National Endowment for the Humanities
FELLOWSHIP AWARDS, 2007-2008
Awarded: November 2006
Division of Research Programs
Announced: December 2006

Abe, Stanley K.
Duke University
Durham, NC
Art History and Criticism
Making Chinese Buddhist Sculpture Into Art

Abramson, Daniel M.
Tufts University
Medford, MA
Architecture
Architecture in the Age of Obsolescence

Adler, Jonathan E.
CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY
Epistemology
Can Reason Criticize and Control Itself?

Aubrey, Elizabeth
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Music History and Criticism
The Music of Old French Song

Bagg, Robert E.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA
Literature
Critical Biography of American Poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

Bakhle, Janaki
Columbia University
New York, NY
South Asian History
Colonial Surveillance and the Educated Indian

Barclay, Paul D.
Lafayette College
Easton, PA
Far Eastern History
Japan's Colonial Subalterns and the Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan, 1873-1930

Barr Sharrar, Beryl
Independent Scholar
New York, NY
Archaeology
Greek Bronze Vessels, Archaic to Late Hellenistic

Bashkow, Ira R.
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Anthropology
Margaret Mead and the New Guinea Arapesh

Bauer, Brian S.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Archaeology
The Chanka and the Development of Native Lords in the Andes

Bell, Catherine M.
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
History of Religion
Believing: Universal or Particular, Mental or Physical, Private or Communal?

Bernofsky, Susan
Independent Scholar
Boiceville, NY
German Literature
A Biography of Robert Walser (1878-1956): Novelist, Short Prose Author, Dramatist, and Poet

Beveridge, David R.
Independent Scholar
Vsenory, ZZ
Music History and Criticism
The Life and Work of Dvorak

Blaszczyk, Regina L.
Independent Scholar
Philadelphia, PA
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The Color Revolution: Commerce, Technology, and Aesthetics in Transnational Perspective

Brokaw, Cynthia
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
Far Eastern History
Book Culture on the Qing Frontier: Publishing in Sichuan, 17th-20th Centuries

Brownstein, Michael C.
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Asian Literature
Four Japanese Melodramas

Bryant, Marsha C.
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Comparative Literature
Women's Poetry Studies: A Manual

Burgess Smyth, Mary Ann
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
British Literature
British Modernism and the Four Nations

Burin, Eric
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND
American History
Emigration to Liberia, 1820-1904

Carnell, Rachel K.
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH
British Literature
A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley

Caulfield, Sueann
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Latin American History
The 20th Century Transformation of the Brazilian Family

Champlin, Edward J.
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Ancient History
Tiberius on Capri: Culture and Empire

Choudhury, Mita
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
European History
The Cadiere/Girard Affair: Seduction and Heresy in 18th Century French Political Culture

Clinton, Kevin
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Classics
A New Edition of Ancient Greek Inscriptions: INSCRIPTIONES GRAECAE II (3), fascicle 9

Cockrell, Dale
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Music History and Criticism
The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook: A Scholarly Edition

Cohen, Mark
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Near Eastern History
Maimonides' Code and the Social and Economic Realities of the Medieval Islamic World

Coletti, Theresa M.
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
British Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer and Christine de Pizan: A Comparative Investigation

Como, David R.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
British History
Print, Radicalism, and the English Civil War

Curtis, Sarah A.
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
European History
Missionary Utopias: French Women Missionaries in the Early 19th Century

Dale, Stephen F.
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
Area Studies
The Early Modern Islamic Empires: Ottoman Turks, Safavids of Iran, and Timurid Mughals of India

Davis, Lisa F.
Independent Scholar
Newton, MA
Medieval Studies
Scrolling Through History: The Universal Chronicle in 15th Century France

Davis Jr, Donald R.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI
Nonwestern Religion
The Spirit of Hindu Law

De Weerdt, Hilde G.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Far Eastern History
News and Identity in Imperial China, 10th-13th Centuries

Diamond, Jody
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Music History and Criticism
The Gamelan Music of Lou Harrison

Doody, Margaret A.
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Literature
The Mystics' Enlightenment: Pico, Paracelsus, and Boehme

Downing, Lisa J.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
History of Philosophy
Empiricism and Newtonianism: Locke, Berkeley, and the Decline of Strict Mechanism

Drake, James D.
Metropolitan State College of Denver
Denver, CO
American History
Nationalism's Nature: Continental Conceptions and the Emergence of the United States

Driscoll, Kerry
St. Joseph College
West Hartford, CT
American Literature
Mark Twain among the Indians

Drott, Eric A.
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
Music History and Criticism
Politics and Avant garde Music in France, 1968-1981

Duane, Anna M.
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
American Studies
African American Education and Identity in Antebellum New York City

DuRocher, Richard J.
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
British Literature
Mapping the Emotions in John Milton's Major Poetry

Easton, Laird M.
California State University Chico Research Foundation
Chico, CA
European History
The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

Engerman, David C.
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
American History
America's Soviet Experts in the Cold War

Ervine, Roberta R.
St. Nersess Armenian Seminary
New Rochelle, NY
Medieval Studies
A Window on the Landscape of 13th Century Learning: Vanakan Vardapet's Book of Questions and Answers

Fader, Ayala
Fordham University College at Lincoln Center
New York, NY
Anthropology
Gender, Language, and Religion: Socialization in a Hasidic Community in New York

Feisst, Sabine M.
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Music History and Criticism
Arnold Schoenberg in America

Feldhaus, Anne
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Nonwestern Religion
The Birth of a Region: Maharashtra in the 13th Century

Fitzgerald, James L.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Nonwestern Religion
An Annotated Translation of the Cosmologies of the Moksha Anthology of the Hindu Epic Mahabharata

Fletcher, Angus S.
CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center
New York, NY
Comparative Literature
Coherence and Poetic Truth: The American Example

Foley, Neil
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
American History
Black and Latino Civil Rights Strategies in World War II Texas and the Southwest, 1940-1965

Fraser, Elisabeth A.
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Art History and Criticism
Mediterranean Encounters: Travel Images and French Expansionism, 1780-1850

Frick, David
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
European History
Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: The Community of Confessions in 17th Century Vilnius

Fuller, Randall
Drury University
Springfield, MO
American Literature
American Romanticism and the Civil War

Gann, Kyle E.
Bard College
Annandale on Hudson, NY
Music History and Criticism

Garvey, Ellen G.
New Jersey City University
Jersey City, NJ
American Literature
Scrapbooks Remake 19th Century Print Culture

Gibson, Mary E.
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
British Literature
Empire and English Language Literary Culture in Bengal, 1780-1912

Gibson, Alan R.
California State University, Chico Foundation
Chico, CA
Political Science
Extending the Sphere: On the Significance and Meaning of Madison's Argument in Federalist No. 10

Goldman, Alan H.
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
Philosophy
Reasons From Within: Motivation and Practical Reasons

Golumbia, David
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
American Literature
The Cultural Logic of Computation: Authority and the Digital

Gooch, Brad D.
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ
American Literature
A Biography of Flannery O'Connor

Gordon Seifert, Catherine E.
Providence College
Providence, RI
Music History and Criticism
Music and the Language of Love in 17th Century French Airs, 1650-1700

Gregory, Eric S.
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Religion
Who is My Neighbor? Globalization and the Good Samaritan

Griffiths, Fiona J.
New York University
New York, NY
Medieval Studies
Nuns and Priests: Mutuality and Dependence in the Medieval Monastery, 1050-1250

Guo, Qitao
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Honolulu, HI
Far Eastern History
Community, Culture, and Commerce: The Rise of Elite Lineages in Ming Dynasty Huizhou

Gyatso, Janet
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Nonwestern Religion
Medicine and Religion at the Apogee of the Tibetan Buddhist State

Hall, John A.
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Sociology
An Intellectual Biography of Ernest Andre Gellner

Harper, Kristine C.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, NM
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine
History of Efforts to Modify the Weather

Hoffman, Katherine E.
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Anthropology
Language, Islam, and Law in French Berber Policy of Morocco (1912-1956)

Holmberg, Arthur C.
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
Theater History and Criticism
American Shakespeares

Hood, John Y.
Independent Scholar
Warrenton, VA
European History
The Jews in 12th Century Christian Theology: Peter Lombard, Peter Comestor, and the "Glossa Ordinaria"

Horowitz, Joseph I.
Independent Scholar
New York City, NY
American Studies
Cultural Exchange: Immigrants in the Performing Arts and 20th Century America

Horwich, Paul G.
New York University
New York, NY
Philosophy
Wittgenstein's Meta Philosophy

Houston, Stephen D.
Brown University
Providence, RI
Archaeology
Piedras Negras: The Archaeological "Biography" of a Classic Maya City

Howell, David L.
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Far Eastern History
Violence and Disorder in 19th Century Japan

Hoxie, Frederick E.
University of Illinois, Urbana
Urbana, IL
British History
Challenging the State: American Indians and the "Empire of Liberty," 1800-2000

Ivic, Christopher S.
SUNY Research Foundation, College at Potsdam
Potsdam, NY
British Literature
The Subject of Britain

Janowitz, Anne F.
Queen Mary College, University of London
London, ZZ
British Literature
Commonplaces of the Night Sky in English Poetry, 1729-1900

Kapteijns, Lidwien E.
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA
African History
Somali Popular Culture and the Changing National Imaginary, 1960-2006

Keith, Jennifer M.
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
British Literature
The Poems of Anne Finch: A Critical Edition

Kipling, Gordon L.
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Medieval Studies
The Theatre of the Renaissance Civic Triumph

Konuk, Kader
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Interdisciplinary
Auerbach in Istanbul: Exile, Transnationalism, and Modernity

Krentz, Peter M.
Davidson College
Davidson, NC
Ancient History
The Battle of Marathon in History and Memory

Krueger, Derek
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
Religion
The Liturgical Formation of Identity in Byzantium from the Sixth to the Ninth Century

Langer, Erick D.
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Latin American History
Ethnicity, Commerce, and Nation Building in the 19th Century South Central Andes

Lee, Maurice S.
Boston University
Boston, MA
American Literature
Chance, Skepticism, and Belief in American Literature, 1820-1870

Lemire, Elise V.
SUNY Research Foundation, College at Purchase
Purchase, NY
American Literature
Slavery and Freedom in Concord, Massachusetts, 1740-1822

Lewis, Laura A.
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
Anthropology
History, Race, and Place in the Making of Black Mexico

Liuzza, Roy M.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Medieval Studies
Anglo Saxon Prognostics: Texts and Studies

Long, Pamela O.
Independent Scholar
Washington, DC
European History
Engineering the Eternal City: Power, Knowledge, and Urbanization in Counter Reformation Rome,
1560-1590

Lounsbury, Carl R.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Williamsburg, VA
Architecture
The Churches and Meetinghouses of Early America: An Architectural History

Loving, Jerome M.
Texas A & M University, Main Campus
College Station, TX
American Literature
Mark Twain: The Mysterious Stranger [a biography]

Lowe, John W.
Louisiana State University and A & M College
Baton Rouge, LA
American Literature
Calypso Magnolia: The Caribbean Side of the South

Maier, Pauline R.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
American History
A Narrative History of the Ratification of the Federal Constitution, 1787-1790

Masur, Kate
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
American History
Black Rights and the Failure of Democracy in Civil War Era Washington

Mayhew, Jonathan
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Lawrence, KS
Spanish Literature
Apocryphal Lorca: Translation, Parody, Kitsch

McCoy, Richard C.
CUNY Research Foundation, Queens College
Flushing, NY
Humanities
Faith in Shakespeare: Theater and Theology

McCusker, John J.
Trinity University
San Antonio, TX
History
Sugar and the Economic Integration of the Early Modern Atlantic World

McDowell, Gary L.
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
Political Science
"The Most Sacred Rule of Interpretation": The Language of Law and the Moral Foundations of Originalism

McKeown, Adam M.
Columbia University
New York, NY
History
"Free" Labor and Trade in the Chinese Pacific, 1760-1860

Meek, Barbra A.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Interdisciplinary
Language Endangerment and Revitalization in Native North America

Mele, Alfred R.
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Philosophy
Intentions in Action: Action Theory and Action Science

Melton, James V.
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
European History
An Alpine Miner in the Old World and the New: Transatlantic Lives of Thomas Geschwandel, 1693-1761

Miles, Margaret M.
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
Classics
Greek Architecture of the Fifth Century BCE: A History of Religious Architecture in an Era of Civic Confidence

Miller, Leta E.
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
Music History and Criticism
San Francisco's Musical Life, 1906-45

Monod, Paul K.
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
British History
The Occult in the British Enlightenment, 1650 1815

Mourad, Suleiman A.
Smith College
Northampton, MA
History of Religion
The Mu'tazila's Contribution to Islam: A Study of Their Theology and Hermeneutics in the Exegesis of
al Jushami

Oppenheimer, Gerald M.
CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine
A History of the Origins, Evolution, and Impact of Heart Disease Epidemiology in the U.S. (1945-1990)

Owen, J. Judd
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Political Science
Enlightenment Political Philosophy and the Bible: Liberal Interpretations in Illiberal Times

Parmenter, Jon W.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
American History
A Spatial History of Iroquoia, 1666-1777

Peluso, Nancy L.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Social Sciences
Violence, Territoriality, and the Production of Landscape History in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Penn, Michael P.
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
History of Religion
Syriac Christian Responses to the Islamic Conquests

Peterson, David S.
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA
European History
Power and the Sacred in Renaissance Florence, 1375-1460

Pinch, Adela N.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
British Literature
19th Century British Literature and the Problem of Thinking About Others

Pinch, William R.
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
South Asian History
Religion and the Making of Mughal India, 1570-1670

Pitelka, Morgan
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA
Far Eastern History
The Shogun's Things: A Cultural History of the Collection of Tokugawa Ieyasu

Quinn, Charles J.
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
Asian Languages
Early Japanese: A Reader's Rhetoric of Grammar

Rinne, Katherine W.
Independent Scholar
Berkeley, CA
Urban Studies
The Waters of the City of Rome

Robertson, Karen L.
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
British Literature
Pocahontas Among the Jacobeans

Rowley, Sharon M.
Christopher Newport University
Newport News, VA
British Literature
Reading the Old English Bede in Its Manuscript Contexts

Rutkin, H. Darrel
Villa I Tatti
Florence, Italy, ZZ
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's DISPUTATIONES ADVERSUS ASTROLOGIAM DIVINATRICEM: The First English

Sandage, Scott A.
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
American History
Half Breed Creek: A Tall Tale of Race on the Frontier, 1804-1941

Scheil, Andrew P.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
Medieval Studies
Figures of the City in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond

Seow, Choon Leong
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, NJ
Religion
The Impact of Job among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Middle Ages

Sepper, Dennis L.
University of Dallas
Irving, TX
History of Philosophy
Locating Imaginative Activity in the History of Western Thought

Shaughnessy, Edward
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Asian Languages
Archaeological Discoveries and the Writing of the Yi Jing, China's Classic of Changes

Shaw, Miranda E.
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
Asian Studies
Buddhist Goddesses of Tibet and Nepal

Shelemay, Kay K.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Music History and Criticism
Ethiopian Music and Musicians in the United States

Sikainga, Ahmad A.
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
African History
Slavery, Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Popular

Skaff, Jonathan K.
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg, PA
Far Eastern History
Tang China's Relations with the Pastoral Nomads of Inner Asia, 618-756

Smith, Jewel A.
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Music History and Criticism
Music Education in 19th Century American Female Seminaries: A Neglected History

Smith, Jeffrey C.
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
Art History and Criticism
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528

Steinhardt, Nancy S.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Asian Studies
Chinese Architecture under Mongolian Rule

Street, Richard S.
Independent Scholar
San Anselmo, CA
Humanities
Photographers and Farm Workers in California, 1850-2005

Suisman, David
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
American History
The Commercial Revolution in American Music

Talbot, Cynthia M.
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
South Asian History
Remembering a Rajput Hero: Martial Tales and Identities in India

Thomson, Iain D.
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
History of Philosophy
Heidegger: A Philosophical Biography

Topik, Steven C.
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
History
The Historical Creation of the World of Coffee, 1500- 2000

Trzeciak, Joanna
Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
Slavic Literature
Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz

Turner, James C.
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
History
Philology and the Shaping of the Modern Humanities

van Deusen, Nancy E.
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA
Latin American History
Personal Servitude in Colonial Latin America, 1492-1560

Van Order, M. Thomas
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
Italian Language
Music and Meaning in the Cinema of Federico Fellini: from "Lo sceicco bianco" to "8 1/2"

Venkatesan, Archana
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY
Religion
Performance and Ritual Culture at Vishnu's Temple in Alvar Tirunagari, South India

Von Eschen, Penny M.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
American Studies
Black Artists on a World Stage

Wachtel, Michael A.
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Slavic Literature
A Commentary to Pushkin's Lyric Poetry

Walker, Jeffrey
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
Composition and Rhetoric
The Genuine Teachers of This Art: Rhetorical Education in Antiquity

Weinstein, Arnold
Brown University
Providence, RI
Comparative Literature
Power and Expression in Scandinavian Literature and Art

Weiss, Sheila F.
Clarkson University
Potsdam, NY
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Mengele's Mentor: The Professional Life and Political Times of Otmar von Verschuer

Werth, Paul W.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
Russian History
Religious Toleration and the Civil Order in Imperial Russia, 1772-1914

Wisch, Barbara
SUNY Research Foundation, College at Cortland
Cortland, NY
Art History and Criticism
Acting on Faith: The Confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome

Zandi Sayek, Sibel
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
Interdisciplinary
A World in Flux: The Politics of Space in 19th Century Izmir

Zuckert, Catherine H.
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Political Science
Machiavellian Politics

Zusi, Peter A.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Literature
Kafka, Rilke, and Czech Modernism

Zwicker, Jonathan E.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Asian Literature
Stage and Spectacle in an Age of Print: Drama and Cultural Consumption in 19th Century Edo