Grants & Awards Received

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Fiscal Year 2009 Awards

A listing of KU humanities scholars awarded grants and fellowships by external agencies as a result of applications submitted between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009 follows. We will continue to learn results of applications submitted in Fiscal Year 2009 through early spring of 2010. Please click on a faculty member's name to read a brief project summary.

Individual Awards

Marta M. Caminero-Santangelo, English: Smithsonian Institution, "‘Illegal’:  Narrating the Non-Nation."

Katherine R. P. Clark, History: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, "Identity Formation in North East England, 1500-1850: The Claverings and their Built Environment."

Anthony Corbeill, Classics: All Souls College, Oxford Visiting Fellowship, "Boundaries of Sex and Gender in Ancient Rome."

Stephanie Fitzgerald, English: The Newberry Library, Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellowship, "Land Narratives: Native Histories of Land and Law."

Ruben Flores, American Studies: National Academy of Education, Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, "Forging an American Pluralism: The Mexican Revolution and American Civil Rights."

Sherry Fowler, Kress Foundation Department of Art History: Japan Foundation Fellowship, "Accounts and Images of the Six Kannon Cult in Japan."

Tanya Golash-Boza, Sociology: 1. Fulbright Scholar Program, "The Transnational Ties of Deportees in Goiás." (declined) 2. U.S. Department of Education: Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, “Age of Exile: The Transnational Ties of Deportees in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Jamaica.”

Maryemma Graham, English: University of Texas at San Antonio Senior Research Fellowship, "The Margaret Walker Journals."

John W. Hoopes, Anthropology: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, "Urgent Mapping and Preservation of a Pre-Columbian Settlement in the Caribbean Lowlands of Northeastern Costa Rica."

Maki Kaneko, Kress Foundation Department of Art History: Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, "Art at the Service of the State: Japanese Artists in the War, 1907-1952."

Laura Mielke, English: American Antiquarian Society, "Performing Speech: The Orator and Popular Theatre in the Antebellum United States." (Declined)

Tim Miller, Religious Studies: University of Southern Indiana, Rice Library Communal Studies Center Grant, "Encyclopedia of American Intentional Communities."

Mehrangiz Najafizadeh, Sociology: American Councils for International Education Title VIII Special Initiatives Fellowship Program, "Azeri Women’s Voices: Narratives of Refugees and IDPs from the Nagorno-Karabakh War and Implications for Humanitarian Social Policy."

Dena Register, Music Education and Music Therapy: Fulbright Scholar Program, "Development of the Music Therapy Profession and Course of Study; Perceptions of Music Therapy in the Medical Setting."

Ann Rowland, English: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, "John Keats in America."

Gitti Salami, Kress Foundation Department of Art History: Smithsonian Institution, "Yakurr ‘Tradition’ in Postcolonial Nigeria."

Deb Olin Unferth, English: Creative Capital Foundation, Andy Warhol Grant for Innovative Writing, "Natural Citizens."

Marta V. Vicente, History: Bibliographical Society of America, Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas, "Pornography and the Spanish Inquisition: The Reading of a Forbidden Best-Seller."

Donald Worster, History: Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, "Americans in the Land of Abundance."

Kyoim Yun, East Asian Languages and Cultures: Seoul National University, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, "Ritual Economy: Values of Exchange in Korean Shamanic Practice."

Institutional Awards

Philip H. Barnard, English: National Endowment for the Humanities Special Editions Grants, "The Letters of Charles Brockden Brown." [In collaboration with project director Mark Kamrath, English, the University of Central Florida]

Derrick L. Darby, Philosophy: The Spencer Foundation, "Philosophy and the Racial Achievement Gap."

Maryemma Graham, English: The National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars and Institutes Program, "The Wright Connection: Reading Black Boy, Native Son, Uncle Tom’s Children."

Janet Sharistanian, English, and Theodore A. Wilson, History: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for School Teachers Grant, "America and The Great War: An Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literature and History."