Franklin Research Grant Recipients

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Aguilar, Pablo S., Institut Pasteur Montevideo
Yeast Mating as a Model of Cell-Cell Fusion

Aslanbeigui, Nahid, Monmouth University
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959): The Theory of Welfare and the Professionalization of Economics

Avrutin, Eugene M., University of Illinois
Jews and Their Neighbors in Tsarist Russia

Bailey, Gauvin A., University of Aberdeen
Rococo Architecture and Spirituality in South America

Barber, Jesse R., Colorado State University
Evolution of Ultrasonic Hearing and Sound Production in Hawkmoths

Barraclough, Laura R., Kalamazoo College
The Contested Cowboy: Mexican American Charros and the Struggle for Suburban Public Space

Beachy, Robert, Goucher College
Long Knives: Homosexuality in Nazi Germany

Benton-Cohen, Katherine, Georgetown University/Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
The Last Immigration Crisis: The Dillingham Commission and Progressive America

Blum, Hester, Pennsylvania State University
Arctic and Antarctic Circles: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration

Boittin, Jennifer, Pennsylvania State University
Feminist Colonizers? French Women in West Africa, Indochina and Martinique, 1900–1939

Bowles, Brett, State University of New York at Albany
Cinematic Technique, Historiography, and Ethics in the Documentaries of Marcel Ophüls

Busing, Richard T., United States Geological Survey
Forest Dynamics Along an Appalachian Elevation Gradient

Calvert, Jane E., University of Kentucky
The Complete Writings of John Dickinson (1732–1808)

Campbell, Caroline J., University of North Dakota
Emboldening the French Imperial Project: Gender, Ultranationalism, and the Croix de Feu, 1927–1939

Carr, Maureen A., Pennsylvania State University
Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism

Carraway, Joanna, Rockhurst University
Crime Control, Dispute Resolution, and Defendants' Rights: The Medieval Legal Tradition and the Practice of Criminal Law in Bologna and Reggio Emilia

Chong, Kelly H., University of Kansas
Intermarriage and the Politics of Race and Gender Among Second Generation Asian Americans

Coleman, Joyce, University of Oklahoma
Chaucer the Court Poet

Cormack, Margaret J., College of Charleston
Medieval Icelandic Church and Landscape

DeBose, Jennifer L., Smithsonian Institution
Release of DMSP and Other Natural Chemical Products Through Reef-Associated Trophic Events and the Corresponding Effects on Reef Fish Behavior

Desan, Suzanne, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Foreign Radicals in Revolutionary France

Dorman, W. J., Durham University
Urban Security and Development in Cairo, Egypt: The View From the Archives

Durband, Arthur C., Texas Tech University
CT Scanning of Ancient Skeletal Remains From the Willandra Lakes, New South Wales, Australia

Fogg, Shannon, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Restitution: Reconstructing Jewish Lives in Twentieth-Century France

Garcia, Humberto, Vanderbilt University
Romanticism Re-Oriented: Indo-Muslim Travelers and English Literary Culture, 1760–1820

Gill, Gordon E., Oberlin College
Families, Communities, and Neighborhoods: Identity Formation Among the Enslaved on the Plantations of Guyana

Godbeer, Richard, University of Miami
The Life and Times of Elizabeth (1735–1807) and Henry (1734–1809) Drinker

Green, James N., Brown University
Exiles within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Late Twentieth-Century Brazilian Gay Revolutionary

Guneratne, Anthony R., Florida Atlantic University
Rediscovering Shakespeare: The Role of Archives in Reconstructing the Shakespeare Film Canon

Guss, David M., Tufts University
Alastair Cram (1909–1994): Finding Justice

Haggis, Donald C., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Archaic Cretan City (1200–500 B.C.): The Final Publication of Excavations at the Site of Azoria in Eastern Crete, Greece, 2002–2006

Harvey, David A., New College of Florida
The Varieties of Man: Human Origins and Racial Difference in French Enlightenment Thought

Higgins, Padhraig, Mercer County Community College
“The Rights of the Poor”: The Politics of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Dublin

Hirschfeld, Nicolle, Trinity University
Return to Cape Gelidonya

Horner, Patrick J., Manhattan College
The Index of Middle English Prose: A Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the e Museo Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford

Hudson, Angela P., Texas A&M University
“Real Native Genius”: Okah Tubbee's Traveling Indian Show

Janiak, Andrew, Duke University
Newton's God: Theology and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century England

Kaplonski, Christopher, University of Cambridge
The Question of the Lamas: Violence, Sovereignty and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia

Khan, Naveeda, Johns Hopkins University
The Imminent, the Everyday and the Eternal: Temporal Orientations to Climate Change in Bangladesh

Livshultz, Tatyana, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Pollination of Primitive Milkweeds and Their Relatives: Testing the Fitness Benefit of a Remarkable Floral Adaptation

Manning, Patricia, University of Kansas
Why Book Vendors Asked the Inquisition to Intervene: Understanding a 1655 Petition by the Brotherhood of Booksellers in Madrid

McCormack, John, Louisiana State University
Testing Speciation Mechanisms in a Recent Radiation of Rocky Mountain Birds Using Data from Next-Generation Sequencing

Medzhibovskaya, Inessa, Eugene Lang College, The New School
Tolstoy's Fate in the Twentieth Century: Documents, Memoirs and Archival Stories

Meiners, Scott J., Eastern Illinois University
Leaf Nutrient Concentrations and the Functional Ecology of Old Field Succession

Mendoza, Zoila S., University of California, Davis
Pilgrimage, Music, and Dance in the Andes: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Sensory Among Quechua-Speaking People

Morgan, William, independent scholar
Correspondence of William S. Burroughs: 1959–1974

Morison, Melissa, Grand Valley State University
Pots for the Ancestors: Funerary Ritual and Identity Construction at Ancient Kenchreai, Greece

Nair, Stella, University of California, Riverside
Retreats Without Surrender: The Architecture of Sanctuary at Chinchero, Peru

Nash, Donna J., University of Illinois at Chicago
Expansion and Control: Investigating Migration Between the Chuquibamba and Moquegua Provinces of the Expansive Wari State, Peru

Nykiel, Joanna, University of Silesia
Acceptability of Preposition Omission Under Sluicing and Fragment Answers

Paugh, Katherine, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The Politics of Midwifery in Barbados During the Age of Abolition

Rajam, V. S., independent scholar
A Reference Grammar of Post-Classical, Pre-Devotional Tamil Poetry

Rhine, Kathryn A., University of Kansas
Vitalities: The Gendered Politics of Kinship and AIDS in Nigeria

Rissetto, John D., University of New Mexico
How Climate Change Affected Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Cultural Adaptations

Roy, Ayon, University of California, Berkeley
Sankara Contra Hegel: Advaita Vedanta and the Limits of Reason

Rudolph, Nicole, Adelphi University
At Home in Postwar France: Building Homes, Building a Nation, 1945–1975

Sam Colop, Luis E., independent scholar
Maya Manuscripts Research

Satia, Priya, Stanford University
Guns: The True History of the British Empire

Schmalzer, Sigrid, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Encounters with Scientific Farming in Socialist China

Smith, Marilyn S., independent scholar
The Modernist Turn of a Classical Anthropologist: Jane Harrison and Russia, 1914–1926

Smolenski, John, University of California, Davis
Hearing Voices: Culture and Power on an Eighteenth-Century Virginia Plantation

Strobel, Heidi A., University of Evansville
Mary Linwood and the Art of Installation Embroidery

Strycharski, Andrew, Florida International University
The Literacy Affect: Philip Sidney (1554–1586) and Early Modern Education

Tomescu, Alexandru M., Humboldt State University
Characterizing the Early Devonian Floras of Western North America

Tran, Lisa, California State University, Fullerton
Law and Custom: Women and Marriage in Twentieth-Century China

Tsomu, Yudru, Lawrence University
Migration, Settlements, and Community Formation: Han Chinese Immigrants in Eastern Tibet

Tulchin, Allan A., Shippensburg University
Networks of Enlightenment: The Revolution Before the Revolution in Bordeaux, 1760–1790

Vinson, Stephen M., Indiana University, Bloomington
Digital Recording of Demotic Graffiti in Luxor, Egypt (Valley of the Kings) and El-Kab

von Germeten, Nicole, Oregon State University
Scaling Honor's Walls: Sex, Violence, and Race in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

von May, Rudolf, independent scholar
Diversification Processes of High-Elevation Andean Frogs

Webster, Susan V., College of William and Mary
The Conquest of European Architecture: Andean Masters and the Construction of Colonial Quito

Westgard, Joshua A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Reading Bede's History in Medieval Europe, ca. 731–1500

Wolfinger, James, DePaul University
Capital’s Quest: Management, Labor, and the Search for Social Control in Philadelphia’s Mass Transit Industry