Fellows

Full-Year Fellows (2019-2020)

Sarah Allen

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, "Reliving the Past: Constructing History and Memory through Anecdote in Medieval China"

Amy Holzapfel

Professor of Theatre, "Playing the Demos: Choruses in Twenty-First Century Performing Arts & Publics"

Francis Oakley (Senior Fellow)

President Emeritus and Edward Dorr Griffin Emeritus Professor of the History of Ideas; Professor Oakley recently completed 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 was releases in 2012: "The Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300)." The third volume, "The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300-1650)" was published in 2015. Professor Oakley's memoir, "Far from the Cast Iron Shore," was published in 2018.

Kirsten Scheid

Associate Professor of Anthropologys, American University of Beirut, and Clark-Oakley Fellow, "Palestinian Picassos: Aesthetic Subjects and Visual Objections, 1988-2018"

Justin Shaddock

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, "Hylomorphism in Kant's Ethical Theory"

Spring 2014 Ruchman Fellow Jacob Addelson '14 presents his work to the Ruchman Family (Fellowship benefactors) and Oakley Center Fellows.

Fall 2019 Fellows

  • Isabelle Devereaux ’20, Art History, Ruchman Student Fellow; "Rethinking Consumption: Ways of Knowing in 90s Participatory Art"
  • Cornelius Kubler, Professor of Asian Studies, "A Guide to Chinese Languages and Dialects"
  • W. Anthony Sheppard, Professor of Music, "The Performer's Voice: Timbre and Expression in Twentieth-Century Vocal Music"

Spring 2020 Fellows

  • Helga Druxes, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, "Resilient Subjects: Contemporary Cinema and Fiction Confront Neoliberalism"
  • Matthew Tokeshi, Assistant Professor of Political Science, "White Voters' Responses to African American Candidates for High-Profile Statewide Office"
  • Mi Yu ’20; English, Ruchman Student Fellow; “Postmodernism and Chinese Science Fiction"

Previous Clark-Oakley Humanities Fellows