Christopher Clark
Christopher Clark was born and grew up in South-West London, obtained his B.A. from the University of Warwick in 1974, and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. He was first a Professor of History at the University of York. During his tenure there, he and a colleague were awarded the 1990 Cadbury Schweppes Prize for Innovative Teaching in History. In1998 he became Professor of North American History at the University of Warwick. He has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge, Oxford, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. The focus of Clark’s work is on the social history of the 18th and 19th century U.S.A., particularly New England. His first book, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (Cornell University Press, 1990) won the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Award. He has also taught and researched on American Utopian movements, and his most recent book is a study of the Northampton community of the 1840s, entitled The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association (Cornell University Press, 1995). During his tenure at the UCHI he will work on a manuscript tentatively called Transformations in American Society, 1770-1870.

Frank Costigliola
Frank Costigliola received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has taught at the University of Rhode Island and is now Professor of History at UConn. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society. In 2002 he received both the UConn Alumni Association's Excellence in Research Award and the Chancellor's Excellence in Research Award. He has written Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933 (Cornell University Press, 1984); and France and the United States: The Cold Alliance Since World War II (Twayne/Macmillan, 1992) as well as many journal articles. He is currently writing a book on the impact of emotions and cultural differences in shaping U.S. and British perceptions of the Soviet Union, 1941-1947.

Anne D'Alleva
Anne D'Alleva is an Associate Professor of Art History and Women's Studies at UConn. She received her Ph.D. in 1997 in Art History from Columbia University, where she wrote a dissertation on art and gender in eighteenth-century Tahiti. While there, D'Alleva was the first student to complete the Graduate Certificate in Feminist Theory from the Center for Research on Women and Gender. She has received grants from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the Getty Foundation. D'Alleva's publications include Art of the Pacific Islands (1998, Harry N. Abrams, Perspectives series) as well as articles and reviews in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Museum News, New Observations, Pacific Arts, and the Barbier-Mueller Museum's Tribal Arts Journal. Her new textbook, Look! An Introduction to Art History and Its Methods, is forthcoming in 2003 from Prentice-Hall. D'Alleva has also worked on exhibitions and education programs at a number of museums, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. During her year at the UCHI she will be working on a book project titled Pacific Evangelicals: Art, Religion, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Polynesia.

Anita Garey
Anita Garey is an Associate Professor in the School of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has held fellowships at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and at the Center for Working Families at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, Weaving Work and Motherhood, won the 2000 William J. Goode book award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. Her current research is an ethnographic study of truancy courts as sites where children and their families are brought into contact and interaction with the concerted forces of judicial, educational, law enforcement, and social service systems.

Margaret Gilbert
Margaret Gilbert, Professor of Philosophy at UConn, came to Storrs in 1983. She earned a bachelor's degree in classics and philosophy at Cambridge University, and a B.Phil. and D.Phil. in philosophy from Oxford. Gilbert has been a visiting teacher or researcher at numerous institutions, including Wolfson's College (Oxford University) King's College London, Princeton, NYU, CUNY, UCLA, Indiana University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton). Her recent books include a collection of her papers translated into French, Marcher Ensemble (in press, Presses Universitaires de France), On Social Facts (reprinted by Princeton University Press ), Living Together: Rationality, Sociality, and Obligation (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996), and Sociality and Responsibility: New Essays in Subject Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). Gilbert's most recent work focuses on aspects of her plural subject theory most germane to ethics and political philosophy, including such topics as collective responsibility, political obligation, collective belief and collective emotion. While at the UCHI she will be working on a new book tentatively titled Rights Reconsidered.

Fred Inglis
Fred Inglis was educated at the University of Cambridge (English Tripos). He received a Master Degree in Philosophy at the University of Southampton, and Ph.D. and D.Sc. at the University of Bristol. Inglis was a Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick 1989-1997, and he is now Chair of the Cultural Studies Department at Sheffield University. He has held visiting fellowships at the Australian National University, the School of Social Science, the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton), and the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study. His recent books are: The Cruel Peace: Everyday Life and the Cold War (Basic Books 1992); Cultural Studies (Blackwell 1993); Raymond Williams: the Life (Routledge 1995); The Delicious History of the Holiday (Routledge 2000); Clifford Geertz: Culture, Custom, Ethics (Polity Press 2000); and People's Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics (Yale 2002). During his tenure at the UCHI he will be working on a project titled The Performance of Celebrity.

Ross Miller
Ross Miller is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. He has been a visiting Professor at Trinity College, Wesleyan University, UCLA, Ohio State and Yale. A frequent critic at the Yale School of Architecture, he has also served as co-director of the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism, contributing editor at Progressive Architecture, and a consultant to the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Architecture. Ross Miller’s writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, in addition to Critical Inquiry and other scholarly journals. He received major grants from the N.E.H. and Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts among other honors. He is the author of American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 1990), and Here's the Deal: The Buying and Selling of a Great American City (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), which was the subject of a BBC film (The Billion Dollar Hole) and will be published in a new edition in the fall of 2002. At the UCHI he will work on a book project titled Land that I Love: How the Jews Discovered America.

GRADUATE DISSERTATION FELLOWS 2002-2003

Jonathan Carlyon
Jonathan Carlyon, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Connecticut in Spanish Literature, is a Graduate Fellow of University of Connecticut Humanities Institute for 2002-2003. His doctoral dissertation, written under the direction of Dr. Rolena Adorno, is entitled, The Americanist Andrés González de Barcia Carballido y Zuniga (1673-1743) and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library. The study explores the intellectual history of early eighteenth-century Spain's colonial historiography and bibliography. As an undergraduate, Jonathan was an Honor's Scholar at UConn, graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. His honor's thesis dealt with the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. In 1999 he designed, coordinated, and led the organization of a graduate conference on Hispanic Literature and visual arts entitled, Fear: Discourses of the Unknown. Jonathan was named the Nathan L. Whetten Fellow in Latin American Studies for 2000-2001. He recently presented a paper at the 2001 conference of the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) entitled, Bibliography and Translation of the Incario in the 1629 and 1737-38 Editions of Antonio de León Pinelo's Epitome.

Jennifer Spinner
Jenny Spinner is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Connecticut. She received an MA in English from the University of Connecticut, an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from The Pennsylvania State University and a BA in Writing from Millikin University. In 1998, she won first prize in UConn's Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest and has been the recipient of the AETNA Graduate Award in Creative Nonfiction for the past five years. In 2001, she earned honorable mention for creative nonfiction in the Associated Writing Program's national IntroJournals Project competition and first place for poetry in the Windham Area Poetry Festival. Her essays, columns, and commentaries have appeared in The Washington Post, The Hartford Courant, the [Decatur, Ill.] Herald & Review, Fourth Genre, Writing on the Edge, Touchstone and on NPR's All Things Considered, among others. From 2000-2002, she served as UConn's Director of Creative Writing, originating and launching Poetic Journeys, the University's mass transportation poetry project, as well as the annual AETNA Celebration of Creative Nonfiction. From 1998-2000, she served as Director of the Writing Center, opening the Center's first satellite branch in Babbidge library. At UCHI, Ms. Spinner will work on her dissertation project titled Of Woman and the Essay: An Anthology from the Seventeenth Century to the Present.