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—2013
FINAL SELECTION COMMITTEE
Susan F. Hirsch CN ’87 • Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution,
George Mason University
John Kelly CN ’85 • Anthropology, University of Chicago
Lee Mitchell • English, Princeton University
Geoffery Sayre-McCord CN ’84 • Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Kathryn Sklar WF ’65 • History, State University of New York, Binghamton
PRELIMINARY REVIEW PANELS
Anthropology
Misty Bastian CN ’94 • Franklin & Marshall College
Bernard Bate CN ’97 • Yale University
Nancy Nu-chun Chen CN ’92 • University of California, Santa Cruz
Diane Mines CN ’91 • Appalachian State University
Rupert Stasch CN ’97 • University of California, San Diego
Art History
William Hood • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Ikumi Kaminishi CN ’93 • Tufts University
Richard Stapleford • City University of New York
Asian Studies/Hindu & Buddhist Religions
Whitney Kelting CN ’94 • Northeastern University
James Ketelaar CN ’86 • University of Chicago
American History
Charles L. Cohen WF ’70 • University of Wisconsin, Madison
Edward Gray • Florida State University
Paul Harris CN ’82 • Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Lori Ginzberg CN ’82 • Pennsylvania State University
Joan Shelley Rubin • University of Rochester
Early World History
Lisa McClain CN ’99 • Boise State University
Modern World History
Mary Gluck • Brown University
Jeffrey Hadler CN ’97 • University of California, Berkeley
Susie Steinbach CN ’94 • Hamline University
American Literature
Gregg Crane CN ’86 • University of Michigan
Lori Merish CN ’91 • Georgetown University
English Literature
David Bleich • University of Rochester
Jean Howard WF ’75 • Columbia University
Paula McQuade CN ’96 • De Paul University
World Literature
Gary Saul Morson • Northwestern University
Benedict Robinson CN ’00 • Stony Brook University
Near Eastern Studies
Jerrold Green • University of Southern California, Annenberg
John O. Voll • Georgetown University
Music
Timothy Rommen CN ’01 • University of Pennsylvania
Philosophy
Charles Courtney • Drew University
Matthew Hanser CN ’90 • University of California, Los Angeles
James Klagge CN ’81 • Virginia Tech
Gordon Marino CN ’85 • St. Olaf College
Laurence Thomas • Syracuse University
Political Science
Peter Dennis Bathory • Rutgers University
James Johnson CN ’88 • University of Rochester
Steven B. Smith • Yale University
Psychology and Education
Bruce Kimball • Ohio State University
Stephen J. Thoma • University of Alabama
Religion
Jill Carroll CN ’93 • Rice University
Maureen Fitzgerald WS ’87, CN ’88 • College of William and Mary
Amy Hollywood CN ’90 • Harvard Divinity School
Michael Satlow CN ’92 • Brown University
Mark Lewis Taylor • Princeton Theological Seminary
Sumner B. Twiss • Brown University
Sociology
Kevin Christiano • University of Notre Dame
Lynn Eden CN ’82 • Stanford University
John Evans • University of California, San Diego
Elizabeth W. Markson • Brandeis University
CN = Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow |
WS = Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Fellow |