91制片厂

Elizabeth Carter听(assistant professor of听political science) for "From Myths to Markets: National Myths and the Construction of Comparative Advantage," which proposes that institutionalized mythologies can shape production structures. Integrating approaches from modernist historians and economic sociologists to explain how myths shape contemporary market outcomes, principally employing the example of the French wine market,听Carter aims to develop a broader interdisciplinary conversation on the political and economic consequences of institutionalized mythologies.
听

Casey Golomski听(assistant professor of anthropology and women's studies)听to complete field research and start writing a book on aging and race in post-apartheid South Africa. What does it mean to age in the twilight of the country鈥檚 violent history?听 With a focus on a group of diverse people residing in a network of small-town, mixed-race nursing homes run by a Christian women鈥檚 charitable organization, the project addresses听how the country鈥檚 history of racial segregation inflects present-day human relationships.听
听

Susan Wager听(assistant professor of听art and art history) to work on "Pompadour鈥檚 Medium: Luxury and Reproduction in Eighteenth-Century France," which听looks at the politics of image transmission in pre-Revolutionary France, specifically the reproduction of images in scarce and expensive luxury media. The project will examine how Madame de Pompadour,听an influential figure within the French court, made sense of the modern media revolution that was happening outside of the court's walls.
听

Lin Zhang听(assistant professor of communication)听to work on "Reinvent Yourself! Entrepreneurial Labor and Hybrid Selves in China鈥檚 New Economy," which will听provide a multifaceted view of the new entrepreneurial labor practices emerging out of China鈥檚 thriving IT scene. Bringing digital labor studies into conversation with China studies, the book will intervene听into both fields to challenge and amend the former鈥檚 Western bias and the latter鈥檚 lack of attention to digital labor practices. Ultimately, the project will depict the creativity and struggle of ordinary people in highly uncertain times as they make the best out of what capitalism (or for that matter, socialism) has to offer.

听

Funded by the听Center for the Humanities'听general endowment and the Ben and Zelma Dorson Endowment in the Humanities, provide a semester-long opportunity for junior and tenured faculty to pursue humanities research with no teaching obligations. Awardees participate in the Faculty Fellows Lecture Series in the year following their fellowship.