Four Named Humanities Center Fellows For Next Year

Four Duke faculty members, Vincent
Aaron Brown, Ellen A. McLarney, Ajantha Subramanian, and Ernest A. Zitser,
have been chosen to be a part of the 34th class of National Humanities Center
fellows for 2011-12.

Brown, professor of history and African and African American
studies, is a multi-media historian teaching courses in Atlantic history,
African diaspora studies and the history of slavery.

McLarney
is the Andrew W. Mellon assistant professor of Arabic literature and culture.
She specializes in Islamist movements, Islamic theological texts, and Islam and
gender.

Subramanian,
associate professor of cultural anthropology, studies social and political
movements, environmental politics and South Asia.

Zitser
is librarian for Slavic & Eastern European Studies at Duke University
Libraries.

This year the fellows were chosen out of 404 applicants and
represent more than 11 fields of humanistic scholarship. These 32 distinguished
scholars from institutions around the world will work separately on a range of
research projects and come together to share ideas at seminars, lectures and
conferences held at the center.

The National Humanities Center, located in the Research
Triangle Park of North Carolina, is a privately incorporated independent
institute for advanced studies in the humanities. Since the center opened in
1978 more than 1,300 books in the field of humanistic studies have been
published.