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Research and preparation of of a co-authored book on medieval illuminated manuscripts from France during the 14th century.

Anne D. Hedeman in collaboration with Elizabeth Morrison will co-author Gothic Manuscripts, 1320-1390, a volume in the series A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France. The volume’s co-authored introductory essay and analysis of 100-150 individual manuscripts, with each scholar contributing fifty to seventy-five analyses, will create an indispensable reference work for established scholars while offering beginning scholars an overview of the visual culture of a distant time and place and of the material, intellectual, and art historical significance of fourteenth-century books. Fourteenth-century illumination in France has not been as well-studied as that from other eras. This volume will reveal that it is the very circumstances of political and societal upheaval in the fourteenth century that drove the book market to be one of the most active and inventive, impelling new types of books, illumination programs, and stylistic experimentation.

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Fellowships

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$60,000 (approved)
$60,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2021 – 12/31/2021

Research and writing leading to a book on the reception of French author Christine de Pizan’s writing in late medieval English Literature.

This monograph recovers French author Christine de Pizan's substantial influence on late medieval English literature, an influence obscured by male writers' failure to cite her properly or at all, due to a combination of misogyny and political rivalries. Using a methodology that attends to gender, translators' practices, and political tensions between England and France, I reorient fifteenth-century English literary culture around Christine as the central figure whose inventive perspectives on authority, gender, war, and politics provided a rich opportunity for English writers to translate, adapt, and react to her ideas. New manuscript evidence reveals that writers such as Hoccleve and Lydgate knew Christine’s works better than their poems disclose, demonstrating that although they prefer to place themselves in the masculine English lineage of Chaucer, they owe many innovations in the form, content, and quality of their writings to the prominent French woman author instead.

Project fields:
British Literature; French Literature; Medieval Studies

Program:
Fellowships

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$60,000 (approved)
$60,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2021 – 7/31/2022

The retention of seventeen positions to create the museum’s online public programs, K-12 and college instruction, and exhibitions.

The Spencer Museum of Art requests support for general operating needs and staff positions critical to maintaining and expanding engagement with art and ideas beyond the walls of the Museum. An award from the NEH will sustain roles critical for generating new content about art and society and delivering that content to a broad range of publics, including K-12 and university students, educators at all levels, scholars and researchers, and lifelong learners. With support from the NEH, the Museum will bolster its digital presence and develop creative alternatives to in-person learning experiences, while preparing for new, safe ways of accessing art and ideas within the Museum’s spaces when community members are welcomed back into the galleries.

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism; Arts, General; Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$150,000 (approved)
$150,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/15/2020 – 12/31/2020

A group biography of five female members of the American transcendentalist movement: Mary Moody Emerson (1774-1863), Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-94), Sophia Hawthorne (1809-71), Lidian Jackson Emerson (1802-92), and Margaret Fuller (1810-50).

This will be the first full-length group biography of women transcendentalists. Recounting the lives and intellectual work of five compelling personalities--Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sophia Hawthorne, Lidian Jackson Emerson, and Margaret Fuller--"Bright Circle" will be written for a broad audience of American literature and history buffs as well as for those interested in women who played a vital role in shaping our national culture. By tracing the biography of each woman, the book shows their connections to one another and how each explored the possibilities of feminine intellectual life. Unpublished letters and journals are used to reveal how these five women contributed to the first important literary and philosophical movement in the nation and, in the process, inaugurated a distinctively American form of feminism.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Public Scholars

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$60,000 (approved)
$60,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2020 – 8/31/2021

The updating of a 1968 heating and air-conditioning system in Spencer Library to provide a more optimal preservation environment for the university’s collection of rare books and manuscripts, while achieving a significant reduction in overall energy costs for the building.

The University of Kansas Libraries requests funds to implement some of the recommendations provided by environmental consultants who conducted environmental testing on Spencer Library's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system over 18 months during a 2017-2019 planning grant. In this implementation grant, the second phase of a multi-phased project, the Libraries hope to replace obsolete, 1968-era pneumatically controlled reheats in the ceilings of collection areas of the building with modern electric reheats, variable air volume (VAV) dampers, and new direct digital controls (DDC). At the beginning and end of the project, testing and balancing will be conducted to ensure that the installed equipment is working properly. The new devices will be significantly more energy efficient, individually controllable and serviceable by technicians, and will provide a more optimal preservation environment for Spencer’s collections.

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Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, Other

Program:
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$350,000 (approved)
$350,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2020 – 3/31/2022

A three-week institute for 25 higher education faculty on the life and works of author Zora Neale Hurston.

This 3-week Institute for Higher Education Professionals focuses on author Zora Neale Hurston's diverse body of work, and its unwaning impact on American literature and culture. A novelist, folklorist, anthropologist, journalist, and precursor to the applied humanities, Hurston is the most prolific African American woman writer of the early 20th century. Her oeuvre, including an autobiography, novels, essays, and folklore collections published at the height of her career, is still expanding, as her previously unpublished work, namely short stories, plays, and ethnography, appear recurringly in print. "Hurston on the Horizon: Past, Present, and Future" is inspired by this as well as the enduring popularity of Hurston's seminal novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The Institute will enable 25 participants to develop new perspectives and deeper appreciation of Hurston's texts in order to place her in 21st century contexts and foster new directions for teaching and research.

Project fields:
American Literature; Literature, Other

Program:
Institutes for College and University Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$200,000 (approved)
$200,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2020 – 12/31/2021

Improvements to an art museum, including the purchase of compact shelving for a collection storage area housing two-dimensional framed works of art and three-dimensional objects; mechanical repairs to a freight elevator; and renovations to two long-term exhibition galleries.

To support the a two-stage facility enhancement project that will build capacity for sharing the Spencer Museum of Art's global collection of more than 45,000 objects. Space-maximizing changes to collection storage will improve access to objects as well as their safety, while sustaining continued, responsive development of the collection. Modifications to the freight elevator will ensure safe transportation of collection objects and staff between storage and galleries. Renovation and re-installation of two long-term exhibition galleries will refresh these spaces with relevant installations that are pertinent to current humanities scholarship and contemporary audiences.

Project fields:
Arts, General

Program:
Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants

Division:
Challenge Programs

Totals (matching):
$406,542 (approved)
$406,542 (offered)
$301,332 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2018 – 7/31/2023

Preparation of a book that explores Soviet defectors from the Cold War era to the 1970s and the changing nature of defection as a global phenomenon.

This book project challenges the notion of the Cold War world as a place of stable boundaries and illuminates the strategies of the Soviet state and its citizens in an era of creeping globalization. It examines defection as a global phenomenon produced by the criminalization of emigration by socialist states and the strategic encouragement of departure by capitalist states during the Cold War. Drawing on archival documents from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, the Baltic states, the U.K., and the U.S., the project will produce a book tracing the global journeys of defectors through the contested borderlands of the period, including refugee camps, restricted border zones, international waters, and airspaces. Exploring the history of defection from 1945 to the present, the book considers how the competition for Soviet migrants helped shape the governance of global borders and reinforce an international refugee regime whose legacy and limitations remain with us to this day.

Project fields:
Immigration History; Political History; Russian History

Program:
Fellowships

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$60,000 (approved)
$60,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2020 – 12/31/2020

A book-length historical study of local and regional responses to AIDS in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri in the 1980s and 1990s.

In the early AIDS crisis, the Heartland became a cultural and political battleground over sexuality, morality, and citizenship. The disease inspired the sick, their families, and LGBTQ people to fight AIDS and the homophobia it fueled; without this tragic impetus, many would have stayed closeted, remained apathetic, or left the region. Most LGBTQ historical scholarship depicts the Heartland as inspiring an LGBTQ exodus, a foil to coastal cities, or a backdrop to sexual secrecy. As the first in-depth historical study of AIDS in the Heartland, this work recasts the region as an important site in national AIDS history. An NEH Summer Stipend would fund research and the writing of chapter 2, which unearths local responses to early AIDS and serves as the bedrock for the argument that the respectability politics most resonant and effective in the politically and religiously conservative Heartland deeply shaped the initial AIDS response and the national LGBTQ political agenda for a generation.

Project fields:
Gender Studies; U.S. History; U.S. Regional Studies

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$6,000 (approved)
$6,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2017 – 8/31/2017

A two-year faculty and curriculum development project on global health and medicine in the digital age.

The proposal seeks to establish a first-of-its-kind undergraduate program providing students the knowledge and skills needed to innovate and excel in the multi-disciplinary fields of global health and medicine in an era of profound digital transformation and persistent inequality. We will develop a Global Medical Humanities Undergraduate Certificate Program. This will include courses that provide students the opportunity to apply their understandings of humanistic modes of inquiry and foreign languages to an array of global health concerns. Students will also be afforded experiential learning opportunities to contribute to KU's WHO-affiliated Community Tool Box website. The certificate is KU's first major initiative to bring together linguists, humanists, and social scientists with global expertise to address health-related themes in their classes. The centerpiece of this proposal is a curriculum development workshop to align the various partners in the larger vision for the program.

Project fields:
Anthropology

Program:
Humanities Connections

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$98,227 (approved)
$98,227 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2017 – 8/31/2021

A planning grant to study significant environmental factors—in particular, an outdated heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system—that pose a threat to the applicant’s rare book, manuscript, and archival collections.

The University of Kansas Libraries requests funds to develop a plan to closely monitor Spencer Library's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system that poses a threat to long-term preservation of its rare book, manuscript, and archival collections, plus additional funds to implement findings resulting from the testing process. University of Kansas Libraries hopes to enlist the consulting services of Image Permanence Institute to develop a sustainability plan for optimizing the current air handling unit and heating-air conditioning system in Spencer Library. IPI consultants will make three site visits to set up, collect, and analyze data from Spencer's air handling unit and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system. The Institute will provide ongoing investigations of mechanical system settings and operations over 18 months, develop suggestions and priorities for optimizing the existing system and improving the preservation quality of Spencer Library's spaces.

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Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, Other

Program:
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$50,000 (approved)
$50,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2017 – 3/31/2019

The development and teaching of a new undergraduate course on the ethical boundaries of community.

In the proposed course, Ani Kokobobo, assistant professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of Kansas, uses canonical works of nineteenth Russian literature and philosophical works to consider the boundaries of communities through the enduring question: "Am I my brother's keeper?" In Russian culture, as reflected in the works of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, community is understood in capacious and almost universalist terms. We focus on the significant moral responsibility these writers believe community members have toward one another and the challenges of upholding these moral responsibilities. Kokobobo pairs the Russian texts with six distinct ethical philosophies-ethical relativism, egoism, consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics, and feminist ethics. Having honed their ethical vocabularies, students spend the last month of this class applying these skills to thinking about the boundaries of our contemporary American communities, with a special focus on racial divisions.

Project fields:
Ethics; Russian History; Russian Literature

Program:
Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$19,999 (approved)
$19,999 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2016 – 12/31/2018

Preliminary steps toward developing a metadata schema that accounts for race in order to increase scholarly access to archival materials.

The negligible number of African American (AA) literary texts digitally available for scholars working in the field of digital humanities remains a persistent problem. The Black Book Interactive Project (BBIP) responds to this critical digital invisibility by proposing to create a metadata schema that accounts for race, to make these archives more discoverable for scholarship. Using 75 novels from the Project on the History of Black Writing digital archive, we will produce a demonstration project that increases access to little known AA texts, encourages and enables text mining as a digital practice, and bridges the current gaps in computational research in literary studies. Our goal is to expand the community of users and practitioners and to make this schema a standard for the interactive exploration of similar digitized collections.

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Project fields:
African Literature; American Literature

Program:
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants

Division:
Digital Humanities

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2016 – 2/28/2018

Two months of archival work toward a book-length manuscript on Soviet defectors during the Cold War (1945-1991).

This project examines the history of defection and uses it to investigate how the national and ideological borders of the socialist world were defined, disputed, and sometimes transgressed. It focuses on Soviet defectors and the development of the Soviet border regime in particular but also considers how defection developed in other settings. Tracing the winding journeys of defectors from the Soviet Union to the West through border zones, transit hubs, extraterritorial spaces, and disputed areas beyond the limits of state jurisdiction, such as international waters and airspaces, the project draws on Soviet and American archival documents to challenge the notion of the Cold War world as a place of stable boundaries and offer a granular perspective on how states operate in liminal spaces and how people navigate them.

Project fields:
Russian History

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$6,000 (approved)
$6,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2016 – 6/30/2016

Planning at the University of Kansas (KU) around five topics: 1) potential reforms to the doctoral curriculum; 2) the place of engaged or applied scholarship in PhD training; 3) methods for enlisting the assistance of alumni in training for alternative careers; 4) possible partnerships with nonacademic employers, and 5) the need to modify recruitment and admissions practices.

The University of Kansas humanities planning group will make recommendations that will transform humanities doctoral education. The committee's work will create departmental cultures in the humanities that recognize and value the range of careers open to humanities doctoral recipients. Secondly, it will create greater parity between the training that doctoral students receive and the range of career opportunities they seek. The end result will be a set of recommendations that will deepen the impact PhD graduates can have in their careers.

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Project fields:
History, Other; Interdisciplinary Studies, General; Interdisciplinary Studies, Other

Program:
Next Generation Humanities PhD (Planning)

Division:
Challenge Programs

Totals (outright + matching):
$25,000 (approved)
$25,000 (offered)
$25,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2016 – 7/31/2017

A three-week summer institute for thirty schoolteachers on the urban riots of 1967, placed in a broad historical context.

The Langston Hughes Center proposes a three-week institute in June 2017 for thirty secondary teachers to study race, urban communities, and civil disturbances in historical context. It will feature a broad humanities outlook to place events in 1967 in perspective, utilizing an interdisciplinary faculty with differing viewpoints and diverse racial and gender identities, making connections between prior incidents and today. The institute will encourage teachers to think about the events and issues affecting their students from multiple viewpoints, becoming familiar with primary and secondary texts as well as innovative humanities-based strategies for engaging critical subject matter about race and conflict. Under the guidance of institute scholars, participants will develop web-based portfolios that include lesson plans suitable for their home institutions.

Project fields:
African American History; History, General; U.S. History

Program:
Institutes for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$180,247 (approved)
$156,391 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2016 – 12/31/2017

Two one-week workshops for seventy-two schoolteachers on Native American and African-American educational experience in Kansas.

In summer 2017, the Spencer Museum of Art, located on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, will host two workshops on " Native American and African American Educational Experiences in Kansas, 1830 to 1960." Drawing on the resources and expertise of the Spencer Museum of Art and the University of Kansas; state and national historic sites; archives; and community members, artists, and scholars, each weeklong workshop will engage national K-12 teachers with the complex history of race relations in American education. Through a comparative study of Native American and African American educational history, workshop participants will gain insights into the distinct yet interwoven cultural narratives that comprise U.S. history.

Project fields:
African American History; Native American Studies; U.S. History

Program:
Landmarks of American History

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$173,830 (approved)
$166,817 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2016 – 12/31/2017

Funding details:
Original grant (2016) $159,049
Supplement (2017) $14,781
Supplement (2020) $-7,013

A book-length study on the rhetoric of, and geography surrounding, the murder, trial, and memory of Emmett Till.
 

In August 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and murdered for whistling at a white woman in the Mississippi Delta. The murder has been a staple of American public memory. In the sixty years since Till's murder, only eight years have passed without the case being covered by the New York Times. Scaling Emmett Till uses the constant commemorations of Emmett Till to explore the intersections among race, geography, and memory. It does so by foregrounding the geographic variables in Till’s murder. This book project focuses on the contested murder site, sixty years of inconsistent maps, and, above all, the various geographic regions through which Till’s murder has been given meaning: the state of Mississippi, the Mississippi Delta, and Tallahatchie County. It argues that as the scale of his murder has shifted from the state to the Delta to the county, the basic geographic facts of the case have been altered and the role of race has been called into question.

Project fields:
Composition and Rhetoric

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$50,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2016 – 6/30/2017

The collection of stories, using a public forum, and other public programming, on Midwestern experiences related to new African immigrants.

By harnessing the power of compelling stories, local communities will engage in important, and perhaps difficult, conversations about the challenges and opportunities surrounding recent demographic and cultural shifts in mid-America. A team of humanities experts will facilitate and collect stories to meet the need for meaningful public discussions about Midwestern experiences related to new African immigrants. Following a public forum and teleconference on migration stories in the Midwest, community programming will include humanities workshops in storytelling, poetry, theatre, and visual art that will produce knowledge in approachable forms to be shared with a wider national audience via digital media. Educational resources and additional activities with local partners about stories of immigration will increase understanding across civic and cultural divides and help overcome obstacles that prevent immigrants and host communities from coming together for the common good.

Project fields:
African Studies; American Studies; Ethnic Studies

Program:
Humanities in the Public Square

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$140,811 (approved)
$140,565 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2016 – 12/31/2017

Summer reading and writing on Slavic Literature.

Since November 2013, ongoing crisis has placed Ukraine on the front pages of global news media. The mass protests that came to be known as the Euromaidan, the collapse of the Yanukovych government, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and the mixture of a civil war with an escalating Russian intervention in Ukraine's east brought unprecedented global attention to Ukraine. In recent months the country has radically transformed, which has profoundly affected Ukrainians' understanding of their identity and their view of Ukraine's place in the global family of nations. This project examines the role of contemporary Ukrainian writers and other public intellectuals in these events--their documentation of and creative response to the experiences of turmoil, psychological trauma, displacement, and the emerging formation of a new Ukrainian identity, which reaches across preexisting divides caused by differences in language, ethnicity, gender, age, and other factors.

Project fields:
Slavic Literature

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$6,000 (approved)
$6,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2015 – 7/31/2015

Why did the modern discipline of semiotics--the study of how phenomena come to have meaning--appear in US philosophy at the end of the 19th century? Which cultural contexts made it possible? This project is the first to present evidence that theatre practices putting the actor's craft on a scientific basis contributed crucially to early investigations in semiotic method. Philosopher Charles Peirce noted these practices' intellectual similarities to his own system of modern scientific inquiry. His semiotics might not have developed, though, if he had not engaged in theatrical activities that demonstrated the operations of performance in human cognition. Semiotic method assumes a material reality out of which meaning emerges in mediated forms. This study's greatest humanistic significance lies in revealing the role of performance in 19th-century models of inquiry and demonstrating that current work in the humanities on cognition is grounded in semiotic conceptions of embodied experience.

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Project fields:
Literary Criticism; Theater History and Criticism

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$50,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2014 – 12/31/2014

This book combines critical analysis with linguistics and ethnohistory to analyze stories told by and about the "Chinese Turkmens," the Salars, as a way of understanding ideologies of culture. The Salars are a formerly nomadic indigenous Central Asia group with a historical memory of the Silk Road. Alternately taking the perspective of the Salar storyteller, the Chinese anthropologist, and the Western explorer, this book explores the competing 20th century ideological uses of these texts by storytellers and outsiders. The study is part literary criticism and part case study of regional, national, religious, and cultural ideologies as revealed through Salar literature and what people today say about it. The book analyzes the content, stylistics, and ideologies of these stories and presents 20 sample texts, audio of which will be made freely available over the web. Criticism and translations are combined into one volume to encourage interdisciplinary exploration of the materials.

Project fields:
East Asian Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$50,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2014 – 12/31/2014

A two-week college and university institute for twenty-five participants on African-American poetry from 1960 to the present.

"Don't Deny My Voice II: Black Poetry after the Black Arts Movement" (DDMV II), a 2-week Institute for college and university teachers, focuses on the explosion in contemporary black poetry and the multiple communities involved in its production and circulation. During a successful first Institute in 2013, we mapped the history and modal transformation of 20th-century African American poetry. In a second Institute, we will give more attention to explicating the concepts of "tradition and innovation, continuity and change" by looking at the form and function of contemporary black poetry, as more read, write and teach it. DDMV II is guided by an understanding that teachers have few resources for presenting modern African American poetry to their students. The Institute will enable 25 participants to develop a deep understanding of African American poetry after the Black Arts Movement, to explore the reasons for its global popularity and to engage in projects for teaching and research.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Institutes for College and University Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$156,554 (approved)
$156,394 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2014 – 2/29/2016

This project examines Friedrich Nietzsche's connection to the tradition of philosophical pessimism that stretches from Greek tragedy to modern figures such as Giacomo Leopardi and Arthur Schopenhauer, and on to the present day. Philosophical pessimism is the view that our lives are of much less value to us than we commonly assume. This study will argue that the account of pessimism and tragedy in ancient Athens that Nietzsche provides in his first book, "The Birth of Tragedy," is merely the first step in a lifelong engagement with pessimism. The book resulting from this study will explain how Nietzsche's doctrines of will to power and eternal recurrence reconfigure the problem of pessimism and examine the solutions Nietzsche provides to this problem. The result will be a radically new account of Nietzsche as a philosopher whose intellectual life was guided by the single problem of the value of life.

Project fields:
Philosophy, General

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$50,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2013 – 7/31/2014

Endowment for programs designed to encourage, develop, and advance collaborative research in the humanities at the University of Kansas's Hall Center for the Humanities and in the community.

The principal focus of this application is to develop capacity-building programs centered on fostering collaboration in humanities research. While collaboration has not traditionally been the mode of scholarly production in the humanities, faculty and students have become increasingly interested in pursuing collaborative projects. Humanities research produced through collaboration has the potential to answer broader, more complex questions in a more thoroughly interdisciplinary way. The proposed programs, Research Collaboratives and Scholars on Site, will provide institutional support for collaborative research among scholars and between scholars and community partners. Partnerships with community organizations will demonstrate how the humanities inform issues and challenges of wider public concern. The programs will serve as models for how scholars conduct collaborative humanities research and how institutions can support collaborative and public projects.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Challenge Grants

Division:
Challenge Programs

Totals (matching):
$425,000 (approved)
$425,000 (offered)
$425,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
12/1/2009 – 7/31/2016

This project focuses on a specific historic instance of destructive humor found in polemical pamphlets and theater in the first part of the French Wars of Religion. The ultimate goal is to produce a book-length study that will consider the evolution of partisan theater and pamphlets, the two most popular forms of propaganda during this time of conflict. Understanding how forms of popular entertainment were transformed into propaganda devices in sixteenth-century France will help to further our comprehension of the conflicts that helped define an extraordinarily bloody century. In addition to history and literary studies, this work will be of interest to the fields of humor and theater studies. It also will make an important contribution to peace and conflict studies, uncovering new links between humor and violence.

Project fields:
French Literature

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$6,000 (approved)
$6,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2012 – 7/31/2012

A three-week institute for twenty-five college and university faculty on African-American poetry and poetics.

"Don't Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching African American Poetries," a three-week institute for college and university teachers, responds to the resurgence of interest in contemporary poetry, its expanded production and wide circulation. We focus on the history, changes and modal transformations of African American poetry in our cultural and social landscape and consider three critical periods: 1900-1960, 1960-80 and 1980-present. Guided by experts in the field and supported by the archival resources of the Project on the History of Black Writing and the Furious Flower Poetry Center, participants will examine the practice of poetry- its creation, production and performance- and consider a new poetics for reading, teaching and interpreting. The institute will enable 25 participants to develop a deeper understanding of the range and diversity of African American poetries, to explore the reasons for their global popularity and to engage in projects for teaching and further research.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Institutes for College and University Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$189,203 (approved)
$186,503 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2012 – 12/31/2013

A general preservation assessment leading to a comprehensive plan to preserve 9,000 fragile ethnographic items in the Spooner Collection housed in the Spencer Museum of Art. The objects--collected since 1890 from around the globe with a focus on New World cultures--are made of feathers, natural fibers, leather, wood, base metals, and other organic materials and present serious preservation and access challenges for housing and exhibition.

In 2007, the University of Kansas (KU) granted stewardship of 10,000 items of global art/culture, collected continuously since 1890 as ethnographic objects, to the Spencer Museum of Art (SMA). Known as the Spooner Collection, these objects belonged to the KU Museum of Anthropology until it closed in 2002 for financial reasons. The anthropology museum was a small institution with limited resources, and therefore the collection was housed in less-than-ideal conditions, resulting in dust and insect damage to many objects. Since acquiring custody of the collection, the SMA has taken many steps to stabilize it within the constraints of the Museum's existing resources. Now the Spencer Museum of Art seeks $6,000 from the NEH to carry out a general preservation assessment of the Spooner Collection, with the aim of evaluating the SMA's efforts to stabilize the collection and ensuring it is properly integrated into the Museum's overall policies and disaster plan.

Project fields:
Museum Studies or Historical Preservation

Program:
Preservation Assistance Grants

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$6,000 (approved)
$6,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
2/1/2011 – 7/31/2012

Cataloging of up to 5,800 ethnographic objects including ceramics, baskets, and other Native American materials from North America at the Spencer Museum of Art.

In 2007, the University of Kansas granted stewardship of 9,000 objects of global art and culture, collected continuously since 1890 as ethnographic objects, to the Spencer Museum of Art (SMA). We seek $349,978 from NEH to hire temporary personnel and purchase equipment and supplies to (1) complete our efforts to accession these objects into SMA's 27,000-object permanent collection; (2) collect data and carry out limited research to provide contextual information; and (3) photograph the objects. The resulting information and visual documentation will be freely accessible via the Museum's searchable online database. The proposed project will consolidate, standardize and augment existing object records, and create publication-quality photographs, thus greatly enhancing the collection's research potential; it will also broaden the Museum's ability to interpret and display for the benefit of diverse audiences, exceptional, little-known objects representative of our worldwide heritage.

Project fields:
Archival Management and Conservation

Program:
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$175,000 (approved)
$175,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2011 – 5/31/2014

Cataloging and the production of finding aids for scientific illustrations and related materials from the collections of the British artist of birds, John Gould (1804-81). Approximately 6,300 of Gould's drawings, watercolors, lithographic stones, lithographic proofs, color trials, and published prints would be digitized and made accessible online.

The University of Kansas proposes to catalog two major collections central to the history of 19th century ornithology and scientific illustration, the Gould and Sauer collections. This project will also digitize and publish online about 6,300 images from the Gould collection, the largest worldwide, of manuscripts and publications by and about John Gould (1804-1881). The Gould material is complemented by the research archive of Gordon Sauer, leading Gould biographer and historian. Project outcomes will include EAD finding aids of the Gould materials and Sauer papers, and high-quality digital images of the Gould drawings, watercolors, lithographic stones and proofs, color trials and associated published prints from the bird books. All digital resources will be available through KU Libraries’ website for use by historians of science and scientific illustration and publishing, and other users, including the bird-loving public, conservation advocates, and educators and their students.

Project fields:
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Program:
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$70,939 (approved)
$50,885 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2011 – 4/30/2014

This project will supply a philosophical account of the normative basis of our collective obligation to diminish racial inequality. It will complement existing work on the limits of post-Rawlsian egalitarianism and expand the range of work in political philosophy informed by the study of race and racial inequality. This work is on the cutting edge of a growing trend in political philosophy that combines the broader humanistic study of the legacy of race and racism and normative philosophical inquiry about matters of race and racial inequality with empirical scholarship for philosophical reflections about justice, equality, and freedom. It will appeal to scholars working in the humanities and social sciences and to general audiences concerned about persistent racial inequality and the nature of our collective responsibility to diminish it.

Project fields:
Philosophy, General

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$6,000 (approved)
$6,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2011 – 7/31/2011

This timely oral history-based study examines memories of people who narrate competing national visions as they converged on the dance floor of the Hollywood Canteen, a celebrated nightclub where members of the guilds and unions of the motion picture industry entertained military personnel in Los Angeles during WWII. Based on archival research and interviews with approximately sixty Canteen-goers, this book builds on my previous work on swing, race, gender, and nation to explore historic and continuing struggles over social and political meanings of American democracy on one potent site of swing-culture-as-national-memory. In listening to the ways that war-time swing memory propels seductive narrations of nation as simultaneously populist and affluent; innocent and powerful; multicultural and white; this book also yields modes of hearing contradictions, negotiations, and critiques in the interplay of narratives from the less memorialized corners of the dance floor.

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Project fields:
American Studies

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$50,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2010 – 12/31/2010

This book project examines the literary reflection of recent changes in Polish politics and society. No attempt has been made to provide an in-depth study of the post-1989 Polish initiation novel as a specific genre, as a generational assessment of the previous communist era, or as an examination of the psychological costs of Poland's transition from communism to democracy. Almost two decades after the 1989 collapse of communism in Poland, this project provides that analysis. It interrogates a selection of post-1989 pseudo-autobiographical novels whose central theme is the recollection of childhood and adolescent experiences in the People's Republic of Poland. These novels atomize the grand discourse of "official" history by presenting individual, intimate accounts of ordinary people's private affairs under the communist regime. Thus, they can help answer important questions such as Why did Communism fail? and Why is the transition to democracy taking so long?

Project fields:
Slavic Literature

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$6,000 (approved)
$6,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2010 – 9/30/2010

This final component of a three-part book is a narrative history of rulers, their wives, and concubines in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the last two dynasties of Chinese imperial history. It deals with key developments in the treatment of empresses, consorts, and their families; the focus is on women as agents of power in spite of the basic principle in China that women shall not be rulers. Ming emperors chose spouses from low-ranking families, picking women based on personal qualities, not the rank and political status of their families, thus weakening the power of the families of empresses and consorts. The Qing further eroded the power of consort families by instituting palace regulations that made it impossible for imperial wives to maintain close relations with their natal families. After completing the sections on the Ming and Qing, I will revise and tie the entire book together based on the historical panorama of more than 2,000 years of imperial marriage in China.

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Project fields:
East Asian History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$50,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2009 – 7/31/2010

: A two-week high school teacher institute for thirty participants to explore Richard Wright's Native Son, Black Boy, and Uncle Tom's Children within their historical contexts.

The institute will read Wright's texts conspicuously absent from many curricula despite the direct connection to contemporary concerns about literacy, tolerance, and diversity central to national dialogue. Native Son, Black Boy, and Uncle Tom's Children, two short stories and select poems will link close reading, guided research, and seminars and workshops by scholars, practitioners, and specialists approached from a range of perspectives. New technologies, including a website and virtual seminars, will expand learning opportunities post-institute and offer access to a larger community of educators. Teachers will contribute to the construction of a digital sourcebook, to maximize the use of technology for sharing their course materials. The import lies in the role of education in a civil society, reaffirming a key goal of humanities education: to elicit a keen sense of identity from an examination of past deeds, events, documents, and forms of self-expression from our cultural past.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Institutes for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$200,000 (approved)
$200,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2009 – 5/31/2011

A five-week school teacher summer seminar for sixteen participants on the United States and World War I, focused on the conflict's history and cultural impact.

This NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers will draw on literature, history, and the visual arts to examine America's relationship to the Great War--a major turning point in both American and world history. Co-directed by a literary scholar and an historian, it will involve coordinated readings, trips to the National World War I Museum and Fort Leavenworth, an on-campus art exhibit and play, and work with original documents to provide school teachers with a rich experience of intellectual renewal and development.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$139,654 (approved)
$139,654 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2009 – 9/30/2010

The fellowship will enable me to ensure the completion of the excavation report for the Wenxian Covenant Texts, and to finish an English monograph on the texts. The covenants, excavated in 1980-81 in Henan, China, were brush-written on stone tablets and date to the early 5th century BC. In the individualized texts, thousands of participants swear allegiance to the leader of the Han lineage, which was soon to become an independent polity--they are primary evidence of state formation. I have collaborated with the two excavators of the texts in the past and my Ph.D. analyzed parts of the materials. Preparation of the excavation report has been conducted separately by each excavator. My previous collaboration and training make me uniquely qualified to bring the two halves together into a coherent whole for publication. I will also complete a monograph, expanding on my dissertation to provide fully annotated translations of the texts, along with interpretation of their content and language.

Project fields:
Archaeology

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$50,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2008 – 7/31/2009

My goal, during the period of the NEH fellowship, is to complete a book titled "Apocryphal Lorca," a study of the ways in which US poets have assimilated and distorted the poetry of the twentieth-century Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. I will examine translations, parodies, and apocryphal translations (translations lacking originals) in order to illuminate the cross-cultural creation of an "American Lorca" in several major postwar poets in the US. This creation is both reductive, in that it does not reflect the complexity of Lorca's work, and at the same time creative, in that it gives rise to new forms of poetry in the English language.

Project fields:
Spanish Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2007 – 6/30/2008

My book project examines images of saints and kings, how early modern Spaniards viewed and used such images, and what such practices reveal about individual interaction with religious and political authority in the Spanish empire. It focuses on “conversations” with sacred and royal images in contemporary documents, which dramatize late medieval and early modern Catholics’ common practice of using images to communicate with divinity. Images bridged the separation between supplicants and God; ruler and ruled. I argue that diverse uses of images for political and religious communication allow us to see individual political and religious actions that are otherwise invisible because of our unfamiliarity with early modern Spanish visual culture.

Project fields:
European History

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2007 – 8/31/2007

I propose to translate the “Catalogue of the Imperial Painting Collection in the Proclaiming Harmony Era,” a twelfth-century Chinese text that presents a vivid snapshot of a legendary lost art collection, profiles the lives of 231 painters and reveals the aesthetic and social values of its patron, the artist-emperor Song Huizong (r. 1101-25). A translation of these third- through twelfth-century painters’ biographies offers factual information about the lives and practices of medieval artists and contributes to the study of biography as a genre and its relation to the social construction of knowledge, as well as to the history of Chinese painting and aesthetics, and the workings of art, politics and religion at the imperial court of China.

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Project fields:
Arts, General

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2006 – 12/31/2006

The focus of "Holy Bodies" is the works of art made between the 15th and 17th centuries to honor the relics of four Florentine holy persons. These works reveal differences of class, patronage, and popular devotional practices within Florentine society. They also served to link the saints to the needs, aims, and history of the larger ecclesiastical and political communities that possessed their relics and, at the same time, underscored their effectiveness as intercessors for both elite and non-elite audiences. "Holy Bodies" will provide new insights into the ritual and devotional significance of saints' cults and images and will take its place in a growing body of literature on popular visual culture in the early modern period.

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Project fields:
Arts, General

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2006 – 8/31/2006

Implementation of a film viewing and discussion program about the history and interpretation of jazz.

Project fields:
Arts, General

Program:
Libraries Implementation

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$1,000 (approved)
$1,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2006 – 12/31/2007

Using transcripts of sex crime trials from 1900 to 1920 drawn from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Trial Transcript Project, I examine the rhetorical construction of feminine and masculine sexuality in testimony about forced prostitution, seduction, statutory rape, and first-degree rape. My analysis of courtroom narratives of sexual coercion and coercion examines how legal actors made attributions of blame and causality, and the degree of power these plaintiffs and defendants were said to have over their bodies, passions, and sexual practices. This research will show how the legal sphere shapes relations between men and women, and acts as a central mechanism whereby gender inequality is both alleviated and perpetuated.

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Project fields:
Sociology

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2005 – 7/31/2006

I am requesting an NEH fellowship to support a twelve-month leave to prepare my book manuscript for publication. "Molière and the French Revolution" explores a key moment in the history of the reception of France's premier seventeenth-century comic playwright. It investigates the processes of revalorization by which Molière gained his eminent status in French cultural history, providing greater understanding of how a nation's cultural inheritance survives changing political and social landscapes.

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Project fields:
Theater History and Criticism

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2005 – 7/31/2006

This book project examines a cluster of Cherokee cultural actions that, together, can be defined as a ritual or ceremonial complex. These activities orbit around anetso, a "game" played by two teams in which the object is for players armed with two rackets each to score points by transporting a ball around a goal post. Rather than expressing one "meaning" through its performance, anetso sustains a variety of cultural meanings, which helps to explain how it has remained a vital cultural activity and symbol through hundreds of years of change. Is this Cherokee ball game, therefore, a ritual, a game, or both? Why do standard scholarly categories fail to aprehend and describe it accurately? These are among the questions this study seeks to answer.

Project fields:
Native American Studies

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2005 – 8/31/2005

This five-chapter book project addresses symbolic geographies and identity in contemporary Russian writing culture. It examines the process of cultural regeneration in post-Soviet Russia and emerging articulations of identity that move beyond the traumas of the post-Soviet movement. I have found a pattern of movement away from the old center of Soviet ideology in Moscow to "peripheral" symbolic-geographical spaces that free the writer to prove alternate writing forms and articulations of identity. In Summer 2005 I will focus on the novel, "Chapaev and Emptiness" ("Chapaev i pustota," 1996), by Viktor Pelevin, his quarrel with globalization, and his interest in Buddhism and East Asia as an alternate geographical locus of the mind.

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Project fields:
Slavic Literature

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2005 – 7/31/2005

This project analyzes annotated field data to prepare a grammar of Monguor, an unwritten endangered Mongolic language complex of northern Tibet. The end product will be a series of analytical modules published initially as a grammar for a linguistic audience. A representative sample of multi-tier time-linked grammatical annotations of 100 hours of high-quality audio and video recordings will be mined for basic morphological and syntactic information and queried for patterns in variation.

Project fields:
Linguistics

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2005 – 5/31/2006

Studies on modern Japanese literature have for the most part been language centered, emphasizing linguistic relationships and literary influences to the near exclusion of any consideration of the verbal culture in which the writings were grounded. This project examines the impact of new vision technology on verbal imagination by focusing on the thematization of vision in Japanese prose literature of roughly the first quarter of the 20th century, a period coincident with the emergence of a new mechanized visual regime in which magic lanterns, panoramas, cameras, stereoscopes, motion pictures, and mass-produced illustrated magazines led to new experiences of time and space and transformed relationships between viewing subject and object. In an era when technologies of image production are determining relationships between individuals and nations, the need for studies that examine the effects of visual culture upon literary culture is timely and compelling.

Project fields:
Asian Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2004 – 6/30/2005

My proposed research examines the previously unknown film music of the Argentine composer, Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), who is considered one of the leading musical spokesmen of the Americas. In my study, I aim to show how Ginastera's cinematic works contributed to the human experience by aesthetically inscribing the Argentine search for identity. My work will demonstrate how Ginastera's motion picture music constructed a pastoral trope of the Argentine landscape and how the composer's distinguished North American colleague, Aaron Copland, significantly shaped his work through parallel representations of the American West. To support this project, I request NEH funding to help cover the cost of travel to the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland, where Ginastera's film music manuscripts are stored. I will publish my research in an article-length study and a chapter in my forthcoming book on Alberto Ginastera and the musical construction of Argentine pastoral space.

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Project fields:
Music History and Criticism

Program:
Faculty Research Awards

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$24,000 (approved)
$24,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2004 – 12/31/2004

This project examines the emperor Augustus' use of Tarpeia's myth in the decorative program of the Basilica Aemelia, a monument in the Roman Forum he restored circa 14 BC. I argue that Augustus used this legend to establish a new relationship between the individual and the state in which personal desires and liberties were subordinated to public needs and authority, and to encourage gender roles and behaviors sanctioned by the new state. This project is part of a larger study of the history and development of Tarpeia’s myth over several centuries. Changes in Tarpeia’s representation in art, literature, and ritual offer a useful window into Rome's evolving ideology.

Project fields:
Classics

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2004 – 8/31/2004

In-service workshops followed by a summer seminar for teachers in Kansas, Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky to encourage intensive study of Toni Morrison's novels.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Faculty Humanities Workshops

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$75,000 (approved)
$75,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2004 – 8/31/2006

No project description available

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Project fields:
African Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2003 – 7/31/2004

No project description available

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Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2003 – 7/31/2005

The fifteenth century city of Valencia boasted a slave and free population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity. Valencia's free Muslim (Mudejar), Christian, and Jewish inhabitants encountered male and female slaves of varied origins: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing number of black Africans. While the mechanics of the institution of slavery in Valencia have been delineated in the works of Vicenta Cortés and Vicente Graullera Sanz, the dynamics of the master-slave relationship have yet to be explored. Utilizing previously unexploited archival sources, this project examines what it meant to be a slave and what it meant to be a master in this pluralistic society.

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Project fields:
European History

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2003 – 7/31/2003

Implementation of poetry and book discussion programs and a website examining the writings and legacy of Langston Hughes at 20 sites in nine states and the District of Columbia.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Special Projects

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$224,959 (approved)
$224,959 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2003 – 12/31/2005

A six-week seminar for college teachers to examine literary criticism of selected poems by 20th-century Spanish and Latin American authors.

Project fields:
Latin American Literature; Spanish Literature

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$119,365 (approved)
$118,331 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2002 – 9/30/2003

A series of workshops for school teachers in the Washington, DC, area on Toni Morrison’s novels and literary criticism.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Education Development and Demonstration

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$25,000 (approved)
$25,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2002 – 8/31/2003

No project description available

Project fields:
Music History and Criticism

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2002 – 9/30/2002

No project description available

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Project fields:
Film History and Criticism; Latin American Studies

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2002 – 9/30/2002

No project description available

Project fields:
Political Science, General

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$4,500 (approved)
$4,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2001 – 9/30/2001

Planning for a series of programs focusing on the poetry of Langston Hughes to take place in 2002 in commemoration of the centennial of his birth.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Special Projects

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$40,500 (approved)
$40,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2001 – 2/28/2002

No project description available

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Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$35,000 (approved)
$35,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2001 – 7/31/2002

No project description available

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Project fields:
Gender Studies

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$35,000 (approved)
$35,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2001 – 5/31/2002

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$35,000 (approved)
$35,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2001 – 7/31/2002

No project description available

Project fields:
Latin American Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$35,000 (approved)
$24,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2001 – 8/31/2001

No project description available

Project fields:
Anthropology

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$35,000 (approved)
$35,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/2001 – 4/30/2002

Endowment for public and educational outreach in humanities programming at the Hall Center at the University of Kansas.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Challenge Grants

Division:
Challenge Programs

Totals (matching):
$500,000 (approved)
$500,000 (offered)
$500,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
12/1/1998 – 12/31/2004

No project description available

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Project fields:
Slavic Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$24,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2001 – 6/30/2001

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$68,703 (approved)
$68,703 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2000 – 9/30/2001

No project description available

Project fields:
British History

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$4,000 (approved)
$4,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1999 – 9/30/1999

No project description available

Project fields:
British History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1999 – 5/31/2000

No project description available

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2000 – 12/31/2000

No project description available

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1998 – 5/31/1999

No project description available

Project fields:
European History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1997 – 5/31/1998

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
2/1/1997 – 1/31/1998

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$63,552 (approved)
$63,068 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1996 – 9/30/1997

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$64,855 (approved)
$64,403 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1996 – 9/30/1998

To support an international team of historians of art and literature who are producing a two-volume study of the work of the American Modernist artist and poet, Albert Bloch, 1882-1961.

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Project fields:
Art History and Criticism; German Language

Program:
Basic Research

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$70,998 (approved)
$69,141 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1995 – 11/30/1996

No project description available

Project fields:
European History

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$4,750 (approved)
$4,750 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1995 – 9/30/1995

No project description available

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$4,000 (approved)
$4,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1995 – 9/30/1995

No project description available

Project fields:
African American Studies

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$100,708 (approved)
$97,905 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1995 – 9/30/1996

No project description available

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Dissertation Grants

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$14,000 (approved)
$14,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1995 – 6/30/1996

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Younger Scholars, 2/86 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$2,500 (approved)
$2,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1995 – 8/31/1995

No project description available

Project fields:
Latin American Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1995 – 5/31/1996

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1995 – 12/31/1995

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1994 – 5/31/1995

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
European History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1994 – 5/31/1995

To support a one-year project to teach courses in history, politics, and culture in Spanish as part of a new foreign language curriculum focusing on content-based courses.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$45,346 (approved)
$41,481 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1994 – 6/30/1995

No project description available

Project fields:
Asian Languages

Program:
Dissertation Grants

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$14,000 (approved)
$14,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1994 – 5/31/1995

No project description available

Project fields:
Native American Studies

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$4,750 (approved)
$4,750 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1994 – 9/30/1994

To support the research for a book-length history of American communes, 1965 to1975.

Project fields:
American Studies; Sociology

Program:
Basic Research

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$105,000 (approved)
$104,656 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1995 – 10/31/1997

No project description available

Project fields:
American Studies; U.S. History

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$82,140 (approved)
$79,594 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1993 – 9/30/1994

No project description available

Project fields:
History of Religion

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$4,750 (approved)
$4,750 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1993 – 9/30/1993

No project description available

Project fields:
Latin American History

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$4,000 (approved)
$4,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1993 – 9/30/1993

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$79,608 (approved)
$77,031 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1992 – 9/30/1993

No project description available

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Younger Scholars, 2/86 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$2,400 (approved)
$2,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1993 – 8/31/1993

To support a traveling exhibition and educational programs that will examine the variety of artistic responses to Herman Melville's MOBY-DICK in 20th-century American art.

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$203,437 (approved)
$188,664 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1993 – 6/30/1996

To support research in the Modern History Archives of Warsaw on the policies of the Polish Workers' Party from 1942 to 1945 and its relations with Moscow.

Project fields:
European History

Program:
International Research

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$3,324 (approved)
$2,710 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1993 – 7/31/1993

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$56,135 (approved)
$54,548 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1993 – 9/30/1994

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$57,817 (approved)
$57,552 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1993 – 9/30/1994

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
Slavic Languages

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$24,380 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1993 – 12/31/1993

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
Spanish Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1992 – 6/30/1993

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$55,426 (approved)
$52,916 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1992 – 9/30/1993

To support the creation of a list, with complete bibliographic information and extensive indexes of all maps in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, from 1789 to 1969.

Project fields:
Geography

Program:
Reference Materials - Guides

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals (outright + matching):
$185,000 (approved)
$157,164 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1992 – 6/30/1994

To support a traveling exhibition and educational programs on the graphic art of the Belgian avant-garde, 1880-1900.

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$150,000 (approved)
$148,213 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1992 – 6/30/1994

To support a scholarly encyclopedic guide to modern architecture in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, with attention to the political context of post-World War I modernist architecture in these countries.

Project fields:
Architecture

Program:
Basic Research

Division:
Research Programs

Totals (outright + matching):
$132,050 (approved)
$107,927 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1992 – 4/30/1996

To support the preparation of a translation and interpretation of the writings of Nana Asma'u, 1793-1865, who was an accomplished educator and poet and the daughter of an important jihad leader in North Africa.

Project fields:
African Studies

Program:
Basic Research

Division:
Research Programs

Totals (outright + matching):
$111,504 (approved)
$111,485 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1993 – 10/31/1996

No project description available

Project fields:
African American Studies

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$73,323 (approved)
$69,388 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1992 – 9/30/1993

No project description available

Project fields:
Latin American History

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$4,000 (approved)
$4,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1992 – 9/30/1992

No project description available

Project fields:
Medieval Studies

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$750 (approved)
$750 (awarded)

Grant period:
12/1/1991 – 11/30/1992

No project description available

Project fields:
Slavic Literature

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$750 (approved)
$0 (awarded)

Grant period:
12/1/1991 – 11/30/1992

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$750 (approved)
$750 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1991 – 5/31/1992

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$3,750 (approved)
$3,750 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1991 – 9/30/1991

No project description available

Project fields:
African American Studies

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$67,296 (approved)
$66,584 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1990 – 9/30/1991

No project description available

Project fields:
American Studies

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$89,175 (approved)
$87,548 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1991 – 9/30/1992

Funding details:
Original grant (1991) $1,000
Supplement (1992) $86,962
Supplement (1993) $-414

To support an international conference on Latin American theater.

Project fields:
Latin American Literature; Theater History and Criticism

Program:
Conferences

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$34,051 (approved)
$27,645 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1991 – 10/31/1992

To support the installation of an environmental system in historic Spooner Hall which houses the Museum of Anthropology and its anthropological and ethno-logical collections of approximately 400,000 native American artifacts.

Project fields:
Anthropology

Program:
National Heritage Preservation Projects

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$343,290 (approved)
$320,463 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1991 – 3/31/1994

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$58,921 (approved)
$58,413 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1991 – 9/30/1992

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$56,418 (approved)
$55,827 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1991 – 9/30/1992

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$26,333 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1991 – 5/31/1992

To support a six-week institute for 25 participants on the cultural background and development of art in China from the 19th century to the present.

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Institutes for College and University Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$167,000 (approved)
$159,037 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1990 – 9/30/1991

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$54,032 (approved)
$54,027 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1990 – 9/30/1991

To support the planning of an exhibition, a catalogue, and interpretive programs on the graphic art of the Belgian avant-garde from 1880 to 1900.

[Grant products]

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$22,500 (approved)
$22,360 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1990 – 12/31/1990

To support a traveling exhibition, catalogue, and programs that examine Buddhist paintings and related pictorial arts produced in China between 850 and 1850.

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$200,000 (approved)
$200,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1990 – 9/30/1995

To support work on the preparation of a checklist and index to all maps that appeared in the U.S. CONGRESSIONAL SERIAL SET between 1789 and 1969.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Reference Materials - Access

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$246,739 (approved)
$246,739 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1990 – 7/31/1992

Funding details:
Original grant (1990) $156,739
Supplement (1992) $90,000

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$77,903 (approved)
$70,399 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1989 – 9/30/1990

No project description available

Project fields:
Music History and Criticism

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$750 (approved)
$750 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1990 – 11/30/1991

No project description available

Project fields:
Spanish Literature

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$66,979 (approved)
$62,114 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1988 – 9/30/1989

No project description available

Project fields:
Russian History

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$750 (approved)
$750 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1989 – 11/30/1989

No project description available

Project fields:
International Studies

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$750 (approved)
$750 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1989 – 11/30/1989

To support the translation of Kant's LOGIK and three sets of lecture notes.

Project fields:
German Language; Philosophy, General

Program:
Translations

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$57,993 (approved)
$57,661 (awarded)

Grant period:
4/1/1989 – 5/31/1990

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$15,475 (approved)
$15,475 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1990 – 7/31/1990

To support a traveling exhibition, catalogue, and educational programs on the cultural, historical, and intellectual dimensions of ZENGA, the painting and calligraphy of Japanese monks from 1600 to 1925.

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$100,000 (approved)
$100,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1988 – 6/30/1990

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$47,740 (approved)
$47,599 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1988 – 9/30/1989

No project description available

Project fields:
Comparative Literature

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$750 (approved)
$750 (awarded)

Grant period:
12/1/1987 – 5/31/1988

No project description available

Project fields:
Theater History and Criticism

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$750 (approved)
$750 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1988 – 11/30/1988

No project description available

Project fields:
Ethics

Program:
Younger Scholars, 2/86 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$2,200 (approved)
$2,200 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1988 – 8/31/1988

No project description available

Project fields:
History of Religion

Program:
Younger Scholars, 2/86 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$2,200 (approved)
$2,200 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1988 – 8/31/1988

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Younger Scholars, 2/86 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$2,200 (approved)
$2,200 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1988 – 8/31/1988

To support planning for a traveling exhibition and catalogue examining pastoralnomadism as an adaptive strategy, considering it as both activity and ideology,by focusing on the Baggara of the western Sudan.

Project fields:
Anthropology

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$31,188 (approved)
$31,153 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1987 – 11/30/1988

To support the preservation of the 12,000 historical maps contained in the UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL SERIAL SET.

Project fields:
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Program:
Preservation and Access Projects Pre-1996

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$80,020 (approved)
$80,016 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1987 – 7/31/1990

No project description available

Project fields:
European History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$27,500 (approved)
$18,589 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1987 – 6/30/1988

No project description available

Project fields:
Area Studies

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$750 (approved)
$750 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1987 – 8/31/1987

No project description available

Project fields:
History, General

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$3,500 (approved)
$3,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1987 – 9/30/1987

No project description available

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$3,000 (approved)
$3,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1986 – 9/30/1986

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$27,500 (approved)
$27,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1986 – 8/31/1987

To support a research project analyzing the kinds of experience American children had during World War II and the consequences of these experiences whenthe children grew into middle age.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Basic Research

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$95,686 (approved)
$93,676 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1986 – 12/31/1989

Funding details:
Original grant (1986) $83,206
Supplement (1988) $12,480
Supplement (1989) $-2,010

To support an exhibition with accompanying publications investigating the importance, of supernatural forms in Japanese culture and art.

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$87,208 (approved)
$87,208 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1985 – 6/30/1986

No project description available

Project fields:
African Studies

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$3,000 (approved)
$3,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1985 – 9/30/1985

To support research on the influence of Roman and civil jurisprudence on the development of 19th-century American jurisprudence.

Project fields:
Law and Jurisprudence

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/83 - 5/85

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$500 (approved)
$500 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1985 – 12/31/1985

To support the improvement of the university's Western civilization program by involving senior faculty members, revising the program's readings, purchasing additional audiovisual resources, and training teaching assistants.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General; Western Civilization

Program:
Improving Introductory Courses

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$120,000 (approved)
$119,501 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1986 – 12/31/1987

To support research on the court and culture under Catherine the Great.

Project fields:
Russian History

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/83 - 5/85

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$500 (approved)
$500 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1984 – 7/31/1984

To support research on theories of historical process in 12th-century German writers.

Project fields:
German Literature; Medieval Studies

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/83 - 5/85

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$500 (approved)
$500 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1985 – 6/30/1985

To support an edition and translation of a treatise on the theory of probability, "The Art of Conjecture," by the Swiss mathematician James Bernoulli (1654-1705). Also included in the volume will be "Selected Correspondence with Leibniz."

Project fields:
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Philosophy, General

Program:
Translations

Division:
Research Programs

Totals (outright + matching):
$21,931 (approved)
$21,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1984 – 6/30/1985

To support organization, cataloging and production of study positives for a collection of photographic glass plate negatives documenting Kansas local history from 1888 to 1923.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Reference Materials - Access

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$36,800 (approved)
$36,800 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1983 – 10/31/1984

To support a conference of scholars examining nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indian interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita, a Sanskrit text dating from ca. 150 B.C.

Project fields:
Asian Languages; History of Religion

Program:
Conferences

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$10,000 (approved)
$10,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1983 – 5/31/1984

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$2,700 (approved)
$2,700 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1983 – 9/30/1983

To support a project designed for the residents of four states, including thosewhose ancestors emigrated from Eastern Europe, to provide an opportunity to study and understand the Slavic cultural heritage. The project will include lectures, reading lists, book exhibits, and displays of archival materials.

Project fields:
History, General; Slavic Literature

Program:
Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$55,562 (approved)
$55,562 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1983 – 12/31/1984

No project description available

Project fields:
Latin American Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$18,500 (approved)
$18,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1984 – 12/31/1984

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$25,000 (approved)
$25,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1983 – 5/31/1984

To support establishment of endowments for library acquisitions and for a Center for Humanistic Studies.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Challenge Grants for Universities

Division:
Challenge Programs

Totals (matching):
$1,000,000 (approved)
$1,000,000 (offered)
$1,000,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1980 – 7/31/1986

No project description available

Project fields:
Theater History and Criticism

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$2,500 (approved)
$2,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1982 – 9/30/1982

No project description available

Project fields:
Gender Studies

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$2,500 (approved)
$2,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1982 – 9/30/1982

To support a project to involve black youth in the humanities through the development of primary source materials for the study of elderly blacks. The project will draw participants from Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka and Lawrence for four humanities seminars.

Project fields:
African American Studies; History, General

Program:
Humanities Projects for Youth

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$4,800 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1982 – 11/30/1983

To support implementation of an exhibit based on the museum's permanent collections of archaeological and ethnographic items. Exhibit themes will focus on similarities and differences in the human experience across cultures, and will be organized around rituals of the life-cycle.

Project fields:
Anthropology

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$150,000 (approved)
$149,990 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1982 – 6/30/1984

To support implementation of an exhibition relating the history of art, architecture and landscape architecture to the history of medicine and science,literature and religion. The function of the garden in Medieval life and thought provides the conceptual framework for the exhibition and catalogue.

Project fields:
Architecture; Interdisciplinary Studies, General; Medieval Studies

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$100,000 (approved)
$81,377 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1982 – 9/30/1984

To support a conference on Latin American theatre today which will examine the role of drama in Latin America and recent experiments in playwriting, production and acting.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Conferences

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$9,850 (approved)
$9,849 (awarded)

Grant period:
2/1/1982 – 1/31/1983

To support preparation of an annotated bibliography covering published literature pertaining to the visual arts of the native peoples of Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia.

Project fields:
Anthropology; Arts, General; Folklore and Folklife

Program:
Reference Materials - Access

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$23,125 (approved)
$23,124 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1982 – 5/31/1983

To support organization of 850 small collections of British manuscripts of the 16th-19th centuries.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Reference Materials - Access

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$139,808 (approved)
$139,784 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1982 – 12/31/1984

To support preparation of a subject catalog of the University's collection of books related to the history of economics, especially non-U.S. imprints published after 1850.

[Grant products]

Project fields:
Economics

Program:
Reference Materials - Access

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$21,074 (approved)
$435 (awarded)

Grant period:
3/1/1982 – 12/31/1982

To support development of a general chronology for the major arts -- seal engraving, fresco and vase painting, ivory carving, and monumental sculpture -- of the Greek Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1200 B.C.).

Project fields:
Ancient History; Art History and Criticism; Classical History

Program:
Basic Research

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$12,000 (approved)
$12,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1982 – 8/31/1983

To support translation and introduction of Emilio Betti's "General Theory of Interpretation," important to the study of modern history, literature, philosophy and jurisprudence.

Project fields:
Epistemology

Program:
Translations

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$22,400 (approved)
$22,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1982 – 7/31/1985

To support a two-part workshop addressing the short- and long-term ramifications of the academic employment slump for humanities PhDs.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Planning and Assessment Studies

Division:
Agency-wide Projects

Totals:
$27,588 (approved)
$27,405 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1981 – 6/30/1984

To support development and evaluation of a project to bring humanities study programs to nursing home residents through closed circuit radio as well as through trained volunteer discussion sessions.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General; Literature, General

Program:
Special Projects

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$88,342 (approved)
$88,134 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1981 – 1/31/1983

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$22,000 (approved)
$21,837 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1981 – 12/31/1981

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$22,000 (approved)
$21,915 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/16/1981 – 8/15/1982

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
Spanish Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$22,000 (approved)
$22,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1981 – 7/31/1982

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
Philosophy, General

Program:
Fellowships and Stipends for Professionals

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$49,909 (approved)
$49,873 (awarded)

Grant period:
12/1/1980 – 11/30/1981

No project description available

Project fields:
Philosophy, General

Program:
Fellowships and Stipends for Professionals

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$45,693 (approved)
$45,693 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1980 – 9/30/1980

No project description available

[Grant products]

Project fields:
Anthropology

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$2,500 (approved)
$2,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1980 – 9/30/1980

No project description available

Project fields:
Latin American History

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$2,500 (approved)
$2,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1980 – 9/30/1980

To support planning for an intercultural exhibition utilizing the permanent collections of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, including 100,000 archaeological specimens and approximately 10,000 ethnographic items from Native American groups, Africa, Australia, and New Guinea.

Project fields:
Anthropology

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$34,100 (approved)
$34,065 (awarded)

Grant period:
8/1/1980 – 7/31/1981

To support the exhibition "Tokaido: Adventures on the Road in Old Japan," interpreting travel along the old Tokaido Road from Kyoto to Edo (Tokyo) as depicted in the woodblock prints of 19th century Japanese artist, Hiroshige.

Project fields:
History, General

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$64,253 (approved)
$62,017 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1980 – 3/31/1981

To support a conference to examine the feasibility of compiling an index to "The Ch'ing Code," the criminal code of the Ch'ing Dynasty in China.

Project fields:
Law and Jurisprudence

Program:
Reference Materials - Tools

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$10,000 (approved)
$10,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1980 – 12/31/1980

To establish ten fellowships for experienced Humanities faculty from Kansas Community Colleges to participate in a seminar, colloquium and individual project. These faculty are replaced by advanced graduate students who benefit by the teaching experience.

Project fields:
Education; Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Institutes for College and University Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$233,021 (approved)
$161,496 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1979 – 5/31/1980

To emphasize the use of museum collections in undergraduate humanities courses and to make use of the scholarly museum community and regional resources.

To integrate the Museum of Art, the Science Museums and Research Library into a scholarly museum community with undergraduate courses in the humanities. The approach will emphasize the use of museum collections in undergraduate humanities courses.

Project fields:
Arts, General; Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Humanities Institutes Program

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$125,000 (approved)
$125,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1979 – 2/28/1982

No project description available

Project fields:
History, General

Program:
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$18,400 (approved)
$18,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/10/1979 – 7/10/1980

To complete a book on 19th century American realism and ideal gender roles which will place realism in its full social and historical context and thus establish a new link between literature and its social matrix. Study involves three major hypotheses: (1) that the separation of the sexes in 19th century America into complementary spheres led them to develop mutually hostile ethos; (2) that the essential social function of the domestic novel was to articulate mass gender-bound daydreams; (3) that the realistic novel emerged antagonistically from domestic fiction: realism was the close study of domestic failure.