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New director, scholars join Society of FellowsPrinceton NJ -- A New director and three new postdoctoral scholars have joined the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts this year. The program, begun in 2000-01, is intended to attract some of the best recent Ph.D. recipients in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences to the campus each year. It is made possible through the generosity of Trustee Emeritus Lloyd Cotsen.
Barkan's fields of interest are Renaissance literature and art history, as well as drama. His publications include "Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture," "Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism" and "The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism." He has also edited a series of books on Renaissance drama published by Northwestern University Press. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Barkan earned his master's degree from Harvard University and his doctoral degree from Yale University. The new fellows were chosen from among 520 applicants for three-year terms. Based in the Joseph Henry House, the Cotsen Fellows teach half-time in their academic department or the Humanities Council and pursue their own research. They are:
Prado-Vilar has published on topics ranging from the discourse of the gift at the caliphal court of al-Andalus to the poetics of the body in Romanesque sculpture. An award-winning teaching fellow at Harvard, he has taught courses on topics such as general introductions in art and visual culture, theory and methodology of art history and the meanings of abstraction in the 20th century. This semester, he is part of a faculty team in humanistic studies teaching the first half of an interdisciplinary introduction to Western culture, "From Antiquity to the Middle Ages." In the spring, he will teach a medieval studies/art and archaeology seminar on "Visions of Love, Sacred and Profane, in the Medieval Mediterranean."
Rehding has held fellowships at Cambridge and at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught a broad range of subjects, from "Music and Society in Weimar Germany" to "Musical Acoustics." This fall, he is leading a graduate seminar in musicology titled "Monumentality in 19th-Century Music." In the spring, he will team teach the latter half of an interdisciplinary introduction to Western culture offered by humanistic studies, "From the Renaissance to the Modern Period."
Yan has published articles on Chinese proverbs, modernization in East Asia and the debates around the positioning of the native anthro-pologist. She has taught both anthropology and international studies courses on East Asian modernities. This fall, she is precepting "Introduction to Anthropology" with Isabelle Clark-Deces. In the spring, she will teach an undergraduate seminar titled "Anthropology of Value" in the same department. The three new fellows join five from the inaugural year of the program and five from last year who are continuing their work at Princeton in 2002-03. |
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