History’s Haskell honored with nationally competitive fellowship

History’s Haskell honored with nationally competitive fellowship

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Thomas Haskell, the Samuel G. McCann Professor of History, has recently been appointed a fellow at the National Humanities Center (NHC) for 2008-09. Chosen from more than 400 applicants, Haskell will pursue his project “Sensibility and Moral Capital in Abolishing the Slave Trade” with the John P. Birkelund Fellowship. 

	THOMAS HASKELL

As a fellow, Haskell will work individually on his research project and will have the opportunity to share ideas in seminars, lectures and conferences at the NHC. He is the only scholar from Texas to be chosen this year.

The NHC scholars represent 25 colleges and universities in 17 states and eight institutions in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. They are leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, philosophy, art history, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, film studies, German, musicology, politics, and other humanistic areas of study. 

The newly appointed fellows constitute the 31st class of resident scholars to be admitted since the center opened in 1978. The NHC awards more than $1.6 million in individual fellowship grants that enable scholars to take leave from their normal academic duties and pursue research at the center. This funding is made possible by the center’s endowment, by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Research Triangle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and by contributions from alumni and friends of the center.