Howard Foundation Fellows, 2000-2001

Eleven scholars, representing the fields of Anthropology, Philosophy, and Sociology were awarded Howard Fellowships for 2000-2001. The fellows and their projects were:

Randolph Clarke, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Georgia, Libertarian Free Will: The Prospects for a Naturalistic Account.

Gerald Creed, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, Contesting Community: Ritual and Social Relations in Rural Bulgaria.

Robert Desjarlais, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College, Sensory Biographies among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists.

Roger Gould, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Chicago, Dominance, Honor and Conflict.

John Kelly, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago, Technography: Science in the History of Cultures, and Questions for a New Anthropology of Knowledge.

Pauline Kleingeld, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Washington University at St. Louis, Citizens of the World: Philosophical Transformations of Cosmopolitanism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany.

Annelise Riles, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Northwestern University School of Law, Formalism and Its Critics: An Ethnography of Legal Knowledge Practices in the United States and Japan.

Margaret Somers, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan, From Poverty to’Perversity’: 200 Years of Welfare Reform—from Speenhamland and the New Poor Law (1795-1834) to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (1996).

Christian Wildberg, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Princeton University, A Translation and Commentary of Aristotle’s Cosmological Treatise “On the Heavens”.

Jennifer Whiting, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Cornell University, The Contingency of Self.

Laurie Whitt, Associate Professor, Sociology, Michigan Technological University, Biocolonialism and Indigenous Peoples.