Grants & Awards Received

Fiscal Year 2000 Awards

A listing of KU humanities scholars awarded grants and fellowships by external agencies as a result of applications submitted between July 1, 1999 and June 30, 2000 follows. We will continue to learn results of applications submitted in Fiscal Year 2000 through early spring of 2001.

Individual Awards

Lisa Bitel, History: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, "Landscape, Gender, and Christianization in Gaul and Ireland."

Tamara Falicov, Theatre and Film: Rockefeller Center Humanities Fellowships Program, "Las coproducciones de cine latinoamericano bajo el tratado MERCOSUR."

Sharon G. Feldman, Spanish and Portuguese: J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, "Contemporary Catalan Theatre: Comparative Perspectives and Cultural Contexts."

Allan Hanson, Anthropology: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, "The Impact of Information Technology on Legal Knowledge."

Gabriele Lunte, Germanic Languages & Literatures: Kansas Humanities Council, "Linguistic Atlas of Kansas German."

Beverly Mack, African and African American Studies: Carnegie Corporation of New York and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, "Hausa Muslim Women’s Poetry: Kano, Nigeria."

Peter Mancall, History: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, "Hakluyt’s Century, or the Origins of English America in an Age of Discovery."

Amy McNair, History of Art: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, "The Art, Patronage, and Politics of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist Cave-shrines of Longmen."

Karin I. Pagel Meiners, Germanic Languages and Literatures: The Lilly Library, Indiana University, "Reading 18th Century German Cookbooks."

Fred Rush, Philosophy: American Council of Learned Societies, "Irony and Idealism: The Fate of Irony from Early German Romanticism to Kierkegaard."

Normal E. Saul, History: Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, "The United States and Russia, 1921-1941."

Vicky Unruh, Spanish & Portuguese: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, "Intervening Acts: Women Writers and Cultural Modernity in Latin America, 1920s-1930s."

F. María Velasco, Fine Arts: Visual Arts Center / Museo del Barro (Rockefeller program) and Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation Fellowship, "Side-Long Glances/Miradas Cruzadas."

Institutional Awards

Maria Carlson, Center for Russian and East European Studies: National Resource Center U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Programs portion of Title VI proposal.

Don Fixico, Indigenous Nations Studies Program: National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, "American Indian Treaties in the Continental United States."

Hall Center for The Humanities: National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, "Revitalizing the Public Humanities."

Marsha Haufler, Center for East Asian Studies: National Resource Center U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Programs portion of Title VI proposal.

Shirley Hill, Sociology: The Henry A. Murray Research Center Radcliffe Research Support Program, "Gender Socialization in African American Families."

John Janzen, African Studies Resource Center: National Resource Center U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant.

Betsy Kuznesof, Center for Latin American Studies: National Resource Center U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Programs portion of Title VI proposal..

Garth Myers, Geography and African Studies: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs, "A Proposal for Partnership Between the University of Kansas and the University of Zambia."

Janet Sharistanian, English: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars and Institutes Grant, "American Women as Writers: Wharton and Cather."

Antônio R.M. Simões, Center for Latin American Studies: U.S. Department of Education, "Instructional Materials for Testing and Teaching Brazilian Portuguese."

F. María Velasco, Fine Arts: Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.

Marsha Weidner, Center for East Asian Studies: National Resource Center U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Programs portion of Title VI proposal.

Fiona Yap, Political Science: The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, "How does the Government in Taiwan Achieve Economic Support?: Comparative Empirical Study of the East Asian Newly Industrialized Countries since 1960."