Grants & Awards Received

Fiscal Year 2005 Awards

A listing of KU humanities scholars awarded grants and fellowships by external agencies as a result of applications submitted between July 1, 2004 and June 30, 2005 follows. We will continue to learn results of applications submitted in Fiscal Year 2005 through early spring of 2006. Please click on a faculty member's name to read a brief project summary.

Individual Awards

Jonathan Boyarin, Religious Studies: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, "Translation, Editing and Introduction of Abraham Joshua Heschel's KOTSK: IN GERANGL FAR EMESDIKAYT."

Edith W. Clowes, Slavic Languages and Literatures: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, "The Center at the Periphery: Eccentric Identity in Contemporary Russian Writing."

Anthony P. Corbeill, Classics: The Institute for Research in the Humanities Solmsen Fellowship, "Boundaries of Sex and Gender in Ancient Rome."

Susan Earle, Spencer Museum of Art: The J. Paul Getty Trust Curatorial Research Fellowship, "Gender, Nationalism, Modernism: Puvis de Chavannes and American Art 1875-1920."

Tamara Falicov, Theatre and Film: University of Minnesota's Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities, "Assessing Progama Ibermedia: The Cultural Politics of an Ibero-American Film Finance Pool."

Sherry Fowler, Art History: Association of Asian Studies and Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, "Accounts and Images of the Six Kannon Cult in Japan."

Maryemma Graham, English: Stanford Humanities Center (declined) and National Humanities Center, "The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker."

Marc L. Greenberg, Slavic Languages and Literatures: American Philosophical Society (APS) Franklin Research Grant, "Dialect Description of the Village of Srednje Jarse, Republic of Slovenia."

Laura Herlihy, Center of Latin American Studies: Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant, "Miskitu Gender Identities."

Marni Kessler, Art History: College Art Association Millard Meiss Book Subvention Award and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine Grant, "In Sickness and Ill Health: Edgar Degas and Late 19th-Century French Medical Practice."

Elizabeth MacGonagle, History: American Philosophical Society (APS) Franklin Research Grant, "Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique: A History of the Ndau."

Amy McNair, Art History: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, "Lives of the Imperial Painters: Chinese Biographies in Translation."

John Staniunas, Theatre and Film: Fulbright Scholar Program (extension), Lithuanian Academy of Music and the Opera Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Miwha Stevenson, East Asian Languages and Cultures: Korea Foundation Advanced Research Grant, "The Painted Tombs of Koguryo: Archaeological Artifact and the Construction of National Heritage."

Marta Vicente, Women's Studies: University of Minnesota's Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities, "Mad about Calicoes: The Economic Debates on Women and Fashion in Eighteenth-Century Spain."

Michael Zogry, Religious Studies: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, "Playing or Praying?: The Cherokee Anesto Ceremonial Complex."

Institutional Awards

Victor Bailey, History: Dane G. Hansen Foundation, "Kansas History Online."

Arienne Dwyer, Anthropology: National Science Foundation (NSF)-National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowship, " Language Contact and Variation: A Discourse-based Grammar of Monguor."

John Janzen, Kansas African Studies Center: Kansas Humanities Council, "Identity, Voice, and Community among New African Immigrants to Kansas."

Arne Koch, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation TransCoop, “The Problematic Legacies of Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860): German Nationalism, European Visions, and his American Progeny.”

Peggy Kuhr, Journalism and Mass Communications: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, "The Power of Community Knowledge: Implications for Daily Journalism."

Elizabeth Kuznesof, Center of Latin American Studies: U.S. Department of Education Fulbright, "Fulbright-Hayes Group Projects Abroad Program (GPA) Fiscal Year 2005 Application."

John Staniunas, Theatre and Film: The Kansas Arts Commission, Operational Support for University Theatre.

Norman Yetman, Sociology and American Studies: Fulbright Distinguished Chair.