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
THIRD COMPETITION
Blecher, Marc, Oberlin College.
Workers' Politics and the Chinese State.
Collins, Jeffrey L., University of Washington.
Megalithomania in Early Modern Rome.
Docherty, Linda J., Bowdoin College.
The Art Museum of Isabella Stewart Gardner 1840-1924).
Jones, George, Hamilton College.
Human Foragers of the Intermountain West during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition.
Kent, Bonnie D., University of California, Irvine.
Habits in the History of Virtues.
King, Ronald, Tulane University.
Democratic Abuses in America: The Election of 1876.
Kwachka, Patricia, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Dictionary of the Choctaw Language.
Lavine, Shaughan, University of Arizona.
Axioms Characterize Mathematical Systems.
Marker, Gary J., State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Literacy in Early Modern Russia, 1649-1801.
Nicolopoulou, Ageliki, Lehigh University.
Children's Construction of Reality and Identity.
Oreskes, Naomi, University of California, San Diego.
American Oceanography in the Cold War and Beyond.
Skaggs, Neil T, Illinois State University.
Henry Thornton (1760-1815) and the Development of Monetary Policy.
Tedlock, Barbara, State University of New York, Buffalo.
Translating a Highland Maya Codex.
Yaqub, Aladdin M, University of New Mexico.
Mathematical Explanation and Application in an Historical Context.

