Research Grant Recipients, 2006

 

 

Beveridge Grant Recipients

Matthew Rothwell
Project Title: Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Cultural Revolution in Latin America
Affiliation: Univ. of Illinois at Chicago

Justin Roberts
Project Title: Sunup to Sundown: A Comparative Study of Slave Plantation Labor in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Univ.

Jay Driskell
Project Title: Race Above Party: African-American Voters, the NAACP, and Race Formation, 1895-1965
Affiliation: Yale Univ.

Sarah Cornell
Project Title: Americans of Two Souths: A Social and Cultural History of African, African American, White, and Indigenous U.S. Southerners and Mexico, 1810-1920
Affiliation: New York, New York

Ely Janis
 Project Title: The Land League in the United States and Ireland: Nationalism, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Gilded Age
Affiliation: Boston Coll.

Christopher Cantwell
Project Title: Bodies of Worship: Religion, Gender, and Congregation amongst Chicago's Working People, 1870-1910
Affiliation: Cornell Univ.

Andrew Fisher
Project Title: "Of Death, Hunger, and the End of Pueblos": Indigenous Survival, the Rural Poor, and the State in the Tierra Caliente of Guerrero, Mexico, 1521-1821
Affiliation: Carleton Coll.

Heath Bowen
Project Title: "Duty Called Me Here": Government Clerkships, Citizenship, and Washington’s Fraternity of Men, 1828-1865
Affiliation: Michigan State Univ.

Julie Holcomb
Project Title: Cement of the Whole Antislavery Building: Women, Consumption, and Abolitionism in the Transatlantic World
Affiliation: Univ. of Texas at Arlington

Littleton-Griswold Grant Recipients

C Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
Project Title: A Seneca Sachem in the Indian Bureau: Ely S. Parker and the Unintended Consequences of Native-Centered Policy Reform
Affiliation: Michigan State Univ.

Jennifer Armiger
 Project Title: The Women of Western Electric: Reconsidering Gender Discrimination, Civil Rights, and the Meaning of Equity in Post-1960s America
Affiliation: Univ. of Deleware

Linda Tvrdy
Project Title: Constitutional Rights in a Common Law World: The Reconstruction of North Carolina's Legal Order, 1863-1883
Affiliation: Columbia Univ.

Francesca Gamber
Project Title: The Radical Heart: The Politics of Love in the Struggle for African-American Equality, 1833-2000
Affiliation: Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale

Ethan Blue
Project Title: Hard Time in the New Deal: The Cultures of Punishment in Texas and California in the 1930s
Affiliation: Univ. of Western Australia

Kraus Grant Recipients

Natale Zappia
Project Title: The Autonomous Interior: Trading, Raiding, and Freedom in Native California, 1700-1857
Affiliation: Univ. of California at Santa Cruz

Anya Zilberstein
Project Title: Planting Improvement: Small Farms and Scientific Agriculture in the British North Atlantic, 1740-1820
Affiliation: MIT

Schmitt Grant Recipients

Jacqueline Fewkes
Project Title: A Woman’s Space in Islam: Examining the History of Women's Mosques in Asian Muslim Communities
Affiliation: Univ. of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Mellyn
Project Title: Madness, Medicine, and the Law in Florence, 1350-1600
Affiliation: Harvard Univ.

Holly Hurlburt
Project Title: "Caterina Veneta": Gender and Power in the Venetian Mediterranean
Affiliation: Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale

Peter Thorsheim
 Project Title: Plowshares into Swords: World War II and the Environment in Britain
Affiliation: Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte

Theodora Dragostinova
Project Title: Between Two Motherlands: Struggles for Nationhood among the Greeks in Bulgaria, 1906-1949
Affiliation: Montgomery, Alabama

Xiaoping Cong
Project Title: From Feng Peng'er to Liu Qiao'er: Constructing A New Discourse on Marriage in the Chinese Communist Region during the 1940s
Affiliation: Univ. of Houston

Sarah Hoglund
Project Title: The Birth of the Cemetery: Death and the Construction of British Identities
Affiliation: State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook

Elizabeth Crouch
Project Title: The Politics of Disentanglement: the OAS, Rapatriés, and the Extreme Right in France, 1954-2005
Affiliation: Univ. of Washington at Seattle

Niklas Frykman
Project Title: The Wooden World Turned Upside Down: Naval Mutinies in the Age of Atlantic Revolution
Affiliation: Univ. of Pittsburgh

Dorothee Brantz
Project Title: Slaughter in the City: Animals, Meat, and People in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Berlin, and Chicago
Affiliation: State Univ. of New York at Buffalo

Eileen Kane
Project Title: The Hajj and Russian Governance in the Caucasus, 1845-1917
Affiliation: Princeton Univ.

Patricia Goldsworthy
Project Title: The Commodification of the Colonial Image: Photography in Morocco, 1900-1930
Affiliation: Univ. of California at Irvine

David Christian
Project Title: Jews, Germans of Jewish Descent, and German Colonialism, 1884-1914
Affiliation: San Diego State Univ.

Steven Harris
Project Title: Moving to the Separate Apartment: Mass Housing and the Crisis of Rising Expectations in Soviet Russia, 1945-1991
Affiliation: George Mason Univ.

Munis D. Faruqui
Project Title: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim? Rethinking Islam in Mughal India
Affiliation: Univ. of California at Berkeley

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