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During 2010:
David Robinson (History)
David Robinson (History) published a monograph Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009) - that looks at the impact of Mongol rule and its collapse on Korea, Manchuria, and northern China during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Margaret Maurer (English)
Margaret Maurer (English) published Three Shrew Plays: Shakespeare’s "The Taming of the Shrew" with the Anonymous "The Taming of a Shrew," and Fletcher’s "The Tamer Tamed," ed. Barry Gaines and Margaret Maurer (Hackett Publishing, 2010). She also published two articles: "Putting the Silent Woman Back into the Shakespearean Shrew, in Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700, ed. David Wooton and Graham Holderness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), (with Barry Gaines) and "Again, Poets and Julius Caesar," The Upstart Crow, 28 (2009). Margaret was one of three resident scholars for the NEH-sponsored Teaching Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, June 27- July 24, 2010.
Jonathan Jacobs (Philosophy)
Jonathan Jacobs (Philosophy) published Law, Reason, and Morality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Oxford University Press). During the summer of 2010 he directed an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on "Free Will and Human Perfection in Medieval Jewish Philosophy." He also has a forthcoming article, "The Epistemology of Moral Tradition: A Defense of a Maimonidean Thesis" that will be published in the September issue of Review of Metaphysics.
Joscelyn Godwin (Music)
Joscelyn Godwin’s (Music) essay, "Main divers acors: some Instrument Collections of the Ars Nova," has been reprinted in Instruments and Their Music in the Middle Ages, ed. Timothy McGee (Ashgate, 2009) and his book Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World has been taken up by the Imprimerie Nationale (2009, widely reviewed in the French press) and the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (forthcoming).
Kira Stevens (History)
This past summer, Kira Stevens (History) was a participant in an NEH seminar: "The Silk Roads and Chinese Identity" in preparation for a new "Silk Roads" course (History 263) this fall, 2010.
Judith Oliver (Art History)
Judith Oliver (Art History) published a chapter, "Le livre manuscript et l’enluminure des origines au XIVe siècle," in Florilege du livre en principaute de Liege du IXe au XVIIIe siecle, eds. Paul Bruyere and Alain Marchandisse (Societe des bibliophiles liegeois, 2009).
Lynn Staley (English)
Lynn Staley (English) published a chapter, "Enclosed Spaces," in Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, ed. James Simpson and Brian Cummings (Oxford University Press, 2010).