Kennedy, Knox & Sheldon Fellowships
Patrick Baker, History: Italy
Using the method of prosopgraphy he will study Renaissance humanism from 1350 to 1500.
Edward Baring, History: France
He will study an archive-based intellectual history of philosophy of Jacques Derrida and French philosophy in the period 1950 to 1972.
Meraj Dhir, History of Art and Architecture: France & Belgium
He will research three French post-World War II film artists: Robert Bresson, Jean-Pierre Melville and Jacques Tati.
Ivan Drpic, History of Art and Architecture: Greece & Turkey
He will focus his studies on the evidence of epigrams on art to offer a better understanding of aesthetics, patronage and visual cutlure in late Byzantium circa 1250-1450.
Ahmed El-Shamsy, Middle Eastern Studies: Egypt, Turkey, Syria & Ireland
He will be using unstudied manuscripts to research the role of legal maximis in the basic formation of Sunni Islamic law between ninth and eleventh centuries.
Mattias Frey, Germanic Language and Literature: Germany
He will be investigating post-wall German cinema's retrovisions and how Germany's historical films imagine the past.
Eleanor Hubbard, History: United Kingdom
She will be using the court records for the period of 1580 to 1640 to collect information about the lives of London domestic servants, their origins and their careers after being in service.
Erica Kim: United States, Mexico, Vietnam, & South Korea
She will be conducting fieldwork observation and research which focuses on three case studies of ethnic built environments of recent immigrants in the United States and their respective countries of origin.
Sukhee Lee, East Asian Languages and Civilizations: Japan
Using Japanese libraries to research the role of the state in the formation of "gentry society" in the late imperial China, he will focus on contestation and negotiations between the state and gentry elites over resources in local society.
Daniel Margocsy, History of Science: United Kingdom, Netherlands & Russia
He will study how 17th century Dutch artisans advertised their scientific products in contemporary Europe.
Cammie McAtee, History of Art & Architecture: United States
She will research modern architecture in the United States for the dissertation "When Form was King: The New Formalism in American Architecture in the 1950s and 1960s."
Myles Osborne, History: Kenya
He will be studying the Kamba people, British Empire community development policies, and ethnicity and identity in Africa.
Daniel Shore, English and American Language and Literature: United Kingdom
He will be researching English polemical writings from the Interregnum period, 1640 to 1660, in the British Library.
Elizabeth Yale, History of Science: United Kingdom
Investigating the "manuscript culture" of seventeenth century English scientists, she will be reconstructing manuscript networks in various different archives and libraries.
