NEWSLETTER - FALL 2009One of the most important functions of the Leslie Center is to support research in the Humanities and related disciplines. We are proud to announce that the following individuals have received support for the coming academic year and beyond. Recently, the Leslie Center has expanded its fellowship offerings. Please take a look at our suite of fellowships and grants.
Shalini Ayyagari will be joining the department of Music and AMES as the 2009-2011 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. She has just completed her dissertation at Berkeley on “Contemporary Cultural Politics and
Emerging Institutional Spaces for Hereditary Musicians in Manganiyar of the Thar Desert in Western Rajasthan.”
Graziella Parati, French and Italian: Un-becoming Fascists
Francesco Boldizzoni Università Bocconi, Milan and the University of Cambridge (fall 2009): author of Means and Ends: The Idea of Capital in the West, 1500–1970 (Macmillan, 2008), and presently working on The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History.
Nikhil Rao Wellesley College (fall 2009 and spring 2010), an historian of modern south Asia. His research focuses on the formation of suburbs and suburban communities in late colonial Mumbai.
Charles Briggs independent scholar (spring 2009–fall 2009): expert on medieval historiography and author of Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c.
1275- c. 1525. He is presently working on The Body Broken: Medieval Europe 1300–1520 (forthcoming with Routledge).
Enrico Botta (fall 2009) is studying for his Ph.D. in Literary Genres at the Università degli Studi dell’Aquila. At Dartmouth, he will be pursuing research on the works on Henry James.
Bill Bahng Boyer (fall 2009-spring 2010) is completing his Ph.D. in Music at NYU on “Public Hearing: Sonic Encounters and Social Responsibility in the New York City Subway System.”
Johanna Evans: a stage adaptation of Kristin Lavrandsdatter
Thomas Wisniewski, Comparative Literature/MA: Elefanticidio: Translating the Event
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Shalene Vasquez, Michael Chaney, Department of English and African and African-American Studies - Black Theatricality: Race and Representation in Black Literature and Culture (Spring 2010)
Colin Calloway, Native American Studies, Multiple Narratives in Plains Indian Ledger Art (fall 2010)
