Sabbatical Fellowship Recipients
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
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
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

