Visiting Fellows 2012-13
Information on Visiting Fellows at CRASSH during 2012-13 and their Work-in-Progress seminars are available below. Our theme, Cultures and Politics of the Transregional, continues until the end of 2013.
Michaelmas 2012
Professor Teresa Shawcross (Amherst College, US)
Monday, 22 Oct 2012
Cosmopolitan Networks in an Age of Revolutions: Ruling the Mediterranean World at the End of Empire, 1274-1348
Cosmopolitan Networks in an Age of Revolutions: Ruling the Mediterranean World at the End of Empire, 1274-1348
Dr Stefan Dorondel (Francisc I Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Bucharest)
Monday, 12 Nov 2012
'Blowing in the Wind': Mobile Technologies, Global Environmental Agendas and the Struggle for Nature in Romania
'Blowing in the Wind': Mobile Technologies, Global Environmental Agendas and the Struggle for Nature in Romania
Lent 2013
Dr Lauren Arrington (University of Liverpool)
Monday, 28 Jan 2013
Art, Empire, and Revolution, 1890-1930: the case of Casimir and Constance Markievicz
Art, Empire, and Revolution, 1890-1930: the case of Casimir and Constance Markievicz
Dr Rachel Havrelock (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Monday, 25 Feb 2013
Pipeline: How Oil Created the Modern Middle East and How Water Can Transform It
Pipeline: How Oil Created the Modern Middle East and How Water Can Transform It
Dr Anders Ekstrom (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Monday, 11 Mar 2013
Time, Intermediality and Transregional Imaginaries in Disaster Discourse
Time, Intermediality and Transregional Imaginaries in Disaster Discourse
Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow 2012-13
Dr Abhijit Gupta (Jadavpur University, India)
Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013
Print and missionary networks in early 19th-century South and South-East Asia
Easter 2013
Dr Katherine Luongo (Northeastern University, USA)
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft in the Trans-Regional Arena of Asylum
Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft in the Trans-Regional Arena of Asylum
Dr Urmila Nair (John Hopkins University, USA)
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Buddhism and Science: Somatizing the Mind, Contemplating the Body
Buddhism and Science: Somatizing the Mind, Contemplating the Body
Dr Gaurav Desai (Tulane University, USA)
Thursday, 23 May 2013
"Frail Skiffs Tossed on the Ocean of Life": Gender and Romance in Nineteenth Century Zanzibar
"Frail Skiffs Tossed on the Ocean of Life": Gender and Romance in Nineteenth Century Zanzibar
Dr Neil Safier (University of British Columbia)
Thursday, 6 Jun 2013
The Cosmopolitan Amazon: A Deep History of the World's Largest River
The Cosmopolitan Amazon: A Deep History of the World's Largest River
Dr Vincent Guillin (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Thursday, 13 Jun 2013
A British Moralist on French Soil: The Early French Reception of John Stuart Mill’s Ethical Thought
A British Moralist on French Soil: The Early French Reception of John Stuart Mill’s Ethical Thought
Dr Jane Rhodes (Macalester College, USA)
Thursday, 20 Jun 2013
Transatlantic Blackness in the Era of Jim Crow: Race and Gender in the Life of an African American Expatriate
Transatlantic Blackness in the Era of Jim Crow: Race and Gender in the Life of an African American Expatriate
EURIAS Fellow 2012-13
Dr Wilson Jacob (Concordia University, Canada):
Sovereignty in Times of Empire: Islam, Preachers, and Gangsters
Balzan Skinner Fellow 2012-13
Dr Gabriel Paquette (John Hopkins University, US):
Romantic Liberalism in Southern Europe, c. 1820-1850
