Oakley Center Fellows (2011-2012)

Full Year Fellows

  • Jessica Chapman, History; Herbert H. Lehman Fellow, “From Disorder to Dictatorship: The Domestic and International History of Ngo Dihn Diem’s Construction of South Vietnam, 1953-1956”

  • Jennifer Randall Crosby, Psychology “Defining Discrimination and Directing Responses: Why Group Membership Matters”

  • Bruce Redford, Professor of Art History and English, Boston University; Clark-Oakley Fellow “The Anxiety of Affluence: Picturing the Elite in Van Dyck, Reynolds and Sargent”

  • Neil Roberts, Africana Studies “Freedom as Marronage”

  • Vincent Schleitwiler, English “In the Place of the ‘Black Pacific’: Love and Letters Along the Color Line”

  • Janneke van de Stadt, German and Russian; Herbert H. Lehman Fellow “Musical Chairs: An Examination of Musical Debates in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature”

  • John Chandler (Senior Fellow), President Emeritus, Williams College. Professor Chandler is working on a book on the theory of leadership.

  • Francis Oakley (Senior Fellow), President Emeritus and Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus, Williams College. Professor Oakley is currently working on a reinterpretation of the history of political thought from late antiquity to the mid-seventeenth century; the three volume series is titled: "The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages". Yale University Press published volume one in 2010 with the title: "Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)." The second volume is scheduled for release in 2012 under the title: "The Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300)." The third volume, which he is currently writing, will bear the title: "The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300-1650)."

Fall 2011 Fellows

  • J. Adam Century ’12, Asian Studies; Ruchman Student Fellow, “The Changing Role of the Internet as the de facto Public Sphere in Contemporary Chinese Society”

  • Amy Strahler Holzapfel, Theatre, “Reality Effects: Art, Vision & Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama”

Spring 2012 Fellows

  • Evelyn Denham ’12, History; Ruchman Student Fellow, “Between Sublime Porte and Hofburg: The Negotiation of Power and Space at Eighteenth-Century Central European Courts”

  • Gail Newman, German and Russian “’A Joy to be Hidden, a Disaster Not to be Found’: Language, Silence and Self from Heinrich von Kleist to Gerhard Roth”

Mary Roberts (U Sydney, Clark-Oakley Humanities Fellow) and Liz McGowan (Williams Coll., Oakley Fellow) at end-of-year lunch, May 2010. More photos of Fellow events here.

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