ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship Program

FAIN: RA-50048-07

American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies (New York, NY 10017-6706)
Saul Fisher (Project Director: September 2006 to March 2009)
Nicole A Stahlmann (Project Director: March 2009 to March 2012)

The equivalent of four fellowships a year for three years.

This proposal seeks funding from the NEH for the period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2011 to support the program of ACLS/SSRC/NEH Fellowships in International and Area Studies. The ACLS has successfully administered this and predecessor programs since 1978. The program is integrated into the central ACLS fellowship competition, since multi-disciplinary research characterizes not only area studies but much work in the humanities in general; area studies scholarship benefits from evaluation in this larger context. Integration of the programs maximizes the number of NEH Fellows, who are supported both by grant funds and by ACLS endowment funds. The program offers 15 fellowships a year to post-doctoral scholars in all disciplines of the humanities working on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, East Europe, and the former Soviet Union.

Associated Products

Anarchic Solidarity; Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia (Book)
Title: Anarchic Solidarity; Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia
Author: Kenneth Sillander
Author: Thomas Gibson
Abstract: This volume analyzes a group of Southeast Asian societies that have in common a mode of sociality that maximizes personal autonomy, political egalitarianism, and inclusive forms of social solidarity.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/anarchic-solidarity-autonomy-equality-and-fellowship-in-southeast-asia/oclc/707825585&referer=brief_results
Publisher: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780938692942

Subjects in Difference: Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, and Postcolonial Theory (Article)
Title: Subjects in Difference: Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, and Postcolonial Theory
Author: Zahid R. Chaudary
Abstract: This essay aims to rethink historical difference in light of Walter Benjamin’s formulation of mimesis and Frantz Fanon’s phenomenology of difference. Divided into three parts, the essay engages Dipesh Chakrabarty’s account of historical difference, considers how an understanding of mimesis might safeguard against some of the philosophical pitfalls within Chakrabarty’s formulation, and revisits Fanon for an explication of a theory of mimesis and difference that may be the grounds for a renewed understanding of historical difference. The essay makes a case for the relevance of Frankfurt School dialectics for postcolonial problematics.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://differences.dukejournals.org/content/23/1/151.abstract
Primary URL Description: Duke University Journals
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: d i f f e r e n c e s, A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
Publisher: Duke University Press

Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India (Book)
Title: Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India
Author: Zahid R. Chaudhary
Abstract: Afterimage of Empire provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception. Considering photographs from the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 along with landscape, portraiture, and famine photography, the author explores larger issues of truth, memory, and embodiment.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/afterimage-of-empire
Primary URL Description: Publisher's website
Secondary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/afterimage-of-empire-photography-in-nineteenth-century-india/oclc/760973367&referer=brief_results
Secondary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780816677498

Cenas dizíveis e indizíveis: Raça e sexualidade em Gilberto Freyre (Article)
Title: Cenas dizíveis e indizíveis: Raça e sexualidade em Gilberto Freyre
Author: Idelber Avelar
Abstract: No abstract available
Year: 2012
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Luso-Brazilian Review vol. 49 (2012), no.1, pp. 168-186

Fernando Gabeira y la crítica de la masculinidad: La fabricación de un mito (Article)
Title: Fernando Gabeira y la crítica de la masculinidad: La fabricación de un mito
Author: Idelber Avelar
Abstract: No abstract available
Year: 2012
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: El lenguaje de las emociones: Afecto y cultura en América Latina.
Publisher: Madrid and Frankfurt: Iberoamericana and Vervuert Publishers, (2012), pp. 137-150

The Aesthetics of Light and Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema (Book)
Title: The Aesthetics of Light and Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema
Author: Daisuke Miyao
Abstract: No abstract provided
Year: 2013
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/aesthetics-of-shadow-lighting-and-japanese-cinema/oclc/798613313&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Duke University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978082235407
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Sparks and Embers of the Kirghiz Epic Tradition (Article)
Title: Sparks and Embers of the Kirghiz Epic Tradition
Author: Daniel Prior
Abstract: no abstract provided
Year: 2010
Periodical Title: Fabula, vol. 51 (2010), no. 1/2, pp. 23-37

Travels of Mount Qaf: From Legend to 42° 0´ N 79° 51´ E (Article)
Title: Travels of Mount Qaf: From Legend to 42° 0´ N 79° 51´ E
Author: Daniel Prior
Abstract: no abstract provided
Year: 2010
Periodical Title: Oriente Moderno, vol. 89 (2009), no. 2, pp. 425-444

[Review:] David Sneath, The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia (Article)
Title: [Review:] David Sneath, The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia
Author: Daniel Prior
Abstract: no abstract provided
Year: 2010
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (n.s.) 16 (2010), pp. 671-673
Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press, 2007

Culpability and Guilt: Child Soldiers in Fiction and Memoir (Article)
Title: Culpability and Guilt: Child Soldiers in Fiction and Memoir
Author: Mark Sanders
Abstract: no abstract provided
Year: 2011
Periodical Title: Law and Literature, vol. 23 (2011), no. 2, pp. 195-223

The Sabdan Baatir Codex: Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History (Book)
Title: The Sabdan Baatir Codex: Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History
Author: Daniel Prior
Abstract: Daniel Prior presents the first complete edition, translation, and interpretation of a unique manuscript of early twentieth-century Kirghiz epic-like narrative and genealogical poems, analyzing their patronage and their context of oral and written historiography. A facsimile of the original manuscript is included.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/sabdan-baatir-codex-epic-and-the-writing-of-northern-kirghiz-history-edition-translation-and-interpretations-with-a-facsimile-of-the-unique-manuscript/oclc/806981095&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Secondary URL: http://www.brill.com/sabdan-baatir-codex
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's website
Publisher: Brill
Type: Single author monograph
Type: Edited Volume
Type: Translation
ISBN: 9789004230408
Translator: Daniel Prior
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Book)
Title: Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Author: Linda M. Rupert
Abstract: When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas. The island’s main city, Willemstad, had a non-Dutch majority composed largely of free blacks, urban slaves, and Sephardic Jews, who communicated across ethnic divisions in a new creole language called Papiamentu. For Linda M. Rupert, the emergence of this creole language was one of the two defining phenomena that gave shape to early modern Curaçao. The other was smuggling. Both developments, she argues, were informal adaptations to life in a place that was at once polyglot and regimented. They were the sort of improvisations that occurred wherever expanding European empires thrust different peoples together. Creolization and Contraband uses the history of Curaçao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early modern world. Rupert argues that by breaking through multiple barriers, smuggling opened particularly rich opportunities for cross-cultural and interethnic interaction. Far from marginal, these extra-official exchanges were the very building blocks of colonial society.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/creolization-and-contraband-curacao-in-the-early-modern-atlantic-world/oclc/795128531&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9782820340368
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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