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FellowshipsCurrent Fellows | Senior | Post-Doctoral | Poetics Current Fellows 2011-2012SENIOR FELLOWS Bracht Branham teaches in the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Emory University. His books include The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative, ed. and intro. (Groningen: Barkhuis 2005). Bakhtin and the Classics, ed. and intro. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press 2002). Petronius’ Satyrica (with D. Kinney). English translation with introduction and commentary (Berkeley: University of California Press 1996; J.M. Dent in the UK; paperback by Everyman and University of California Press 1997). The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, co-editor Goulet-Cazé (Berkeley: University of California Press 1996). Second Printing 1998. U. S. paperback edition (Berkeley 2000). His project for the coming year at the Fox Center is to complete Inventing the Novel: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Evolution of Fiction in Antiquity for Oxford University Press. N.E.H. POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW IN POETICS
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Madhavi Seth (Department of Philosophy) is working on her honors thesis, “Exploring Friendship, Past and Present: A Comparative Analysis of Friendship in Aristotle’s Nicromachean Ethics and Social Networking Sites (SNSes),” which explores the extent to which Aristotle’s notions of friendship, as outlined in his Nicomachean Ethics, are applicable to those of Friendships manifested through Social Networking Sites, notably Facebook and Google Plus (G+). Senior Fellows ProgramThe Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry announces up to four annual internal Fellowships available to tenured members of the Emory University faculty for an academic year of study and residence in the Center. FCHI Senior Fellows will be released from their University teaching and service commitments for the academic year, in addition to receiving a research budget from the Center. Post-Doctoral Fellows Program
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Roberto Franzosi is professor of Sociology and Linguistics at Emory University. Franzosi’s main interests have been in social protest (e.g., The Puzzle of Strikes, Cambridge University Press, 1994). He has had a long-standing interest in issues of language and measurement of text and narrative, with several articles published and three books From Words to Number (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Content Analysis (Sage, 2008), and Quantitative Narrative Analysis (Sage, 2010). He is currently working on two historical projects: the rise of Italian fascism (1919-22) and lynchings in Georgia (1870-1935). At the Center he will complete the book Trilogy of Rhetoric, on the rhetorical roots of three social science approaches to text: content analysis, frame analysis, quantitative narrative analysis.
Benjamin Reiss is Professor of English at Emory University, where he specializes in nineteenth-century American literature through the lenses of cultural studies, disability studies, and the history of medicine. He is the author of The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America (Harvard University Press, 2001; paperback ed. 2010) and Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2008), with recent articles on psychiatry and contemporary culture in Social Text, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and American Quarterly. He is also a co-editor, with Leonard Cassuto and Clare Eby, of The Cambridge History of the American Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2011). While at the FCHI, he will be working on a new book about sleeping in the modern world – braiding literary, philosophical, and scientific understandings of human sleep and its vicissitudes from the Enlightenment to the present.
Randall Strahan is professor of political science at Emory University. He received a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia in 1986. He has held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies in Denmark. He is the author of two books: New Ways and Means and Leading Representatives: The Agency of Leaders in the Politics of the U.S. House. Current research interests include partisanship in contemporary American politics and the methodological foundations of Tocqueville’s political science. In 2009 he was awarded the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, Emory University's highest award for teaching excellence. 
Bartholomew Brinkman (Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois) specializes in modern poetry, print culture, and digital humanities. He has recently published articles in Modernism/modernity, Journal of Modern Literature, and Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and is co-editor of the Modern American Poetry Site (MAPS). He has taught at the University of I
Natalia Cecire (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) specializes in American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her current book project, "Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge, 1880-1950," draws on feminist history and philosophy of science in theorizing "experimental" writing as a epistemologically oriented literary mode that cuts across naturalism, modernism, and the avant-garde. Other areas of interest include childhood, media theory, and visual culture. She is also a managing editor for the digital salon Arcade (arcade.stanford.edu).
Darren E. Grem (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is a U.S. historian who comes to the Fox Center after a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University. His research and teaching interests include politics, business, religion, and popular culture, with particular interest in American conservatism. While at the Fox Center, he will continue preparing his book manuscript, The Blessings of Business: Corporate America and the Rise of Conservative Evangelicalism, which explores how conservative evangelicals strategically used corporate America – its leaders, businesses, money, ideas, and values – to advance their religious and political aspirations in the twentieth century. 
Angie Heo (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) is an anthropologist of religion, specializing in public cultures of imagination, media technologies, and religious minority politics in the Arab Middle East. Since 2004, she has conducted fieldwork in greater Cairo, with particular focus on modern forms of Christian imagery in Egypt. Her interests include the politics of public religion, as well as histories and theories of signs, visual sensibility, and material aesthetics. At the Fox Center, she is preparing a manuscript that explores the popular dynamics of Coptic Orthodoxy in relation to broader fields of majority-minority politics and national public culture.
Elizabeth Bouldin (Department of History) is completing her dissertation, “'Chosen Vessels': Protestant Women Prophets and the Language of Election in the Early Modern British Atlantic.” Her project examines expressions of election, or chosenness, among more than one hundred women who claimed to speak for God as prophets. “Chosen Vessels” contends that how women prophets negotiated discourses on election was key to how they worked out their own beliefs about their elect status. More broadly, it was also central to how women shaped ideas about the role of election in the lives of individuals and communities in the diverse religious environment of the Atlantic world.
Angela LaGrotteria (Department of Women's Studies) is completing her dissertation "Engendering Regions in Contemporary Novels of Appalachia and the U.S. Southwest." Examining narratives in which Appalachia and the Southwest are juxtaposed as sites of origin and relocation, she critically traces transformations of women's identities and community allegiances in each region. These complex intersections of gender and region, as they are inflected by race and class, challenge binaries of essentialism versus social construction. "Engendering Regions" conveys how women's narratives portray emerging individual and communal identities that are tied to local places yet resist traditional gender stereotypes.
Christine McCulloch (Department of English) is completing her dissertation, “‘A Profane Miracle’: Modernity and the Accident in American Literature and Film, 1925-1934.” Foregrounding the automobile accident as one of the most significant—and strangely ubiquitous—tropes in both media, her project explores the site of the crash as the site of newly convergent philosophical, eschatological, and aesthetic paradigms that emphasize chance, accident, and contingency as the predominant conditions of modern art and experience.
Kirsten Cooper (Department of History, Dance and Movement Studies Program) is working on her honors thesis in early-modern European history, titled “A Rivalry Ended? France and Austria during the Diplomatic Revolution and Seven Years War.” She examines diplomatic correspondence for evidence of how national perceptions of the two powers were influenced by the alliance of 1756, and the long tradition of enmity which preceded this diplomatic revolution. 
William (Will) Eye (Departments of Philosophy and Music), is working on his honors thesis titled “Toward Universality; the Natural Law Foundations of Human Rights.” The project focuses on the philosophical justifications of international human rights legislation, defending its moral authority in response to the argument from cultural relativism. In addition, he has traveled with the International Human Rights Exchange to Johannesburg, South Africa, to better understand the idea of human rights in theory and practice. 
Andrew Hull (Departments of Philosophy and Classics) is a Senior in Emory College of Arts and Sciences, working on his honors thesis tentatively titled "For the Truth Must be Told: The Seventh Platonic Epistle and the Mystery of the Philosophic Digression." He has also helped research and co-edit a commentary on Plato's Parmenides with Professor Richard Patterson. His thesis focuses on the 7th letter ascribed to Plato and will include a translation, critical commentary, and essay examining the authenticity of so-called "Philosophic Digression" contained in the letter.
Hyeok Hweon (Kevin) Kang (Departments of Music and History) is a junior in the Emory College of Arts and Sciences. Double majoring in history and music, he has pursued research under the guidance of historian Dr. Tonio Andrade and ethnomusicologist Dr. Tongsoon Lee. His current project is titled “Korean Military Innovations: Influence of Manchu Cavalry on Firearms Development.” While at the Fox Center, he will examine the influences of Korean defeats to Manchu cavalry in the early 17th century on the development of firearms and infantry-based warfare in Korea.
Anda Lopazan (Department of Art History) is working on her honors thesis “For the Love of Art: Art Crime as a Response to the Cultural and Social Elements of Art.” Her interest in art crime began her sophomore year, when a conservator and visiting lecturer revealed many tricks used by forgers to fool some of the world’s most renowned museums. Since then she’s been researching how theft, looting, forging, and slashing are conditioned responses to art and the portrayal of art affected by crime in our society. 
Melissa Mair (Department of Art History and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program) is working on her honors thesis, “The Transformation of a Goddess: An Evaluation of the Art found in the places of worship of the Goddess Isis throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World.” By evaluating the changes in the artistic depictions of Isis as the cult spread from Egypt to the rest of the Mediterranean, she is able to investigate the ways different cultures adapted the cult for their own purposes, both political and social. Her ultimate goal is to use art as a lens to view the cultural realities of religion in the ancient Mediterranean World. Melissa hopes to continue to study Egypt and Egypt’s connections to the rest of the ancient Mediterranean world after she graduates by pursuing a graduate degree in Egyptology.
Grant Mannion (Department of History) is a senior in the Emory College of Arts and Sciences. His thesis involves religion in the Civil War-era south, specifically how Southern clergy perceived the defeat of the Confederacy, as well as their role as contributors to the Lost Cause mythology. His current project represents an intersection of his interest in nineteenth-century Southern social and religious history. A previous work of his, Between Piety and Paganism: Peasant Religiosity in Late Imperial Russia, explores the religiosity of the Russian peasantry; it will be published in the Emory Undergraduate Research Journal in the fall 2011.
Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010)
