Grants & Awards Received

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Fiscal Year 2006 Awards

A listing of KU humanities scholars awarded grants and fellowships by external agencies as a result of applications submitted between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2006 follows. Please click on a faculty member's name to read a brief project summary.

Individual Awards

Kelly H. Chong, Sociology: School of American Research Resident Scholars Fellowship (declined) and Korea Foundation Advanced Research Grant, "Agony in Prosperity: Evangelicalism, Women, and the Politics of Gender in South Korea."

Edith W. Clowes, Slavic Languages and Literatures: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, "The Center at the Periphery: Eccentric Identities in Contemporary Russian Writing."

Sally Cornelison, Art History: National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts Visiting (CASVA) Senior Fellowship and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, "Holy Bodies: Relics, Art, and Popular Religion in Florence, c. 1400-1700."

Tanya Golash-Boza, Sociology and American Studies: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) and the Ford Foundation Junior Scholars in the Study of Latin America Fellowship, "Afro-Peruvians in a Mestizo Nation: Mestizaje and Racial Democracy in Peru."

Sandra Gray, Anthropology: Harry Frank Guggenheim Grant for Research on Violence and Aggression, "Forgotten: Deaths and Life in a Little War."

Megan Greene, History: American Philosophical Society (APS) Franklin Research Grant, "Crafting Taiwan’s Past: History, Politics, and Identity Construction in Post-war Taiwan."

Geoffrey W. Husic, KU Libraries: Georgetown University Intercultural Center Institute of Turkish Studies grant, "Library for Turkish Materials."

Burdett A. Loomis, Political Science: Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) Fulbright Senior Specialist, "From the ’60s to Our Days: Main Trends in United States Political, Cultural and Social Movements."

Jonathan Mayhew, Spanish and Portuguese: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, "Apocryphal Lorca: Translation, Parody, Kitsch."

Eric Rath, History: Japan Foundation Short-Term Research Fellowship, "The Eggplant and the Crane: The Development of Cuisine in Early Modern Japan."

Elizabeth A. Schultz, English (emerita): Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, " Teaching American Literature in China."

Hagith Sivan, History: American Center for Research in Egypt (ARCE) Fellowship, "The Sinai in Antiquity."

Patrick Suzeau, Music and Dance: Council for the International Exchange of Scholars Fulbright Scholar Program, "Contemporary Dance Perspectives."

William Tuttle, Jr., American Studies: Fulbright John Adams Distinguished Chair in American History, "Recent United States History, World War II-Present: Social Change, Politics and the American People."

Kim Warren, History: National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, "Education for Citizenship: African Americans and Native Americans in Kansas, 1865-1935."

Jennifer L. Weber, History: The White House Historical Association, “Lincoln’s Secretaries.”

Institutional Awards

Arienne Dwyer, Anthropology: National Science Foundation (NSF), Linguistics (conference funding program), "DT-Summit/Linguistics: A Digital Tools Summit for Linguistics."

Marsha Haufler, Center for East Asian Studies: U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Programs.

Eric Herron, Center for Russian and East European Studies: U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Programs.

John Janzen, Anthropology: The Longview Foundation, "Teaching Africa & the Middle East in the Great Plains: Strategies, Methods, and Materials for Addressing State and National Standards" and U.S. Department of Education national Resources Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Programs.

Elizabeth Kuznesof, Center for Latin American Studies: U.S. Department of Education Fulbright International Education and Graduate Programs, "Seminar on Childhood for K-8 Teachers and Education Faculty in Argentina."

Michael Hoeflich, Law: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, "Database of American Law Bookseller’s Catalogues: 1780-1860."

Garth Myers, Geography: National Science Foundation (NSF), "Peri-Urban Land Reform and Political-Economic Reform in Zanzibar, Tanzania" and U.S. Department of State African Workforce Development, "A Program Partnership Between the University of Kansas (KU) and Mogadishu University (MU): Training the Somali Workforce in Social Science."

Jie Zhang, Linguistics: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Research Grant, "Testing the Role of Phonetic Naturalness in Taiwanese Tone Sandhi."