National Endowment for the Humanities
SUMMER STIPENDS AWARDS
Division of Research
Announced: June 2004

Adams, Sean Patrick
University of Central Florida, Orlando
Orlando, FL
New Hearths for a New Nation: The Technology and Consumption of Heat in Early American Cities

Ahmed, Siraj Dean
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
Enlightenment Writing, Early British India, and the Origins of Empire

Alexander, John H.
Texas A & M University, Main Campus
College Station, TX
Correspondence Relating to Carlo Borromeo's Early Architectural Patronage

Arlo-Costa, Horacio Luis
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
C.I. Lewis's Notion of Coherence and its Significance for Contemporary Epistemology

Arnold, Albert James
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Aimé Césaire's "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal / Notebook of a Return to the Native Land": Digital Edition

Barrett, Robert W.
University of Illinois, Urbana
Urbana, IL
Writing from the Marches: Cheshire Poetry and Drama, 1195-1656

Baumgartner, Frederic Joseph
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
Declaring War and Making Peace in Early Modern Europe

Budryte, Dovile
Brenau University
Gainesville, GA
The Transformation of Nationalism in the Baltic States, 1991-2003

Burdick, John Samuel
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
African-American Music and the Black Evangelical Movement in Brazil

Burger, Michael
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, MS
Power over Distance: English Diocesan Governance in the Thirteenth Century

Callahan, Richard J.
University of Missouri, Columbia
Columbia, MO
Explorations of the Lived Religion of Nineteenth Century New England Whalers

Capozzola, Christopher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Political Obligation in the Trenches: Military Service and American Citizenship in World War I

Celik, Zeynep
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ
Public Space, Modernity, and Empire Building: Ottoman Syria and Lebanon, French Maghrib (1830-1914)

Chakkalakal, Tess Eufamia
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
"Literary Fellows": James Weldon Johnson and Brander Matthews

Childers, Jeff Wayne
Abilene Christian University
Abilene, TX
The Syriac Version of John Chrysostom's Homilies on John (1-30)

Chinitz, David Evan
Loyola University, Chicago
Chicago, IL
Langston Hughes's "Bricks of Compromise"

Choi, Hyaeweol
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Public and Private Discourse on Modern Womanhood in the Korea Mission Field

Chow, Eileen Cheng-yin
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Movie-Made China: A Study of Everyday Film Culture from Hollywood to Shanghai

Cole, Catherine Melinda
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
Stages of Transition: South Africa's Truth Commission and Performance

Conwell, David Hulburt
Baylor School
Chattanooga, TN
Connecting a City to Its Navy: The Long Walls of Athens

Copenhaver, Rebecca Elizabeth
Lewis and Clark College
Portland, OR
Thomas Reid's Philosophy of Mind

Cummings, William Patrick
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Interpreting Conversion to Islam in Seventeenth-Century Indonesia

Davenport, John Joseph
Fordham University College at Lincoln Center
New York, NY
Autonomy and Authenticity: An Existential Approach

Davis, James Calvin
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams

DeLancey, Julia A.
Truman State University
Kirksville, MO
Artists, Merchants, and the Trade in Pigments in Renaissance Florence

Della Rocca, Michael Angelo
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Introduction to the Philosophy of Spinoza

Deppman, Jed E.
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH
Redefining America: Whitman, Dickinson, and Their Dictionaries

Desch-Obi, Thomas
CUNY Research Foundation, Bernard Baruch College
New York, NY
African Martial Arts Traditions and the 19th century Wars of Independence in Haiti and Cuba

Djiffack, Andre
University of Oregon, Eugene
Eugene, OR
Writings of Mongo Beti, 1932-2001

Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn Jean
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA
Cultural Responses to the "Incredible Famine'' of 1876-1879 in China

Ekbladh, David Karl Francis
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Washington, DC
Modernization as a Tool in U.S. Foreign Relations in East and Southeast Asia, 1914-1973

English, Beth Anne
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the U.S. Textile Industry, 1880-1959

Etcheson, Nicole
University of Texas, El Paso
El Paso, TX
The Union Home Front: Putnam County, Indiana in the Civil War Era

Fabian, Katalin
Lafayette College
Easton, PA
Changing Attitudes and Changing Laws on Domestic Violence in Central Europe

Finke, Laurie Anne
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH
Twentieth-Century Films about the Middle Ages and Joan of Arc

Fishbane, Eitan P.
Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Techniques of Mystical Practice: Isaac of Acre and Kabbalistic Contemplation in the 14th Century

Fitzgerald, James Leo
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Translation of the Anthology of Texts on Absolute Freedom (moksha) in the Great Epic of India (Mahâbhârata)

Fletcher, Yael Simpson
University of the South
Sewanee, TN
Our Marseilles: Nation, Race, and Empire in a French Mediterranean City, 1919-1939

Foertsch, Jacqueline Marie
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
A Battle of Silence: The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America

Fogarty, Richard Standish
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater, VA
Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918

Forbes, Graeme Robertson
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
The Logic and Semantics of Attribution of Mental States Towards Objects

Fulkerson, Laurel
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Remorse and Repentance in the Ancient World

Gade, Anna Margaret
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH
Religious Revitalization and Recovery: Cham Muslims in Cambodia

Gill, Mary-Louise Glanville
Brown University
Providence, RI
Plato's Missing Dialogue: The Philosopher

Goi, Simona
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI
Hannah Arendt's Conception of Judgment and the Ethics of Critical Self-doubt

Grady, Hugh Hartridge
Arcadia University
Glenside, PA
Shakespearean Aesthetics

Griffiths, Paul Douglas
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
Lost Londons: Crime, Control, and Change in a Capital City, 1545-1660

Habich, Robert D.
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
Building Their Own Waldos: Emerson's First Biographers and the Politics of Genre

Haddad, Emily Anne
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD
Indigenous Economies and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Haefeli, Evan
Tufts University
Medford, MA
Being Tolerated: Dutch America and the English, 1618-1715

Harsanyi, Doina Pasca
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, MI
Lessons from America: Aristocratic émigrés in America and the development of modern French political culture

Hecimovich, Gregg Alan
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Searching for Hannah Crafts: Kate Wheeler Cooper and the First Novel by an African-American Woman

Heinzen, James Warren
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ
Corruption, Politics, and Daily Life in the Postwar USSR, 1940s-1960s

Holliday, Peter James
California State University, Long Beach Foundation
Long Beach, CA
Historical Commemoration in the Hellenistic Age

Holloway, Steven Winford
American Theological Library Association
Evanston, IL
Victorian Assyria and the Bible in America

Holm, Tawny L.
Independent Scholar
Religious Discourse on Women and Abnormal Births in Ancient Mesopotamia and Babylon

Hoover, James William
Centre College of Kentucky
Danville, KY
Empire and Illusion: Law, Order, and Magic in Colonial India

Huber, Patrick Joseph
University of Missouri, Rolla
Rolla, MO
Hillbilly Music: The Modern Origins of an Old-Time Southern Sound, 1922-1931

Igarashi, Yoshikuni
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Postwar Japan and Visions of Mass Consumer Society

Ingram, Penelope Anne
Auburn University
Auburn, AL
The Outlaw Ned Kelly and Australian National Identity

Ivic, Christopher Stephen
SUNY Research Foundation, College at Potsdam
Potsdam, NY
The Subject of Britain, 1603-1660

Jacobs, Rachelle Marie
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Dharma for a New Millennium: The Emergence of New Buddhist Discourses in Thailand

Johnson, Joel Andrew
Augustana College, Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls, SD
"Cato" Revealed: John Williams and the Ratification Controversy In New York, 1787-88

Johnson, Kimberley Stephanie
Barnard College
New York, NY
Stateways: Public Administration in the Jim Crow South, 1930-1954

Jones, Lu Ann
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
DuPont Comes to Tobacco Road: Industrialization in the Postwar South

Kalin, Ibrahim
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms

Kamoie, Laura Croghan
American University
Washington, DC
Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1830

Keesling, Catherine Marie
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Greek Portraiture in Context

Kidd, Thomas Saunders
Baylor University
Waco, TX
Awakenings: The First Generation of American Evangelical Christianity

Klingle, Matthew W.
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME
Urban by Nature: Seattle and the Making of the Modern American Environmental Metropolis

Koehler, Karen R.
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA
Gropius in Exile and the Fear of Reception

Kourelis, Konstantinos
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
The Clarencia Survey, Greece

Koven, Seth David
Villanova University
Villanova, PA
Voluntary Poverty and Global Citizenship in 20th Century Britain

LaMonaca, Maria Bridget
Columbia College, South Carolina
Columbia, SC
Catholicism and the Victorian Woman Writer, 1830-70

Larkin, Todd Lawrence
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Marie-Antoinette and Her Portraits: The Politics of Queenly Self-Imaging in Late Eighteenth-Century France

Latham, Sean
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK
The Art of Scandal: The Open Secrets and Illicit Pleasures of the Modern Novel

Leve, James S.
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ
A Study of the Artistic and Cultural Importance of the Musicals of John Kander and Fred Ebb

Levinson, Bernard Malcolm
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
Revelation and Redaction: Rethinking Biblical Studies and Its Intellectual Models

Levy, Allison Mary
Wheaton College
Norton, MA
Masculinity, Mourning and Portraiture in Early Modern Italy

Lewis, Peter John
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
Conspiracy Theories of Quantum Mechanics: The Measurement Problem and the Philosophy of Science

Lieberman, Robert C.
Columbia University
New York, NY
Public and Private in American State Building

Louie, Andrea
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
New Families, New Cultures, New Identities: Changing U.S. Family Formations through Adoption from China

Lubert, Howard L.
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
The Creation of American Federalism, 1765-1787

Ludwig, Paul Walter
St. John's College, Main Campus
Annapolis, MD
Family and Community in Greek Political Thought: The Tragedy of Philia

Maddux, Harry Clark
Tennessee State University
Nashville, TN
Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana": A Critical Edition

Mandel, Maud Strum
Brown University
Providence, RI
Jews and Muslims in France, 1948 to 2001: A Social and Political History

Manfredi, Paul Richard
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA
Modernist Poetry in Chinese

Maxwell, Robert Allan
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Art Inventing History: Picturing the Living Past in the Middle Ages

McIntosh, Janet Susan
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
Expatriate Encounters with African Religion in Kenya

Menke, Richard
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems

Metz, Thaddeus
University of Missouri, St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
What Makes Knowledge Important

Mileaf, Janine
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA
The Object in Dada and Surrealism

Morgan, Mindy Jean
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Petitions and Passes: Responses to Regulation on the Fort Belknap Reservation, 1887-1921

Morrison, Robert Gordon
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA
Religion and Science in Medieval Iran

Nevitt, Jr., Hugh Rodney
University of Houston
Houston, TX
The "Modern" Image and its Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

Noble, Jonathan Scott
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
The Experimental Plays of China's Leading Avant-garde Theater Director and Playwright Meng Jinghui

Noreen, Kirstin Joanne
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
Replicating Holiness in the Visual Culture of the Counter-Reformation

O'Brien, Ellen Louise
Roosevelt University
Chicago, IL
Voicing Crime: The Criminal Poetics of the Victorian Era

Orie, Olanike Ola
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
Yoruba Sign Language Lexicon

Paces, Cynthia Jean
College of New Jersey
Ewing, NJ
Prague Panoramas: Religious and National Symbols in a 20th-Century City

Palka, Joel W.
University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago, IL
Unconquered Mayas in the Rainforest: Culture Change in a Tribal Zone

Pauly, John J.
St. Louis University
St. Louis, MO
Whatever Became of the New Journalism?

Potter, Mark David
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
Provincial Estates and Absolutism in Louis XIII's France

Prasad, Leela
Duke University
Durham, NC
A Performed Poetic: Oral Narrative and Hindu Ethics in a South Indian Town

Pulliam, Heather
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY
Meaning in the Margins: The Minor Decoration of the Book of Kells and Related Manuscripts

Quinlan, Sean Michael
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID
The Social Uses of Medical Science in France, 1750-1850

Rea, Michael Cannon
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Against Presentism: A Defense of the Reality of Past and Future Times

Rife, Joseph Lee
Macalester College
St. Paul, MN
Death and Social Structure in the Roman Cemetery at Kenchreai, Corinthia, Greece

Rippy, Marguerite Hailey
Marymount University
Arlington, VA
Classics, Controversy and the Masses: Orson Welles on the Radio

Rubin, III, Hyman S.
Columbia College, South Carolina
Columbia, SC
The South Carolina Scalawags in the Post-Civil War South

Rushing, James Arthur
Rutgers University, Camden
Camden, NJ
The History of Reading and the Aeneid in the Visual Arts

Ryan, Susan M.
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
The Moral Economies of American Authorship, 1830-1870

Scheese, Donald Frederick
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN
The Allure of the Anasazi: Representations of Ancestral Puebloans in Art and Literature

Schenbeck, Rosalyn P.
Independent Scholar
A Critical Edition of the 1921 African-American Musical "Shuffle Along"

Schmelz, Peter John
SUNY Research Foundation, Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
Listening, Memory, and the Thaw: the Politics and Practice of Unofficial Music in the Soviet Union, 1956-1974

Schultz, Celia E.
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Addressing the Gods: Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic

Sha, Richard Chih-Tung
American University
Washington, DC
William Blake and Medicine

Sharman, Russell Leigh
CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY
Saints and Outcasts: Race and Idolatry in Costa Rica

Shoemaker, Karl B.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI
"Tearfully, He Came to Court:" The Medieval Law of Tears

Shoemaker, Stephen James
University of Oregon, Eugene
Eugene, OR
The Prophet's Palestinian Campaign: Reconsidering the Date of Muhammad's Death in View of Non-Islamic Sources

Sieber, Patricia Angela
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Columbus, OH
The Formation of Academic Sinology: A Material History, 1800-1860

Sim, May
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
Confucian Rights in Practice

Siry, Joseph Michael
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
Frank Lloyd Wright's Later Public Architecture, 1938-1959

Sivertsev, Alexei Mikhailovich
DePaul University
Chicago, IL
Households, Sects and Origins of Rabbinic Judaism

Smoller, Laura Ackerman
University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Little Rock, AR
The Cult of Vincent Ferrer and the Religious Life of the Later Middle Ages

Sparrow, James Terence
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Fighting over the American Soldier: National Citizenship in American Political Culture, 1936-53

Storey, William Kelleher
Millsaps College
Jackson, MS
Guns, Race, and Skill in South Africa up to 1867

Tai, Emily Sohmer
CUNY Research Foundation, Queensborough Community College
New York, NY
Honor Among Thieves: Merchants and Pirates in Mediterranean Europe, 1200-1500

Um, Nancy Ajung
SUNY Research Foundation, Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
Marking the Mocha Trade Network: Architecture, Spatial History and the Port City in Early Modern Yemen

Varsano, Paula Manette
Smith College
Northampton, MA
Locating the Lyric Subject in Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics

Walker, Bethany Joelle
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
The Politics of Land Management in Medieval Islam: The Village of Hisban, Jordan

Watenpaugh, Heghnar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Ruins into Monuments: Preservation, Nationalism and the Construction of Heritage in the Modern Middle East

Weiner, Richard Huntington
Indiana University, Purdue University at Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, IN
Narratives of Wealth and Poverty: A Cultural History of the Mexican Economy

Weinstein, Jack Russell
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND
Adam Smith, Neutrality, and the Liberal Ideal

Welch, Tara S.
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Lawrence, KS
Tarpeia: History of a Roman Myth

Williams, Gary
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID
American Reaction to 1830s French Fiction

Willis, James Jonathan
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Boston, MA
The Relationship between Transportation and Imprisonment in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Worth, John Eugene
Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville, FL
First-Contact Narratives from Florida's Lower Gulf Coast: An Annotated Translation Project

Xu, Jian
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
The Modes of Representation of Social Suffering in Chinese Literature and Film

Yaszek, Lisa
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
Housewife Heroines, Lady Scientists, and Midcentury Women's Science Fiction

Yermolenko, Galina Ivanovna
De Sales University
Center Valley, PA
Roxolana: a Ukrainian Woman in the Ottoman Court

Zohn, Steven David
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works