Visiting Scholars Program, 2004-2005
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, Crusade: Chronicles of an
Unjust War, a collection of his Boston Globe columns since 9-11.
During his tenure at the program, he is working on a history of the Pentagon.
ScholarsChristopher Capozzola – Assistant Professor of History, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Ph.D., Columbia University. A.B., Harvard College. Uncle
Sam Wants You: Citizenship and Obligations in World War I America. A
study of military conscription; voluntary associations and their dual roles in
war mobilization and home front repression; and the rise of legal
understandings of civil liberties and citizenship rights, demonstrating how
political obligations were tied to coercive practices of citizenship in early
20th-century American political life.
Cheryl Finley – Assistant Professor of the
History of Art, Cornell University. Ph.D., Yale University. B.A., Wellesley
College. Committed to Memory: The Slave Ship Icon in the Black Atlantic
Imagination. An examination of the history, meaning, and use of the
leading visual image associated with slavery, the engraving, Description of A
Slave Ship, from its emergence in 1789 as a propaganda tool of the
abolitionist movement to the present day, when it remains an icon of
remembrance and identity in 20th-century black Atlantic literary, political,
and artistic spheres.
Hsuan L. Hsu – Assistant Professor of
English, Yale University. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. A.B.,
Harvard College. Scales of Identification: Geography, Affect, and
Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature. An analysis of two sets of
writings-texts that deal with the colonization of Africa by freed American
slaves and Japanese and American writings on the opening of Japan to Western
commerce-which exemplify how 19th-century literature reflected changes in the
geographical scale by which events are influenced and interpreted.
Christopher Klemek – Assistant Professor of
History, Florida International University. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
B.A., Ohio State University. Urbanism as Reform: Modernist Planning and the
Crisis of Urban Liberalism in Europe and North America, 1945-1975. A
survey of the development of the interdisciplinary field of urban studies,
focusing on institutions, such as the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban
Studies; public policies, including the Federal Model Cities Program; and
individuals, such as neighborhood activist and author, Jane Jacobs.
Matthew Lindsay – J.D. Yale Law School, Ph.D.
candidate, University of Chicago. B.A., University of California, Irvine. In
Defense of "Racial Balancing:" A Critique of the Declining Legal Relevance of
Racial Inequality. An investigation into the ascendance of the
"colorblindness" ideal in American political and constitutional discourse,
focusing on the increasing equation over the past three decades of racial
justice with social and economic competition among individuals.
Robert MacDougall – Post-Doctoral Scholar,
Harvard University. B.A. Queens University. The People's Phone: Rewiring the
History of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. A history of the
telephone and telephone networks in the United States and Canada from the 1880s
to the 1920s, demonstrating how the political struggles of the Gilded Age and
the Progressive Era were inextricably intertwined with technological changes.
Asif Siddiqi – Post-Doctoral Scholar,
Carnegie Mellon University. M.B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. M.S.,
Texas A&M University. Science and Repression in the 20th Century: Revisiting
Soviet Science and Technology. An historical study of the dialectic
relationship between repression and the practice of science and technology in
the Soviet Union, focusing particularly on the costs and benefits of
state-sponsored repression to scientific and engineering communities during the
Great Terror.
Lisa Szefel – Post-Doctoral Scholar,
University of Rochester. M.A., University of Virginia. A.B., Mount Holyoke
College. The American Poetic Community, 1890-1920. An analysis of the
transformation of American poetry in the early 20th century brought about by
the interaction of organizations and publications that linked poets, readers,
and editors in new ways, resulting in fresh creative possibilities for poets
and new expectations in readers.
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