Quadrant Project External Fellows, 2009-2010
Klaus Høyer will be in residence in spring semester with the Health and Society Quadrant, working on the project "Ex-changing the Human Body." The existing literature on human tissue exchanges tends to focus on commodification of the "body" through "market" exchange as if everybody agreed on the meaning of these words. Prof. Høyer emphasizes the moral agency involved in setting up such exchanges, and points to new and hitherto unexplored aspects of tissue exchanges, in particular in relation to the ways in which money changes hands and tissue interacts with new understandings of the body. Prof. Høyer is in the department of Health Services Research at the University of Copenhagen.
Matt Huber is in residence fall semester with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant, working on the project "Energizing Neoliberalism: Oil and the Cultural Politics of Price." Building off his doctoral work that covered the period from 1930 to 1972, he examines the oil price "shocks" of the 1970s and the shifting cultural politics of oil prices over the last three decades. Specifically, he is interested in understanding the relationship between neoliberalization and the increasing role of financial markets in oil price formation. Dr. Huber received his PhD in Geography from Clark University in 2009.
Reecia Orzeck will be in residence in spring semester with the Global Cultures Quadrant. In her project, “On International Law: A Political-Economic Critique,” Professor Orzeck argues that, while the United States left has spent much of the last eight years defending the institutions and principles associated with public international law, its use and defense of that law must be accompanied by an investigation of it. This project critically reconstructs international law in order to uncover, first, the nature of international law’s relationship to imperialism, and second, the means by which this relationship remains mystified. Professor Orzeck is in the Department of Geography at the University of Vermont.
Kelly Quinn will be in residence in spring semester with the Design, Architecture, and Culture Quadrant, , working on “Hilyard R. Robinson: Modern Architecture and Professional Place-making.” This project is a biography of an African-American architect whose work includes a modern housing program built by and for African Americans in the District of Columbia during the early part of the 20th century. Prof. Quinn is in the American studies department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Lisa Uddin is in residence fall semester with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant, working on the project "Breeding Grounds: Race and Renewal in American Zoos." Her project examines the turn to environmentalist animal displays in American zoos of the 1960s and 70s as channels for the revitalization of white public culture in U.S. urban regions. In these decades, amidst maturing discourse of urban decay that pathologized a black underclass, middle-class Americans of myriad ethnic backgrounds made use of imagined and built environments to help fashion themselves as racially white. Prof. Uddin received her PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester.