- $618,750
Fellowships at the National Humanities Center
Recipient: Mullikin, Kent (Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA) in affiliation with National Humanities Center (Durham, NC 27709-2256 USA)
Goal: The equivalent of four fellowships per year for three years.
Description: The National Humanities Center requests support for fellowships for advanced study in the humanities.
Grant: 194583 / RA-50073-09, Category: Interdisciplinary, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2009 - $471,600
NEH Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society
Recipient: Erickson, Paul J (Worcester, MA 01609-1634 USA) in affiliation with American Antiquarian Society
Goal: The equivalent of three fellowships a year for three years.
Description: This application seeks continued funding for the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) under the NEH's initiative supporting Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions. Previous grants since 1975 have helped support a rich and growing body of scholarship in fields including American history, literature, religious history, art history, musicology, and the history of the book. The funding requested reflects the increased level of NEH fellowship stipends, and would include funds to award three full-year fellowships at the maximum stipend annually for three years. For more than three decades, the AAS-NEH fellowship program has made AAS's unparalleled resources for the study of American history, literature, and culture through 1876 accessible to scholars from throughout the nation, has fostered a culture of collegiality and scholarly interaction among fellows and staff, and has enabled AAS to more effectively promote humanistic scholarship in and about the United States.
Grant: 194585 / RA-50075-09, Category: American History, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2009 - $320,400
Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowships in the Humanities
Recipient: Chatfield-Taylor, Adele (New York, NY 10022 USA) in affiliation with American Academy in Rome
Goal: The equivalent of two fellowships per year for three years.
Description: The American Academy in Rome requests an NEH grant of $320,400 in support of Rome Prize Fellowships in the humanities for post-doctoral scholars (two fellowships each year for a total of six fellowships) during the years 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, and towards publicity and selections costs for the fellowship competition. Rome Prize Fellowships are at the core of the Academy's mission to advance and foster excellence in the arts and humanities. NEH funds will help provide term support towards the selected Fellows' stipends, room and board for two Fellows for each of three years. These Fellows will have the opportunity to live at the Academy in an environment of interdisciplinary exchange, they will have access to the Academy's own Library and research collections, and with the Academy's help, access to other libraries, collections and archives, as well as the Academy's creative and intellectual programs.
Grant: 194593 / RA-50081-09, Category: Humanities, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2009 - $314,400
NEH Fellowships at the Newberry Library
Recipient: Grossman, James R (Chicago, IL 60610 USA) in affiliation with Newberry Library
Goal: The equivalent of three fellowships per year for two years.
Description: The Newberry Library requests funding for three years of publicity and three years of fellowship support to continue a highly successful program of residential humanities fellowships at the Newberry Library. Over three decades this program has generated a rich harvest of humanities scholarship while also serving as a catalyst for the creation of a dynamic intellectual community within this research institution. This proposal details the achievements and impact of the program and outlines the Library's procedures for publicizing the program, selecting the fellows,and fostering their scholarly activities.
Grant: 194589 / RA-50079-09, Category: Humanities, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2009 - $312,900
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Scholars in Residence Program
Recipient: Dodson, Howard (New York, NY 10037 USA) in affiliation with New York Public Library (New York, NY 10018 USA)
Goal: The equivalent of four fellowships each year for three years.
Description: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library (NYPL) requests a grant of $316,400 over four years from the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions to support its Scholars-in-Residence Program. Such a grant, in addition to cost share provided by the Library, will allow the Schomburg Center to make six- and twelve-month residency fellowships available to at least twelve scholars over three years.
Grant: 194590 / RA-50080-09, Category: Afro-American Studies, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2009 - $244,800
Advanced Fellowships for Research in the Humanities in Turkey
Recipient: Sams, G. Kenneth (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324 USA) in affiliation with American Research Institute in Turkey
Goal: The equivalent of one and a half fellowships per year for three years.
Description: The American Research Institute in Turkey requests support for its fellowship program for advanced research in the humanities affiliated with the ARIT centers in Turkey. Funds for long-term fellowships (tenures from four to twelve months) totalling 18 months per grant year, are requested from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the academic years 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013. Also requested are funds for a portion of the costs of publicity and selection of the ARIT NEH fellows, beginning in July 2009.
Grant: 194588 / RA-50078-09, Category: Humanities, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2009 - $160,200
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Recipient: Hoffman, Ronald (Williambsburg, VA 23187-8795 USA) in affiliation with Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781 USA)
Goal: The equivalent of one fellowship per year for three years.
Description: The Omohundro Institute seeks to renew, through the Endowment's Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions, funds for two-year postdoctoral fellowships for the 2010-2013 grant period. The proposal requests support for three fellows who will conduct research in areas of early American studies with the goal of preparing manuscripts for book publication. They will be NEH fellows in successive twelve-month terms in 2011, 2012, and 2013. The Institute's sixty-three-year-old fellowship program has a well-deserved reputation for quality and productivity and is held in high regard by the historical profession. As a dedicated research center and a publisher of important work about the early American period, the Omohundro Institute provides an ideal setting for scholars working on their first book-length publications.
Grant: 194586 / RA-50076-09, Category: History, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2009 - $138,000
Advanced Fellowships in American Material Culture
Recipient: Roselle, David P (Winterthur, DE 19735 USA) in affiliation with Winterthur Museum
Goal: The equivalent of one fellowship per year for three years.
Description: Winterthur is a center for advanced study in America's artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history to the early twentieth century. Our ongoing Research Fellowship Program enables scholars to pursue research projects for the duration of one to six months. Past NEH support enabled us to expand this program through the addition of long-term fellowships (six to twelve months) for advanced scholars. Research fellows are drawn to Winterthur by the strength of our research collections, our commitment to scholarly activity, and our facilities for scholars. Former fellows have included leading scholars in American social and cultural history, and publications resulting from their work often have been cited for scholarly excellence. Winterthur now seeks NEH support to continue offering long-term fellowships.
Grant: 194587 / RA-50077-09, Category: American Studies, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2009 - $128,000
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Scholars-in-Residence Program
Recipient: Dodson, Howard (New York, NY 10037 USA) in affiliation with New York Public Library (New York, NY 10018 USA)
Goal: The equivalent of three fellowships a year for two years.
Description: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library (NYPL) requests $191,051 in NEH funds for its Scholars-in-Residence Program to support 6 and 12 month residency fellowships to at least 9 scholars over a four-year period. Established in 1986, Schomburg's Scholars-in-Residence Program has provided direct support for 108 scholars, including 59 recipients of NEH fellowships. Since 1986, scholars have published 34 full-length monographs based on work completed during their residency; 15 of these were written by NEH fellows. NEH funding will allow the Center to continue to make fellowships available to humanities scholars whose work will directly benefit from extended access to the Center's rich and unique documentary resources on African Diasporan and African history and culture, as well as to the collections of the other 3 NYPL Research Libraries.
Grant: 184882 / RA-50052-09, Category: Afro-American Studies, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2009 - $468,000
Renewal of Research Fellowship Program
Recipient: Ritchie, Robert C (San Marino, CA 91108 USA) in affiliation with Huntington Library
Goal: Three twelve-month fellowships a year for three years.
Description: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is pleased to submit this grant request to the National Endowment for the Humanities for $468,000 to renew support for the Huntington's National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions.
Grant: 189887 / RA-50061-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2008 - $164,633
NEH Fellowships at the American Research Center in Egypt
Recipient: Scott, Gerry D (Garden City, Cairo, GA 30306 Egypt) in affiliation with American Research Center in Egypt (Atlanta, GA 30306 USA)
Goal: The equivalent of one twelve-month fellowship a year for three years.
Description: The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) respectfully requests continuing support from the NEH for its fellowship program starting in July 2008 through June 2012 (academic years 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012). ARCE's fellowship program is a vital activity designed to foster and support American scholarly humanities-based research in Egypt; to create scholarly, professional, and personal links between American and Egyptian scholars; and to foster a deeper appreciation in the West of Egypt's extensive cultural heritage. ARCE is a mature, innovative institution that has been operating programs in Egypt and the United States for almost six decades. ARCE's prioritized activities include, but are not limited to, the facilitation of scholarly research in Egypt; a program of fellowships awarded for study and research in Egypt; scholarly publications; educational activities for the public and the general membership; academic exchanges; and preservation of Egypt's cultural heritage.
Grant: 189888 / RA-50062-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2008 - $136,650
Fellowships at TLL Institute in Munich
Recipient: Coleman, Kathleen M (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA) in affiliation with American Philological Association (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304 USA)
Goal: One twelve-month fellowship a year for three years.
Description: The American Philological Association (APA) seeks to continue a project in operation since 1984: a fellowship program that enables American scholars to participate in a unique international collaborative research project at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Institute in Munich. The TLL has been described by the Encyclopedia Britannica as "probably the most scholarly dictionary in the world." Each fellow has the opportunity to conduct research and write articles for the TLL, to broaden his or her vision of the ancient world, and to work with senior scholars in the field of Latin lexicography. The TLL has been and remains an indispensable reference work for humanities scholars of the ancient and medieval worlds.
Grant: 189890 / RA-50064-08, Category: Classics, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2008 - $86,400
Fellowships in the Humanities
Recipient: Porter, Barbara A (Amman, MA 11181 Jordan) in affiliation with American Center of Oriental Research (Boston, MA 02215-2010 USA)
Goal: One six-month fellowship a year for three years.
Description: The project will award three six-month fellowships to scholars who have completed their professional training. The project will take place at the institute in Amman and will support scholars with new projects or those with ongoing research and/or publication projects in the humanities relating to Jordan and the Middle East. Each award will be $27,800.
Grant: 189891 / RA-50065-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2008 - $348,000
ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship Program
Recipient: Stahlmann, Nicole A (New York, NY 10017-6795 USA) in affiliation with American Council of Learned Societies (New York, NY 10017 USA)
Goal: The equivalent of four fellowships a year for three years.
Description: This proposal seeks funding from the NEH for the period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2011 to support the program of ACLS/SSRC/NEH Fellowships in International and Area Studies. The ACLS has successfully administered this and predecessor programs since 1978. The program is integrated into the central ACLS fellowship competition, since multi-disciplinary research characterizes not only area studies but much work in the humanities in general; area studies scholarship benefits from evaluation in this larger context. Integration of the programs maximizes the number of NEH Fellows, who are supported both by grant funds and by ACLS endowment funds. The program offers 15 fellowships a year to post-doctoral scholars in all disciplines of the humanities working on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, East Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
Grant: 184878 / RA-50048-07, Category: Humanities, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2007 - $267,000
Fellowship Programs in Historical Studies
Recipient: Goddard, Peter (Princeton, NJ 08540-0631 USA) in affiliation with Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ 08540 USA)
Goal: Three fellowships a year for three years.
Description: The project forms part of the Visiting Members Fellowship Program in the School of Historical Studies. It will be carried out over a 4-year period from July 2007 through June 2011, with announcements, publicity and selection for the award in Academic Year 2007-2008 and direct payment to selected Fellows over the 3-year period Academic Year 2008-2009 through 2010-2011. The project will involve an average of 3 NEH Fellows each year for the 3-year period for a total of 9 Visiting Members out of the approximately 115 in residence in the School for that period. Support for the project will make possible the individual and collaborative work of the Visiting Members and enhance the accomplishments of the School as a whole.
Grant: 184887 / RA-50057-07, Category: History, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2007 - $258,000
NEH Fellowship Program at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Recipient: Romano, Irene B (Princeton, NJ 08540 USA) in affiliation with American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton, NJ 08540-5232 USA)
Goal: The equivalent of two fellowships a year for three years.
Description: The ASCSA seeks a total of $258,000 for a three-year program to continue support of two to four fellowships per year of five to ten months in duration, in a wide range of disciplines of the Greek world from prehistory to the present. The NEH Fellowship program aims to make the unique resources of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens accessible to a wider scholarly constituency: Blegen Library, devoted to Greek antiquity; the Gennadius Library, a collection of post-ancient Greek culture; and the primary materials accessible at the ASCSA's archaeological research centers in ancient Corinth and at the Athenian Agora. NEH Fellows add immensely to the intellectual life of the School, broadening and enriching the experience of students and scholars in the ASCSA community.
Grant: 184885 / RA-50055-07, Category: Classics, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2007 - $254,000
American Research in the Humanities in China (ARHC)
Recipient: Tymowski, Andzrej W (New York, NY 10017-6795 USA) in affiliation with American Council of Learned Societies (New York, NY 10017 USA)
Goal: Three fellowships a year for three years.
Description: This proposal seeks funding from the NEH for the period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2011 to support the ACLS fellowship program, American Research in Humanities in China (ARHC). We have successfully administered this program since 1995, providing scholars with access to archives and other collections in China, and nurturing collegiality among U.S. scholars and their Chinese counterparts.The ARHC deepens American understanding of China. No other program focuses exclusively on humanities research in China. No other organization could do it as well as ACLS, because of the combination of our record of achievement in China studies, our expertise in designing and administering national fellowship competitions, and finally, because of the competence of our representative office in Beijing in helping U.S. scholars navigate the practical difficulties and bureaucratic obstacles of working in China.
Grant: 184877 / RA-50047-07, Category: Asian Studies, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2007 - $252,000
NEH Fellowships at the Newberry Library
Recipient: Grossman, James R (Chicago, IL 60610 USA) in affiliation with Newberry Library
Goal: Three fellowships a year for two years.
Description: This proposal requests funding for three years of publicity and three years of fellowships to continue a highly successful program of residential humanities fellowships at the Newberry Library. Over three decades, this program has generated a rich and documented harvest of humanities scholarship while serving as a catalyst for the creation of a dynamic intellectual community within this research institution. The proposal details the achievements and impact of the program and outlines the library's procedures for publicity, selection, and orientation of fellows.
Grant: 184880 / RA-50050-07, Category: Humanities, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2007 - $252,000
NEH Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society
Recipient: Sloat, Caroline (Worcester, MA 01609-1634 USA) in affiliation with American Antiquarian Society
Goal: The equivalent of three fellowships a year for two years.
Description: This application seeks continued funding for the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) under the Endowment's initiative supporting Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions. Previous grants since 1975 have helped support a deep, rich, and growing body of scholarship in many fields, including the development of the field of book history. The funding requested is the same amount as was awarded in the previous grant, that is, sufficient funds to award three fellowships at the maximum stipend annually for three years. For more than three decades, the AAS fellowship program has made the Society's unparalleled resources for the study of American history and culture through 1876 more readily available to scholars from throughout the nation, has fostered a productive culture of collegiality among fellows and staff, and has enabled the Society to enhance its services to humanistic scholarship in and about the United States.
Grant: 184888 / RA-50058-07, Category: American History, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2007 - $238,000
Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society
Recipient: Wright, Conrad Edick (Boston, MA 02215 USA) in affiliation with Massachusetts Historical Society
Goal: The equivalent of two fellowships a year for three years.
Description: The Massachusetts Historical Society requests a grant of $218,000 in outright funds and $20,000 in matching funds, a total of $238,000, for a program of long-term postdoctoral fellowships. To this sum the MHS will add a match of $20,000 and $40,500 in its own funds, a total of $60,500. The initiative will extend an existing program of MHS/NEH awards and complement programs of short-term and regional grants. Fellows use their awards at the MHS, where they make use of one of the great research collections for the study of American history. Fellows benefit from residence at a lively research center at the heart of one of the most intellectually stimulating cities in the United States.
Grant: 184879 / RA-50049-07, Category: American History, Division: Research Programs, Year Awarded: 2007 - Endowment for the humanities grants to program Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions; items 1-21 of 192 with a total funding of $5,433,733.