National Endowment for the Humanities
 
SUMMER STIPENDS AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
 
Announced: February 2007
 
Banerjee, Sukanya
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
Literature
Imperial Citizens: Nation, Empire, and Narrative

Behl, Aditya
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Asian Literature
The Magic Doe: A Translation of Qutban's Mirigavati

Beyers, Christopher Thomas
Assumption College
Worcester, MA
American Literature The Text of Wallace Stevens's COLLECTED POEMS

Bicks, Caroline
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Renaissance Studies
Stages of Girlhood in Early Modern England

Biehn, Kersten Jacobson
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX
American History
Improving Mankind: Philanthropic Foundations and American University Research between the World Wars

Biggs, David Andrew
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA
History
American Nation Building and Environmental Change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Blacker, Jean
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH
French Literature
Shades of Anonymity: Characterizing Authorial Voice(s) in Anonymous Texts

Booton, Diane E.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Art History and Criticism
Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Ducal Brittany

Bowin, John Francis
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
Philosophy
The Philosophical Uses of the Concept of Potentiality in Aristotle and his Commentators

Boyer Lewis, Charlene Marie
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo, MI
American History
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte and American Identity: Contesting National Culture in the Early Republic

Brandenberger, David L.
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
Russian History
Stalin's Search for a Usable Past: Ideology, Indoctrination and Terror in the USSR, 1929 - 1939

Buggeln, Gretchen T.
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN
American Studies
“Churches for Today”: Modernism and Suburban Expansion in Post World War II America

Burns, Jennifer
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
History
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

Burrows, Edwin G.
CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY
American History
The Prisoners of New York: Captivity and Memory in the American Revolution

Carhart, Michael
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
European History
Natural History and Cultural History in the Eighteenth Century: The Asch Collection at Gottingen

Carlin, Laurence Davis
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI
History of Philosophy
Teleology in Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy

Cassiday, Julie Anne
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
Theater History and Criticism
Performing Gender on the Russian Stage, 1800 1825

Christie, Edward John
Columbia College, Missouri
Columbia, MO
Medieval Studies
Mystic Writing and the Science of the Letter: Anglo Saxon Literacy and the Materiality of the Sign

Colwell Chanthaphonh, Chip
Independent Scholar
Tucson, AZ
Anthropology
Inheriting the Past: Arthur C. Parker and the Making of Archaeology's Moral Community

Corteguera, Luis R.
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Lawrence, KS
European History
Talking Images in the Spanish Empire

Davis, Richard H.
Bard College
Annandale on Hudson, NY
Nonwestern Religion
The Art of the Procession: Ritual and Display in Festivals of the Goddess Minakshi

Dennis, David Bruce
Loyola University, Chicago
Chicago, IL
European History
Inhumanities: The Reception and Manipulation of Western Cultural History in Nazi Propaganda

Dixon, Susan
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK
Architecture
Rodolfo Lanciani's Ancient Rome

Doris, John Michael
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Philosophy
A Natural History of the Self

Duckworth, Douglas Samuel
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
Nonwestern Religion
The Content and Contemporary Uses of the 'Guhyagarbha' in Buddhist Monastic Colleges in Tibet

Duff, Andrew Ian
Washington State University
Pullman, WA
Archaeology
The Multivocal Past: Archaeological and Native American Perspectives on a Southwestern Cultural Landscape

Earhart, Amy Elizabeth
Texas A & M University, Main Campus
College Station, TX
American Literature
The 19th Century Concord Digital Archive

Ehrick, Christine Theresa
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
Latin American History
Women and Radio in Uruguay and Argentina, 1930 - 1950

Eschenberg, Ardis Rachel
Nebraska Indian Community College
Winnebago, NE
Linguistics
Modernization and Digitization of “The Dhegiha Language” by James O. Dorsey (1890)

Fantazzi, Charles Emanuel
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Classics
Poems of Michele Marullo. Edition, translation and commentary

Flower, John M.
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
Far Eastern History
Reversing the Flow: Place, Protest, and Hydraulic Engineering in Western Sichuan

Frantzen, Allen J.
Loyola University, Chicago
Chicago, IL
British Literature
Linking Food, Material Culture, and Texts in Anglo Saxon England

George, David Frederick
Urbana University
Urbana, OH
British Literature
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Goehring, Edmund J.
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, ZZ
Music History and Criticism
Don Juan in Purgatory: Theater and Religion in Mozart's Vienna

Golahny, Amy
Lycoming College
Williamsport, PA
Art History and Criticism
Rembrandt and Italy

Gray, David B
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
History of Religion
Enacting Hierarchy: A Socio historical Analysis of Tibetan Buddhist Ritual Literature

Hall, Mark David
George Fox University
Newberg, OR
Political Science
The Old Puritan and a New Nation: Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic

Hall, Robert G.
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
British History
Chartist Readers: Print, Oral Culture, and Democracy, 1830 - 1860

Hanson, Craig Ashley
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI
Art History and Criticism
From Leiden to London: Anglo Dutch Relations in Early Modern Art and Science

Hirschfeld, Heather Anne
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
British Literature
Satisfactions of the Renaissance: Revenge Tragedy and the English Reformation

Johnson, Benjamin Heber
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX
American History
Escaping the Dark, Gray City: How Conservation Re made City, Suburb, and Countryside in the Progressive Era

Kaimal, Padma A.
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY
Arts History & Criticism
Collecting and Scattering: The Dispersal and Reassembly of a South Indian Goddess Temple

Kaladiouk, Anna
Keene State College
Keene, NH
Slavic Literature
The Poetics of Punishment and Reform in Tolstoy's “Resurrection”

Kalliney, Peter Joseph
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
British Literature
Cultural Institutions of the Transatlantic World, 1930 - 1970

Kearns, Michael Shannon
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
American Literature
Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication

Keele, Rondo Patten
Louisiana Scholars' College of NSU
Natchitoches, LA
History of Philosophy
Next Generation Scholarship: The Philosophy of Walter Chatton

Klepper, Deeana Copeland
Boston University
Boston, MA
Medieval Studies
Banishing Hagar: Medieval Christian Conceptualizations of Jewish Expulsion and Exile

Knight, Denise D.
SUNY Research Foundation, College at Cortland
Cortland, NY
American Literature
The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Koppes, Clayton R.
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH
American History
The Code: Censorship and Collaboration in American Movies, 1900 - 1968

Lefkowitz, David
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
Ethics
Morality, War, and International Law

Leibman, Laura K.
Reed College
Portland, OR
American Studies
Converso: The Religious Life of the Sephardim of Colonial Newport

Luebke, David Martin
University of Oregon, Eugene
Eugene, OR
European History
Hometown Religion: Conflict and Coexistence in the Formation of Religious Identities in Germany, 1580 - 1650

Marks, Stuart Alexander
Independent Scholar
Durham, NC
Interdisciplinary
Living On a Threshold: Identity, Images, and Illusions of an African Landscape

Marzec, Robert Philip
SUNY Research Foundation, College at Fredonia
Fredonia, NY
Comparative Literature
Land, Empire, Diaspora: Humanity's Struggle to Inhabit the Planet

Mayhall, Marguerite Katherine
Kean University
Union, NJ
Art History and Criticism
Venezuelan Art and the Search for a National Identity, 1920 - 1960

McLain, Karline Marie
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA
Nonwestern Religion
Envisioning Hinduism: Raja Ravi Varma and the Visual Canon

McMahon, Kevin Joseph
Trinity College, Hartford
Hartford, CT
Political Science
Nixon’s Court: The Silent Majority and the Conservative Counterrevolution That Was

McNamara, Carol Lynn
Utah State University
Logan, UT
Political Science
The Man in White: Tom Wolfe and the American Democratic Condition

Miles, William F.S.
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Political Science
National Versus Racial Identity In The French States of America: The 2007 Elections in Context

Moyer, Ian Strachan
Pomona College
Claremont, CA
Classics
“At the Limits of Hellenism: Egyptian Priests and the Greek World”

Muse, Amy Marlene
University of St. Thomas
St. Paul, MN
British Literature
Serious Travesty: Actresses and the Making of the Modern Hamlet

Page, Janet Kathleen
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Music History and Criticism
Convents and their Music in late 17th and 18th Century Vienna

Parsons, Jotham Wood
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
European History
Making Money in Sixteenth Century France

Perry, Elizabeth
Framingham State College
Framington, MA
Art History and Criticism
The Visual Culture of Syon Abbey at Lisbon (1594 - 1861)

Petrain, David Eric
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Classics
The Tabulae Iliacae and the Development of Visual Storytelling in the Early Roman Empire

Platt, Stephen R.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA
Far Eastern History
The Burlingame Mission

Rao, Sujay
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN
Latin American History
Ambivalent Federalists: Argentina's Littoral Provinces from 1810 to 1829

Reed, Kimberly Capps
David Lipscomb University
Nashville, TN
British Literature
A Scholarly Edition of Henry James's Ghost Stories

Ricci, Roberta Vera
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA
Italian Literature
Self Exegesis at The Margins: Boccaccio's TESEIDA DI NOZZE D'EMILIA

Sanders, Seth Larkin
W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
Jerusalem, ZZ
Near Eastern Languages
The Emergence of “The People” As a Political Concept in the Ancient Northwest Semitic Lexicon

Sessions, Jennifer
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
European History
Colonial Pioneers: French Emigration to Algeria, 1830 to 1850

Shopkow, Leah
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Medieval Studies
An Edition and Translation of the CHRONICLE OF ANDRES, a thirteenth century monastic history

Skaff, Sheila
University of Texas, El Paso
El Paso, TX
Film History and Criticism
Karol Irzykowski's “The Tenth Muse: Aesthetic Considerations of Cinema”

Solberg, Mary Melinda
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN
Religion
The German Christian Movement in Print: Selected Texts from 1933 - 45 in Translation

Sutter, Paul S.
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
American History
Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Environment, Disease, Race, and the U.S. Sanitary Program in Panama, 1904 - 14

Szalczer, Eszter
SUNY Research Foundation, Albany
Albany, NY
Theater History and Criticism
A Critical Introduction to the Work of Swedish Playwright August Strindberg

Thomas, Karen Kruse
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
American History
Deluxe Jim Crow: Racial and Regional Equalization in Health Policy from New Deal to Civil Rights Movement

Turley, Jeffrey Scott
Brigham Young University, Provo
Provo, UT
Linguistics
Translation the “Comentarios” of Garcia de Silva y Figueroa, 1614 - 1624

Valiani, Arafaat A.
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
Sociology
Formations of Militancy: Religion, Violence, and Political Mobilization in Twentieth Century India

van Alfen, Peter Gerritt
American Numismatic Society
New York, NY
Classics
Public and private modes of Byzantine commerce: the amphoras of the 7th century Yassiada shipwreck revisited

van Bladel, Kevin Thomas
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Classics
The Arabic Hermetica: A Missing Link in the History of Ancient and Medieval Science

Vitz, Evelyn Birge
New York University
New York, NY
Medieval Studies
Performability of medieval French narrative

Weinfield, Henry Michael
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
English
“That Uncertain Heaven”: Studies in the Blank Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens

Weiss, Roslyn E.
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
History of Philosophy
The Unjust Philosopher of Plato's REPUBLIC