Grant Recipients - Fall Funding Cycle

Anca Parvulescu | English
East European Migration Networks

Ji-Eun Lee | East Asian Languages and Cultures
Writing Self, Writing the World: Women’s Essays and Miscellanies in Early Twentieth Century Korea

Michael Frachetti | Anthropology
Unearthing Highland Political History of Medieval Uzbekistan

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu | History
Cang Jie: Artificial Intelligence and Psuedoscience in the Sinosphere

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu | History
Cang Jie: Artificial Intelligence and Psuedoscience in the Sinosphere

Ila Sheren | Art History and Archaeology
When the Borderlands Speak: Migration Narratives and Contested Humanity along the Frontera

Lauren Eldridge Stewart | Music
Live from Powell Hall: Symphonic Cultures in Public

Lori Watson | Philosophy
Catharine A. MacKinnon: An Intellectual Biography

Diana Montaño | History
Latin American Technocultural Worlds

Hyeok Hweon (HH) Kang | East Asian Languages and Cultures
The Artisanal Heart of Early Modern Korea: Vernacular Engineering in the Global Material Age, 1563-1878

Lori Watt | History
Sadako Ogata, 1927-2019: Ambassador to the World

Hayrettin Yucesoy | Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
The Monarch’s Privy Council: Ibn al-Muqaffa’s Epistle on Empire-Building

Rebecca Copenhaver | Philosophy
Philosophy of Memory

René Esparza | Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
From Mariel to Minnesota: Broken Sponsorships and Queer Cuban Exilein the Upper Midwest

Elizabeth Hunter | Performing Arts Department
In the Story: Enactive Spectatorship from Theatron to Augmented Reality

Hayrettin Yucesoy | Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
The Monarch’s Privy Council: Ibn al-Muqaffa’s Epistle on Empire-Building

Flora Cassen | Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Translating the Americas: Early Modern Jewish Writings on the New World

Melanie Micir | English
The Paris Project

Rachel Brown | Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies 
Imperial Friendships: Settler Colonialism and the "New Humanitarianism" in the U.S. and Israel

Jianqing Chen | East Asian Languages and Cultures & Film and Media Studies
Put Down the Hoe, Pick Up the Smartphone: The Emergence of Rural Internet Influencers in Contemporary China

Rebecca Copeland | East Asian Languages and Cultures
Uno Chiyo: Bad Girl of Good Housekeeping

Rebecca Copeland | East Asian Languages and Cultures
Uno Chiyo: Bad Girl of Good Housekeeping

Robin McDowell | African and African-American Studies
Digging, Drilling, and Dependence: Resource Extraction and Black Life on the Cajun Coast

Geoff Childs | Anthropology
Tibetan Songs of Spiritual Experience (gur): Exploring the Musical Dimensions of a Textual Tradition 

Akiko Tsuchiya | Romance Languages & Literatures
Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain (19th-21st centuries) 

Anika Walke | History
Capturing Place-Based Experiences in Holocaust Survivor Testimony 

Ji-Eun Lee | East Asian Languages & Cultures 
New World, Old Ways: Kasa Travelogues by Korean Women Writers 

Lori Watt | History and International & Area Studies
From Colonialism to JICA: A History of the Japan International Cooperation Agency

Joe Barcroft | Romance Languages & Literatures
Effects of Fundamental Frequency Variability on Word Identification

Rafia Zafar | English/African and African-American Studies
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu | History
Cybernetic Socialism: Computers in the Chinese Reform Era 

No awards made during this funding cycle.

No awards made during this funding cycle.

Patrick Burke | Music
Sounding the Seven Seas: Norwegian Ships and “World Music” at the Margins of Empire, 1850–1950 

Steven Miles | History
City Seasons: The Pulse of Urban Life in Nineteenth-Century China 

Harriet Stone | Romance Languages & Literatures
The Documentary Impulse: Questions of Scale

Diane Lewis | Film and Media Studies
Kitchen Programmers: Women, Work, and the Age of Telecommunications in Japan

René Esparza | Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
The Great Gay (Return) Migration: AIDS Homecoming Narratives, the Shrinking Welfare State, and Middle-America's Fantasies of Racial Reconciliation 

Esther Kurtz | Music
Movements of Blackness: Racial Politics in Capoeira Angola of Backland Bahia 

Heather Berg | Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies 
Porn Work 

Pascal Ifri | Romance Languages & Literatures
Albertine Assassinee: Enquete sur une mort suspecte dans, A la recherche du temps perdu 

Miguel Valerio | Romance Languages & Literatures 
Becoming Diaspora: The Global Circulation of African Culture in Early Modernity, 16th–18th Centuries

No awards made during this funding cycle.

Zhao Ma | East Asian Languages & Cultures
“Korean Thugs,” Narcotic Enterprise, and the Criminal Underworld in Wartime Beijing, 1930s–40s

Hayrettin Yucesoy | Jewish, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies
Political Prose Revolution: The Formation of Political Language in the 8th Century Middle East

Joanna Dee Das | Performing Arts Department
Dancing for God and Country: Performing the Politics of Conservatism in Branson, Missouri

Akiko Tsuchiya | Romance Languages & Literatures
Spanish Women of Letters in the Nineteenth-century Antislavery Movement: Transnational Networks and Exchanges

Henry Schvey | Performing Arts Department
Tennessee Williams and St. Louis

John Klein | Art History & Archaeology
Who Needs a National Portrait Gallery?

Lerone Martin | Religion & Politics
J. Edgar Hoover's Stained-Glass Window: The FBI, Religion, and National Security in American History

Hayrettin Yucesoy | Jewish, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies
Political Prose Revolution: The Formation of Political Language in the 8th Century Middle East

Billy Acree | Romance Languages & Literatures
Mapping Street Culture in Modern Latin America

Anca Parvulescu | English and Comparative Literature
Comparatizing Transylvania: Rurality, Inter-Imperiality and the Global Modernist Market

Shefali Chandra | History
The Cunning of India: White Women, Caste and Transnational Sex Talk

Michael Frachetti | Anthropology
Nomadic Urbanism and Silk Road Networks Across High Asia

Aria Nakissa | Jewish, Islamic, & Near Eastern Studies
Southeast Asia and the History of Human Rights in the Muslim World

Bret Gustafson | Anthropology   
Guarani Language Histories on Bolivia’s Colonial Frontier

Ji-Eun Lee | East Asian Languages and Cultures 
Leaving Home: Gender and Travel in Colonial Korea (1910–1945)

Tabea Linhard | Romance Languages & Literatures
Unexpected Routes: Exile, Geography, and Memory

Akiko Tsuchiya | Romance Languages & Literatures
Women’s Networks in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Antislavery Movement

Shefali Chandra | History
The Cunning of India: White Women, Caste and Transnational Sex Talk

Michael Frachetti | Anthropology
Nomadic Urbanism and Silk Road Networks Across High Asia

No awards made during this funding cycle.

No applicants during this funding cycle.

Clarissa Hayward | Political Science   
Disrupting Ignorance

Thomas Keeline | Classics 
Latin Textual Scholarship in the Digital Age: An Open-Access Critical Edition of Ovid’s IBIS

Caroline Kita | Germanic Languages and Literatures
Border Territories: The Emancipatory Soundscapes of Post-War German Radio

Shanti Parikh | Anthropology
Global Circuits of HIV Care: Demonized Men, Suffering Women, and the Paradoxes of Waiting and Wandering

Harriet Stone | Romance Languages & Literatures
Focusing on the Details: French Still Life and the Artful Science of Knowledge, Part I: Early Modern France

Kedron Thomas | Anthropology
The Future of Fashion: Sustainability, Labor, and the New Material Culture

Nancy Reynolds | History
Anne-Marie McManus | Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Wasteland Literacies: Towards New Readings of Place and Waste in the Middle East

Lori Watt | History
The Japanese-American Transition in Immediate Postcolonial Korea and Micronesia, Autumn 1945

Hayrettin Yücesoy | Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Topography of Power: Ibn al-Muqaffa and the Abbasid Revolution (750–809 CE)

Denise Gill | Music
Aurality Beyond the Human: Virtuosic Listeners of Istanbul

Martin Jacobs | Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Constantinople vs. Tenochtitlán: Imperial Expansion through a Cinquecento Sephardic Lens

Hayrettin Yucesoy | Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Topography of Power: Ibn al-Muqaffa and the Abbasid Revolution (750–809 CE)

Ann Marie McManus | Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Of Other Languages: Arabic Literature and the Politics of Regionalism (1956–2011)

Angela Miller | Art History & Archaeology
Reason and Magic at Mid-Century: The Circle of Lincoln Kirstein

Karen Acton | Classics
The Emperor as Patron

Musa Gurnis | English
A Spy in the House of Actors

Kurt Beals | German
The Birth of Poetry from the Spirit of the Machine: New Media in German Poetry, 1916–68

Sonia Lee | History
Subverting the Rehabilitative Ideal: Toward an Intellectual History of Liberatory Psychiatric and Black Power

Lori Watt | History
The Japanese-American Transition in Immediate Postcolonial Korea and Micronesia, Autumn 1945

Shefali Chandra | History
Empress of Democracy: Indian Gender Production as Twentieth-Century Revolution

Denise Gill | Music
Aurality Beyond the Human: Virtuosic Listeners of Istanbul

Joe Schraibman | Romance Languages & Literatures
History, Language and Deep Structures in Leonardo Padura’s Heretics

John Doris | Philosophy
Addiction, Recovery, and Transformative Experience

No awards made during this period.

Diane Wei Lewis | Film and Media Studies
Beyond the Screen: Film, Theater, and Intermediality in Prewar Japan

Steven Miles | History
City Seasons: The Pulse of Urban Life in Nineteenth-Century China

Catherine Adcock | History
Cattle Wealth and Cow Protection: Dharma, Development and the Secular State in India”

Marisa Bass | Art History & Archaeology
Encrypted Knowledge: The Art of Joris Hoefnagel in the Wake of Dutch Revolt

Ann Margeret Baxley | Philosophy
Happiness and Its Value in Kant’s Ethics

Venus Bivar | History
Growth: A Promise for the Twentieth Century

Pannill Camp | Performing Arts
Arts of Brotherhood: Eighteenth-Century French Freemasonry in Performance

Jennifer Kapczynski | Germanic Languages & Literatures
Armchair Warriors/Men of Action: Violence and the Reconstruction of Masculinity in Postwar West German Cinema

Peter Kastor | History
Creating a Federal Government, 1789–1829

Diane Wei Lewis | Film and Media Studies
Beyond the Screen: Film, Theater, and Intermediality in Prewar Japan

Paige McGinley | Performing Arts
Rehearsing Civil Rights: Practicing the Law, 1934–1965

Erin McGlothlin | Germanic Languages and Literatures
Testifying to Treblinka in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah

Steven Miles | History
City Seasons: The Pulse of Urban Life in Nineteenth-Century China

Amber Musser | Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Beyond the Feminine Mystique: Femininity and Its Objects

Ignacio Infante | Romance Language and Literatures 
A Planetary Avant-Garde: Experimental Poetics and Transnational Literature Networks (1910–1936)

Paul Steinbeck | Music
Message for Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Improvisation, and Great Black Music

Akiko Tsuchiya | Romance Languages & Literatures
Gender and Cultural Transfer in Carolina Coronado’s Antislavery Writings

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