Former CIH Fellows

Annual Fellows

The following University of Calgary scholars and their projects have competed successfully for one of the Institute's Annual Fellowships: 

Ian Adam, Commonwealth Literature

Barry Baldwin, English Translation of the Timarion

Pamela Banting, The Riggall Family: A Biography

Susan Bennett, Contemporary Women's Drama

Ronald Bond, Tuning the Pulpit

Augustine Brannigan, The Origins and Nature of Multiple Discoveries in Science

Douglas Brown, Sport, Space and Everyday Life

Michael Burgess, Bio-Medical Ethics

Helen Buss, Contemporary Women's Revisions of the Memoir Form of English

Glen Campbell, The Poetry of Louis Riel

Linda Carreiro, What Lies Beneath: Gender Inscriptions within Flap-Anatomy

Sarah Carter, The National Policy of Domestic Conformity:Marriage and Family in Western Canada, 1875-1915

Eung-Do Cook, Chipewyan Evolution and Variation

Barry Cooper, Action in Nature

Hallvard Dahlie, Exiles in Canadian Literature

Nicholas David, Analogy and Metaphor: Comparison in Ethnoarchaeology and Regional Cultural Studies

Wayne Davies, The Welsh in the Development of Canada

Richard Davis, The 1819-22 Franklin Land Expedition & Understanding Expedition Journals: Australia and New Zealand

Michael Dobrovolsky, Chovash Phonology and Modern Phonological Theory

Shadia Drury, Radical Anti-modernism

Jim Ellis, The Uses of History: Derek Jarman vs. The English Nation

Marc Ereshefsky, Biology and Philosophy of Classification & The Many Faces of 'Natural'

Lyle Eslinger, Hebrew Bible

Frank Eyck, Religious Division and German Unification

Penny Farfan, Feminist Discourse Through and About Performance, Late Nineteenth Century to Early Twentieth Century

Louise Fothergill-Payne, Unity and Multiplicity in the Spanish Theatre

Arthur Frank, The Self-Experience of Illness

John Graham, Islam and Social Work

Eithne Guilfoyle, The Syntax and Acquisition of Functional Categories in VSO Languages

Valerie Haines, Evolutionary Theorizing and the Debate on Canonicity in Sociology

Ishtiyaque Haji, Freedom's Fragile Steps: Authenticity, Education, and
Responsibility

Waldemar Heckel, The Successors of Alexander the Great

Irving Hexham, Social and Religious Change in South Africa

Harry Hiller, The Sociological Theories of S.D. Clark

Verena Huber-Dyson, Monograph on Gödel's Theorems

Aaron Hughes, Jewish Philosophy, Aesthetics and Bible Translation

Thomas Hurka, Perfectionism & Value theory from Sidgwick to Ross

Keith Johnstone, Book on Acting

William Jordan, Remembrance Day, a Music-Theatre Piece

Morny Joy, Narrative Identity in the Work of Paul Ricoeur & Ethics and Imagination

Leslie Kawamura, A Study of Mi-pham's mKhas-'jug

Herman Keahey, Text Underlay in Late Fifteenth-Century Music

Jane Kelley, Capitan North Archaeological Project

Inder Kher, The Poetry of Theodore Roethke

Terry Klokeid, A Grammar of the Language of the Nitinaht Indians

Rainer Knopff, Human Rights and the Pursuit of Equality in Canada

Noa Latham, The Variety of Causal Notions

Gregory Levin, The White Goddess II

D. Lorne Macdonald, Geneva in 1816: A Group Biography

Jack MacIntosh, Identity and Possibility & Robert Boyle's Views on Atheism

Ken MacMillan, Idea of Conquest in England and Atlantic, 1450-1750

Alexander Malycky, The German-Canadian Community in Alberta

Lorraine Markotic, Configurations of the Feminine

John Stephen Martin, Vision and Visibility

Geoffrey McCafferty, Cholula, The Rome of Anahuac

Pamela McCallum, Narrative Form in Carlyle, Michelet and Carpentier

Roderick McGillis, Literary Theory and Children's Literature

Dennis McKerlie, Justice Between Generations and Age-Groups

John McLaren, Legal Regime for Pollution Prevention

Anne McWhir, Marginal Voices and English Romantic Literature

Francine Michaud, Dying at the Time of the Black Death

Leslie Miller, The Family Firm in Good Times and Bad

Mark Migotti, Ethics and the Life of the Mind: A Study of Nietzsche's Moral Theory

Elizabeth Montes Garcés, Corporeal Imaginings in Latin-American Women's Writing

Ted Morton, The Poetics of Rights

Eva Neumaier, The Tibetan Concept of Divine Kinship

Margaret Osler, Gassendi, Descartes & Mechanical Philosophy and Teleology and Divine Providence: The Reinterpretation of Final Causes in Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy & Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God and Human Understanding, in Early Modern Europe

Howard Palmer, Nativism and Ethnic Tolerance in Alberta: 1880-1977

Mary Pavelka, Menopause in humans and nonhuman primates: A comparative life history perspective

Roger Peattie, Edition of Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti

Douglas Peers, Decolonizing the Military History of South Asia

Jeanne Perreault, Hysteria and the Discourse of Whiteness

Dominique Perron, Analysis of the text of Hydro-Québec's advertising from 1964-2000

Anthony Petti, The Journals and Papers of Sir John Franklin

Victor Ramraj, The Concept of the Universal in International English Literature

Donald Ray, African Traditional Leadership and the State: Indigenous Legitimacy, Authority and Sovereignty in the Age of Development and Democratisation

Elizabeth Ritter, Pronouns from the inside out

Claude Romney, Written Testimonies by Auschwitz Prisoner Doctors

Joan Ryan, Lubicon Lake Cree Community

Eliezer Segal, Talmudic Commentary to the Book of Esther

Patricia Srebrnik, Popular Fiction by Women

Colleen Stainton, Early Human Attachment

Hank Stam, History of the Body in Psychology

Robert Stebbins, Modern Amateurism

Charles Steele, Canadian Authors' Paper

Florentine Strzelczyk, From Hitler to Hollywood

Alexie Tcheuyap, Maghrebian Novels to the Screen

Jean Tener, Canadian Authors' Papers

Annette Timm, Lebensborn: Myth, Memory and the Sexualization of the Nazi Past

Charles Travis, The Concepts of Truth and Identity

Aritha Van Herk, Australian/Canadian Fiction & The Eloquence of Laundry: A narrative reading of the presence of laundry in literature, art and the everyday world

Fred Wah, A Collection of Essays on Contemporary Poetics

Michael Walbank, Surviving Athenian Proxeny-Decrees

George Wing, The Victorian Novel

John Yardley, Translation and Commentary of Quintus Curtius' History of Alexander

Kevin Young, Living with Injury: Sport and Pain the Lives of Athletes

Richard Zach, The History of Logical Metatheory, 1900-1940

Mathew Zachariah, A Comparative Study of Sarvodaya and Conscientization and Transformative Non-Formal Education for (Re) Building Sustainable Communities

Nicholas Zekulin, Narrative Techniques in Russian Literature

Frances Spratt Graduate Fellowship

The following students were awarded this fellowship which began in 2003.

Angela Waldie,
2008-09 term - PhD candidate in Department of English

Speranza Dolgetta,
2005-06 term - PhD candidate in Department of Philosophy

Jeffrey Wigelsworth,
2004-05 term - PhD candidate in Department of History (degree awarded 2005 - University
of Saskatchewan)

Tania Saj,
2003-04 term - PhD candidate in Department of Anthropology (degree awarded 2004
- University of Calgary)

Note - no appointments were made for terms 2007-08 and
2006-07

Undergraduate Student Fellowship

The following students were awarded this fellowship which
began in 2006

Joanna Dawson,
2008-09 term - fourth-year student in Department of English

Tanya Chiykowski,
2007-08 term - fourth-year student in Department of Archaeology

Shane Sackman,
2007-08 term - fourth-year student in Department of Political Science

Leah Wotherspoon,
2006-07 term - fourth year student in Department of Religious Studies

Visiting Research Fellows

The distinguished scholars who have recently held Visiting Research Fellowships at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities include

James Opp, History, Carleton University, Ottawa

Jim Whitman, Peace Studies, University of Bradford, England

Julie Cormack, Archaeology, Mount Royal College, Calgary

Pae Ken Choi, Economics, Konkuk University in Korea

Jiao Nianzhi, School of Foreign Languages, Lanzhou University of Technology in China

Afkan Isazade,  Law, Academy of Public Administration - Moscow from Azerbijan

Tania Saj, Anthropology, McGill University

Christiane Owusu-Sarpong, Languages, KNUST Kumasi-Ashanti in Ghana

Patricia Wood, Geography, York University, Canada

Heidi Grasswick, Philosophy, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

The following have been new scholars and postdoctoral projects supported by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities.  (The postdoctoral fellowship is no longer available.)

Philip Alperson, Music as the Paradigmatic Art 

Martha Anders, Dual Organization, Calendars, and Azngaro 

Gary Arbuckle, Dong Zhongshu and Former Han Confucianism 

Karin Beeler, Canada in European Literature 

Edward Bell, Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta 

Jonathan Bordo, Threats to Moral Standing. Family and Community in the Construction of the Yucatec Maya Cultural Landscape 

Pippa Brush, Women and the Workplace in Canadian Magazines, 1900-1930 

Kathleen Buddle, Trans-tribal flows and the social construction of the aboriginal mediascape in Canada 

Michael Burgess, A Theoretical Basis for the Integration of Empirical and Ethical Analysis in  Medical Ethics 

Pauline Butling, Play and Carnival in the Formation of a Postmodern Aesthetic: A Study of Robert Duncan, Phyllis Webb and B. P. Nichol 

Donald Childs, The Religious Dimensions of T.S. Eliot 

Roger Cooter, The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science 

Leonard Curchin, Monograph on The Local Magistrates of Roman Spain 

Lobsang Dargyay, History of Madhyamika Philosophy in Tibet 

Richard Davis, Voyages of Discovery 

Michael DeRoche, Analysis of the Narrative (Genesis 11:27-25:11) 

Shiraz Dossa, The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt 

Warren Dow, Content and Psychology 

Peter Emberley, Pornography and Obscenity 

Marcia Epstein, Prions en Chantant 

Lyle Eslinger, Individual Techniques of Hebrew Narrative 

David Evans, The Eco-theology of America 

Dino Felluga, The Novel Poet: Structuralism, Dialectics and the Instability of Genre, 1789-1900 

Toby Foshay, Wyndham Lewis 

Robert Fowler, Homeric Epithets in Greek Lyric Poetry 

Gordon Hamilton, Palaeography of the Earliest Alphabet 

Michael Hymers, The World, Others and the Self: Philosophy and Its Epistemic Neuroses

Carolyn Johnston, Working-class Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Paris 

Richard King, Alexander the Great in Opera 

Lynda Lange, Women and Democratic Theory 

Michael Mack, The Enlightenment and Other Enlightenments: The Pseudo Theological Paradigm of Anti-Semitism in German Idealism and its German-Jewish Response 

Robert McKim, Berkeley on the Will 

Elinor Melville, Ecological and Social Change in the Valle del Mezquital 

Lucinda Neuru, Carthage Coarsewares 

Ekaterini Nikolarea, English Receptions of Greek Tragedy: Sophocles' Oedipus the King 

Julia Offen, Beyond the Ring: The European Traveling Circus 

Caterina Pizanias, The Postmodern Turn and Feminist Cultural Politics

Don Randall, Representations of Empire and Adolescence 

Allan Reid, Communication and Cognition in Bakhtin and Lotman 

John Schellenberg, Reasons for Evil 

Adrian Shubert, The Social Origins of Labour Militancy 

Nora Stovel, Symbolism in the Novels of Margaret Drabble 

Winnifred Tomm, Spinoza, Hume, and Vasubandhu 

Virginia Tumasz, Process Philosophy and Absolute Idealism 

Jan van Voorst, Event Structure 

Michael Willis, The Temples of Gopaksetra, Dasarna, and Jejakadesa 

Alison Wylie, Positivism and the New Archaeology 

Philip Zachernuk, Intellectual Life in a Colonial Context

Boaz Zissu, Rural Settlement in the Judaean Hills and Foothills from the Late Second Temple Period to the Bar Kokhba Revolt