During the academic years 1988/89 and 1989/90, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies focused on the problem of power and responses to power.
Topics Included:
- Mercy and power
- Wealth and political power
- Sovereignity and legitimacy
- Literature and power
- Prophecy, authority, and protest
- Violence and force
- Race relations
- Deference
- Religious power
- State formation
- Memory and popular culture
- Deterrance and nuclear war
- The family
- Publicity
- Criticism of power
- Women
- The masses
- Limits on power
Davis Center Fellows
1988-1989
- Susan Amussen, Connecticut College
- Donna Merwick, University of Melbourne
- Rudrangshu Mukherjee, University of Calcutta
- Angelo Torre, University of Turin
1989-1990
- Eric Davis, Rutgers University
- Anthony C. Howe, London School of Economics
- Jackson Lears, Rutgers University
- Christian Jouhaud, Ecole des Hautes de Etudes en Sciences Sociales
- Thomas P. Slaughter, Rutgers University
- Margaret R. Somers, University of Michigan