Stanley International Programs-Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Research Fellowships,, The University of Iowa

Stanley International Programs-Obermann Center Research Fellowships

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Spring 2007

Catherine Ringen (Linguistics) traveled to Russia, Norway, Finland, and Hungary to record speakers for her research on the differences and similarities of consonants in Russian, Norwegian, Fenno-Swedish and Hungarian.

Fall 2006

Denise Filios (Spanish & Portuguese) traveled to Turkey to research idealizing images of al Andalus, an area of the Iberian Peninsula ruled by Muslims from 711 to 1492.
Mark Sidel (Law) traveled to Vietnam and Cambodia to perform research for a book he is writing about a large trafficking case involving Vietnamese and Chinese workers on American Samoa.

Spring 2006

Eric Gidal (English) traveled to London to continue research on the final chapter of his book, “Civic Melancholy: Sorrow and Society in the Eighteenth Century," the primary figures of which, Mme de Staël, Lord Byron, and Thomas Jefferson, embodied and gave expression to melancholy as a fundamentally public and even civic disposition.
Robin Hemley (English and Nonfiction Writing Program) did research in Vienna and Munich for a nonfiction book Gregory Maertz, an art historian who has focused on the contextualizing of art from the Nazi period.

Fall 2005

Adriana Méndez Rodenas (Spanish & Portguese) studied illustrated travelogues at libraries in London and Paris for her book, "From Paradise to Diaspora: Natural History in the Americas," about how the depiction of nature, particularly the tropical region, forms an integral part of the discourse of nation and identity formation in the Americas.
Shel Stromquist (History) scoured the municipal archives of Manchester, Liverpool and Bradford in England; Frankfurt and Düsseldorf in Germany; and Stockholm and Växjö in Sweden as part of his comparative study of municipal labor politics in six countries from 1890 to 1920.

Spring 2005

Roberta Marvin (Music) focused on Giuseppe Verdi's “Inno delle nazioni” (Hymn of the Nations), a cantata written in 1862, which was scandalously rejected by those who commissioned it.

Fall 2004

Michael Chibnik (Anthropology) continued work on his examination of the economic and anthropological significance of brightly colored wood carvings, alebrijes, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Publications:
Chibnik, Michael and Silvia Purata, “Conserving Copalillo: The Creation of Sustainable Oaxacan Wood Carvings,” Agriculture and Human Values, December, 2006.