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Hear from a scholar-in-residence about his experience at the John W. Kluge Center. Kluge Fellow Dr. Robin Kornman, a noted Buddhist scholar who worked on a translation of the Epic of Gesar of Ling, discusses his time at the Library of Congress with Robert Saladini of the John W. Kluge Center.

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Resident Scholars

Mustafa Aksakal
Kluge Fellow, 2009, American University, "Imperialism on the periphery: The Ottomans in the age of European empire, 1856-1914."

Marie Arana
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2009, Independent Scholar, "The life of Simon Bolivar."
Lecture: Celebration of 400th Anniversary of “Royal Commentaries” by El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Appointment: Press Release

William A. Booth
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, "Mexican communism 1945-53: Rare texts, film and microfilm."

David Christian
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2009, San Diego State University, "Inner Eurasia and collective learning."
Appointment: Distinguished Visiting Scholar appointment

Chiara Cordelli
British Research Council Fellow, 2008, University College of London, "The Public/Private distinction: What should we take to be the boundaries of the private vs. public sphere in relation to human rights provisions?"

Claudia Deetjen
Bavarian Fellow, 2009, University of Bayreuth, "Towards an 'integrated' ethics of nature: reading contemporary indigenous literatures of North America as ethical criticism."

Sophie Eastwood
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Cambridge, "Lifestyle, geography, and juvenile crime."

Matthias Freidank
Bavarian Fellow, 2009, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Munich, "Shame and the politics of emotion in African-American literature."

Nicholas G. Grant
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Leeds, "Africian-Americans, gender, and the global networks of black self determination, 1940-1960."

Holger Hoock
Kluge Fellow, 2009, University of Liverpool, "Violence and terror in the American revolution: practice, representation, memory."

Agnes Kefeli
Kluge Fellow, 2008, Arizona State University, "Islam, Christianity and secularism in post-Soviet Tatarstan."
Lecture: The Tale of Joseph and Zulahkha and Tatar National Identity on the Volga Frontier

Svetlana Kujumdzieva
Kluge Fellow, 2009, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, "The Library of St. Catherine's monastery as a witness to music history: the case of the Sinai musical manuscripts."

Klaus Larres
Visiting Fellow, 2009, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, "The U.S. and the unity of Europe: Transatlantic relations in the post-Cold War years."

Jonathan Levy
ACLS Mellon Fellow, 2009, Princeton University, "The ways of providence: capitalism, risk and freedom"

Raja Mohan
Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations, 2009, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, "India and foreign policy in a new global order."
Appointment: Appointment

Gwilym Morus
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, Bangor University, "Political prophecy in early modern Wales."

James N. Munk
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Nottingham, "Exploring of physicality and viruosity in the concertos of Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg."

Judith Nies
Black Mountain Fellow, 2009, Black Mountain Institute, University of Nevada, "Black Mesa, Arizona: Human rights and the environmental crisis."
Lecture: The Black Mesa Syndrome: Indian Lands, Black Gold.

Lisa Noetzel
Kluge Fellow, 2009, Washington College, Chestertown, MD, "Castilian-Timucuan language contact in Spanish colonial Florida."

Fayth M. Parks
David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality, 2009, Georgia Southern University, "Folk healing, mental health and spirituality."

Catriona M. Paul
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, University of Dundee, "Horse owenership in Kentucky, 1770-1830."

Devin Pendas
ACLS Burkhardt Fellow, 2009, Boston College, "Law, democracy, and transitional justice in Germany, 1945-1955"

Marlis Schweitzer
Kluge Fellow, 2009, York University, Canada, ""Bringing the world to Broadway: American impresarios and the transnational trade in theatrical commodities, 1896-1914."
Lecture: “Lying, Stealing, and Other Theatrical Crimes: Molnar’s The Devil and the Transnational Trade in Theatrical Commodities, c. 1907-8,

Abdoulkarim Soroush
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2009, Independent Scholar, "Contextualizing and historicizing Islamic philosophy."
Appointment: Distinguished Visiting Scholar appointment
Appointment: Distinguished Visiting Scholar appointment

Thomas E. Speller
British Research Council Fellow, 2009, Jesus College, University of Oxford, "The challenge of reform: Explaining policy change in secondary education in OECD countries."

Arafaat Valiani
Kluge Fellow, 2009, Williams College, "Physical training, guerilla-style protest, and civic violence in Gujarat India."

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