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HII Visiting Fellowships

HII visiting fellowships are aimed at tenured humanities academics from universities outside Ireland interested in spending research leave at UCD. Fellowships will be hosted by the UCD Humanities Institute in conjunction with a host school relevant to the visiting fellow’s disciplinary affiliation and interests. The visiting fellow will be expected to maintain a presence at UCD and to deliver a public lecture, master class or graduate workshop at the HII during the course of the fellowship. Decisions on the award of fellowships will be taken by the HII Management Committee in consultation with the relevant Head of School.

HII Visiting Fellows 2011 – 2012

Dr Keith W. Kintigh

Archaeology, Arizona State University
September 2011 - January 2012

UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies and UCD Humanities Institute are pleased to announce the award of a Fulbright Visiting Fellowship at UCD to Professor Keith Kintigh, Arizona State University

Keith W. Kintigh is professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. An archaeologist, his career-long commitment to understanding political organization in middle-range societies has focused on the Cíbola area along the Arizona-New Mexico border near Zuni Pueblo. This constitutes most of the independent field work he has undertaken (with graduate students) in his 21 years at Arizona State University and continues to be a major focus of his independent research effort. In addition to extensive excavation, Kintigh and his team have surveyed on the order of 100km² and recorded more than 900 archaeological sites in the area. In years past, he also engaged in extended fieldwork in Morocco and Peru.

Dr Kintigh's other major research focus has been on the development and application of quantitative methods in archaeology. Recent efforts are largely devoted to the topics of diversity and spatial analysis. Through this work he was invited to be a member, secretary and vice president of Commission 4 (Data Management and Mathematical Methods in Archaeology) of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques.

Dr Kintigh will be based in UCD as a Fulbright Professor from September 2011 to January 2012. He will hold his Fulbright Fellowship at UCD Humanities Institute. He will teach a level 5 module (HII 50010 – ‘Digital Humanities’ 5 credits – semester 1) on digital humanities. This module will focus on eliciting and unpacking the diverse research needs entailed by interdisciplinary research in the humanities. It will take the form of reading and discussion of overview reports on digital humanities, cultural heritage, and cyberinfrastructure and discussion of case studies of extant digital humanities projects. The core of the teaching will revolve around graduate student research interests. This module will also draw on the resources of the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) – a joint UCD Library and UCD Humanities Institute project in digital humanities funded by the HEA under PRTLI Cycle 3 (http://ivrla.ucd.ie).

Professor Kintigh’s work at UCD will build on the teaching of Professor Michael Shanks, visiting professor in digital humanities at UCD Humanities Institute and UCD John Hume Institute. Michael Shanks, director of the Stanford Humanities Lab, will next visit UCD in November 2011 to deliver a workshop on the humanities, design and creativity.

For further information on Dr Kintigh’s fellowship at UCD please contact: Dr Marc Caball, Director, UCD Humanities Institute marc.caball@ucd.ie

HII Visiting Fellows 2010 – 2011

Dr Margaret MacNamidhe

Art History
October – November 2010

Art historian Margaret MacNamidhe’s autumn-semester fellowship is an opportunity for her to complete a book on Picasso’s early work. His under-valued canvases of 1907—the radical Demoiselles d’Avignon painted just a year later would eclipse them—are a special focus. Previous work was on French Romantic painting; a forthcoming book, Delacroix Alone (Penn. State Press), is based on her dissertation (2001; Johns Hopkins University) and was supported by an IRCHSS post-doctoral fellowship. Before Johns Hopkins, a Fulbright post-graduate scholarship brought her to the School of the Art Institute to Chicago while the National College of Art and Design in Dublin was where she went as an undergraduate (Fine Art, Painting).

Professor Robert Hohlfelder

History, University of Colorado
April – May 2010

Robert L. Hohlfelder is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published many articles and chapters on ancient seafaring and maritime archaeology and is the author of King Herod’s Dream: Caesarea on the Sea (with Kenneth Holum, Norton 1988) He has edited several volumes including The Maritime World of Ancient Rome (University of Michigan Press 2008). He has participated in numerous archaeological excavations, both terrestrial and maritime, including, as Senior Marine Archaeologist, the Persian War Shipwreck Survey, 2003-6 and DANAOS – Deepwater Archaeological Survey off Southern Crete, 2007-8. He has received research grants and awards from the National Geographic Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society and the University of Colorado.