The Modern Language Association congratulates the four MLA members who were awarded American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Fellowships in 2018. Their various projects include a coauthored book on Transylvania’s geopolitics and a Web site and art exhibition on how power and privilege influence data science and visualization.
Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis
Project title: Comparatizing Transylvania: Rurality, Inter-Imperiality, and the Global Modernist Market
Lauren Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Project title: Data Feminism
Lisa Voigt, Ohio State University, Columbus
Project title: The Epistemology of the Copy in Early Modern Travel Narratives
Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon
Project title: To Speak of Common Places: A People’s History of Oregon’s Public Lands