Research Grant Recipients, 2009

 

Beveridge Grant Recipients

Randy Browne
Project Title: Obeah and Spiritual Practice in the African Diaspora
Affiliation: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Reena Goldthree
Project Title: Shifting Loyalties: War and the Gendered Politics of Patriotism in the British Caribbean, 1900-1938
Affiliation: Duke University

Lauren Hirshberg
Project Title: Producing the Pacific as a Space of Destruction: U.S. Weapons Development in Micronesia and Hawaii, 1946-1994
Affiliation: University of Michigan

Kittiya Lee
Project Title: From Indian Talk to Colonial Language: The Brasílica and the Vulgar in Portuguese America, 1500-1759
Affiliation: The Center for Historical Research at the Ohio State University

Elaine Nelson
Project Title: Posing for Profits: Tourism and Indigenous Communities in the Twentieth-Century Black Hills
Affiliation: University of New Mexico

Aimee E. Newell
Project Title: A Stitch in Time: The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jason Sokol
Project Title: The Northern Mystique: Politics & Race from Boston to Brooklyn, 1939-present
Affiliation: The University of Pennsylvania

 

Littleton-Griswold Grant Recipients

Helen Knowles
Project Title: Rethinking The Abolitionists’ Constitution
Affiliation: State University of New York, Oswego

Kristin Olbertson
Project Title: Criminally Impolite: Speech Transgressions & Social Order in Provincial Massachusetts
Affiliation: Alma College

Leah Weinryb Grohsgal
Project Title: Reinventing Civil Liberties: Religious Groups, Organized Litigation, and the Rights Revolution
Affiliation: Emory University

Kimberly Welch
Project Title: Public Confrontations: Southern Subordinates and Local Legal Cultures in the Old South
Affiliation: University of Maryland, College Park

 

Kraus Grant Recipients

Celine Carayon
Project Title: 'Not able to be expressed with tongue': Communication, Performance, and Acculturation in French America
Affiliation: College of William & Mary

Bronwen McShea
Project Title: Cultivating a New World: The Jesuits' Social Vision for France and North America, 1610-1685
Affiliation: Yale University


Schmitt Grant Recipients

Alexander Angelov
Project Title: Conversion and Empire: Byzantine Missionaries, Foreign Rulers, and Christian Narratives
Affiliation: University of Michigan

James Baldwin
Project Title: Islamic Law in an Ottoman Context: Judges, Governors and Sultans Adjudicating in late 17th/early 18th-century Cairo
Affiliation: New York University

Celine Carayon
Project Title: 'Not able to be expressed with tongue’: Communication, Performance, and Acculturation in French America.
Affiliation: College of William & Mary

Winifred Chang
Project Title: Marshalling Culture: Strategies of Japanese Mobilization in Taiwan, 1920-1945
Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles

Sheetal Chhabria
Project Title: Making of the Modern Slum & the Imperial Dynamics of Urban Impoverishment in Bombay & Karachi, 1870-1918
Affiliation: Columbia University

Isaac Curtis
Project Title: Capitalism & Piracy: The Buccaneers and the Making of the Colonial Caribbean, 1620-1713
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh

Paul du Quenoy
Project Title: The Russian Empire and the Middle East
Affiliation: American University of Beirut

Jens-Uwe Guettel
Project Title: Reading America, Studying Empire: German Images of Indians, Slavery, and American Westwards Expansion, 1789-1900
Affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University

Katherine Luongo
Project Title: The First 100 Days from Nyanza: the Perspectives of Obama’s 'Kin'
Affiliation: Northeastern University

Guy Ortolano
Project Title: Milton Keynes and the Making of a Modernist Utopia
Affiliation: New York University

Rebecca Schloss
Project Title: France at the Edges: Life in France's Atlantic Port Cities, 1760-1830
Affiliation: Texas A & M University

Jonathan Seitz
Project Title: Devising spiritual remedies: Clerical healers in early modern Venice
Affiliation: Drexel University

Joseph Stubenrauch
Project Title: Faith in Goods: Consumerism, Materiality and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Affiliation: Indiana University

Daniel Wasserman
Project Title: Translating the Words of God: Language Policy and Evangelization in the Spanish World, 1524-1700
Affiliation: University of Virginia

Yiching Wu
Project Title: Popular Dissent and Protest Mobilization during Chinas Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
Affiliation: University of Michigan


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