Please join us in congratulating the 4th annual Northeastern University Humanities Center Resident Fellowship Program. This fellowship provides a focused period of time for fellows to pursue research, to collaborate around a common theme, and to share their work with the Northeastern community. The theme for the 2016-17 academic year is “Inclusions and Exclusions”
2016 – 2017 Inclusions and Exclusions: Creative productions, social organization, the making of canons and the making of nations, editing, and sculpting all require inclusions and exclusions. As boundaries blur or move, new inclusions and exclusions follow—a dynamic with ideological, political, aesthetic, and/or social implications. This year’s Northeastern Humanities Center fellows present projects that are concerned with framing devices, borders and boundaries, marginalization, fences, and gatekeeping; or: strategies for delimiting units of meaning, models and metaphors, histories of exclusions and remediation, or issues such as literacy, citizenship, disability rights, evolutions of curricula, or particular cases for new inclusions in classical canons. What is in and who is out evolves: from schools to country clubs, from texts to communities to nation states, from disciplines to syllabi to fashion. Who decides, how does change happen, and with what consequences?
Convened by: Alisa Lincoln
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Sarah Jackson: “Framing the New Civil Rights Movement, Remembering the Past”
Communication Studies Department
College of Arts, Media, and Design
Liza Weinstein: “New Urban Land Grabs? Housing Insecurity in Urban India, 1960 - 2015”
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Berna Turam “Political Divides and Alliances: Key to Inclusion and Pluralism”
International Affairs Program
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
David Rochefort: “Social Problem Novels And The Excluded “Other”: Challenges of Documentation, Advocacy, and Ethical Argument”
Department of Political Science
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Patrick Mullen: “Money Managers and Queer Accounts: Sex and the Political Economy of Narrative”
Department of English
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Kate Luongo: “A History of Human Rights in Kenya – Inclusions and Exclusions”
Professor of History
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Frank Capogna – GRADUATE FELLOW : “Beyond the Frame: Modernist Ekphrasis and Museum Politics”
Department of English
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Sana Tannoury Karam – GRADUATE FELLOW: “Breaking the Silence: A History of an Excluded Generation of Arab Communists, 1920-1948”
Department of History
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Betul Eksi – GRADUATE FELLOW: “Enforcers of Law or Warriors?: The Militarization of the Police in Turkey”
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
