Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Examples of Funded Projects

Listed below are some of the 23 fellows chosen for the academic year 2004-2005:1)Robert Aliber, Professor of International Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, "The Crisis in the U.S. International Payments Position." 2)Paul Dutton, Associate Professor of European History, Northern Arizona University, "France's Healthcare Odyssey, 1928-2001." 3)Mary Hancock, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and History, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Remembered Futures, Everyday Histories: Politics, Culture and the Past in Urban South India." 4)Brian Linn, Professor of History, Texas A&M University, "War in American Military Thought." 5) Anne Thurston, Associate Professor of China Studies, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, "Democracy, Stability, and the Dilemma of Political Reform in China."

Program Accomplishments

The Wilson Center has hosted hundreds of scholars working in fields spanning the humanities and the social sciences. Some distinguished scholars of recent years have included Bruce Ackerman, Anatoli Dobrynin, John Lewis Gaddis, Juan Williams, and Gordon Wood. Books written by Fellows at the Center have included David Levering Lewis' W.W. Dubois, Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, and Thomas Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem.