FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
Announced: December 2005

Allen, Susan
Providence College
Providence, RI
Interdisciplinary
Archaeologist Field Agents in the Office of Strategic Services' Greek Desk

Arias, Santa
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Latin American Literature
Acts of Conversion

Atwill, Janet
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Composition and Rhetoric
The Role of Character in Greek Rhetorical Training

Balfour, Lawrie
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Political Science
Essays on the Political Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois

Bennett, Herman
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ
Latin American History
Narratives of Freedom in Colonial Mexico

Bergland, Renee
Simmons College
Boston, MA
American Studies
Maria Mitchell's Literary, Political, and Scientific Spheres

Berry, Stephen
University of North Carolina, Pembroke
Pembroke, NC
American History
The Todds: First Family of the Civil War

Bethin, Christina
SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook Main Campus
Stony Brook, NY
Slavic Languages
The Form and Function of Prominence in Slavic Languages

Betts, Paul
University of Sussex
Sussex, England
European History
A History of East German Private Life

Bjork, Robert
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Medieval Studies
The Emergence of a Discipline: The Scandinavians and Anglo-Saxon Literary Studies

Block, Ned
New York University
New York, NY
Philosophy
How the Mind-Body Problem Can Be Empirical

Borges, Dain
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Latin American History
Races, Crowds, and Souls in Brazilian Social Thought, 1880-1922

Bredehoft, Thomas
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO
Medieval Studies
Authors and Audiences of Old English Verse

Brewer, David
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
British Literature
The Work of Attribution in the Age of Anonymous Publication

Brewer, John
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Humanities
Conflicts of Value in the Western Art World Since the Renaissance

Broucke, Pieter
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
Architecture
Reconstrucing the Pantheon of Agrippa: Architecture, Sculpture, and Meaning

Brown, Miranda
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
History
Chinese Medical Epistemology in Transition, ca. 350 BCE-220 CE

Buell, Paul
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA
Asian Studies
Documenting the Medicine of the Mongol Era in China: Huihui Yaofang, "Muslim Medicinal Recipes"

Buffington, Robert
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH
Latin American History
A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: Mexico City, 1900-1910

Burns, Kathryn
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Latin American History
Truth and Consequences: Scribes and the Colonization of Spanish America

Canovas, Frederic
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
French Literature
The Relationship Between the Writings of Andre Gide and the Art of Maurice Denis

Cazden, Elizabeth
Independent Scholar
Richmond, IN
American History
Rhode Island Quakers in a Slave-Based Economy, 1660-1780

Chappell, David
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Fayetteville, AR
American History
White Supremacist Propaganda and Strategy in the American South, 1945-1965

Clark, Heather
Marlboro College
Marlboro, VT
British Literature
The Poetic Dialogue of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

Constable, Olivia
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
European History
Muslims in Medieval Europe

Creager, Angela
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Hist & Phil of Sci,Tech & Med
Atoms for Peace and Health: Tracing the Manhattan Project through Postwar Biomedicine

Daly, Martin
Independent Scholar
Waterville, ME
African History
A History of Darfur

Davidson, Mary
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Music History and Criticism
Recovering the Literature of Earlier American Music Periodicals

Davis, Jack
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Archaeology
The Institutionalization of Classical Archaeology: Archaeology in Greece Between World War I and World War II

Davis, James
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
Religion
On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Writings of Roger Williams

Dursteler, Eric
Brigham Young University, Provo
Provo, UT
European History
Gender, Conversion, and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA
Far Eastern History
Cultural Responses to the "Incredible Famine" in Late Qing China, 1876-1879

Edwards, Rebecca
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
American History
The Life of Mary E. Lease, People's Advocate

Elliott, Mark
Wagner College
Staten Island, NY
American History
In Quest of a Color-Blind America: The Life and Times of Albion Tourgée

Emery, Elizabeth
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ
French Language
Collecting French Writers: Photojournalism, Fame, and the Birth of the "Author House"

Faller, Helen
Independent Scholar
Philadelphia, PA
Anthropology
One Nation Divisible: The Unmaking of Soviet People in Tatarstan, Russia

Flores, Juan
CUNY Research Foundation, Hunter College
New York, NY
Hispanic American Studies
Cultural Challenges of Return Migration

Forster, Marc
Connecticut College
New London, CT
European History
Taverns and Inns, Drinking and Sociability in Early Modern German Villages

Francis, James
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
Classics
People as Pictures: Visualities in Texts and Images from the Second through Fourth Centuries CE

Gerona, Carla
University of Texas, Dallas
Richardson, TX
American History
An Ethnohistory of an Early Texas Place from the Caddos to the Texians

Gibson, Craig
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Classics
Translation of Libanius' Progymnasmata: A Collection of Ancient Greek Rhetorical Exercises

Ginzberg, Lori
Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus
University Park, PA
American History
Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 19th-Century Feminist and Intellectual

Givens, Jean
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
Art History and Criticism
Picturing the Healing Arts: Word, Image, and the Illustrated Tractatus de Herbis, 1280-1526

Gollin, Edward
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
Music History and Criticism
The Music of Béla Bartók and the Transformation of Tonality

Gordon, Bonnie
SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook Main Campus
Stony Brook, NY
Music History and Criticism
Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds

Goss, Glenda
Helsinki University Library
Music History and Criticism
Russian-Finnish Cultural Connections: The Case of Jean Sibelius

Gould, Eliga
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Durham, NH
American History
Zones of Law, Zones of Violence: Britain, America, and the Legal Geography of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Goulding, Robert
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Hist & Phil of Sci,Tech & Med
Vision, Optics, and Experimental Traditions in the Renaissance

Greeson, Jennifer
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
American Literature
Domestic Geography and Global Imagination in American Literature, 1776-1915

Grenier-Winther, Joan
Washington State University
Pullman, WA
French Literature
WWW/Database Edition of 15th-Century French Lyric, La Belle dame qui eut mercy [The Beautiful Lady with Mercy]

Hall, Marcia
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
Arts History & Criticism
Late 16th-Century Painting in the Context of Reform: Titian, Tintoretto, El Greco, Barocci, Caravaggio

Hall, Gwendolyn
Southern University System
Baton Rouge, LA
American History
Comparing Race, Ethnicity, Slavery, and Freedom in French, Spanish, and Early American Louisiana, 1719-1820

Hanley, Ryan
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
Political Science
Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

Hansen, Kathryn
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
Asian Literature
Theatrical Memoirs: Translation of Life Narratives from the Parsi Theatre

Harris, Ellen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Music History and Criticism
Mr. Handel and His Friends: Music in the Context of 18th-Century London Life

Hench, John
American Antiquarian Society
Worcester, MA
American History
"Overseas Editions" and the Internationalization of the U.S. Book Trade, 1942-48

Henke, Robert
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Comparative Literature
Fictions of the Poor in Early Modern Theater

Heyman, Barbara
CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY
Music History and Criticism
A Comprehensive Thematic Catalog of the Complete Works of the American Composer Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Hickey, Todd
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Classical History
Reading the Papyri of a Priestly Family: Social Relations and Cultural Negotiation in Egypt under Roman Rule

Hirschmann, Nancy
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Political Science
A Political Theory of Disability and Illness

Holt, John
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME
Nonwestern Religion
Buddhism and Political Change in Laos

Honeychurch, William
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA
Archaeology
The Archaeology of Mongolia and Nomadic Civilizations

Horst, Steven
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
Philosophy
Cognitive Pluralism: Unities and Disunities of Knowledge and the Mind

Hubbard, Melanie
University of Tampa
Tampa, FL
American Literature
Emily Dickinson's Poetic Practices in 19th-Century Contexts

Hughes, Linda
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX
British Literature
Victorian Poetry and Print Culture

Hyland, Sabine
St. Norbert College
De Pere, WI
Anthropology
The Chanka and the Development of Native Lords in the Andes

Jacobs, Lynn
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Fayetteville, AR
Arts History & Criticism
The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted

Johnson, Monte
St. Louis University
Saint Louis, MO
History of Philosophy
Aristotle's "Exhortation to Philosophy" (Protrepticus Philosophias)

Johnson, Claudia
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
British Literature
Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures

Johnson, Paul
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Columbia, SC
American History
The First Great American Horse Race: The Northern Horse Eclipse vs. the Southern Horse Henry, 1823

Kapstein, Matthew
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Nonwestern Religion
Visions, Dreams, and Apocrypha in a Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

Kent, Eliza
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY
History of Religion
Religion and Environmentalism in South India

Keys, Mary
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Political Science
Humility and Modern Politics

Keyser, Richard
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY
European History
From Gift to Contract: The Transformation of Medieval Property Dealings, Champagne, 1100-1350

Kidd, Thomas
Baylor University
Waco, TX
American History
The First Generation of American Evangelical Christianity

Kienzle, Beverly
Harvard Divinity School
Cambridge, MA
Medieval Studies
Hildegard of Bingen, Visionary Exegete and Preacher

Klinghard, Daniel
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
American Government
The Nationalization of American Party Organizations, 1880-1900

Klingshirn, William
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
Classics
Diviners and Divination in the Roman Empire

Koepp, Cynthia
Wells College
Aurora, NY
European History
The Forgotten Best-Seller of 18th-Century Europe: Rereading the "Spectacle de la nature"

Koven, Seth
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
British History
Christian Revolutionaries in 20th-Century Britain: Peace, Poverty, and Global Citizenship

Kuskin, William
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
British Literature
Recursive Origins: Textual Culture, Historical Transition, and the Rise of Modernity

Levin, Gail
CUNY Research Foundation, Bernard Baruch College
New York, NY
Interdisciplinary
Identity, Culture, and the Art of Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Locke, Ralph
Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY
Music History and Criticism
Exotic Lands and Peoples in Western Music

Logan, Shirley
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
Composition and Rhetoric
Sites of Rhetorical Education for African Americans in the 19th Century

Marrese, Michelle
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Russian History
Creating the Formidable Woman: Gender and Authority in Imperial Russia

Maruko, Susan
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
Far Eastern History
The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960

Mattis, Olivia
Independent Scholar
Salt Lake City, UT
Music History and Criticism
Edgard Varese and the Liberation of Sound

McCarthy, George
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH
Sociology
Aristotle and Kant in Classical Social Theory

McNair, Amy
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Lawrence, KS
Arts History & Criticism
Lives of the Imperial Painters: Chinese Biographies in Translation

Mehrotra, Ajay
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Law and Jurisprudence
Law, Politics, and the Making of the Modern American Fiscal State

Merish, Lori
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
American Literature
Laboring Women and the Languages of Class in Antebellum America

Meserve, Margaret
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
European History
The Italian Market for Printed News and Information, 1470-1527

Milanich, Nara
Barnard College
New York, NY
Latin American History
Families, Class, and the State in Chile, 1800-1930

Miller, David
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Columbia, SC
British Literature
Spenser Edition

Mizell-Nelson, Michael
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
American History
Slavery to Gentrification on New Orleans Streetcars

Morrison, James
Centre College of Kentucky
Danville, KY
Classical Literature
Shipwrecks and the Reinvention of Self in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World

Myers, Helen
Independent Scholar
Canton, CT
Music History and Criticism
Postcolonial Music and the South Asian Diaspora: A Comparison of the Bhojpuri Songs of Mauritius and Bihar

Narayan, Kirin
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI
Anthropology
Women's Sung Mythologies from the Himalayan Foothills

Navarrete, Ignacio
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Spanish Literature
Narrative Culture in Spain, c. 1500

Newell, Margaret
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
American History
Indian Slavery in Colonial New England

Olyan, Saul
Brown University
Providence, RI
Religion
Disability in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Jewish Biblical Interpretation

Palmer, Scott
Western Illinois University
Macomb, IL
Russian History
Monumentality, Modernity, and the Soviet Built Environment

Peletz, Michael
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY
Anthropology
Gender Pluralism in Muslim and Buddhist Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times

Perry, Ruth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
British Literature
A Biography of Anna Gordon Brown: 18th-Century Traditional Ballad Singer

Pietz, David
Washington State University
Pullman, WA
Far Eastern History
Engineering a State of Nature: Hydraulic Transformations on the North China Plain, 1949-1999

Pireddu, Nicoletta
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Comparative Literature
The Fiction of Europe, Europe in Fiction

Pollard, Tanya
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ
Comparative Literature
Genres and Ancient Greece in the English Renaissance

Portuges, Catherine
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA
Film History and Criticism
Post-Holocaust Jewish Identities in Hungarian Cinema

Potkay, Adam
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
British Literature
The Story of Joy: The Literary and Intellectual History of an Emotion

Price, Sally
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
Anthropology
Art, Museums, and Cultural Difference

Price, Leah
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
British Literature
The Stenographic Imagination: Office Work and the Work of Literature in Modern Britain

Prior, Daniel
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
Folklore/Folklife
Holy War, Tribal War, and Raiding in Kirghiz Culture, 1846-1916

Rahe, Paul
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK
History
The Political Psychology of the Modern Republic

Ramsey, John
University of Illinois at Chicag
Chicago, IL
Classics
A Commentary on Cicero's Philippics 10-14

Raskin, David
School of Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Arts History & Criticism
The Pragmatic Minimalist: Donald Judd's Art, Principles, and Activism

Rawski, Evelyn
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Far Eastern History
China and Its Neighbors in Northeast Asian History

Richman, Paula
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH
Nonwestern Religion
Ramayanas Abroad: Adaptations of a South Asian Narrative in the Diaspora

Rider, John
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
Medieval Studies
A Translation of Galbert of Bruges' De Multro, Traditione et Occisione Gloriosi Karoli Comitis Flandriarum

Rittgers, Ronald
Yale University
New Haven, CT
European History
The Reformation of Suffering: Protestants, Plague, and Misfortune in Early Modern Germany

Rosenstein, Nathan
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
Ancient History
Military Mortality in the Middle and Late Roman Republic

Rowe, Elizabeth
Independent Scholar
Somerville, MA
Medieval Studies
The Medieval Annals of Iceland: A First English Translation

Rubenstein, Jay
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
European History
Holy War and History: The Legacy of the First Crusade in 12th-Century Europe

Sacks, Marcy
Albion College
Albion, MI
American History
Joe Louis at the Crossroads of America

Samuels, Jeffrey
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY
Nonwestern Religion
Monastic Recruitment, Training, and Monastic-Lay Relations in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Schwartz, Seth
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
New York, NY
Ancient History
Toward a History of Ancient Jewish Social Relations

Sherberg, Michael
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Italian Literature
A Reevaluation of Boccaccio's Decameron in the Context of Medieval and Modern Legal Theory

Shields, Sarah
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Near Eastern History
Creating and Contesting Identities in Alexandretta

Small, Jocelyn
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ
Classics
Optics and Illusionism in Classical Art

Smith, Suzanne
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
American History
A Cultural History of African American Funeral Directing

Smith, Kathryn Ann
Independent Scholar
Santa Monica, CA
Architecture
The Exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright: 1894-1959

Smith, J. Douglas
Independent Scholar
Los Angeles, CA
American History
An Unfinished Revolution: Reapportionment and the Quest for Democracy in 20th-Century America

Somers, Margaret
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Sociology
The Making of Modern Citizenship Rights, England, 1200-1850

Spiller, Elizabeth
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX
Renaissance Studies
Race, Romance, and the Complexion of Early Modern Print Culture

Staiti, Paul
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
Art History and Criticism
Art and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson

Steinman, Lisa
Reed College
Portland, OR
American Literature
Poetry, Poetics, and Readers in Contemporary American Culture

Stieber, Nancy
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Boston, MA
Architecture
Representations of Fin-de-siècle Amsterdam

Stokes, James
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI
British Literature
Traditional Drama, Music, and Custom in Early Suffolk

Stott, Douglas
Independent Scholar
Atlanta, GA
German Literature
The Correspondence of Caroline Schlegel-Schelling (1763-1809): Translation and Annotations

Taylor, Jacqueline
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
History of Philosophy
Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume's Philosophy

Tieszen, Richard
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
Logic
Phenomenology and the Exact Sciences

Tucker, William
Rutgers University, Camden
Camden, NJ
Psychology
Science and Ideology in the Work of Raymond Cattell

Upton, Dell
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Architecture
African American History Monuments and Contemporary Southern Politics

Valis, Noel
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Spanish Literature
Catholicism in Modern Spanish Narrative

Vihvelin, Kadri
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Ethics
Our Doings and What We Allow

Volpe, Andrea
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
American Studies
Cartes de Visite Portraits and the Politics of Photography in 19th-Century America

Watt, Lori
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Far Eastern History
When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation in Postwar Japan

Wheeler, Leigh Ann
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH
History
How the American Civil Liberties Union Shaped U.S. Policy and Culture in the 20th Century

Wilson, Thomas
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY
Far Eastern History
The Problem of Sacrifice and the Cult of Confucius in Late Imperial China

Winter, Nancy
American Academy in Rome
New York, NY
Archaeology
Decorative Systems of Etruscan Terracotta Roofs, 640-510 BCE

Woeste, Victoria
American Bar Foundation
West Lafayette, IN
American History
Fighting Antisemitism in Model T America

Wolfthal, Diane
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Art History and Criticism
Hugo van der Goes: Historiography, Italian Patronage, and the Devotio Moderna

Worobec, Christine
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL
Russian History
Moving Faith: Pilgrimages in Modern Russia

Yarbrough, Jean
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME
Political Science
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Critique of the Founding

Yonan, Michael
St. Louis University
Saint Louis, MO
Art History and Criticism
Empress Maria Theresa and the Politics of Imperial Art