Discovery & Inspiration
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Thomas M. Lekan, “Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti”
Thomas M. Lekan (NHC Fellow, 2009–10; 2010–11; 20…
Kim F. Hall, “Othello Was My Grandfather”
Kim F. Hall (NHC Fellow, 2016–17), Lucyle Hook Pr…
Tsitsi Ella Jaji, “Mother Tongues: Poems”
Tsitsi Ella Jaji (NHC Fellow, 2017–18), Associate…
Mark Evan Bonds, “Breaking Music’s Fourth Wall”
Contemporary audiences may be familiar with the p…
John D. Wong, “A City in Flux: Commercial Aviation and the Story of Modernity in Hong Kong”
The emergence of commercial aviation in the early…
Timothy L. Stinson, “The Evolution of Medieval Vengeance Narratives”
In 70 CE, the destruction of Jerusalem by the Rom…
Jacob M. Baum, “Disability and Autobiography in the Sixteenth Century”
Prior to the modern era, autobiographical narrati…
Gregg Mitman, “Bloodborne: Invasion and the Politics of Disease”
For the past several decades, authorities have be…
Jordynn Jack, “Training the Brain: Rhetoric, Neuropolicy, and Education”
Over the past several decades, neuroscientific st…
Lester Tomé, “Movement and Modernism: Carpentier’s Transatlantic Ballet”
Though modernist ballet is often associated with …