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The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and WritersFellows for the Year 2008-2009
Deborah Baker
Anna Bikont Anna Bikont, a senior writer and co-founder of Gazeta Wyborcza, the largest daily in Central Europe and the first independent newspaper in democratic Poland, is the award-winning author of eight books, including Wieslawa Szymborska's Dusty Keepsakes, Friends, and Dreams; The Avalanche and the Stones; and We, of Jedwabne. She will spend her year at the Cullman Center conducting research for a biography of the Polish journalist, author, and poet Ryszard Kapuscinski.
Akeel Bilgrami Akeel Bilgrami, the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, directs the University’s Heyman Center for the Humanities and serves on Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought. He is the author of Belief and Meaning and Self-Knowledge and Resentment, and will publish two new books in 2009 – Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity and What Is a Muslim? At the Cullman Center, he will be working on a short book on Gandhi's philosophy and a larger project on the nature of practical reason.
Deborah Cohen Deborah Cohen teaches modern British and European history at Brown University. Her first book, The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Germany and Great Britain, 1914-1939, won the Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, and her second, Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions, won the American Historical Association's Forkosch Prize and the North American Conference on British Studies' Albion Prize. At the Cullman Center, she will be working on a study of family secrets and the rise of confessional culture.
Andrew Sean Greer Andrew Sean Greer is the author of a collection of stories, How
It Was for Me, and three novels: The Path of Minor Planets,
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, and The Story of a Marriage. He
has received the California Book Award, the Northern California Book
Award, The New York Public
Library Young Lions Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts. At the Cullman Center, he will be working on
a novel imagining the effects of different eras on a man's life and
character.
Daniel J. Kevles Daniel J. Kevles, the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, teaches and writes about issues in science and society, past and present. His books include In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America, and The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character. He has received numerous honors and prizes, including a Page One Award, the Watson Davis Prize, and the History of Science Society's George Sarton Medal for career achievement. At the Cullman Center, he will be working on a book about the history of intellectual property in living organisms from the late eighteenth century to recent times.
Hari Kunzru Hari Kunzru, the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, and My Revolution, has had his work translated into twenty-one languages and won a number of Prizes, including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask prize of the Society of Authors, and a British Book Award. In 2003 Granta named him one of Britain’s twenty best young novelists. At the Cullman Center, he will be working on a novel set at the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar.
Robert G. O’Meally Robert G. O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he founded The Center for Jazz Studies. His books include The Craft of Ralph Ellison, Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, and The Jazz Singers. He has edited several anthologies, including The Jazz Cadence of American Culture and The Norton Anthology of Afro-American Literature, and has won awards for his liner notes and for his work as writer for the PBS documentary based on his book on Billie Holiday. He will work at the Cullman Center on a project about Bearden's literary sources and collaborations.
Julie Orringer Julie Orringer is the author of an award-winning story collection,
How to Breathe Underwater, and of a novel, The Invisible
Bridge. Her stories have been published in The
Paris Review, The Yale Review, The Washington Post, Zoetrope All-Story, and Ploughshares, and
have been widely anthologized. She has received fellowships from
Stanford
University, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the National Endowment
for the Arts. At the Cullman Center, she will be working on a novel
about Varian Fry, the New York journalist who helped nearly two thousand
Jewish and anti-Nazi refugees escape Europe during the Holocaust.
Lauren Redniss Lauren Redniss regularly contributes Op-Art pieces to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. Slate Magazine named her first book, Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies, one of the 10 Best Books of 2006. Redniss teaches at the Parsons School of Design. At the Cullman Center, she will be working on an illustrated nonfiction book about Marie and Pierre Curie and the history of radioactivity.
Martha Saxton Martha Saxton is a Professor of History and Women’s and Gender
Studies at Amherst College. She has written biographies of Jayne
Mansfield and Louisa May Alcott. Her most recent book, Being
Good: Women’s Moral Values in Early America, examines
women’s
ethical lives across three regions, two centuries, and diverse racial
cultures. Saxton received a Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College.
At the Cullman Center, she will be working on a biography of Mary
Ball Washington, the mother of the founding father.
Laura Secor Laura Secor, a journalist, has written on Iran for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Republic. She has been a staff editor of The New York Times Op-Ed page, a reporter for the Boston Globe, acting executive editor of The American Prospect, and a senior editor and writer for Lingua Franca. At the Cullman Center, she will be working on a book about the movement for democratic reform in Iran.
Lore Segal Lore Segal’s novels include Other People’s Houses, Her First American, which won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and Shakespeare’s Kitchen. Segal has also published essays, translations, and books for children. Her Cullman Center project takes its title from the island in Gulliver's Travels whose inhabitants never die, and will offer a satirical look at our over-long modern lives.
Ezra Tawil Ezra Tawil teaches early American literature in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance. At the Cullman Center, he will be working on a book about the eighteenth-century origins of American literary exceptionalism and the notion of an "American style" within anglophone writing.
Rosanna Warren Rosanna Warren is the author of a chapbook and three books of poems,
including, most recently, Departure. Her critical book, Fables
of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, will be published by Norton
in September 2008. With Stephen Scully, Warren translated Euripides'
Suppliant Women for the Oxford Tragedy Series, and she has
edited anthologies of poems written by prisoners. She is a past president
of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, and teaches
English and French literature at Boston University. At the Cullman
Center, she will be working on a book of poems that draws on the
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