Fiscal Year 2010 Awards
A listing of KU humanities scholars awarded grants and fellowships by external agencies as a result of applications submitted between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010 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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Sally J. Cornelison | The Getty Foundation, Library Research Grant | "Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence" |
Jacob Dorman | Duke University - Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Research Grant | "The Chosen People: Israelites, Black Jews, and Black Nationalism from Slavery to Black Power" |
Jacob Dorman | Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Visiting Fellowship (declined); The Newberry Library, Long-Term Fellowship (accepted); The Black Metropolitan Research Consortium, Fellowship (accepted); The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, Grants-in-Aid (accepted) | "Vernacular Ethnology: African American Performance and Parody of Muslim and Oriental Identities in Minstrelsy, Vaudeville, and Early Cinema" |
Tamara L. Falicov | National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars and Institutes Program Participant | |
Iris Smith Fischer | The Leslie Center for the Humanities, Residential Research Fellowship | "Peirce and Performance" |
Majid Hannoum | Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Program; American Institute for Maghrib Studies | "Harraga of Tangier: African (illegal) Migration to Europe" and "Harraga of Tangiers: Moroccan Children and Clandestine Migration to Europe" |
Sheyda Jahanbani | The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Fellowship | "'The Poverty of the World': Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1935-1990" |
John J. Kennedy | Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Program - China | |
Patricia Manning | American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant; Renaissance Society of America, Paul Oskar Kristeller Memorial Grant | "Why Book Vendors Asked the Inquisition to Intervene: Understanding A 1655 Petition by the Brotherhood of Booksellers in Madrid" |
Kathryn Rhine | American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant; Boston University West African Research Association, Grant | "Vitalities: The Gendered Politics of Kinship and AIDS in Nigeria" |
Akiko Takeyama | The Wenner-Gren Foundation, Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship | "Affect Economy: Neoliberal Class Struggle and Gender Politics in Tokyo Host Clubs" |
Leslie Tuttle | National Humanities Center, Fellowship | "Dreaming in the Age of Reason: Oneirology and Knowledge in the Early Modern French World" |
Jessica Vasquez | American Sociological Association, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline | "Marriage Vows and Racial Choices: Family Dynamics and Assimilation among Latinos" |
Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova | National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend | "Communism through the Eyes of a Child: The Post-1989 Polish Initiation Novels" |
Maria Velasco | Kansas Arts Commission, Artist Collaboration Grant | "Blue: A Heroine's Journey" |
Nina Vyatkina | German Academic Exchange Service / Deutscher Academischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Faculty Research Visit Grant | "Longitudinal development of language learners: a holistic approach" |
Donald Worster | Rachel Carson Center for Environmental Studies - Ludwig Maximilian University and the Deutsches Museum | "Americans in the Land of Abundance" |
Hui Faye Xiao | National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars and Institutes Program Participant |
Institutional Awards
Name |
Agency/Award |
Project Title |
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Edith Clowes | U.S. Department of Education: National Resource Centers, grant; Foreign Language and Area Studies, grant | |
Pam Fine | Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, grant | "The Midwest Democracy Project" |
Megan Greene | U.S. Department of Education: National Resource Centers, grant; Foreign Language and Area Studies, grant | |
Thomas W. Heilke | Kansas Humanities Council, Short Film Grants + TALK Book Discussions | "Middle Eastern Culture and Society" |
Thomas W. Heilke | U.S. Department of Education: Foreign Language and Area Studies, grant | |
Elizabeth Kuznesof | U.S. Department of Education: National Resource Centers, grant; Foreign Language and Area Studies, grant | |
Garth Myers | U.S. Department of Education: National Resource Centers, grant; Foreign Language and Area Studies, grant |