Hall Center For The Humanities

Grants & Awards Received


Fiscal Year 2002 Awards

A listing of KU humanities scholars awarded grants and fellowships by external agencies as a result of applications submitted between July 1, 2001 and June 30, 2002 follows. We will continue to learn results of applications submitted in Fiscal Year 2002 through early spring of 2003.

Individual Awards

Nobleza Asuncion-Lande, Communication Studies: Fulbright Scholar Programs.

Katherine Clark, History: Huntington Library William M. Keck Foundation and Andrew M. Mellon Fellowship and British Academy Fellowship.

Walter Clark, Music & Dance: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, "Biography of the Spanish (Catalan) Composer Enrique Granados (1867-1916)."

Luis Corteguera, History: Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities, "Before God and King: Ordinary People in Politics in Early Modern Spain, 1500-1800."

Andrew Debicki, Spanish and Portuguese: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar (with Jill Kuhnheim).

Patrick Dooley, Design: Fulbright Scholar Program.

Arienne Dwyer, Anthropology and Linguistics: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), "Interactive Taklamakan: A Multimedia CD-ROM of Uyghur Dialects."

Tamara Falicov, Theatre & Film: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, "The Cinematic Tango: The Film Industry, the State, and National Identity in Argentina, 1930-1998."

Deborah Gerner, Political Science: Fulbright Scholar Program.

Maryemma Graham, English: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, "The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker."

Patricia Graham, Center for East Asian Studies: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, "Japanese Buddhist Devotional Imagery and Sacred Sites, 1600 to the Present."

Anita Herzfeld, Center of Latin American Studies: Fulbright Scholar Program.

Michael Hoeflich, Law: Massachusetts Historical Society Mellon Fellowship, "The Business of Law in Nineteenth Century America."

Gwynne Jenkins, Anthropology and Women's Studies: Fulbright Scholar Program, "The Politics of Sterilization, Population Programming, and Gender in Costa Rica, 1955-Present."

Wallace Johnson, East Asian Languages & Cultures: Association for Asian Studies, "A Computer Searchable Text of The Ming Code;" and Humboldt Foundation, "Law in Central Asia: An Historical Overview."

Jill Kuhnheim, Spanish and Portuguese: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar (with Andrew Debicki).

Margaret Marco, Music & Dance: Arts International Travel Grant.

Fiona McLaughlin, African and African American Studies and Linguistics: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, "'To Call a Monster by its Name': A Translation of Boubacar Boris Diop’s Murambi, Le Livre des Ossements."

Gerald Mikkelson, Slavic Languages and Literatures: Fulbright Scholars Program (extension).

Garth Myers, Geography and African & African American Studies: Fulbright Scholars Program, "Participatory Urban Planning and the Sustainable Cities Program in Lusaka, Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam."

Catherine Preston, Theatre and Film: American Association of University Women Fellowship, "The Visual Culture of Adolescent Girls."

Margaret Rausch, Religious Studies: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) / Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty, "Moroccan Women and Religious Expression: A Berber Woman’s Sufi Order in the Middle Atlas Mountains."

Philip Schrodt, Political Science: Fulbright Scholar Program.

Daniel Stevenson, Religious Studies: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) International Fellowship, "Meticulous Rules of Salvation: Ritual Protocol and Religious Value in Song-Dynasty Pure Land Buddhism."

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Germanic Languages & Literatures: Fulbright Scholar Program.

Institutional Awards

Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Political Science: United States Institute of Peace (USIP), "Women’s Nonviolent Action in Latin America."

Arienne Dwyer, Anthropology and Linguistics: Volkswagen Foundation Programme for Documentation of Endangered Languages, "Developing a Documentational Multimedia Database Prototype for Endangered Languages Using Salar and Monguor."

Elaine Gerbert, East Asian Languages and Cultures: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Education Focus Grants, "East Asian Studies Course Development: 21st Century High School International Studies Program."

Maryemma Graham, English: City of Lawrence, "Speaking of Rivers: Taking Poetry to the People;" and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Education Development and Demonstration, "Language Matters: Reading and Teaching Morrison."

Jill Kuhnheim, Spanish and Portuguese: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Seminars and Institutes, "Critical Approaches to Hispanic Poetry at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century."

Elizabeth Kuznesof, History and Center of Latin American Studies: U.S. Department of Education Fulbright, "Seminar on Childhood for K-8 Teachers and Education Faculty in Costa Rica."

Bradley L. Schaffner, Watson Library: International Education and Graduate Programs Service, "Everyday Life In Imperial Russia: The Tiraspol Consistory Records."

William M. Tsutsui, History: Freeman Foundation Undergraduate Asian Studies Funding Initiative.

Sherrie Tucker, American Studies: United Stated Department of Interior National Park Service Southeast Region, "Research Study on Feminist Perspective on New Orleans Jazz Women."

<strong>Rory Stewart,</strong> Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and author of <em>The Place In Between</em>, an account of his trek across Afghanistan

Humanities Lecture Series
Rory Stewart
February 16, 2010
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Hall Center Scholars
Zach Abramovitz, Joel Burnett, Catherine Oberthaler and Dan Thompson prepare to lead a panel discussion with Susan Estrich.