COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
Announced: May 2005
Edition and Study of Judeo-Spanish Traditional Ballads
University of California, Davis
Samuel G. Armistead, Project Director, with ethnomusicologist Israel J. Katz and technical editor Karen L. Olson
Preparation of volumes 6, 7, 8, and 9 of a 15-volume annotated edition of texts and music of Judeo-Spanish traditional ballads.
Outright Funds of $50,000 over a period of two years.
Music In Gotham
City University of New York
Adrienne Fried Block, Project Director, with co-director John Graziano, research assistants Francisco Javier Albo,
Brooke Bryant, Christopher Bruhn, John Frisch, William Glenn III, Jill Van Nostrand, and Jennifer Jones Wilson,
and translator Jonas Westover
Preparation of a searchable database and a 2-volume history of musical life in New York City between 1862 and 1876.
On the Web at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/BrookCenter/gotham.htm
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $120,000 over a period of three years.
Archaeological and Multidisciplinary Investigation of the White Monastery Federation, near Sohag, Egypt
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth S. Bolman, Project Director; with director of archaeology Peter Sheehan; archaeological advisor Wlodzimierz
Godlewski; field director Darlene Brooks-Hedstrom; archaeologist Peter Grossmann; conservator Luigi De Cesaris;
conservator and archaeologist Gillian Pyke; assistant conservator Alberto Sucato; historian and philologist Bentley Layton;
historian and papyrologist Stephen Emmel; art historians Karel Innemée Sheila McNally, Hans-Georg Severin, and Thelma K.
Thomas; architect Nicholas Warner; ground-penetrating radar specialist Tomasz Herbich; Coptic history experts Fawzy
Estafanous, Gawdat Gabra, and Hany Takla; monastic liaison and conservation consultant Father Maximous el-Anthony of the
Monastery of St. Antony, Red Sea Coast, Egypt; and graduate student assistants Nicola Aravecchia, Todd Brenningmeyer,
Paul Dilley, and Dalia Habib Linssen
Excavation and analysis of an important Coptic architectural complex (fourth through thirteenth century, C.E.) that promises to yield valuable evidence bearing on late antique monasticism.
On the web at http://Egypt.cla.umn.edu
Outright funds of $100,000 over a period of three years.
Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
ChaeRan Freeze, Project Director, with co-director Jay Harris, collaborators Sarunas Liekis, Agnessa Mukhtan, and
Leonid Vaintraub, and translators Ellen Kellman and Saadya Sternberg
Preparation of a documentary history of everyday Jewish life in imperial Russia, incorporating translations of documents from Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
Outright Funds of $75,000 over a period of two years.
Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Bernard Frischer and Katherine Rinne, Project Directors,
with Ian Johnson, Worthy Martin, Alberto Nistri, and Daniel Pitti
Adding GIS data and expanding a freely accessible and fully interactive inventory of Roman hydraulic infrastructure from the early Christian era through the early modern period.
On the web at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/waters/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.
The Laws of Ancient Crete
University of Texas, Austin
Michael Gagarin, Project Director, with co-director Paula Perlman
Preparation for publication, both in print and online, of the Greek texts of extant laws from ancient Crete, along with translations and commentaries.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of one year.
Oral History of Tibet in India
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Melvyn C. Goldstein, Project Director, with project
field director and senior interviewer Paljor Tsarong, translator
Tsewang Namgyai Shelling, technical editor Linda Cantara, and a staff of
interviewers, translators and students
Oral history of Tibetans in India and Nepal where the Tibetans fled into exile after the failed uprising of 1959.
On the web at
http://www.case.edu/affil/tibet/moreTibetInfo/oral_history.htm
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of three years.
An Integrative Historical and Archaeological Study of the Rise to Leadership of
Kamehameha the Great, Hawaii
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
Michael W. Graves, Project Director, with co-director C. Kehaunani Cachola-Abad, three
archaeological field supervisors, undergraduate student archaeological field crews, two
graduate student research assistants, and an editor
Study of the rise to power of Kamehameha, the 18th-century Hawaiian chief who united the Hawaiian Islands socially and politically, using a variety of archival and archaeological resources.
On the web at http://www.harp.hawaii.edu/background.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $110,000 over a period of 30 months.
The Azoria Project: A Study of Urbanization in Early Iron Age and Archaic Crete
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Donald C. Haggis, Project Director; with field director Margaret S. Mook; zooarchaeologist
Lynn M. Snyder; paleoethnobotanists C. Margaret Scarry and Laura Motta; architect
Rodney D. Fitzsimons; environmental archaeologist Maria Ntinou; lithics specialist
Tristan Carter; epigraphist William C. West, III; biological anthropologist Maria A. Liston;
environmental scientist Michael W. Morris; anthropologist David Small; soil scientist
Michael E. Timpson; project registrar Yuki Furuya; chief conservator Stephania N. Chlouveraki;
conservator Kathy Hall; archaeological illustrator Roxana Docsan; Surveyor/Topographer
Georgos Damaskinakis; and trench supervisors Emily Anderson, Robby Cuthrell, Melissa Eaby,
Paul Lesperance, Deanna Mellican, and Sheri Pak
Research on the development of a nascent Cretan polis and cultural exchange in the Greek Aegean during the Early Iron Age.
On the web at http://www.unc.edu/~dchaggis/Project.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $140,000 over a period of 3 years.
The First Generation of British Industrialists: Scientific Culture and Civic Life,
1780-1832
University of California, Los Angeles
Margaret C. Jacob, Project Director, with consultant Larry Stewart, graduate student
research assistants, and graduate student summer research fellows
Production of a web site and preparation for publication of articles and a book that will document the scientific education of early British entrepreneurs and the ways in which their knowledge facilitated the industrial revolution.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of 3 years.
The Ideal of Nature: Appeals to Nature in Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment
Hastings Center, Garrison, NY
Gregory E. Kaebnick, Project Director, with Hastings Center staff Daniel Callahan, Thomas H. Murray,
and Erik Parens, and external participants J. Baird Callicott, Cynthia Cohen, John Cronin,
Carl Elliott, William Galston, Eric T. Juengst, Bryan Norton, Larry L. Rasmussen,
Nicholas Robinson, Mark Sagoff, Michael Sandel, Bonnie Steinbock, and David T. Wasserman,
from public and private institutions in New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Midwest, the South,
and the Southwest
Three two-day conferences resulting in a volume of scholarly essays, and other related materials, examining the ways in which "nature" and "the natural" are appealed to in political and philosophical arguments
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of 2 years.
Amish Diversity and Identity: Transformations in 20th Century America
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
Donald B. Kraybill, Project Director, with co-directors Karen Johnson-Weiner and Steven M. Nolt,
research associates David Rempel Smucker and Stephen Scott, keynote speakers Paul Boyer and
Royden Loewen, five local Amish historians, and several student assistants
Preparation of a book on the Amish in twentieth-century America and an annotated bibliography of Amish studies, the convening of a conference devoted to that subject, and the creation of a website.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of 3 years.
Creole Identity Formation on the Colonial and Early American Frontiers
Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches
David W. Morgan, Project Director, with principal collaborators Fiona J.L. Handley and Kevin C.
MacDonald, a field crew of four British and four American students, and a paleobotanist
Archaeological research on the late 17th-century plantation house of Marie-Thérèse Coincoin, the principal ancestral figure of modern Louisiana Creoles, located in the Cane River Creole community of northwest Louisiana.
Outright Funds of $85,000 over a period of 23 months.
Scholarly Annotated Translation of Simon Dubnov’s The Book of Life
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Benjamin Nathans, Project Director, with collaborators historian Viktor Kelner and translator
Dianne Sattinger, and a graduate student research assistant
Preparation for publication of an annotated translation of The Book of Life, the memoirs of the Russian Jewish historian Simon Dubnov.
Outright Funds of $75,000 over a period of 2 years.
Archaeology and History at Santa Magdalena de Cao Viejo: Cultural Encounters
at a 16th Century Church and Town in Northern Peru
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Jeffrey Quilter, Project Director, with co-director Regulo Franco, archival specialist
Juan Castañeda, laboratory director Carmen Gamarra, associate field directors William Doonan
and Hal Starratt, crew chief supervisor and cameraman R. Jeffrey Frost, geoarchaeologist
Lawrence Conyers, human osteologists John Verano and Catherine Gaither, field to lab liaison
and paper specialist Sarah Quilter, faunal and plant remains analysts Victor F. Vasquez and
Teresa E. Rosales, and aide de camp Juan Lopez
Three major field seasons, accompanied by analysis and writing, investigating the interaction of Spanish and Native cultures in the early colonial period at a forced settlement, or reducción, located on the site of a prehistoric temple complex in northern Peru’s coastal desert.
Outright Funds of $80,000 over a period of three years.
Investigating Historic African-American Mortuary Traditions in Central Virginia
Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
Lynn Rainville, Project Director, with collaborators historians Reginald D. Butler and Scot
French, oral historians Dianne Swann-Wright and Cinder Stanton, geologist Rebecca Ambers,
ecologist Linda Funk, undergraduate students from Sweet Briar College, and graduate students
from the University of Virginia
Archaeological and archival research into the mortuary traditions of African Americans living in the Virginia Piedmont from the 18th to the mid-20th centuries.
On the web at
http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/projects/aacac/index.php?page_id=aacac
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $100,000 over a period of three years.
Translation of Immanuel Kant’s Lectures, Notes, and Drafts on Political Philosophy
Michigan State University, East Lansing
Frederick Rauscher, Project Director, with collaborator Kenneth R. Westphal
Preparation of a volume of English translations of Kant’s unpublished writings in political philosophy.
Outright Funds of $75,000 over a period of 16 months.
British Library/University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscript Project
University of Washington, Seattle
Richard G. Salomon, Project Director; with assistant project director Collett D. Cox; researchers
Mark Allon, Timothy Lenz, and Jason Neelis; graduate research assistants Andrew Glass,
Meihuang Lee, and Stefan Baums; and web developer and technology assistant Tho To
Ongoing British Library/University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project to study and publish the earliest surviving corpus of Buddhist manuscripts in any language.
On the web at http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/index.php
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $140,000 over a period of 3 years.
The Zuo Tradition on the Spring and Autumn Annals
University of California, Los Angeles
David Schaberg, Project Director, with collaborators Stephen
Durrant and Waiyee Li, and one graduate student research assistant
A new English translation with a full scholarly introduction and notes of The Zuo Tradition on the Spring and Autumn Annals (Zuozhuan), China’s first great work of historical writing
Outright Funds of $29,502 over a period of 16 months.
Spain and the New World in the Writings of Chimalpahin
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Susan Schroeder, Project Director, with co-editors and translators
Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera, Anne J. Cruz, and David E. Tavárez
The transcription, translation, and annotation of a 17th-century manuscript prepared by the Nahua historian Chimalpahin, who based his work on Francisco Lopez de Gomara’s history The Conquest of Mexico, first printed in Spain in 1552.
Outright Funds of $80,000 over a period of three years.
Cultural and Linguistic Annotation of Hopi Song
University of Arizona, Tucson
Emory Sekaquaptewa, Project Director, with translator and transcriber Leland Dennis,
translators Delfred Leslie and Alph Secakuku, linguistic analyst Kenneth Hill,
archaeologist Dorothy Washburn, and sound engineer James Blackwood
The transcription, translation into English, and annotation of a large body of publicly performed Hopi songs currently stored on wax cylinders and tape reels at the Library of Congress and the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.
Excavation of Prepalatial and Protopalatial Mochlos, Crete
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Jeffrey S. Soles and Costis Davaras, Project Directors; with assistant director Thomas
Brogan; architect and artist in chief Douglas Faulmann; architect and draftsman Damon
Cassiano; cataloguer Mary Ellen Soles; ceramic petrologist Eleni Nodarou; conservator
Michele Ruggenbucke; metals conservator Voula Golfomitsou; faunal and floral experts
David Reese, Dimitra Mylonas, Georgia Kotzamani, and Maria Ntinou; ceramic residue
analyst Andrew Koh; lithics expert Tristan Carter; physical anthropologist Sevi
Triantaphyllou; pottery specialists Kellee Barnard, Angus Smith, Freya Evenson, Evi Sikla,
and Natalia Vogeikoff; site conservators Stephania Chlouveraki and Costis Frangiadakis;
Greek Archaeological Service representative Evi Saliaka; and approximately 15 graduate
and undergraduate students from various American and Greek universities
Final seven-week excavation season and preparation of field reports at Mochlos, on the eastern coast of Crete, investigating the Early Minoan Bronze Age occupation, from ca. 3000 to 1900 B.C.
On the web at http://www.uncg.edu/~jssoles/Mochlos/first.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $45,000 over a period of one year.