A prestigious group of visiting international fellows, Cornell faculty members and graduate students are spending the year researching, teaching seminars on and discussing the common theme of "Global Aesthetics," as the Society for the Humanities at Cornell's residential fellows for 2010-11.

Under the theme, the fellows are working at the A.D. White House and reflect on what constitutes an "aesthetic" approach to culture, politics, community and being. They are pursuing a wide range of interdisciplinary projects, including photography in contemporary West Africa, experimental music in Indonesia, political and constitutional economies, archaeology, and poetry from China to Latin America.

The fellows were announced by Timothy Murray, director of the society, and professor of comparative literature and English.

The visiting fellows for 2010-11 are: Jennifer Bajorek, cultural studies, and Kay Dickinson, media and communications, both of Goldsmiths College, University of London; Joshua Clover, English, University of California-Davis; Tracey Heatherington, anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Yunte Huang, English, University of California-Santa Barbara; Andrew McGraw, music, University of Richmond; James McHugh, religion, University of Southern California; and Adam T. Smith, anthropology, University of Chicago.

Mellon graduate fellows at the society are Lawrence Chua, in the field of history of architecture and urbanism; and Gavin Walker, in the field of Asian studies.

Faculty fellows for 2010-11 are Elizabeth Anker, English; Bruno Bosteels, Romance studies; Lawrence McCrea, Asian studies; and Jolene Rickard, history of art.

All fellows participate in the society's Wednesday Fellows Seminar in the A. D. White House, and each fellow offers one interdisciplinary seminar on their research to advanced undergraduates and graduate students.