Borderlands, 1680-1800
Rebecca Davis
Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
For Better or for Worse: Marriage Counseling, Gender, and Sexual Politics in the United States, 1945-1980
Lester Feder
University of California, Los Angeles
Making Whiteness Sound: Country Music and the Racial Imagination in 20th Century America
Maria Lane
University of Texas at Austin
Geographic Representations of the Planet Mars, 1867-1907
Helen Lennon
Yale University
Creating A Witness: Film as Evidence in International War Crimes Tribunals
Lisa Mahoney
Johns Hopkins University
Re-presenting the Past: The Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César in the Context of the Crusades
Jasmine Mir
New York University
Marketplace of Desire: Contested Space, Tourism, and Constructions of Sexual Deviance' in New Orleans, 1880-1920
William Nelson
University of California Los Angeles
'The Weapon of Time': Constructing the Future in France, 1760-1800
Anthony Raynsford
University of Chicago
Sites of Lost Dwelling: The Figure of the Archaic City in the Discourses of Urban Design, 1940-70
Yektan Turkyilmaz
Duke University
Imagining 'Turkey,' Creating a Nation: The Politics of Geography and State Formation in Eastern Anatolia, 1908-1938
2002 Mellon Fellows
Sinan Antoon
Harvard University
The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjah and Sukhf
Christiane Gruber
University of Pennsylvania
Heavenly Journeys and the Imaginary: Depictions of Muhammad's Mi'raj in Medieval Islamic Manuscripts (14th-17th centuries)
Angela Herren
CUNY Graduate Center
Portraying the Aztec Past: 16th-C. Pictorial Accounts of Origin
Drew Hopkins
Columbia University
Social History of Paper Production and Commerce in Western Fujian, China
Brenda Foley
Brown University
Image as Identity: Beauty Contestants and Exotic Dancers as 'Merchants of Morality'
Susan Pearson
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
'The Rights of the Defenseless': Animals, Children, and the Rhetoric of Rights in American Reform, 1865-1930
Alisha Rankin
Harvard University
Women's Domestic Medicine in Sixteenth-Century Germany: The Case of Elisabeth von Rochlitz
Maria Rose
New York University
L'Art de Bien Chanter and the Early French Piano Style: 1780-1820
Natalie Rothman
University of Michigan
Occidentalizing Venice: 'Cultural heritage' and the production of History at the Venice and the Orient Institute
Paula Saunders
University of Texas at Austin
Free and Enslaved African Communities in Colonial Jamaica, 1780-1834 |
