PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 20, No. 13, Feb. 1, 2001

I PRH Fellowship Awards announced for 2001-02

The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities announced the selection of faculty members and graduate student Fellowship Awards for the academic year 2001-02. The IPRH theme for the coming year is "The Means of Reproduction."

Faculty fellows and their projects:

• Richard Burkhardt, history, "Reproducing in Captivity."
  
• Moon-Kie Jung, sociology, "Eugenics, Reproduction, and Women of Asian Origin in Interwar Hawaii."
  
• David O’Brien, art history, "Colonial Reproduction: Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century French Painting and Photography."
  
• Leslie J. Reagan, history, "Ambiguous Motherhood: The Impact and Investigation of Miscarriage in Twentieth-Century America."
  
• Simona Sawhney, comparative literature, "The Path of Work: Sanskrit Literature and Modernity."
  
• Lawrence Schehr, French, "Gay Reproduction."
  

Graduate student fellows and their projects:

• Ruth L. Fairbanks, history, "Pregnant Workers: Women’s Jobs, Women’s Bodies, Welfare and Equality, 1940-1993."
• Stacey A. Jocoy, musicology, "Decoding Musical Resistance: Popular Music of England’s Civil Wars and Commonwealth.
• Elizabeth Klett, English, "Re-producing Shakespeare, Engendering Anxiety: Contemporary Women’s Performances of Male Shakespearean Roles."
• Jesook Song, anthropology, "South Korean ‘Productive Welfarism’ 1997-2000: The Reproduction of Heteronormative Familism."

The IPRH was established in 1997 to promote interdisciplinary study in the humanities, arts, and social sciences at the Urbana-Champaign campus. In its first four years of operation, the IPRH has awarded 25 faculty fellowships: eight to junior faculty, nine to recently tenured faculty, and eight to senior faculty. They also have awarded 19 fellowships to graduate students.

More information about the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and its activities can be found at www.iprh.uiuc.edu.