Page Fortna ’90 and Joseph Entin ’91 are both members of the first group of visiting scholars at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., in a program designed to support research conducted by young scholars of promise. Fortna, an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University, is studying the effectiveness of international peacekeeping in civil wars. Entin, a postdoctoral scholar at Yale University, is researching “Sensational Modernism: Disfigured Bodies and Aesthetic Astonishment in American Literature,” which examines interpretations of the lives of immigrants, African Americans, and working-class communities in America.
