Summer Research and Scholarship Awards for Shimer Professors

Aron Dunlap, Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, will be spending six weeks this summer in Oxford, England as a Scholar in Residence through the Association for Core Texts and Courses and the Oxford Study Abroad Program. Aron will be conducting research on love and W.H. Auden, completing resarch on a lecture/performance project of setting music to Auden's lyrics and preparing to teach a course at Shimer entitled W.H. Auden: Music, Poetry, and Love.

Adam Kotsko, Assistant Professor of Humanities, will be participating in a summer DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Faculty Seminar lead by Professor Eric Santner entitled "Economics of Desire: Political Economy and Libidinal Economy in German Culture and Thought."

Beverly Thurber, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Natural Sciences, has been selected to participate this summer in a seminar on the Iliad lead by Professors Gregory Nagy and Kenneth Scott Morrell hosted by the Council for Independent Colleges.


We wish Aron, Adam, and Bev a productive summer!