Sabbatical Fellowship Recipients

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TWELFTH COMPETITION

Amor, Monica, Maryland Institute College of Art
The Crisis of Geometric Abstraction in the Americas

Dolven, Jeff, Princeton University
Reading for the Style

Dutton, Paul V., Northern Arizona University
In Pursuit of a Good Death: Aging and Dying in France and the United States

Gelbart, Matthew, Fordham University
Listening to Novelty: Musical Genre and Romantic Ideologies

George, Coulter H., University of Virginia
Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek

Goluboff, Sascha, Washington and Lee University
Making African American Homeplaces in the Rural South

Hanly, Michael, Washington State University
Poets of Peace, Poets of War:  Philippe de Mézières’s Order of the Passion and Literary Transmission in the Later Fourteenth Century

Hook, Julian, Indiana University
Musical Spaces and Transformations

Johnson, Walter, Harvard University
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the Mississippi Valley's Cotton Kingdom

Klawans, Jonathan, Boston University
Josephus and the Jewish Theologies of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes

Kyle, Chris, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Native Socioeconomic Organization and Town Design in Early Colonial New Spain

Lieberman, Robert, Columbia University
Affirmative Action, Racial Equality, and the American State

Monta, Susannah B., University of Notre Dame
Sacred Echoes: Repetitive Prayer and Reformation-Era Poetics in Early Modern England

Newstok, Scott L., Rhodes College
Twinomials:  Residual Bilingualism and Philological Citizenship in English Renaissance Literature

Patel, Alka, University of California, Irvine
The Ghurid Architecture of Conquest and Historiography at the Ends of the Islamic World

Ramseyer, Valerie, Wellesley College,
Lombards and Greeks, Arabs and Normans: Southern Italy in the Early Middle Ages

Rosenblum, Warren, Webster University
The Magdeburg Justice Scandal: The Judiciary, the Jews, and the Rhetoric of Conspiracy in the Weimar Republic

Silver, Peter, Rutgers University
A Rotten Colossus: British and Spanish America in the War of Jenkins's Ear

Soni, Vivasvan, Northwestern University
The Crisis of Judgment in the Eighteenth Century

Starr-LeBeau, Gretchen, University of Kentucky
Living Through the Inquisition: Jewish Converts and Inquisitorial Culture in the Early Modern World

Sutherland, Daniel L., University of Illinois at Chicago
The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge

Volpp, Sophie, University of California, Berkeley
Substantive Fictions: Literary Texts and Material Culture in Late-Imperial China

Warren, Stephen A., Augustana College
“The Greatest Travelers in America”: Place, Transience, and Cultural Survival in Shawnee and Woodland Indian History

Ye, Weili, University of Massachusetts, Boston
The Class of 1936: The Missing Generation in the Making of the Chinese Revolution
 

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TENTH COMPETITION

Bleich, Erik, Middlebury College

Limiting Freedom in the Name of Cohesion
 

Buettner, Brigitte, Smith College

Precious Stones in Medieval Art and Culture
 

Chrissidis, Nikolaos, Southern Connecticut State University

The Case of the Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy in Early Modern Russia, 1685–1725
 

Clement, Elizabeth A., University of Utah

Lesbians, Gays, and the American Family, 1945–1995
 

Conn, Steven, Ohio State University

The Idea of Place and Community in the Twentieth Century
 

Diebold, William J., Reed College

Exhibiting Medieval Art in Modern Germany
 

Ghosh, Durba, Cornell University

Indian Nationalism in Bengal in the Twentieth Century
 

Grant, Bruce, New York University

Cultural and Religious Histories in the Azeri Caucasus
 

Keck, Thomas M., Syracuse University

Judicial Politics in the Culture Wars
 

Ketabgian, Tamara, Beloit College

The Science of Fiction: Vision and Natural Theology in Victorian Culture and Beyond
 

LaVaque-Manty, Mika T., University of Michigan

Hegelian Experiments
 

Mandel, Maud, Brown University

Muslims and Jews in France, 1948–2007
 

Martin, Alexander M., University of Notre Dame

Enlightened Absolutism and Urban Modernity in Moscow, 1763–1881
 

Nadasdy, Paul, University of Wisconsin, Madison

A Cultural Analysis of Land Claim Negotiations in the Yukon Territory
 

Omer-Sherman, Ranen, University of Miami

Levantine Identities in Contemporary Memoir and Fiction
 

Saunt, Claudio, University of Georgia

America in 1776: A Reimagination of Early American History from a Continental Perspective
 

Slowik, Edward, Winona State University

The Structuralist Conception of Space
 

Taylor, Rabun M., University of Texas

Ancient Naples from Greece to Rome
 

Treuer, Anton S., Bemidji State University

Ojibwe Grammar Project

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SIXTH COMPETITION

Alpers, Benjamin L., University of Oklahoma

Influence of Leo Strauss (1899-1973) on American Academic and Political Life
 

Bullock, Steven C., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Culture, Class, and Power in Provincial America, 1690-1776
 

Coiro, Ann B., Rutgers University

Dramatic Milton
 

Copeland, Rita, University of Pennsylvania

Medieval Intellectual Biography
 

Einbinder, Susan L., Hebrew Union College

Medieval Jewish Literature from Provence
 

Ethridge, Robbie F., University of Mississippi

Chickasaw Slaving, 1620-1700
 

Friedson, Steven M., University of North Texas

Music and Healthcare among the Ewe in Ghana
 

Graver, Margaret R., Dartmouth College

Emotion in Athenian Stoicism
 

Holbrook, Victoria R., Ohio State University

Turkish Poetry and Politics in the Twentieth Century
 

Jenkins, Janis H., Case Western Reserve University

Recovery from Schizophrenia
 

Karras, Ruth M., University of Minnesota

Marriage and Power in Medieval Europe
 

Klein, Julie R., Villanova University

Descartes and Spinoza on Knowing and Being
 

Lubar, Robert S., New York University

Painting and Politics in Barcelona, 1898-1939
 

McNally, Michael D., Carleton College

Ojibwe Aging, Religion and Authority
 

Mitchell, Sandra D., University of Pittsburgh

The Epistemology of Complexity
 

Noland, Carrie J., University of California, Irvine

Writing as a Form of Movement
 

Pincus, Steven C. A., University of Chicago

The Revolution of 1688-1689 in England
 

Roberts, Luke S., University of California, Santa Barbara

Denationalizing the Past in Pre-modern Japan
 

Smith, David K., Eastern Illinois University

The Origins of Economic Liberalism in France, 1700-1760
 

Snyder, Laura J., St. John's University

William Whewell and Universal Knowledge in Victorian Britain
 

Varsano, Paula M., University of California, Berkeley

Locating the Subject in Traditional Chinese Poetry
 

Walker, Pierre A., Salem State College

The Complete Letters of Henry James
 

Wilfong, Terry G., University of Michigan

A New History of Ancient Egypt, 1070 BC to 642 AD