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Archive: December 2019 (4 Posts)

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January 2020 Arrivals at Kluge

Posted by: Michael Stratmoen

The Kluge Center welcomes four new fellows into residence this January. Get to know them and the projects they will be working on. Jamie Fenton, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellow, will arrive from Cambridge University. Jamie will work on a project titled, “‘On Whose Forbidden Ear’: Hearing and Its Limits in the …

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Seminoles: Power Brokers in the Florida Borderlands

Posted by: Giselle M. Avilés

When I found out that Kluge Fellow John Paul Nuño, who is an Associate Professor of History at California State University, Northridge, was using a borderlands framework to inform his research on socio-political processes affecting Americans Indians, I wanted to learn more about his topic and methodology. In November, which was Native American History Month, …

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Did the Earliest Printers Know What Print Was? What a 15th Century Book from the Netherlands Can Tell Us About Culture and Innovation

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

This is a guest post by Kluge Fellow Anna Dlabacova, Assistant Professor and postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. She is researching a project titled “Inspiring, Innovative, and Influential: The Role of Gerard Leeu’s Incunabula in Late Medieval Spirituality and Devotional Practice.” She hopes to advance study on the role that incunabula from the Netherlands played …