Collaborative Research
The following Collaborative Research projects were funded in 2001:
A Commentary and On-Line Database of the Maya Madrid Codex
Gabrielle Vail, Project Director
To support the preparation of a database of information on the iconography, glyphic texts, and calendrical
structure of the Madrid Codex, a screenfold manuscript dating to
the late Postclassic period (c. AD 1200-1521) of Maya
culture.
Outright funds: $90,000 over a period of 18 months.
The Beauvoir Series
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Margaret A. Simons, Project Director
To support a six-volume English translation, with scholarly introductions and annotations, of all available
texts of Simone de Beauvoir.
Outright funds: $150,000 over a period of three years.
Choosing a Color for the Cosmic Race: African Americans and National Identities in Central
America
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley,MA
Lowell Gudmundson, Project Director
To support the research for a book, database,
and website that would reassess the historical presence and
contributions of peoples of African descent in Central America
during the past two centuries.
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $115,000 over a period of two years.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
University of Notre Dame, IN
Eugene C. Ulrich and James VanderKam, Project Directors
To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $200,000 over a period of two years.
The First English Edition of Leibniz's Protogaea
Dibner Institute for the History of Science and
Technology, Cambridge, MA
Andre Wakefield, Project Director
To produce the first English translation of Gottfried Leibniz's Protogaea.
Outright funds: $109,937 over a period of two years.
Frege's Lectures on Logic, 1911-1914
University of California, Riverside
Erich H. Reck, Project Director
To support an English translation of Gottlob Frege's lectures on logic based on notes taken by Rudolf
Carnap.
Outright funds: $44,764 over a period of one year.
The Majimaji Rebellion: New Perspectives and New Directions
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Jamie Monson, Project Director
To support field research and a conference leading to a history of the Majimaji Rebellion (1905-1907) in Tanzania.
Outright funds: $100,000 over a period of one
year.
Marx's Late Writings on Non-Western and Pre-Capitalist Societies
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
Kevin Anderson, Project Director
To support the preparation of an annotated translation of Karl Marx's notebooks on non-Western and
pre-capitalist societies.
Outright funds: $190,000 over a period of three years.
The Nazi Culture Sourcebook
Anson Rabinbach, Project Director
To complete work on a collection of documents from the Nazi era.
Outright funds: $105,000 over a period of one
year.
One Valley, Many Histories: San Pedro Ethnohistory
Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson,AZ
T.J. Ferguson, Project Director
To support a study of the history of Native American occupation of the San Pedro Valley (in present day southeastern Arizona) using archaeological and historical data and oral tradition.
Website: http://www.cdarc.org/cdarc/research/san_pedro.htm
Outright funds and offering matching funds: $120,000 over a period of two years.
Petra Papyrus Scrolls 3
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ludwig Koenen, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an edition and translation of a sixth-century archive of carbonized
papyrus rolls excavated at Petra, Jordan.
Website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $130,000 over a period of two years.
Sanskrit Knowledge Systems on the Eve of
Colonialism
University of Chicago, IL
Sheldon L. Pollock, Project Director
To support the collection and analysis of a body of Sanskrit texts leading to a website with relevant data
and to a book on the structure and social context of the rich period of Sanskrit knowledge from 1550 to 1750.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.
Stalin, Truman, and Japan's Surrender: The Soviet Factor in the Ending of the Pacific War
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Project Director
To support a study of the role played by the Soviets in shaping events that led to the end of the war in the
Pacific.
Outright funds: $80,000 over a period of one year.
Study of the Mediterranean-Red Sea-Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Excavations at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt
University of Delaware, Newark
Steven E. Sidebotham, Project Director
To support three seasons of continued archaeological investigations in and around the 3rd-century BC to 6th- century A.D. Red Sea port of Berenike, Egypt.
Website: http://www.archbase.com/berenike/english1.html
Outright funds: $100,000 over a period of three years.
Supplying the Eternal City: The Study and Publication of Five Centuries of Pottery from AncientRome
State University of New York,Buffalo
J. Theodore Pena, Project Director
To support the preparation of a study of Roman-period pottery recovered in excavations in the center of
Rome.
Outright funds: $100,000 over a period of
three years.
Surgically Shaping Children
The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY
Erik F. Parens, Project Director
To support a study of the humanistic values at stake for parents, children, and medical professionals in
decisions related to cosmetic and "corrective" surgical interventions in children.
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $150,000 over a period of two years.
Tapping the Margins: Women, Gender, and Performance in the History of Tap Dancing
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg
Ann M. Kilkelly, Project Director
To support the preparation of a book analyzing the history of American tap dancing and women's place in
it. The book will explore the interactions of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality in the developement of jazz
dancing.
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $130,000 over a period of two years.
Translation and Editing of New Netherland
Archives
New York State Library, Albany
Charles T. Gehring, Project Director
To support the translation and annotation of
documents produced by or bearing on the colonial governments of
New Netherland and New York during the period
1654-1680.
Website: http://www.nnp.org/index.shtml
Outright funds and offering matching funds:
$200,000 over a period of three years.
Translation of Mao Zedong's Writings
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Roderick L. MacFarquhar, Project Director
To support the completion of a translation of the extant speeches and writings of Mao Zedong for the pre-1949
period, before the foundation of the People's Republic of China.
Outright funds: $88,117 over a period of one year.
The U.S. Civil War in the Eyes of German
Immigrants
Texas A&M, College Station
Walter D. Kamphoefner, Project
Director
To support the translation and annotation of an
anthology of German-American Civil War letters from Union and
Confederate soldiers and civilians.
Outright funds and offering matching funds:
$48,845 over a period of 18 months.
Women's Voices from West Africa
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Thomas A. Hale, Project Director
To support the collection and analysis of praise songs, epics, and other poetic forms sung by women in the
West African Sahel and Savanna regions to gain a better
understanding of how this verbal tradition enables women to
contribute to public and private discourse in West African
society.
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $150,000 over a period of three years.