Research Grant Recipients, 2008

 

Beveridge Grant Recipients

Loren Broc
Project Title: Religion and Insanity in the United States, 1820-80
Affiliation: University of Rochester

Christy Chapin
Project Title: Ensuring America's Health: Publicly Constructing the Private Health Insurance Industry, 1950-80
Affiliation: University of Virginia

Matthew Furlong
Project Title: Peasants, Slaves, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial Mexico, 1571-1700
Affiliation: University of Arizona

Shane Landrum
Project Title: Documenting American Workers: Birth Certificates in California, 1890-2001
Affiliation: Brandeis University

Wesley Phelps
Project Title: Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in Houston: Race and Poverty in a Sunbelt City, 1964-74
Affiliation: Rice University

Thomas Rath
Project Title: "Warriors of the Pueblo Yesterday, Soldiers of the Patria Today": Army, Nation, and State in Mexico, 1920-60
Affiliation: Columbia University

 

Littleton-Griswold Grant Recipients

Jill Fraley
Project Title: The War on Poverty: The Myth of Classless Society and the Block for Constitutional Change
Affiliation: Yale University

Hidetaka Hirota
Project Title: Nativism, Citzenship, and Civil Liberties: Immigration Control and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1846-78
Affiliation: Boston College

Melissa Milewski
Project Title: From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-war South
Affiliation: New York University

 

Kraus Grant Recipients

Ian Aebel
Project Title: Constructing History, Producing America: Anglo-American Historical Thought, Historiography, and the Birth of American History in the Early Modern English Atlantic, c. 1485 to c. 1714
Affiliation: University of New Hampshire

Andrea Mosterman
Project Title: Sharing Spaces in a New World Environment: African-Dutch Contributions to North American Culture, 1626-1826
Affiliation: Boston University


Schmitt Grant Recipients

Waitman Beorn
Project Title: White Russia, Black Deeds: The Participation of Wehrmacht Soldiers in Atrocities and the Holocaust, 1941-43
Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tracey Billado
Project Title: The Politics of "Evil Customs" in Western France, 950-1150
Affiliation: Seton Hall University

Elisabetta Bini
Project Title: Fueling the Cold War: The Production and Consumption of Gasoline in Post-World War II Italy
Affiliation: New York University

Ashley Brenner
Project Title: Unhappy Families: Elite Women at the Cape of Good Hope in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
Affiliation: Emory University

Alicia Decker
Project Title: Beyond the Barrel: Gender, Power, and Militarism in Idi Amin's Uganda, 1971-79
Affiliation: Purdue University

Matthew Furlong
Project Title: Peasants, Slaves, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial Mexico, 1571-1700
Affiliation: University of Arizona

Anupama Rao
Project Title: Dalit Bombay: Caste and the Colonial City
Affiliation: Barnard College

Kira Robison
Project Title: The Cutting of Dead Flesh: Physicians and the Criminal Body in the Later Middle Ages
Affiliation: University of Minnesota

Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Project Title: Waste Away: Garbage, Hygiene, and Disease in a "Civilized" Japan, 1870s-1920s
Affiliation: Williams College

Stefan Stantchev
Project Title: Embargo: The Origins of an Idea and the Effects of A Policy (In Medieval and Renaissance Europe)
Affiliation: University of Michigan

 
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