COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
Announced: May 2004

Study and Publication of Archaeological Collections from Qasr Ibrim, Nubia
University of Kentucky, Lexington
William Y. Adams, Project Director, with collaborators Nettie K. Adams, Pamela Rose, and Laurence Smith, and graduate assistant Christina Pappas

Study of early medieval (A.D. 600-1172) remains from the site of Qasr Ibrim, Nubia.

Outright funds of $58,779 over a period of one year.

Widening the Scope of Knowledge: A Revisionist History of the Telescope
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, IL
Marvin P. Bolt, Project Director, with collaborators Duane H. Jaecks and M. Eugene Rudd

Creation of an electronic database to be maintained by the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, which would provide technical measurements of the seventeenth-and eighteenth-century telescopes to be examined in this project.

Outright funds of $44,810 over a period of 3 years.

The Virtual Monastery: Integrating Archaeology. Architecture and Text at St-Jean-des-Vignes
Brown University, Providence, RI
Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines, Project Directors, with a technology and information design staff of Michael Roy, Anne Loyer, Saleh Nasir, Elli Mylonas, Julia Flanders, Paul Caton, and Kerri Hicks, architectural graphics designer Tal Schori, and translators Isabelle Cochelin and Luc Joqué

Development of an interdisciplinary digital publication that explores the daily life and social context of an important medieval abbey, using interactive architectural models and site plans of the standing and excavated buildings, the text of the abbey’s unpublished chapter book and translations, and a database of the material culture of the site.

Outright funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.

Recovering and Conserving Ancient Egyptian History and Religious Thought from the Great Hypostyle Wall
University of Memphis, TN
Peter J. Brand, Project Director, with collaborators Janusz Karkowski, Jean Revez, Suzanne Onstine, Laurence Blondaux, and Lyla Pinch Brook, and graduate student epigraphists Louise Rasnake-Cooper, Roy W. Hopper, and Robert C. Griffin

Documentation, study, conservation, and publication of the inscriptions and reliefs of the Great Hypostyle Hall in the temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt.

Outright funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.

The RIGVEDA: Translation and Explanatory Notes
University of Texas, Austin
Joel P. Brereton and Stephanie W. Jamison, Project Directors

An English translation of the RIGVEDA, an ancient Indian religious text, with explanatory notes and a general introduction.

Outright funds of $75,000 over a period of one year.

Rational Sentimentalism
Ohio State University, Columbus
E. Justin D’Arms and Daniel Jacobson, Project Directors, with research assistant Remy Debes

A jointly-authored book on emotions in relation to moral philosophy.
Outright funds of $75,000 over a period of one year.

Chekhov the Immigrant: Translating a Cultural Icon
Colby College, Waterville, ME
Julie de Sherbinin and Michael Finke, Project Directors, with over twenty conference participants from eleven states and France

A multidisciplinary conference and publication on the Russian author, playwright, and doctor, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904).

Outright funds of $27,204 over a period of 17 months.

An Independent Perspective on the Uruk Expansion: Three Local Chalcolithic Communities
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Lynn S. Dodd, Project Director, with collaborators Margaret Abraham, Ilya Berelov, Chiara Cavallo, Andrew Creekmore, Elizabeth Healey, Helmut Kroll, and Rainer Pasternak

Excavation and study of three successive indigenous Late Chalcolithic settlements on the Upper Tigris in Turkey.

http://www.utarp.org
Outright funds of $144,396 over a period of 3 years.

The Institutions of Opera in Paris from the July Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Annegeret Fauser and Elizabeth Bartlett, Project Directors, with graduate student assistants, and twenty participants from nine states and Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom

A conference focusing on the issue of how a range of Paris opera institutions functioned in French cultural life from 1828 until the end of the century.

Outright funds of $50,000 over a period of one year.

Folktales of the Jews: A Publication Project
Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, PA
Ellen Frankel, Project Director, with co-editors Dan Ben Amos and Dov Noy, publishing director Carol Hupping, copy editor Candace Levy, translators Lenn Schramm and Jacqueline Teitelbaum, and Janet Liss and Robin Norman

Preparation for publication of an English-language, six-volume anthology of Folktales of the Jews that will include 350 annotated narratives in their historical and cultural contexts.

Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $100,000 over a period of 30 months.

Archaeological Investigation of Werowocomoco, Political Center of the Powhatan Chiefdom
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Martin Gallivan and E. Randolph Turner, Project Directors, with project archaeologists David Brown and Thane Harpole, and Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Deanna Beacham coordinating collaboration with the Virginia Indian community and outreach and dissemination, and student assistants

An archaeological investigation at Werowocomoco, an early 17th-century political center of the Powhatan chiefdom in the tidewater area of Virginia.

Outright funds of $98,181 over a period of 17 months.

New Netherland Project: Translating and Editing of New Netherland Archives
New York State Library, Albany
Charles Gehring, Project Director, with associate Jenny Venema, researcher Martha Dickinson Shattuck, and Interim Library Director Mary Redmond

The translation of two volumes of Dutch colonial documents (consisting of the council minutes, 1656-1658, and correspondence, 1659-1660), and the transcription of two additional volumes (consisting of the council minutes, 1660-1661, and correspondence, 1661-1662).

http://www.nnp.org
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $150,000 over a period of 3 years.

The Historical Landscapes of Missouri
University of Missouri, Columbia
James Harlan, Project Director, with collaborators Mark Cowell, Timothy Haithcoat, and Walter A. Schroeder, systems administrator Gregory S. Breuer, and the support staff of Dianne Roberts, one graduate assistant, and four undergraduate assistants

Completion of a database and a book summarizing and analyzing the contents of the General Land Office (GLO) survey of the early territory of Missouri.

http://msdisweb.missouri.edu/
Outright funds of $100,000 over a period of 2 years.

Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks
Connecticut College, New London
Bruce Kirmmse, Project Director, with editorial board members Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, George Pattison, and Jon Stewart, translators David Kangas and Vanessa Rumble, and advisory board members Gordon Marino and Ian Malcolm

Translation and annotation of four volumes of Kierkegaard's unpublished writings.

Outright funds of $125,000 over a period of 3 years.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Middle Eastern Legacy
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar, Washington, DC
Mina Marefat, Project Director, with Anthony Alofson and Brian Hunter

An interpretive study of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1957 architectural plans for the city of Baghdad.

Outright funds of $100,000 over a period of one year.

Investigating a Late Assyrian Urban Landscape at Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey
University of Akron, OH
Timothy Matney, Project Director, with assistant director Lynn Rainville, and collaborators John Curtis, Dorian Fuller, Haskel Greenfield, Birger Helgestad, Stephen Lumsden, Kemalletin Köroglu, John MacGinnis, Helen McDonald, Simo Parpola, Paola Pugsley, Mandy Reimann, Michael Roaf, Duncan Schlee, Philipp Schmidt, Monica Smith, and Diana Stein

Two years of excavation and analysis of the site of ancient Tushhan on the Upper Tigris in southeast Turkey, studying the process of collapse of the Late Assyrian Empire.

http://www3.uakron.edu/ziyaret
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.

An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Short-short Stories
Iowa State University, Ames
Aili Mu, Project Director, with Julie Chiu and Howard Goldblatt

The compilation and translation of a bilingual edition of an anthology of 100 representative Chinese short-short stories with a critical introduction, and biographies of selected authors.

Outright funds of $75,000 over a period of one year.

Language Variety in the South (LAVIS): Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Michael Picone and Catherine Evans Davies, Project Directors, with an advisory board of ten members from nine states, and over 40 contributors from 18 states, the District of Columbia, and Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom

Support for the editing of conference papers for publication and for the creation of a new website that will present state-of-the-art research on linguistic variation in the American South, resulting from the LAVIS III Symposium to be held at the University of Alabama, April 2004, and that will also serve as an ongoing public resource for developments in research on the topics addressed by the conference.

http://www.as.ua.edu/lavis
Outright funds of $100,000 over a period of two years

What is a God? Anthropomorphic and Non-Anthropomorphic Aspects of Deity in Ancient Mesopotamia
Casco Bay Assyriological Institute, Chebeague Island, ME
Barbara Porter, Project Director, with participants Francesca Rochberg, Stefan M. Maul, Tallay Ornan, and Hermann L. J. Vanstiphout, and project administrator Michael H. Porter

A five-day conference of five scholars to consider anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic aspects of deity in ancient Mesopotamia.

Outright funds of $18,563 over a period of one year.

Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Gender, Genre, and the Negotiation of Knowledge in Late Qing China
Rice University, Houston, TX
Nanxiu Qian, Grace S. Fong, and Richard J. Smith, Project Directors, with 24 participants from 6 states, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, and Taiwan

An international and interdisciplinary conference that challenges the conventional view of China's late Qing reform era (c. 1890-1912).

Outright funds of $31,275 over a period of one year.

Genders, Genres, and Voices in Early Modern Italy, France, and Spain
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar, Chapel Hill, NC
Albert Rabil, Project Director, with volume editors Daniel Bornstein, Julie Campbell, Don Harràn, Lance Lazar, Suzanne Magnanini, Nicholas Paige, Lewis Seifert, Sandra Sider, Maria Galli Stampino, Domna Stanton, and Lori Ultsch

Translation and editing of eight volumes of writing by and about women from early modern Europe.

Outright funds of $60,000 over a period of one year.

An Explanation for Emergent Complex Society at the Sites of Lerna and Kolonna, Greece
Indiana University, Bloomington
Christine M. Shriner and James Brophy, Project Directors, with George E. Christidis and Haydn H. Murray

Research undertaken with a view to testing hypotheses about the emergence of complex society in Early Bronze Age (roughly, 2150-2000 B.C.) Lerna and Kolonna, Greece.

Outright funds of $100,000 over a period of 3 years.

The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s
University of California, Berkeley
Yuri Slezkine, Project Director, with over 33 participants from 12 states and the District of Columbia, and Canada, France, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom

A three-day conference on mid-20th century Soviet society and culture.

Outright funds of $27,248 over a period of one year.

Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Religion and Ethnicity at China's Margins
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Donald Sutton and Xiaofei Kang, Project Directors, with interpreter Li Quan

A study of the relationship between religious pilgrimage and ethnic identity at the sacred site of Huanglong in northwestern Sichuan on the Sino-Tibetan border.

Outright funds of $75,000 over a period of 14 months.

Early Bronze Age Excavations at Sotira Kaminoudhia, Cyprus
State University of New York, Albany
Stuart Swiny, Project Director, with Paul Crift, faunal analyst, Julie Hansen, paleoethnobotanist, Ellen Herscher, ceramicist, Pamela Roberts, cataloguer, Helen Swiny, lab director, and a staff of 5 graduate and 4 undergraduate students

Excavation of a unique Early Bronze Age (ca. 2250 BCE) structure at Sotira Kaminoudhia, in Cyprus, to determine whether it was a ceremonial complex.

Outright funds of $77,722 over a period of two years.

Mesoamerican Codices Database: An On-line Tool for Researching the Maya Codices
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar, Palmetto, FL
Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández, Project Directors, with Anthony Aveni, Victoria R. Bricker, and William Giltinan

The preparation of a database of the four extant Maya codices – manuscripts painted with pictures, hieroglyphic texts, and calendrical glyphs – and a monograph interpreting one of the codices.

http://www.doaks.org/Pre-Columbian.html
Outright funds of $125,000 over a period of one year.

Reading and Writing the Pedagogy of the Renaissance: Students, Teachers, and Materials of Musical Learning, 1520-1650
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Susan Forscher Weiss, Cynthia J. Cyrus, and Russell E. Murray, Jr., Project Directors, with a staff of graduate students and assistants, and participants from more than 11 states and Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom

An international conference, a volume of essays, and an online bibliographic database addressing the institutions, traditions, and practices of musical pedagogy in the Early Modern Period.

Outright funds of $85,000 over a period of 18 months.

The French of England
Fordham University, Bronx, NY
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and Thelma S. Fenster, Project Directors, with co-editor Delbert Russell, and translators William Askins, Catherine Batt, Maureen B. M. Boulton, Joan Ferrante, Robert Hanning, Laurie Postlewate, and Judith Weiss, and contributor Christopher Baswell

Production of reliable English translations of complete French medieval texts that are significant and non-canonical, and a volume entitled The French of England: Vernacular Literary Theory and Practices, 1130-1450.

http://www.fordham.edu/frenchofengland/index.html
Outright funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.