Columbia University Home GSAS Home
Dean's Office | Academic Programs | Prospective Students | Current Students | Alumni
Dean's Office
Directory
Executive Committee
Awards
Policies and Publications
Forms
Travel Information
Contact Information
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellows   Printable Version
Awards
Introduction
Bancroft Award
Teaching Award
GSAS Salo and Jeanette Baron Dissertation Prize
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellows
GSAS-CU International Travel Fellowship
Fellowships Awards & Recipients 2004-05

Columbia University is one of a small number of graduate schools that participates in the Whiting Program, which provides tuition and stipends to a select group of students in the Humanities to enable them to complete the writing of their dissertations.



Whiting Fellowship Recipients, 2007 – 2008

Annelle Curulla, Department of French and Romance Philology
Forms of Enclosure: The Convent Plays of the French Revolution

Allison Deutermann, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Hearing and Listening in Early Modern Drama

Jason Frydman, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Oral Traditions and Literary Legacies in the Trans-Atlantic 20th Century: A Comparative Approach to the Interwovenness of Orality and Literacy

Brian Hanrahan, Department of Germanic Languages
The Art of Actuality: Radio, Realism and the Hörfilm, 1926-1934

Jessica Marshall, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Architecture and Popular Religion: French Pilgrimage Churches of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Thomas Rath, Department of History
“Once we were warriors, now we are soldiers”: Army, Nation and State in Mexico, 1920-1970

Jesse Rosenthal, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Moral Sensibilities: Ethical Feeling and Narrative Form in the Victorian Novel

Matthew Sakakeeny, Department of Music
Instruments of Power: New Orleans Brass Bands and the Politics of Performance

Richard Jean So, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Coolie Democracy: US-Sino Literary and Political Form, 1927-1949

Gregory Vargo, Department of English and Comparative Literature
The World the Chartists Made:An Underground History of the Early Victorian Novel

Megan K. Williams, Department of History
A World-Wide Web: The Practice and Practitioners of Central European Diplomacy, 1526-1559

Whiting Fellowship Recipients, 2006 – 2007

Victoria Basualdo, Department of History, Deindustrialization and labor: Argentine industrial workers and structural change, mid-1970s to early 2000s”

Martin Fromm, Department of History, Retracing the Steps across the Pass: Re-Conceptualizing Migration to Manchuria, 1900-1937

Michele L. Hardesty, Department of English and Comparative Literature, The Ambivalent American: Political Travel Writing from the United States since World War II

Elizabeth Herbin, Department of History, Healing the Land, Healing the South: Improving the Southern Farm, 1900-1930

Chadwick Jenkins, Department of Music, ‘Ridotta alla Perfettione’: The Uses of Metaphysics and History in the Seconda Prattica Controversy

Claudine Theodora Leysinger, Department of History, Collecting Images of Mexico: Archaeology, Photography, and Travel Narrative, 1860s-1910s

Lynn MacKenzie, Department of Italian, Authorial Virility in Dante

Ramona Franziska Mosse, Department of English and Comparative Literature, From the Horrible to the Impossible – staging Tragedy and Utopia in modern political theatre

Cóilín Parsons, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Maps of the Past: the Ordnance Survey in Irish writing

Annabella Pitkin, Department of Religion, Like Water into Water: Buddhist Lineages and the Continuity of Memory in the Twentieth Century History of Tibetan Buddhism

Andrew Tallon, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Experiments in Early Gothic Structure: the Flying Buttress

Whiting Fellowship Recipients, 2005 – 2006

Tiffany Alkan, Department of English and Comparative Literature, ‘The Fantastical Dreams of Abbie-Lubbers’: Romance and Religion in early modern England

Alexander Cook, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Unsettling Accounts: The Trial of the Gang of Four and the Cultural Logic of Late Socialism in China, 1978 – 1981

Timothy Davis, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, The Literary Aesthetics of Death and Commemoration: Tomb Epitaph Inscriptions in Early Medieval China

David Freidenreich, Department of Religion, Foreign Food: A Comparatively-Enriched Analysis of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law

Monica R. Gisolfi, Department of History, From Cotton Farmers to Poultry Growers: the Rise of Industrial Agriculture in North Georgia, 1914 – 1975

Eric Goldner, Department of History, Financiers, Corruption, and Crisis in the Chamber of Justice of 1716

Arnon Keren, Department of Philosophy, Testimony in Science: Epistemological, Ethical and Political Aspects of the Philosophy of Science

Christian Kraemer Kleinbub, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Vision and the Visionary in Raphael

Lillian I. Larsen, Department of Religion, Pedagogical Parallels: The Apophthegmata Patrum and the Classical Rhetorical Tradition

Dominique Kirchner Reill, Department of History, From Bond to Border: The Transformation of the Northern Adriatic in the Nineteenth Century

Robin L. Thomas, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Charles of Bourbon’s Naples: Architecture and Politics

Whiting Fellowship Recipients, 2004 – 2005

Mary Helen Dupree, Department of Germanic Languages, Women and Theatricality in German Literature and Culture, 1775 – 1815

Jacqueline M. Elliott, Department of Classics, Virgil’s allusive technique

Kristine Juncker, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Honey at the Crossroads: Women and the Arts of Afro-Cuban Santeria, 1899 – 1969

David Kurnick, Department of English and Comparative Literature, The Vocation of Failure: Generic Trouble in Victorian and Modernist Writing

Lucy M. Maulsby, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Architecture and Urbanism in Fascist Italy: Milan 1926 – 1940

Amanda Minks, Department of Music, Land of Orphans”: Migration, Socialization, and Imagination among Miskitu Children

Maria Rusanda Muresan, Department of French and Romance Philology, Time and Private Languages: Jacques Roubaud

Ramzi Rouighi, Department of History, Mediterranean Crossings, North African Bearings: a Taste of Andalus in Bejaia (1250 – 1400)

Brian Soucek, Department of Philosophy, Art Personified

Daniel Thomas Swift, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Shakespeare, the Hampton Court Conference, and the Book of Common Prayer

Akiko Takeuchi, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Ritual and Narrated Drama: Story Telling Tradition in No

Whiting Fellowship Recipients, 2003 – 2004

Daisy Aaronian, Department of French and Romance Philology: The Censorship of Simon Goulart in the Genevan Edition of Montaigne’s Essais (1595)

Stamenka Antonova, Department of Religion: Barbarians or Christians?: The Charge of Barbarism and Early Christian Apologetics

Nicholas Boggs, Department of English and Comparative Literature: The Critic and the Little Man: Black Culture and the Reconfiguration of American Literary History

Jefferson Gatrall, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Literary Portraits of a Nineteeth-Century Christ: Retelling the Gospels from Victor Hugo to Leonid Andreev

Travis Glasson, Department of History: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Creation of Race in the British Atlantic

Sarah Gracombe, Department of English and Comparative Literature: Cultural Englishness and the “Homeopathic Dose”: Jewishness in the Victorian Novel

Alison James, Department of French and Romance Philology: “Le Hasard fait aussi partie de la règle”: Chance, Constraints and Narrative in the Works of Georges Perec

Joy Kim, Department of East Asian Literatures and Cultures: Representing Slavery: Class and Status in Late Choson Korea

Fabio Lanza, Department of East Asian Literatures and Cultures: The Space of the University: Beijing Daxue in the May Fourth Era

Ian Miller, Department of History: The Nature of the Beast: Tokyo’s UenoZoological Gardens and the Remaking of the Animal World

Liesl Olson, Department of English and Comparative Literature: Modernism and the Ordinary: Joyce, Woolf, Stein, Stevens

Whiting Recipients, 2002 – 2003

Jennifer Ahlfeldt, Department of Art History and Archaeology: On Reconstructing/Reinterpreting May Architecture: Temple 22, Copan, Honduras

Eric Bulson, Department of English and Comparative Literature: Geographical Realism in the Works of Melville, Joyce, and Pynchon

Meredith Marie Cohen, Department of Art History and Archaeology: The Sainte-Chapelle and the Ideology of Royal Sovereignty

Devin Fore, Department of Germanic Languages: “All the Graphs”: German and Soviet Documentary between the Wars

R. Darren Gobert, Department of English and Comparative Literature: Six Riddles for Katharsis in the Philosophy of Emotion

Rachel Haidu, Department of Art History and Archaeology: Marcel Broodthaers, 1963-76, or, the Absence of Work

Sam Haselby, Department of History: “The Glorious State:” The Development of Protestan American Nationalism

Michael G. Malouf, Department of English and Comparative Literature: Other Emerald Isles: Caribbean Revisions of Irish Cultural Nationalism in Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and Derek Walcott

Annalisa Marzano, Department of Classics: Roman Villas and Society in Central Italy: from the Late Republic to the Mid-Empire

Douglas Scott Pfeiffer, Department of English and Comparative Literature: “A life beyond life”: Textual and Ethical Hermeneutics in Early Modern English Literary Biography

Geoffrey Rector, Department of English and Comparative Literature: By Virtue of the Past: Pedagogy, Ethics, and Rhetoric in Twelfth-Century Insular Historical Narratives

Selma Zecevic, Department of Middle East and Asian Literatures and Cultures: Women on the Margins of Legal Texts: Gender and Hermeneutics in the 18th CenturyOttomanProvince of Bosnia

Whiting Recipients, 2001 – 2002

Christopher Drew Armstrong, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Baz Dreisinger, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Michael Ebner, Department of History

Marina Illich, Department of Religion

Daniel Leonard, Department of French and Romance Philology

Celeste Lovette, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Ziv Neeman, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Seth Richardson, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures

Miranda Spieler, Department of History

Nancy Sweet, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Lori Watt, Department of History

Leila Wice, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Whiting Recipients, 2000 – 2001

Eliza Byard, Department of History

Lynn Catterson-Silver, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Suzanne Daly, Department of English and Comparative Literature

James Frakes, Department of Art History and Archaeology

David Greenberg, Department of History

Jacqueline Jung, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Farina Mir, Department of History

Charles Luddington, Department of History

Jessie Schindler Cheney, Department of English and Comparative Literature

David Suisman, Department of History

Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Department of History

Zhang Yigou, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Whiting Recipients, 1999 – 2000

Julia Assante, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Laura Auricchio, Department of Art History and Archaeology

George T. Baker, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Andrew Epstein, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Jason Freitag, Department of Middle East and Asian Literatures and Cultures

Gustav Heldt, Department of East Asian Literatures and Cultures

Laura Lomas, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Joshua Miller, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Roger Rothman, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Justin Smith, Department of Philosophy

Shabnum Tejani, Department of History

Henry S. Turner, Department of English and Comparative Literature




SITE MAP  |  GSAS HOME  |  CU HOME  |  CONTACT US
This page last modified October 29, 2009