Selected Profile

Brenda Dixon Gottschild
WS '79

When Brenda Dixon Gottschild graduated from New York’s City College in 1963, she had no idea that her interdisciplinary major, Contemporary Culture, would be her keynote in a world that was about to change dramatically. “In my professional life I journeyed from a career as artist-performer to writer-scholar, from practitioner to observer—and lately, a combination of both,” she explains.

Coming of age in the Civil Rights era and the free student movement helped to shape Prof. Dixon Gottschild’s commitment to intellectual, political, and artistic pursuits, which she points to as the three driving forces in her professional and personal development.

“Through many years of practice and study, I try to mend the Cartesian mind-body duality by presenting my research as a living, visceral experience and my performance as politically and intellectually engaging.” In the same breath she talks about the Africanist love of improvisation, which dovetails with her own experience in the improv-based avant-garde New York theater movement of the 1960s. (She was a member of The Open Theater, one of the groundbreaking experimental theater groups of that era.) Read more about this Fellow...

The Charlotte W. Newcombe
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Newcombe Fellowship Selection Committees—2010

FINAL SELECTION COMMITTEE

Webb Keane CN ’88 • Anthropology, University of Michigan

Susan F. Hirsch CN ’87 • Anthropology, University of Michigan

Alison McIntyre CN ’84 • Philosophy, Wellesley College

Kathryn Tanner CN ’83 • University of Chicago Divinity School

NOTE: The Final Selection will ultimately consist of five members. At this time, the fifth member of the Final Selection Committee is still being determined. Please check back later for updated information.

PRELIMINARY REVIEW PANELS

Anthropology

Beth Conklin CN ’88 • Vanderbilt University

Miranda Shaw CN ’89 • University of Richmond

Margaret Wiener CN ’88 • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Art History

William Hood • Oberlin College

Ikumi Kaminishi CN ’93 • Tufts University

Richard Stapleford • City University of New York

Asian Studies/Hindu & Buddhist Religions

Whitney Kelting CN ’94 • Northeastern University

Peter Nosco • University of Southern California

American History

Charles L. Cohen • University of Wisconsin, Madison

Edward Gray • Florida State University

Paul Harris CN ’82 • Minnesota State University, Moorhead

Joan Shelley Rubin • University of Rochester

Nick Salvatore • Cornell University

Kathryn Kish Sklar • State University of New York, Binghamton

Early World History

Catherine Evtuhov CN ’90 • Georgetown University

Alan Charles Kors • University of Pennsylvania

Kenneth Pennington • Catholic University of America

Modern World History

Jeffrey Brooks • Johns Hopkins University

Mary Gluck • Brown University

Jeffrey Hadler CN ’97 • University of California, Berkeley

Lynn M. Thomas CN ’96 • University of Washington

American Literature

Nicholas Bromell CN ’86 • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Emory Elliott • University of California, Riverside

Lee Mitchell • Princeton University

English Literature

David Bleich • University of Rochester

Jean Howard • Columbia University

Paul Saint-Amour • University of Pennsylvania

World Literature

Hope Glidden • Tulane University

Gary Saul Morson • Northwestern University

Thomas Pfau CN ’88 • Duke University

Benedict Robinson CN ’00 • Stony Brook University

Near Eastern Studies

Jerrold Green • Center for Middle East Public Policy, RAND

John O. Voll • Georgetown University

Music

Robert L. Kendrick CN ’92 • University of Chicago

Performance Studies

Brenda Dixon Gottschild WS ’79 • Temple University

Philosophy

John Christman CN ’84 • Pennsylvania State University

Charles Courtney • Drew University

Robin S. Dillon CN ’85 • Lehigh University

Paul Guyer • University of Pennsylvania

Samuel Kerstein CN ’93 • University of Maryland

James Klagge CN ’81 • Virginia Tech

Laurence Thomas • Syracuse University

Political Science

Peter Dennis Bathory • Rutgers University

James Johnson CN ’88 • University of Rochester

Sara Monoson CN ’90 • Northwestern University

Steven B. Smith • Yale University

Psychology and Education

Bruce Kimball • Ohio State University

Wendy Shields • The University of Montana

Stephen J. Thoma • University of Alabama

Religion

Jill Carroll CN ’93 • Rice University

Maureen Fitzgerald CN ’88 • College of William and Mary

Susannah Heschel • Dartmouth College

Deanna Klepper CN ’90 • Boston University

Mark Lewis Taylor • Princeton Theological Seminary

Sumner B. Twiss • Florida State University

Sociology

Mark Chaves • Duke University

Kevin Christiano • University of Notre Dame

John Evans • University of California, San Diego

Annette Lareau • University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth W. Markson • Boston University

Peter Stein • University of North Carolina

CN = Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow

WS = Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Fellow

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