  Fellow of
the Month:
Philip J. Deloria
Philip J. Deloria, professor, University of Michigan Department of History and Program in American Culture, is the 2007-08 John Rich Professor at the Institute for the Humanities. He received his PhD in American Culture from Yale University and received BME and MA from the University of Colorado.
The author of three books and of many articles, Deloria spent his year at the Institute working on his still untitled family memoir. He focused on telling the story of his grandfather, grandmother and great aunt and the personal consequences of his grandparents’ cross-racial marriage (Sioux and "White"). continued....
Deloria's vita
Chapter from Deloria's book Indians in Unexpected Places, 2004. This chapter on Athletics and the project Deloria worked on this year at the Institute originated at the same time, and that moment is recounted in the chapter.
Link to a website that contains material on Deloria's great aunt, Ella Deloria who worked with anthropologist Franz Boas on collecting Sioux linguistic material. |
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Featured Event
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History
The Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture, March 25, 2008, 5 pm
Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago. Chakrabarty was also elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2004 and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2006.
Chakrabarty's current research is focused on the development of history as a profession in South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century and its relationship to public life. He has also been working on changing forms of mass-politics in the subcontinent. He is the author of numerous books and articles. |
