Fiscal Year 2008 Awards
A listing of KU humanities scholars awarded grants and fellowships by external agencies as a result of applications submitted between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008 follows. Hold your cursor over each scholar's name to make an abstract appear.
Individual Awards
| Name | Agency/Award | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka | Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Program | "Gender Relationships and the Challenges of Global Evangelism in Lebou Communities, Senegal" |
| Shawn Bitters | Frans Masereel Centrum, Fellowship | "American Disconnect" |
| Luis R. Corteguera | Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spanish Ministry of Culture and United States Universities | "2009 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Kansas City, Missouri (April 2-5, 2009)" |
| Sally Cornelison | Renaissance Society of America, INSR Grant for Florence |
"Celebrating Sanctity: Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence" |
| Stephanie J. Fitzgerald | American Association of University Women, Fellowship | “Mapping the Textual Terrain: Land, Law and Gender in American Indian Women’s Writing” |
| Ruben Flores | The University of Texas-Austin Institute for Historical Studies, Fellowship; Smithsonian Institution, Fellowship | “Forging An American Pluralism: The Mexican Revolution and American Civil Rights” |
| John Head | Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright award for the Trento Distinguished Chair in Law | |
| Laura Herlihy | US Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship | "Indigenous Women and Political Autonomy in Oaxaca, Mexico" |
| R. Keith McMahon | National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship | "Empresses and Consorts from the Ming to the End of Imperial China, 1368-1911" |
| Ann M. Schofield | Rothermere American Institute, Senior Fellowship | "The Age of Respectability: Gender, Class, and Cultural Change in America, 1870-1920" |
| Kim Warren | Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Career Enhancement Fellowship | "'Lift as We Climb': Black Women’s Civil Rights Activism, 1930-1950" |
| Jennifer Weber | Virginia Historical Society, Research Fellowship; William L. Clements Library, Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship | "America’s First Draft" |
Institutional Awards
| Name | Agency/Award | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Kuznesof | Tinker Foundation, Field Research Grant | |
| Eric Rath | U.S. State Department, Ngwang Choepal Fellowship Program | "Cultural Exchange Program with Mayul Multi-Disciplinary Technical School" |
| Jie Zhang | National Science Foundation, Grant | "Testing the Productivity of Chinese Tone Sandhi" |
