The National Humanities Center's 2003-04 class of humanities fellows will include an English professor from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Associate Professor Charlotte Sussman will travel to North Carolina to work on her research project, "Imagining the Population: the Impact of Demographic Theory on British Culture, 1650-1838," and exchange ideas with 40 other humanities scholars from several countries.
Sussman has taught at CU-Boulder since 1992, and specializes in female authors and 18th century British literature and culture. She earned her bachelor's degree from Yale and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her book, "Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery" was published by Stanford University Press in 2000. She also has published articles on Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Smith, Mary Shelley and Walter Scott.
Sussman is the only scholar from Colorado in the group of 41 fellows, and is among six who received Burkhardt Fellowships for recently tenured professors from the American Council of Learned Societies.
This year's National Humanities Center class of fellows comes from 28 American universities as well as institutions in Israel, Italy and the United Kingdom. Academic disciplines include classics, anthropology, history, art history, French, musicology, philosophy and women's studies.
The National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., is a privately incorporated independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. Since 1978, more than 800 books in all fields of humanistic study have been published by fellows in the center's program. The center also sponsors programs to bolster teaching of the humanities in high schools and universities.
In 2003-04, the center will grant $1.2 million to its class of fellows to enable them to take a leave from their university responsibilities and work at the center. Funding comes from the center's endowment, contributions from alumni fellows and a number of foundations including the National Endowment for the Humanities.