13 scholars awarded Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships for research in Special Collections
The University of Chicago Library is pleased to announce the recipients of Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships for 2019. Awards are being made this year to thirteen scholars who will visit the Library and consult collections during the summer from June to September. A list of the 2019 Fellows appears below along with their academic affiliations and research topics.
The Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowship program was established through a bequest of Professor of Geophysical Sciences George W. Platzman and is named in memory of his brother Robert L. Platzman, Professor of Chemistry and Physics. The program provides support for visiting researchers outside the Chicago area working on projects that require on-site consultation of University of Chicago Library collections, primarily archives, manuscripts, or printed materials in the Special Collections Research Center.
A total of 137 Fellowships have been awarded since the program began in 2006. Further information on the Platzman Fellowships is available on the Special Collections website.
Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships Awarded for Summer 2019
Robert Bell
PhD candidate, History and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
From Financial Missionaries and Colonial Administrators to Shirt-Sleeve Diplomats and New Deal Developers: American Influence in Iran from 1911 to 1963
Michael Bruschi
PhD candidate, Music Theory, Yale University
Hearing the Tonality in Microtonality: Easley Blackwood’s Microtonal Music
John Carranza
PhD candidate, Education, University of Texas at Austin
Explaining Sex: Sex Education, Normalization, and Disability in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s
Claire Class
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute für Soziologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Beyond the Chicago School: Literature, Marginalization, and Sociology in Modern America
William Clift
PhD candidate, History, Florida State University
Race in the Prairie State: Black Laws and African American Activism in Nineteenth Century Illinois
Aaron Colston
PhD candidate, History, Duke University
Read the Word, Read the World: Education for Liberation in Cold War U.S. and Brazil
Benjamin Daly-Jones
MPhil candidate, Early Modern History, Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Memory, Distortion, and Judicious Thought: Parrhesia and Late 16th- Early 17th-Century Diplomatic Textual Culture
Yuval Goldfus
PhD candidate, Philosophy, Hebrew University
Privacy, the Right to be Forgotten, and the Social Self of George Herbert Mead
Sören Hammerschmidt
Instructor, English, Arizona State University
Modular Pope: Portraits, Poems, and Recycled Print
Michael Kalisch
Post-doctoral scholar, Downing College, University of Cambridge
Glimpse, Encounter, Acquaintance, Friendship: The Literary Life of Richard Stern
Taushif Kara
PhD candidate, History, University of Cambridge
Abode of Peace: Islam, Empire, and the Khoja Diaspora, 1866-1972
Lena Leson
PhD candidate, Historical Musicology, University of Michigan
Making Balachine an American Modernist: Cold War Narratives and Construction of the Artist
Meghna Sapui
PhD candidate, English, University of Florida
British Poetry in/from India: Creating a New Poetic Community