Research Grant Recipients, 2005

 

Beveridge Grant Recipients

Andrea Estepa
Project Title: “Taking the White Gloves Off: Women Strike for Peace and the Transformation of Women's Activist Identities in America, 1961–2000”
Affiliation: Rutgers University at New Brunswick

Edward Slavishak
Project Title: “Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh”
Affiliation: Susquehanna University

Elizabeth Heath
Project Title: “Cultivating the Nation, Refining Empire”
Affiliation: University of Chicago

Evan Roberts
Project Title: “Immigrant Women’s Work and Family Support in the United States”
Affiliation: University of Minnesota

Gladys McCormick
Project Title: “Challenging the Golden Age: Economic Development, the Sugar Industry, and Popular Mobilizations in Regional Mexico, 1934–1965”
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Madison

Gregory Smithers
Project Title: “The Strains of Breeding! Race, Sex & Identity in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1930s”
University of California at Davis

Jaymie Patricia Heilman
Project Title: “By Other Means: Politics in Rural Ayacucho before Peru's Shining Path War, 1879–1980”
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Madison

José Solá
Project Title: “Sugar Farmers and American Protectionism in Caguas Puerto Rico, 1898–1928”
Affiliation: Cleveland State University

K. Maria D. Lane
Project Title: “Appropriating Space: Geographical Representations of the Planet Mars, 1877–1910”
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin

Kristen Block
Project Title: “Faith and Fortune: The Politics of Religious Identity in the 17th-Century Caribbean”
Affiliation: Rutgers University at New Brunswick

Laura Serna
Project Title: “Consuming American Mass Culture in Northern Mexico and Southern Texas, 1917–1932”
Affiliation: Harvard University

Linda Rupert
Project Title: “International Trade and Local Identity in the Colonial Atlantic: Curacao, 1675–1791”
Affiliation: Duke University

Natalia Milanesio
Project Title: “Peronism, Mass Consumption, and Working-Class Culture, Argentina 1946–1955”
Affiliation: Indiana University
Award Amount: $600

Peter Shulman
Project Title: “Empire of Energy: Coal, Power, and the Ecology of American Expansion, 1880–1930”
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Philip Rubio
Project Title: “‘There’s Always Work at the Post Office’: African Americans Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality at the United States Post Office”
Affiliation: Duke University

Tiffany Thomas-Woodard
Project Title: “Desiring Nation: Prostitution and the Struggle for a Cuban Identity, 1850–1920”
Affiliation: University of New Mexico

Gabriel Loiacono
Project Title: “The People and the Poor: Ideas and Experiences of Poverty in Rhode Island, 1780–1935”
Affiliation: Brandeis University

Littleton-Griswold Grant Recipients

Allison Tirres
Project Title: “American Law Comes to the Border: Law and Colonization on the Edge of the U.S.-Mexico Divide, 1848–1890”
Affiliation: Harvard University

Brian Behnken
Project Title: “Fighting Their Own Battles: Blacks, Mexican Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas, 1950–1975”
University of California at Davis

C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
Project Title: “Ely S. Parker and the State: 'Legibility,' Unintended Consequences, and the Evolution of Nineteenth Century Colonial Policy”
Affiliation: Michigan State University

Dominic DeBrincat
Project Title: “Yankee Jurisprudence: The Court and Legal Culture of New London County, Connecticut, 1660-1820”
Affiliation: University of Connecticut

H. Robert Baker
Project Title: “The Rescue of Joshua Glover: Lawyers, Popular Constitutionalism, and the Fugitive Slave Law in Wisconsin”
Affiliation: Marquette University

J. Douglas Smith
Project Title: “An Unfinished Revolution: Reapportionment and the Quest for Democracy in 20th-Century America”
Affiliation: Occidental College

Jennifer Uhlmann
Project Title: “The ILD and the NAACP: Bitter Rivals in a Common Cause”
Affiliation: University of California at Los Angeles

Susan V. Spellman
Project Title: “Pure Faith: Grocers, Consumers, and the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, 1900–1920”
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University

Gabriel Loiacono
Project Title: “The People and the Poor: Ideas and Experiences of Poverty in Rhode Island, 1780–1935”
Affiliation: Brandeis University

Kraus Grant Recipients

Gillian Hendershot
Project Title: “Witches, Wizards and Marginalized Men: Gender, Accusation and Conviction in Witchcraft Trials in Seventeenth Century England and Colonial New England, a Transnational Study”
Affiliation: Central Michigan University

Kirsten Sword
Project Title: “Wayward Wives, Runaway Slaves, and the Rights of Dependents in Early America”
Affiliation: Indiana University

Sara Sundberg
Project Title: “Women and the Civil Law in Early Louisiana”
Affiliation: Central Missouri State University

Schmitt Grant Recipients

Elizabeth Heath
Project Title: “Cultivating the Nation, Refining Empire”
Affiliation: University of Chicago

Robert Cliver
Project Title: “‘Red Silk’: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Yangzi Delta Silk Industry, 1945–1965”
Affiliation: Harvard University

Shobana Shankar
Project Title: “Muslim Africa in the Christian Evangelical Imagination: The American Sudan Interior Mission Archive, 1899 to the Present”
Affiliaiton: Columbia University

Torrence Thomas
Project Title: “Publicizing Peter: Religious Propaganda in the Middle Ages, 1215–1415”
Affiliation: Yale University

Jonathan Eacott
Project Title: “Owning Empire: East Indian Goods in the Development of the Anglophone World, 1740–1830”
Affiliation: University of Michigan

Hakeem Tijani
Project Title: “Britain and the Development of Leftist Ideology and Organizations in West Africa: The Nigerian Experience, 1945–1965
Affiliation: Henderson State University

Brenda Gardenour
Project Title: “Medicine and Miracle: The Conjunction of Healing Practices and the Dissemination of Greco-Arabic Medicine in Christian Iberia, 11th to 13th Centuries”
Affiliation: Boston University

Andrew Goss
Project Title: “The Floracrats: Science, Bureaucracy, and Political Culture in Modern Indonesia”
Affiliation: University of New Orleans

Debra Kaplan
Project Title: “Negotiating Boundaries: Jewish-Christian Interactions in Strasbourg, 1530–1648”
Affiliation: Queens College

Max Bergholz
Project Title: “The Guardians of the Partisan Past: Yugoslavia's Communist Veterans and the National Liberation War As Their Memory Project, 1945–1990”
Affiliation: University of Toronto

Leigh Ann Craig
Project Title: “Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages”
Affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University

John Lee
Project Title: “Archaic Greek Inscriptions from Halai in East Lokris”
Affiliation: University of California at Santa Barbara

Maud Mandel
Project Title: “Beyond Anti-Semitism: Muslims and Jews in Contemporary France”
Affiliation: Brown University

Lindsay Weiss
Project Title: “Toward the Origins of Apartheid: South Africa's First Industrial Mining Community”
Affiliation: Columbia University

Ginger Davis
Project Title: “Yellowing Minds: The U.S., Vietnam, and Ethnoracial Ideologies, 1954–1964”
Affiliation: Temple University

Seung-joon Lee
Project Title: “The Rediscovery of Beriberi and Food Control in Republican China”
Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley

Christian Hess
Project Title: “From Colonial Port to Socialist Metropolis: Social and Political Change in Dalian, 1937–1955”
Affiliation: University of California at San Diego

Nerina Rustomji
Project Title: “The Garden and the Fire: Materials of Heaven and Hell in Medieval Islamic Culture”
Affiliation: Bard College

Sara Pugach
Project Title: “Networks of Empire: Political and Intellectual Relations between Germany and South Africa, 1848–1948”
Affiliation: Ohio State University at Lima

Amanda Jane Hingst
Project Title: “From Conquest to Christendom: Orderic Vitalis's Historicized Geography and the Making of the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century World”
Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley

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