Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat has been awarded a visiting research fellowship for the fall 2004 semester at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. Kodat will continue work on her book, "Don't Act": The Cold War Politics of Art, an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between federal arts policies and cultural production in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s.
According to its Web site, The Rothermere American Institute, which was opened on in May 2001 by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, is an international center of excellence dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the United States. Bringing together scholars, intellectuals, policy-makers and public figures from around the world, the Rothermere American Institute will promote a greater public and academic understanding of the history, culture and politics of the United States. The newly built institute also hosts the finest library of Americana to be found outside the U.S.A.
