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Hear from a scholar-in-residence about his experience at the John W. Kluge Center. Kluge Fellow Dr. Robin Kornman, a noted Buddhist scholar who worked on a translation of the Epic of Gesar of Ling, discusses his time at the Library of Congress with Robert Saladini of the John W. Kluge Center.

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Resident Scholars

Mustafa Aksakal
Kluge Fellow, 2009, American University, "Imperialism on the periphery: The Ottomans in the age of European empire, 1856-1914."

Marie Arana
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2009, Independent Scholar, "The life of Simon Bolivar."
Lecture: Celebration of 400th Anniversary of "Royal Commentaries" by El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Webcast: Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of The Royal Commentaries of the Inca
Appointment: Press Release

Renzo Baldasso
Kluge Fellow, 2009, Newberry Library, "Erhard Ratdolt and the visual dimension of early printed books."

Christopher Brown
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Oxford, "The Republican party and isolationism between 1945 and 1960."

Daniel Cattell
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Exeter, "The contexts of controversiol religious literature in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England."

James F. Childress
Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics, 2009, University of Virginia, "'Public bioethics' and 'The possibilities and limitations of a reconstructed just-war theory.'"
Appointment: James F. Childress Appointed to Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics at John W. Kluge Center

Claudia Deetjen
Bavarian Fellow, 2009, University of Bayreuth, "Towards an 'integrated' ethics of nature: reading contemporary indigenous literatures of North America as ethical criticism."

Marianna Dudley
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Bristol, "Greening the Ministry of Defence: An environmental history of the Defence Estates since 1945."

Matthias Freidank
Bavarian Fellow, 2009, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Munich, "Shame and the politics of emotion in African-American literature."

Nicholas G. Grant
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Leeds, "Africian-Americans, gender, and the global networks of black self determination, 1940-1960."

John E. Haynes
Kluge Staff Fellow, 2009, Library of Congress, "Creation of an annotated concordance and index for the Alexander Vassiliev notebooks and the Venona decryptions."

Holger Hoock
Kluge Fellow, 2009, University of Liverpool, "Violence and terror in the American revolution: practice, representation, memory."

Karen Karbiener
Kluge Fellow, 2009, New York University, "Walt Whitman and New York: The urban roots of Leaves of Grass."

Svetlana Kujumdzieva
Kluge Fellow, 2009, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, "The Library of St. Catherine's monastery as a witness to music history: the case of the Sinai musical manuscripts."

Klaus Larres
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2009, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland; Johns Hopkins University -SAIS, "The U.S. and the unity of Europe: Transatlantic relations during the Cold War and the post-Cold War years."

Jonathan Levy
ACLS Mellon Fellow, 2009, Princeton University, "The ways of providence: capitalism, risk and freedom."

Jennifer Loughmiller-Newman
Kislak Fellow in American Studies, 2009, University of New York at Albany, "Mayan ceramics and the chemical and physical analysis of residues and decomposition."
Appointment: 2009 Short Term Kislak Fellowship appointment

W. Roger Louis
Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North, 2010, University of Texas, Austin, "The British Empire in the Middle East, 1952-1971."
Appointment: William Roger Louis Named to John W. Kluge Center Chair for Countries and Cultures of the North

Raja Mohan
Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations, 2009, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, "India and foreign policy in a new global order."
Lecture: Panel on US and Sino-Indian Maritime Rivalry
Appointment: Press Release

Catriona M. Paul
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Dundee, "Horse owenership in Kentucky, 1770-1830."

Devin Pendas
ACLS Burkhardt Fellow, 2009, Boston College, "Law, democracy, and transitional justice in Germany, 1945-1955"

Laura Scott
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Leeds, "De limbs layin' scattered roun': Race and bodily fragmentation in the conjure woman."

Thomas E. Speller
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, Jesus College, University of Oxford, "The challenge of reform: Explaining policy change in secondary education in OECD countries."

Arafaat Valiani
Kluge Fellow, 2009, Williams College, "Physical training, guerilla-style protest, and civic violence in Gujarat India."

Nicholas D. Witham
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Notthingham, "After the new left: Cultures of anti-imperialism in late cold war America."

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