National Endowment for the Humanities
SUMMER STIPENDS AWARDS
Division of Research
Announced: March 2003

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