Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Implications of Advances in Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Hilary Bok, Project Director

The writing of essays to be compiled into a book addressing neuroscientific contributions to our understanding of human freedom and responsibility.
Outright Funds of $200,000 over a period of 30 months.

Archaeological Pilot Study at Pisanay, Peru: Corporate Identity at the Margins of Andean Tradition
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Jo Ellen Burkholder, Project Director

Survey and excavation at an archaeological site with evidence of human occupation from about 200 B.C. through about 1400 A.D. in the Sihuas Valley of present day Peru to illuminate the function of borderland areas in the formation of the Andean state.
On the web at http://www.jamieoverman.com/Archelogywebsite/archmain.html
Outright Funds of $45,000 over a period of one year.

Translation of Arthur Schopenhauer's The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics and On the Fourfold Root and Other Writings
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
David Cartwright, Project Director

Translation of four works of Schopenhauer to be published in two volumes.
Outright Funds of $140,000 over a period of two years.

The Oplontis Project: Excavation, Study, and Publication of Villa A at Torre Annunziata, Italy, 50 BCE - CE 79
University of Texas, Austin
John Clarke, Project Director

Analysis, mapping, interpretation, and preparation for publication of archaeological finds at the Roman villa of Oplontis, including a digital reconstruction of the building.
On the web at http://www.oplontisproject.org/index.html
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of 18 months.

The Emergence of States and Social Complexity in Greece: The Pylos Excavation Project
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Michael B. Cosmopoulos, Project Director

Excavation, technical analysis, and interpretation of archaeological finds at Bronze-Age Iklaina on the southern Peloponnesus.
Outright Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

Assiniboine Narratives
Indiana University, Bloomington
Raymond J. DeMallie, Project Director

Preparation for publication of three volumes of Native American oral history narratives.
Outright Funds of $125,000 over a period of one year.

The Scaloria Cave Project: Ritual and Landscape in the Mediterranean Neolithic
University of California, Los Angeles
Ernestine S. Elster, Project Director

Preparation for publication of a technical and interpretive work on the Scaloria Cave, a Neolithic cult and burial site in the Puglia region of southern Italy.
Outright Funds of $40,000 over a period of 16 months.

The Library of Israel in Late Antiquity: Jewish Writings Related to the Bible from the Second Temple Period
Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, PA
Ellen Frankel, Project Director

Completion of a volume of translations of writings by Jews in Judea and the Diaspora from roughly 300 BCE to 100 CE.
Outright Funds of $90,000 over a period of 18 months.

New Netherland Project: Translating and Editing of New Netherland Archives
University of the State of NY, 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 Offer of Matching Funds of $70,000 over a period of one year.

Nippur Monograph
University of Chicago, IL
McGuire Gibson, Project Director

The preparation for publication of six volumes documenting and interpreting the excavations at the Mesopotamian sites of Nippur and Abu Salabikh in Iraq.
Outright Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

Preserving the Political Oral History of Modern Tibet
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Melvyn C. Goldstein, Project Director

Development of a web site archiving 550 hours of interviews of important Tibetan politicians, with English-language transcriptions of the interviews.
On the web at http://www.case.edu/affil/tibet/moreTibetInfo/oral_history.htm
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of two years.

The Atlantic World, c. 1450 to c. 1840
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Philip D. Morgan, Project Director

A conference with international participants in preparation of a book on the history of countries and cultures connected by the Atlantic Ocean.
Outright Funds of $17,000 over a period of one year.

Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
University of Washington, Seattle
Richard G. Salomon, Project Director

Preparation for publication of scholarly editions—including translations and extensive annotations—of Gandhari texts documenting the early history of Buddhism.
On the web at http://www.ebmp.org/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

The State Attack on Entitlement and the Origins of China’s Great Leap Forward Famine
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., Project Director

Research to culminate in the writing of a co-authored book examining the famine in rural Anhui province that resulted from Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of three years.

The Neo-Babylonian Trial Procedure
St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
Bruce Wells, Project Director

Continuing work on the transcription, computer encoding, translation, and analysis of about 1,500 cuneiform clay tablets of Neo-Babylonian litigation documents.
Project information on the web at http://www.sju.edu/~bwells/nbtp/index.htm
Outright Funds of $175,000 over a period of three years.