Fellowships

Current Oakley Center Fellows (2008-2009)

Full Year Fellows

  • María Elena Cepeda, Program in Latina/o Studies
    "Digital Cultural Citizenship: U.S. Communities of Color in the Age
    of New Media"

  • John Chandler (Senior Fellow)
    President Emeritus, Williams College
    Professor Chandler is currently working on a book on the theory of leadership.

  • Edan Dekel, Classics
    "Virgil's Homer: The Aeneid and its Odyssean Lens"

  • Gage C. McWeeny, English
    "The Comfort of Strangers: Sociality and Victorian Literature"

  • Aamir Mufti, Comparative Literature, UCLA (Clark-Oakley Fellow)
    "Parting Lines: The Iconography of India's Partition"

  • Francis C. Oakley (Senior Fellow)
    President Emeritus, Williams College
    Professor Oakley is currently working on a reinterpretation of the history of political thought from late antiquity to the mid-seventeenth century. The tentative title for this projected three volume series is, "The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages". Volume I, which he is currently writing will bear the title, The Sacral Kingship and its Legacy to 1050.

Fall 2008 Fellows

  • Alexandra Garbarini, History (Lehman Fellow)
    "The Justice of Violence: Legal Frameworks of Mass Murder in Europe Before the Holocaust"

  • Marjorie W. Hirsch, Music
    "Schubert and the Romantic Quest for a 'New Mythology'"

  • Annette K. Quarcoopome '09 (Ruchman Fellow)
    "'Nasyon Matinik' (The Martinican Nation): An Investigation of the Imagined Community in Creolite Literature"

  • Alan E. White, Philosophy
    "Towards a Philosophical Theory of Everything: An Introduction to the Structural-Systematic Research Program in Philosophy"

Spring 2009 Fellows

  • M. Jennifer Bloxam, Music
    "Ritual Narratives of Faith: the Late Medieval Mass in Context"

  • Alan W. De Gooyer, English
    "Leaving is the Best Revenge: Essays on Shakespearean Detachment"

  • Kathryn R. Kent, English
    "Tracing Desire: Queer Readings in Modern U.S. Women's Fiction"
    "The Visual Record? Girl Scouting, Sexuality and Gender in 'Found'
    Photographs and Scrapbooks, 1920-1970"

  • James MacAllister, Political Science (Lehman Fellow)
    "Political Failure in South Vietnam: American Ambassadors and the Vietnam
    War, 1963-1969"

  • James L. Pethica, English
    "Authorized Biography of Lady Gregory"

  • Samuel J. Weinreich '09 (Ruchman Fellow)
    "Translation in Theory and Practice: Presenting and Representing Ancient Greek Poetry in English"

Oakley Center Fellows dining with Fellows from the Clark Art Institute at the Oakley Center, September 2007

Previous Clark-Oakley Fellows