Three Brooklyn College Faculty Members Awarded Research Fellowships

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May 13, 1999
Three Brooklyn College Faculty Members Awarded Research Fellowships

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Brooklyn, NY - In recognition of scholarship and research,three Brooklyn College faculty members received fellowships for the 1999-2000 academic year from the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities.

Fellowship recipients were selected from fifteenapplicants who submitted research proposals on a wide variety of topics that may have a powerful influence on the study of humanities.

The fellowships provide recipients with a release from teaching for a full year, offering a rare opportunity for fully supported research in the humanities. Applicants must be full-time professors.

The awardees are:

Paisley Currah, assistant professor of political science (resides in Brooklyn)-

"Liberalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Reproduction of Gender";

Samuel L. Leiter, professor of theater (resides in Brooklyn) -

"Kabuki Translation Project"; and

Craig A. Williams, associate professor of classics (residesin Manhattan) -

"Poetic Masculinity in the Epigrams of Martial."

Since 1991, when the faculty fellowships were established,several research projects have resulted in published works.

One of the first recipients of the fellowship was EdwinG. Burrows, professor of history at Brooklyn College, who coauthored the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning epic, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Oxford University Press, 1998).

"A scholar's job is not only to interpret knowledge for students in the classroom but also to create it," said Robert Viscusi, professor of English and American literature. "We established this fellowship in order to allow our professors the generous amount of time and freedom they need in order to do exactly that."

Professor Viscusi is the executive officer of the EthyleR. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and the founder of the fellowship program. He has written widely on the topic of Italian American culture, including the novel Astoria (Guernica Editions, 1996), which won the 1996 American Book Award given by the Before Columbus Foundation.

The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanitiesfellowships are supported by The Brooklyn College Foundation, Inc., and Donald Kramer, Brooklyn College class of 1958.
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