Recipients of Sabbatical Fellowships
TENTH COMPETITION, 2008
Bleich, Erik, Middlebury CollegeLimiting 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
NINTH COMPETITION, 2007
Barrett, Lisa F., Boston CollegeWhat Is an Emotion?
Behl, Aditya, University of Pennsylvania
Shadows of Paradise: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545
Blanchette, Patricia A., University of Notre Dame
A Fregean Conception of Logic
Cole, Jennifer, University of Chicago
Youth, Families, and the Intimate Politics of Social Change in Madagascar
Davies, Penelope J. E., University of Texas, Austin
Art and Persuasion in Republican Rome
de la Cadena, Marisol, University of California, Davis
Understanding Indigenous Politics the Andean Way
Hamburger, Jeffrey F., Harvard University
Elizabeth of Lunen: Liturgy, Learning, and Performance at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425
Head, Randolph C., University of California, Riverside
Archives, Inventories, and Political Knowledge as Mirrors of Governance in Early Modern Europe
Honig, Bonnie, Northwestern University
Future Perfect: The People, the Multitude, and the Paradoxes of Politics
Houston, Stephen D., Brown University
Classic Maya Civilization and Urban Life at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Kiaer, Christina, Northwestern University
Socialist Realism as Modern Art: Aleksand Deineka as Case Study
Peabody, Sue, Washington State University
Free Soil: Slaves and the Law in the Atlantic World
Rubin, Jeffrey W., Boston University
Grassroots Innovation and Reformast Imaginaries of Development in Brazil
Sheppard, W. Anthony, Williams College
Japan in the American Musical Imagination
Steiner, Deborah, Columbia University
Figures of Invective in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Poetry
Summers, L. Carol, University of Richmond
Familial Metaphors and Mass Politics in Late Colonial Buganda (Uganda)
Sylvester, Roshanna P., DePaul University
Girls, Science, and Technology in Cold War America and the Soviet Union
Wennerlind, Carl C., Barnard College
Histories of the British Financial Revolution
EIGHTH COMPETITION, 2006
Anderson, Gary A., University of Notre DameMetaphors of Sin in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Berman, Patricia G., Wellesley College
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Fashioning the Self and the Nation
Bernal, Victoria, University of California, Irvine
Eritrean Experiments in Political Participation
Breyfogle, Nicholas B., Ohio State University
Baikal, the Great Lake and Its People
Broucke, Pieter B. F. J., Middlebury College
Reconstructing the Pantheon of Agrippa
Choksy, Jamsheed K., Indiana University
Whither the Zoroastrian Minority Amidst Sectarian Sociopolitics in Contemporary Iran
Des Chene, Dennis, Washington University
The Seventeenth-Century Theories of the Passions
Foley, Neil, University of Texas, Austin
Black and Latino Civil Rights Strategies in World War II-Era Texas, 1940-1965
Glickman, Lawrence B., University of South Carolina
Consumer Activism in America from the Boston Tea Party to the Twenty-First Century
Hunt, Margaret R., Amherst College
Maritime Communities and the British Military State, 1650-1720
Kim, Mi Gyung, North Carolina State University
The Enlightenment and Science, Civility, and Patriotism at the Dijon Academy
Kwass, Michael, University of Georgia
Louis Mandrin and the Politics of Smuggling in Pre-Prevolutionary France
Matthews-Greico, Sara F., Syracuse University
Sexual Cultures in Western Europe, 1400-1800
Redfield Marc W., Claremont Graduate University
Romanticism and the War on Terror
Rusnock, Andrea A., University of Rhode Island
The Birth of Vaccination
Sawaya, Francesca, University of Oklahoma
Patronage and Modern American Literature
Skaff, Jonathan, Shippensburg University
Tang China's Relations with the Pastoral Nomads of Inner Asia, 618-756
Watkins, John A., University of Minnesota
Dynastic Marriage and the Rise of Diplomatic Literacy, 1500-1700
Witherspoon, Jr., Edward N., Colgate University
The Contexts of Skepticism
SEVENTH COMPETITION, 2005
Baker, Mark C., Rutgers UniversityA Cross-linguistic Theory of Agreement and Concord
Bodle, Wayne K., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Making the Middle Colonies of British North America
Bork, Robert O., University of Iowa
The Geometry of Gothic Architectural Drawings, 1150-1250
Bray, Tamara L., Wayne State University
Imperial Ceramic Design in the Inca State
Caballero, Carlo, University of Colorado
French Music and the Imagination of Classicism
Cassel, Susie L., California State University, San Marcos
The Diary of Ah Quin, Chinese Immigrant to the U.S., 1877-1902
Elfenbein, Andrew, University of Minnesota
Non-standard English in Writings of the Romantic Period
Higgs, Catherine A., University of Tennessee
Portuguese Planters and Cocoa in Sao Tome, West Africa, 1900-1920
Houston, Alan C., University of California, San Diego
Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement
Isaacson, Harunaga, University of Pennsylvania
The Practice of Hevajra in Indian Buddhism
Lawrence, Gavin J., University of California, Los Angeles
Human Function and Human Good
Lichtenstein, Alex, Rice University
The Politics of Anticommunism in Florida, 1940-1960
McCarthy, Kathleen, University of California, Berkeley
Self-Presentation in First-person Latin Poetry
Moe, Nelson, Barnard College
The Mafia in Theater, Literature and Film
Noggle, James, Wellesley College
Aesthetic Taste in Eighteenth-century British Discourse
Pomeranz, Kenneth L., University of California, Irvine
Long-term Economic Development in East Asia
Richards, Janet, University of Michigan
Individual and Society in Old Kingdom Egypt: Weni the Elder
Rogaski, Ruth, Vanderbilt University
Nature, Science and Empire in Manchuria, 1700-2000
Scandura, Jani, University of Minnesota
Emotions and Acoustics in American Culture
Weigert, Laura J., Reed College
The Theatricality of Franco-Flemish Art in the Late Middle Ages
SIXTH COMPETITION, 2004
Alpers, Benjamin L., University of OklahomaInfluence 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
FIFTH COMPETITION, 2003
Barkley-Brown, Elsa, University of Maryland.Manhood and Womanhood in the African-American Urban South
Bidlack, Richard, Washington and Lee University.
The Siege of Leningrad
Bosch, Anna R, University of Kentucky.
Phonological Study of Scots Gaelic
Carlin, Martha, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Food and Work in Medieval England
Edelman, Marc, Hunter College.
Peasants and Small Farmers in Global Civil Society
Findlen, Paula E, Stanford University.
Italian Women Scientists of the Eighteenth Century: Laura Bassi and her World
Finkel, Deborah G, Indiana University Southeast.
Gene-environment Interaction Effects in Cognitive Ageing
Floyd, Juliet, Boston University.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
Grubb, Farley W, University of Delaware.
The Monetary-Macro Perfomance of the Colonial American Economy
Haugerud, Angelique, Rutgers University.
Wealth, Culture and Power in Kenya
Hinds, Stephen E, University of Washington.
Commentary on Ovid's Tristia
Kamphoefner, Walter D, Texas A & M University.
Transatlantic Chain-migration and Social Mobility: Emigrants from Hannover, 1830-1870
Kollmann, Nancy S, Stanford University.
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia, 1500-1740
Lareau, Alan H, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.
Friedrich Hollaender (1896-1976): Lyricist and Cabaret Artist
Murray, Michael J, Franklin and Marshall College.
Theology in the Metaphysics of Leibniz
Ocker, Christopher, San Francisco Theological Seminary.
Friars, Cities and Parish Clergy: Conflict and Social Change, 1300-1530
Shih, Shu-mei, University of California, Los Angeles.
Chineseness in Cinema, Literature and Art at the End of the Twentieth Century
Solomon, Jon, University of Arizona.
Edition of Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods
Valentine, J. Randolph, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Lexicon of the Great Lakes Language, Nishnaabemwin
Zemka, Sue, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Property, Time and Utopia in the English Novel, 1848-1907
FOURTH COMPETITION, 2002
Alter, Torin A., University of AlabamaConsciousness, Materialism and Intentionality
Bensch, Stephen P., Swarthmore College
Catalan Overseas Expansion, 991-1322
Berliant, Marcus C., Washington University
The Foundations of Land Economics
Bizer, Marc, University of Texas, Austin
Ulysses in French Literature, 1530-1700
Burnette, Joyce L., Wabash College
Female Wages on Farms in England, 1770s-1830s
Cameron, Catherine M., University of Colorado
Relationship between the Great Bluff House, Utah, and the Chacoan Regional System
Hastorf, Christine A., University of California, Berkeley
The Place of Food in Archaeological Understanding
Huang, Jing, Utah State University
Political Role of the Military in China
Johns, Adrian D. S., University of Chicago
Printing Piracy from the Early Modern Age to the Internet
Kornbluth, Genevra A., University of Maryland
Amulets and Identity if Early Medieval Europe
Louden, Robert B., University of Southern Maine
The World We Want: The Ideals of the Enlightenment in the Present
Ludden, David, University of Pennsylvania
A History of Knowledge about India, 1770-1930
Mitchell, Ronald B., University of Oregon
Analysis of the Effectiveness of Environmental Treaties
Morrison, Dane A., Salem State College
Maritime Discovery in the Early Republic
Pestana, Carla G, Ohio State University
The Revolutionary Atlantic World, 1640-1661
Segerstrale, Ullica C. O., Illinois Institute of Technology
A Scientific Biography of the Evolutionist Wm D. Hamilton
Sherman, Nancy, Georgetown University
Stoic Warriors: Stoicism and the Military Life of Today
Simon, Linda, Skidmore College
Popular Reactions to the Advent of Electrification
Sloman, Steven, Brown University
Probabilistic Causality
Will, Richard J., University of Virginia
The Sacred Self in Late Eighteenth-century Music
THIRD COMPETITION, 2001
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.
SECOND COMPETITION, 2000
Anderson, Michael, Washington and Lee University.Borders and Nations: the Limits of Globalization.
Chatterjee, Kalyan, Pennsylvania State University.
Models of Multilateral Bargaining, Coalition Formation, and Contracting.
Crown, Patricia, University of New Mexico.
Becoming a Potter in Non-state Societies.
Dolinin, Alexander, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Alexander Pushkin and English Literature.
Friedman, William, Oberlin College.
The Development of Representation of Arrows of Time in Infancy.
Livezeanu, Irina, University of Pittsburgh.
Ideas, Art and Politics in Romania, 1914-1947.
Luria, Keith P, North Carolina State University.
Catholics and Protestants in Seventeenth-century France.
Maas, Michael, Rice University.
Roman Imperial Power at the End of Antiquity.
Major, Brenda, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Understanding Women's Responses to Abortion.
Malt, Barbara, Lehigh University.
Conceptual and Linguistic Categories of Human Emotion.
May, Elaine T., University of Minnesota.
Politics and Private Life in Twentieth-century America.
O'Brien, Bruce R., Mary Washington College.
Translation in England from Alfred to the Thirteenth Century.
Weiner, Joan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Science and Semantics.
Wunsch, James, Creighton University.
Linking Africa's Peoples to its Governance.
FIRST COMPETITION, 1999
Clancy-Smith, Julia, University of Arizona.History of Trans-Mediterranean Settlement in North Africa, 1830-1900.
Desan, Christine A., Harvard University.
Colonialism and American Constitutional Culture.
Fauconnier, Gilles R., University of California, San Diego.
Conceptual Integration.
Gilbert, Daniel T., Harvard University.
Miswanting.
Kanazawa, Mark T., Carleton College.
The Development of California Water Law, 1850-1939.
Leavell, Linda C, Oklahoma State University.
Biography of Marianne Moore.
McClellan, James E, Stevens Institute of Technology.
Science and Colonialism in the Old Regime.
Robbins, Kevin C., Indiana University/Purdue University.
Beaune's H"tel Dieu, 1450-1850.
Salvucci, Richard J., Trinity University.
Trade and Finance in Mexico, 1824-1884.
Scott, John B, University of Iowa.
Architecture of Social Justice in Early Modern Rome.
Smith, Barry, State University of New York, Buffalo.
The Metaphysics of Environments.
Stokes, Susan C., University of Chicago.
Political Parties and Democracy.
Strassmann, Beverly I, University of Michigan.
The Social Predictors of Child Mortality.
Swenson, Peter A., Northwestern University.
Role of Employers in Shaping the American Health System.