Visiting Scholars Program, 2002-2003
Chair of the Visiting Scholars Program
James Carroll – Historian and columnist for The Boston Globe.
Books include An American Requiem, Constantine’s Sword, the Church and
the Jews: A History, and, most recently, Toward a New Catholic Church
. During his tenure at the program, he will be working on a history of the
Pentagon.
Scholars
Eric Bettinger – Assistant Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve
University. The Effectiveness of School Vouchers in Colombia
. An investigation of the influence of school vouchers on the education of poor
high-school students in Colombia, as a case study in a project on the
feasibility of universal basic and secondary education.
Joseph Entin – Postdoctoral
Scholar, Yale University. Sensational Modernism: Disfigured Bodies and Aesthetic
Astonishment in American Culture. A reinterpretation of American
modernism that focuses on how writers, artists, photographers, journalists,
social scientists, and doctors interpreted the lives and histories of
immigrants, African Americans, working-class communities, and the underclass.
Page Fortna – Assistant Professor
of Political Science, Columbia University. The Effectiveness of International
Peacekeeping in Civil Wars. An examination of whether, how, and to what
extent international personnel sent to war-torn states actually contribute to a
stable peace.
David Greenberg – Postdoctoral
Scholar, Columbia University. The New Politics of Appointments: Congress,
Ideology, and the Supreme Court. A study of the history of nominations
to the Supreme Court and the unacknowledged role that ideology has played in
the confirmation process.
Jay Grossman – Assistant Professor
of English, Northwestern University. F. O. Mathiessen: A Cultural Biography.
An analysis of the life and work of this Harvard scholar of American
literature, his influence on the practice of American literary studies, and his
involvement in a range of activities and institutions central to the political
and cultural history of America.
Andrew Jewett – Postdoctoral
Scholar, University of California, Berkeley. To Make America Scientific: Science
and Democracy in American Public Culture, 1900-1950. A study of a group
of scientists and social scientists, philosophers and writers who thought that
the development of scientific knowledge would revitalize self-government in the
United States.
Ann-Marie Mikkelsen – Postdoctoral
Scholar, University of California, Irvine. Voices from the Field: Pastoral,
Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry. A project on
twentieth-century poets who called attention to social, economic, and political
inequities and attempted to reconcile these with their own relatively
privileged, but simultaneously marginal, status as representative voices of a
democratic society.
Associate Scholar
Andy Zelleke – J.D., Harvard Law School and Doctoral Candidate,
Harvard University. Freedom and Constraint: The Design of Governance and
Leadership Structures in Britain and the United States
. An analysis of the influence of cultural, historical, market, and political
forces on the structural leadership of prominent American and British
corporations.
Senior Scholar, Spring 2003
David Hollinger
– Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, University of California,
Berkeley. While in residence at the Visiting Scholars Program, he will be
developing a history of the demographic and social changes in the United States
after World War II and their effects on the humanities.
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