Franklin Research Grant Recipients

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Ameri, Marta, Fashion Institute of Technology
Who Holds the Keys? Using the Archaeological Indicators of Administrative Activity from Shahr-i Sokhta to Reconstruct Administrative Practice in Third Millennium Iran

Arunachalam, Sudha, Boston University
Two-Year-Olds' Use of Linguistic Information to Acquire the Meanings of Verbs

Baring, Edward G., Drew University
The Europeanization of Phenomenology 1900–1950

Bell, Richard, University of Maryland, College Park
The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon (1760–1829) and the Domestic Slave Trade

Bredeson, Kate, Reed College
Occupying the Stage: Performances of May '68 in the Context of 1950s–1970s France

Carpenter, Kenneth E., Harvard University Library
The Publishing History of Benjamin Franklin’s Way to Wealth Before 1851

Coggins, Christopher R., Simon's Rock College of Bard
Village Fengshui Forests of the Central Yangtze Basin: Sociocultural Significance and Conservation Status

Cooperrider, Kensy, Case Western Reserve University
Spatial Reasoning and Bilingualism in Juchitán, Mexico

Dahlberg, Laurie V., Bard College
Amateur vs. Amateur: Photography and the [D]evolution of a Gentleman’s Art, 1839–1900, in France, Great Britain, and the United States

DeLancey, Mark D., DePaul University
King Njoya's Palace: A Fulbe Sooro Behind a German Facade, Early Twentieth-Century Cameroon

DeLugan, Robin M., University of California, Merced
The Civil War, Seventy-Five-Plus Years Later: Studying Social Memory in Contemporary Spain

DeRoo, Rebecca J., Independent scholar
Agnes Varda, Feminism, and the New Wave, 1950 to Present

Dochuk, Darren, Purdue University
Anointed With Oil: God and Black Gold in Modern America (1850–2010)

Dombrowski, Andre, University of Pennsylvania
Impressionism and the Modern Temporal Order (1865–1885)

Dursteler, Eric, Brigham Young University
Around the Mediterranean Table: Foodways and Identity in the Early Modern Era

Eastberg, Jodi R., Alverno College
Sir George Thomas Stuanton and Anglo-Chinese Interactions in an Age of Global Anxiety, 1780–1860

Eckert, Astrid M., Emory University
West Germany and the Iron Curtain, 1945–1949 to 1995

Engerman, David C., Brandeis University
The Global Politics of the Modern: India and the Three Worlds of the Cold War

Faller, Helen, Independent scholar
Kitchen Talk: Central Asian Women on History and Social Change

Faudree, Paja, Brown University
A History of Mazatec Texts from Oaxaca, Mexico, Late Eighteenth Through Mid-Twentieth Centuries

Foley, Edward B., Ohio State University
Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States

Garrison, John, Carroll University
Enriching Friendship: Plurality and Amicitia in Early Modern English Literature

Garvey, T. Gregory
, State University of New York at Brockport
Post-Napoleonic Peace Societies and the Origin of Global Governance

Goldberg, Dror, Bar Ilan University (Israel)
How Americans Invented Modern Money, 1607–1692

Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina, University of the Sciences
The Strange Case of Miss B. M. J. Banks: Images of Mentally Ill Patients in the History of Psychiatry

Harris, A. Katie, University of California, Davis
Proving Sanctity: Evidence and The Cult of Relics in the Early Modern Spanish Mediterranean

Hayes, Bruce, University of Kansas
Castigating Comedy: Polemical Humor at the Start of the French Wars of Religion

Hoffmann, Dorothea, University of Chicago
A Preliminary Documentation of the Australian Language MalakMalak

Houlihan, Patrick J., University of Chicago
Divided Loyalties and Unconquered Souls: Catholics in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914–1922

Jiang, Yonglin, Bryn Mawr College
The Weapon of the Miao: Changing Customary Law in the “Miao Territory” in Chinese History

Kassens, Alice L., Roanoke College
The Effect of Clinical Depression on the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Adults

Keller, Vera, University of Oregon
Cornelis Drebbel (1572–1633): Artisan and Philosopher in Early Stuart London

Kelly, Kenneth G., University of South Carolina
Landlords, Traders, and the Nineteenth-Century Illegal Slave Trade: Historical Archaeology Along the Rio Pongo, Guinea, West Africa

Kirch, Miriam H., University of North Alabama
Susanna of Bavaria (1502–1543): Consort, Patron, and Collector of Art

Klagge, James C., Virginia Tech
Wittgenstein's Lectures and Influences

Kugler, Rob, Lewis & Clark College
Examining the Second-Century BCE Papyri from the Jewish Politeuma at Herakleopolis, Egypt

LaFauci, Lauren E., Simpson College
Peculiar Natures: Slavery, Environment, and Nationalism in the Southern States, 1789–1865

Le Mentheour, Rudy, Bryn Mawr College
The Empire of Hygiene, or How Enlightened Hygiene Shaped Modernity (1750–1800)

Lipman, Andrew C., Syracuse University
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Colonization of Greater Long Island Sound, 1600–1700

Long, Pamela O., Independent scholar
Rome Restored: Knowledge, Power, and Engineering, 1557–1590

Lyman, Elizabeth D., Independent scholar
"Pinning Men to the Floor with Forks": Novel Stage Directions in Plays From the Larpent Collection

Magness, Phillip, George Mason University
Lincoln’s Last Colony: Freedmen Resettlement in the British West Indies

Marston, John M., Brown University
Archaeological Investigation of Agricultural and Economic Sustainability in Bronze and Iron Age Turkey

Matera, Marc, Northern Arizona University
Race Relations and the End of Empire in Britain, 1945–1965

Maxwell, Keely, Franklin & Marshall College
Heritage Conservation and Development in Machu Picchu, 1911–2011

Miller, Ann N., University of Central Florida
A Cross-Denominational Study of the Impact of Church-Level Factors on Youths' HIV Prevention Behavior in Nairobi, Kenya

Miller, Ian J., Harvard University
Renaturing Tokyo: The Everyday Ecology of Japanese Urban Modernism

Morganstern, James, Ohio State University
The Church of Notre-Dame at Jumièges from the Seventh Century to the Present

Murillo, Dana V., Adelphi University
The Silver City and Its Indian Towns: An Ethnohistory of Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546–1810

Noonan, Sarah, Lindenwood University
The Book in Parts: Selective Reading Practices in Late Medieval England

Oja, Carol J., Harvard University
Performing Racial Desegregation: Broadway Musicals and Progressive Politics in the 1940s

Pearl, Jason H., Florida International University
Utopian Geographies of the Early English Novel

Raymond, Emilie, Virginia Commonwealth University
Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1947–1972

Renouard, Joe, The Citadel
The Strange Career of the Genocide Convention: America and the Genocide Pact, 1945–2010

Retish, Aaron B., Wayne State University
In the Courts of Revolution: Violence, Legality, and Social Control in the Soviet Union's Rural Courtroom, 1917–1939

Robinson, David, University of Central Lancashire (United Kingdom)
Analyzing in situ Indigenous Cached Perishable Material, Prehistoric and Historical Periods, at Cache Cave, California

Roffman, Karin S., United States Military Academy at West Point
A Biography of Twentieth-Century American Poet John Ashbery's Early Life and Art

Scanlon, Jennifer R., Bowdoin College
Anna Arnold Hedgeman and America's Freedom Struggles, 1920 Through the 1970s

Schachner, Emma R., University of Utah
Evolution and Development of the Archosaur Lung

Schleck, Julia, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The Genres of Early Capitalism: English Trading Companies and the Management of Narrative, 1580–1640

Schonebaum, Andrew, Bard College
Novel Medicine: The Curative Properties of Chinese Fiction, 1644–1911

Schwamb, Megan E., Yale University
Assessing the Extrasolar Planet Inventory with Citizen Science

Sharma, Devendra, California State University, Fresno
Saangit, Swang, Bhagat, and Nautanki Performance Traditions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India

Sherif, Ann, Oberlin College
Japan's Independent Presses and Regional Publishers: Literature as Social Activism in Twentieth-Century Japan

Sloboda, Stacey L., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
St. Martin's Lane: The Culture of Craft in William Hogarth's Eighteenth-Century England

Small, David B., Lehigh University
Funeral Feasting and the Development of Cretan Communities in the Late Minoan to Geometric Periods

Stagg, Allison M., Independent scholar
An English Influence on American Caricaturists, 1796–1820

Stone, Anita, Eastern Michigan University
The Science of Sex Appeal: Mate Choice in a Neotropical Primate, the Squirrel Monkey

Taylor, Rabun M., University of Texas at Austin
Rome: An Urban History

Tsakirgis, Barbara, Vanderbilt University
Houses and Households Around the Athenian Agora

van Doesburg, Bas, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca (Mexico)
Indigenous Language Texts From the Late Colonial and Early Independence Period (1700–1840), Central and Southwestern New Spain

Walz, Terry, Independent scholar
The Private Papers of the al-Jawhari and Other Families in Asyut, Upper Egypt, From the Nineteenth Century

Wells, Allen, Bowdoin College
Latin America's Representative in the U.S. Congress: Charles Porter and the Latin American Crusade for Democracy During the Cold War

Werner, Janelle, Kalamazoo College
Priests and Concubines in England, 1375–1559

Wilder, Colin F., University of Wisconsin
Property and the German Idea of Freedom, 1648–1806

Yanoviak, Stephen P., University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Tropical Biodiversity and Changing Forest Structure: Lianas Influence Ant Diversity in a Panamanian Rain Forest

Yuan, Furong, University of California, Irvine
Evolution of UV Opsin and Yellow Wing Pigments in Heliconius Co-Mimics