Current Fellows Spring 2016
Faculty Fellows
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STEPHEN ANGLE
Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies
Read MoreStephen Angle's research interests revolve around Chinese moral and political philosophy, including issues that arise when one thinks about the process of comparing Chinese ideas and traditions with the ideas and traditions of other cultures. He focuses primarily on post-classical Chinese thought, up to and including the contemporary period. His first book was on the development of Chinese human rights discourse, its various interactions with non-Chinese discourses, and on ways in which we in the West should relate to these Chinese ideas. Angle's second book,Sagehood, explored both the interpretation of the Neo-Confucian philosophical tradition (roughly 10th-18th centuries C.E.), and the ways in which it has resources that can contribute constructively to a contemporary, globally-informed philosophy of moral psychology and moral education. In 2012 he published Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy: Toward Progressive Confucianism, which both surveys the current landscape and argues for a perspective he calls “Progressive Confucianism.” In all, Angle has authored or edited five books, and has also written articles in a variety of publications including Political Theory, the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Human Rights Quarterly, and Zhongguo Ruxue (Chinese Confucianism).
Biography:
Stephen Angle received his B.A. from Yale in East Asian Studies and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. At Wesleyan, he is a member of the Philosophy Department and a core member of the College of East Asian Studies. From 2015, Angle holds the Mansfield Freeman Professorship in East Asian Studies.
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PETER GOTTSCHALK
Professor of Religion
Read MoreBiography:
- Hindu-Muslim relations in contemporary India. - British ways of knowing India, Indians, and their religions. - American perceptions of Muslims and Islam.
Personal URL:
http://pgottschalk.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
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JEFFERS LANDELL LENNOX
Assistant Professor of History
Read MoreResearch Interests:
I work on North America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Specifically, I explore the influence of geographic knowledge (boundaries, shared spaces, mapping, concepts of territory and sovereignty) on the relationships among British, French, and Aboriginal inhabitants of the northeast.
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RACHEL ELLIS NEYRA
Assistant Professor of English
Read MorePersonal URL:
http://rachelellisneyra.com/
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JESSE WAYNE TORGERSON
Assistant Professor of Letters
Read MoreResearch Interests:
Jesse W. Torgerson's teaching and research interests are in the medieval period, and are animated in particular by exchanges and interactions between the societies and cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean basin. His current research project focuses on manuscript evidence for the transfer of historical knowledge between the Byzantine and Carolingian empires of the ninth century as found in the “world histories” of that period, known as “universal histories” or “chronographies”.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellows
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LARRY MCGRATH
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Read MoreLarry S. McGrath's research and teaching address the history of modern Europe and the Atlantic world. He received his PhD in Intellectual History from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. His publications explore the cultural resonances of religion, philosophy, nationalism, and the human sciences from the late eighteenth century to the present. Larry is currently transforming his doctoral dissertation into a book, Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France. When he’s not backpacking or playing ultimate frisbee, Larry also spends his time working on two projects: the first examines intellectual ambassadors in international relations around World War I; the second uncovers the history of brain education in France, Germany, and America.
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JEANETTE SAMYN
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Read MoreJeanette Samyn received her B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and her Ph.D. in English from Indiana University. Her teaching and research investigate the worldviews projected by nineteenth-century literature and science. Currently, she is turning her doctoral dissertation into a book, In Praise of the Parasite: Asymmetrical Relations in the British Empire, which explains how complex asymmetrical relations were embedded into turn-of-the-century notions of "community" and "environment" through the figure of the parasite. She is also interested in contemporary film and politics, and has written on these subjects for publications such as n+1, The New Inquiry, Dossier, and The American Reader.
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Gavriel Rosenfeld
Fairfield University
Read MoreGavriel D. Rosenfeld is Professor of History and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Judaic Studies at Fairfield University. He received his B.A. in History and Judaic Studies from Brown University in 1989 and his Ph.D. in History from UCLA in 1996. His area of specialization is the history and memory of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He has written a wide range of books, including Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015), Building after Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005), Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments and the Legacy of the Third Reich (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), and the co-edited work, Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008). He is also the author of the forthcoming edited collection, What Ifs of Jewish History: From Abraham to Zionism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016). He is a frequent contributor to the Forward newspaper and edits the blog, The Counterfactual History Review. He is currently at work on a history of the Fourth Reich.
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Matthew Specter
Central Connecticut State University
Read MoreMatthew Specter is Associate Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University and Associate Editor at History and Theory. He received his BA from Brown in modern European intellectual history and social theory, and his MA and PhD degrees in History from Duke. His research is focused on modern European intellectual history, especially 20th century German political thought, as well as the history of human rights. His first book, Habermas: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge 2010) interpreted Habermas's political and legal thought as a theoretical response to its postwar German contexts. His current project, Atlantic Realisms, 1890-1960: Political Thought and Foreign Policy takes a comparative and transnational approach to American and German traditions of thought about international relations. He has also published in Modern Intellectual History, History and Theory, and the Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (2014). He is a recipient of fellowships from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (Vienna) and the Institute for the Human Sciences (Vienna).
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Sarah Richardson
Harvard University
Read MoreSarah S. Richardson is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. She is jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Science and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. A historian and philosopher of science, her research focuses on race and gender in the biosciences and on the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. She is the author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome (Chicago, 2013) and co-editor of Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age (Rutgers, 2008) and Postgenomics (Duke, 2015).
Student Fellows
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Ari Ebstein
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Sophie Zinser
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Deren Ertas