COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
Announced: May 2003
History and Geography: Assessing the Role of Geographical Information in Historical Scholarship
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
James R. Akerman, Project Director
A conference, to be held at the Newberry Library, exploring the contributions that geo-spatial technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) can make to historical scholarship.
Outright Funds of $74,627 over a period of one year.
Nahuatl Theater from Colonial Mexico
SUNY Research Foundation, Albany, NY
Louise M. Burkhart, Project Director
Preparation of three volumes of a four-volume series that will make available edited translations of dramatic works in Nahuatl, the Aztec language of indigenous Mexico.
Outright Funds of $120,806 over a period of 3 years.
Uncovering Cancuen's Royal Palace: The Political Role of Classic Maya Art
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Arthur A. Demarest, Project Director
Excavation, documentation, and analysis of stucco sculpture on an 8th-century royal Maya palace in the tropical lowlands of present day Guatemala to help understand the basis of Maya royal power.
Outright Funds of $32,432 over a period of one year.
Nationalism in the New Worlds: The Americas and the Atlantic Group
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Don H. Doyle, Project Director
A conference and resulting book of essays on the subject of nationalism in the Americas. Outright Funds of $56,319 over a period of eighteen months.
An Annotated Translation of Candrakirti's Prasannapada
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
John D. Dunne, Project Director
An annotated translation into English of Candrakirti's Prasannapada ("Lucid Words"), a 7th century C.E. Tibetan philosophical treatise in Sanskrit that is among the most important works of the Buddhist Madhyamaka ("Middle Way") tradition.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $116,700 over a period of 14 months.
The Ya'qubi Translation Project
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Matthew D. Gordon, Project Director
A four-volume, annotated translation of the History, the Geography, and a short political essay by the late ninth-century Muslim scholar al-Ya'qubi, works that provide rich information about early Islamic politics, culture, and thought.
Outright Funds of $90,000 over a period of 2 years.
Historicizing Ecological Restoration
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Anita Guerrini, Project Director
Research into the human and natural history of a southern California wetland, to culminate in a book discussing the ecological restoration of the wetland, as well as broader issues related to the role of historical knowledge in ecological restoration projects in general.
Outright Funds of $158,401 over a period of 3 years.
Technology, Health, and Empire in the Nuclear Age: A Global and Local History of Uranium Mining and Miners
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Gabrielle Hecht, Project Director
Research on a comparative history of uranium mining in southern Africa and in North America that will focus on the history of the awareness of radiation hazards to the health of workers.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of 3 years.
Early Modern Japanese Literature
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Sumie A. Jones, Project Director
The translation into English of a variety of works written in Japan from 1600 to 1920 to be published as a three-volume anthology that is accessible to scholars, students and general readers.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $185,000 over a period of 3 years.
Shakespeare, the Early Modern Theatre and Computational Stylistics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Arthur F. Kinney, Project Director
A book-length study addressing problems central to Shakespearean studies such as attribution of works, chronology, and literary influences through computational stylistics.
Outright Funds of $40,903 over a period of 2 years.
The Traditions of Exemplary Women (Lienu huan)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Anne B. Kinney, Project Director
A translation of the ancient (c. 78 B.C.) Chinese text Traditions of Exemplary Women and a bilingual-multimedia internet resource for scholarly inquiry into representations of women in ancient China.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $210,000 over a period of 3 years.
Ecclesiastical Sources and Historical Research on the African Diaspora in Brazil and Cuba
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Jane G. Landers, Project Director
The creation of a digitized catalogue of Brazilian and Cuban ecclesiastical records, offering information on the history of Africans and people of African descent in the Americas, from the sixteenth century through the end of the nineteenth century.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of 3 years.
The Creek Texts of Mary R. Haas
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Jack Bradford Martin, Project Director
A two-volume translation, edition, and digital sound-recording of 970 pages of Creek texts collected in Oklahoma just before World War II by anthropologist Mary R. Haas (1910-1996).
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of 2 years.
Computer Identification of Medieval Scribal Handwriting
University of Maine, Orono
Linne R. Mooney, Project Director
The development of web-accessible computer software designed to assist scholars of medieval English in identifying scribal handwriting and a book-length study on English scribes from 1375 to 1525 that makes use of the software.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of 2 years.
Ritual Feting and Religious Conversion in an Ancient Native American Empire
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Michael E. Moseley, Project Director
The excavation and interpretation of two Pre-Columbian Andean libation halls in present day Peru to study religious rituals and the transfer of one polity's gods into the pantheon of the other's.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $68,500 over a period of 2 years.
Alexander Baranov and Russia's Multi-Cultural Borderlands Empire in North America
Kenneth N. Owens, Project Director
The production of a biography of Alexander Baranov, the administrator of the Russian-American Company's colonies in Alaska and California in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Outright Funds of $75,000 over a period of 2 years.
An Excavation in the Theater of Pompey, Rome
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
James Packer, Project Director
A second season of excavation and analysis of a portion of the Theater of Pompey, a prototypical Roman theater of the 1st century B.C.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $35,000 over a period of one year.
A Tradition Recovered: Women in Italy (1540-60) and France (1700)
Albert Rabil, Project Director
Four edited translations into English of works of Italian and French women writers Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547), Tullia d'Aragona (1510-1565) and Gabrielle Suchon (1631-1704).
Outright Funds of $60,000 over a period of one year.
Rock Art and the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Arkansas Archeological Survey,
George Sabo, Project Director
A study of ancient Native American cosmology and ritual through an investigation of rock art production in the Mississippi period (900-1600 C.E.) at a series of Arkansas sites.
Outright Funds of $175,000 over a period of 3 years.
San Bartolo Mural Project
William A. Saturno, Project Director
The excavation, documentation, preservation, and interpretation of Maya murals painted between 100 B.C. and 250 A.D. in present day Guatemala in order to shed light on the origins of ancient Maya religion.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $210,000 over a period of 3 years.
Opening the Geese Book: A Medieval Manuscript Disseminated through Electronic Media
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Corine Schleif, Project Director
To support the digitization and scholarly apparatus for a facsimile of "The Geese Book," a two-volume gradual used in Nuremburg in the late medieval period, owned by the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $66,100 over a period of one year.
The Venetian Notebook of Michael of Rhodes: The World View of a 15th-Century Mariner
Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Cambridge, MA
Alan M. Stahl, Project Director
The transcription, translation, and scholarly interpretation of a manuscript notebook of the 15th-century merchant mariner Michael of Rhodes.
Outright Funds of $75,000 over a period of 2 years.
Colonialism and Its Legacies
University of Chicago, IL
Iris M. Young, Project Director
A conference and publication of a book of conference papers on the theme of the legacy of colonialism and its implications for understanding modern European political thought and the political thought of writers from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Outright Funds of $36,571 over a period of one year.