Graduate School News and Events
Whiting Fellowship Dinner Celebrates Research in the Humanities
Whiting Fellowships are among the most prestigious student honors awarded in the United States. Funded by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, these fellowships are given to a small number of students at seven universities that have outstanding graduate programs in the humanities.
At Yale, a faculty committee appointed by the Dean selects the very best students from among those who have been nominated by their departments to be Whiting Fellows. This year's cohort was honored at a dinner with their faculty advisors and Dean Pollard on October 28.
Lauren Pearlman, Professor Jean-Christophe Agnew, Professor Dolores Hayden, Francesca Ammon, Alex Silverman, Maria Clara Iglesias, Professor Alastair Minnis, Megan Eckerle, Professor Katie Trumpener, Anthony Domestico, Aleksandar Stevic, Fiona Robinson, Professor Noel Valis, Professor Pericles Lewis, Wan Tang, Dean Thomas Pollard, Sara Fieldston and Professor Joanne Meyerowitz gathered for a celebratory dinner at the Union League Cafe on October 28.
Whiting Fellows 2011-2012
Francesca Ammon
American Studies
Waging War on the Landscape:
The Culture of Clearance in Postwar America
Dolores Hayden, Advisor
Anthony Domestico
English Language and Literature
Theologies of Crisis in British Interwar Literature
Amy Hungerford and Pericles Lewis, Advisors
Megan Eckerle
English Language and Literature
Memory and the Middle English Visionary Narrative
Jessica Brantley and Alastair Minnis, Advisors
Sara Fieldston
History
Saving the Boys and Girls of the World:
American Efforts to Assist Children Overseas,
1945-1979
Joanne Meyerowitz, Advisor
Maria Clara Iglesias
Italian Language and Literature
The Trinitarian Language of the Soul:
Dante’s Theological Virtues and the Ethical Self
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Advisor
Sarah Kinkel
History
Building a Fighting Machine: War, Society, Empire
and the Rise of the British Navy, 1725-1775
Steven Pincus, Advisor
Yii-Jan Lin
Religious Studies
The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: A Study of the History
of New Testament Textual Criticism and the
Biological Sciences
Dale Martin, Advisor
Lauren Pearlman
African American Studies and American Studies
From Federal City to Chocolate City:
National Narratives and Local Struggles
in Washington, D.C. 1948-1978
Jean-Christophe Agnew and Glenda Gilmore, Advisors
Fiona Robinson
English Language and Literature
Raising the Dead: Writing Lives and Writing Wars
in Britain, 1914-1940
Margaret Homans and Katie Trumpener, Advisors
Alex Silverman
Philosophy
One and the Same Theory: Spinoza on Attributes
and the Mind-Body Relation
Michael Della Rocca, Advisor
Devin Singh
Religious Studies
God’s Coin: On Monetary and Divine Economies
Kathryn Tanner, Advisor
Aleksandar Stevic
Comparative Literature
Falling Short: Failure, Passivity, and the Crisis
of Self-Fashioning in the European Novel 1830-1927
Maurice Samuels and Katie Trumpener, Advisors
Wan Tang
Spanish and Portuguese
Haunting Modernity: The Fantastic Short Story
in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Noel Valis, Advisor
Nathalie Wolfram
English Language and Literature
Novel Play: Gothic Performance and the Making
of Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Dolores Hayden, Advisor
