National Endowment for the Humanities

FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
Division of Research Programs

Announced: November 2000


Richard O. Abel, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
Film History and Criticism
The "Useful Art" of Cinema and Its American Audiences, 1908-1914

Elaine S. Abelson, New School University, New York City
American History
The Dimensions of Inequality: Homeless Women in the Great Depression

Gregg A. Andrews, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos
American History
Hard Times in Texas: Labor, Culture, and the Great Depression

Roger Ariew, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Philosophy
Descartes' First Critics

Michael F. Aung-Thwin, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Asian Studies
The Kingdom of Ava in the History and Culture of Burma, 1364-1527

Shelley O. Baranowski, University of Akron, Ohio
European History
Strength Through Joy: Leisure, Tourism, and Consumption in the Third Reich

Mark V. Barrow, Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
History & Philosophy of Science
American Naturalists and the Specter of Extinction since the Age of Jefferson

Ira R. Bashkow, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Anthropology
"Whitemen" in the Moral World of Orokaiva of Papua New Guinea

Sammy L. Basu, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
Political Science
A Liberal Theory of Self-Ownership: Richard Overton and the English "Revolution"

Anna Maria Berger, University of California, Davis
Music
The Implications of the Art of Memory for Medieval Music

Nadine S. Berenguier, University of New Hampshire, Durham
French Literature
Conduct Books in 18th-century France

Bettina A. Bergmann, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Art History & Criticism
Ancient Roman Spectacles of Landscape

Gabrielle S. Bersier, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana
German Literature
Goethe's Physiological Autobiography and the Organic Discourse of German Romanticism

Anne M. Blackburn, University of South Carolina, Columbia
History of Religion
Crossing the Watershed: Buddhist Education, Devotion and Identity in Late Colonial Sri Lanka

Casey N. Blake, Columbia University, New York City
American Studies
Public Art without a Public: The Politics of American Public Art, 1960-2000

Adrienne Block, City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York City
Music
Music in New York City, 1863-75: Completing Vera Brodsky Lawrence's Strong on Music, 1836-62

Christopher L. Bongie, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
French Literature
Translation and Critical Edition of Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal (1826)

Kevin G. Boyle, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
American History
The Sweet Case and Civil Rights Activism in the 1920s Urban North

Amy B. Bridges, University of California, San Diego
Political Science
The Western States in the Progressive Era: Society and Politics

Pieter B. F. J. Broucke, Middlebury College, Vermont
Architecture History & Criticism
The Pantheon of Agrippa: Architecture, Sculpture, and Meaning

Kathleen M. Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
American History
Standards, Practices, and Meanings of Hygiene in the United States in the Mid-19th Century

Michael F. Brown, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Anthropology
Protecting Native Heritage: Prospects and Dilemmas

Jurgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Latin American History
From Trade Conquistadors to Blue-eyed Mexicans: A German Merchant Clan in Mexico City, 1865-present

Lawrence I. Buell, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
American Literature
A Cultural/Critical History of the "Great American Novel"

John D. Buenker, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha
American History
Charles McCarthy and the Dynamics of Progressive Era Reform

Ardis C. Cameron, University of Southern Maine, Portland
American Studies
In Search of Peyton Place (1956): The Memory and Meaning of an American Icon

J. Douglas Canfield, University of Arizona, Tucson
British Literature
Shifting Cultural Values in English Revolution Comedy, 1688-1707

E. Wayne Carp, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington
American History
Jean Paton (1908- ) and the Adoption Rights Movement: The Search for Identity

Nancy Cervetti, Avila College, Kansas City, Missouri
History & Philosophy of Science
Selections from the Letters of S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914)

Shobhana L. Chelliah, University of North Texas, Denton
Linguistics
Discovering Tibeto-Burman Sociocultural and Linguistic History through Early Meithei Literature

William J. Christmas, San Francisco State University, California
British Literature
English Labouring-Class Poets, 1700-1900

Timothy J. Clark, University of California, Berkeley
Art History & Criticism
Picasso and Mondrian, 1925-33

Timothy D. Cleaveland, University of Florida, Gainesville
African Studies
Milk Kinship in the Nineteenth-Century Sahara

Thomas D. Conlan, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Far Eastern History
From Sovereign to Symbol: A Liturgical Lexicon of Legitimacy in 14th-century Japan

G. Thomas Couser, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
American Literature
Auto/Bio/Ethics: Ethical Issues in Contemporary Life Writing from Antiquity to the 19th Century

Georgia J. Cowart, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Music History & Criticism
A Festive Rebellion: The Ballet and the Art of Utopian Protest under Louis XIV and the Regency

Elizabeth C. Cromley, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
Architecture History & Criticism
The Food Axis: Cooking, Dining, and Domestic Space

Patricia K. Curd, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Philosophy
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments (5th Century BCE). A Text and Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Andrew S. Curran, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
History
The Philosophes on Black Africa: Dis/junctions in French Enlightenment Thought

Cynthia J. Davis, University of South Carolina, Columbia
American Studies
A Biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

Richard H. Davis, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Non-western Religion
Age of Temples: Religious Culture in Medieval South India

Barbara B. Diefendorf, Boston University, Massachusetts
European History
Politics and Piety in Counter-Reformation France

Faye E. Dudden, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
American History
The Favored Hour: Politics, Culture, and the New York Women's Movement, 1860-1870

Paul V. Dutton, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
History & Philosophy of Science
Doctors Versus Mutual Aid Societies: National Medical Insurance in France, 1928-1945

Bruce S. Eastwood, University of Kentucky, Lexington
History & Philosophy of Science
Ordering the Heavens: Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance

Michael S. Eldridge, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
American Studies
"Calypso Crazes," Race and American Cultural Identity

Genevieve J. EscureUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Linguistics
Garifuna: An Endangered Language of Central America

Robert Faggen, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California
American Literature
The Notebooks of Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Priscilla P. Ferguson, Columbia University, New York City
Sociology
French Food as National Identity: The Origin of French Cultural Distinctiveness

Jeffrey B. Fish, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Classical Literature
Philodemus: On the Good King According to Homer (1st Century BCE): A Critical Text with Commentary and Translation

Dennis A. Flynn, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts
British Literature
"Nothing Else Is": Anne More and John Donne

Jana Fortier, Southwest State University, Marshall, Minnesota Anthropology
Hunter-Gatherers at the Harvest: Asian Foragers in Contemporary Perspective

Jerold C. Frakes, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Jewish Studies
Anthology of Early Yiddish Literature, 1100-1700

Richard A. Frasca, Independent Scholar, Boston, Massachusetts
Asian Literature
The Dice Game and the Disrobing (Pakatai Tuyil): Translation, Textual Analysis, and Ritual Commentary on Hindu Tradition

Paula Fredriksen, Boston University, Massachusetts
Religion
Augustine and Israel: The Bible, the Church and the Jews in Augustine's Theology of History

Victor A. Friedman, University of Chicago, Illinois
Linguistics
The Balkan Languages—Contact, Convergence, and Individuation

James A. Fujii, University of California, Irvine
Asian Studies
Japanese Railways and the Culture of Consumption

N. Louanna Furbee, University of Missouri, Columbia
Anthropology
The Miracle of Lomantan: Narratives of the Religious Reflection of the 1994 Zapatista Revolt in Mexico

Diana J. Fuss, Princeton University, New Jersey
Literature
The Sense of an Interior: The Houses of Dickinson, Freud, Keller, Proust, and Darwin

Diane Y. Ghirardo, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Architecture History & Criticism
Women's Spaces in Renaissance Ferrara

John M. Gingerich, Independent Scholar, Baltimore, Maryland
Music
Schubert's Project of Composition in Beethoven's Genres, 1824-1828

Lisa Gitelman, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Media
Toward a Cultural History of Sound Recording and New Media

Edmund J. Goehring, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Music
The Subliterary World of Mozart's Don Giovanni (1787)

Peter B. Golden, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
Russian History
The Qipchaqs of Medieval Eurasia

Lenn E. Goodman, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Philosophy
Islamic Humanism

Lisa M. Gordis, Barnard College, New York City
American Literature
"Beyond What Words Can Utter": The Power and Limits of Language for Early Quakers

Laura R. Graham, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Anthropology
Discourse, Expressive Performance and New Media: Xavante Indians of Brazil in the Global Public Sphere

Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University, Columbus
American History
Race and Culture in American War-Making, 1832-1902

Atina J. Grossmann, Cooper Union, New York City
European History
Victims, Victors, and Survivors: Germans, Allies, and Jews in Occupied Germany, 1945- 1949

Camille Guerin-Gonzales, University of Colorado, Boulder
History
How Black is Coal? Appalachia, South Wales and the American Southwest, 1890-1947

Achsah Guibbory, University of Illinois, Urbana
British Literature
Imagined Identities: The Uses of Judaism in 17th-Century England

Matthew C. Gutmann, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Anthropology
Manhood and Health in Oaxaca City, Mexico

Ambreen Hai, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
British Literature
Making Words Matter: Literary Agency, Truth, and the Body in English Indian Literature

William M. Hamlin, Idaho State University, Pocatello
British Literature
Skepticism and English Renaissance Tragedy

F. Allan Hanson, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Anthropology
The Impact of Information Technology on Legal Knowledge

Peggy G. Hargis, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro
Rural Studies
After the Whip: The Rise and Fall of the Black Yeomanry in Georgia

Lindsey B. Harlan, Connecticut College, New London
History of Religion
Lasting Impressions: Representing Heroism in Contemporary Hero Cults

George W. Harris, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Philosophy
Tragedy and the Plurality of Value

Thomas F. Head, Hunter College, City University of New York
European History
Sanctity and Society in Western Christendom: Rituals, Devotion, and Canonization, 1050-1550

Gail B. Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz
Far Eastern History
The Gender of Memory: Rural Chinese Women and the 1950s

Claire O. Hill, Independent Scholar, Paris, France
Philosophy
Translation of E. Husserl's Einleitung in die Logic und Erkenntnistheorie (1906-07)

Mark A. Hinchman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Architecture History & Criticism
African Rococo: House and Portrait in 18th-Century Senegal

John Holzaepfel, Independent Scholar, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
Music
A Musical and Intellectual Biography of the American Pianist and Composer David Tudor (1926-1996)

Takeshi Inomata, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Archaeology
Classical Maya Courtiers: Excavation Report on Aguateca, Guatemala

Yonglin Jiang, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
Far Eastern History
A Translation of and Introduction to the Great Ming Code (1397)

David G. Johnson, University of California, Berkleley
Far Eastern History
The Great Temple Festivals of Shanxi in Late Imperial China

Paul C. Johnson, University of Missouri, Columbia
History of Religion
Migration, Religious Revision, and Indigenous Versions of Globalization: A Caribbean Case, the Garifuna of Honduras

Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, State University of New York, Potsdam
Anthropology
Parochial Schools and the Maintenance of Pennsylvania German in Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite Communities

Brian D. Joseph, Ohio State University, Columbus
Anthropology
The Balkan Languages—Contact, Convergence, and Individuation

Padma A. Kaimal, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Art History & Criticism
Learning to See the Goddess in South India

Frances M. Kamm, New York University, New York City
Philosophy
The Morality of Harming and Aiding

Benjamin J. Kaplan, University of Iowa, Iowa City
European History
Divided by Faith: A Social History of Religious Toleration in Europe, 1500-1800

Steven T. Katz, Boston University, Massachusetts
Philosophy of Religion
Mysticisms in Their Contexts

Bruce A. King, Independent Scholar, Muncie, Indiana
English Literature
The Internationalization of English Literature, 1947-2000

Jennifer L. Klein, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
American History
Managing Security: The Business of American Social Policy, 1910-1960

Livia Kohn, Boston University, Massachusetts
Non-western Religion
Monasticism in Medieval Chinese Daoism

Todd C. Kontje, University of California at San Diego
German Literature
German Orientalism: National Identity and the Global Imagination

Arnold Krupat, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
Native American Studies
Red Matters: Native American Literature Today

Rodrigo J. Lazo, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
American Literature
Cuban Writers in the United States, 1848-1882

Elizabeth Leake, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, California
Italian Literature
Consummatum est: The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone (1900-1978)

Paula Y. Lee, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
History & Philosophy of Science
The Site of Time: Science, History, and Modernity at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle

James E. Lewis, Jr., Independent Scholar, Brookhaven, Pennsylvania
American History
Rethinking and Rereading the Aaron Burr Conspiracy

Beverly B. Mack, University of Kansas, Lawrence
African Studies
Contemporary Muslim Women's Scholarly Works: Kano, Nigeria

Sabina Magliocco, California State University, Northridge
Folklore
Folklore and the Making of American Neo-Paganism

Mary Ann Mahony, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Latin American History
Revisiting the Violent Land: Bahia, Brazil's Cacao Area, 1850-1937

Peter C. Mancall, University of Kansas, Lawrence
American History
Richard Hakluyt's Promise and the Origins of English America in an Age of Discovery

Donald J. Mastronarde, University of California, Berkeley
Classical Literature
The Art of Euripides (c485-406 BCE)

Rachel F. McDermott, Barnard College, New York City
History of Religion
There is Fortune in the Festival: Economics and Politics in Bengali Goddess Religion

Maurie D. McInnis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Art History & Criticism
The Classical Style in the Arts of Antebellum Charleston, South Carolina

Amy E. McNair, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Art History & Criticism
The Buddhist Sculpture Grottoes at Longmen: Patronage, Politics, and Self- representation in Medieval China

Mark L. McPherran, University of Maine, Farmington
Philosophy
Socrates and Plato on Piety: A Study of the Euthyphro (380 BCE)

Mark S. Mendell, Queens College, Flushing, New York
Jurisprudence
John Dewey's Philosophy of Law and American Jurisprudence

Alida C. Metcalf, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Latin American History
Jesuit and Mameluco Go-betweens and the Formation of Brazilian Society

Cristanne C. Miller, Pomona College, Claremont, California
Comparative Literature
Women Shaping Modernism: Gender, Nation, Poetry

Sally H. Mitchell, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
British Literature
Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904): A Biography

Lynne K. Miyake, Pomona College, Claremont, California
Asian Literature
Siting Interactive Narrators and Collaborative, Performative Readers in 10th-12th-century Japanese Texts

David A. Morgan, Valparaiso University, Indiana
Art History & Criticism
A History of the Religious Tract in19th-century America

W. David Myers, Fordham University, New York City
European History
Death and a Maiden: Infanticide, Women's Crime, and Truth in Early Modern Germany

Amy L. Neff, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Art History & Criticism
Mary at the Crucifixion: Compassion and Birth

Bodo Nischan, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
European History
Creating the Protestant Nation: Religious and Cultural Identities in Early Modern Germany

Bridget Erica Orr, Fordham University, New York City
British Literature
Medea's Part: Imagining Infanticide in the 18th Century

Lorraine S. Pangle, Independent Scholar, Toronto, Canada
Political Science
Reconsidering Moral Responsibility: Three Classical Perspectives

Thomas L. Pangle, University of Toronto, Canada
Political Science
Intellectual Biography of Leo Strauss (1899-1973)

Vincent P. Pecora, University of California, Los Angeles
Comparative Literature
Religion and Community in Modern Culture: T. S. Eliot, Georges Bataille, and Walter Benjamin

Nanxiu Qian, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Asian Literature
Chronicling China's Reform: The Late Qing Woman Writer Xue Shaohui (1866-1911)

Christina Rivera-Garza, San Diego State University, California
Latin American History
Mad Narratives: Psychiatrists and Inmates Debate Gender, Class, and Nation at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910-30

David W. Robinson, Michigan State University, East Lansing
African and European History
Multiple Identities: The Devès Family Firm and the Construction of French Imperialism

Lisa Rosner, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey
History of Science
Universities and Academies in the Age of the Enlightenment

Ellen Ross, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah
British History
Slum Journeys, Middle-class Women and London Poverty, 1860-1939

Harold D. Roth, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Far Eastern History
A Complete Translation of the Huai-nan Tzu (139 BCE): A Seminal Work of Early Taoism

Kevin L. Rozario, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
American History
Nature's Evil Dreams: Disaster and the Making of Modern America

David H. Sacks, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Renaissance Studies
The Culture of Freedom in Early Modern England

Thomas J. Schlereth, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
American Studies
American Silva: A Cultural, Landscape, and Scientific History of North American Arboretums

Jana K. Schulman, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
Medieval Studies
Laws of Later Iceland: Jónsbók (13th century)

Erik R. Seeman, State University of New York, Buffalo
American History
Deathways: Cross-cultural Encounters with Death in Colonial America

Charles P. Segal, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Classical Literature
Body and Self in Ovid's Metamorphoses (1st century CE)

Martha Ann Selby, University of Texas, Austin
Asian Studies
The Semiotics of Gender and Femininity in Sanskrit Medical Texts

Sergio E. Serulnikov, Boston College, Massachusetts
Latin American History
Indian Insurgence in Comparative Perspective: Ethnicity and Political Cultures in the 18th-century Andes

Qin Shao, The College of New Jersey, Ewing
Far Eastern History
Marketing a Model County: The Commercialization of Politics in Early 20th-century China

Yuri Slezkine, University of California, Berkeley
Russian History
Moscow's House of Government, 1928-38

Paul J. Smith, Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Far Eastern History
Political Culture in Sung China and the Empires of the Northern Frontier, 960-1279

Janet M. Soares, Barnard College, New York City
Dance History & Criticism
Biography of Martha Hill (1900-1995)

Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri, Columbia
European History
Another Side of Civil Society: Property in 19th-century Germany

Susan Sperling, Chabot College, Hayward, California
Anthropology
The Intellectual Life History of Ashley Montagu (1905-1999)

Debra Spitulnik, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Anthropology
Voicing the Nation: Verbal Art and the Public in Zambian Talk Radio

Govind P. Sreenivasan, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
European History
The Peasants of Ottobeuren, Germany 1487-1723

Judith Stacey, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Sociology
Alternative Family Formation in Los Angeles

Sam F. Stephenson, Independent Scholar, Durham, North Carolina
Music History & Criticism
Documenting a New York City Jazz Loft, 1954-1964

Patricia A. Sullivan, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
American History
Struggle Toward Freedom: A History of the NAACP

Ted R. Supalla, University of Rochester, New York
Linguistics
Studying the Historical Roots of American and French Sign Languages

Henry S. Sussman, State University of New York, Buffalo
Comparative Literature
The Poet, the Philosopher, the Reader, and the Critic: Discourse Analysis and Criticism

Talbot J. Taylor, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
English Language
Agency and Normativity in Western Linguistic Thought Since the Enlightenment

Mark Toher, Union College, Schenectady, New York
Classical History
A Text and Commentary on the Life of Augustus by Nicolaus of Damascus(1st century BCE)

Christina M. Tortora, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Linguistics
A Grammar of Borgomanerese (A Northern Italian Dialect)

Lauri K. Umansky, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts
American History
Disability and the Politics of Mothering 1945 to the Present

Katherine V. Unruh, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Latin American Literature
Intervening Acts: Women Writers and Cultural Modernity in Latin America, 1920s- 1930s

Robert Norman Van Gulick, Syracuse University, New York
Philosophy
Understanding Consciousness

Daniel M. Varisco, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Anthropology
Social History of Agriculture in Yemen

David Vaught, Texas A & M University, College Station
American History
The Rise and Fall of California Wheat Culture, 1850-1910

Charles F. Walker, University of California, Davis
Latin American History
Shaking Empires in the Age of the Enlightenment: The 1746 Earthquake in Lima, Peru and Its Long Aftermath

Miriam L. Wallace, University of South Florida, Sarasota
British Literature
Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel, 1790-1810

Vesna A. Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara
Non-western Religion
Critical Edition and Translation of the Smrtyupastmana Sutra (2nd-4th centuries CE)

Laura D. Walls, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
American Literature
Recalling Cosmos: Consilience in 19th-Century American Literature and Culture

Judith E. Walsh, State University of New York, Old Westbury
South Asian History
Advice for Women: Rewriting Patriarchy in Nine Domestic Manuals from Colonial Bengal

Dorothy K. Washburn, The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
Anthropology
Metaphors in Hopi Language and Art

Patricia A. Wattenmaker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Archaeology
Early Cities of Upper Mesopotamia: Sociopolitical Dynamics and the Urban Process

Mark S. Weiner, Independent Scholar, New Haven, Connecticut
Jurisprudence
Black Trials: The Legal Drama of Race and Citizenship from the Colonial Era to the Present

Gennifer S. Weisenfeld, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Art History & Criticism
The Art of Persuasion: Commercial Design in 20th-century Japan

John P. Welle, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Italian Literature
Film on Paper: Writing Silent Cinema in Italy

Virginia W. Wexman, University of Illinois, Chicago
Film History & Criticism
Hollywood Directors and the Cultural Construction of the Artist

Luise S. White, University of Florida, Gainesville
African History
Imagining Independence: Writing Rhodesia, 1965-1994

Nancy L. Wicker, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Art History & Criticism
Goldsmiths, Patrons, and Women: Tracing Identity, Ethnicity, and Gender Through Migration Period Scandinavian Art

Lois P. Zamora, University of Houston, Texas
Latin American Literature
The Inordinate Eye: Text and Image in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Ziony Zevit, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, California
History of Religion
Proto-Judaisms: Studies Bearing on Their Visible Expressions and Practices

Eric S. Zolov, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Latin American History
Miracle of Miracles? Examining a Critical Juncture in Mexico's Post-Revolutionary History, 1958-1963