Faculty, Ph.D. candidates win fellowships for humanities, social science research
Berkeley News
by Kathleen Maclay
24 July 2015
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced its 2015 fellowship recipients from the humanities and related social sciences, including four UC Berkeley professors, as well as eight doctoral candidates and two newly-minted Berkeley Ph.D.s.
The Berkeley recipients from the professorship ranks are:
- Beate Fricke, an associate professor of the history of art who teaches European medieval art and architecture. She received an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship to research the complex, multi-dimensional histories of medieval objects, drawing from site visits, workshops and case studies from medieval Europe, the central Islamic lands and Christian kingdoms on their peripheries.
- Kevis Goodman, an associate professor of English, who teaches and researches 17th-century and 18th-century British literature. She has been awarded an ACLS Fellowship to pursue work on Enlightenment medicine and romantic poetics.
- Leigh Raiford, an associate professor of African American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies conducts research around race, gender and visual culture. She has received an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship for work on visualizing travel and “gendering” of the African diaspora.
- Winnie Won Yin Wong, an assistant professor of rhetoric and art history whose work focuses on artistic authorship and the interactions between China and the West, is a double winner. She received an ACLS Fellowship to explore Canton’s trade and painting from 1700-1842, and a Luce/ACLS Collaborative Reading Workshop Grant in China Studies to research Canton’s urban space and social networks from 1819-1829.