by Christopher Cumo

2003 was quite a year. Part-time, adjunct and temporary faculty used their research as bait to reel in the big fish, and landed some of the country’s most prestigious fellowships. The diversity of interests and achievements of 2003’s award winners defies easy summation. One winner is a physicist whose research takes her to within a few millionths of a degree above the theoretical minimum temperature, and to the ultimate stuff of reality. Another is a filmmaker who explores the connection between computers and human consciousness. A third studies witchcraft as an attempt to rethink Christianity in the Late Middle Ages. What unites these three and the other award winners profiled this issue is an existence off the tenure-track, and a passion for research that redefines the way we think about matter and energy, our own consciousness, and the past. This is research that pushes forward the frontier of knowledge as it brushes aside the old stereotypes about contingent faculty. The scholars and artists profiled in this issue prove that talent and tenure are not synonymous.

Howard Pflanzer – Fulbright Fellow

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