National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH FELLOWSHIPS AND
FACULTY RESEARCH AWARDS, 2009-2010
Awarded: November 2008
Division of Research Programs
Ahrensdorf, Peter
Davidson College
Davidson, NC
Political Science
The Political Thought of Homer
Appelbaum, Nancy
SUNY Research Foundation, Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
Latin American History
Mapping the “Country of Regions”: Agustin Codazzi and the 19th-Century Colombian Chorographic Commission
Appelbaum, Anne
Independent Scholar
Naklo, Poland
Russian History
Anti-Civilization: The Sovietization of Central Europe, 1945-1956
Banner, Stuart
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Law and Jurisprudence
A History of Property in the United States
Baron, Marcia
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Ethics
Self-Defense, Reason, and the Law
Baskind, Samantha
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH
Art History and Criticism
Jewish Artists and the Bible in 20th-Century America
Bonds, M. Evan
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Music History and Criticism
The Myth of Absolute Music
Breazeale, Daniel
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
History of Philosophy
Fichte’s Path from Kant to the Wissenschaftslehre. Zurich Writings (1793-1794)
Brewer, Holly
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
American History
Slavery and Freedom, Aristocracy and Empire in Early Virginia and the British Atlantic
Burnett, Archie
Boston University
Boston, MA
British Literature
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin
Catlos, Brian
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
History
Muslim Societies of Latin Christendom, ca. 1050-1615
Chrissidis, Nikolaos
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT
Russian History
Education and Westernization in Eastern Orthodoxy: The Case of the Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy of Moscow, 1685-1725
Collins, Jeffrey
Bard Graduate Center
New York, NY
Art History and Criticism
The Museo Pio-Clementino and the Greek Ideal
Cosmopoulos, Michael
University of Missouri, St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Archaeology
Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of Ancient Greek Secret Cults
Cottrell, Alan
Independent Scholar
Raleigh, NC
Renaissance Studies
A Latin Edition and English Translation of the Major Philological Work of Angelo Poliziano, Italian Renaissance Scholar
Douglas, Lawrence
Amherst College
Amherst, MA
Humanities
A Jurisprudence of Atrocity
Fauser, Annegret
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Music History and Criticism
Music in America during World War II
Filtzer, Donald
University of East London
London, United Kingdom
Russian History
Soviet Labor and World War II
Fuller, Michael
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
Asian Literature
Southern Song Poetry and the Project of Literary History
Goldberg, Edward
Independent Scholar
Florence, Italy
Renaissance Studies
A Critical Edition of the Letters from Benedetto Blanis to Don Giovanni de' Medici
Gribanov, Alexander
Bentley College
Waltham, MA
Russian History
Terror on Record in the Soviet Union: The History of the Chronicle of Current Events
Grier, James
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
Music History and Criticism
The Foundations of Musical Literacy in the Medieval West, 800‑1100:  Oral and Written Transmission in Early Plainsong
Gupta, Anil
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Epistemology
An Account of Conscious Experience
Hanawalt, Barbara
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
European History
Civic Order and Dispute Resolution in 14th‑ and 15th‑Century London
Hawley, John
Barnard College
New York, NY
History of Religion
The Bhakti Movement: Excavations in a Master Narrative
Hecht, Gabrielle
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Uranium from Africa and the Power of Nuclear Things
Herrlinger, Kimberly
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME
Russian History
Defying Orthodoxy: Faith, Authority, and Identity under Russian and Soviet Rule, 1894‑Present
Hirschfeld, Heather
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
British Literature
Tragedies of Satisfaction in the English Renaissance
Holmes, Megan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Art History and Criticism
Miraculous Images in Renaissance Florence
Horowitz, Helen
Smith College
Northampton, MA
American Studies
A Case of the Nerves
Jankowsky, Richard
Tufts University
Medford, MA
Music History and Criticism
Sufis, Saints, and Their Songs: Sacred Music in Modern Tunisian History, from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror
Kalliney, Peter
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
British Literature
Transatlantic Cultural Institutions, 1930‑1970
Kane, Eileen
Connecticut College
New London, CT
History
Russian Hajj: Imperialism and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1801‑1917
Kaye, Anthony
Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus
University Park, PA
American History
Reinterpreting Nat Turner's Rebellion
Kierner, Cynthia
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
History
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Kupfer, Marcia
Independent Scholar
Washington, DC
Art History and Criticism
Medieval Cartographies: Christianizing the Orbis Terrarum
Latowsky, Anne
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Medieval Studies
Holy Land Fictions: The Voyage to Jerusalem and Constantinople in the Medieval French Tradition
Le Gall, Dina
CUNY Research Foundation, Lehman College
Bronx, NY
Far Eastern History
Sufism in History
Lynch, Michael
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
Philosophy
A Functionalist Theory of Truth
Maas, Michael
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ
Ancient History
Roman Imperial Ethnography and the End of Antiquity
McMahon, R. Keith
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Lawrence, KS
Asian Literature
Empresses and Consorts from the Ming to the End of Imperial China, 1368‑1911
McMillen, Christian
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
History
Controlling Tuberculosis in East Africa, South India, and among American Indians, ca. 1930‑ca. 1970
Miller, Tracy
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Art History and Criticism
Regional Style in China's Monumental Timber Architecture, 900‑1200
Mitchell, Andrew
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Phenomenology
Translation of Heidegger’s Lecture Cycles “Insight Into That Which Is” (1949) and “The Principles of Thinking” (1957)
Naticchia, Chris
California State University, San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA
Ethics
Recognizing States and Governments under International Law
Newfont, Kathryn
Mars Hill College
Mars Hill, NC
American History
Commons Environmentalism: Forest History, Culture, and Politics in the Appalachian South
Paul, Catherine
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
American Literature
Ezra Pound in Fascist Italy
Penslar, Derek
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
European History
Jews, War, and the Military in Modern History
Petrain, David
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Classics
The Tabulae Iliacae and the Development of Visual Storytelling in the Early Roman Empire
Queen, Sarah
Connecticut College
New London, CT
Far Eastern History
A Study and Translation of the Chunqiu fanlu (The Luxuriant Gem of the Spring and Autumn Annals)
Rabieh, Linda
Independent Scholar
Cambridge, MA
Political Science
Averroes on Plato's Republic
Reidy, David
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Philosophy
John Rawls: An Intellectual Biography
Renberg, Gil
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Classical History
Dreams and Divination in the Greco‑Roman Epigraphical Record
Reno, Brad
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
Political Science
John Locke’s Policy Recommendations While Serving on England’s Board of Trade
Romanowski, William
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI
American Studies
Reforming Hollywood: Protestants and the American Film Industry
Rustow, Marina
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Near Eastern History
Patronage and Politics: Islamic Empire and the Medieval Jewish Community
Rutherford, Danilyn
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Anthropology
Technology and Colonial Experience in Dutch New Guinea
Sen, Tansen
CUNY Research Foundation, Bernard Baruch College
New York, NY
Asian Studies
Commercial Interactions between India and China, 1200‑1500
Sher, Richard
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ
History
James Boswell’s Correspondence with His Scottish Mentors Hugh Blair, Lord Kames, and Sir William Forbes
Slezkine, Yuri
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Russian History
Moscow’s House of Government, 1928‑1938
Stewart, Columba
St. John's University, Collegeville
Collegeville, MN
History of Religion
Tracing Monastic Culture
Tartakoff, Paola
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ
European History
Conversion and Inquisition in the Medieval Crown of Aragon, 1243‑1391
Tennant, Neil
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
Logic
Rational Belief Revision
Todd, Margo
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
British History
Council, Kirk, and Guild in Early Modern Perth
Turits, Richard
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Latin American History
Slavery, Freedom, and the Making of Race in Santo Domingo and the Atlantic World
Walkowitz, Judith
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
British History
Cosmopolitan London, 1880‑1945
Wallace, Peter
Hartwick College
Oneonta, NY
European History
Changing Political Identities in the Upper Rhine Valley, 1560‑1740
Wells, Colin
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
American Literature
The Poetry Wars of the Early Republic
Whalen, Robert
Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI
British Literature
A Documentary Edition of George Herbert's English Poems
Widmer, Ellen
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA
Asian Literature
Guangdong’s Writing Women in Ming‑Qing China
Willingham, Elizabeth
Baylor University
Waco, TX
Medieval Studies
An Edition of the Agrauains from the Manuscript Codex, Yale 229
Wilson, Richard
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
Anthropology
The Uses of Historical Evidence at International Criminal Tribunals
Woolley, James
Lafayette College
Easton, PA
British Literature
The Canon and Chronology of Swift’s Poems
Zamindar, Vazira
Brown University
Providence, RI
South Asian History
Archaeology, Islam, and the Making of Gandhara Art in Divided South Asia