National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH FELLOWSHIPS AND
FACULTY RESEARCH AWARDS, 2008-2009
Awarded: November 2007
Division of Research Programs
Announced: February 2008

Amar, Joseph P.
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Near Eastern Literature
Ephrem the Syrian: An Intellectual and Cultural Biography, 4th Century B.C.

Andaya, Barbara Watson
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Honolulu, HI
Far Eastern History
Christian Minorities in Southeast Asia, 1511 - 1945

Barber, Sotirios A.
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Political Science
American Constitutional Failure and Success

Bartov, Omer
Brown University
Providence, RI
European History
Interethnic Relations in Buczacz, Galicia, 1500 - 1945, and the Origins of the Holocaust

Basbanes, Nicholas Andrew
Independent Scholar
North Grafton, MA
Interdisciplinary
The History of Paper, Timeless Marvel of Human Ingenuity

Berry, Jessica N.
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
History of Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition

Beveridge, June Meryle
Independent Scholar
Washington, DC
Art History and Criticism
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian Artist, 1884 - 1920: A Reexamination through New Archival Resources

Bonastia, Christopher Jay
Lehman College Library
Bronx, NY
Sociology
The Struggle Over School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1959 - 1964

Brown, Thomas Joseph
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Columbia, SC
American Studies
Civic Monuments of the Civil War and the Reconstruction of American Memory

Buchenau, Jurgen
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
Latin American History
General Abelardo L. Rodriguez and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1920 - 1967

Buettner, Brigitte
Trustees of Smith College
Northampton, MA
Art History and Criticism
Material Imagination and the Portrayal of Precious Stones in Medieval Art and Culture

Chavarria Mendoza, Maria Clotilde
Independent Scholar
Saint Paul, MN
Linguistics
Documenting the Endangered Oral Tradition of Ese Eja in Peru

Chinitz, David Evan
Loyola University, Chicago
Chicago, IL
English
Langston Hughes's Middle Way

Clay, Lauren Reynolds
Texas A & M University, Main Campus
College Station, TX
European History
Theater in France and the Colonies, 1680 - 1789

D'Antonio, Patricia O'Brien
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
American History
American Nursing: Neighborhood Work and National Mission

Desormeaux, Daniel
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
French Literature
The Memoirs of Toussaint Louverture, First Black Memorialist, 1743 - 1803

Doris, John Michael
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Philosophy
The Philosophy and Psychology of the Self

Dutton, Anthony Richard
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
English
William Shakespeare as Court Dramatist

Engelmann, Stephen G.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Political Science
Biopolitics: Charles Darwin, Moral Philosophy, and the Growth of a Governmental Social Science

Feldman, Fred A.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA
Ethics
A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Happiness

Frierson, Cathy
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Durham, NH
Russian History
Child Survivors of Soviet “Enemies of the People”

Frierson, Patrick
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA
Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's Theory of Human Nature

Fulton, Thomas Chandler
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ
British Literature
John Milton and the Invention of Political Science

George, Kenneth M.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI
Anthropology
Artist Citizens and Political Change in Postcolonial Indonesia

Gianquitto, Tina
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO
American Literature
Charles Darwin's Female Correspondents and the Development of 19th Century Science

Gibson, Mary S.
CUNY Research Foundation, John Jay College
New York City, NY
European History
Prison Policy and the Construction of a New Political Order in Italy, 1860 - 1914

Gobat, Michel
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Latin American History
Central America's Encounter with U.S. Manifest Destiny, 1848 - 1860

Goodman, Susan L.
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
American Literature
The Atlantic Monthly and the “American Idea”

Grasso, Christopher D.
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
American History
Skepticism and American Faith from the Revolution to the Civil War

Grehan, James Paul
Portland State University
Portland, OR
History
Religion and Modernity in Ottoman Syria and Palestine, 18th - 19th Centuries

Gudmundson, Lowell
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
Latin American History
Coffee, Cooperatives, and the Lessons of Costa Rican Development

Guo, Li
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Near Eastern Literature
Ibn Daniyal, A Medieval Muslim Entertainer and His World, 1248 - 1311

Halevi, Leor Edward
Texas A & M University, Main Campus
College Station, TX
History of Religion
Forbidden Goods: The History of Cross Cultural Trade in Islamic Law

Hannay, Margaret P.
Siena College
Loudonville, NY
British Literature
Lady Mary Wroth, 17th Century English Writer: A Biography

Hawthorne, Walter
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
African History
Forging an Atlantic Creole Culture: Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast, in Portugal, and in Northeast Brazil, c. 1600-1800

Herman, David
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Russian Literature
Leo Tolstoy's Struggle with the Limits of Fiction

Hesselink, Reinier Herman
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Far Eastern History
The Rise and Fall of Christian Nagasaki, 1560 - 1640

Husby, Scott Harold
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Medieval Studies
A Working Census of Bookbindings on 15th Century Incunables in American Library Collections

Hyde, Lewis
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH
Interdisciplinary
Intellectual Property and the Tension between Private Ownership and the Public Domain at the American Founding

Isaac, Larry
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Sociology
Elite Paramilitaries in the Gilded Age: Private Militias in Cleveland, Ohio

John, Richard R.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
American History
Network Nation: Ideals and Institutions in American Telecommunications, 1840 - 1920

Johnson, Lyman
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
Latin American History
The French Conspiracy of 1795 and the Rise of Argentine Independence

Kavaler, Ethan Matt
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, ZZ
Art History and Criticism
Renaissance Gothic Architecture: Innovation, Ornament, and Authority, 1470 - 1530

Kavrus Hoffmann, Nadezhda
Glenmont, NY
Medieval Studies
Catalog of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in U. S. Collections

Kazin, Michael
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Humanities
Big Dreamers: A Interpretative History of the American Left

Kment, Boris Christian
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Philosophy
A Philosophic Anaylsis of the Concept of Possibility

Kotkin, Stephen
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Russian History
Stalin's World and Dictatorship in Modern Times

Kselman, Thomas A.
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
European History
Religious Conversion and Liberty in Post Revolutionary France

Kulick, Don
New York University
New York, NY
Anthropology
Taiap: The Dying Language That Didn't Die in Gapun, New Guinea

Leigh, Catesby Morris
Independent Scholar
Washington, DC
Art History and Criticism
Monumental America: The Rise and Fall of Beauty and Grandeur in Our Monuments and Public Buildings

Levine, Victoria Lindsay
Colorado College
Colorado Springs, CO
Native American Studies
Music and Intertribalism of Woodland Indian Communities in Oklahoma

Lindenmeyr, Adele
Villanova University
Villanova, PA
Russian History
The Lives of Sofia Panina, Russian Citizen Countess, 1871 - 1956

Little, Katherine Clover
Fordham University
Bronx, NY
British Literature
The Emergence of the Pastoral Mode in 16th Century English Poetry

Lloyd, David C.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
English
The Impact of Samuel Beckett's Art Criticism on His Literary and Visual Imagination

Martens, Peter W.
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
History of Religion
Greco Roman, Judaic, and Christian Traditions in Hadrian's “Introduction to the Divine Scriptures,” 5th Century A.D.

Matin, A. Michael
Warren Wilson College
Asheville, NC
British Literature
British Anxieties in Pre World War I Invasion Scare Literature

McIntosh, Janet Susan
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
Anthropology
Troubled Legacies and Postcolonial Dilemmas of White Kenyans

Meconi, Honey
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Music History and Criticism
A Cultural History of the Chansonnier in 13th 16th Century France

Miller, Gwenn A.
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
History
Russian Colonization of Early America on Kodiak Island, 18th - 19th Centuries

Miller, Paul Brian
McDaniel College
Westminster, MD
European History
The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in History and Memory

Milnor, Kristina
Barnard College
New York, NY
Classics
The Literary Graffiti of Roman Pompeii and Their Cultural Contexts

Mitchell, Lisa
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Anthropology
Railway Stations as Sites of Emerging Political Identity in India, 19th - 20th Centuries

Moevs, Christian Robert
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Italian Literature
Dante's Commedia and the Mysticism of the Contemplative Tradition

Nenzi, Laura
Florida International University
Miami, FL
Far Eastern History
Female Activists and Political Change During the 1868 Meiji Restoration in Japan

Newlands, Samuel
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Philosophy
Reconceiving Benedict Spinoza's Metaphysics and Ethics

Osburn, Katherine M.
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN
American History
A Tribal History of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

Paugh, Amy Lynn
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
Anthropology
Linguistic Practices and Cultural Politics Among the Children of Dominica, West Indies

Pincock, Christopher John
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Philosophy
The Value of Mathematics for Scientific Representation and Knowledge

Polasky, Janet L.
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Durham, NH
European History
Perspectives on Revolution by Transnational Travelers in the 18th Century Atlantic World

Powell, Jason Eliot
St. Joseph's University
Philadelphia, PA
British Literature
The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, 1503 - 1542: Volume 2, Poetry

Prakash, Gyan
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
History
Bombay/Mumbai Fables: Imaginary Histories of the Modern City

Premo, Bianca
Florida International University
Miami, FL
History
Challenging Authority Through Civil Litigation in Colonial Spanish America

Prentiss, Craig Russell
Rockhurst University
Kansas City, MO
Religion
Religion and African American Theatre, 1858 - 1945

Richardson, Henry S.
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Ethics
The Nature of Moral Community

Rollyson, Carl
CUNY Research Foundation, Bernard Baruch College
New York, NY
English
Amy Lowell, American Poet, 1874 - 1925: A Biography

Sacks, David H.
Reed College
Portland, OR
British History
Geographer Richard Hakluyt and His World, c. 1550 - 1625

Schreibman, Susan
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
Literature
A Social and Cultural Biography of Thomas MacGreevy, Irish Poet, Art Historian, and Critic, 1893 - 1967

Schulz, Andrew
University of Oregon, Eugene
Eugene, OR
Art History and Criticism
Islamic Art and Culture in the Spanish Imagination, 1750 - 1815

Shevzov, Vera
Trustees of Smith College
Northampton, MA
Religion
Marian Devotion and Religious Life in Modern Russia

Stott, Douglas W.
Independent Scholar
Atlanta, GA
German Literature
The Correspondence of Caroline Schlegel Schelling, Leader in Early German Romanticism, 1763 - 1809

Suid, Lawrence H.
Independent Scholar
Greenbelt, MD
Film History and Criticism
The Search for Fred Zinnemann, Film Director, 1907 - 1997

Sulik, Gayle Ann
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
Sociology
A Critical Analyis of the Pink Ribbon Culture of Breast Cancer in the U. S.

Swayne, Steven Robert
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Music History and Criticism
William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life, 1910 - 1992

Swearingen, C. Jan
Texas A & M University, Main Campus
College Station, TX
History and Theory of Rhetoric
The Influence of the Scottish Enlightenment on American Founders

Taubman, William
Amherst College
Amherst, MA
Political Science
Mikhail Gorbachev, Leader of Extraordinary Contradictions: A Biography

Taylor, Amy Murrell
SUNY Research Foundation, Albany
Albany, NY
American History
A Social History of Civil War Slave Refugee Camps

Tobin, James Edward
Miami University, Oxford
Oxford, OH
American History
The Impact of Disability on America's Collective Memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Townsley, Eleanor
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
Sociology
American Media Intellectuals in the Public Sphere, 1993 - 2002

Valencius, Conevery Bolton
Independent Scholar
Quincy, MA
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The New Madrid Earthquake and the Transformation of 19th Century Science and Culture

Van Engen, John
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Medieval Studies
Reason, Reading, and Revolt: The Spirit of 12th Century Europe

Vargas, Manuel Rogelio
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Philosophy
Beyond Atomism and Monism: A Revisionist View of Moral Responsibility

Vinson, Stephen Michael
SUNY Research Foundation, College at New Paltz
New Paltz, NY
Ancient History
A Study of the “First Tale of Setne Khaemwas” and Other Ancient Egyptian Fiction of the Ptolemaic Period, 323 - 30 B.C.

Wiegand, Wayne A.
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
American Studies
The Public Library in the Life of the American People, 1850 - 2000

Williams, Crispin L.
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Lawrence, KS
Asian Languages
The Wenxian Covenant Texts and the Birth of an Early Chinese State, 5th Century B.C.

Winstead, Karen A.
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
Medieval Studies
Political Reform, Female Spirituality, and Changing Orthodoxy in Medieval English Saints' Legends