Eight faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences received grants during the Center for the Humanities’ fall funding cycle. In December, awards are made for the following programs: Collaborative Research Seed Grant, Grimm Travel Award and Summer Faculty Research Grant. (The center previously announced the recipients of its Faculty Fellowships.)

A Collaborative Research Seed Grant, which supports early work for research partnerships, was made to Nathaniel Jones, associate professor of art history and archaeology, for the project “From Projection to Parameters: Ancient Roman Painting and Modern Architectural Design.” Together with collaborator Jonathan Stitelman, senior lecturer in architecture and urban design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Jones will conduct research in Rome and Naples, Italy, on ancient techniques of representing three-dimensional spaces in paintings. They plan to photographically document and use a LIDAR scanner to create 3-D models of architectural sites depicted in the paintings under study.

Three faculty members received Grimm Travel Awards:

• Vincente Atria (Music), “Temporal Elasticity in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Comparative Studies of Tempo Fluctuation in Gugak and Gamelan”
• Hayrettin Yucesoy (Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies), “The Rule of Law: A Non-European History of Democracy”
• Peng Peng (Political Science), “Aspirational Nationalism in China”

Four faculty members received Summer Faculty Research Grants:

• Maria Gloria Robalino (Romance Languages and Literatures), “Heightened Worlds: Vertiginous Imaginaries in the Pacific Ring of Fire, 1550-1670”
• Christopher Erdman (Classics), “Voting Culture in Late Republican Lawmaking”
• André Fischer (Comparative Literature and Thought), “The Dialectic of Resistance”
• Bret Gustafson (Anthropology), “The Life and Death of William Jones (1871-1909)”

The deadline for the spring funding cycle — Faculty Seminars, Humanities Symposium Grant, Reading and Writing Groups, Summer Research Seed Grants, Weiner Humanities Research Grants — is Friday, February 20. Applications for Small Grants for Publication are accepted on a rolling basis.