Contact: Kathlin Smith
202-939-4754
Washington, DC, April 9, 2014-Seventeen graduate students have been selected to receive awards this year under the Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, which CLIR administers.
The fellowships are intended to help graduate students in the humanities and related social science fields pursue research wherever relevant sources are available; gain skill and creativity in using primary source materials in libraries, archives, museums, and related repositories; and provide suggestions to CLIR about how such source materials can be made more accessible and useful.
The fellowships carry stipends of up to $25,000 each to support dissertation research for periods of up to 12 months.
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano
University of Washington
Captured by Writing: Literary Language and Political Culture in the Court of Bayezid II (r.1481-1512)
Elisabeth Burton
Harvard University
Genetic Nationalism: Ethnic Mythmaking and Human Biology Research in Iran, Turkey, and Israel
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Columbia University
Forging Nigerian Citizenship: Law and Bureaucracy in the Biafra War, 1967-1970
Alexander Eastman
Washington University in St. Louis
Binding Freedom: Cuba’s Black Public Sphere, 1868-1912
Edward Falk
University of California, San Diego
“Peaceful Conquest Through Education”: Missionary Education in Ottoman Syria
Devin McGeehan Muchmore
Yale University
“It’s All for Sale”: Erotic Entrepreneurs and the Moral Economies of Sexual Commerce in the Late-Twentieth Century United States
Stuart McManus
Harvard University
Globalizing Cicero: Humanist Eloquence in Early Modern European Empires
Emma Otheguy
New York University
Facing the Gallego: Indirect Creolization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Atlantic
Bernadette Perez
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Beets Better than Gold: Labor, Race, Nation, and the Politics of Belonging in the Development of Colorado Agribusiness
Michael Polczynski
Georgetown University
Antemurale Christianitatis, Memâlik-i Mahrûse: the “Bulwark of Christendom” and the “Well Protected Domains” of the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian/Ottoman Frontier
Paolo Savoia
Harvard University
Saving Faces: Surgery, Masculinity, and the History of the Human Face in Early Modern Italy
Amanda Scott
Washington University in St. Louis
The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550-1800
Kathleen Tahk
Northwestern University
A Revolution Beyond Borders: The Soviet Art of the Latvian Riflemen, 1917-1938
Lucy Traverse
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ectoplasmic Modernities: Materialization Photography at the Turn of the Century
Benjamin Weber
Harvard University
America’s Carceral Empire: Punishment, Work and Detention “at Home and Abroad”, 1865-1945
Elizabeth Woodward
University of Chicago
“Le Roman de la Poire”: Constructing Courtliness and “Courtly” Art in Gothic France
Ahyoung Yoo
The Ohio State University
“We Are In Open Circuits”: Technology, Globalization, and Contemporary Korean Art
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