NEH FELLOWSHIP AWARDS, 2010–2011
Division of Research Programs Awarded: November 2009
Ameriks, Karl
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN Philosophy Kant’s Elliptical Path: On the Stages, Limits, and Aftermath of His Philosophy
Anderson, Virginia
University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, CO American History The Martyr and the Traitor: Choosing Sides in the American Revolution
Baker, Cynthia
Bates College Lewiston, ME Jewish Studies “Jew”: A Multidimensional Study of a Key Identity Term
Ballinger, Pamela
Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME Anthropology Forgotten Refugees: Decolonization, Displaced Persons, and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945−1960
Barletta, Barbara
University of Florida Gainesville, FL Classics The Temple of Athena at Sounion and Early Classical Ionic Architecture
Beizer, Janet
Harvard University Cambridge, MA French Literature Alexandra David–Neel and the Culture of Fugue in France (1870−1940)
Benamou, Catherine
University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA Film History and Criticism The Electronic Embrace: Transnational Television and Its Latina/o Diasporic Audiences
Bogel, Cynthea Jean
University of Washington Seattle, WA Art History and Criticism A History of Japanese Woodblock Prints (Ukiyo–e)
Brandt, Deborah
University of Wisconsin, Madison Madison, WI Composition and Rhetoric Writing Now: New Directions in Mass Literacy
Brennan, James
University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA Latin American History Days of Destruction: Political Violence and Its Legacies in Argentina’s “Dirty War”
Browers, Michaelle
Wake Forest University Winston Salem, NC Political Science Arab Shi’i Political Thought since 1958: A Generation’s Politicization
Brown, Pamela
University of Connecticut, Stamford Stamford, CT British Literature Extravagant Stranger: The Foreign Actress and Shakespearean Drama
Burke, Patrick
Washington University St. Louis, MO Music History and Criticism What’s My Name?: Rock, Race, and Revolution in the 1960s
Campbell, John
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA Humanities Causation in Psychology
Candelaria, Lorenzo
University of Texas, Austin Austin, TX Music History and Criticism Music in Mexican Catholicism
Carawan, Edwin
Missouri State University, Springfield Springfield, MO Classical History The Athenian Amnesty of 403 BC and the Reforms of the Restored Democracy
Carnevale, Nancy
Montclair State University Upper Montclair, NJ American History African Americans and Italian Americans in Suburban and Urban New Jersey, 1900−1960s
Challu, Amilcar
Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH Latin American History The Political Economy of Hunger in Bourbon Mexico
Charrad, Mounira
University of Texas, Austin Austin, TX Sociology Modernity within Islam: The Politics of Progressive Family Law Reform
Chittick, William
SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook, Melville Library Stony Brook, NY History of Religion Divine and Human Love in the Islamic Tradition
Civantos, Christina
University of Miami Coral Gables, FL Comparative Literature “The Gathering Place of Secrets”: The Critical Introduction and Translation of a Lebanese Novel
Clayman, Dee
CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center New York, NY Classical Languages A Biography of Queen Berenike II
Coldiron, Anne
Florida State University Tallahassee, FL British Literature Printers Without Borders: Translation, Transnationalism, and Early English Print Culture
Cummings, Kathleen
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN Humanities Citizen Saints: Catholics and Canonization in American Culture
Davidson, Ronald
Fairfield University Fairfield, CT Asian Studies Imperial Buddhas, Tantric Origins: The Emperor Arising from the Buddha’s Turban
DeGrazia, David
George Washington University Washington, DC Ethics A Philosophical Consideration of Genetics, Reproduction, and Quality of Life
DeRoo, Rebecca
Washington University St. Louis, MO Art History and Criticism Agnes Varda, Feminism, and The New Wave
Erzen, Tanya
Ohio State University, Main Campus Columbus, OH American Studies Faith Based Prisons and the Politics of Transformation
Faletra, Michael
Reed College Portland, OR Medieval Studies The Itinerarium Kambrie of Gerald of Wales: An Edition of the First Version
Frank, Barbara
SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook, Melville Library Stony Brook, NY Art History and Criticism Marks of Identity: Reconstructing the History of an African Ceramic Tradition
Franko, Mark
University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA Dance History and Criticism From Antifascism to Myth in the Work of Martha Graham (1938−1953)
Gerassi Navarro, Nina
Tufts University Medford, MA Latin American Literature Science, Politics, and Aesthetics: Privileged Discourses in the Americas, 1840−1880
Gerhard, Jane
Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA American History Straight to the Heart: Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970−2003
Gilmore, Glenda
Yale University New Haven, CT American History The Homeland of His Imagination: Romare Bearden’s Southern Odyssey
Golden, Janet
Rutgers University, Camden Camden, NJ American History Infants and Infancy in 20th–Century America
Gordon, Carol
Fairfield University Fairfield, CT Philosophy “A Peaceful, Silent, Deadly Remedy”: The Ethics of Economic Sanctions
Graybill, Andrew
University of Nebraska, Lincoln Lincoln, NE American History A Mixture of So Many Bloods: A Family Saga of the American West
Gregor, Thomas
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN Anthropology Mehinaku Art: Social Change and the Evolution of an Aesthetic Tradition
Hager, Christopher
Trinity College, Hartford Hartford, CT American Literature A Colored Man’s Constitution: Emancipation and the Act of Writing
Harrison, Anna
Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA History of Religion “Thousands and Thousands of Lovers”: Sense of Community Among the Nuns of Helfta
Holguin, Sandie
University of Oklahoma, Norman Norman, OK Humanities The Soul of Spain?: Flamenco and the Construction of National Identity, 1800−1975
Horrigan, Brian
Minnesota Historical Society St. Paul, MN American History Lindbergh and 20th–Century American Culture
Hu, Ying
University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA Asian Literature The Martyr and Her Sworn Sisters: Poetry, Death, and Mourning in Early 20th–Century China
Inikori, Joseph
University of Rochester Rochester, NY African History Transatlantic Slaving and Socioeconomic Development in the Atlantic World: Western Africa, 1450−1900
Izenberg, Oren
University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL Literature Lyric Poetry and the Philosophy of Mind
Jain, Sarah
Stanford University Stanford, CA Anthropology Cancer Cultures in the United States
Jauregui, Carlos
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN Latin American Languages Going Native and Becoming Other in Latin American Literature and Film
Judson, Pieter
Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA European History Everyday Empire: A New History of Habsburg Central Europe, 1780−1948
Kilcup, Karen
University of North Carolina, Greensboro Greensboro, NC American Literature “Fallen Forests”: Redeeming Nature in American Women’s Writing
Kim, Marie
St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN History Law and Custom in Korea
Kinra, Rajeev
Northwestern University Evanston, IL South Asian History Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo–Persian State Secretary
Koslicki, Kathrin
University of Colorado Museum Boulder, CO Metaphysics Dependence, Constituency, and Explanation
Kousser, Rachel
CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY Art History and Criticism Ancient Iconoclasm: Destroying the Power of Images in Greece, 480−31 BC
Krupat, Arnold
Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, NY American Literature “That the People Might Live”: A Theory of Native American Elegiac Expression
Landau, Ellen
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Art History and Criticism Mexico and American Modernism
Landers, Jane
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN History African Kingdoms, Black Republics, and Free Black Towns in Colonial Spanish America
Locke, Nancy
Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA Art History and Criticism Cezanne’s Shadows
Lounsbery, Anne
New York University New York, NY Russian Literature Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Novel
Lyandres, Semion
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN Russian History The Fall of Tsarism: Untold Stories of the February 1917 Revolution: Translation and Annotations
Magliari, Michael
California State University Chico Research Foundation Chico, CA American History Indian Servitude in California, 1850−1867
Mantello, Frank
Catholic University of America Washington, DC Medieval Studies The Sermons of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (1235−1253)
Mazzarella, Williams
University of Chicago Chicago, IL Anthropology The Censor’s Fist: Affect Management in Indian Film Censorship
McKinley, Michelle
University of Oregon, Eugene Eugene, OR Law and Jurisprudence Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593−1700
McReynolds, Louise
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Russian History Murder Most Russian: True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia
McWilliams, John
Middlebury College Middlebury, VT Comparative Literature Revolution and the Historical Novel
Mendelsohn, Richard
Lehman College Library Bronx, NY Philosophy of Language Propositions, Scope, and Reference
Meyers, Peter
Princeton University Princeton, NJ Political Science Why Do They Hate the Jews?: A Lost Political Treatise from the Struggle against Hitler
Michaels, Paula
University of Iowa Iowa City, IA History Lamaze: An International History
Miller, Maureen
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA European History Clerical Clothing and Priestly Authority in Medieval Rome, 800−1200
Miller, Ian
Harvard University Cambridge, MA Far Eastern History Animals and Empire: The Tokyo Imperial Zoological Gardens and the Making of Modern Japan
Miller, Kimberly
Wheaton College Norton, MA Art History and Criticism Selective Silencing and the Shaping of Memory in Post–Apartheid South African Visual Culture
Murphy, Andrew
Rutgers University, New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Political Science Liberty, Toleration, and Law: The Political Thought of William Penn
Muther, Elizabeth
Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME American Literature Resistance by Design: African American Insurgency in Word and Image
Nazarea, Virginia
University of Georgia Athens, GA Anthropology Milieu of Memory: Reclaiming a Legacy in the Andes
Noll, Mark
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN Philosophy The Bible in American Public Life
Parker, Charles
St. Louis University Saint Louis, MO European History The Wonders of the Wider World: Dutch Calvinism Overseas and European Protestantism, 1600−1800
Pasler, Jann
University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA Music History and Criticism Music, Race, and Colonialism in France, 1880−1920
Patch, Robert
University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA Latin American History The Making of a Colonial Ruling Class: The Hispanic Elite in Merida, Yucatan, 1700−1730
Pollack, Howard
University of Houston Houston, TX Music History and Criticism Marc Blitzstein and His World
Printy, Michael
Independent Scholar Middletown, CT History Enlightenment’s Reformation: The Protestant Idea of Freedom in Germany, 1700−1830
Qiu, Peipei
Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY Asian Literature A Study and Translation of Zhuangzi Juanzhai kouyi (Juanzhai’s Vernacular Explanations of the Zhuangzi)
Rappaport, Erika
University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA British History Tea Parties: Britishness, Imperial Legacies, and Global Consumer Cultures
Ray, Meredith
University of Delaware Newark, DE Italian Language Prescriptions for Women: Alchemy, Medicine, and the Renaissance Debate Over Women
Rudy, Jason
University of Maryland, College Park College Park, MD British Literature British Poetry and National Identity en route, 1824−1868
Sachs, Harvey
Independent Scholar New York, NY Music History and Criticism Toscanini: A Biography
Sahlins, Peter
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA European History Animal Wrongs: Animals and the Law in France Since the Later Middle Ages
Salyer, Lucy
University of New Hampshire, Durham Durham, NH American History Crossing Borders: The Fenians and the Crisis over Citizenship
Sartori, Andrew
New York University New York, NY South Asian History Political Economy and Social Science in Colonial Bengal
Schaeffer, John
Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL Philosophy Vico on Natural Law: Sensus Communis, Rhetoric, and Religion
Sedrez, Lise
Califovrnia State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA Latin American History National Waters, Public Space: State and Environment in Guanabara Bay, Brazil, 1904−2004
Sheriff, Mary
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Art History and Criticism Enchanted Islands: Picturing the Allure of Conquest in 18th–Century France
Smith, Jessica
University of Colorado Museum Boulder, CO Anthropology Reworking Gender: Labor and Relatedness in the American West
Spruill, Marjorie
University of South Carolina, Columbia Columbia, SC American History Women's Rights, Family Values, and the Transformation of American Political Culture in the 1970s
Troyan, Brett
SUNY Research Foundation, College at Cortland Cortland, NY Latin American History Legitimizing Ethnic Politics: A Historical Ethnography of the Colombian State in Cauca, Colombia from 1910−1991
Tucker, Sherrie
University of Kansas, Lawrence Lawrence, KS American Studies Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen
Vees Gulani, Susanne
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Comparative Literature The Myth of Dresden: Origins and Manifestations of the German Victim Discourse
Vevaina, Yuhan
University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA Near Eastern Languages Denkard Book 9. The Sudgar Nask. Text, Translation, and Commentary
von Glahn, Richard
University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Far Eastern History Economic History of China from Antiquity to the 19th Century
Wald, Alan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI American Studies American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War
Wang, Lingzhen
Brown University Providence, RI Asian Studies Women Directing Films: History, Cinematic Authorship, and Feminisms in Modern China
Watkins, Elizabeth
University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine A Medical and Cultural History of Male Aging
Wedemeyer, Christian
University of Chicago Chicago, IL Nonwestern Religion Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: Rhetoric and Reality in the History and Interpretation of the Indian Esoteric
Weigert, Laura
Rutgers University, New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Art History and Criticism Images in Action: The Theatricality of Franco–Flemish Art in the Late Middle Ages
Weisenfeld, Judith
Princeton University Princeton, NJ Religion Black Prophets, Gods, and Utopian Visions: Religion and Racial Identity in the Great Migration
Weiss, Roslyn
Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA History of Philosophy Philosophers by Nature, Philosophers by Design: Two Paradigms in Plato’s Republic
Whelan, Timothy
Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA British Literature Nonconformist British Women Writers, 1720−1840
White, Sophie
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN American Studies Trading Looks: Dress, Culture, and Racialization in French Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley, 1673−1769
Willette, Thomas
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Art History and Criticism The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: Art, Freemasonry, and Clandestine Publishing in the 18th Century
Wong, Edlie
Rutgers University, New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ American Literature From Emancipation to Exclusion: Contract, Citizens, and Coolies
Wright, Jacob
Emory University Atlanta, GA Near Eastern History War, Society, and Memory in Ancient Israel |