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.
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Resident Scholars
Emma Adlard
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
Kings College London,
"Elizabeth Coolidge's patronage of early twentieth century French musical culture."
Jennifer Allan
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,
"An Exploration of the presentation of the female body in vernacular visual media at times of crises in the history of modern Japan."
Kevin Bartig
Kluge Fellow,
2011,
Michigan State University,
"The National Council for American-Soviet Friendship and American-Soviet musical diplomacy, 1941-1960."
Lecture: "American Musicians, Soviet Music, and Cultural Ties in the 1940s”
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."
Webcast: “Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Sephardim, Marriage Choice, and the Construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)”
Jonathan Chandler
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
University College London,
"The Continental Army and American identities, 1775-1783."
Farr A Curlin
David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality,
2012,
University of Chicago,
"Medicine and Religion."
Tanya Filer
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
University College London,
"A history of the secret in Argentina, 1946-2010."
Stuart Galloway
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
University of Leicester,
"The American Equal Rights Association and the pursuit of universal suffrage, 1866-1870."
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."
Sophie Jones
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
Birbeck College, University of London,
"Embyological display, pre-natal narratives and the space-time of American modernity."
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."
Philip Kirby
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
University of London,
"The Homeland Security Advisory System, 2002-2011."
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
Christopher Lee
Kluge Fellow,
2011,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
"Making a world after empire: The 1955 Asia-Africa conference in Bandung, Indonesia."
Duncan MacInnes
Visiting Fellow,
2011,
U.S. Department of State,
"New Media and Public Diplomacy."
Helen McKee
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
Newcastle University,
"Maroons, Creeks and the role of 'free' societies in the Atlantic world."
Benjamin Morgan
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
University College London,
"Bad writing: Towards the poetics of a literary common-place."
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."
Lecture: “Pivot of Empire: Settler Politics in Japanese Manchuria, 1913-1916”
Peter Wien
Kluge Fellow,
2011,
University of Maryland,
"Arab nationalism: Culture, history, and politics."
Michael Witcombe
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
University of Southampton,
"A Study of the genesis of Philip Roth's fiction: the Kepesh novels."
Christopher Wright
British Research Council Fellow,
2011,
Newcastle University,
"Thomas Pynchon and transatlantic studies."
