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

Patrick Andelic
British Research Council Fellow, 2011, University of Oxford (St. Anne's College), "Beyond the new deal order: Debating the democratic future in an 'age of conservatism' 1972-80."

Kevin Bartig
Kluge Fellow, 2011, Michigan State University, "The National Council for American-Soviet Friendship and American-Soviet musical diplomacy, 1941-1960."

Rebecca Benefiel
Kluge Fellow, 2011, Washington and Lee University, "The Presence of writing in elite residences: Graffiti and space in ancient Pompeii."

Adriana M Brodsky
Kluge Fellow, 2011, St. Mary's College of Maryland, "Becoming Argentine Jews: Sephardim and the construction of ethnic and national identities, 1880-1960."

Farr A Curlin
David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality, 2012, University of Chicago, "Medicine and Religion"

Alex Elwick
British Research Council Fellow, 2011, Newcastle University, "Non-formal learning in museums and galleries."

Stuart Galloway
British Research Council Fellow, 2011, University of Leicester, "The American Equal Rights Association and the pursuit of universal suffrage, 1866-1870."

Dmitry Galtsin
Fulbright Fellow, 2011, Library of Russian Academy of Science, "The Fall of New England."

Mark W Geiger
Kluge Fellow, 2011, University of Sydney, "The Chicago Board of Trade and the transformation of financial markets."
Webcast: Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
Kluge Fellow, 2011, Miami University, "Democracy as otherness: Early literary representations of the U.S. in Canada."

John Hessler
Kluge Staff Fellow, 2011, Library of Congress, "Editing Justinian's Corpus: The Paul Krueger Archive in the Law Library of Congress."

Emily Kadens
Kluge Fellow, 2011, University of Texas School of Law, "Theories of custom as law in the writings of medieval and early modern civilian jurists."

Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya
Fulbright Fellow, 2011, The State Hermitage Museum, "Russian emigre artists in the US in the 1920s: Their careers and influence on American Art."

Morton Kondracke
Kemp Scholar in Political Economy, 2011, independent scholar, "The Jack Kemp legacy."
Appointment: Morton Kondracke Named to Jack Kemp Chair in Political Economy

Hector Miguel Leyva Carias
Fulbright Fellow, 2011, National Autonomous University of Honduras, "Honduras in travel literature."

Duncan MacInnes
Visiting Fellow, 2011, U.S. Department of State, "New Media and Public Diplomacy."

Theodore E. McCarrick
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2011, Independent Scholar, "The role of religion in diplomacy: Responsibilities of religious leaders to work for peace and to care for the world's poor."
Appointment: Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Named Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the John W. Kluge Center
Webcast: Dignity of the Human Person
Webcast: The Amman Message: A Magisterium for Islam?

Helen Melling
British Research Council Fellow, 2011, King's College London, "Colourful customs and invisible traditions: Visual respresentation of liberated Black culture in post-independence Peruvian national identity (1820s-1880s)."

Gemma Mitchell
British Research Council Fellow, 2011, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, "Heritage smells! The modern materials challenge."

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

Emer S. O'Dwyer
Kluge Fellow, 2010, Oberlin College, "Imperialism and democracy in the context of Japan's modern nationhood."

Vanni Pettina
Kluge Fellow, 2011, Independent Scholar, "From the nationalist compromise to the insurrection: Cuba and the United States, 1933-1959."

Evgeny Pivovarov
Fulbright Fellow, 2011, Saint-Petersburg Academic University, Russian Academy of Sciences, "Russian emigre scholars in the US libraries in the 19th and 20th Centuries."

Thierry Rigogne
Kluge Fellow, 2011, Fordham University, "The Invention of the cafe: French coffeehouses from the introduction of coffee to the end of the French Revolution, 1560-1800."

Catherine Spencer
British Research Council Fellow, 2011, University of York, "The 'lesson of anthropology for artists in London and New York, 1950-70."

Isabella Streffen
British Research Council Fellow, 2010, Newcastle University, "The vision of Star Wars: tracing the military imagination."

Owen Taylor
British Research Council Fellow, 2011, School of Oriental and African Studies, "International law and revolution."

Chet Adam Van Duzer
Kislak Fellow in American Studies, 2011, Independent Scholar, "The Legends on Martin Waldseemuller's Carta marina of 1516."

Amy Waite
British Research Council Fellow, 2011, University of Oxford, "Geographies of intimacy: The spatial imaginations of Elizabeth Bishop and Mina Loy."

Peter Wien
Kluge Fellow, 2011, University of Maryland, "Arab nationalism: Culture, history, and politics."

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