Summer Stipends
The list below consists of Summer Stipends awarded in March 2003. Potential applicants may request a copy of ONE of these proposals. Send an e-mail to stipends@neh.gov with your name, mailing address, and the title of the proposal you wish to see. A copy will be sent to you by mail.
Amundson, Jhennifer
Judson College
Elgin, IL
Thomas Ustick Walter’s Theoretical Foundation for the Architectural Profession in Nineteenth-Century America
Ashton, Dianne
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ
Domestic Judaism Goes Public: A Social History of American Hanukkah
Baker, Raymond
Trinity College, Hartford
Hartford, CT
Moderate Islam’s Next Generation: The Complexity and Adaptability of the Islamic Mainstream in Egypt
Barnes, Bernadine
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC
Michelangelo in Print: The Early Reproductions in the Creation of a Canonical Figure
Baxley, Anne Margaret
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
Kant's Theory of Virtue: The Importance of Autocracy
Beal, Amy
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA
From the Zero Hour to Reunification: American Music In West Germany
Belasco, Susan
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
Black Hero: Toussaint L'Ouverture in Antebellum American Literature and Culture
Berland, Kevin
Pennsylvania State University, Shenango Campus
Sharon, PA
William Byrd’s Histories of the Dividing Line
Bidlack, Richard
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA
The Siege of Leningrad
Black, Cheryl
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
'Race Women' and the American Theatre
Blumenthal, Debra
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
Enemies and familiars: Muslim, eastern and black African slaves in late medieval Valencia
Bowles, Brett
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
Filmed News, Politics, and Public Opinion in France, 1940-1944
Brooks, Joanna
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
Samson Occom, Mohegan: Collected Writings by the Founder of Native American Literature
Camiscioli, Elisa
SUNY
Binghamton, NY
Rebuilding the French Race: Immigration, Reproduction, and National Identity in France, 1900-1939
Clooney, Francis
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary: A Study in Comparative Religion
Cohen, Paul
University of Paris
Paris, France
Courtly French, Learned Latin, and Peasant Patois: The Making of a National Language in Early Modern France
Collier, Patrick
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
Newspapers at Modernism's Great Divide
Coronado, Jorge
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Displaced Modernities: Poetry and Politics in the Andean Avant-Garde
Cossé Bell, Caryn
University of Massachusetts
Lowell, MA
Translation of the book Souvenirs d’Amérique et de France par une Créole, by Hélène d’Aquin Allain
Craib, Raymond
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
State Fixations, Fugitive Landscapes: A Spatial History of Modern Mexico
Dainotto, Roberto
Duke University
Durham, NC
Europe in Theory: Cultural Identity and the North-South Divide
Davalos, Karen Mary
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA
Narratives and Landscapes of Culture and Power: The Making of Community Space in Two Ethnic Neighborhoods
Davis, Diana
University of Texas
Austin, TX
Desert Wastes of the Maghreb: (Re)Writing French Colonial Environmental History of North Africa
Douglas, Davison
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
Pauli Murray: A Twentieth-Century American Life
DuJunco, Mercedes
New York University
New York, NY
With Strings Attached: Music, Networked Societies, and Chaozhou Chinese Cultural Identity
Ellis, Richard
Willamette University
Salem, OR
Pledging Allegiance
Ellison, James
California State University
Long Beach, CA
Colonial Performances: Remaking Nyakyusa Tradition and Identity in Twentieth Century Eastern Africa
Ericksen, Janet
University of Minnesota
Morris, MN
The Library Context and Early Reception of an Old English Book of Poetry
Farmer, Craig
Milligan College
Milligan College, TN
Swearing to God: The Sixteenth-Century Oath Controversies in Context
Frierson, Patrick
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA
Kant's Empirical Account of Moral Motivation
Games, Alison
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Agents of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660
George, Carol
Independent Scholar
Baldwinsville, NY
A History of the White Knights: Mississippi, 1964-70
Ghosh, Shubha
SUNY, Buffalo Law School
Buffalo, NY
Literary Woman and Economic Man at the Altar of Intellectual Property
Gomez-Bravo, Ana
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Literacy, Space, and Cultural Production in Late Medieval Iberia
Gonzalez-Rivera, Victoria
Independent Scholar
Imperial Beach, CA
Before the Revolution: Women's Rights and Right Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1936-1979
Griffiths, Alison
Bernard Baruch College, CUNY
New York, NY
'Shivers Down Your Spine': Panoramas, Museums, and the History of Interactive Technologies
Hamm, Richard
SUNY, Albany
Albany, NY
Arthur Garfield Hays and American Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis
Hammond, Jay
Quincy University
Quincy, IL
Translating Bonaventure's Collationes in Hexaemeron (1273-1274)
Hammons, Pamela
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
Of Poets and Things: Gender, Property, and Identity in Early Modern English Verse
Harrison, Carol
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
Restoring Catholicism in Postrevolutionary France: Gender, Belief, and Secularization, 1801-1870
Harvey, David
New College of Florida
Sarasota, FL
Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism, Politics, and Culture in Modern France
Hathaway, Jane
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Marginal Man: The Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch
Helmreich, Anne
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX
The Modern Landscape in British Painting, 1870-1920
Hepp, John
Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, PA
Spectacles of Modernity at the Centennial Exposition
Hieronymi, Pamela
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Excuses, Exemptions, and Two Kinds of Agency
Hunter, David
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
Ambrosiaster, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles: A Translation
Hunter, Phyllis
University of North Carolina
Greensboro, NC
Geographies of Capitalism: Imagining 'the Orient' in Early America
Hutchinson, Elizabeth
Barnard College
New York, NY
Progressivist Primitivism: Gender and Nationalism and Native American Art, 1890-1915
Kachun, Mitch
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
The Curse of Caste; or, the Slave Bride, and Other Civil War Era Writings by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American Woman
Kahn, Coppelia
Brown University
Providence, RI
Shakespeare and National Identity in England, the U.S., and the Canada
Karian, Stephen
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
A Bibliographical Analysis of Jonathan Swift’s 'Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift'
Kavky, Samantha
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Max Ernst in Arizona and the Hysterical Landscape
Keiser, George
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
"Medicines for meny man": The Life and Times of a Middle English Remedybook
Kerrison, Catherine
Villanova University
Villanova, PA
Race, Reading, and Writing in the Early American South, 1700-1810
Kirkman, Robert
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
The Ethical Complexity of the Built Environment: The Case of Atlanta
Knust, Jennifer
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
Jesus and an Adulteress in John 7:53-8:11
Koontz, Rex
University of Houston
Houston, TX
Performance and Power at an Ancient Mesoamerican Capital: El Tajín, Veracruz, Mexico
Krause, Sharon
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Desiring Justice: Norms, Motives, and Action in Liberal Politics
Kreilkamp, Ivan
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
The Endangered Voice: Victorian Fiction and the Myth of the Storyteller
Krugler, David
University of Wisconsin
Platteville, WI
The D-Minus Scenario: How Washington, D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War
Levine, Bruce
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA
Confederate Emancipation
Levine, Mary Ann
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster, PA
Queen Catharine Montour of the Seneca: An Archaeology of Gender and Ethnicity among the 18th-Century Iroquois
Lieb, Michael
University of Illinois
Chicago, IL
The Faces of God: Milton, Deity, and Discourse
Lippit, Seiji
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Between Ruin and Remembrance: Japanese Fiction of the Postwar Period
Lipton, Sara
SUNY, Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY
Preaching, Art, and Piety in the High Middle Ages (1150-1350)
Lu, Weijing
Mary Washington College
Fredericksburg, VA
True to Their Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China
Lutes, Jean
Manhattan College
Riverdale, NY
Journalism, Gender, and Fiction in America
Mandik, Peter
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ
Subjectivity and the Conscious Mind
Marvin, Roberta
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Verdi and the Victorians
McGinnis, Jon
University of Missouri
Saint Louis, MO
Avicenna's Physics: Recovering the Islamic Intellectual Tradition
McKirahan, Richard
Pomona College
Claremont, CA
Parmenides Testimonia: Translation
McRae, Joan
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney, VA
Alain Chartier: The Quarrel of the Belle dame sans mercy
Merithew, Caroline
University of Dayton
Dayton, OH
A World to Gain: Immigrants, Blacks, and the Creation of Hybrid Communities in the Midwestern U.S.
Miola, Robert
Loyola College
Baltimore, MD
The Catholic Renaissance: An Anthology of Primary Sources
Mirzeler, Mustafa
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
The Voyage of Sir Vivian Fuchs to the Legendary South Island in 1934
Morris, William
Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, IL
Naturalism and Normativity in Hume's Epistemology
Morrissey, Lee
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
Re-reading Reading in Eighteenth-Century Literary Criticism
Moyn, Samuel
Columbia University
New York, NY
Emmanuel Levinas: From the Interwar to the Cold War
Mulrooney, Jonathan
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
British Romanticism and the Subject of Theater, 1798-1830
Nel, Philip
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
Theodore Geisel and American Children's Literature
Otteson, James
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
Protagoras Resurrected: Moral Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment
Owensby, Brian
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Justice against Powerful Hands: Law and Colonial Lives in 17th-Century Mexico
Pappas, Andrea
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
Making Art Make History: Reconstructing the Market for Modern Art in New York City, 1929-1959.
Penner, Todd
Austin College
Sherman, TX
Rhetoric, Gender, and Imperial Values in Early Christian Narrative
Petterson, James
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA
Poetry Proscribed: The Trials of Poetry in France
Raykoff, Ivan
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA
The Pianist as Cultural Icon: Contributions from American Popular Theater
Robb, David
Davidson College
Davidson, NC
The Nature and Importance of Properties
Rosenbaum, Susan
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Mina Loy's Interior Designs
Rossinow, Doug
Metropolitan State University
St. Paul, MN
The Vital Margin: Interpreting Progressive Politics in Modern America
Sahlin, Claire
Texas Woman's University
Denton, TX
Female Prophecy, Birgitta of Sweden, and Late-Medieval Discourses on the Discernment of Spirits
Schilling, Derek
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
Paris on the Edge: Literature, City Planning and the Emergence of the Modern Suburb, 1918-1940
Schröder, Volker
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Women and Satire in 17th-Century France
Schueler, George
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
The Objectivity of Practical Reason
Schuessler, Michael
Barnard College
New York, NY
Towards a Literature of Foundations: Mural Painting and Missionary Theatre in New Spain
Scully, Pamela
Denison University
Granville, OH
Indigenous Women and the Making of the Early Atlantic World: The Cape Colony and Surinam
Seelig, Sharon
Smith College
Northampton, MA
'The Life of Me': The Self-Fashioning of Seventeenth-Century Women Writers
Sherrard, Cherene
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
The Mulatta Mystique: The Iconography of the New Negro Woman in Harlem Renaissance Literature and Visual Culture
Siddali, Silvana
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
Antebellum State Constitutions in the Old Northwest
Sinha, Ajay
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
The Cultural Currency of Oil Painting in Early Modern India, 1780-1850
Spicer, Kevin
Stonehill College
North Easton, MA
Hitler's Priests: Roman Catholic Clergy in the Nazi Party
Stodola, Zabelle
University of Arkansas
Little Rock, AR
The War in Words: Reading the U.S.-Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature
Stradling, David
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills
Theodore, Alisse
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
A Right to Speak: Constitutive Rhetorics, National Politics, and United States Women in the 1830s
Thuesen, Peter
Tufts University
Medford, MA
Predestination: The Fate of an Idea in American Protestant Culture
Todes, Daniel
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Ivan Pavlov: A Life in Russian Science
Trix, Frances
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
Albanian Sufi Baba Journeys West: Later Life Dialogues in America
Troyan, Brett
SUNY, Cortland
Cortland, NY
A quest for the Indian communal spirit: Gregorio Hernandez de Alba and the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Southwestern Colombia
van den Berg, Sara
St. Louis University
Saint Louis, MO
A Collection of Milton's Divorce Tracts and Related Texts, with a critical introduction.
Vetter, Lisa
American University
Washington, DC
Harriet Martineau and Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America
Voeks, Robert
California State University
Fullerton, CA
Ethnobotanical Legacies of Brazil’s African Diaspora
Watson, Bradley
St. Vincent College
Latrobe, PA
Ethics and Terror
Williams, Jerry M.
West Chester University
West Chester, PA
Lima Fundada: Identity Politics in a Providential Epic of Conquest
Wittman, Richard
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
Memory and monument in public discourse: the reconstruction of S. Paolo fuori le mura in Rome (1823-1930)
Witwer, David
Lycoming College
Williamsport, PA
Peglerized: How a Crusading Journalist Exposed a Union Corruption Scandal and Challenged the House of Labor.
Wright, John
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI
Biography of David Hume: Hume and his French Contemporaries
Wu, Judy
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Asia, Asian America, and American Social Movements
Zallen, Doris
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
Genetic Tests for Common Disorders: A Comparative Study of Ethical, Social, and Policy Issues
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