The John W. Kluge Center, established in 2000 as the Library's research center for visiting scholars, once again welcomes a new class of Kluge Fellows to the Library for a period of intensive research using the Library's extraordinary collections.
The scholars arriving this summer and fall bring with them interests as varied as Soviet rural transformation projects in Uzbekistan, American colonists who sided with Britain during the American Revolution and the rise of democratic republicanism across Latin America.
Among those in residence this session are the following scholars who will use the Library's collections and interact with Library of Congress staff, members of Congress and one another.
Michael C. Brose is assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. He received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He plans to examine the social and political roles of Central Asian elites in China after the fall of the Mongol Yuan dynasty.
Subarno Chattarji is associate professor of American literature at the University of Delhi. He was awarded the D. Phil in American literature from Oxford University. He plans to continue his study of the literature of the Vietnam War in a project he calls "'Will There Be Peace Again?' Vietnamese-American Writings in the U.S."
Kathleen M. Crowther-Heyck is assistant professor of the history of science at the University of Oklahoma. She received her doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and calls her research project "Creating Adam and Eve: Body, Soul and Gender in 16th Century Germany."
David W. Del Testa is assistant professor of modern European history at Bucknell University. He received his doctorate in history from the University of California, Davis. He calls his research project "'Paint the Trains Red': Labor, Nationalism and the Railroads in French Colonial Indochina, 1898-1954."
Krzysztof Jaskułowski is assistant professor at the Institute of History at the University of Wrocław, Poland, where he received his doctorate. He plans to examine Anglophone theories of nationalism and the construction of Eastern Europe by studying the condition of the current debate on nationalism and recent theories explaining the rise of Eastern European nations.
Maya Jasanoff is assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia. She received her doctorate from Yale University. She will focus her study on loyalists—American colonists who sided with Britain during the American Revolution and who fled to different parts of the British Empire during and after the war.
Marianne Kamp is associate professor of history at the University of Wyoming. She received a doctorate from the University of Chicago. She will be exploring oral histories of Soviet rural transformation projects (agricultural collectives) in Uzbekistan.
Xiaofei Kang is assistant professor of history at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She received her doctorate in Chinese history from Columbia University and calls her research project "Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Religion, Tourism and Local History at China's Ethnic Borderland."
Marina Moskowitz is senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She received her doctorate from Yale University. She plans to pursue a comprehensive study of the 19th century American seed industry in a project she calls "Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in 19th Century America."
James E. Sanders is assistant professor of history at Utah State University. He received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. He will explore the cultural and social history of democratic republicanism across Latin America in the context of the Atlantic World, from its rise in the 1820s until its demise in the 1880s.
Joel Seltzer is visiting assistant professor of medieval history at Skidmore College. He received a doctorate from Yale University. He plans to investigate the history of lay involvement in the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century in a project he calls "Annals of Revolt: Czech City Chroniclers and the Fashioning of the Bohemian Reformation."
