Fiscal Year 2003 Awards
A listing of KU humanities scholars awarded grants and fellowships by external agencies as a result of applications submitted between July 1, 2002 and June 30, 2003 follows. Hold your cursor over each scholar's name to make an abstract appear.
Individual Awards
Name | Agency/Award | Project Title |
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Lorraine Bayard de Volo | United States Institute of Peace | "Women’s Nonviolent Action in Latin America" |
Debra Blumenthal | American Council of Learned Societies, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty (declined); University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities, Solmsen Fellowship (declined); National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Radcliffe Fellowship | "Enemies and Familiars. Muslim, Eastern and Black African Slaves in Late Medieval Valencia" |
Mary Catherine Davidson | St. John's University Hill Monastic Manuscript Library | "New Approaches to Medieval Multilingualism" |
Richard De George | Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study & Conference Center | "Ethics in a Digital Age" |
Elaine Gerbert | National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship | "The Transformation of Visuality in Modern Japanese Literature" |
Laura Herlihy | Fulbright Scholar Program | "Ethnographic Fieldwork and Teaching in Nicaragua" |
Ann Huppert | Worcester College, Oxford Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History | "'Knowing' Antiquity: Compiling, Categorizing and Codifying Architectural Exempla in the Age of Printing" |
Gwynne Jenkins | The Bioethics Institute, Greenwall Fellowship Program in Bioethics and Health Policy | "The Politics of Reproduction in Costa Rica: Archival Research on the Role of Good Will Caravans" |
Marni Kessler | The Getty Library Research Program | "Sheer Material Presence, or the Veil in Late-Nineteenth-Century Avant-Garde Painting" |
Patricia Manning | Bibliographical Society of America | "Blacking out Books: The Politics of Censorship in the Spanish Inquisition" |
Brent Metz | U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad; Fulbright Scholar Program | "Out of the Shadows: The Death and Rebirth of the Ch'orti' Maya" |
Jeffrey Moran | The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation | "Scopes Trial and American Popular Belief: Race, Religion, and Science in the Trenches" |
Jeffrey Moran | American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant | "Grassroots Creation: Antievolutionism and the Scopes Trial in the Popular Mind" |
Jeffrey Moran | Fulbright Scholar Program | "Teaching American History in Spain" |
Mehrangiz Najafizadeh | Fulbright Scholar Program | "Azerbaijan at the Crossroads: Women and a Nation in Transition" |
Naima B. Omar | American Institute, Maghrib Studies Grant | "To Switch or Not to Switch: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Political Discourse in Tunisia" |
Eric Rath | American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant | "The Last Farm in Kyoto: Urban Farming in Early Modern Japan" |
Margaret Rausch | American Institute, Maghrib Studies Grant | "Moroccan Women and Religious Expression: Tashilhit Berber Women’s Sufi Associations and Their Rituals" |
Hagith Sivan | W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (declined); U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad | "Conflicts and Concord: A History of Palestine in Late Antiquity" |
Sherrie Tucker | Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation | "Democracy on the Dance Floor: Race, Gender and the Nation at the Hollywood Canteen" |
Judith Williams | Ford Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities; National Research Council of the National Academies | "Teatro Experimental do Negro: History and Legacy" |
Norman Yetman | Fulbright, University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
Institutional Awards
Name | Agency/Award | Project Title |
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Victor Bailey | Ford Foundation | "The Shifting Borders of Race and Identity: A Research and Teaching Project on the Native American and African American Experience" |
Victor Bailey | Kansas Humanities Council | "This Day in Kansas History: Territorial Kansas" |
Maria Carlson | U.S. Department of Education, National Resource Centers | "Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Programs" |
Paul D'Anieri | U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Freedom Support Educational Partnerships Program | "Development of Critical New and Expanded Capabilities in the Social Sciences in Ukraine" |
Bartholomew Dean | Fulbright Scholar Program | "Lecture and Research in Anthropology at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru" |
Elaine Gerbert | U.S. Department of Education, National Resource Centers | "Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Programs" |
Elaine Gerbert | Kansas Humanities Council, Humanities Program Grant | "Okinawa: Island Paradox" |
Elaine Gerbert | The Japan Foundation | "The Sights and Sounds of Japan" |
Maryemma Graham | National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs Implementation Grants for Special Projects | "The Langston Hughes National Poetry Project Presents 'Speaking of Rivers: Taking Poetry to the People'" |
Maryemma Graham | Kansas Humanities Council | "Langston Hughes February Festival" |
Sandra Gray | Wenner-Gren Foundation | "The Impact of AK47 Raiding on Maternal Strategies in an African Pastoralist Society" |
Elizabeth Kuznesof | U.S. Department of Education, National Resource Centers | "Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Programs" |
Elizabeth Kuznesof | U.S. Department of Education, International Education and Graduate Programs | "Seminar on Childhood for K-8 Teachers and Education Faculty in Argentina" |
Elizabeth Kuznesof | U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs | "Andean and Amazonian Worlds: Culture, Language, and Society" |
John Staniunas | The Kansas Arts Commission, Operational Support for University Theatre | |
William M. Tsutsui | The Freeman Foundation, Undergraduate Asian Studies Funding Initiative | "High School Asian Studies Funding Initiative" |
Mary K. Zimmerman | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | "Will Rural Residents Accept a Heavier Tax Burden at the Local Level to Pay for Health Care Services?" |