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FACULTY RESEARCH AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES January 2004
ARIZONA Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Tempe Julie Codell, Arizona State University RESEARCH TOPIC: Material and Utopian Visual Cultures in Delhi Durbars
Tucson B. Barickman, University of Arizona RESEARCH TOPIC: A Social History of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro, 1850s-1960s
CALIFORNIA Faculty Research Awards A full-term NEH faculty research award (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. An awardee may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Santa Ana Susan Needham, California State University, Dominguez Hills RESEARCH TOPIC: A History of the Cambodians in Long Beach, California
Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Burbank William L. Fox, Independent Scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: An Examination of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s Haughton-Mars Project
Claremont Kenneth Wolf, Pomona College RESEARCH TOPIC: Medieval Poverty Saints and the Poor
Davis Seth Schein, University of California, Davis RESEARCH TOPIC: An Edition with Commentary of Sophocles's "Philoctetes"
Suzanne M. Wash, Independent scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: A Corpus of Oral Literature and History Told in Northern Sierra Miwok, a California Indian Language
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CALIFORNIA (cont.) Fellowships (cont.)
La Mirada Aaron Kleist, Biola University RESEARCH TOPIC: A Word for All Seasons: Pastoral Letters and Homilies of Aelfric
Los Angeles Andrea Frisch, University of Southern California RESEARCH TOPIC: Classical Amnesia: Forgetting Differences in Early Modern France
Roman Koropeckj, University of California, Los Angeles RESEARCH TOPIC: A Biography of Polish Poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
Amy Lyford, Occidental College RESEARCH TOPIC: Isamu Noguchi, Modernism, and Politics of Race and Identity in the U.S., 1930-1950
Kenneth Reinhard, University of California, Los Angeles RESEARCH TOPIC: The Ethics of the Neighbor
Sacramento Arthur Williamson, California State University, Sacramento RESEARCH TOPIC: The "Nation Epidemicall”: Scotland and the Rise of Anglo-America
San Diego Joanne Ferraro, San Diego State University RESEARCH TOPIC: Daily Life in Venice: A History of Material Culture
COLORADO Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Boulder Gabriela Carone, University of Colorado, Boulder RESEARCH TOPIC: Creating Happiness: Luck, Pleasure, and the Excellent Life in Plato's Laws
Julie Greene, University of Colorado, Boulder RESEARCH TOPIC: Constructing an Empire: The U.S. and the Building of the Panama Canal, 1904-1914
Elizabeth Robertson, University of Colorado, Boulder RESEARCH TOPIC: Chaucerian Consent: Women, Religion, and Subjection in Late Medieval England
Denver Ari Kelman, University of Denver RESEARCH TOPIC: A Misplaced Massacre: History, Memory, and the Making of the West at Sand Creek
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CONNECTICUT Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Middletown Anthony Gerbino, Wesleyan University RESEARCH TOPIC: Architecture, Erudition, and Early Modern Science: Studies in the Life and Career of Francois Blondel
Storrs Joel Kupperman, University of Connecticut RESEARCH TOPIC: Values in Ethics
DELAWARE Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Newark Richard Wittman, University of Delaware RESEARCH TOPIC: Monument, Memory, and Public Debate: The Reconstruction of S. Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Faculty Research Awards A full-term NEH faculty research award (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. An awardee may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Washington Paul Fallon, Howard University RESEARCH TOPIC: Bilin Oral Narratives
Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Washington Roger Chickering, Georgetown University RESEARCH TOPIC: Total War in a Lovely Place: A Cultural History of Freiburg i. Br., 1914-1918
David DeGrazia, George Washington University RESEARCH TOPIC: Human Identity and Bioethics
Meredith McKittrick, Georgetown University RESEARCH TOPIC: Currents of Power: A History of Three Southern African River Basins
Christel M. Schmidt, Independent scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: The Search for a Film Legacy: Mary Pickford, 1909-1933
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FLORIDA Faculty Research Awards A full-term NEH faculty research award (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. An awardee may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Miami Lisandro Perez, Florida International University PROJECT TITLE: Cuban New Yorkers: Exiles, Revolutionaries, Immigrants, and National Identity, 1823-1958
Akinwumi Ogundiran, Florida International University PROJECT TITLE: The Impacts of the Atlantic Economy on Cultural Change in Yoruba (Nigeria) Hinterlands
Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Miami Nancy Rao, Florida International University RESEARCH TOPIC: Aesthetics of Cultural Synthesis: Contemporary Chinese Music
Palmetto Gabrielle Vail, Independent scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: Analysis and Commentary of Ritual Texts in the Maya Madrid Codex
Tallahassee Edward Gray, Florida State University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Life and Times of John Ledyard, the American Traveler Who Crossed Oceans and Empires
GEORGIA Faculty Research Awards A full-term NEH faculty research award (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. An awardee may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Atlanta Stephen Knadler, Spelman College PROJECT TITLE: Transatlantic Fugitives and the Imagining of a Cosmopolitan Race Man
Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Atlanta Barbara Montero, Georgia State University RESEARCH TOPIC: Proprioceptive Aesthetics: Extending the Realm of Aesthetic Experiences
Christopher Wellman, Georgia State University RESEARCH TOPIC: Samaritanism and Political Obligation
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IDAHO Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Pocatello John Owens, Idaho State University RESEARCH TOPIC: Clandestine Political Economies and the Exercise of Public Authority in Philip II's Spain
ILLINOIS Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Chicago James Dee, University of Illinois, Chicago RESEARCH TOPIC: The Epithetic Phrases in Homer: A Study of Descriptive Expression in the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”
Cornell Fleischer, University of Chicago RESEARCH TOPIC: A Muslim Life in Learning and Politics: 'Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami of Antioch (d. 1454)
Matthew J. Kelly, Independent Scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: A Critical Reconsideration of the Ponca Removal of 1877 and Its Consequences
Susan Rosa, Northeastern Illinois University RESEARCH TOPIC: Catholic Polemic and the Origins of Enlightenment Rationalism, 1586-1688
Yuri Tsivian, University of Chicago RESEARCH TOPIC: Early Soviet Americanism as Political Discourse and as Artistic Practice
Paul E. Walker, Independent scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: Imperial Rhetoric: The Public Voice of a Medieval Shiite Dynasty
Evanston Barbara Newman, Northwestern University RESEARCH TOPIC: Frauenlob's "Marienleich": A Goddess-Hymn from Medieval Germany
Lake Forest David George, Lake Forest College RESEARCH TOPIC: The Plays of Nelson Rodrigues in Sociohistorical Context
Urbana Mahir Saul, University of Illinois, Urbana RESEARCH TOPIC: Local Politics of Decolonization in West Africa
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INDIANA Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Bloomington Deborah Cohn, Indiana University, Bloomington RESEARCH TOPIC: The Promotion of Latin American Literature in and by the U.S., 1960-1979
Notre Dame Mary D'Angelo, University of Notre Dame RESEARCH TOPIC: Roman Imperial Family Values and Early Christian and Jewish Sexual Politics
West Lafayette Janet Afary, Purdue University RESEARCH TOPIC: From Mullah to Goya: The Art and Politics of Mullah Nasreddin, 1906-1917
IOWA Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Ames Peter Vranas, Iowa State University RESEARCH TOPIC: New Foundations for Command Logic
Iowa City David Cunning, University of Iowa RESEARCH TOPIC: The Metaphysician's Dilemma: Descartes on Navigating the Commitments of the Confused
Ellen Lewin, University of Iowa RESEARCH TOPIC: Family Values: Fatherhood in an American Community
Colin Gordon, University of Iowa RESEARCH TOPIC: Chasing Smokestacks: Local, State, and Regional Economic Development Policies in the U.S., 1930-2000
Roberta Marvin, University of Iowa RESEARCH TOPIC: Verdi's "Hymn of the Nations": A Critical Edition and History
KANSAS Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Lawrence Elaine Gerbert, University of Kansas, Lawrence RESEARCH TOPIC: The Transformation of Vision: A Study of the Thematization of Vision in Modern Japanese Literature
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KENTUCKY Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Bowling Green Deborah Logan, Western Kentucky University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau
Lexington Beth Glixon, University of Kentucky RESEARCH TOPIC: Venetian Opera Theaters of the 17th Century: A Documentary Study
Jonathan Glixon, University of Kentucky RESEARCH TOPIC: Music at the Nunneries of Venice
LOUISIANA Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000
New Orleans Ida Altman, University of New Orleans RESEARCH TOPIC: Colonization and Conflict in Early Spanish America
Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University RESEARCH TOPIC: Mixed Blessings: Islam, Gender, and Revival in a Nigerian Town
Gayle Murchison, Tulane University RESEARCH TOPIC: William Grant Still in New York
MAINE Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Lewiston Loring Danforth, Bates College RESEARCH TOPIC: Homelands, Real and Imaginary: Refugee Children from the Greek Civil War
Waterville Laura Saltz, Colby College RESEARCH TOPIC: Overexposures: Literature and Photographic Meaning in 19th-Century America
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MARYLAND Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Baltimore Thomas Field, University of Maryland, Baltimore County RESEARCH TOPIC: Linguistic Corpus of Medieval Gascon
College Park Grant Alger, University of Maryland, College Park RESEARCH TOPIC: Paper Boats and Iron Men: Work, Environment, and the State of China
Renee Ater, University of Maryland, College Park RESEARCH TOPIC: Meta Warrick Fuller: Public Sculpture and Private Vision
Anthony Colantuono, University of Maryland, College Park RESEARCH TOPIC: The Culture of Prudence: Advice, Control, and Artistic Creativity in Early Modern Italy
Jane Donawerth, University of Maryland, College Park RESEARCH TOPIC: Rhetorical Theory by Women before 1900
John Horty, University of Maryland, College Park RESEARCH TOPIC: Reasoning with Normative Generalizations
MASSACHUSETTS Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Amherst Brian Ogilvie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst RESEARCH TOPIC: Ezechiel Spanheim and the Learned Culture of 17th-Century Europe
Boston Julie Winch, University of Massachusetts, Boston RESEARCH TOPIC: The Heirs of Jacques Clamorgan, 1780-1930: An American Family's Encounter with Race
Cambridge Catherine Elgin, Harvard University RESEARCH TOPIC: Cognitively Useful Fictions
Despina Kakoudaki, Harvard University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Human Machine: A Cultural History
Mary Lewis, Harvard University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Company of Strangers: Immigration and Citizenship in Interwar France
Daniel J. Sharfstein, Independent scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: The Color Line: A History of Race, the Law, and American Lives
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MASSACHUSETTS (cont.) Fellowships (cont.)
Chestnut Hill Christopher Kelly, Boston College RESEARCH TOPIC: Translation of Short Works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Susan Shell, Boston College RESEARCH TOPIC: Kant's "True Politics": Democratic Honor and the Liberal State
Medford Adriana Zavala, Tufts University RESEARCH TOPIC: Images of Women in 20th-Century Mexican Painting, Cinema, and Visual Culture
Northampton Scott Bradbury, Smith College RESEARCH TOPIC: The Social World of Libanius
Somerville Emily A. Thompson, Independent scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: Technicians and the Talkies: The Sound Revolution in the American Film Industry, 1926- 1933
Waltham Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Exchange Artist: A Story of Paper, Bricks, and Ash in Early National America
Wellesley Cecelia Levin, Wellesley College RESEARCH TOPIC: Art as Text: Sculptural Narrations of the Ramayana in Classical Java
Kathryn Lynch, Wellesley College RESEARCH TOPIC: Food and Drink in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
Louise Marlow, Wellesley College RESEARCH TOPIC: An Arabic Mirror for Princes: Study and Translation of the Counsel for Kings of Pseudo-Mawardi
Yoshihisa Matsusaka, Wellesley College RESEARCH TOPIC: Defense, Democracy, and Empire: The Politics of Armament in Japan, 1882-1937
Williamstown Robert Jackall, Williams College RESEARCH TOPIC: The Demonics of Terror and Bureaucracy
Worcester Steven Bullock, Worcester Polytechnic Institute RESEARCH TOPIC: The Politics of Politeness: Culture, Class, and Power in Provincial America, 1690-1776
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MICHIGAN Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Ann Arbor Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor RESEARCH TOPIC: The Right to Have Rights: Engaging the Law in Slavery and Freedom
Ann Arbor Alexandra Stern, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor RESEARCH TOPIC: The Origins and History of Genetic Counseling in the U.S.
Holland John Cox, Hope College RESEARCH TOPIC: Philosophical Shakespeare
Anne Larsen, Hope College RESEARCH TOPIC: Anna Maria van Schurman's Letters on Women's Education: A Critical and Annotated Bilingual Edition
Mount Pleasant Heidi Holder, Central Michigan University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Working-Class Theater of Victorian London
MINNESOTA Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Mankato Anna Arnar, Minnesota State University, Mankato RESEARCH TOPIC: Facets: The Book in the Work of Stephane Mallarme
Minneapolis Thomas Augst, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities RESEARCH TOPIC: The Sobriety Test: Temperance, Manhood, and the Melodramas of Citizenship
Northfield Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College RESEARCH TOPIC: Bodies of Saints: Religion and Society in the Late Medieval Islamic East, 1300-1500
Michael McNally, Carleton College RESEARCH TOPIC: Honoring Elders: Ojibwe Aging, Religion, and Authority
John Paas, Carleton College RESEARCH TOPIC: Collaboration between German Poets and Printmakers in the Production of Illustrated Works in the Baroque Period
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MISSOURI Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Columbia Timothy Materer, University of Missouri, Columbia RESEARCH TOPIC: Dual Lives: Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill
St. Louis Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri, St. Louis RESEARCH TOPIC: Avicenna's Physics: Recovering the Islamic Intellectual Tradition
MONTANA Faculty Research Awards A full-term NEH faculty research award (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. An awardee may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Box Elder Robert Murie, Stone Child College PROJECT TITLE: "Retrieval, Validation, and Protection of Historical Records of Rocky Boy's Chippewa Cree"
Matthew Herman, Stone Child College PROJECT TITLE: "Retrieval, Validation, and Protection of Historical Records of Rocky Boy's Chippewa Cree"
Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Bozeman Alanna Brown, Montana State University RESEARCH TOPIC: Mourning Dove: Her Life, Letters, and Translations of 37 Salish Narratives
NEW HAMPSHIRE Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Hanover John Watanabe, Dartmouth College RESEARCH TOPIC: Administering Race, Class, Community, and Nation in 19th-Century Western Guatemala
Julia Driver, Dartmouth College RESEARCH TOPIC: The Greatest Happiness Principle
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NEW JERSEY Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Camden Myra Bluebond-Langner, Rutgers University, Camden RESEARCH TOPIC: Decision Making for Children with Cancer When Cure Is Not Likely
New Brunswick James Johnson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick RESEARCH TOPIC: The Idea of Sovereignty: A Moral and Historical Analysis
Newark Laura Lomas, Rutgers University, Newark RESEARCH TOPIC: Inside Empire: Jose Marti and Cultural Translation in the Late 19th-Century U.S.
Upper Montclair Cynthia Eller, Montclair State University RESEARCH TOPIC: From Motherright to Gylany: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-2000
NEW MEXICO Faculty Research Awards A full-term NEH faculty research award (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. An awardee may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Las Cruces Margaret Malamud, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces RESEARCH TOPIC: The Uses and the Abuses of Roman Antiquity in American Culture
Andrea Orzoff, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces RESEARCH TOPIC: Battle for the Castle: Intellectuals and Propaganda in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1945
Beth Pollack, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces RESEARCH TOPIC: Life on Both Sides of the Border: Translation of Aurelia and Madreselvas en flor
Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Albuquerque Beth Bailey, University of New Mexico RESEARCH TOPIC: To Be All That You Can Be: Recruiting the All Volunteer Military
Las Cruces Marsha Weisiger, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces RESEARCH TOPIC: Sheep Dreams: Environment, Identity, and Gender in Navajo Country
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NEW YORK Faculty Research Awards A full-term NEH faculty research award (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. An awardee may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
New York City Sondra Leftoff, CUNY Research Foundation, John Jay College RESEARCH TOPIC: History of Navajo Peacemaking
Edward Paulino, CUNY Research Foundation, John Jay College RESEARCH TOPIC: Forgotten Crimes Against Humanity: The 1937 Haitian Massacre and Its Legacy
Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Annandale-on-Hudson Scott MacDonald, Bard College RESEARCH TOPIC: A Critical Cinema: Documenting Alternative Film Culture
Brooklyn Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, Independent scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: The Case of the Sash: A Search for Context in Okinawa
Clinton Thomas Wheatley, Hamilton College RESEARCH TOPIC: Leading the Blind: The Medieval Construction of a Disability
Fredonia Markus Vink, SUNY Research Foundation, College at Fredonia RESEARCH TOPIC: Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the 17th Century
Hamilton Barry Shain, Colgate University RESEARCH TOPIC: Revolutionary America's Declaration of Independence: The Nature of Rights at the Founding
Camilla Townsend, Colgate University RESEARCH TOPIC: Don Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza: An Intimate Portrait of an Indian Nobleman
Hastings-on-Hudson Nancy B. Reich, Independent scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: The Girlhood Diaries of Clara Wieck: Translation and Annotations
Hempstead Julia Markus, Hofstra University RESEARCH TOPIC: No Unworthy Son: A Biography of James Anthony Froude
Ithaca Karen Graubart, Cornell University RESEARCH TOPIC: From Moors to Mestizos: The Iberian Roots of Ethnicity in the New World
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NEW YORK (cont.) Fellowships (cont.)
Ithaca (cont.) Gail Fine, Cornell University RESEARCH TOPIC: Skepticism, Ancient and Modern
Richard Miller, Cornell University RESEARCH TOPIC: Patriotic Concern and Global Needs: A Relational Approach to International Economic Justice
Jamaica Gregory Maertz, St. John’s University, New York RESEARCH TOPIC: The Last Taboo: The Rehabilitation of Nazi Artists in Postwar Germany
New York City Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University RESEARCH TOPIC: Italian Fascist Prisoners of War and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard College RESEARCH TOPIC: "The Indian Craze": Modern Art and Indian Policy, 1890-1914
Michael Alan Morrison, Independent scholar RESEARCH TOPIC: Paul Robeson’s Othello, 1930-1959
Adriana Petryna, New School University RESEARCH TOPIC: Ethical Variability: An Anthropological Study of the Human Subjects Research Industry
Anupama Rao, Barnard College RESEARCH TOPIC: The Caste Question: Struggles for Civil Rights and Recognition by Untouchables in India, 1927-1991
Joanna Smith, Columbia University RESEARCH TOPIC: Artistic Exchange in the Mediterranean Bronze Age World
Poughkeepsie Bryan Van Norden, Vassar College RESEARCH TOPIC: A Translation of Zhu Xi's Commentary on the Mengzi
Rochester Gabriela Ilnitchi, University of Rochester RESEARCH TOPIC: Music Cosmology and Medieval Scholasticism: Musica Mundana in the 13th and 14th Centuries
Patrick Macey, Eastman School of Music RESEARCH TOPIC: The Sacred Music of Josquin des Prez: Courtly Patronage and Musical Strategies
Jennifer Brown, University of Rochester RESEARCH TOPIC: Recovering 17th-Century Venetian Opera
Stony Brook Sachiko Murata, SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook Main Campus RESEARCH TOPIC: An Analysis of Liu Chih's "T'ien-fang hsing-li"
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NORTH CAROLINA Faculty Research Awards A full-term NEH faculty research award (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. An awardee may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Durham Sabrina Thomas, North Carolina Central University RESEARCH TOPIC: Youth, Imagination, and Play During Segregation
Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Boone James Winders, Appalachian State University RESEARCH TOPIC: Paris Africain: Rhythms of the African Diaspora
Durham Kirsten Delegard, Duke University RESEARCH TOPIC: Women Patriots: The Rise of Conservatism and the Transformation of Women's Politics
Richard Jaffe, Duke University RESEARCH TOPIC: Seeking Sakyamuni: World Travel and the Reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism
William Reddy, Duke University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Rule of Love: The History of Western Romantic Love in Comparative Perspective
Alice Kaplan, Duke University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Interpreter: Louis Guilloux and the Story of Segregated Justice in Liberated France
Greensboro Michael Zimmerman, University of North Carolina, Greensboro RESEARCH TOPIC: The Morality of Risk
Russ McDonald, University of North Carolina, Greensboro RESEARCH TOPIC: Shakespearean Poetics and the Culture of Symmetry
Raleigh S. Thomas Parker, North Carolina State University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Economy of Aila: A Roman Port on the Red Sea
Wilmington Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina, Wilmington RESEARCH TOPIC: Hamlin Garland: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Lion
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OHIO Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Cincinnati C. Brian Rose, University of Cincinnati RESEARCH TOPIC: The Archaeology of Troy in the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Periods
Ann Twinam, University of Cincinnati RESEARCH TOPIC: Sexuality, Illegitimacy, and Family in the Hispanic World: 1476-1800
Kathryn Gutzwiller, University of Cincinnati RESEARCH TOPIC: The Poetics of Anthology: An Edition and Commentary for the Epigrams of Meleager
Columbus Thomas Postlewait, Ohio State University, Main Campus RESEARCH TOPIC: George Edwardes and the Transformation of London Theatre, 1878-1916
Granville John Cort, Denison University RESEARCH TOPIC: Idol Worshipers and Their Critics
OKLAHOMA Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Norman Vincent Leitch, University of Oklahoma RESEARCH TOPIC: After Theory: Criticism since the 1980s
OREGON Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Eugene Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon, Eugene RESEARCH TOPIC: Cultural Difference and Globalization: Mexican Indigenous Migrants in the United States and Mexico
Portland Rupert Stasch, Reed College RESEARCH TOPIC: Bonds with Others among Korowai of West Papau, Indonesia
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PENNSYLVANIA Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Lancaster Bennett Helm, Franklin and Marshall College RESEARCH TOPIC: Love, Friendship, and the Self: The Emotional and Interpersonal Grounds of Autonomy
Philadelphia Paul Garrett, Temple University RESEARCH TOPIC: Behind Every Mountain: Cultural and Ideological Dynamics of Language Shift in St. Lucia
Pittsburgh Anthony Barbieri-Low, University of Pittsburgh RESEARCH TOPIC: Artisans in Early Imperial China
Swarthmore Deborah Beck, Swarthmore College RESEARCH TOPIC: Speech Representation in the Homeric Epics
University Park Emily Grosholz, Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus RESEARCH TOPIC: Analysis, History, and Intelligibility: An Essay on the Philosophy of Mathematics
Janina Safran, Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus RESEARCH TOPIC: Defining Boundaries: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia
Villanova Colleen Sheehan, Villanova University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Republicanism of James Madison: The Authority of Public Opinion
RHODE ISLAND Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Kingston Mary Hollinshead, University of Rhode Island RESEARCH TOPIC: Transforming Tradition: Hellenistic Monumental Steps in Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy
Providence David Konstan, Brown University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks
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SOUTH CAROLINA Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Columbia Paul Miller, University of South Carolina, Columbia RESEARCH TOPIC: Spiritual Practices: The Reception of Platonic Philosophy in Postmodern France
Greenville Christopher Douglas, Furman University RESEARCH TOPIC: Writing Americans: Realism, Ethnicity, Nationality
TENNESSEE Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Nashville Cathy Jrade, Vanderbilt University RESEARCH TOPIC: Delmira Agustini: A Modernista on Her Own Terms
Sewanee Nicole Barenbaum, University of the South RESEARCH TOPIC: Diversifying the Discipline: Jews in American Psychology, 1900-1940
TEXAS Faculty Research Awards A full-term NEH faculty research award (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. An awardee may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Brownsville Eduardo del Rio, University of Texas, Brownsville RESEARCH TOPIC: Beyond the Hypen: Interviews with Cuban-American Writers
San Antonio Daniel Engster, University of Texas, San Antonio RESEARCH TOPIC: A Caring Theory of Justice
Anne Hardgrove, University of Texas, San Antonio RESEARCH TOPIC: A History of the Burton Translation
Wing Ng, University of Texas, San Antonio RESEARCH TOPIC: Local Theater, Transnational Arena: A New Social History of Cantonese Opera, 1860-1945
Deborah Schwartz-Kates, University of Texas, San Antonio RESEARCH TOPIC: The Film Music of Alberto Ginastera
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TEXAS (cont.) Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Austin Seth Garfield, University of Texas, Austin RESEARCH TOPIC: Soldiers and Citizens in the Rainforest: Brazilian Rubber Tappers during World War II and Beyond
Thomas Hubbard, University of Texas, Austin RESEARCH TOPIC: Epinician Poetry and the Politics of Athletic Competition in Greece after the Persian Wars
Susan Napier, University of Texas, Austin RESEARCH TOPIC: From "Japonisants" to "Otaku": The Anime Subculture in Global and Historical Perspective
Dallas Giles Knox, Southern Methodist University RESEARCH TOPIC: Saints and the City: Civic Identity in Early Modern Italy
Galveston Ellen More, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston RESEARCH TOPIC: Sexuality, Medicine, and American Society: Dr. Mary Calderone and the Politics of Sex Education
Houston Howard Pollack, University of Houston RESEARCH TOPIC: Gershwin: A Critical Biography
Lubbock Robert Rupert, Texas Tech University RESEARCH TOPIC: Extended Systems, Extended Minds
Waco Elizabeth Willingham, Baylor University RESEARCH TOPIC: Edition of the Saint Graal from Yale 229
VERMONT Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Middlebury David Eaton, Middlebury College RESEARCH TOPIC: Coming of Age in Congo: Affliction, Narrative, and Social History
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VIRGINIA Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Charlottesville Anne Kinney, University of Virginia RESEARCH TOPIC: The Traditions of Exemplary Women (Lienu zhuan): A New Translation
Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia RESEARCH TOPIC: Truth and Existence
Anne Schutte, University of Virginia RESEARCH TOPIC: Hearth and Cloister: Families and Forced Monachization in Early Modern Europe
Fredericksburg Weijing Lu, Mary Washington College RESEARCH TOPIC: Meanings of Marriage in China, 1650-1850
Richmond Julie Hayes, University of Richmond RESEARCH TOPIC: Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800
Melvin Urofsky, Virginia Commonwealth University RESEARCH TOPIC: Biography of Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Sweet Briar Judith Evans-Grubbs, Sweet Briar College RESEARCH TOPIC: Duty and Power: A Study of Parent-Child Relationships in the Roman Empire
WASHINGTON Faculty Research Awards A full-term NEH faculty research award (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. An awardee may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Toppenish Virginia Beavert, Heritage College RESEARCH TOPIC: Yakima Sahaptin Lexicography
Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Bellingham Alan Gallay, Western Washington University RESEARCH TOPIC: Raleigh and the Origins of English Colonialism
Pullman Nicolas Kiessling, Washington State University RESEARCH TOPIC: The Autobiography of Anthony Wood
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WASHINGTON (cont.) Fellowships (cont.)
Seattle Claudia Jensen, University of Washington RESEARCH TOPIC: Music for the Tsar: Music at the Muscovite Court in the 17th Century
Raymond Jonas, University of Washington RESEARCH TOPIC: Adwa: Africa and Europe in the Age of Empire
Sarah Stein, University of Washington RESEARCH TOPIC: Colonialism's Forgotten Cultures: European Jews in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1870-1930
WISCONSIN Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Green Bay Gregory Aldrete, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay RESEARCH TOPIC: Floods in Ancient Rome
Madison Henry Turner, University of Wisconsin, Madison RESEARCH TOPIC: Plotting Early Modernity: Practical Knowledge and English Dramatic Form, 1576-1640
Milwaukee Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee RESEARCH TOPIC: Elephants in the Western Imagination: A Modern History
NON - U.S.A. Fellowships A full-term NEH fellowship (9-12 months) carries a stipend of $40,000. A fellow may opt for a shorter term (6-8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto RESEARCH TOPIC: Pangs of Compassion
York, United Kingdom Michael Phillips, University of York RESEARCH TOPIC: Blake and the Terror: A Biography of William Blake during the Anti-Jacobin Terror in Britain, 1792-1793
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