We wish to congratulate the following recipients and thank the members of the various selection committees for their hard work this past year. Please check back in August 2009 for more detailed information and descriptions of seminars and individual projects.

Discovery Fellows 2009-2012

William Coleman, History of Art
Jonathan Haddad, French
Chloe Kitzinger, Slavic Languages & Literatures
Derin McLeod, Classics
Elizabeth Pearson, Sociology
Chiara Ricciardone, Rhetoric
Marina Romani, Italian Studies

Selection Committee:
Celeste Langan, English
Paula Varsano, East Asian Language & Cultures
Lisa Wymore, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Townsend Fellows 2009-2010

Amos Bitzan, Graduate Student, History
James Davies, Assistant Professor, Music
Karen Feldman, Assistant Professor, German
Sherry Goodman, Museum Fellow, Berkeley Art Museum
Lily Gurton-Wachter, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature
Harrison Huang, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages & Culture
Blake Johnson, Graduate Student, History
Benjamin Morgan, Graduate Student, Rhetoric
James Spohrer, Library Fellow, Doe Memorial Library, Germanic Collections
Emily Thornbury, Assistant Professor, English

Senior Fellows:
Joel Altman, Emeritus, English
Catherine Cole, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Dorothea Frede, Philosophy
David Frick, Slavic
Dorothy Hale, English
Abdul JanMohamed, English
Andrew Stewart, Classics

Selection Committee:
Niklaus Largier, German
Steven Justice, English
Catherine Soussloff, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz
Peter Sahlins, History

Associate Professor Fellows Spring 2010

Mia Fuller, Italian Studies
Project: "Mussolini's Citizens: Politics and Reminiscences in Italy's Fascist-Era 'New Towns' Today"

Michael Mascuch, Rhetoric
Project: "Literal Piety: Testimony, Truth, and English Protestant Identity, Askew to Wesley"

Janet Sorensen, English
Project: "Vulgar Tongues: Revaluing the Language of the Particular in Eighteenth-Century British Writing"

Selection Committee:
Marianne Constable, Rhetoric
David Hult, French
Eric Naiman, Comparative Literature

Strategic Working Group Spring 2010

"'Old Things': On the Place of the Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the Contemporary Humanities”

Daniel Boyarin, Co-Convener, Near Eastern Studies
Ramona Naddaff, Co-Convener, Rhetoric

Deborah Blocker, French
Niklaus Largier, German
Maria Mavroudi, History
Carolyn Merchant, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Micahel Nylan , History
Benjamin Porter, Near Eastern Studies

Selection Committee:
Edmund Campion, Music
Geoffrey Koziol , History
Robert Goldman, South & Southeast Asian Studies

Collaborative Research Seminar Spring 2010

“Humanistic and Empirical Studies in Moral Psychology”

Christopher Kutz, Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Robert MacCoun, Public Policy

Kathryn Abrams, Boalt Hall School of Law
Alison Gopnik , Psychology
Anthony Long, Classics, Philosophy, and Rhetoric
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology
Jay Wallace, Philosophy

Selection Committee:
Laura Nader, Anthropology
Robert Sharf, Buddhist Studies
Hans Sluga, Philosophy

Townsend Resident Fellows

Dai Jinhua, Director for the Center for Film and Cultural Studies at Bejing University
Host Department: Rhetoric (Spring 2010)

Vijayalakshmy Rangarajan, Tamil Scholar, India
Host Department: South and Southeast Asian Studies (Date TBA)

Selection Committee:
Andrew Jones, East Asian Languages & Culture
Ellen Oliensis, Classics