Hear from a recent scholar-in-residence about his experience at the John W. Kluge Center. Kluge Fellow, Dr. Robin Kornman, a noted Buddhist scholar who worked on a translation of the Epic of Gesar of Ling, discusses his time at the Library of Congress with Robert Saladini of the John W. Kluge Center.
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Resident Scholars
Mark D. Anderson, Kluge Fellow, 2007, University of Georgia, “The fruits of disaster: cultural responses to catastrophe in Latin America.”
Maroun Aouad, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2008, Director of Research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, “Philosophy of public discourse in Medieval Islam and its modern political debates.”
Johanna Bockman, Kluge Fellow, 2008, George Mason University, “The socialist origins of neoliberalism.”
Rachel Bohlmann, J. Franklin Jameson Fellow Research in American History, 2008, Newberry Library, “The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Chicago.”
Subarno Chattarji, Kluge Fellow, 2008, Swansea University, “Will there be peace again? Vietnamese-American writings in the U.S.”
Paul Crego, Kluge Staff Fellow, 2007, “History of Abkhazia and the Abkhazians.”
Elizabeth Crist, Kluge Fellow, 2008, Princeton University, “Music that matters: American music in the 1930s.”
Marcy Dinius, Kluge Fellow, 2008, University of Delaware, “The role of the daguerreotype in the literature, rhetoric, and visual culture of American abolition, 1833-1860.”
Jacqueline Messing, Kislak Fellow in American Studies, 2008, University of South Florida, “Identity, ideology and social change in 16th century Tlaxcala.”
Sarah Moody, British Research Council Fellow, 2008, University of Lincoln, “How school history curriculum is shaped and taught in the U.S.”
Kelly Pemberton, David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality, 2009, George Washington University, “Women and the institutionalization of Islamic medical knowledge.”
Marcia Ristaino, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2008, US-China Policy Foundation, “Chinese cartoonist and caricaturist Ding Cong.”
Timothy M. Rohan, Kluge Fellow, 2008, University of Massachusetts, “Enriching modernism: Paul Rudolph's buildings and projects, 1945-1997.”
Reuben S. Rose-Redwood, Kluge Fellow, 2008, Texas A&M University, “Rationalizing the landscape: a critical spatial history of street and house numbering in the United States.”
Teresita C. Schaffer, Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations, 2008, Ambassador, “Diplomatic history.”
Srividhya Swaminathan, Kluge Fellow, 2008, Long Island University, “In service of commerce: British arguments for slavery in the era before abolition, 1660-1790.”
