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The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency
of the Federal Government. Each year the NEH’s Division of Education Programs offers
teachers opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and
Institutes. The dates and duration of each project are listed under each title.
The application deadline is March 2, 2009 (postmark).
Amount of Award
All teachers selected to participate in a seminar or institute will be awarded a fixed
stipend based on the length of the seminar or institute to help cover travel costs, books
and other research expenses, and living expenses: $2,000 (2 weeks), $2,600 (3 weeks),
$3,200 (4 weeks), $3,800 (5 weeks), or $4,400 (6 weeks).
Eligibility
For detailed eligibility requirements, applicants should consult the written application
materials. Selection committees for seminars and institutes are directed to give first
consideration to applicants who have not participated in an NEH supported seminar or
institute in the last three years.
How to Apply
Please mail or e-mail a request for application information and expanded project descriptions
to the seminar and institute directors listed; in some cases, these materials will also be
available on project Web sites. When writing or e-mailing, please include your regular mailing
address because directors may send application material through the mail. You may request
information about as many projects as you like, but you may apply to no more than two projects.
The application deadline is March 2, 2009 (postmark).
Information
Please direct all questions concerning individual seminars and institutes as well as all requests
for application materials to the appropriate director. General questions concerning the National
Endowment for the Humanities’ Seminars and Institutes Program may be directed to 202/606-8463 or
e-mail: sem-inst@neh.gov.
Equal Opportunity
Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability,
or age. For further information about the NEH EEO policy, write to the Equal Employment Opportunity
Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20506.
TDD (for the hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282.
Seminars
Each seminar includes fifteen participants working in collaboration with one or two leading scholars.
Participants will have access to a major library collection, with time reserved to pursue individual
research and study projects.
German Exile Culture in California: European Traditions and American Modernity
June 22-July 30, 2009 (6 weeks)
Russell A. Berman, Stanford University
Department of Comparative Literature
450 Serra Mall, Building 260
Stanford, CA 94305-2031
650/723-1069
berman@stanford.edu
germanexile.stanford.edu
The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1650
June 22-July 24, 2009 (5 weeks)
James K. Bracken and John N. King, Ohio State University
Department of English / University Libraries
Ohio State University
Information: Mark Rankin, James Madison University
540/568-3755
rankinmc@jmu.edu
people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/king2/ReformationoftheBook/
Mail applications to the following address:
Professor John N. King, NEH Summer Seminar
Room 421, Denney Hall
Ohio State University
164 W. 17th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
(Seminar location: Antwerp, Belgium; London and Oxford, U.K.)
The Decadent 1890s: English Literary Culture and the Fin de Siècle
June 22-July 24, 2009 (5 weeks)
Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles
Information: Fritze Rodic
Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
310 Royce Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1404
310/206-8552
310/206-8577 (fax)
frodic@humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/neh-sum09/
Anglo-Irish Identities
June 22-July 24, 2009 (5 weeks)
Christopher Fox, University of Notre Dame
Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
422 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574/631-3555
fox.1@nd.edu
Celestina and the Threshold of Modernity
July 6-August 7, 2009 (5 weeks)
E. Michael Gerli, University of Virginia
Information: Molly Angevine
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
115 Wilson Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4777
434/924-7159
mja4f@virginia.edu
www.virginia.edu/span-ital-port/archive/Celestina.html
Disease in the Middle Ages
July 5-August 8, 2009 (5 weeks)
Monica H. Green, Arizona State University, and
Walton O. Schalick, III, University of Wisconsin
Information: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
4th Floor, Lattie F. Coor Hall
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 874402
Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
480/965-4661
480/965-1681 (fax)
MedievalSeminar2009@asu.edu
medievalseminar2009.asu.edu
Metaphysics and Mind
June 8-July 17, 2009 (6 weeks)
John Heil, Washington University, St. Louis
Information: Kimberly Mount
Department of Philosophy
Campus Box 1073
Washington University
UOne Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
314/935-4297
neh09@wustl.edu
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~neh09/
Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Medieval World:
Literature, History, Art
June 15-July 10, 2009 (4 weeks)
Christopher Kleinhenz, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Information by mail:
Paul E. Szarmach
ATTN: 2009 NEH Summer Seminar
Medieval Academy of America
104 Mt. Auburn St., 5th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
617/491-1622
Information by e-mail: ckleinhe@wisc.edu
www.medievalacademy.org/neh2009/index.htm
(Seminar location: Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy)
Roots: African Dimensions of the History and
Cultures of the Americas (through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade)
June 8-July 10, 2009 (5 weeks)
Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia
Information: Amanda Mushal
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
145 Ednam Drive
Charlottesville VA 22903
434/924-6395
arm8j@virginia.edu
Religious Diversity and the Common Good
June 2-July 9, 2009 (6 weeks)
Alan Wolfe
Boston College
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
24 Quincy Road
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Information: Susan Richard
617/552-1860
susan.richard.1@bc.edu
Music Books in Early Modern Europe: Materiality, Performance, and Social Expression
July 6-31, 2009 (4 weeks)
Carla Zecher, The Newberry Library, and
Richard Wistreich, Newcastle University
Information: Carla Zecher
Center for Renaissance Studies
The Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
312/255-3514
renaissance@newberry.org
www.newberry.org/renaissance/nehseminar/musicbooks.html
Institutes
Institutes provide intensive collaborative study of texts, topics, and ideas central
to undergraduate teaching in the humanities under the guidance of faculties
distinguished in their fields of scholarship. Institutes aim to prepare participants
to return to their classrooms with a deeper knowledge of current scholarship in key
fields of the humanities.
The Rule of Law: Legal Studies and the Liberal Arts
June 15-July 17, 2009 (5 weeks)
Cathrine O. Frank and Matthew Anderson, University of New England
Faculty: Austin Sarat, Chaya Halberstam, Jill Frank, Paul W. Kahn,
Robert A. Ferguson, Caroline Winterer, Deak Nabers, Lief
Carter, Julie Stone Peters, Carol Greenhouse, Nan Goodman
Department of English and Language Studies
University of New England
11 Hills Beach Road
Biddeford, Maine 04005
Information: Elaine Brouillette
207/602-2144
207/602-5950 (fax)
NEH09@une.edu
www.une.edu/neh
America Engages Russia, Circa 1880-Circa 1930:
Cultural Interactions
June 14-July 3, 2009 (3 weeks)
Edward Kasinec, New York Public Library and
Robert Davis, Columbia University Libraries
Faculty: Thomas E. Bird, Ruth A. Carr, Katerina Clark, Barbara
Cohen-Stratyner, Caryl Emerson, David C. Engerman, John H.
Erickson, Gennady Estraikh, Lynn Garafola, Harold M. Leich,
Percy North, Dale E. Peterson, Robert W. Prichard, Harlow
Loomis Robinson, Wendy R. Salmond, Katherine A. S. Sibley,
Norman E. Saul, Paul Valliere, Robert T. Whittaker, Jr.,
J. Robert Wright
Information: Edward Kasinec
Slavic and East European Collections
The New York Public Library
476 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
212/930-0713
ekasinec@nypl.org or rdavis@Columbia.edu
Buddhist Traditions of Tibet and the Himalayas
June 22-July 10, 2009 (3 weeks)
Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross, and
Leonard van der Kuijp, Harvard University
Faculty: Charles Ramble, Martin Brauen, , Georges Dreyfus, David
Germano, Kurtis Schaeffer, Gene Smith, Sienna Craig, Michael
Witzel, David Gellner, Sarah Levine Naresh Bajracarya, Dina
Bangdel, David Holmberg, Anne de Sales
Information: Todd Lewis
Religious Studies Department
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610-2395
508/793-3436
tlewis@holycross.edu
college.holycross.edu/projects/buddhists_traditions/
Experimental Philosophy
June 22-July 17, 2009 (4 weeks)
Ron Mallon, University of Utah, and
Shaun Nichols, University of Arizona
Faculty: Kwame Anthony Appiah, John Doris, Joshua Greene,
Paul Griffiths, Leslie Francis, Joshua Knobe, Tania Lombrozo,
Edouard Machery, Jesse Prinz, Adina Roskies, Walter
Sinnott-Armstrong, Ernest Sosa, Karola Stotz, Stephen
Stich, and Jonathan Weinberg
Information: Brin Bon
Department of Philosophy
4th Floor, CITHB
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
801/581-8161
experimentalphilosophy@utah.edu
www.hum.utah.edu/philosophy/faculty/mallon/experimentalphilosophy.html
Nature and History at the Nation’s Edge: A Field Institute in Environmental and Borderlands History
June 14-July 11, 2009 (4 weeks)
Katherine Morrissey, University of Arizona
Faculty: Paul Hirt, Samuel Truett, Marsha Weisiger, Diane Austin,
Ned Blackhawk, Dan Flores, Jesus Garcia, Diana Hadley,
Mark Klett, Oscar Martinez, Dale C. Miles, J.C. Mutchler,
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, Stephen Pyne, Cynthia Radding,
Jupiter Martinez Ramirez, Cecilia Rosales, Harley Shaw,
Thomas Sheridan, Joe Truett, Raymond Turner, Robert Varady,
and Scott Whiteford
Information: Katherine Morrissey
Department of History
University of Arizona
215 Social Sciences
Tucson, AZ 85721
520/626-8429
kmorriss@u.arizona.edu
www.u.arizona.edu/~kmorriss/nature/
(Institute locations: University of Arizona; Armendaris Ranch, New Mexico; American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station, Arizona; San Bernardino Ranch, Sonora, Mexico; Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico; and Douglas, Arizona)
American Immigration Revisited
July 6-31, 2009 (4 weeks)
Maureen Murphy Nutting, North Seattle Community College, and
Alan M. Kraut, American University
Faculty: Elliott R. Barkan, Ronald Bayor, Hasia Diner, Nancy
Foner, Donna Gabaccia, David Gerber, David G. Gutiérrez,
Madeline Y. Hsu , Violet Showers Johnson, Timothy J.
Meagher, Mae M. Ngai, Barbara M. Posadas, and
Saskia Sassen
Information: Miriam Hauss
National History Center
400 A Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
202/544-2422, ext. 103
mhauss@historians.org
nationalhistorycenter.org/americanimmigration/
(Institute locations: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and New York City)
A Fierce Green Fire at 100: Aldo Leopold and the Roots of Environmental Ethics
June 22-July 17, 2009 (4 weeks)
Dan Shilling and Joan McGregor, Arizona State University
Faculty: J. Baird Callicott, Susan Flader, Curt Meine, Julianne
Newton, Scott Russell Sanders, Miguel Astor-Aguilera,
Michael Anderson, Elizabeth Brandt, Thomas Fleischner,
Douglas Hulmes, Ben Minteer, Stephen Pyne, and
Paolo Solerir
Information: Dan Shilling or Jennifer Petruzzella
Institute for Humanities Research
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 876505
Tempe, AZ 85287-6505
480/965-3000
ihr@asu.edu
ihr.asu.edu/leopold
(Institute location: Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, Arizona)
Slaves, Soldiers, Rebels: Currents of Black Resistance in the Tropical Atlantic, 1760–1880
July 6-August 7, 2009 (5 weeks)
Ben Vinson III, Johns Hopkins University; Stewart King, Mt. Angel
Seminary; Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester
Faculty: Christopher L Brown, Trevor Burnard, Sherwin Bryant,
Laurent Dubois, Douglas Egerton, Sylvia Frey, John Garrigus,
Marjoleine Kars, Herbert S. Klein, Jane Landers, Gary Nash,
Marcus Rediker, Stuart Schwartz, James Sidbury
Information: Claude Poux
Center for Africana Studies
118 Greenhouse
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218
410/516-6385
cpoux1@jhu.edu
www.jhu.edu/africana/events/neh-summer-institute
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