Grants & Awards Received

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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. Please click on a faculty member's name to read a brief project summary.

Individual Awards

Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, Theatre and Film and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Fulbright Scholar Award, "Gender Relationships and the Challenges of Global Evangelism in Lebou Communities, Senegal."

Shawn Bitters, Art: Frans Masereel Centrum Fellowship, "American Disconnect."

Luis R. Corteguera, History: 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, History of Art: Renaissance Society of America RSA-INSR Grant for Florence, "Celebrating Sanctity: Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence."

Stephanie J. Fitzgerald, English: American Association of University Women Fellowship, “Mapping the Textual Terrain: Land, Law and Gender in American Indian Women’s Writing.”

Ruben Flores, American Studies: The University of Texas-Austin Institute for Historical Studies Fellowship and Smithsonian Institution Fellowship, “Forging An American Pluralism: The Mexican Revolution and American Civil Rights.”

John Head, School of Law: Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Fulbright award for the Trento Distinguished Chair in Law.

Laura Herlihy, Center of Latin American Studies: US Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program Award, "Indigenous Women and Political Autonomy in Oaxaca, Mexico."

R. Keith McMahon, East Asian Languages and Cultures: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, " Empresses and Consorts from the Ming to the End of Imperial China, 1368-1911."

Ann M. Schofield, American Studies and Women's Studies: Rothermere American Institute Senior Fellowship, "The Age of Respectability: Gender, Class, and Cultural Change in America, 1870-1920."

Kim Warren, History: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship, "'Lift as We Climb': Black Women’s Civil Rights Activism, 1930-1950."

Jennifer Weber, History: Virginia Historical Society Research Fellowship and William L. Clements Library Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship, "America’s First Draft."

Institutional Awards

Elizabeth Kuznesof, Center of Latin American Studies: Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant to support graduate students conducting research in Latin America and Iberia.

Eric Rath, History: U.S. State Department Ngwang Choepal Fellowship Program, "Cultural Exchange Program with Mayul Multi-Disciplinary Technical School."

Jie Zhang, Linguistics: National Science Foundation Grant, "Testing the Productivity of Chinese Tone Sandhi."