National Endowment for the Humanities
 
SUMMER STIPENDS AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
 
Announced: March 2008
Adam, Thomas
University of Texas, Arlington
Arlington, TX
History
Selected and Annotated Edition of the German Diaries of George and Anna Ticknor
 
Anderson, Joel Herbert
Utrecht University
Utrecht, ZZ
Philosophy
Scaffolded Autonomy: The Construction, Impairment, and Enhancement of Human Agency
 
Aragon, Lorraine V.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Anthropology
Indonesian Arts and the Making of Intellectual Property Law
 
Bailin, Miriam Lynn
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
British Literature
British Literary Societies: A Cultural History, 1880 - Present
 
Billado, Tracey L.
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
Medieval Studies
The Politics of “Evil Customs” in Western France, 950 - 1150
 
Boulukos, George E.
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Carbondale, IL
British Literature
Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748 - 1771
 
Brewer, Holly
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
American History
“Inheritable Blood”: Of Slavery and Freedom, Aristocracy and Empire in Early Virginia and the British Atlantic
 
Brown, Gregory S.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
European History
Beaumarchais and the Bastille: An Inadvertent Aristocrat in Revolutionary Paris
 
Burns, James Marshall
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY
Music History and Criticism
Documenting the Oral Literature of Ewe-Dance Drumming Communities in Ghana
 
Chandler, Cullen J.
Lycoming College
Williamsport, PA
Medieval Studies
Carolingian Catalonia: politics and culture in the Spanish March
 
Clinefelter, Joan
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO
European History
Radio in the American Sector (RIAS), 1946 - 1963: A German American Partnership in the Cold War
 
Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
British Literature
British Silva Culture: Trees and Forests in Long Eighteenth—Century Literature
 
Cook, Constance A.
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Asian Languages
Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao
 
Courage, Richard Arthur
Westchester Community College
Valhalla, NY
Composition and Rhetoric
Charting the Territory: Writers of the Bronzeville Renaissance
 
Curry, Ramona
University of Illinois, Urbana
Urbana, IL
Film History and Criticism
Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese Film Came to America
 
DeHart, Paul Robert
Lee University
Cleveland, TN
Political Science
Covenantal Realism: Political Obligation after the Fall of Conventional Social Contract Theory
 
Evrigenis, Ioannis D.
Tufts University
Medford, MA
Political Science
Images of Anarchy: The Natural Condition of Mankind in Political Thought and Discourse
 
Fauser, Annegret
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Music History and Criticism
Symphonies of War: Music in America during World War II
 
Ferrario, Sarah Brown
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
Classics
Athens the Great? The Ascendancy of the Individual in Classical Greek Historical Thought
 
Foster, Robert J.
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Anthropology
A Cultural History of the P.G. Black Collection of Pacific Islands Artifacts
 
Giddens, Ernest Eugene
Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge, ZZ
British Literature
The Complete Works of James Shirley
 
Greenblatt, Rachel L.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Jewish Studies
A Community's Memory: Jewish Views of Past and Present in Early Modern Prague
 
Grindley, Carl James
CUNY Research Foundation, Hostos Community College
Bronx, NY
Medieval Studies
An Electronic Edition of Piers Plowman B-Text British Library Cotton Caligula A.xi
 
Guiney, Mortimer Martin
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH
French Literature
The Crisis of French Literary Pedagogy, 1905 to the Present
 
Hahn, Steven Christopher
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
American History
Mary Musgrove: A Life on the Southern Frontier
 
Harrison, Anna
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA
History of Religion
“Thousands and Thousands of Lovers”: Community and the Holy Dead at the Thirteenth-Century Monastery of Helfta
 
Harvey, Paul William
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO
American History
Religion, Race, and American Ideas of Freedom
 
Hentschell, Roze Frances
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
English
The Cultural Geography of St. Paul's Precinct: 1580 - 1625
 
Hilsdale, Cecily
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Art History and Criticism
Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
 
Houston, Jason
University of Oklahoma, Norman
Norman, OK
Italian Literature
Shorter Latin Works of Giovanni Boccaccio
 
Jacobs, Jonathan A.
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY
Philosophy
Law, Reason, and Morality in Medieval Jewish Thought
 
Kinnamon, Noel J.
Mars Hill College
Mars Hill, NC
British Literature
An Edition of the Letters of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester (1598 - 1659)
 
Machan, Tim William
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
English
Conflict and Change in the History of English
 
Morshed, Adnan Zillur
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
Aesthetics
The Architecture of Ascension: Aviation and the Avant garde Imagination of the Future City
 
Moyer, Ann E.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
European History
Home of the Renaissance: Studies of Culture and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Florence
 
Murphy, Colleen Marie
Texas A & M University, Main Campus
College Station, TX
Philosophy
The Development of a Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Efforts to Promote Political Reconciliation
 
Notar, Beth E.
Trinity College, Hartford
Hartford, CT
Anthropology
Auto biographies: Car Consumption and Social Mobility in China
 
Ohlander, Erik Stefan
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Religion
The Sufis of Mecca: Mysticism and Transregionality in the Later Medieval Islamic World
 
Palmer, John Anderson
University of Florida Libraries
Gainesville, FL
History of Philosophy
An English Translation of Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Philosophers
 
Rao, Anupama P.
Barnard College
New York, NY
South Asian History
Caste and The Colonial City
 
Robinson, David
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY
Far Eastern History
Empire's Shadow: Understanding Eurasia after the Mongol Empire
 
Rockmore, Tom
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
Philosophy
Phenomenology and Epistemology: Kant, Hegel, and Knowledge
 
Rogers, Bethany Lynn
CUNY Research Foundation, College of Staten Island
Staten Island, NY
American History
Challenging the “Educationists”: The Ford Foundation and the Ideological Roots of Post War Teacher Education
 
Rupert, Linda Marguerite
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
History
Creolization and Contraband: Curacao in the Early Modern Caribbean and Atlantic
 
Rustow, Marina A.
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Near Eastern History
Patronage and Politics: Islamic Empire and the Medieval Jewish Community
 
Schachter, Allison
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Comparative Literature
Geographies of Jewish Culture: Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism in New York
 
Schrenk, Lisa Diane
Norwich University
Northfield, VT
Architecture
An Architectural Laboratory: The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
 
Schuchman, Anne Mary
New York University
New York, NY
Humanities
The Life of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219 - 1246)
 
Shepardson, Christine C.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Religion
Controlling Contested Places: Fourth-Century Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy
 
Singpurwalla, Rachel
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
History of Philosophy
The Metaphysics and Psychology of Unity in Plato's Ethics
 
Tor, Deborah Gerber
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, ZZ
Near Eastern History
The Reign of the Great Saljuq Sultan Sanjar in Afghanistan (1097 - 1157)
 
Toth, Stephen Andrew
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
European History
Law and Order in the Loire: Gender and the Juvenile Delinquent of Fin-de-Siecle France
 
Trabold, Bryan
Suffolk University
Boston, MA
Composition and Rhetoric
Resistance and Writing Space in Apartheid South Africa: The Story of the Weekly Mail and The New Nation
 
Trachtenberg, Barry
SUNY Research Foundation, Albany
Albany, NY
Jewish Studies
Write and Record! The Yiddish Encyclopedia Project and the Holocaust
 
Vallega Neu, Daniela
California State University, Stanislaus Foundation
Turlock, CA
Philosophy
Translation of Martin Heidegger's Beitraege zur Philosophie
 
Vitz, Rico
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, FL
History of Philosophy
Delusive and Dangerous? Hume's Naturalistic Psychology of Religious Belief
 
Vose, Kevin Alan
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
History of Religion
The Logic of Emptiness and the Emptiness of Logic: The Creation of Tibetan Scholasticism
 
Waller, Susan Stewart
Curators of the University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
Art History and Criticism
Posing as Art: Cleo de Merode and Gwendolyn John as Artist's Models
 
Wennerlind, Carl
Barnard College
New York, NY
British History
Credit, Alchemy, and Death: Histories of the British Financial Revolution
 
Wisse, Jacob
Yeshiva University
New York, NY
Art History and Criticism
New York City Firehouses: The Legacy of Renaissance Ideals in a Modern Urban Context
 
Zamindar, Vazira
Brown University
Providence, RI
South Asian History
Archaeology, Islam and the Making of Gandhara Art in Modern South Asia
 
Zhou, Gang
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
Comparative Literature
Language, Myth, Identity: The Chinese Vernacular Movement in a Comparative Perspective