2008-2009 DEBARY INTERDISCIPLINARY MELLON WRITING GROUPS

Centering Africa: Subjectivity, Modernity, and Global Change
Departments:  Africana Studies, Anthropology, English, History, Science & Technology Studies
Co-organizers:  Johanna Crane (S&TS), Dan Magaziner (History)

Members:
Faculty:  Judith Byfield (Africana Studies & Res. Center), Johanna Crane (Visiting Asst. Prof., S&TS), Jeremy Foster (Landscape Architecture), Sandra Greene (History), Stacey Langwick (Anthropology), Dan Magaziner (History), Dagwami Woubshet (English)

Fluid Communities: Heterogeneous Social Groups of the Mediterranean Sea
Departments:  Classics, History, Landscape Architecture, Near Eastern Studies
Co-organizers:  Christopher Monroe (NES & Society Fellow, fall 2008), Barry Strauss (History)

Members:
Faculty:  Kimberly Bowes (Classics), Ziad Fahmy (Near Eastern Studies), Kathryn Gleason (Landscape Architecture), Sturt Manning (Archaeology/Classics),  Christopher Monroe (Senior Lecturer, NES; Society Fellow, fall term), Eric Rebillard (Classics), Barry Strauss (History/Classics)

Graduate Student:  Matthew Sears (Classics)

Human Rights and Cosmopolitanism
Departments:  Africana Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Government & Peace Studies, Law, Romance Studies
Co-organizers:  Diane Rubenstein (Government, American & Romance Studies) and Stephanie DeGooyer (English)

Members:
Faculty:  Elizabeth Anker (English), Matthew Evangelista (Government & Peace Studies), Grant Farred (English & Africana Studies), Bernadette Meyler (Law), Neil Saccamano (English & Comp. Lit.)

Graduate Students:  Cory Browning (Romance Studies), Stephanie DeGooyer (English), Danielle Aberle Haque (English), Paloma Yannakakis (Comp. Lit.)

2008-2009 DISSERTATION WRITING GROUPS

Psychoanalysis Writing Group

Daniel Edward Wilson (English), organizer
Shanna Carlson (Romance Studies)
Rebecca Colesworthy (English)
Carissa Sims (Comparative Literature)

Materiality, Form, Knowledge, and Contingency

Douglas McQueen-Thompson (English), organizer
Bradley Depew (English)
Aaron Hodges (Comparative Literature)
Alan Young-Bryant (English)

Knowledge Production, Formation and Circulation of Discourse, Politics of Representation, and War and Society

Christopher Ahn (Asian Studies), organizer
Akiko Ishii (History)
Samson Lim (History)
Hajima Masuda (History)
Honghong Tinn (Science & Technology Studies)

Queer Theory

Jessica Metzler (English), organizer
Peter Bailey (English)
Chad Bennett (English)
Sarah Cote (English)
Lindsay Cummings (Theatre, Film & Dance)
Diana Looser (Theatre, Film & Dance)

Screens: Film and Other Forms of Visual Media

Katherine Groo (Comparative Literature), organizer
Lauren Beeley (Romance Studies)
Ryan Platt (Theatre, Film & Dance)