Most Recent Award Recipients

Recipient Name of Funder(s) and Description of Project

  Holly Pickett
Assistant Professor 
of English

Awarded a Newberry Library/NEH Fellowship for a 2008-2009 Sabbatical project, "The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England."

Rebecca Benefiel

Assistant Professor of Classics

Awarded the 2008 Olivia James Travelling Fellowship from the Archeological Institute of America.

Sascha Goluboff

Associate Professor

of

Cultural Anthropology

 

Awarded an Engaged Scholar Fellowship from the Hartford Theological Seminary for her project: "African American Home Church: The Politics of Race and Religion in the Rural South."

Leslie Cintron

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Awarded an American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant for her project "The National Trust and the Transformation of British Heritage."

Simon Levy

Associate Professor of Computer Science

 

Awarded National Science Foundation funding for “Genetic Algorithms in the Real World,” a part of the collaborative research project “Machine-Learning Experiences in Artificial Intelligence.”

 

Jim Warren

Professor of English

 

Awarded a Huntington library/Mellon Fellowship for study of the poems of Mary Austin and a Formby Library Research Fellowship for research on Barry Lopez at Texas Tech University.


David Peterson 
Associate Professor of History

 

Lila Acheson Wallace - Reader's Digest Publications Subsidy from the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies for the publication of "Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy. Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy."



Genelle Gertz-Robinson
Assistant Professor 
of English



Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowship for summer 2007 research in Great Britain on "The Rhetoric of Interrogation."



Lesley Wheeler

Associate Professor of English



Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist's Fellowship in Poetry
for 2007-2008.

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