Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Phase 1
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Steve Awodey, Project Director

Preparation for publication of six volumes of the works of the 20th century philosopher Rudolf Carnap. On the web at http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/carnap/
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.

Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: Translation and Study of the Zhangjiashan Legal Texts
University of California, Santa Barbara
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, Project Director

The translation, annotation, analysis, and interpretation of a group of Chinese legal and administrative texts from the late 3rd to early 2nd centuries BCE, which were recently excavated from a tomb in Hubei Province, China.
Outright Funds of $120,000 over a period of two years.

Inca and Spanish Imperial Transformations: Toponyms and Regional Settlement Patterns in Cuzco, Perú
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Alan Covey, Project Director

Archival research, the systematic collection of place names, and a regional environmental study to consider the impact of the Inca empire and then the Spanish empire on local populations in the Cuzco area of present-day Perú.
Outright Funds of $60,000 over a period of 28 months.

Secession: An International Phenomenon
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Don H. Doyle, Project Director

A conference and volume of essays on the topic of secession in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and other countries, bringing together scholars in history, philosophy, law, and the social sciences.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $50,000 over a period of two years.

Oral Poetics and the Homeric Doloneia
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Mary Ebbott, Project Director

Creation of essays, a critical text, and detailed commentary on the Doloneia, Book 10 of the Homeric epic the Iliad, through the use of epic oral tradition.
Outright Funds of $80,000 over a period of three years.

Preparing a Scholarly Annotated Translation of Miguel de Cervantes's plays, The Bagnios of Algiers and The Great Sultana
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Barbara Fuchs, Project Director.

A translation and edition of two early 17th-century plays by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) addressing the interaction between Christian Spain and Islamic North Africa.
Outright Funds of $60,000 over a period of 13 months.

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages: A New Edition
Indiana University, Bloomington
Kari Ellen Gade, Project Director

Preparation of volume two of a proposed nine-volume annotated translation and edition of Old Norse Skaldic poetry from c. 1036 to 1300.
Outright Funds of $50,000 over a period of 12 months.

The Shala Valley Project
Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
Michael L. Galaty, Project Director

Archival research in Istanbul in Turkey, Venice and Rome in Italy, Shkodër and Tirana in Albania, London in the UK, and Washington, DC, to study the history of isolation from outside influences in the Shala River Valley in northern Albania
On the web at http://www.millsaps.edu/svp/
Outright Funds of $34,000 over a period of 13 months.

Rethinking Barbary: Early Modern Dialogues with Islam
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
María-Antonia Garcés, Project Director

The production of an English/Spanish facing-page edition of a late-16th-century account of life in Algiers.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of 13 months.

New Netherland Project: Translating and Editing of New Netherland Archives
University of the State of New York, New York State Library, Albany
Charles T. Gehring, Project Director

Transcription, translation, and annotation of 17th-century Dutch records of the colonial government of New Netherland.
On the web at http://www.nnp.org
Outright Funds and 0ffer of Matching Funds of $70,000 over a period of 12 months.

In the Shadow of a Giant: Archaeology of El Zotz, Guatemala
Brown University, Providence, RI
Stephen D. Houston, Project Director

Archaeological investigation of the creation, character, and decline of the ancient Maya kingdom of El Zotz, near ancient Tikal, in present-day Guatemala.
Outright funds of $120,000 over a period of 3 years.

Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Bruce H. Kirmmse, Project Director

Editorial work on volumes four, five, six, and seven of Kierkegaard’s journals and notebooks.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of 3 years.

Final Investigation and Publication of the Daghestan-American Velikent Expedition to SE Daghestan, Russia and Adjacent Regions
Wellesley College, MA
Philip L. Kohl, Project Director

The completion and preparation for publication of excavation, analysis, and interpretation at the ancient site of Velikent located in present-day Daghestan, Russia, an area that served as a trade route between the Eurasian steppes to the north and the Ancient Near East to the south.
Outright funds of $100,000 over a period of 3 years.

The Golden Chronicle: Translation of a 20th Century Tibetan Text
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Donald S. Lopez, Project Director

Translation of The Golden Chronicle, the Story of a Cosmopolitan's Pilgrimage, by the Tibetan monk, philosopher, and artist, Gendün Chöpel (1905-1951). The chronicle is considered the most significant work of Tibetan scholarship of the 20th century.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.

British Asia and the British Atlantic, 1500-1820: Two Worlds or One?
University of Akron, OH
Elizabeth Mancke, Project Director

A conference at the University of Sussex in Falmer, U.K. on July 11-13, 2007, looking at connections between the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds in the early modern world, and seeking to bridge the scholarly divide between British Asia and the British Atlantic in that era.
Outright Funds of $38,000 over a period of 12 months.

Stalinism in the Soviet Countryside, 1927-1940
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Roberta T. Manning, Project Director

Preparation of one Russian-language volume and two English-language volumes examining the impact of Stalinism on the Soviet countryside.
Outright Funds of $130,000 over a period of two years..

Macroscale City Structure at Late Assyrian Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey (Phase II)
University of Akron, OH
Timothy Matney, Project Director

Continuing excavation, analysis, and interpretation of urban planning and settlement patterns of a site in present-day Turkey that was a provincial capital of the Late Assyrian Empire.
On the web at http://www3.uakron.edu/ziyaret/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $190,000 over a period of 3 years.

The Iraqi Oral History Project
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq, Chicago, IL
Stephanie Platz, Project Director

Collection and interpretation of oral history interviews from Iraqis residing in Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
On the web at http://www.taarii.org/research.php
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.

The Greek Stone Architecture at Corinth
University of Notre Dame, IN
Robin F. Rhodes, Project Director

Preparation for publication of an illustrated volume on acient Corinth's stone architecture and its central role in architectural history.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of 30 months.

Chan: The 2,000 Year History of an Ancient Maya Farming Community
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Cynthia Robin, Project Director

Analysis and interpretation of archaeological material from the ancient Maya farming community of Chan, Belize, in order to gain a fuller understanding of life at this site throughout its 2000-year period of existence.
On the web at http://www.anthropology.northwestern.edu/chan/
Outright funds of $120,000 over a period of two years.

The Cold War and Human Security: Translations for the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL
Douglas E. Selvage, Project Director

The translation of 4,716 pages of Warsaw Pact documents from Polish, German, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Bulgarian, and Romanian into English.
On the web at http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/collections/index.cfm
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of 34 months.

Digital Tools and the Chymistry of Isaac Newton
Indiana University, Bloomington
John Anthony Walsh, Project Director

Development of digital humanities tools and the study of Newton’s alchemy within the broader history of chemistry.
On the web at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/index.jsp
Outright Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

The Correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, 1753-1787
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, PA
Timothy J. Wengert, Project Director

Preparation of an annotated English translation of the correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), the patriarch of American Lutheranism and an important figure in early Pennsylvania history.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.