National Endowment for the Humanities
SUMMER STIPENDS AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
Announced: March 2009
Ahmed, Asad Q.
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Charting the History of Rationalism in the Islamic Scholarly Tradition: The School of Khayrabad in South Asia
 
Beckwith, Karen
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
“Mobilization After Loss? Social Movements and the Effects of Losing”
 
Benton Cohen, Katherine A.
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
The Last Immigration Crisis: A History of the Dillingham Commission of 1907 - 1911
 
Black, Monica Ann
Furman University
Greenville, SC
Folktales: The Life of Alfred Karasek, Folklorist, and Germany's 20th Century
 
Bouchard, Constance Brittain
University of Akron, Main Campus
Akron, OH
Thirteenth Century Cartularies from Auxerre
 
Breen, Michael P
Reed College
Portland, OR
Courts and Communities: Local Justice, Culture, and Society in Early Modern France
 
Bruening, Michael Wilson
University of Missouri, Rolla
Rolla, MO
The Unedited Correspondence of Pierre Viret (1511 - 1571)
 
Brundage, David
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
The United Irishmen and Abolition: A Transnational Investigation
 
Campanella, Thomas J.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
The Last Utopia: Soul City, Civil Rights and the Unmaking of an American Dream
 
Chapman, Cynthia Ruth
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH
“The House of the Mother”: The Identity and Function of the Natal Family in Ancient Israelite Kinship Structures
 
Chiang, Connie Young
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME
Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese Internment
 
Coffey, Mary
Pomona College
Claremont, CA
Tracing the Ghost of Colonial Experience in 19th Century Spanish Literature
 
Crespino, Joseph
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Strom Thurmond's America
 
Culp, Robert Joseph
Bard College
Annandale on Hudson, NY
Publishing Circles and the Production of Culture in Post imperial China
 
Den Hartog, Jonathan
Northwestern College
St. Paul, MN
Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New Nation
 
Dressler, Rachel Ann
SUNY Research Foundation, Albany
Albany, NY
Staging Remembrance: Death, Tombs, and Status in Late Medieval England
 
Eisikovits, Nir
Suffolk University
Boston, MA
Truce: A Neglected Alternative between War and Peace
 
Finkel, Stuart
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
The Political Red Cross: A Voice for Political Prisoners in Early Soviet Russia
 
Flamiano, Dolores
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
A Good Picture Is Hard to Kill: Hansel Mieth and Social Reform Photojournalism, 1934 - 1949
 
Frankel, Nicholas Raymond
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
The Annotated Picture of Dorian Gray
 
Frost, Ginger S.
Samford University
Birmingham, AL
“Strangers in the Blood”: Illegitimacy in England, 1860 - 1939
 
Gailey, Amanda Ann
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Race and Children’s Literature of the Gilded Age
 
Galand, Joel
Florida International University
Miami, FL
Yale Broadway Masters: Kurt Weill. New Haven.
 
Gelley, Ora
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy: Stardom and the Politics of Neorealism
 
Gimmel, Millie
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Health and Healing in Early Modern Mexico: A Study of Cultural Exchange
 
Holder, Randall W.
St. Anselm College
Manchester, NH
John Calvin and Tradition
 
Horn, Jeff
Manhattan College
Riverdale, NY
The Privilege of Liberty: Economic Development in Early Modern France
 
Horne, Jennifer
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
Civic Cinema: Spectatorship, Citizenship, and American Silent Film
 
Jiang, Yonglin
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA
Negotiating Justice: Local Adjudication and Social Change in Late Imperial China
 
Jorgensen, Larry M.
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN
Leibniz's Naturalized Theory of Mind
 
Klapper, Melissa R.
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism
 
Krainz, Thomas A.
Framingham State College
Framington, MA
Refugees in the American Southwest Borderlands
 
Lang, Zoe Alexis
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Austrian Music: the Strauss Family Legacy
 
Leary, James P.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI
Folksongs of the Other America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937 - 1946
 
Litvak, Olga
Clark University
Worcester, MA
Toward a Critical Biography of Sholem aleichem (1859 - 1916)
 
Looser, Devoney K
University Libraries, University of Missouri Columbia
Columbia, MO
Sister Novelists: The Lives and Writings of Jane and Anna Maria Porter
 
Lynch, Caitrin
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Needham, MA
Work, Retirement, and Community: Changing Social and Economic Landscapes in the United States
 
Magaldi, Cristina
Towson University
Towson, MD
Sounds of Civilization and Progress: Music and Cosmopolitanism in Rio de Janeiro at the Turn of the 20th-Century
 
McEnaney, Laura Mary
Whittier College
Whittier, CA
World War II's “Postwar”: A Social and Policy History of Peace, 1944 - 1953
 
Molesky, Mark C.
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake and the Forging of the Modern World
 
Murray, Sarah Jane
Baylor University
Waco, TX
The Ovide Moralise: Texts and Contexts
 
Musher, Sharon Ann
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Pomona, NJ
A New Deal for Art
 
Ott, Sandra Jean
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV
The Vicissitudes of Purge Justice: An Ethnographic Approach to the Trials of Collaborators, France 1944 - 1946
 
Padron, Ricardo A.
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Mapping the Great South Sea: Spain and the Pacific Rim, 1521 - 1761: A Monograph on Spanish Contributions to Modern Globalization
 
Petit, Jeanne Danielle
Hope College
Holland, MI
Catholic Women in Modern America: Gender, Race, Religion and the National Council of Catholic Women, 1918 - 1929
 
Prokop, Ellen Felicia
Independent Scholar
New York, NY
“All the Sciences Collected and Perfected”: The Career of Fray Juan Ricci
 
Ray, Romita
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
The White Elephant: The Picturesque in British India
 
Roffman, Karin Sabrina
United States Military Academy
West Point, NY
A Study of John Ashbery as a Poet and Collector in his Hudson Home
 
Romm, James
Bard College
Annandale on Hudson, NY
Afghanistan after Alexander the Great
 
Rowe, Mark Michael
McMaster University
Ontario, Canada, ZZ
Biographies of Non Eminent Monks: Temple Realities of Contemporary Japanese Buddhist Priests
 
Russell, Tilden
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT
The Compleat Dancing Master: A Translation of Gottfried Taubert’s Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (1717)
 
Schechter, Joshua
Brown University
Providence, RI
Reasoning and Rationality: The Epistemology of our Most Basic Patterns of Reasoning
 
Smith, Nicholas Jay
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Durham, NH
Apologies in Law
 
Smith, Martyn
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
The Digital Cairo Project: Translating al Maqrizi's Khitat
 
Spieth, Darius A.
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
Book Project “Art, Auctions, and Public Spectacle in Nineteenth Century Paris”
 
Stone, Jacqueline
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Japan in the Medieval Religious Imagination: From Marginal Realm to World Center
 
Wagner, Sarah
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
Naming the Unknown: Technology, Memory, and Vietnam MIAs
 
Wareh, Tarik
Union College, Schenectady
Schenectady, NY
The Lost Years Literary Competition, Philosophy, and Politics in the Generation after Plato and Isocrates
 
Wong, Leah Lihua
Columbus College of Art and Design
Columbus, OH
Picturing Utopia: The Visual Iconography of Chinese Socialist Realism, 1949 - 1979
 
Woodson Boulton, Amy
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA
Temples of Art in Cities of Industry: Beauty as Social Transformation in England, 1870 - 1930
 
Yaqub, Aladdin Mahmud
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Al Ghazali Moderation in Belief: A Translation and Commentary
 
Zahler, Reuben
University of Oregon, Robert D. Clark Honors College
Eugene, OR
Honor, Corruption, and Liberalism: Justice and Legitimacy in Venezuela, 1780 - 1850
 
Zugay, Brian C. R.
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
Methodist Mail Order Churches on the American Plains, ca. 1875 - 1920