Long-term Fellowships at a Center for Advanced Study

FAIN: RA-50030-05

John Carter Brown Library (Providence, RI 02906)
Norman Fiering (Project Director: September 2004 to January 2009)
Ted Widmer (Project Director: January 2009 to November 2012)
Margot M. Nishimura (Project Director: November 2012 to July 2009)

Two humanities fellowships per year for two years.

The JCB is seeking renewal of funding for long-term fellowships. The Library has an ongoing program of short-term fellowships, in which it invests $100,000 annually, exclusive of NEH and Mellon Foundation funding. NEH fellowships are an invaluable contribution to the Program, but highly expensive to underwrite with private funds. The Library is currently appointing 25 to 30 research fellows a year, all of whom are engaged in research on some aspect of the history of the Americas, North and South, during the colonial period, i.e., from 1492 to ca. 1825. Study of all of the colonial empires is encompassed -- Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English -- along with the history of Africans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Associated Products

Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (Book)
Title: Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel
Author: Srinivas Aravamudan
Abstract: This book explores how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, the author poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo12274753.html
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226024493
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Peyote, Ever Virgin: a Case for Religious Hybridism in Mexico (Book Section)
Title: Peyote, Ever Virgin: a Case for Religious Hybridism in Mexico
Author: Martin Nesvig
Editor: Emily Michelson
Editor: Scott Taylor
Editor: Mary Noll Venables
Abstract: Examines the ways that Spaniards adapted pre-existing Mesoamerican cultural norms and behaviors to the new, colonial and multi-ethnic context of Mexico (and Latin America more broadly).
Year: 2013
Primary URL: http://http://www.worldcat.org/title/linking-of-heaven-and-earth-studies-in-religious-and-cultural-history-in-honor-of-carlos-mn-eire/oclc/800719414&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: Worldcat entry for the book in which this chapter is found.
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: Ashgate
Book Title: A Linking of Heaven and Earth: Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M. N. Eire
ISBN: 9781409439431

Escribiendo Desde Los Margenes: Colonialismo y jesuitas en el siglo XVIII (Book)
Title: Escribiendo Desde Los Margenes: Colonialismo y jesuitas en el siglo XVIII
Author: Ivonne del Valle
Abstract: Durante el siglo XVIII, momento de la aceleracion del colonialismo, el saber europeo se presenta como opuesto al deseo de dominio. La falacia de esta idea ha sido senalada por muchos pensadores: el saber equivalia al poder y viceversa. Este poder se manifestaba en el caracter prescriptivo de una universalidad distinta al cristianismo espanol del primer proyecto imperial en America. Escribiendo desde los margenes: colonialismo y jesuitas en el siglo XVIII estudia las relaciones entre jesuitas e indigenas en tres areas perifericas de la Nueva Espana (la sierra de Nayar, Sonora y Baja California), para pensar los alcances de esta pretension universalizante. La geografia de estos tres sitios y la vida y el saber de los grupos indigenas que los habitaban tienen, en la escritura y en la constitucion de los jesuitas como sujetos, consecuencias importantes que cuestionan la posibilidad de un modelo unico de vida.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Siglo Veintiuno Editores
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9786070300554
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Cervantes do Salazar y las fundaciones en falso de la ciudad de Mexico (Article)
Title: Cervantes do Salazar y las fundaciones en falso de la ciudad de Mexico
Author: Ivonne del Valle
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Year: 2011
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Literatura mexicana
Publisher: Centro de Estudios Literarios

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