March 10, 1997 Volume 86, Number 20 | Prev | Next | Index
Princeton University Office of Communications, Stanhope Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544First Dale Fellow named
By Justin HarmonSenior Cyrus Etemad will be the first recipient of the University's new Martin A. Dale '53 Fellowship, which will enable him to devote the year following graduation to an independent project.
Etemad's project arises from several years' experience researching and photographing abandoned military sites, ranging from World War I-era coastal fortifications to launching facilities of obsolete nuclear missiles. He plans to use photography and text to explore "the histories of these programs and sites, as well as their changing social contexts; the historical interplay between military technology and architecture and defense planning and strategy, particularly during the Cold War; and the nature of obsolescence and ruin," he says. He will do research at the National Archives in Washington, DC, as well as such sites as the Air Force History Office in Huntsville, Ala., with the intention of producing both a publishable manuscript and a mountable exhibition.Grass Dancer evokes past, present
By Caroline MoseleyHodder Fellowship provides for a humanist "with much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts"
When Harley saw his father, Calvin Wind Soldier, and his brother, Duane, in dreams, they were wearing crowns of glass. Drops of blood trickled down their foreheads, beaded on their black lashes, and slipped into the corners of their mouths. Four weeks before Harley was born, his father and his older brother were killed in a car accident.
So begins The Grass Dancer (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994), a mesmerizing tale set on a North Dakota Indian reservation -- the first novel of Susan Power, this year's Hodder Fellow in the Humanities. Established in 1941, the Hodder Fellowship provides "studious leisure" for a humanist "with more than ordinary learning and with much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts." The fellowship is designed "to identify and nurture extraordinary potential rather than to honor distinguished achievement." The first Hodder Fellow was literary critic Richard Blackmur; last year's fellow was poet Khaled Mattawa.
PWB editor