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ORGANIZING FELLOWS: Nalini Bhushan, Philosophy Jay Garfield, Philosophy

PROJECT FELLOWS

• Payal Banerjee, Sociology
  Tracing the historicity of the emerging notion of India's "Tech Renaissance."
  
  
• Nalini Bhushan, Philosophy, Organizing Fellow
  Researching a history of philosophy in English during the British colonial period in India.
  
  
• Margaret Dodge '12, Comparative Literature
  The Spanish Renaissance, specifically the influence of the Arab Caliphate on Spanish literature.
  
  
• Lois Dubin, Religion
  The Jewish Enlightenment movement and emancipation politics in the 18th and 19th centuries in Western and Central Europe.
  
  
• Dylan Farrell '12, Sociology & Study of Women & Gender
  The food renaissance, especially renewed interest in locally grown food and sustainable agriculture.
  
  
• Jay Garfield, Philosophy, Organizing Fellow
  Researching a history of philosophy in English during the British colonial period in India.
  
  
• Janelle Gatchalian '12, Art History
  The concept of "new" as defined by the 20th-century Italian avant-garde art group known as the Futurists.
  
  
• Anna Hallman '13, Education & Child Study
  Billie Holiday's performance of the song "Strange Fruit," specifically how it instigated an evaluation of African-American experience in the U.S.
  
  
• Rachel Johnson '12, History
  The concept of renaissance as it applies to the Pan-Indian movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  
  
• Barbara Kellum, Art
  The political and cultural transformation of the Roman world during the period of the Emperor Augustus.
  
  
• Naomi Miller, English Language & Literature
  The romance of naissance in the narratives of authors during the rebirth of English culture during the period of Queen Elizabeth I.
  
  
• Suleiman Mourad, Religion
  The Arab Renaissance, 'Asr al-Nahda, of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  
  
• Andrea Stone, English Language & Literature
  African Diasporic literature, specifically the text "Address of Abraham Johnstone, A Black Man, Who Was Hanged at Woodbury...New Jersey."
  
  
• Frazer Ward, Art
  New Media Public Spheres and the Nature of Experience, specifically whether anything more than the context of experience has changed in relationship to new technologies.
  
  

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