COLLABORATIVE
RESEARCH AWARDS
Division
of Research Programs
Announced: May 2006
Chinookan Households on the Lower Columbia River: Contact and
Complexity
Portland State University, OR
Kenneth M. Ames,
Project Director; with collaborators Robert Boyd, R. Lee Lyman, Peter
Schoonmaker, Cameron Smith, Elizabeth Sobel, Martin Streck, Cathy
Whitlock, and Dongya Yang; and a staff of student assistants
Analysis and interpretation of the results, especially those relating to social complexity and to fur trade, of four excavations on the North American Pacific coast.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.
An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Gamo Caste System in
Southwestern Ethiopia
University of South Florida, St.
Petersburg
Kathryn Weedman, Project Director, with co-director John W. Arthur, collaborators Matthew Curtis and Josephine Lesur, and up to 17 Gamo translators and assistants
An ethnoarchaeological and archaeological study of the Gamo caste system, which will include mapping and inventorying different caste households, conducting oral history interviews, and excavating archaeological villages
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.
Liberty, Paternalism, and Equity: Public Health and the
Legacy of John Stuart Mill
Columbia University, New York
City
Ronald Bayer, Project Director; with collaborators James Colgrove,
Amy Fairchild, and David Rosner; and 21 conference participants from
public and private institutions in 7 states, the District of Columbia, and
Australia
A conference to examine the impact of the philosophy of John Stuart Mill on the ethics and practice of public health in the United States.
Outright Funds of $50,000 over a period of 12 months..
O'odham Pee Posh Documentary History Project
University of Arizona
Dale S. Brenneman, Diana Hadley,
and Hartman Lomawaima, Project Directors; with ethnohistorian and senior
editor Michael M. Brescia; zooarchaeologist and consulting editor Barnet
Pavăo-Zuckerman; archaeologist and cultural resources advisor John Madsen;
graduate research assistants fluent in English and Spanish with
paleographic Spanish and translation skills, including
anthropologists/translators Anton Daughters and Krisna Ruette,
translator/transcription specialist Judith Caballero, translator Polly
O’Rourke, and anthropologist/linguist Luís M. Barragan; the Tohono O’odham
Nation museum planning committee chair Bernard Siqueiros, museum
administrator Veletta Canouts, museum curator of education Eric J.
Kaldahl, cultural affairs program manager Peter L. Steere, cultural
affairs specialist Joseph T. Joaquin, and linguist and librarian David
Saul; Ak-Chin Indian Community museum director Elaine Peters, cultural
resource specialist Odelia Stephen, and cultural resources manager Nancy
Nelson; Gila River (Huhugam) Indian Community Heritage Center director
Nancy Mahaney and cultural resource specialist Barnaby V. Lewis; Salt
River Pima-Maricopa (Huhugam-ki) Indian Community museum director Kelly
Washington and acting cultural programs supervisor Dezbah Hatathli; elders
from Arizona and Sonora; a research assistant interviewer; an interview
transcriber; and an interview translator.
Preparation for publication of documents relating to the Southern Arizona O'odham and Pee Posh people and their interactions with colonial Spain and early México.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.
First Impressions: The Cultural History of Print in
Imperial China (8th-14th centuries)
Individual Applicant,
Riverside, CA
Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt, Project Directors, with
Timothy H. Barrett, Maggie Bickford, Ann Blair, Joseph Dennis, Jean-Pierre
Drčge, Ronald Egan, Charles Hartman, TJ Hinrichs, Wilt L. Idema,
Hsiang-kwang Liu, Joseph P. McDermott, Anne E. McLaren, and Han Wang
Travel and accommodation expenses for six non U.S. scholars from Asia, Europe, and Australia who are participating in a conference on book culture and printing in China from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries.
Outright Funds of $7,500 over a period of 12 months.
Final Pre-Publication Preparation of the New Cambridge
History of Islam
Princeton University, NJ
Michael A.
Cook, Project Director and editor; with managing editor Marigold Acland;
co-editors Maribel Fierro, Robert Heffner, Robert Irwin, David Morgan,
Anthony Reid, Chase Robinson, and Francis Robinson; editorial assistant
William Blair; and approximately 123 contributors from 86 public and
private institutions in 25 states and the District of Columbia, and 12
other countries
The final assembling and editing of the six volume New Cambridge History of Islam, which will replace the two volume history published over thirty years ago.
Outright Funds of $50,000 over a period of 12 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
and editor-in-chief; with research co-directors and co-editors Louis H.
Feldman, James Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman; an editorial advisory
board of 12 scholars from 8 public and private institutions in 6 states,
Israel, and the United Kingdom; and more than 50 contributors from public
and private institutions in 17 states and the District of Columbia, and 8
other countries
Preparation for publication of a volume of translations of writings by Jews in Judea and the Diaspora from roughly 300 BCE to 100 CE.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of 30 months.
The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Marsha V. Gallagher, Project
Director; with editorial coordinator Stephen S. Witte; editing senior
advisor Gary E. Moulton; translator Dieter Karch; advisory board members
Philip J. Deloria, Raymond J. DeMallie, Robert B. Kaul, James P. Ronda,
and W. Raymond Wood; and additional consultants, including L. Allen
Viehmeyer and Douglas Parks
Preparation of an annotated translation of the journals in which Prince Maximilian of Wied described his expedition to the United States in 1832 - 34.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of 3 years.
The Survey Archaeology of Northern and Southern Mongolia: A
Diachronic Study of Nomadic Polities and Landscapes in Transition
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar, Potomac, MD
William H.
Honeychurch, Project Director, with co-director Chunag Amartuvshin,
lithics specialist Joshua Wright, faunal specialist Cheryl Makarewicz,
ethnographer Jansrai Gerelbadrakh, forensic anthropologist Albert Nelson,
and geomorphological surveyor Thomas Jackson
Excavation, analysis, and interpretation at archaeological sites in the Eurasian steppe to study social and political organization among pastoral societies during the Mongolian Empire.
Outright Funds of $90,000 over a period of 2 years.
The Coast of Colonial California through the Eyes of
Russian Mariners: Fresh Perspectives from Russian Naval
Archives
Fort Ross Interpretive Association, Jenner, CA
Lyn Kalani, Project Director; with Fort Ross Interpretive Association board members James M. Allen, Kent G. Lightfoot, and Sarah Sweedler; Russian State Archives of the Navy research specialists Vladimir Semenovich Sobolev, Ludmila Ivanovna Spiridonova, and Kirill Anatolyevich Kriukov; and specialist advisors ethnohistorian and translator Katherine Arndt, historian and archaeologist Glenn Farris, historian and geographer James Gibson, and historian and translator Alexander Yur’evich Petrov
Preparation of a book consisting of translations of Russian accounts of travels in early California.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of 3 years.
Kierkegaard's Journals and
Notebooks
Connecticut College, New London
Bruce Kirmmse,
Project Director and editorial board chair; with editorial board members
Niels Jřrgen Cappelřrn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, George Pattison,
Vanessa Rumble, and K. Brian Söderquist; and advisory board members Gordon
Marino and Ian Malcolm
Preparation for publication of three volumes of Kierkegaard's journals and notebooks, together with editorial work on a fourth volume.
Outright Funds of $75,000 over a period of 12 months.
The Performance of the Great Baga D'mba
Yale
University, Cambridge, MA
Frederick John Lamp, Project Director, with
ethnohistorian David C. Conrad, ethnoaestheticist Marie Yvonne Curtis,
dance ethnologist Miriam S. Phillips, and anthropologist and
ethnomusicologist Rainer Polak
Library research, travel preparation, and a planning conference prior to undertaking field research in Guinea, West Africa on the masquerade character and performance piece known among the Baga people as D'mba. A final conference will present the results of the collaboration and the plan for a book and an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $75,000 over a period of 18 months.
Macroscale City Structure at Late Assyrian Ziyaret Tepe,
Turkey
University of Akron, OH
Timothy Matney, Project
Director; with assistant director and microdebris analysis specialist Lynn
Rainville; excavations director Kemalletin Köroglu; and archaeologists
Celine Beauchamp, Duncan Schlee, Mary Shepperson, and Sara Kayser;
ceramicists Helen McDonald, Azer Keskin, and Nursen Findik; registrar
Birger Helgestad; illustrators Paola Pugsley and Burhan Suer; conservators
Mandy Reimann and Philipp Schmidt; epigrapher Simo Parpola; surveyor Ann
Donkin; faunal analysis specialist Haskel Greenfield; paleobotanist Dorian
Fuller; shell analysis specialist David Reese; slag analysis specialist
Lynn Schwartz-Dodd; phytolith analysis specialist Jennifer Gilpin; a
photographer; and a medievalist.
Continuing excavation, analysis, and interpretation of urban planning and settlement patterns of a site in modern Turkey that was a provincial capital of the Late Assyrian Empire.
On the web at http://www3.uakron.edu/ziyaret
Outright
funds and offer of matching funds of $83,375 over a period of 12 months.
Religious Demography and Conflict in Ireland,
1659-1926
University of Missouri, Columbia
Kerby A. Miller,
Project Director, with collaborator Liam Kennedy, and one research
assistant
Conference papers, journal articles, and a monograph on religious/demographic change in Ireland, and its social, political, and cultural concomitants from 1659 to 1926.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.
The Eighteenth Century Symphony
University of
Cincinnati, OH
Mary Sue Morrow, Project Director and editor; with
co-editor Bathia Churgin; contributing writers Joanna Cobb Biermann,
Bertil van Boer, Simon McVeigh, Sterling Murray, and Judith Schwartz;
analytical essay authors Peter Alexander, Allen Badley, Paul Bryan,
Suzanne Forsberg, Craig Lister, Marita McClymonds, Sarah Mandel-Yehuda,
Jeannette Morgenroth, Timothy Noonan, Adena Portowitz, René M. Ramos, R.
Todd Rober, Michael Ruhling, Richard Will, and Jean K. Wolf; meeting
coordinator Massimo Ossi; orchestra director and conductor Stanley
Ritchie; members of the Bloomington (Indiana) Early Music Festival
Orchestra; and two graduate student research assistants
Preparation of the first volume of a nearly complete five part series on the history of the symphony, with an accompanying audio CD of recordings of less familiar but important works.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.
Conference on Tolerance Among the World's Religions
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Jacob Neusner,
Project Director, with conference participants Alan J. Avery-Peck, Robert
Berchman, Bruce D. Chilton, Brad Clough, Vincent J. Cornell, Kevin
Corrigan, Richard Davis, Alberto De Bernardi, Adriana Destro, William
Scott Green, Danny Jorgensen, Ibrahim Kalin, David Klinghoffer, Mauro
Pesce, William Reiser, and Kristen Scheible
AA conference examining the extent to which there are intellectual resources within each of the world's major religions supporting tolerance for adherents of other religions.
Outright Funds of $50,000 over a period of one year.
The Anatolian Churches Project: Examining Religious
Material Culture in Ottoman Asia Minor
Richard Stockton
College of New Jersey, Pomona
Tom Papademetriou, Project Director;
with scientific coordinator M. Sacit Pekak; research associates Stephanos Benlisoy, Lynda Carroll, Yücel Dagh, and Heath W. Lowry;
architecture graduate students B. Nilgun Öz and Ege Yildirim; art history
graduate student and research assistant Buket Coskuner; art history
graduate student and field archaeologist A. Ceren Erel; GIS specialist
Michael Kent; research assistant Rod Stearn; and consultants Anthony
Bryer, and Yildiz Ötüken
The documentation and study of Greek Orthodox religious material culture created during Ottoman rule (1299 - 1923) in Anatolia, focusing on Greek Orthodox churches located in present day Turkey.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of 3 years.
Before the Public Sphere: The Frankfurt School, Public Opinion,
and the Group Experiment of 1950
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Andrew J. Perrin and Jeffrey K. Olick, Project Directors,
with translation consultant Kai Löser
A translation and critical edition of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research's Gruppenexperiment (Group Experiment).
Outright Funds of $50,000 over a period of one year.
Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Web of Culture: A Multi
disciplinary Conference
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center,
Hartford, CT
Stephen Railton, Project Director, with co-director
Katherine Kane; one University of Virginia English Department graduate
student research assistant; staff of the University of Virginia’s
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), including
Bernard Frischer and Worthy Martin; staff of the Harriet Beecher Stowe
Center, including program coordinator Sabra Ionno, director of education
Shannon Burke, and manager of public relations and marketing Mary Ellen
White; a six-member editorial advisory board; and conference participants
from public and private institutions in California, Illinois, Michigan,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia
A conference exploring the meaning and significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin for American culture, with presentations that will ultimately be posted on the project director's existing website devoted to Uncle Tom's Cabin and American culture.
On the web at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/
Outright
Funds of $48,496 over a period of one year.
Nixtun-Ch'ich', Pet'en, Guatemala: An Archaeological and
Historical Investigation of the Pete'n Itza
Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale
Prudence Rice and Don S. Rice, Project
Directors; with co-director and co-field director José Rómulo Sánchez
Polo; co-field director Timothy W. Pugh; project laboratory director
Leslie G. Cecil; project osteologist William Duncan; archaeologist and
magnetometry specialist Mark Aldenderfer; ethnohistorian Grant D. Jones;
linguist C. Andrew Hofling; zooarchaeologists Kitty Emery and Susan
DeFrance; epigraphy and iconography specialist Bethany J. Myers; pottery
analysis specialist Kathryn South; and archaeology graduate students Bryan
Carlo and Nathan Meissner
Three seasons of fieldwork, analysis, and interpretation at Nixtun-Ch'ich', Petén, in northern Guatemala.
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $157,285 over a period of 2 years.
Measuring the Social, Spatial, and Temporal Dimensions of
Virginia Slave Housing
University of Mary Washington,
Fredericksburg, VA
Douglas W. Sanford and Dennis J. Pogue, Project
Directors; with early Virginia architecture expert Willie Graham;
historian and technical advisor Wayne Graham; historian and historical
archaeologist Carter L. Hudgins; archaeologist Fraser D. Neiman;
folklorist and vernacular architecture expert Gary Stanton; and
consultants historian Philip D. Morgan, architectural historian Louis
Nelson, and archaeologist Barbara Heath
Creation of a relational database of dwellings in the Chesapeake region in which Virginia slaves were housed, comprising both extant structures and structures for which only documentary or archaeological evidence is available.
Outright Funds of $48,000 over a period of one year.
History/Geography: Railways, Uneven Development, Cultural
Change, and Globalization in France and Great Britain,
1830-1914
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Robert M.
Schwartz, Project Director; with historical GIS and spatial data analysis
specialist Ian Gregory, and geographer and transportation network
specialist Thomas Thevenin
Conference papers, scholarly articles, digital publications, and a book on the 19th century transportation revolution in Britain and France.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.
Religion and Ethnicity at China's Margins: Contesting the
Yellow Dragon
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA
Donald Sutton, Project Director, with Xiaofei Kang, and interpreters
Completion of field work in Huanglong, and initial preparation for publication.
Outright Funds of $50,000 over a period of one year.
Archaeological Excavation and Survey of the Prehistoric
Settlement of Mitrou, Greece
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville
Aleydis M. Van de Moortel and Eleni Zachou, Project
Directors; with senior pottery analyst Jeremy B. Rutter; pottery analyst
Patrick Thomas; trench supervisor and pottery analyst Olga Kyriazi;
graduate student pottery analysts Bartolomiej Lis and Brian Trail; lithics
specialist Evangelia Karimali; physical anthropologist Susan Frankenberg;
zooarchaeologist Thanos Webb; ethnobotanists Amy Bogaard and Mike Charles;
GIS specialist Nick Hermann; geoarchaeologist Panagiotis Karkanas,
geophysicist Grigorios Tsokas; field director Kerill O’Neill; architect
Giuliana Bianco; archaeology photographer Taylor Dabney; archaeological
drawing specialist Julia Pfaff; artist Tina Ross; aerial balloon
photographer Konstantinos Xenikakis; conservator Charis Zahariou; and
cataloguers Evgenia Gorogianni and Andrea Guzzetti
Archaeological excavation and survey at Mitrou, Greece in order to study the development and disintegration of the first state-level society on the European continent.
On the web at http://www.mitrou.org/
Outright Funds
of $150,000 over a period of three years.
Invisible Hands: Self Organization in the Eighteenth
Century
Indiana University, Bloomington
Dror Wahrman,
Project Director, with collaborator Jonathan Sheehan
Research and preparation of a book on the significance of "self organization" in the European Enlightenment.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.
Neo-Babylonian Trial Procedure
St. Joseph's
University, Philadelphia, PA
Bruce Wells and F. Rachel Magdalene,
Project Directors; with Assyriological consultant Cornelia Wunsch;
information technology consultant Dean Snyder; legal history consultant
Raymond Westbrook; and graduate and undergraduate student research
assistants
The examination of several hundred Neo-Babylonian cuneiform tablets in order to analyze and describe the features of the trial court system operative in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) during the 7th to 5th centuries BCE.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.
Shakespeare in American Education, 1607-1934: A Conference
at the Folger Shakespeare Library, March 16-17, 2007
Folger
Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
Owen Williams, Project Director;
with Barbara Mowat, Kathleen Lynch, Virginia Millington, and Carol
Brobeck; and conference participants Denise Albanese, Arthur Applebee,
Michael Bristol, Matthew Brown, Jonathan Burton, John Guillory, Sandra
Gustafson, Nan Johnson, Coppélia Kahn, Rosemary Kegl, Theodore Leinwand,
Marvin McAllister, Heather Nathans, Peggy O’Brien, Elizabeth Renker, and
Michael Warner, from public and private institutions in 9 states, the
District of Columbia, and Canada
A conference investigating the historical role of Shakespeare in
American classrooms. The project plans to have conference resources
permanently available on the web at http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm
Outright
Funds of $40,000 over a period of one year.
The Kislak Techialoyans at the Library of Congress: Digital
Facsimiles with English and Spanish Translations
University of
Oregon, Eugene
Stephanie G. Wood, Project Director; with co-director
Judith Musick; Nahuatl language specialist Robert Haskett; art historian
and Techialoyan specialist Xavier Noguez; art historian and indigenous
Mexican manuscript specialist Dana Leibsohn; text encoding consultants
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman; and a staff of one technical specialist,
one graduate research fellow, and three undergraduate students
The digitization of a set of four original colonial-era Nahuatl-language pictorial manuscripts known as the Kislak Techialoyans, and the preparation of English and Spanish annotated translations on an interactive website.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.
Translating a "French Robinson Crusoe" of the Americas: The
Memoir of Dumont de Montigny
Newberry Library, Chicago,
IL
Carla Zecher, Project Director, with English and French colonial
American literature specialist Gordon M. Sayre, colonial Atlantic World
historical anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy, translation consultant Lydia
G. Cochrane, proof-reader Ellen McClure, and program assistant Katherine
Gardner
Preparation of an annotated English translation of the memoir of Dumont de Montigny, eighteenth-century French traveler in colonial Louisiana.
Outright Funds of $70,000 over a period of two years.