(Posted 5-20-99)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UNCG HISTORIAN NAMED FELLOW
AT NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER
Dr. Jodi Bilinkoff
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GREENSBORO -- Dr. Jodi E. Bilinkoff, an associate professor of
history at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is among 41
national and international scholars who have been appointed Fellows by
the National Humanities Center for the 1999-2000 academic year.
She also has been selected to receive an American Postdoctoral
Research Leave Fellowship from the American Association of University
Women.
Bilinkoff was selected as an NHC Fellow from more than 500
applicants. Next year's 41 fellows come from 31 institutions in the
United States, Norway and the United Kingdom. Their study areas
include history, English and American literature, anthropology,
philosophy, political science, art history, classics, economics and
religion. They will work individually on research projects and will
exchange ideas in seminars, conferences and lectures.
Both awards will be applied to Bilinkoff's research project,
which is titled "Confession and the Construction of Identities: Toward
a Gendered Analysis of Catholic Culture, 1450-1750." She will be on
research leave for the 1999-2000 academic year and will use the grants
to work on a book at the National Humanities Center, which is located
in the Research Triangle Park.
The book will focus on the beliefs, practices and rhetorical
traditions surrounding the key Catholic ritual of confession and
penance. In the book, she plans to chart the varieties of
interpersonal relationships between confessors and penitents,
especially female penitents as expressed in spiritual biographies and
autobiographies of the period 1450-1750.
A UNCG faculty member since 1982, Bilinkoff's research focuses
on European history of the Renaissance and Reformation periods and
history of Spain from 1450-1700 A.D., with special interest in
religion and society in early modern Spain. She was director of the
Women's Studies Program at UNCG from 1990-92. In 1989, she was named a
fellow at Radcliffe College's Bunting Institute. She received her M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. Her book, "The Avila of
Saint Teresa," was published in 1989, and in Spanish in 1993.
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