Grants & Awards Received

Fiscal Year 2007 Awards

A listing of KU humanities scholars awarded grants and fellowships by external agencies as a result of applications submitted between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007 follows. We will continue to learn results of applications submitted in Fiscal Year 2007 through early spring of 2008. Please click on a faculty member's name to read a brief project summary.

Individual Awards

Marta Caminero-Santangelo, English: St. Anthony Educational Foundation Grant, “Conference Proposal: "‘Nuestra America in the U.S.?: Communities in Transition’.”

Sally Cornelison, History of Art: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, "Medici Power and Popular Piety: Giambologna’s St. Antoninus Chapel at San Marco, Florence."

Luis Corteguera, History: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship; and National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, "Talking Images in the Spanish Empire."

Gregory Cushman, History: Fulbright Scholar Program, Hungary, "The Ethical Dimensions and Environmental History of Agriculture."

Serguei B. Dolgopolskii, Religious Studies: Association for Jewish Studies Cahnman Publication Subvention Grant, “What is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement."

Tanya Golash-Boza, Sociology: Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois, Chicago, African American Studies Department, "Yo Soy Negro: Locating Afro-Peruvians in Local and Global Discourses of Blackness."

Erik Herron, Political Science: Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Fulbright Research and Teaching Fellowship, "Research and Teaching Comparative Politics, Elections, and Party Systems."

Ann C. Huppert, Architectural History School of Architecture and Urban Design: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, "Perspective, Practical Mathematics, and the Professionalization of Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Italy."

William D. Keel, Germanic Languages and Literatures: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation TransCoop Program, "Bohemian/Bavarian Dialects in North America."

Marni R. Kessler, Art History: New York Academy of Medicine Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the Medical Humanities, "Anxiety and the Maternal Substitute: Edgar Degas's New Orleans Paintings."

Jeanne M. Klein, Theater and Film: St. Anthony Educational Foundation Grant, "Aesthetic Development Throughout Childhood."

Burdett A. Loomis, Political Science: The Dirksen Congressional Center Congressional Research Award, "The Fight of his Life: Bob Dole and the 1974 Kansas U.S. Senate Campaign."

Ebenezer Obadare, Sociology: American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grant, "Miss Bell's Girls: Gender, Emigration, and the Socio-Cultural Aspects of the Decline of Health Services in Nigeria."

Naima B. Omar, African and African American Studies: American Institute for Maghrib Studies, "Diflossia and Bilingualism as Loci for Negotiating Linguistic Selves, Simultaneous Identities, and Multiple Political and Social Roles in Political Discourse."

Hagith Sivan, History: University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship, "Jews of the West."

Crispin Williams, East Asian Languages and Cultures: The American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant; The American Council of Learned Societies East Asian Archaeology/Early History Fellowship; and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, "The Wenxian Covenant Texts: Critical Insights into Early Chinese Religious Belief and Political Organization."

Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova, Slavic Languages and Literatures: Czech Academy of Sciences, "Communism through the Eyes of a Child in post-1989 Czech Prose and Film."

Michael Zogry, Religious Studies: American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant, "Playing or Praying?: The Cherokee Anetso Ceremonial Complex and the Performance of Cultural Identity."

Institutional Awards

Arienne Dwyer, Anthropology: National Science Foundation, "Workshop: Towards the Interoperability of Language Resources."

So-Min Cheong, Geography: Korea Maritime Institute, "Analysis of Coastal Management Practices in the U.S. and Canada."

So-Min Cheong, Geography: Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, "Study of Marine Policy on the Geological and Geophysical Characteristics in Yellow Sea and East China Sea (& South Sea of Korea)."