Former CHAT Fellows:

News and Updates

CHAT has awarded fellowships to many faculty and graduate students over the years who continue to make important contributions to their individual disciplines, sub-fields of research and to the Humanities in general. Please note the news and updates sent in by CHAT's former fellows below (in alphabetical order).

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Bretton Alvare

Bretton Alvare completed his PhD in August 2009 and now holds a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Widener University.  He is currently converting some of his dissertation chapters into academic articles.  One has already been published: Alvaré, B. T. (2010), 'Babylon Makes the Rules': Compliance, Fear, and Self-Discipline in the Quest for Official NGO Status. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 33: 178–200.

Oliver Gaycken

Oliver Gaycken has accepted a position as an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. His recent publications include:  The Secret Life of Plants: Visualizing Vegetative Movement, 1880-1900, Early Popular Visual Culture 9, no. 4 (December 2011) and ‘The Swarming of Life’: Moving Pictures, Education, and Views through the Microscope,” Science in Context 24, no. 3 (September 2011). His book, Devices of Curiosity: Early Cinema and Popular Science, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Jane Gordon

Jane Gordon's recent and fellowship-connected publications include: Jane Anna Gordon, Degrees of Statelessness: Vulnerability and Political Capital, Journal of Contemporary Thought 32 (Winter 2010): 17–39 and Jane Anna Gordon, Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon.  New York: Fordham University Press.  Series: Images of Justice: Transformative Ideals of Justice in Ethical and Political Thought, edited by Drucilla Cornell, Roger Berkowitz, and Kenneth Panfilio.  Forthcoming.

Joan Grassbaugh Forry

Joan Grassbaugh Forry graduated from Temple with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2008. She is now an assistant professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. There she teaches most of the applied ethics courses for my department, including Sports Ethics, Ethics and Business, Ethics and Animals, Environmental Philosophy, and Philosophy of Education. She also teaches a first-year writing seminar that I created, entitled, “Sport and Social Theory.” Recently Joan was invited to and recently participated in The Cumberland Project, a workshop and year-long dialogue on teaching issues of environmental sustainability. In March, she was also the Honored Faculty Guest at a Vanderbilt baseball game, where she threw out the first pitch. Joan’s CHAT fellowship supported research for her dissertation, The Gender Politics of Contemporary Sport, which is currently under review for publication.

 

Kuba Glasek

Kuba Glasek's CHAT Senior Doctoral Fellowship has allowed him to submit a manuscript for review to Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. He also was able to conduct dissertation research and writing and had three poster presentations accepted at the Association for Psychological Science Convention, and a poster and talk at the American Psychological Association Convention. The work Kuba did during his time as a Fellow will culminate in two more publications, one on Picasso's creative process, and another on the working memory processes of visual artists.

Dustin Kidd

Dustin Kidd's CHAT supported work on his recent book: Kidd, Dustin. 2010. Legislating Creativity: the Intersection of Art and Politics. New York. Routeledge. He also published an article along with the student he mentored through CHAT’s Rotberg fellowship:  Kidd, Dustin and Christina Jackson. 2010. Art as Propaganda: Bringing Dubois into the Sociology of Art, Sociology Compass. 4/8: 555-563.

Judtih Levine

During Judith Levine’s CHAT fellowship she was able to complete two chapters of her book manuscript, Reaching for the Bottom Rung: Low-income Mothers’ Climb into the Labor Market before and after Welfare Reform. She also completed revisions of most of the substantive chapters she had already written.  Judith presented one book chapter in the CHAT seminar and also gave a Distinguished Faculty Lecture which was an overview of the book.  Finally, she adapted one of the book chapters she wrote this year into article form and submitted it to the American Sociological Association annual conference.  The paper was selected for a panel and she will present it at the meetings in August 2011 in Las Vegas. 

Nyama McCarthy-Brown

Nyama McCarthy-Brown recently accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine for the fall. Her research for “The Proof is in the Pudding" An Examination of How Stated Values of Cultural Diversity are Implemented in Three Selected Dance Department Curricula,” was supported by her CHAT fellowship.

Juris Milestone

Juris Milestone recently dusted off the paper he did for his CHAT fellowship to revise and update it for both a conference and a publication.  He is currently teaching anthropology full time at Temple as an Assistant Professor of Teaching. Juris published one article since his fellowship: Design as Power: Paul Virilio and the Governmentality of Design Expertise. Culture, Theory, and Critique. 2007, 48(2): 175-198.  

Takiyah Nur Amin

Takiyah Nur Amin received her PhD in Dance with a concentration in Cultural Studies at Temple while also completing Temple's certificate programs in Women's Studies and in Teaching in Higher Education. Since the fall of last year she has been teaching at Colorado College in Dance as a Riley Scholar-in-Residence through the Consortium for Faculty Diversity. Starting in August 2011 Takiyah will begin a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of World Dance at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Thanks to her support from CHAT she was also able to publish two book reviews for Dance Chronicle, a well-respected journal in her field.

Naomi Schiller

Naomi has secured a contract with University of Texas Press for her book manuscript: Televising the Revolution: Community Media and the State in Venezuela and has two recent publications: Schiller. 2011 Catia Sees You: Community Television, Clientelism, and Participatory Statemaking in the Chávez Era in Participation and Public Sphere in Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy. David Smilde and Daniel Hellinger (eds). Durham: Duke University Press, pgs 104-130. and Schiller. 2011 Liberal and Bolivarian Regimes of Truth: Towards a Critically Engaged Anthropology in Caracas, Venezuela. Transforming Anthropology 19 (1): 35-42. Naomi’s research was recently presented as well in a number of scholarly venues including: “Channeling Chávez.” Distinguished Faculty Talk. Center for the Humanities at Temple University. February 17; “Confronting Liberalism’s Norms for Media in Caracas, Venezuela.” Invited Presentation. Political Theory Workshop, Temple University. January 26.; Guest Speaker. Exhibition of Venezuelan Documentary Film. The School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. December 2; “Limits of Liberalism in Caracas Venezuela.” Paper presented as part of co-organized panel, The Liberal State in Media Anthropology, at the American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. November 18.; and “The Predicaments of Latin American Solidarity and Autonomy in the Chávez Era.” Paper presented as part of chaired panel, Chávez and Zelaya: The Use and Abuse of the Comparison, at the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada. October 7.

Jeremy Schipper

Jeremy’s CHAT supported research was recently published:  Disability and Isaiah's Suffering Servant (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011).

Alan Singer

Alan’s book The Self-Deceiving Muse: Notice And Knowledge In The Work Of Art was published in Dec 2010 and it’s paperback will appear in 2011.  Two chapters of this book were the fruit of his time as a fellow. Similarly, a talk he gave at CHAT’s “imagination” conference was published in Symploke  vol. 16, nos. 1-2.

Miriam Solomon

Miriam is still hard at work on the book she began writing as a CHAT fellow and has, in the meantime, published several articles from that same research. These include: Solomon.  Group Judgment and the Medical Consensus Conference, in the Elsevier Handbook on Philosophy of Medicine, ed. Fred Gifford (2011) and Solomon,  Just a Paradigm: Evidence Based Medicine Meets Philosophy of Science, under review for the European Journal of Philosophy of Science. 

David Wolfsdorf

David Wolfsdorf's CHAT project was on the subject of pleasure in ancient Greek philosophy. Since his time as a fellow he has secured a book contract with Cambridge for a manuscript entitled Pleasure in Ancient Philosophy. This book is due at press this October and should appear in late 2012.