Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities fellows program

2006 RPW Graduate Student Fellows

Graduate student fellows are chosen through a rigorous selection process for the six dissertation completion fellowships. The interdisciplinary fellowship provides a generous stipend as well as a research fund for the students who will complete the dissertation during the academic year in which support is awarded. Students are freed from teaching and other departmental obligations, and they are not allowed to hold any other form of employment during the term of fellowship. Fellows meet in weekly seminars at the Warren Center, give presentations of their work to the seminar and discuss texts of common interest. The Warren Center invites a number of visiting speakers to meet with the fellows during the year to discuss issues pertinent to scholarly life, such as the art of writing, successful strategies for publication, funding opportunities, grant writing, and workshops on delivering academic presentations. Applications for the 2007/2008 Graduate Student Fellows Program will be accepted later this fall.

Lisa Battaglia
Department of Religion
"Women Who Have Gone Forth:
Gender and Religious Identity among Buddhist Nuns in Thailand"

Tim Boyd
Department of History
"'Out of the Shadow': Southern Democrats and the Civil Rights Movement, 1946-1976"

Carola Daffner
Department of Germanic/Slavic Languages
"Spaces of Provocation: Jewish Topographies in the Works of Gertrud Kolmar"

Brian Rabinovitz
Department of Philosophy
"Socio-Political Experience and Criticism After Pragmatism and Critical Theory: Toward a Critical Contextualism in Social-Political Philosophy

LeeAnn Reynolds
Department of History
"Red and Yellow, Black and White: Maintaining Segregation, 1920-1955"

David Richter
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
"Margins of Poetry: Performing the Formless in the Spanish Avant-Garde"

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