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WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION NAMES 2006 NEWCOMBE DISSERTATION FELLOWS
PRINCETON, NJ—How do Muslims in one of Europe’s great cities respond to the state-sanctioned Islamic identity represented by a landmark mosque? Do Buddhist-inspired human rights efforts in Thailand challenge or complement a Western vision of human rights? Does contemporary Christian fundamentalism in the United States owe its shape to corporate adoption of fundamentalist ideas at the turn of the 20th century? How do well-meaning people understand, ethically, what it means to regret causing unintended harm?
Doctoral candidates funded by the 2006 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are writing on these and other questions in religion and ethical values. The 30 Newcombe Fellows for 2006, each of whom receives a 12-month award of $18,500, are in their final dissertation year at 17 institutions nationwide, from the University of Chicago and Yale University to the University of Texas at Austin and Indiana University. (See the full list of 2006 Fellows below.)
Funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation of Princeton, New Jersey, the Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious such award for Ph.D. students addressing ethical and religious questions in the humanities and social sciences. Since its inception in 1981, the Newcombe Fellowship has supported nearly 1,000 doctoral candidates, many of whom are now noted faculty at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and abroad. For more information, visit www.woodrow.org/fellowships/religion_ethics.
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The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has its origins in a now-famous fellowship program, begun in 1945, which helped the United States create a great generation of college teachers and intellectual leaders. Today’s Woodrow Wilson continues to cultivate excellence in teaching and learning at every level of education, putting the arts and sciences at the service of democracy.
Kimberly Arkin • Anthropology, The University of Chicago
Racism and the Politics of Identities: Constructing Adolescent Jewishness in Contemporary France
Jeremy Berndt • History, Northwestern University
Closer Than Your Jugular Vein: Islamic Learning, Rural Life, and History in Gimbala, Central Mali
Brantley Bryant • English/Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Common Profit: Economic Morality in English Public Political Discourse, c.1340-1406
Junjie Chen • Anthropology, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
While the State Claims the Intimate: Population Control Policy and the Ethics of Chinese Modernity
Ryan Coyne • Theology, The University of Chicago
Being Before God: Augustine and the Development of Heideggerian Philosophy
Michael Czaplicki • History, The University of Chicago
The Corruption of Hope: Political Scandal, Congressional Investigations, and Popular Understanding of Government in the U.S., 1932-1952
Joanna Davidson • Anthropology, Emory University
Feet in the Fire: Values, Pluralism, and Social Reproduction Among the Diola of Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Naomi Davidson • History, The University of Chicago
Un Espoir en Devenir: The Mosquée de Paris and the Creation of French Islams
Erik Davis • History/Religions, The University of Chicago
The Treasure of the Buddha: Death, Desire, and Memory in Contemporary Cambodian Religion
Paul Dilley • Religious Studies, Yale University
The Crisis of Conversion: Monastic Identity Formation and Culture in Late Antiquity
Hussein Fancy • History, Princeton University
Boundary Crossing, Boundary Making: Muslim and Christian Mercenaries in the Western Mediterranean
Timothy Gloege • History, The University of Notre Dame
Consumed: Reuben A. Torrey and the Construction of Corporate Fundamentalism, 1880-1930
Carrie Konold • Political Science, The University of Michigan
Contesting Secularisms: Citizenship, Religion and Democracy in Comparative Perspective
Jennifer Liu • Medical Anthropology, The University of California at San Francisco / The University of California at Berkeley
Big Science and Traveling Bioethics: Stem Cell Research in Taiwan
Tzu-Kai Liu • Anthropology, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Text, Power and Personhood: Engaging Wa Buddhists’ Identities in Post-Socialist China
Armando Manalo • Comparative Literature, The University of California at Berkeley
Ethics After the General Will: Early Romantic Fiction and Enlightenment Teleological Debate in Revolutionary France
Matthew Millikan • History, The University of Chicago
Mental Science and the Moral Logic of Liberalism in 20th Century America
Judson Murray • Religious Studies, Brown University
The Way and the Sage in Early Han Thought: Cosmology, Self Cultivation, and Rulership in the Huainanzi
Viren Murthy • History, The University of Chicago
The Myriad Things Stem from Confusion: Religion and Radicalism in Zhang Taiyan’s Political Philosophy
Japa Pallikkathayil • Philosophy, Harvard University
Your Money or Your Life: Coercion in Personal and Political Contexts
Emily Russell • English, The University of California at Los Angeles
Embodied Citizenship: Disability in the National Imagination
Don Selby • Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University
The Politics and Morality of Human Rights in Thailand
Elena Shtromberg • Art History, The University of California at Los Angeles
Conceptual Encounters: Art and Information in Brazil, 1968-1978
Neiladri Sinhababu • Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin
A Treatise of Humean Nature
Christopher Skeaff • Political Science, Northwestern University
The Praxis of Critique: Spinoza’s Enlightenment, Our Democracy
Theodore Slutz • History, Yale University
Reimagining Religion: The Grounding of Spiritual Politics and Practice in Modern America, 1890 to 1940
Lisa Stampnitzky • Sociology, The University of California at Berkeley
The Rise of the Terrorism Expert
Shahla Talebi • Anthropology, Columbia University
Discourses of Self Sacrifice: State and Dissident Martyrs in Post Revolutionary Iran
Philippa Townsend • Religion, Princeton University
The Third Race: Ethnicity, Universalism and Religious Practice in Late Antiquity
Mark Wilson • Religious Studies, Indiana University
The Emotion of Regret in an Ethics of Response
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