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Hear from a scholar-in-residence about his experience at the John W. Kluge Center. Kluge Fellow Dr. Robin Kornman, a noted Buddhist scholar who worked on a translation of the Epic of Gesar of Ling, discusses his time at the Library of Congress with Robert Saladini of the John W. Kluge Center.

Resident Scholars

Ilaria Andreoli
Kluge Fellow, 2011, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, "Pictures without Borders: Transnationalism in Illustrated Books of the 15th and 16th Centuries."

Stephanie Berns
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Kent, "Sacred Engagements-Exploring the Interrelationship between Religion, Objects and Visitors in Museums."

Christopher Bishop
Kluge Fellow, 2012, Australian National University, "Medievalism and the Modern Comic Book."

Jason Blokhuis
Kluge Fellow, 2012, University of Waterloo - Ontario, "Public Educational Authority and Children's Rights from a Parens Patriae Perspective."

John Bloxham
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Nottingham, "The Use and Reception of Greek Thought in US Conservative Literature- 1930-1965."

Dorothy Butchard
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Edinburgh, "Marginality & the Material Text: Literary Responses to Publishing Technology in Print and Digital Media, 1989-1995."

Ilona Cairns
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Aberdeen, "From Theory to Practice: An International Viewpoint on the Incorporation of Critical Perspectives on Legal Reform into the Codification Process."

Ernesto Capello
Visiting Fellow, 2012, Macalester College, "The Economic, Scientific, and Artistic Impact of the 1901-1906 French Geodesic Mission to Ecuador."

Jennifer R Davis
Kluge Fellow, 2011, The Catholic University of America, "Charlemagne's practice of empire."

Myles Eastwood
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Cambridge, "The American Invasion, or: How Early Twentieth Century Blues 78s Influenced the LPs of the 1960s British Blues Revival."

David Ellis
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of York, "Mapping a Transatlantic Network: the Theory and Practice of Community Action in Great Britain and the United States, 1960-1980."

Lucy Fletcher
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Reading, "Narrative in Plutarch's Parallel Lives and the Limits of Narratological Analysis."

James Ford
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Nottingham, "The Art of Nationhood in the U.S. Capitol and Palace of Westminster Decorative Schemes."

Elisabeth Forster
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Oxford, "Fu Sinian's New Culture Movement."

Victor Goldgel-Carballo
Kluge Fellow, 2012, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "New Media in Early 19th Century Latin America: The Emergence of a Transatlantic Cultural Market."

Laura Gotkowitz
ACLS Burkhardt Fellow, 2011, University of Iowa, "Trials without End: Political Violence and Democracy in Bolivia after World War II."

James Griffiths
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Manchester, "A Study of American Perceptions of Iran and Anglo-Iranian Relations 1835-1989."

David H. Grinspoon
NASA/LC Chair in Astrobiology, 2012, independent scholar, ""Astrobiology and the Anthropocene Era: Exploring the Potential Roles of Life and Intelligence on Earth and Beyond""
Appointment: Appointment of Chair
Panel Discussion: Panel of Scholars to Examine the Human Relationship to the Environment and its Moral Implications

Ben R. Harvey
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Leicester, "Transatlantic Comparisons, Local Welfare, 1750-1900."

Jasmin Hepburn
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Edinburgh, "French Legal Thought in Early Modern Europe: a Study of Consilia and Costumes."

Diarmuid Hester
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Sussex, "Passionate Destruction, Passionate Creation: Art and Anarchy in the Work of Dennis Cooper."

William Hitchcock
Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations, 2012, University of Virginia, "The Age of Eisenhower: America in the World in the 1950s."
Appointment: William Hitchcock Named Kissinger Chair at John W. Kluge Center

Pamela Hunt
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, School of Oriental & African Studies, "Configurations of Masculinity and Realms of Agency in post-1989 Chinese Fiction."

Peter Kalliney
Visiting Fellow, 2012, University of Kentucky, "Transatlantic Modernism and the Emergence of Postcolonial Literature."

Morton Kondracke
Kemp Scholar in Political Economy, 2011, independent scholar, "The Jack Kemp legacy."
Lecture: Flier: Jack Kemp, An American Idealist”
Appointment: Morton Kondracke Named to Jack Kemp Chair in Political Economy
Other: Press Release for Lecture on Jack Kemp

Melanie Lamotte
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Cambridge, "Colour Prejudice in the Early Modern French Empire: A Comparative Study of Louisiana, Guadeloupe and Ile Bourbon, c.1635-1756."

Robin Lovin
Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History, 2011, Southern Methodist University, "Moral Deliberation and Political Realism."

Adrienne Lundgren
Kluge Staff Fellow, 2012, N/A, "The Photographs of F. Holland Day: Creating a Materials-Based Catalogue Raisonne for Photography."

Oksana K Marafioti
Black Mountain Fellow, 2012, University of Nevada Las Vegas, "Dvoeverie: The Roots of Magical Realism in Russia."

David Marquiss
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, King's College London, "Interaction and Exchange Between Acoustic Guitarists in the Early Twentieth Century Sounthern United States."

Justin Mihoc
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, Durham University, "Church Beginnings in the Interpretation of the Church: Early Patristic Interpretation of Acts 15."

Jean-Francois Mouhot
Marie Curie Fellowship, 2011, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), "An environmental history of Haiti."

Patricia Anne O'Brien
Kislak Fellow in American Studies, 2011, Georgetown University, "Encircling World: English Colonial Power, Race and Gender from the Caribbean to the East."

Barbara Ottmann
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Warwick, "The Lubitsch Touch: A Meta-Critical Study."

Peter Price
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Sussex, "Providence and Political Economy: Josiah Tucker's Providential Arguement for Free Trade."

Georgina Rannard
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Edinburgh, "A Native Map-Making Community? The Creation of 'Useful Knowledge' in London and the British Atlantic, 1660-1720."

Daniel Schwartz
Kluge Fellow, 2012, George Washington University, "Ghetto: The Genealogy of a Concept, the History of a place."

Adam Sherif
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Lincoln, "Comics and the World Wars."

Dominique Slaney
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Exeter, "Establishing the Most Effective Interventions in the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency in the United States."

Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South, 2012, UCLA, "Early Modern South Asian History"

Nikolaos Theodorakis
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Cambridge, "Crime Prevention Plocies for Incidents of Corporate and White Collar Crime; a Systematic Analysis of the Available Research in the Field."

Robert Thompson
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, Newcastle University, "Mobilization, Masculinity, and the Martial Ideal in American World War 1 Literature."

Uranchimeg Tsultem
Kluge Fellow, 2012, University of California, Berkeley, "Traditional Exchange and Early U.S. Diplomacy in Mongolia, Tibet and China."

Katherine Unterman
J. Franklin Jameson Fellow in American History, 2012, Texas A&M University, "International Fugitives and American Power, 1880-1930."

Jingyi Zhao
British Research Council Fellow, 2012, University of Cambridge, "Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame and Related Concepts: A Comparative Study."

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