Compiled and written by the Division of Research Programs, 

National Endowment for the Humanities

Published September 2012

Natio n al E n dowm en t for th e huma n iti e s

e x p l o r i n g t h e h u m a n e n d e a v o r

An Evaluation of 2002–2004 Awards

research fellowships
ounded in 1965, the National Endowment for the Humanities is an 

independent grant-making agency of the United States government, 

dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public 

programs in the humanities.

F

Jane Aikin, Director, Division of Research Programs

Fellowships Evaluation Project Research Group

Chair: Russell Wyland, Deputy Director

Claudia Kinkela, Senior Program Officer

Mark Silver, Senior Program Officer

James Turner, Program Analyst

Jennifer Untalan, Administrative Officer
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Research Fellowships: An Evaluation

Preface

In the world of academe, he or she “got an NEH” is shorthand indicating that a colleague 

has received an NEH Fellowship. For academics and independent scholars in the liberal arts 

community, the NEH Fellowships Program has prestigious meaning. It gives scholars the 

means to pursue creative research and provides a legitimizing basis to communicate their 

ideas and work product.

Scholarship is at the heart of NEH. As a public agency, we conduct open competitions based 

on review by the scholars’ peers—competitions that result in awards for the very highest 

quality projects, no matter how senior or junior the scholars, and no matter what state or 

region or institution they hail from. Because of the intense competition and the honor of the 

endorsement from peers, NEH Fellowships are among the most coveted of scholarly honors.

Several times each year the rules that govern NEH competitions undergo review to ensure 

that all applications receive equalitarian consideration. However, until now the Fellowships 

Program has never been formally evaluated. Over a yearlong period the staff of the Division 

of Research Programs, therefore, conceived and conducted an intense review of the program. 

For the first time in its forty-five-plus years, we systematically sought answers to such broad 

questions as: Who applies? How do they use their fellowships? What are the results? What 

does a fellowship mean to a recipient?

Gaining answers to these questions allowed the staff also to consider important issues that 

relate to the value of the program: Are NEH Fellows productive? What is the impact of their 

work? Is the program effectively advancing scholarship in the humanities?

The results of this inquiry show that NEH Fellowships enormously impact individual lives 

and careers and encourage talented scholars throughout the humanities to produce high 

quality work. The quantitative and qualitative evidence effectively reinforce what scholars 

have repeatedly told us: NEH Fellowships provide essential support that enables American 

scholars to advance humanistic knowledge, enrich the cultural record, contribute to 

educational programs, and inform the general public.

Jim Leach

Chairman
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Research Fellowships: 

An Evaluation of 2002–2004 Awards

Summary

The Endowment’s enabling legislation establishes support of humanities 

scholarship as one of the agency’s fundamental purposes. Over the past fortysix years, the principal way by which NEH has encouraged scholarship has been 

through its Fellowships Program. By providing a stipend and a significant amount 

of time away from teaching, the Fellowships Program enables scholars to conduct 

advanced research in the humanities and publish their findings in articles and 

books. 

The Fellowships Program is among the agency’s largest and best-known programs, 

attracting well over twelve hundred applicants each year. It is also among the 

agency’s most productive programs. Over the course of its lifetime, the program 

has led to the publication of nearly seven thousand books, many of which have 

received prestigious awards and prizes. NEH staff regularly tracks publications 

resulting from its Fellowships awards, but few systematic efforts have been made to 

study the extent to which the program has been meeting its objectives. This study 

was undertaken as a first step toward better understanding the program’s impact 

and outcomes. 

The evaluation examined all fellowship awards made between 2002 and 2004 and 

relied on several sets of data. Using NEH records and the database resources of 

the Library of Congress, the evaluation determined the number of fellows who 

successfully published books and how long it took from when they received their 

fellowships. The evaluation also examined publication prizes, book review data, 

and publishers. In addition, the evaluation undertook a survey of recent fellowship 

winners, including an examination of a comparison group of applicants who 

competed for, but did not receive, a fellowship. The results comprise the most 

comprehensive evaluation to date of the Endowment’s largest single grant program.
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Summary findings

The evaluation yielded the following significant findings:

•	About 70 percent of NEH Fellows complete their projects (i.e., publish a book) within 

seven to nine years of their awards. 

•	On average, NEH Fellows produced their books four and one-half years after the 

completion of their awards, approximately nine months sooner than those who did not 

receive NEH support.

•	NEH-supported fellowships are widely distributed among junior and senior scholars, 

and across geographic regions and types of institutional affiliations.

•	The NEH Fellowships Program is an important funder of independent humanities 

scholars in the U.S.

•	The work of NEH Fellows is widely recognized for its scholarly excellence—sixty-seven 

different institutions having awarded eighty-four publication prizes to the 2002–2004 

fellows.

•	98 percent of those completing the survey considered their fellowships to be 

“extremely significant” for the development of their projects.

•	96 percent of fellows responding to the survey have published a book, article, or essay.

•	Over 90 percent of those completing the survey considered their fellowships to have 

had an impact on their careers.

•	 77 percent of survey respondents indicated that their NEH-supported research had a 

direct and positive impact on their teaching.

•	NEH-supported books received, on average, three to four reviews within the first three 

years after publication—suggesting that NEH-supported books are read and have 

scholarly (as well as broader) impact.

These findings strongly suggest that NEH’s Fellowships Program has been succeeding in

its efforts to promote humanities scholarship. They also testify to the central place of NEH’s 

Fellowships Program in the intellectual life of the nation.
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Introduction

When the National Endowment for the Humanities was established in 1966, it represented 

a grassroots and bipartisan effort to provide those engaged in the study of the humanities—

those in disciplines such as history, literature, philosophy, languages, and classics—an 

opportunity to achieve at the same high level as those working in the sciences. In his 

inaugural report to Congress, the first NEH chairman remarked that “fellowships in the 

sciences have played a major role in the development of the nation’s pool of qualitatively 

superb scientists; similar efforts in the humanities will produce similar results.” Advancing 

knowledge and understanding have ever since been an important part of NEH’s mission.

One of the primary methods for achieving these goals has been through fellowships: 

awards to individual scholars for periods of six to twelve months to write books and 

thereby create a tangible, lasting record of the very best in humanities research. NEH 

Fellowships make available the most important scholarly commodity: time. Humanities 

scholars need time to read; time to conduct archival research; time to think; and time 

to write. In almost every case, NEH Fellowships provide scholars with time to produce 

books—the “gold standard” in the communication and evaluation of humanities ideas. 

Their books spell out ideas that promote discussion within the disciplines, create public 

awareness, nurture scholarly careers, and prepare the next generation for the challenges of 

the future.

This report represents the Endowment’s most systematic attempt to evaluate the 

effectiveness of the Fellowships Program, a program that is widely known among 

independent scholars, college teachers, and university faculty members. 

Since 1980, the NEH Fellowships Program has received almost fifty thousand requests for 

funding and made over 6,500 awards, covering every field in the humanities and leading 

to the publication of thousands of scholarly books. While impressive, these numbers do 

not necessarily mean that the program is meeting its core objectives. It was the purpose 

of this study to examine whether the program is meeting its objectives and to understand 

more fully what the scholarly community and the American public have gained from 

NEH’s Fellowships Program. More precisely, the study assessed the extent to which the 

Fellowships Program facilitates basic research and original scholarship in the humanities 

by analyzing program outcomes—particularly books—as a result or “payoff” of providing 

scholars with a concentrated period of time for research and writing.

To this end, the evaluation project examined the work of 520 award recipients (the “study 

group”) from fiscal years 2002, 2003, and 2004. From the same years, we also examined 

180 nonwinners (the “comparison group”) who submitted highly competitive applications 

but just missed being funded. The aim is twofold: First, to establish the extent to which 

fellows use their awards to publish books and how long it takes before their books appear 

in print; second, to determine whether and how fellowship-supported books enter into 

discussions among scholars, readers, and the public at large.

We made use of several different sources of data:

•	The online catalog of the Library of Congress, to determine the number of published 

books (including single-author works, edited collections, translations, and other 

research tools). The Library’s catalog is widely considered to be authoritative and, 

therefore, would include any published book relevant to our evaluation. A list of books 
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published by 2002–2004 NEH Fellowships awardees and a list of publishers appear in 

Appendices A and B, respectively.

•	Lists of prizes and awards from online sources and compiled through correspondence 

with fellows in the study group. Sponsors of publication prizes are noteworthy for their 

diversity and include professional and academic organizations, public philanthropic 

organizations, local and national newspapers and magazines, and public interest 

groups. A list of publication prizes won by 2002–2004 NEH Fellowship awardees 

appears in Appendix C.

•	The Book Review Index Plus (BRIP) database available through the Library of 

Congress to determine the extent to which NEH-supported books were reviewed or 

noted in scholarly and popular publications. BRIP is a comprehensive online guide 

to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations for books, 

periodicals, books on tape, and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, 

academic, and professional interests. A full list of publications reviewing NEHsupported books appears in Appendix D. 

•	A wide-ranging survey of the 520 fellowship awardees for the fiscal years 2002, 

2003, and 2004, which constituted the study group. We received 320 completed 

surveys, for a response rate of 62 percent. We owe a deep debt of gratitude to the 

320 respondents for the extended comments that they included with their surveys. 

NEH staff can speculate on what it means to receive an award, but there is no source 

better to articulate the importance of the Endowment’s work than its recipients.

The NEH Fellowships Program strives to conduct fair and open competitions that reward 

scholars at any stage of their careers, in diverse geographic locations, and with a wide 

range of affiliations. These guiding objectives are central to honoring the trust between the 

Endowment and the American public, which expects wise and fair expenditure of funds 

based on support of the best ideas. We believe that the evidence we have gathered confirms 

that the NEH Fellowships Program is accomplishing its important and unique mission to 

facilitate “basic research and original scholarship in the humanities.”

Analysis and Discussion

In a time when the publishing industry is undergoing major changes as a result of digital 

technologies, most NEH Fellowships applicants still aim to write books. While NEHsupported books now appear in both traditional and electronic formats, the genre 

(regardless of the format) continues to be the measure of scholarly significance and the 

manner by which new ideas in the humanities are communicated. In what follows, we draw 

upon the survey results and other data sources to discuss, among other key issues: important 

characteristics of the NEH applicant pool, publishing success rates of NEH scholars, various 

measures of scholarly excellence, impact, and reach, and the benefits of NEH Fellowships for 

the awardees, including the impact on their careers and their teaching.

Characteristics of the Applicant Pool and Award Winners

NEH awards fellowships based on merit and the advice it receives from outside, independent 

evaluators. The diversity of NEH’s award winners—in terms of academic rank, geographical 

location, and institutional affiliation—is remarkable. 
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Applicant Rank. Applicants are classified as either junior scholars or senior scholars. Junior 

applicants are those who completed their final degrees within seven years of the submission 

deadline; senior scholars are those who received their final degrees more than seven years 

ago. Providing funding opportunities to both junior and senior scholars has been a goal of 

the Endowment since the beginning of the Fellowships Program.

From its earliest fellowships competitions to the present, NEH’s applicant pool has varied 

little, with approximately 60 percent of applicants being senior scholars and 40 percent 

junior scholars. In the three years considered in this study, the entire application pool of 

3,641 applicants included 59 percent senior scholars and 41 percent junior scholars.

What has varied over the years are the proportions of awards going to junior and senior 

scholars. The Endowment has never imposed a target for any category of scholars. Instead, 

it has relied on its peer review process to identify the best applications. In some years, senior 

scholars fare better; in other years, junior scholars fare better. In the years under evaluation, 

347 of the 520 fellows (67 percent) were senior scholars, and 173 of the 520 fellows (33 percent) 

were junior scholars. 

Geographic Distribution. The Endowment has always taken its status as a national funding 

agency seriously. While the Endowment imposes no regional targets for awards in any of 

its programs, it strives to make all regions of the country aware of its programs, including 

Fellowships. For the years under review, the Endowment funded fellowship applicants from 

each region at approximately the same rates as they applied. While applicants from New 

England and the Middle Atlantic states apply in slightly higher numbers, they by no means 

dominate the competition, as the following chart indicates.

All NEH Applicants NEH Fellows

New England 490 (13%) 92 (18%)

Middle Atlantic 892 (24%) 143 (27%)

Midwest 777 (21%) 109 (21%)

West 475 (13%) 67 (13%)

South 643 (17%) 72 (14%)

Plains, Mountains

& Southwest

296 (8%) 28 (5%)

Other* *Includes U.S.territories 

and U.S. citizens living abroad

108 (3%) 9 (2%)

TOTAL 3,681 520
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In 2002–2004, the Fellowships Program received applications from all fifty states and made 

awards to applicants living in forty-four of these. On average, NEH funds reached scholars 

in thirty-nine states each year. It should be noted that states that did not receive awards 

submitted, on average, fewer than four applications per competition, and that in the same 

time period these states received multiple awards through the Endowment’s other grant 

programs. 

Institutional Affiliation. Over the last two decades, there have been significant shifts within 

U.S. academe. With more PhDs awarded than there are new positions available for them, 

qualified teachers and scholars have become more widely distributed throughout institutions 

of higher education. Scholars teaching at major research institutions, however, continue to 

have resources not always available to scholars working at smaller universities, four-year 

colleges, two-year colleges, and to those who remain unaffiliated. The applicant pool for 

NEH Fellowships reflects this diversity. During the years under evaluation, 48 percent of all 

applicants indicated affiliations with major research institutions, 39 percent were affiliated 

with nonresearch institutions, and 13 percent were unaffiliated independent scholars.

As with scholarly rank and geographical distribution, NEH does not target specific 

institutions or institution types for its awards. Panelists are asked to evaluate each 

application on its own merits, regardless of an applicant’s institutional affiliation. Of the 

520 awards made in 2002, 2003, and 2004, 57 percent went to faculty members at research 

institutions; 36 percent went to faculty members at nonresearch institutions; and 7 percent 

went to independent scholars.

Support for Independent Scholars

The rubric “independent scholar” includes a wide range of individuals: some are eager for 

academic appointments but do not yet have them; others are employed in positions outside 

of the academy; still others have chosen to remain without affiliation. During the three 

years under review, NEH awarded fellowships to 37 independent scholars. The significance 

of this finding should not be overlooked. NEH Fellowships are not for faculty members 

alone but for any qualified individual who wishes to undertake serious research in the 

humanities. 

The importance of NEH to independent scholars can be seen in some of the survey 

responses. Steven Holmes, for example, commented, “For independent scholars, NEH is 

one of the few sources of support for continued research in the humanities, thus contributing 

greatly to intellectual work that is often more explorative and free-ranging than that which 

takes place in the academy.” Andrea Weiss, who was an independent scholar when she 

received her NEH Fellowship, recounts that the fellowship made her “research more careful 

and more thorough than it would have been;. . . I was afforded the time to develop my skills

as an author; I think my writing style and nonfiction storytelling abilities advanced 

significantly because of that extra time, leading to more positive reviews and recognition. . . . 

I was an independent scholar when I received the fellowship, so I had no financial support 

and the fellowship was a true lifeline enabling me to finish my project.” After the completion 

of her FY 2003 fellowship, the City University of New York hired Weiss, awarding her tenure 

after only three years. Her book, In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann 

Story (University of Chicago Press), was published in 2008.

Daniel Sharfstein received his NEH Fellowship in 2004 when he was an independent 

scholar. He is now a tenured professor at Vanderbilt University Law School, and his survey 
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comments suggest that without an NEH Fellowship not just a book but an entire scholarly 

career might have been lost: “I was awarded an NEH Fellowship at a crucial moment in my 

life. I had graduated from law school in 2000 and spent a few years clerking in the federal 

courts and practicing public-interest law. I was in the process of interviewing with Boston 

law firms with the idea that I would embark on a career as a trial lawyer. And then I saw 

NEH’s call for proposals in early 2003. In college and law school, I had done some research 

into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century court cases in which judges and juries had to 

determine whether people were white or black. The picture that these cases revealed of small 

Southern communities during slavery and segregation was unlike anything I had learned 

in history books—to my mind, the cases called into question some of our most deep-seated 

assumptions about race in the United States. I dreamed of writing a book about these cases, 

but I had to work to support myself. . . . When I applied as an independent scholar, I thought 

of it as one last chance to realize my dream. If it did not work out, then I would move on 

with my life in legal practice. I will never forget the day the notification from NEH arrived 

in the mail, just as I will never forget what the fellowship enabled me to do. I spent the year 

immersed in research, figuring out how to write a book and what its focus would be. At the

same time, even though I was an independent scholar, the fellowship opened up an entire 

world to me, a community of historians and legal scholars who embraced my work and gave 

me invaluable feedback during the years I spent researching and writing it. The fellowship 

led to additional funding opportunities, an academic position at Vanderbilt, and, ultimately, 

The Invisible Line. The world has one less lawyer, but the NEH Fellowship has given me a book, 

a community, and a career. And judging from the responses I have received from readers as 

well as descendants of the families in the book, my NEH Fellowship has had an impact on 

many other people’s lives, too. I will always be grateful for this life-changing opportunity, and 

I hope that the agency continues to play its essential role in nurturing the ideas and historical 

imagination of the United States.” Sharfstein published The Invisible Line: Three American 

Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White with Penguin in 2011.

Publications

Of the 520 fellows in the the study group, 357 (or 69 

percent) published books between the end of their 

fellowship and June 30, 2011 (the closing date of this 

study). By contrast, those individuals who prepared 

applications that were highly competitive but not 

funded were significantly less successful. Of the 

180 applicants in the comparison group, only 72 (42 

percent) were able to publish books. At the most 

basic level, then, the value of a fellowship is clear. 

Scholars who receive NEH funding published books 

at a rate 25 to 30 percent higher than their unfunded 

counterparts, suggesting at least two conclusions. 

First, it confirms that the most valuable commodity 

for a scholar is time. Individuals who have been 

freed from the duties of teaching and administration 

are more likely to be productive scholars. Professor 

Sandra Petrulionis of the Department of English 

at Pennsylvania State University–Altoona noted in 

her survey response that research leading to book 

publication “takes an extraordinary amount of time. 
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. . . These projects and this kind of writing cannot truly be done well during a regular semester 

or summer break. They require intensive thought and concentration, which NEH Fellowships 

provide.”

Second, the statistics refute the notion—sometimes voiced by those unfamiliar with the 

nature of humanities research—that humanities scholars do not need fellowships. In fact, 

there is a clear need. Without funding, many scholars would not be able to accomplish the 

work expected of them by their institutions, nor would they be able to keep their scholarly 

skills honed or to continue to develop intellectually. As universities and colleges curtail their 

own funding, NEH Fellowships provide a publishing “lifeline” for many, a fact borne out 

by the survey comments. For example, Professor John Cort in the Department of Religion 

at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, wrote, “Without the year of uninterrupted writing 

allowed by the NEH Fellowship, a year freed from the heavy teaching responsibilities of a 

small liberal arts college, I would not have been able to finish the book.” Likewise, Professor 

Claudia Jensen, a part-time faculty member in the Department of Slavic Languages and 

Literatures at the University of Washington, noted, “I would not have been able to write this 

book without the support of NEH. So, calling the impact of the NEH Fellowship ‘extremely 

important’ is actually something of an understatement.” Jensen published Musical Cultures in 

Seventeenth-Century Russia with Indiana University Press in 2009.

While it is important that NEH Fellows are succeeding in publishing their work, it is equally 

noteworthy where they are publishing. In a time when the number of “vanity presses” and 

presses that do not utilize peer review is increasing, the list of publishers of NEH-supported 

books (Appendix B) indicates that the majority of NEH books are published by university 

presses, trade presses, or independent presses, all of which use peer review in the evaluation 

of manuscripts. The top ten publishers of NEH-supported books account for almost half 

of the total. These ten presses—Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, 

University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, University of California Press, Harvard 

University Press, Ashgate Press, Routledge Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, and 

Stanford University Press—are widely considered to be among the most prestigious and 

competitive presses in the humanities. They employ rigorous peer review of manuscripts, 

and sophisticated marketing departments, and strive to make their products widely 

available. Such a publishing record testifies to the scholarly significance of NEH-funded 

research and its successful dissemination.

Some projects will take more than nine years to bear fruit, and the statistics show that 

about 30 percent of fellows in the study group have not yet published books. The reasons 

are varied. The Endowment funds individual projects at any stage of development. Some 

fellows are ready to begin writing when their fellowship periods begin; others, however, 

spend their awards on the arduous but necessary task of sifting through archival materials. 

Larry Stempel, for example, recently published his magnum opus Showtime: A History of 

the Broadway Musical Theater (W. W. Norton, 2011). His NEH Fellowship, funded in 1984, 

supported the initial research trips to archives and libraries around the country, and this 

research eventually made his book possible.

Few books will be twenty-seven years in the making like Stempel’s. Yet NEH-funded 

fellows find that their awards allow them to achieve greater intellectual depth as a result 

of their fellowship. Ninety-eight percent of survey respondents indicate that the work 

accomplished with NEH support allowed them to write higher quality books. “Without the 

NEH Fellowship,” noted Professor Julie Winch of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, 
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“I would not have been able to mine all the sources I eventually did.” Professor Jan Shetler 

of Goshen College in Indiana had an even more dramatic tale: “Since my research is in . . . 

Tanzania, I could not have completed this project without an extensive fieldwork time there. 

It would have been impossible without funding.” An NEH Fellowship, by design, enables a 

scholar to delve deeper, range more widely, and create more lasting scholarship.

Some fellows did not publish because they received funding for projects with goals other 

than books. For example, Thomas Field, a linguist at the University of Maryland-Baltimore 

County, received a fellowship to produce an electronic corpus of the medieval Gascon 

language, a Romance language dialect once spoken in southern France and parts of Spain. 

While no book was proposed by Field, the open access database he compiled will be of great 

use to other linguists who will as a result of it publish books. 

While our first conclusion—that fellows published more than nonfellows—is perhaps not 

surprising, a closer examination of the publication numbers holds some noteworthy results. 

The conventional wisdom among peer reviewers is that senior scholars publish more easily 

and more often than junior scholars.

Total in

Group

Total # 

of Books 

Published

# of Junior 

Scholars

Junior Scholars 

who published

# of Senior 

Scholars

Senior Scholars 

who published

NEH Fellows 520 357 (69%) 173 120 (69%) 374 237 (63%)

NEH 

Unsuccessful 

Applicants 180 76 (42%) 71 24 (34%) 109 52 (47%)

Yet the evaluation revealed that junior scholars who received fellowships published more than 

their senior counterparts. Sixty-nine percent of junior scholars published books, while 63 

percent of senior scholars published books. What this suggests is that junior scholars, who are 

frequently attempting to gain tenure, are quite motivated to complete their projects. 

Sixty-nine percent of award winners published books, but when broken down by institutional 

affiliation, it is clear that some groups are at an advantage. Scholars with affiliations at large 

research institutions typically have access to impressive research libraries and additional 

research support, and, therefore, it is not surprising that 75 percent of award winners at 

research institutions were able to publish. Faculty members at nonresearch institutions—

which include a wide variety of small universities, liberal arts colleges, and two-year colleges—

published in numbers just below the average, 62 percent. The unaffiliated independent 

scholars who published did so at an even lower rate of 51 percent. These numbers suggest that 

infrastructure and access to resources does matter. Larger institutions typically have more 

research money available for their faculty members. But money is only part of the picture: 

Research institutions are more likely to allow faculty members to teach in their specialized 

areas of research and are more likely to have research assistants for their use.

However that may be, the “big picture” for all groups who received a fellowship is bright in 

terms of productivity. While 74 percent of survey respondents indicate that they completed 

a single-authored book (a number consistent with our independently derived figure from the 

Library of Congress catalog), 308 of the 320 respondents, or 96 percent, reported publishing as 
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a result of their fellowships (either a single-authored book, a peer-reviewed article, a chapter 

in a book, an edited volume, or some combination of these). Of the eleven respondents who 

did not publish, nine indicated that they presented public lectures and/or conference papers 

on their fellowship work, while only two reported no public results to date whatsoever (and, it 

should be noted, both of these fellows mentioned that they had just completed their book 

manuscripts).

Time from Award to Publication

It is fair for American taxpayers to ask how long one should have to wait before an 

“investment” in a scholar yields a return. Since a fellowship can cover any stage in the research 

process, from exploring archives to drafting and revising, the timeline for completion can vary 

significantly. A fellow funded at the writing stage is more likely to complete the project 

quickly than a fellow who is only just beginning research. Nonetheless, based on available book 

publication data, we can determine the average lag between awards and results. NEH Fellows 

who published a book at the time the evaluation was completed did so, on average, 4.4 years 

after receiving their awards.

Average Years for

Junior Scholars

Average Years for

Senior Scholars

NEH Fellows 4.4 years 4.4 years

NEH Unsuccessful

Applicants 4.5 years 5.1 years

If the Endowment’s main goal was the quick production of books, then the Fellowships 

Program would fund only projects that are already at the writing stage. However, NEH’s 

mission emphasizes funding the best scholarship, and that often means supporting 

applicants who will engage in arduous archival research or other long-term research efforts 

involving oral histories or data gathering. Professor Joseph McCartin at Georgetown 

University, for example, indicates that his fellowship allowed him “to deepen my research 

considerably, to add a whole new dimension through oral histories, and to broaden the 

context within which I was situating my work. It was hugely significant and resulted in much 

better and more significant research products.” McCartin’s Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, 

the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America 

(Oxford University Press) appeared in 2011. Likewise, Farzaneh 

Milani at the University of Virginia suggests that delays are 

inherent in fellowships awarded to conduct archival research. 

With her fellowship, Professor Milani was able to conduct 

research that expanded “the themes proposed and, as a 

consequence, [I] needed more time to complete my project.” 

Milani’s book—Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and 

the Freedom of Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2011)—was 

published after nine years of work by its author. A fellowship 

awarded to Sarah McNamer in the English Department at 

Georgetown University allowed the author to “undertake new 

research I had not anticipated, and essentially to rewrite the 

first half of my book. My book is much the stronger . . . but 

it took several years longer than anticipated to complete.” 
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McNamer published Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion (University of 

Pennsylvania Press, 2010).

The survey also makes clear how heavy teaching loads can affect productivity—and that an 

NEH Fellowship can help address this issue. The challenge identified by Chairman Barnaby 

Keeney in 1967 is echoed in 2011 by Professor Leslie A. Adelson at Cornell University, who 

received an NEH Fellowship and has been active in the Modern Language Association: 

“Many individual scholars capable of developing important new ideas have no other means 

of support because their home institutions are either too poor or understaffed to provide it. 

Teaching loads and service loads for many scholars in the humanities are so high that little 

or no time remains to pursue sustained research during a normal semester. The financial 

support and leave time enabled by NEH support are absolutely necessary for many individual 

scholars to pursue and complete high-quality research of significance to the humanities.” 

Professor Adelson published her book, The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature, on 

the effects of Turkish migration to Germany, in 2005, with Palgrave Macmillan.

Additional Benefits of Fellowships for Fellows

It is significant that 99 percent of survey respondents stated that they were able to provide a 

more thorough treatment of their subject because of their awards. And 98 percent responded 

that their NEH awards allowed them to achieve a higher quality final product. This is reinforced by answers suggesting that more than 70 percent of respondents were able to use 

their awards to examine archival materials. 

What the survey also makes clear is that fellowships frequently pay off in unanticipated 

ways. They improve, for example, the chances of serendipitous discovery in the course of 

research. Julie Winch at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, recounted how during one 

research trip she located “a cache of material that no scholar had ever seen before. A box 

(rather a large box) of letters emerged from the crawl-space of an old home belonging to 

the family I was researching. The letters—now suitably conserved and catalogued—have 

become part of the collection of the Missouri Historical Society. . . . Without this support 

it is virtually impossible for scholars at all but the wealthiest schools to get the time to 

do this kind of work. Squeezing writing—and especially research trips—into a week here 

or there just doesn’t yield the same kinds of results.” Winch’s NEH-supported research 

resulted in The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America (Hill and Wang, 2011). 

Likewise, Robert Rupert of the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado, 

Boulder, recountedin his survey that his “book-project has led to ongoing debates with 

leaders in my field, . . . helping everyone involved to get a clearer picture of what’s at stake 

in debates about the nature of human cognition and mind, to locate the genuine points of 

disagreement, and to give everyone involved a better idea which avenues of future research 

are promising.” Professor Rupert received his award as a junior scholar working at Texas 

Tech University. His book, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, was published by Oxford 

University Press in 2009.

Impact in the Scholarly Community

No matter how well written or researched, a book that goes unread is worth little more 

than the paper on which it is printed. So, while books are the immediate outcome of 

NEH Fellowships, the extent to which the books engage and stimulate new ideas among 

readers determines an important impact of the Fellowships Program. Book reviews provide 

a useful indication of the interest that NEH-supported books generate. NEH-supported 
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books clearly gain ready recognition by scholarly and popular reviewers. On average, books 

published with 2002–2004 fellowships have so far been reviewed three to four times each. 

(This statistic remained relatively consistent across both the study group of NEH Fellows 

and the comparison group.)

Total Total Books 

Published

Total 

Reviews 

of Books

Reviews

in Scholarly

Pubs.

Reviews in 

Scholarly/ 

Popular Pubs.

Reviews

in Popular

Pubs.

NEH Fellows 520 357 1,012 879

(87%)

120

(12%)

13

(1%)

NEH 

Unsuccessful

Applicants

180 76 201 181

(90%) 20 (10%) 0 (0%)

Books attract reviews, among other reasons, if they are topical and relevant to the readers of 

a particular journal or periodical. The majority of reviews of NEH-supported books are to be 

found in scholarly journals. Eighty-seven percent of reviews of NEH-supported books appear 

in these discipline-based journals. Disciplinary journals foster the kind of discussions and 

debates that are central to communicating and testing ideas in the humanities. For example, 

John Cort’s Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History (Oxford University Press, 

2010) received two reviews in 2011 in the two most prominent journals in the author’s field. 

The reviewer in the Journal of South Asian Studies concluded: “While this book allows readers 

to gain entry into Jain narratives and ritual practices, this is not a book solely about Jainism. 

In every chapter, Cort provides relevant comparative material from other religious traditions, 

including Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. By doing so, Cort dismantles any monolithic 

understanding of icons and iconoclasm and forces us to consider the various interpretive 

frames that are employed in these narratives. In short, this book is essential for scholars who 

are interested in image worship and the ways in which religious communities defend or reject 

such practices.” In September 2011, a reviewer in the

Journal of the American Academy of Religion offered this 

assessment: “Seeking the widest possible aperture 

of understanding, Cort locates the Jina image in 

multiple interpretive frames: archaeology, history, 

art history, text, ethnography, comparative religion, 

and more. The result is a pioneering study of great 

interest on both methodological and substantive 

grounds.” These reviews corroborate what many 

survey respondents noted: Their fellowships 

afforded them the time to both broaden and deepen 

their analyses.

Next to reviews, a useful way to discover the extent 

to which NEH-supported books shape scholarly 

discussions is to examine publication prizes. 

Scholarly organizations award publication prizes 

to recognize the best work done in their respective 
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fields. Books published in 2010 and beyond are just now becoming eligible for such awards. 

But as of September 2011, the 2002–2004 NEH Fellows had received eighty-six prizes, each 

awarded by a separate adjudicating committee. The American Philological Association, 

for example, awarded its 2008 Charles Goodwin Award to NEH Fellow David Konstan. 

The award recognizes the best book in any field of classical studies for the previous three 

years. Konstan published The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical 

Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2007) with the support of a fellowship in 2004. The 

American Historical Association awarded six of its coveted book prizes to NEH Fellows 

included in the study group. AHA acknowledged excellence in French history (Rachel 

Fuchs and Martha Hanna), Italian history (Thomas Kuehn), African studies (Pier Larson), 

ancient history (Anthony Barbieri-Low), and East Asian studies (Susan Mann). In addition 

to receiving the AHA’s 2008 James Breasted Prize for best book in ancient history, BarbieriLow’s Artisans in Early Imperial China (University of Washington Press, 2007) also received 

the Association of Asian Studies’s award for the best book on China, and the College Art 

Association’s 2009 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for the best work in the history of art. 

The list of awards is long, and it stands as compelling evidence that the scholarly community 

finds NEH-supported work valuable. A list of prizes won by the 2002–2004 fellows appears in 

Appendix C.

There are other ways in which the products of NEH Fellowships influence scholarly 

discussions. The list of books funded through the NEH Fellowships Program includes 

several editions and translations. NEH awards have supported scholars such as Professor 

William Baker of the University of Northern Illinois, who used his fellowship to prepare 

the final of four volumes of The Letters of Wilkie Collins (Pickering and Chatto, 2005). Laura 

Leibman of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, prepared an edition of Experience Mayhew’s 

Indian Converts (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). Douglas Brookes, an independent 

scholar in Oakland, California, translated and edited the memoirs of three women who lived 

concurrently at the Ottoman court during the nineteenth century (University of Texas Press, 

2008). Wilson Kimnach of the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut prepared an edition 

of American preacher Jonathan Edwards’s Sermons and Discourses, 1743–1758 (Yale University 

Press, 2006). Professor Deborah Logan of Western Kentucky University used her fellowship 

to prepare The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau (Pickering and Chatto, 2007). These 

editions and translations, and others like them, lay the groundwork for the next generation of 

scholars and students by providing access to materials that would otherwise be unavailable or 

inaccessible to those who do not command the necessary languages.

Impact Among More General Audiences and the Public 

A significant number of NEH-supported books reach beyond the scholarly community, 

energizing discussions among the broader reading public. For example, about 12 percent 

of reviews of NEH-supported books appear in publications that reach a large, general 

readership. General readers encounter the ideas of NEH Fellows through reviews of NEHsupported books in the New York Times (circulation of approximately 900,000 daily readers), 

the New Republic (approximately 53,000 readers), the Weekly Standard (approximately 

103,000 readers), the Times Literary Supplement (approximately 110,000 readers), Time 

(approximately 3.9 million readers), Newsweek (approximately 1.5 million readers), the 

London Review of Books (approximately 49,000 readers), Fortune (approximately 845,000 

readers), the New Yorker (just over 1.1 million readers), and the Economist (just under 1.6 

million readers). Michael Honey at the University of Washington, Tacoma, received an NEH 

Fellowship in 2003 to complete Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther 
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King’s Last Campaign (W. W. Norton, 2007). His book garnered reviews in the popular press 

as well as in scholarly publications. In the Nation (circulation of approximately 160,000) 

for example, reviewer Scott Saul praised Honey for revealing “an epic struggle, with a cast 

of characters and a gripping plot that put it on the level of a biblical spectacular. . . . Going 

Down Jericho Road takes the long view of the Memphis campaign . . . but the book is lovingly 

and scrupulously detailed, evoking the high drama that ensued after ‘the lowly’ demanded 

respect. In the process, it is also suggests indelibly how the movement made King, and how 

King made the movement” (the Nation, May 19, 2008, 36–41). Such recognition did not come 

at the cost of scholarly rigor. Reviews in scholarly journals have praised Honey’s book for 

providing a major reinterpretation of the history of civil rights. A review in the Journal of 

Southern History (circulation of approximately 3,500) by eminent American historian Dennis 

Dickerson, James M. Lawson Jr. Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, notes that 

the “strength of Honey’s moving narrative lies in his deep probes into the personalities and 

principles of the strike’s major and minor participants.” This depth, Dickerson concludes, 

allows Honey to argue convincingly that the strike “marked a major shift in the civil rights 

struggle” (November 2010, 1069–1072). The New York Times praised Daniel Sharfstein’s

Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White as “an 

astonishingly detailed rendering of the variety and complexity of racial experience in an 

evolving national culture moving from slavery to segregation to civil rights” (February 21, 

2011). The Economist lauded Ian Morris’s Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History 

and What They Reveal about the Future (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2010) for its “clarity 

and vigor. . . . This is an important book—one that challenges, stimulates, and entertains. 

Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start 

here.” The catalog of such generalinterest reviews in mass publications 

goes on and on.

NEH continues to fund biographies, 

which often have “crossover” appeal to 

nonacademic audiences. Between 2002 

and 2004, NEH supported Catherine 

Clinton’s Harriet Tubman: The Road to 

Freedom (Little, Brown, 2004); Julia 

Markus’s J. Anthony Froude: The Last 

Undiscovered Great Victorian (Scribner, 

2005); Keith Newlin’s Hamlin Garland: 

A Life (University of Nebraska Press, 

2008); Duane Roller’s Cleopatra: A 

Biography (Oxford University Press, 

2010); Melvin Urofsky’s Louis D. 

Brandeis: A Life (Pantheon, 2009); and 

Roman Koropeckyj’s Adam Michiewicz: 

The Life of a Romantic (Cornell 

University Press, 2008). Biographies 

make history come alive in a way that 

narrative and analytical histories 

sometimes cannot. Clinton’s work 

on the leader of the Underground 

Railroad was acknowledged by both the 

Christian Science Monitor and the Chicago 
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Tribune as the best nonfiction book of 2004. Urofsky’s 

work on Justice Brandeis was judged the book of the 

year by the Economist and the Jewish Book Council. 

Biographies have proven to be one of the best ways for 

NEH scholars to reach a wider reading audience.

Over the last decade, the NEH Fellowships Program 

has strengthened its commitment to encouraging 

writing that is widely accessible to both scholarly 

and general readers. Beginning in 2008, application 

guidelines for NEH Fellowships have listed “clarity 

of expression” among the rating criteria, requiring 

that NEH-supported work be written in language 

understandable by any educated reader. This decision 

formalized an already existing emphasis on the general 

reader that can be seen even in the books published 

with support from 2002–2004 NEH Fellowships. 

Trade publishers, which typically aim at the general 

reader, frequently publish NEH books. The list of 

books resulting from NEH Fellowships awarded between 2002 and 2004 includes many 

trade publishers: Pantheon; Modern Library; Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux; Rowman and 

Littlefield; Longman; W. W. Norton; Hackett; Viking; Random House; Hill and Wang; 

Scribner; and Penguin. A complete list of the publishers who published the books so far 

written with 2002–2004 Fellowships appears in Appendix B.

Impact of Fellowships on Careers

If one measure of success is making a difference in the lives of awardees, then the NEH Fellowships Program has succeeded beyond what the founders of the program may have imagined. A typical junior scholar must publish a book or monograph to receive academic tenure 

and secure a permanent place in the academe. One hundred and twenty of the 357 books 

published by fellows in the study group came from junior scholars, suggesting that NEH Fellowships have played a major role in fostering the career advancement of the next generation of humanities scholars. The survey makes clear that fellowships have tangible impacts 

on the careers of award winners: 92 percent of survey respondents credit their fellowships 

with advancing their careers; 73 percent established new collaborative relationships with 

colleagues as a result of their awards; 61 percent used the work completed during the fellowships to develop a new intellectual approach or interest; and most impressively, 98 percent 

of respondents indicated that their awards had an impact on their careers. For example, 

American historian Marsha Weisiger commented that “none of the awards or accolades 

I’ve received, the new respect I’ve gained from my peers, nor the endowed chair I won at the 

University of Oregon, would have been possible without this vital support. I will always be in 

debt to NEH! It changed my life.” Weisiger received a fellowship in 2004 as a junior scholar 

at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Her book—Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country (University of Washington Press, 2009)—received reviews in Agricultural History, Western 

Historical Quarterly, American Indian Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, and American Scientist. Likewise, art historian Anna Arnar at 

the University of Minnesota, Moorhead, commented, “Regarding my book, I ended up with 

the highest end product possible: quality publisher, beautiful illustrations and design; last 

but not least: the depth and breadth of my research and writing were vastly improved. To 
national endowment for the humanities 17

complete the project still took me a few more years but the NEH year made my book a more 

ambitious and far-reaching work. . . . I am also especially grateful to NEH as I am employed 

by a state-funded institution that does not have a lot of money to support research. I simply 

cannot imagine how I could have written the same book without NEH.” Arnar published The 

Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture 

(University of Chicago Press, 2011), which received the Robert Motherwell Book Award by 

the Dedalus Foundation in New York.

The survey responses also suggest that national awards change the ways that fellows think 

about themselves as scholars. The NEH imprimatur provides validation for many scholars. 

Professor Thomas Augst of the Department of English at New York University notes, “NEH 

offers a warrant of the importance of humanistic scholarship to the United States’ stewardship of new and existing knowledge in the 21st century. There are other grant-making agencies, but none that carry NEH’s meaning, the symbolic message that the humanistic scholarship matters to our civic enterprise. I have won other fellowships in my career, but THIS 

fellowship changed how I thought about the nature and purpose of my work.” Augst’s sentiments are echoed by independent scholar Steven Holmes: “As an independent scholar, my 

NEH Fellowship has helped my career immeasurably by substituting for a formal academic 

affiliation as a sort of certification of my legitimacy as a scholar, thus contributing to my recognition and acceptance in scholarly and professional circles, publication opportunities, availability of freelance work, and so on.”

NEH Fellowships provide a boost for recipients’ careers as scholars in another way: The 

work accomplished while holding a fellowship may have payoffs long after the immediate 

outcome is achieved. For example, Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins University, applied to 

complete research in Taiwanese archives. As a result of her fellowship, she published Speaking 

of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China 

(Routledge, 2011). She reports, however, “I did so much research during my NEH Fellowship, I

am still publishing from the material I gathered that year at Princeton and in Taiwan. In fact, 

my second book on hand mnemonics and Chinese arts of memory, which I am now writing at 

the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, is the result of a new discovery 

of sources I uncovered during that year.” Hanson articulates what many other fellowship 

winners have found: namely, that NEH Fellowships have an intellectual afterlife that shapes 

scholarship long after their initial projects are completed.

Finally, the flexibility and portability of NEH Fellowships have proven to be especially valuable 

in the career of the modern-day scholar. Today’s scholar may be a parent with young children 

or with other family commitments, or the partner of someone who also holds a full-time 

job. NEH Fellowships have been especially successful in meeting such complex needs and 

family situations. As Marsha Weisiger at the University of Oregon notes, “One of the major 

benefits of the fellowship was that, unlike many fellowships from private institutions, it did 

not require residency at some far-away institution. . . . Residential fellowships are particularly 

hard on female scholars, two-career families, and parents, as they often require scholars to 

live apart from their families for the fellowship year (with the added costs of maintaining 

two households and commuting to see family) or to uproot the entire family for a year. 

These are based on an old economic model of a male scholar with a homemaker-wife. [NEH 

Fellowships] are nearly unique in that they have no such requirement.” This sentiment was 

echoed by others, including Greta Austin at the University of Puget Sound: “NEH grants are 

indispensable for women and academics with families. Most other humanities grants (and 

there are very few) require you to move to another place. I am a woman who has two small 
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children and a partner who works full-time (also as a professor), and it is nearly impossible 

for us to apply for these sabbaticals. The NEH allowed me to do my research without having 

to dislocate my whole family.” NEH Fellowships are designed to be flexible, to accommodate 

the increasingly complex lives of the scholars who want to apply. It is gratifying that fellows 

find NEH awards appropriate for their individual circumstances. 

Impact of Fellowships on Classroom Teaching

When the Endowment received authorization from Congress in 1966, the link between a 

scholar’s teaching and research was largely taken for granted. Teaching, it was thought, 

revealed areas for new research and enabled scholars to explore their scholarly interests 

with advanced students, while research, in turn, informed and improved teaching. In 

the 1980s and 1990s, however, increased emphasis on specialization led many in the 

humanities to lament what often appeared as a disconnection between esoteric research 

projects and teaching in colleges and universities.

NEH’s strategy to encourage, identify, and support research that is both significant and 

broadly accessible has helped create stronger bonds between research and teaching. 

Indeed, the survey suggests that fellows frequently measure the success of their awards 

by what they are able to accomplish in the classroom. During the period under review, 93 

percent of NEH awards went to scholars teaching in colleges and universities. Of those 

who responded to the survey, 77 percent indicated that the research conducted with their 

fellowships led them either to create new courses or significantly improve their existing 

courses.

For example, Professor Christine Poggi in the Department of Art History at the University 

of Pennsylvania noted that her fellowship “has had a positive effect on my teaching as well, 

allowing me to revise my graduate seminar in this field, and to develop related material 

in several undergraduate courses.” Professor Clare Crowston, a historian of France at the 

University of Illinois, is particularly articulate on the connection between research and 

teaching: “Not only does NEH allow scholars to pursue new and innovative ideas in their 

research, but these ideas are directly passed on to graduate and undergraduate students 

in the courses we teach. Future citizens and leaders of the country need to receive a postsecondary education that challenges and opens their minds and connects them to the 

latest ideas on culture, society, history, etc., in this country and all over the world.”

Although the study did not attempt to document how many students in classrooms 

across the country are assigned books written by NEH Fellows, the Internet provides 

some information about this on an incidental basis. For example, Frederick Buell’s 2002 

fellowship resulted in From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American 

Century (New York: Routledge, 2003). His book appears on many online undergraduate 

course syllabi in English, history, and sociology at institutions such as Vanderbilt 

University, University of Vermont, Northeastern University, University of Virginia, 

University of Florida, and University of Maryland. Likewise, Anne Kinney’s 2004 NEH 

Fellowship resulted in Chinese Views of Childhood (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 

2005), which has appeared on course reading lists at institutions including Indiana 

University, Case Western Reserve University, University of California–San Diego, 

Princeton University, Louisiana State University, and University of Wisconsin. These 

examples suggest that the work produced by NEH Fellows reaches not only their own 

students but students across the country.
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Conclusions

The core objective of NEH’s Fellowships Program may be stated as follows: To support 

individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general 

audiences, or both. It is to encourage and support scholarship in the humanities that 

advances human knowledge. This evaluation of the program reveals how successful the 

program has been in meeting its objectives. More particularly, the evaluation yielded the 

following salient findings:

•	Approximately 70 percent of NEH Fellows complete their projects (i.e., publish 

a book) within seven to nine years of their awards. Awardees produced 357 books 

within, on average, four and a half years of their fellowships. Ninety-six percent 

of fellows responding to the survey have published a book, article, or essay, or a 

combination of the three.

•	The intellectual content of the books produced is superior to what it would have been 

without support. Fellowships ensure that topics are covered more comprehensively 

and more imaginatively than would otherwise be the case, and that the results of 

research are more effectively communicated to the broadest possible audience.

•	Compared with nonfellows, a significantly higher percentage of fellows produced 

books, and they did so faster. On average, it took NEH Fellows approximately nine 

months less to produce books than those who did not receive NEH support.

•	NEH-supported books stir intellectual debates and conversations among scholars 

as well as more general audiences. This can be seen in the fact that NEH-supported 

books received, on average, three to four reviews within the first three years after 

publication from leading scholarly journals as well as from more popular magazines 

with circulations exceeding one million readers.

•	NEH-supported books are widely acclaimed: Sixty-seven different institutions or 

organizations awarded eighty-four publication prizes to the 2002–2004 fellows.

•	NEH-supported fellowships are broadly distributed: among junior and senior 

scholars, across geographic regions, and to applicants with varied institutional 

affiliations.

•	NEH Fellowships balance a mix of projects at both the research and writing stages. 

While those at the writing stage might seem to be “a sure bet” for completion, 

those at the research stage often represent potential for the greatest advances in 

knowledge.

•	The NEH Fellowships Program is a major funder of independent humanities 

scholars with no academic affiliation as well as scholars employed by nonresearch 

institutions.

•	The NEH imprimatur or “brand” matters. Fellows report overwhelmingly that their 

NEH awards directly resulted in new jobs, new collaborations among scholars, new 

opportunities with presses, and—perhaps most importantly—leveraged money 

from their institutions and other funding organizations to support their research. 

Ninety-eight percent of those completing the survey considered their fellowships 
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to be “extremely significant” for the development of their projects. Over 90 percent 

of those completing the survey considered their fellowships to have had an impact on 

their careers.

•	 77 percent of survey respondents indicated that their NEH-supported research had 

a direct impact on their teaching. NEH Fellowships improve teaching in American 

colleges and universities by deepening the knowledge of educators and supporting 

research that makes its way into widely taught books.

In sum, the results of this evaluation indicate that NEH Fellowships have succeeded in 

supporting humanities scholarship in the United States—contributing to the advancement 

of research and scholarship as well as public understanding of the humanities. Perhaps 

most importantly, the evaluation’s findings suggest that the awards made in fellowships 

are taxpayer money well spent and ultimately a sound investment in the future of 

humanities scholarship.
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Indices:

Appendix A – Books Published by Study Group

Appendix B – Publishers of Books by Study Group (by number of books published)

Appendix C – Publication Prizes Won by Study Group

Appendix D – Publications That Reviewed Books by Study Group
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Appendix A — Books Published by Study Group

Adelson, Leslie. The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature: Toward a New Critical 

Grammar of Migration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (FA3761903)

Afary, Janet. Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 

(FA5039504)

Ahrensdorf, Peter. Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy: Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles’ 

Theban Plays. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. (FB3775102)

Aldrete, Gregory. Floods in the Tiber in Ancient Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 

2007. (FB5003204)

Allsen, Thomas. The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 

2006. (FB5000303)

Altman, Ida. The War for Mexico’s West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524–1550. 

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. (FA5064804)

Ambaras, David. Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern 

Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. (FB3813102)

Amberg, Rob. The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress in Appalachia. Chicago: Center 

for American Places at Columbia College (distributed through University of Georgia Press), 2009. 

(FB3785402)

Ames, Eric. Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 

2008. (FA3758403)

Amith, Jonathan. Möbius Strip: A Spatial History of Colonial Society in Gerrero, Mexico. Stanford: 

Stanford University Press, 2005. (FB3765402)

Amt, Emilie. Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook. Ed. Emilie Amt. New York: 

Routledge, 2010. (FB3837603)

Anscombe, Frederick. The Ottoman Balkans, 1750–1830. Ed. Frederick Anscombe. Princeton: 

Markus Weiner Publishers, 2006. (FB3800802)

Arnade, Peter. Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt. 

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. (FB3819002)

Arnar, Anna. The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Book, and the 

Transformation of Print Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. (FB5036404)

Arribas, Julian. El Pastor de Filida by Luis Galvez de Montalvo. Ed. Julian Arribas Rebollo. 

Valencia, Spain: Albatros, 2006. (FB3831803)

Ater, Renee. Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller. Berkeley: 

University of California Press, 2011. (FA5024604)

Atkinson, Charles. The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music. 

New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. (FA3799003)

Augst, Thomas. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States. Ed. 

Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. 

(FA5033604)
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Austin, Greta. Shaping Church Law Around the Year 1000: The Decretum of Burchard of Worms. 

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2009. (FB3805602)

Bachrach, David. The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen: A History of the Normans on the First 

Crusade. Trans. David S. Bachrach. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. (FB3878503)

Bailey, Beth. America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force. Cambridge MA: Harvard University 

Press, 2009. (FA5055604)

Baker, William. The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters, 4 volumes. Ed. William 

Baker. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005. (FA3745602)

Balaguer, Mark. Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2010. 

(FB3824903)

Balot, Ryan. Greek Political Thought. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. (FA3778103)

Barbieri-Low, Anthony. Artisans in Early Imperial China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 

2007. (FA5016704)

Barnes, David. The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and 

Germs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. (FA3694002)

Bashir, Shahzad. Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam. New York: Columbia 

University Press, 2011. (FB5050604)

Beck, Deborah. Homeric Conversation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. (FB5023404)

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Gli Imperi: dall’età antichita all’età comtemporanea. Bologna: Il mulino, 2009. 

(FA5015804)

Benson, C. David. Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture. 

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. (FA3699802)

Benson, Susan. Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United 

States. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. (FA3777503)

Berger, James. The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition, by Helen Keller. Ed. James Berger. 

New York: Modern Library, 2003. (FB3767502)

Billings, Timothy. Steles. Victor Segalen. Ed. and Trans. Timothy Billings. Middletown, CT: 

Wesleyan University Press, 2007. (FB3844003)

Blum, Susan. Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 

2007. (FB3783202)

Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate. Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378–1417. 

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. (FA3771203)

Bradley, Mark. Vietnam at War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. (FA3715102)

Branham, Joan. Sacred Space Under Erasure: Gender, Sacrifice, and Architecture in Ancient 

Judaism and Early Christianity. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. (FB3770202)

Brashier, Kenneth. Ancestral Memory in Early China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center 

(distributed by Harvard UP), 2011. (FB3761502)
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Breazeale, Daniel. Rights, Bodies, and Recognition: New Essays on Ficte’s Foundations of Natural 

Right. Ed. Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. (FA3730902)

Brink, David. Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T. H. Green. 

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. (FA3725102)

Brodzki, Bella. Can These Bones Live? Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory. Stanford: 

Stanford University Press, 2007. (FB3849403)

Brookes, Douglas. The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman 

Harem. Ed. and Trans. Douglass Scott Brookes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 

(FB3857203)

Brown, Jennifer. La Calisto: Francesco Cavalli. Ed. Jennifer Williams Brown. Middleton WI: A-R 

Editions, 2007. (FA5061104)

Brown, Leslie. Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in 

the Jim Crow South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. (FA3737102)

Bryant, John. Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee. Ann Arbor: 

University of Michigan Press, 2008. (FB3865803)

Budick, Sanford. Kant and Milton. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. (FA3706602)

Buell, Frederick. From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century. 

New York: Routledge, 2003. (FB3769702)

Buhs, Joshua Blu. The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century 

America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. (FB3810702)

Burman, Thomas. Reading the Qur’an in Latin Christendom, 1140–1560. Philadelphia: University 

of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. (FA3729302)

Burnett, D. Graham. Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their 

Significance in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2005. 

(FA3775403)

Byfield, Judith. Cross Currents: Building a Bridge Across American and Nigerian Studies. Ibaden, 

Nigeria: BookBuilders, 2009. (FB3872503)

Canning, Susan. James Ensor. Susan M. Canning, Anna Swinbourne, and Jane Panetta. New York: 

Museum of Modern Art, 2009. (FB3799702)

Carlebach, Elisheva. Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe. 

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. (FA3808603)

Carnevale, Nancy. A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890–

1945. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. (FB3825803)

Caron, David. My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community. Ithaca: Cornell 

University Press, 2009. (FA3697802)

Carone, Gabriela. Plato’s Cosmology and Its Ethical Dimensions. New York: Cambridge University 

Press, 2005. (FA5024004)

Casey, Janet. A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America. New 

York: Oxford University Press, 2009. (FB3834803)
national endowment for the humanities 25

Chickering, Roger. The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Frieburg. New York: Cambridge 

University Press, 2007. (FA5001204)

Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Boston: Little, Brown, 2004. 

(FB3771202)

Cobb, James. Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. New York: Oxford University 

Press, 2005. (FA3714202)

Cobb, Paul. Umayyad Legacies: Medieval Memories from Syria to Spain. Ed. Paul M. Cobb and 

Antoine Borrut. Boston: Brill, 2010. (FA3748902)

Codell, Julie. The Political Economy of Art: Making the Nation of Culture. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh 

Dickinson University Press, 2008. (FA5013604)

Cohon, Rachel. Hume’s Morality: Feeling and Fabrication. New York: Oxford University Press, 

2008. (FA3729702)

Colantuono, Anthony. Titian, Colonna, and the Renaissance Science of Procreation: Equicola’s 

Seasons of Desire. Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2010. (FA5002904)

Cornell, Saul. A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in 

America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. (FA3770103)

Cort, John. Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History. New York: Oxford 

University Press, 2010. (FB5033504)

Cowart, David. Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America. Ithaca: Cornell 

University Press, 2006. (FA3740602)

Cox, John. Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith. Waco: Baylor University Press, 

2007. (FB5029704)

Crais, Clifton. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and Biography. Princeton: 

Princeton University Press, 2008. (FB3858303)

Craun, Edwin. Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing. New York: Cambridge 

University Press, 2010. (FB3789402)

Cressy, David. England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640–1642. New York: Oxford University 

Press, 2006. (FA3763603)

Crist, Elizabeth. Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War. 

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (FA3725902)

Cunning, David. Argument and Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations. New York: Oxford 

University Press, 2010. (FB5017404)

Curp, T. A Clean Sweep? The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945–1960. 

Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006. (FA3791603)

D’Ambra, Eve. Roman Women. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (FB3848903)

Davies, Paul. Subjects of the World: Darwin’s Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature. 

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. (FB3843903)

Davis, Dick. Rostam: Tales of Love and War from Persia’s Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi. 

Trans. Dick Davis. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2007. (FA3703602)
26 Fellowships evaluation

De Armas, Frederick. Quixotic Frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art. Toronto: 

University of Toronto Press, 2006. (FA3765003)

de la Fuente, Alejandro. Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University 

of North Carolina Press, 2008. (FA3718102)

De Puma, Richard. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, 

Etruria, Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. (FA3701002)

Dee, James. A Repertory of the Hexameter Patterns in the Iliad and the Odyssey. New York: 

Olms-Weidmann, 2004. (FB5008504)

DeGrazia, David. Human Identity and Bioethics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 

(FB5011704)

Delegard, Kirsten. Women, Families, and Communities: Readings in American History. New York: 

Pearson Longman, 2008. (FA5032804)

Denham, Robert. Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World. 

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. (FB3800402)

Depastino, Todd. Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. Chicago: 

University of Chicago Press, 2003. (FB3759802)

Deutsch, Lou. The Spanish Gypsy: History of a European Obsession. University Park: Pennsylvania 

State University Press, 2004. (FA3735902)

Donawerth, Jane. Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition, 1600–1900. 

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2011. (FA5002604)

Douglas, Christopher. A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 

2009. (FB5022504)

Driver, Julia. Ethics: The Fundamentals. Malden MA: Blackwell, 2006. (FB5012604)

Dubrow, Heather. The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England. Baltimore: 

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. (FA3759103)

Duffy, John. Writing From These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community. Honolulu: 

University of Hawaii Press, 2007. (FA3788103)

Dym, Jordana. Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader. Ed. Jordana Dym and Karl Offen. 

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. (FB3869903)

Eamon, William. The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy. 

Washington DC: National Geographic, 2010. (FA3694602)

Elgin, Catherine. Philosophical Inquiry: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Ed. Catherine Z. 

Elgin and Jonathan Adler. Indianapolis IN: Hackett, 2007. (FA5022704)

Eller, Cynthia. Gentlemen and Amazons: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861–1900. Berkeley: 

University of California Press, 2011. (FB5062004)

Engel, Barbara. Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia. 

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. (FA3752003)

Everett, Walter. The Foundations of Rock: From “Blue Suede Shoes” to “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” 

New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. (FA3790303)
national endowment for the humanities 27

Fairman, Julie. Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern 

Health Care. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008. (FA3722302)

Farrell, Betty. Entering Cultural Communities: Diversity and Change in the Nonprofit Arts. Ed. 

Betty Farrell and Diane Grams. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008. (FB3813202)

Farrell, John. Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 

2006. (FB3864103)

Feldman, Martha. Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy. 

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. (FA3724302)

Ferraro, Joanne. Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of 

Venice, 1557–1789. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. (FB5015204)

Findley, Carter. Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789–2007. New Haven: Yale 

University Press, 2010. (FA3770003)

Fine, Gail. The Oxford Handbook of Plato, ed. Gail Fine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 

(FA5017304)

Fischer, Lucy. Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form. New York: Columbia 

University Press, 2003. (FA3732402)

Forman, Murray. One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early 

Television. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. (FB3828803)

Fox, William. Driving to Mars. Emeryville CA: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2006. (FB5007204)

Freeland, Cynthia. Portraits and Persons: A Philosophical Inquiry. New York: Oxford University 

Press, 2010. (FB3864703)

French, Katherine. The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion after the Black Death. 

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. (FB3815502)

Frisch, Andrea. The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern 

France. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. (FA5030904)

Frischmann, Donald. Words of the True Peoples: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican 

Indigenous Language Writers. Ed Donald Frischmann and Carlos Montemayor. Austin: University 

of Texas Press, 2007, 2007. (FB3807202)

Fuchs, Rachel. Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France. Baltimore: Johns 

Hopkins University Press, 2008. (FA3730402)

Fudeman, Kirsten. Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish 

Communities. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. (FB3818602)

Fuller, Mia. Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism. New York: Routledge, 

2007. (FA3779203)

Garrett, Paul. Anthropological Linguistics: Multiculturalism. Ed. Paul Garrett. New York: 

Routledge, 2010. (FA5051904)

Gasarian, Gerard. Andre Breton: une histoire d’eau. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du 

Septentrion, 2006. (FB3758802)

George, David Sanderson. Nelson Rodrigues and the Invention of Brazilian Drama. Lawrence, KS: 

University of Kansas Press, 2010.
28 Fellowships evaluation

Gerbino, Anthony. François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution. New 

York: Routledge, 2010. (FB5051204)

Gerzina, Gretchen. Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved 

Out of Slavery and Into Legend. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. (FB3816202)

Giersch, C. Pat. Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China’s Yunnan Frontier. 

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. (FB3875703)

Gilbert, Margaret. A Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of 

Society. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. (FA3802903)

Gill, Meredith. Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to 

Michelangelo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. (FB3868303)

Gillette, Howard. Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the 

New Urbanism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. (FA3726802)

Gillooly, Eileen. Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace. Charlottesville: University of 

Virginia Press, 2007. (FA3786103)

Glixon, Beth. Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and his World in SeventeenthCentury Venice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. (FA5018704)

Glixon, Jonathan. Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and his World in SeventeenthCentury Venice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. (FA5018904)

Goblirsch, Kurt. Lautverschiebungen in den Germanischen Sprachen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2005. 

(FA3758303)

Goldberg, Eric. Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict Under Louis the German, 817–876. 

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. (FB3852003)

Goldberg, Sander. Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic: Poetry and Its Reception. New 

York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. (FA3761603)

Gonzalez, Francisco. Plato and Heidegger: A Question of Dialogue. University Park: Pennsylvania 

State University Press, 2009. (FB3792802)

Goodman, Bryna. Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial 

China. Ed. Bryna Goodman and Wendy Larson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 

(FA3723502)

Graham, Patricia. Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005. Honolulu: University of 

Hawaii Press, 2007. (FB3860903)

Graubart, Karen. With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial 

Society in Peru, 1550–1700. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. (FA5030104)

Gray, Edward. The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American 

Traveler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. (FA5019504)

Green Musselman, Elizabeth. Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial 

Britain. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. (FB3790402)

Green, James. We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the 

United States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. (FB3788202)
national endowment for the humanities 29

Greene, Julie. The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal. New York: 

Penguin Press, 2009. (FA5034204)

Greene, Molly. Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern 

Mediterranean. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. (FA3770203)

Grosholz, Emily. Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences. 

New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. (FA5048904)

Gupta, Anil. Truth, Meaning, Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. (FA3756403)

Gustafson, Sandra. Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic. Chicago: 

University of Chicago Press, 2011. (FA3731202)

Gutzwiller, Kathryn. A Guide to Hellenistic Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. (FA5013804)

Hake, Sabine. Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin. 

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. (FA3759703)

Hanna, Martha. Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War. Cambridge 

MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. (FA3783003)

Hanson, Marta. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic 

Imagination in Late Imperial China. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. (FA3721402)

Hardwick, Julie. Family Business: Litigation and the Political Economies of Daily Life in Early 

Modern France. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. (FA3801903)

Hawhee, Debra. Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece. Austin: University of Texas 

Press, 2004. (FA3747502)

Hayes, Julie. Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600–1800. Stanford: 

Stanford University Press, 2009. (FB5025204)

Hecht, Gabrielle. Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War. Ed. 

Gabrielle Hecht. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2011. (FA3782503)

Heineman, Elizabeth. Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotic Empire of Beate Uhse. Chicago: 

University of Chicago Press, 2011. (FA3698802)

Helm, Bennett. Love, Friendship, and the Self: Intimacy, Indentity, and the Social Nature of 

Persons. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. (FB5029404)

Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro. The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco’s Spain. 

Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. (FA3734502)

Herring, Adam. Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600–800: A Poetics of Line. New York: 

Cambridge University Press, 2005. (FB3831903)

Hight, Eleanor. Capturing Japan in Nineteenth-Century New England Photography Collections. 

Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. (FB3814702)

Honey, Michael. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last 

Campaign. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. (FB3839603)

Horowitz, Joseph. Classical Music in America: A History. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. 

(FB3836503)
30 Fellowships evaluation

Horty, John. Frege on Definitions: A Case Study of Semantic Content. New York: Oxford 

University Press, 2007. (FA5040404)

Huffman, Carl. Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher, and Mathematician King. New 

York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. (FB3817102)

Hutchinson, Elizabeth. The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in 

American Art, 1890–1915. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. (FB5015804)

Ilnitchi, Gabriela. The Play of Meanings: Aribo’s De Musica and the Hermeneutics of Musical 

Thought. Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. (FA5030504)

Inglis, Erik. Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France: Art and Nation after the Hundred Years War. 

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. (FB3762502)

Isenberg, Noah. Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era. New York: 

Columbia University Press, 2009. (FB3855603)

Jaffe, Richard. Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism. 

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2010. (FA5035604)

Jensen, Claudia. Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia. Bloomington: Indiana 

University Press, 2009. (FA5059204)

Johnson, James. Ethics and the Use of Force: Just War in Historical Perspective. Burlington VT: 

Ashgate, 2011. (FA5042004)

Johnson, Kay Ann. Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and 

Orphanage Care in China. St. Paul, MN: Yeong & Yeong Books, 2004. (FB3810302)

Johnson, Paul. Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa. Berkeley: 

University of California Press, 2007. (FA3788203)

Johnson, William. Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite 

Communities. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. (FA3775203)

Jonas, Raymond. The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War. Berkeley: University of 

California Press, 2005. (FA5041204)

Kakoudaki, Despina. All About Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema. Minneapolis: University of 

Minnesota Press, 2009. (FA5057504)

Kamensky, Jane. The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America’s First 

Banking Collapse. New York: Viking, 2008. (FA5031804)

Kaplan, Alice. The Interpreter. New York: Free Press, 2005. (FA5017904)

Kaster, Robert. Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome. New York: Oxford University 

Press, 2005. (FA3752203)

Kaye, Harvey. Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. 

(FB3812002)

Kelly, Christopher. Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings by JeanJacques Rousseau. Trans. Christopher Kelley. Hanover NH: University Press of New England, 

2006. (FA5063804)
national endowment for the humanities 31

Kennedy, J. Gerald. The Portable Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. J. Gerald Kennedy. New York: Penguin, 

2006. (FA3713202)

Kimnach, Wilson. Sermons and Discourses, 1743–1758, by Jonathan Edwards. Ed. Wilson H. 

Kimnach. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. (FB3822902)

Kinnamon, Noel. Domestic Politics and Family Absence: the Correspondence of Robert Sidney, 

First Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney. Ed. Noel J. Kinnemon, Margaret Hannay, and 

Micheal Brennan. Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2005. (FB3835803)

Kinney, Anne. Chinese Views of Childhood. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. 

(FA5007104)

Kirschenbaum, Lisa. The Legacy of the Seige of Leningrad, 1941–1995: Myth, Memories, and 

Monuments. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (FB3845103)

Kleist, Aaron. Striving with Grace: Views of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon England. Toronto: University 

of Toronto Press, 2008. (FB5023304)

Klimasmith, Elizabeth. At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and 

Culture, 1850–1930. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2005. (FB3800202)

Klingler, Thomas. If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That: The Creole Language of Pointe Coupee 

Parish, Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. (FA3804903)

Knox, Giles. The Late Paintings of Velazquez: Theorizing Painterly Performance. Burlington VT: 

Ashgate, 2009. (FA5061004)

Konstan, David. The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature. 

Toronto: University of Toronto University Press, 2007. (FA5002704)

Koropeckyj, Roman. Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University 

Press, 2008. (FA5032204)

Koster, John. Antwerp Harpsichordmakers in the 16th and 17th Century Outside the RuckersCouchet Family: Recent Findings Based on Archival and Organological Research. Antwerpen: 

Ruckers-Genootschap, 2009. (FB3776902)

Koszarski, Richard. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to 

Sarnoff. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008. (FA3776803)

Kremer, S. Lillian. Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Works. Ed. S. Lillian 

Kremer. New York: Routledge, 2003. (FB3783402)

Kroll, Mark. Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician’s Life and World. Lanham MD: Scarecrow 

Press, 2007. (FA3777003)

Krueger, Derek. Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East. 

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. (FB3806802)

Kuehn, Thomas. Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence. New York: Cambridge 

University Press, 2008. (FB3824703)

Kupperman, Joel. Ethics and Qualities of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 

(FA5008604)

Larsen, Anne. Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters. Burlington, VT: 

Ashgate, 2009. (FB5013504)
32 Fellowships evaluation

Larson, Pier. Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora. New 

York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. (FA3793003)

Leibman, Laura. Experience Mayhew’s Indian Converts: A Cultural Edition. Ed. Laura Arnold 

Leibman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. (FB3757502)

Leitch, Vincent. Living with Theory. Malden MA: Blackwell, 2008. (FA5042404)

Leonard, Kathy. Bibliographic Guide to Chicana and Latina Narrative. Westport, CT: Preager, 

2003. (FB3819602)

Leplin, Jarrett. A Theory of Epistemic Justification. London: Springer, 2009. (FB3769002)

Lepore, Jill. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan. 

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. (FA3762903)

Lewin, Ellen. Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America. Chicago: 

University of Chicago Press, 2009. (FA5026704)

Lewis, Mary. The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in 

France, 1918–1940. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. (FA5023904)

Leys, Ruth. From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 

(FA3750502)

Logan, Deborah. The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau. Ed. Deborah Anna Logan. London: 

Pickering & Chatto, 2007. (FB5051104)

Lomas, Laura. Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American 

Modernities. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. (FB5064104)

Lu, Weijing. True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford 

University Press, 2008. (FB5053804)

Lyford, Amy. Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I 

Reconstruction in France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. (FB5019704)

MacDonald, Scott. Canyon Cinema: the Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor. 

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. (FB5036704)

MacWilliams, Mark. Japanese Visual Culture: Exploration in the World of Manga and Anime. Ed. 

Mark W. MacWilliams. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008. (FB3844703)

Madigan, Kevin. The Passions of Christ in High-Medieval Thought. New York: Oxford University 

Press, 2007. (FA3700602)

Malino, Frances. Voices of the Diaspora: Jewish Women Writing in Contemporary Europe. 

Ed. Frances Malino and Thomas Nolden. Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005. 

(FB3839303)

Mann, Susan. The Talented Women of the Zhang Family. Berkeley: University of California Press, 

2007. (FA3695902)

Markus, Julia. J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian: A Biography. New York: 

Sccribner, 2005. (FB5018904)

Marlow, Louise. Dreaming Across Boundaries: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands. 

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. (FB5040104)
national endowment for the humanities 33

Marquardt, Janet. From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony. 

Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. (FB3826803)

Marvin, Roberta. Verdi the Student, Verdi the Teacher. Parma: Istituto Nazionale de Studi 

Verdiani, 2010. (FA5019604)

Masquelier, Adeline. Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town. Bloomington: Indiana 

University Press, 2009. (FA5029304)

McCarthy, Thomas. Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development. New York: Cambridge 

University Press, 2009. (FA3752803)

McCartin, Joseph. Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike 

that Changed America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. (FA3702302)

McCracken, Ellen. The Life and Writing of Fray Angelico Chavez: A New Mexico Renaissance Man. 

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. (FA3792303)

McDonald, Russ. Shakespeare’s Late Style. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 

(FA5062204)

McGinnis, Jon. Avicenna. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. (FB5046404)

Mc Laughlin, Fiona. Murambi: the Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop. Trans. Fiona Mc 

Laughlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. (FA3777603)

McLaughlin, Kevin. Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age. Philadelphia: 

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. (FA3713102)

McNally, Michael. Honoring Elders: Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion. New York: Columbia 

University Press, 2009. (FB5017904)

McNamer, Sarah. Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion. Philadelphia: 

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. (FB3822202)

Mehendale, Sanjyot. Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora. Ed. Sanjyot 

Mehendale. New York: Routledge, 2005. (FA3799103)

Mercer, Christia. Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics. Ed. Christia Mercer 

and Eileen O’Neill. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (FA3733002)

Merricks, Trenton. Truth and Ontology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. (FA5020604)

Milani, Farzaneh. Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement. 

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. (FA3740302)

Miller, Christopher. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade. 

Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. (FA3769003)

Miller, Paul. Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception 

of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. 

(FA5031204)

Miller, Richard. Globalizing Justice: the Ethics of Poverty and Power. New York: Oxford 

University Press, 2010. (FA5052704)

Miller, Thomas. The Evolution of College English: Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the 

Postmoderns. Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. (FA3808003)
34 Fellowships evaluation

Millier, Brett. Flawed Light: American Women Poets and Alcohol. Urbana: University of Illinois 

Press, 2009. (FB3798902)

Molasky, Michael. The Jazz Culture of Postwar Japan: Film, Literature, Subculture. Tokyo: 

Seidosha, 2006. (FB3777602)

Montero, Barbara. Economics and the Mind. Ed. Barbar Montero and Mark White. New York: 

Routledge, 2007. (FB5058704)

More, Ellen. Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine. Ed. Ellen S. More. Baltimore: Johns 

Hopkins University Press, 2009. (FA5002404)

Morris, Ian. Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About 

the Future. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2010. (FA3698402)

Murata, Sachiko. The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms. Cambridge 

MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. (FA5035904)

Murphy, Brenda. The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. New York: Cambridge 

University Press, 2005. (FA3764203)

Naginski, Isabelle. George Sand Mythographe. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise 

Pascal, 2007. (FB3807602)

Napier, Susan. From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the 

West. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. (FA5063304)

Nattier, Jan. A Guide to the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Translations: Texts from the Eastern Han 

and Three Kingdoms Period. Tokyo: Soka University, 2008. (FA3783803)

Newlin, Keith. Hamlin Garland: A Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. (FB5008704)

Newman, Barbara. Frauenlob’s Song of Songs: A Medieval Geramn Poet and His Masterpiece. 

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. (FA5015204)

Newsom, Carol. The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran. 

Boston: Brill, 2004. (FA3719102)

Noble, Bonnie. Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation. Lanham 

MD: University Press of America, 2009. (FB3853303)

Northrop, Douglas. Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia. Ithaca: Cornell 

University Press, 2004. (FA3724702)

Ogilvie, Brian. The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. Chicago: 

University of Chicago Press, 2006. (FA5030804)

Oles, James. Arte Moderno de Mexico: Colección Andrés Blaisten. Ciudad de Mexico: 

Universidad Nacional Automona de Mexico, 2005. (FB3881203)

Orleck, Annelise. Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on 

Poverty. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005. (FB3806402)

Otterness, Philip. Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York. Ithaca: Cornell 

University Press, 2004. (FB3791902)

Owens, John. “By My Absolute Royal Authority”: Justice and Castilian Commonwealth at the 

Beginning of the First Global Age. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005. (FB5005804)
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Paperno, Irina. Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams. Ithaca: Cornell 

University Press, 2009. (FA3777703)

Parker, S. Thomas. The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final Report on the Limes Arabicus 

Project, 1980–1989. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 2006. (FB5042804)

Peavy, Linda. Full-Court Quest: the Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions 

of the World. By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. 

(FB3861203)

Perez, Louis. Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos. Chapel Hill: 

University of North Carolina Press, 2008. (FA3759003)

Petrulionis, Sandra. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord. 

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. (FB3833503)

Petryna, Adriana. When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human 

Subjects. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. (FA5047304)

Phillips, Michael. William Blake, 1757–1827. Paris: Paris musée, Petit Palais, 2009. (FA5015404)

Poggi, Christine. Inventing Futurism: the Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism. Princeton: 

Princeton University Press, 2009. (FA3807403)

Pollack, Howard. George Gershwin: His Life and Work. Berkeley: University of California Press, 

2006. (FA5016004)

Postlewait, Thomas. The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Historiography. New York: 

Cambridge University Press, 2009. (FA5038104)

Postone, Moishe. History and Heteronomy: Critical Essays. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for 

Philosophy, 2009. (FA3726202)

Rao, Anupama. Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India. Berkeley: University of 

California Press, 2009. (FB5048704)

Rashkin, Elissa. The Stridentist Movement in Mexico: The Avant-Garde and Cultural Change in 

the 1920s. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2009. (FB3847703)

Reagin, Nancy. Sweeping the German Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 

1870–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. (FB3801302)

Redfield, Peter. Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism Between Ethics and Politics. Ed. 

Peter Redfield and Erica Bornstein. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, 2010. 

(FA3795303)

Reinhard, Kenneth. The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology. Chicago: University of 

Chicago Press, 2005. (FA5061904)

Riley, James. Poverty and Life Expectancy: The Jamaica Paradox. New York: Cambridge University 

Press, 2005. (FA3745402)

Roberts, Richard. Litigants and Households: African Disputes and Colonial Courts in the French 

Soudan, 1895–1912. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005. (FA3703102)

Robertson, Elizabeth. Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Objects in Global Perspective: 

Translations of the Sacred. Ed. Elizabeth Robertson and Jennifer Jahner. New York: Palgrave 

Macmillan, 2010. (FA5045704)
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Robertson, Michael. Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples. Princeton: Princeton University 

Press, 2008. (FB3799902)

Robinson, David. Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols. Cambridge MA: Harvard 

University Press, 2009. (FB3850403)

Robinson, Jeffrey. Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism. New York: Palgrave 

Macmillan, 2006. (FA3793203)

Roller, Duane. Cleopatra: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. (FB3823902)

Rubenstein, Jeffrey. The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University 

Press, 2003. (FA3756803)

Rupert, Robert. Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 

2009. (FB5064204)

Sanchez-Eppler, Karen. Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American 

Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. (FB3772102)

Sanders, Paula. Creating Medieval Cairo: Empire, Religion, and Architectural Preservation in 19thcentury Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2007. (FA3705702)

Sandler, Stephanie. Commemorating Pushkin: Russia’s Myth of a National Poet. Stanford: 

Stanford University Press, 2004. (FA3742802)

Santi, Enrico Mario. Luz espejeante: Octavio Paz ante la critica. Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 2009. 

(FA3705102)

Saul, Mahir. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century: Art Films and the Nollywood 

Video Revolution. Eds. Mahir Saul and Ralph A. Austen. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. 

(FA5028404)

Saxonhouse, Arlene. Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens. New York: Cambridge 

University Press, 2006. (FA3726002)

Schencking, John. Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial 

Japanese Navy, 1868–1922. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. (FA3706702)

Schrader, Abby. Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History. 

Ed. Abby Schrader, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Willard Sunderland. New York: Routledge, 2007. 

(FB3768202)

Schultz, Nancy. Mrs. Mattingly’s Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure that Shocked 

Washington City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. (FB3841203)

Schutte, Anne. By Force and Fear: Taking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern Europe. 

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. (FA5004204)

Scott, Rebecca. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery. Cambridge MA: 

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. (FA5036504)

Semmes, Clovis. The Regal Theatre and Black Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 

(FB3833803)

Shain, Barry. The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond, ed. Barry Shain. 

Charlottesville: Unviersity of Virginia Press, 2007. (FB5046004)
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Sharfstein, Daniel. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from 

Black to White. New York: Penguin, 2011. (FB5030004)

Shaw, David Gary. Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England. New York: 

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (FB3811402)

Shay, Anthony. Choreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity and Festival in the United States 

and Canada. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. (FB3829803)

Sheehan, Colleen. James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government. New York: 

Cambridge University Press, 2009. (FB5063704)

Shell, Susan. Kant and the Limits of Autonomy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 

(FA5049104)

Shetler, Jan. Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times 

to the Present. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. (FB3869103)

Shohet, Lauren. Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth 

Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. (FB3868803)

Shreiber, Maeera. Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics. Stanford: Stanford 

University Press, 2007. (FA3780303)

Slyomovics, Susan. The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco. Philadelphia: University of 

Pennsylvania Press, 2005. (FA3746702)

Smart, Mary Ann. Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera. Berkeley: 

University of California Press, 2004. (FA3797503)

Smith, Andrea. Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France. 

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. (FB3873703)

Smith, Joanna. Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age. New York: 

Cambridge University Press, 2009. (FA5051504)

Smith, Ursula. Full-Court Quest: the Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions 

of the World. By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. 

(FB3861303)

Sousa, Lisa. Mesoamerican Voices: Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatán, 

and Guatemala. Ed. Lisa Sousa, Matthew Restall, and Kevin Terraciano. New York: Cambridge 

University Press, 2005. (FB3811202)

Spink, Walter. Ajanta: History and Development. Leiden: Brill, 2005. (FA3721202)

Staley, Lynn. Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II. University Park: Pennsylvania State 

University Press, 2005. (FB3824403)

Stasch, Rupert. Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place. Berkeley: 

University of California Press, 2009. (FB5045204)

Stauffer, Andrew. Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 

2005. (FA3796603)

Stephen, Lynn. Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon. 

Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. (FA5022004)
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Stern, Alexandra. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America. 

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. (FA5007304)

Strom, Elizabeth. The Urban Politics Reader. Ed. Elizabeth A. Strom and John Mollenkopf. 

Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2006. (FB3817002)

Stroud, Barry. Engagement and Metaphysical Dissastisfaction: Modality and Value. New York: 

Oxford University Press, 2011. (FA3802303)

Sufian, Sandra. Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 

1920–1947. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. (FA3705802)

Summit, Jennifer. Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England. Chicago: 

University of Chicago Press, 2008. (FA3741802)

Susser, Ida. AIDS, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa. Malden, MA: 

Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. (FA3713902)

Taylor, Bob Pepperman. Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought. 

Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2004. (FB3815102)

Terry, Ann. Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Porec. University 

Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. (FB3782702)

Thomasson, Amie. Ordinary Objects. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. (FA3766903)

Tilley, Terrence. History, Theology, and Faith: Dissolving the Modern Problematic. Maryknoll, NY: 

Orbis Books, 2004. (FA3752903)

Townsend, Camilla. Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico. 

Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. (FB5018204)

Tracy, Sarah. Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition. Baltimore: Johns 

Hopkins University Press, 2005. (FB3773202)

Tsivian, Yuri. Na podstupakh k karpalistike: dvizhenie I zhest v literature, iskusstve I kino. Moskva: 

Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2010. (FA5042204)

Turner, Henry. The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 

1580–1630. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. (FA5028904)

Tutino, John. Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajio and Spanish North America. 

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. (FA3701502)

Urofsky, Melvin. Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. New York: Pantheon Books, 2009. (FB5068104)

Vail, Gabrielle. Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern 

Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period. Washington, DC: Dumbarton 

Oaks, 2010. (FB5033204)

Valenze, Deborah. The Social Life of Money in the English Past. New York: Cambridge University 

Press, 2006. (FB3784902)

Van Norden, Bryan. Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy. New York: 

Cambridge University Press, 2007. (FB5037204)

Veeser, Cyrus. Great Leaps Forward: Modernizers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Boston: 

Prentice Hall, 2010. (FB3840603)
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Walker, Paul. Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. (FB5023904)

Wall, Cynthia. The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century. 

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. (FA3769403)

Wallace, Robert. Hegel’s Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God. New York: Cambridge 

University Press, 2005. (FB3816002)

Weinstein, Philip. Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 

2005. (FB3782002)

Weisiger, Marsha. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 

2009. (FB5060004)

Weiss, Andrea. In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story. Chicago: 

University of Chicago Press, 2008. (FB3837403)

Wellman, Christopher. Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude? Oxford: 

Oxford University Press, 2011. (FB5031204)

Wiese, Andrew. Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. 

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. (FB3790802)

Williamson, Arthur. Apocalypse Then: Prophecy and the Making of the Modern World. Westport, 

CT: Preager, 2008. (FB5053104)

Willingham, Elizabeth. Essays on the ‘Lancelot’ of Yale 229. Ed. Elizabeth M. Willingham. 

Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. (FB5061304)

Wilson, Daniel. Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors. Chicago: University of Chicago 

Press, 2005. (FB3755302)

Winch, Julie. The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America. New York: Hill and Wang, 

2011. (FB5039404)

Wishart, David. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians. Ed. David J. Wishart. Lincoln: University 

of Nebraska Press, 2007. (FB3827903)

Wittman, Richard. Architecture, Print Culture, and Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France. 

New York: Routledge, 2007. (FA5049804)

Wolf, Kenneth. The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary: Testimony from Her 

Canonization Hearings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. (FB5000704)

Wolfthal, Diane. Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books 

of Renaissance Italy. Leiden: Brill, 2004. (FA3708102)

Wu, Yi-Li. Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China. 

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. (FB3793702)

Yablo, Stephen. Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality. New York: Oxford University 

Press, 2008. (FA3764903)

Yaffe, Deborah. Other People’s Children: The Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey’s 

Schools. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. (FB3841103)

Zavala, Adriana. Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in 

Mexican Art. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. (FB5027104)
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Zeiger, Susan. Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth 

Century. New York: New York University Press, 2010. (FB3849503)

Zerner, Henri. Renaissance en France, Renaissance Française? Rome: Academie de France à 

Rome, 2009. (FA3775703)

Zimmerman, Michael. Living with Uncertainty: The Moral Significance of Ignorance. New York: 

Cambridge University Press, 2008. (FB5022104)

Zuckert, Rachel. Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the “Critique of Judgment.” 

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. (FA3751003)

Zuidervaart, Lambert. Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure. New York: 

Cambridge University Press, 2004. (FB3759302)
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Appendix B — Publishers of Books by Study Group

(by number of books published)

40 - Oxford University Press (New York, NY)

32 - Cambridge University Press (New York, NY)

18 - University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL)

15 - Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY)

14 - University of California Press (Berkeley, CA)

12 - Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA)

10 - Ashgate Press (Burlington, VT)

10 - Routledge (New York, NY)

9 - University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA)

9 - Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA)

8 - Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD)

8 - Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA)

7 - Duke University Press (Durham, NC)

6 - Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY)

6 - Yale University Press (New Haven, CT)

5 - Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ)

4 - Columbia University Press (New York, NY)

4 - Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN)

4 - Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ)

4 - University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, HI)

4 - University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC)

3 - Blackwell (Malden, MA)

3 - Penguin (New York, NY)

3 - University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM)

3 - University of Texas Press (Austin, TX)

3 - University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Canada)

3 - University of Virginia Press (Charlottesville, VA)

3 - University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA)

2 - Brill (Boston, MA)

2 - Brill (Leiden, Netherlands)

2 - Dumbarton Oaks Research Library (Washington, DC)

2 - Hill and Wang (New York, NY)

2 - MIT Press (Cambridge, MA)

2 - Ohio University Press (Athens, OH)

2 - Pickering & Chatto (London, UK)

2 - Preager (Westport, CT)

2 - Routledge (Abingdon, UK)
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2 - Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD)

2 - Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD)

2 - State University of New York Press (Albany, NY)

2 - University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL)

2 - University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA)

2 - University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI)

2 - University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE)

2 - University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK)

2 - University of Rochester Press (Rochester, NY)

2 - University Press of New England (Hanover, NH)

2 - W. W. Norton & Co. (New York, NY)

2 - Wiley-Blackwell (Hoboken, NJ)

1 - Academie de France à Rome (Rome, Italy)

1 - Albatros (Valencia, Spain)

1 - Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY)

1 - American Philosophical Society Press (Philadelphia, PA)

1 - American University in Cairo Press (Cairo, Egypt)

1 - A-R Editions (Madison, WI)

1 - Baylor University Press (Waco, TX)

1 - Beacon Press (Boston, MA)

1 - BookBuilders (Ibaden, Nigeria

1 - Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium)

1 - Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Newcastle, UK)

1 - Ediciones Era (Mexico City, Mexico)

1 - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison, NJ)

1 - Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (New York, NY)

1 - Free Press (New York, NY)

1 - Hackett (Indianapolis, IN)

1 - HarperCollins (New York, NY)

1 - Heinemann (Portsmouth, NH)

1 - Il mulino (Bologna, Italy)

1 - Istituto Nazionale de Studi Verdiani (Parma, Italy)

1 - Lexington Books (Lanham, MD)

1 - Little, Brown (Boston, MA)

1 - Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA)

1 - M. E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY)

1 - Mage Publishers (Washington, D.C.)

1 - Markus Weiner Publishers

1 - McFarland Press (Jefferson, NC)

1 - Modern Library (New York, NY)

1 - Museum of Modern Art Press (New York, NY)

1 - National Geographic (Washington, D.C.)

1 - New York University Press (New York, NY)

1 - Northwestern University Press (Evanston, IL)

1 - Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (Moscow, Russia)

1 - Ohio State University Press (Columbus, OH)

1 - Olms-Weidmann (New York, NY)

1 - Orbis Books (Maryknoll, NY)

1 - Pantheon Books (New York, NY)

1 - Paris musée, Petit Palais (Paris, France)

1 - Pearson Longman (New York, NY)

1 - Prentice Hall (Boston, MA)

1 - Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
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1 - Presses Universitaires du Septentrion (Villeneuve d’Ascq, France)

1 - Ruckers-Genootschap (Antwerp, Belgium)

1 - School for Advanced Research Press (Santa Fe, NM)

1 - Scribner (New York, NY)

1 - Seidosha (Tokyo, Japan)

1 - Shoemaker and Hoard (Emeryville, CA)

1 - Soka University Press (Tokyo)

1 - Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL)

1 - Springer (London, UK)

1 - Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, NY)

1 - Universidad Nacional Automona de Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)

1 - University of Georgia (Athens, GA)

1 - University of Kansas Press (Lawrence, KS)

1 - University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN)

1 - University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA)

1 - University of Tokyo Press (Tokyo, Japan)

1 - University Press of America (Lanham, MD)

1 - Viking (New York, NY)

1 - Wesleyan University Press

1 - Winter (Heidelberg, Germany)

1 - Yeong & Yeong Books (St. Paul, MN)
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Appendix C — Publication Prizes Won by Study Group

Awarding Organization Name of Award Fellow

African Studies Association 2010 Melville J. Herskovits Prize for best 

scholarly book on Africa

Adeline 

Masquelier

American Association for the

Advancement of Slavic 

Studies

2006 W. Bruce Lincoln Prize Douglas Northrop

American Association for the

History of Nursing

Theresa Christy Award for Exemplary 

Historical Writing Julie Fairman

American Association of

Teachers of Slavic and East

European Languages

2009 Best Book in Literary and Cultural 

Studies

Roman 

Koropeckyj

American Historical 

Association

2007 J. Russell Major Prize for best book

published in French history Marsha Hanna

American Historical 

Association

2008 Helen and Howard Marraro Prize for 

best book published in Italian history Thomas Kuehn

American Historical 

Association

2008 James Henry Breasted Prize for best 

book in ancient history

Anthony BarbieriLow

American Historical 

Association

2008 John K. Fairbanks Prize for best book

published in east Asian studies Susan Mann

American Historical 

Association

2009 J. Russell Major Prize for best work

published in French history Rachel Fuchs

American Historical 

Association

2010 Wesley-Logan Book Prize for best 

book on African diaspora studies Pier Larson

American Historical 

Association – Pacific Coast 

Division

Norris and Carol Hundley Award Marsha Weisiger

American Historical Review 2007 Higby Prize for best journal article Sarah Stein

American Library Association 2004 Choice Outstanding Reference 

Source S. Lillian Kremer

American Library Association 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Lambert 

Zuidervaart

American Library Association 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Elizabeth 

Klimasmith

American Library Association 2006 Choice Outstanding Academic Title David De Grazia

American Library Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Richard Koszarski
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American Library Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Christopher 

Douglas

American Musicological 

Society

2006 Ruth A. Solie Award for best multiauthored volume Marsha Feldman

American Musicological 

Society

2010 Otto Kinkeldey Award for best book 

by a junior scholar Charles Atkinson

American Philological

Association

2008 Charles Goodwin Award for Best 

Book in Past Three Years David Konstan

American Philosophical 

Society

2008 Jacques Barzun Prize for best book in

cultural studies Thomas Burman

American Society for 

Aesthetics 2006 John Fisher Memorial Book Prize Barbara Montero

American Society for 

Aesthetics 2007 Outstanding Book Prize Rachel Zuckert

American Studies Association 2006 John Hope Franklin Prize Rebecca Scott

Army Historical Foundation 2009 Distinguished Writing Award Beth Bailey

Asian Studies Association Harry Benda Prize Mark Bradley

Association for Asian Studies 2009 Joseph Levenson Prize Anthony BarbieriLow

Association for Asian Studies Joseph Levenson Prize Susan Mann

Association for Latin 

American Art

Arvey Award for best book on Latin 

American Art Adriana Zavala

Association for Latino and

Latina Anthropologists

2008 Outstanding Book Prize Stephen Lynn

Association for Queer

Anthropology

2010 Ruth Benedict Prize for outstanding 

work in anthropology

Ellen Lewin

Association for Slavic, East

European, and Eurasian 

Studies

2009 Orbis Book Prize for Polish Studies Roman 

Koropeckyj

Association for Slavic, East

European, and Eurasian 

Studies

2010 Book of Prize for best book in Literary 

and Cultural Studies

Claudia Jensen

Association for the Study 

of Nationalism

2011 Joseph Rothchild Prize Carter Findley

Association for Women in

Slavic Studies

Heldt Prize for outstanding book Douglas Northrop
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Association of Caribbean

Historians

2006 Elsa Goveia Book Prize Louis A. Perez, Jr.

Association of Wisconsin

Librarians

2005 Best Book of the Year Harvey Kaye

Before Columbus Foundation 2010 American Book Award Nancy Carnevale

Border Regional Library

Association

2011 Southwest Book Award Ellen McCracken

British Society for Middle East

Studies

2010 Award for Best Book Janet Afary

Canadian Society for

Continental Philosophy

2006 Symposium Book Award Lambert 

Zuidervaart

Chicago Tribune 2004 Best Non Fiction Book Catherine Clinton

Christian Science Monitor 2004 Best Non Fiction Book Catherine Clinton

College Art Association 2009 Charles Rufus Morey Prize Anthony BarbieriLow

Columbia University School 

of Journalism and the 

Nicaran Foundation

2012 J. Anthony Book Prize for 

Outstanding Work of Nonfiction

Daniel Sharfstein

Conference on College

Composition and

Communication

2009 Outstanding Book Award John Duffy

Dallas Museum of Art Vasari Award for best book Adam Herring

Dedalus Foundation 2012 Robert Motherwell Book Award Anna Arnar

Denver Public Library Caroline Bancroft Honor Book Award Marsha Weisiger

Gilder-Lehrman Center 2006 Frederick Douglass Prize Rebecca Scott

Historical Society of New

Mexico

Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award Marsha Weisiger

International Association for

Asian Studies

2009 ICAS Book Prize Anthony BarbieriLow

Jewish Book Council 2007 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Sarah Stein

Jewish Book Council 2009 Book of the Year Melvin Urofsky

Louisiana Historical 

Association

2006 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for 

best book

Rebecca Scott

Modern Language 

Association

2010 Howard R. Marroro Prize for best 

book on Italian literature and culture

Christine Poggi
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Montana History Association 2008 Montana Book Award Ursula Smith

New Jersey Council for the

Humanities

2009 Book Award Michael 

Robertson

New York State Historical

Association

Dixon Ryan Fox Award Philip Otterness

North American Conference 

on British Studies

2009 John Ben Snow Book Prize Jennifer Summit

North American Victorian

Studies Association

2005 Donald Gray Prize for the best essay

published in the field of Victorian studies

Catherine Robson

Ohio Academy of History 2011 Publication Award Carter Findley

Oklahoma Historical

Association

2008 Oklahoma Book Award Ursula Smith

Organization of American

Historians

2008 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Michael Honey

Organization of American

Historians

2010 James A. Rawley Prize for best book 

on race relations

Julie Green

Princeton University 2011 Richard A. Lester Prize for 

outstanding book on Labor Relations 

or Labor Economics

Joseph McCartin

Robert F. Kennedy 

Foundation

2008 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Michael Honey

Sixteenth Century Studies

Conference

2009 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize Jennifer Summit

Society for American Music 2006 Lowen Prize for best article in 

musicology

Nancy Rao

Society for Christianity and

Literature

2010 Book of the Year Sarah McNamer

Society for Cultural

Anthropology

2006 Cultural Horizons Prize Peter Redfield

Society for Military History 2007 Best Book Award: Biography Martha Hanna

Society for the Anthropology 

of North America

2007 Prize for Distinguished Achievement 

in the Critical Study of North America

Stephen Lynn

Society of Professional

Journalists

2007 Special Book Award Deborah Yaffe

Southeastern Conference on

Latin American Studies

2010 A. B. Thomas Award for best book in 

Latin American Studies

Ida Altman

Southern Historical 

Association

2007 Kim Hanger Prize for best article on 

Latin American Studies

Ida Altman
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Southern Historical 

Association

2008 M. L. Mitchell Prize for best book on 

race relations

Michael Honey

Southern Historical 

Association

2009 Charles E. Smith Prize for best book 

in European history

Rachel Fuchs

Supreme Court Historical

Society

2011 Griswold Prize Melvin Urofsky

The Economist Book of the Year Joseph Horowitz

Union of English-Speaking

Peoples

2010 Ambassador’s Book Award Melvin Urofsky

United Association of Labor

Educators

Book of the Year Michael Honey

University of Colorado, 

Boulder

Kayden Award for best book written by a 

faculty member

Robert Rupert

Urban Studies Association 2008 Award for best paper published in the 

Journal of Urban Affairs

Elizabeth Strom

Western Association of 

Women Historians

2009 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize 

for best monograph in the field of history

Rachel Fuchs

Western Association of 

Women Historians

2011 Gita Chaudhuri Book Prize Janet Casey

Western Historical Association 2007 Oscar O. Winther Award for best 

article

Marsha Weisiger

Western Writers of American 2008 Spur Award for Best Non-Fiction 

Book

Ursula Smith
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African American Review 

Agricultural History 

America

American Book Review

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

American Historical Review

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

American Indian Quarterly

American Jewish History

American Journal of Human Biology

American Journal of Philology 

American Journal of Sociology 

American Literary History 

American Literature

American Music 

American Music Teacher 

American Quarterly 

American Scientist 

American Spectator 

American Speech 

American Studies

Americas 

Ancient Philosophy

Anthropology & Education 

Antioch Review

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

Army

Artforum International

Asian Ethnology

Atlantis

Augustinian Studies

Australian Journal of Anthropology

Bible and Critical Theory

Biblical Theology Bulletin

Biography

British Journal for the History of Science

Black Issues Book Review

British Journal of Aesthetics 

Business History Review 

California Lawyer

Callaloo

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History

Canadian Journal of History 

Canadian Journal of Public Health 

Canadian Literature

Catholic Biblical Quarterly 

Catholic Historical Review 

Central European History

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

China Quarterly

China Review International 

Christianity and Literature 

Chronicle of Higher Education

Church History

Civil Engineering

Civil War Times

Claremont Review of Books

Classical Journal

Classical Review 

CLIO 

Commonweal 

Comparatist

Comparative Drama 

Comparative Literature 

Comparative Literature Studies

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Contemporary Literature 

Contemporary Review 

Contemporary Sociology 

Current Anthropology 

Current Musicology 

Dance Chronicle

Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review

Discover

Early American Literature

Early Music

East Asian Science, Technology and Society

Ecologist

Economist (US) 

Eighteenth Century Life 

Eighteenth-Century Fiction 

Eighteenth-Century Studies 

English Historical Review 

English Language Notes 

English Studies in Canada 

Essays in Criticism

Ethics

European History Quarterly

European Review of Latin American 

and Caribbean Studies

Europe-Asia Studies

Far Eastern Economic Review

Federal Lawyer

Feminist Collections

Film Comment

First Things

Foreign Affairs

Appendix D — Publications that Reviewed Books 

by Study Group
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Fortune

Free Inquiry

French Forum

French Politics, Culture and Society

French Studies

Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

Geographical

Geographical Journal 

German Politics and Society 

German Quarterly

German Studies Review

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

Hastings Center Report

Hispanic American Historical Review

Historian

Historical Geography

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

History of Science

History Today

History: Review of New Books

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online

Human Rights Quarterly

Hume Studies

Huntington Library Quarterly

International Affairs

International Bulletin of Missionary Research

International History Review

International Journal

International Journal of African Historical

Studies

International Journal of Middle East Studies 

International Review of Social History 

Internet Bookwatch

Isis

Islam & Science

Italian Culture

Journal of African History 

Journal of American Culture 

Journal of American Ethnic History 

Journal of American History

Journal of the American Medical Association

Journal of American Studies 

Journal of Asian Studies

Journal of British Studies 

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Journal of Contemporary History 

Journal of Cultural Geography 

Journal of East Asian Studies

Journal of Ecclesiastical History 

Journal of Economic History 

Journal of Economic Literature

Journal of English and Germanic Philology 

Journal of Environmental Education 

Journal of European Studies

Journal of Gender Studies

Journal of Hellenic Studies

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean

Anthropology

Journal of Latin American Studies

Journal of Legal Education 

Journal of Military History 

Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies

Journal of Modern History 

Journal of Modern Literature

Journal of Musicological Research

Journal of Popular Culture

Journal of Religion

Journal of Roman Studies 

Journal of Social History 

Journal of Southern History

Journal of the American Musicological Society 

Journal of the American Oriental Society 

Journal of the American Planning Association

Journal of the Early Book Society

Journal of the Early Republic

Journal of the History of Philosophy

Journal of the History of Sexuality

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Journal of the West

Journal of Theological Studies 

Journal of Urban History 

Journal of Value Inquiry 

Journal of Women’s History 

Journal of World History 

Judicature

Keats-Shelley Journal

Kirkus Reviews

Kliatt

Kritika

Labor History

Language

Latin American Literary Review 

Latin American Research Review 

Law and History Review

Law and Politics Book Review

Law Library Journal

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers

Libraries and the Cultural Record

Library Quarterly

London Review of Books
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Material Religion

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Medieval Review 

Medievalia Et Humanistica 

Medium Aevum

Middle East Journal

Mind

Modern Age

Modern Drama

Modern Fiction Studies 

Modern Language Notes

Modern Language Quarterly

Modern Language Review 

Modern Philology 

Modernism/Modernity 

Mother Jones

Music & Letters

Music Educators Journal

Musical Times

NACLA Report on the Americas

National Review

Nature

Nature Medicine

Naval War College Review

New England Journal of Medicine

New England Quarterly

New Formations

New Scientist

New Statesman (1996) 

New York Review of Books 

New York Times

New York Times Book Review 

Nineteenth-Century Contexts 

Nineteenth-Century French Studies 

Nineteenth-Century Music Review 

Nineteenth-Century Prose

Notes

Notes and Queries

Notre Dame Philosophical Review

Novel

Nursing Administration Quarterly

NWSA Journal

Opera News

Oral History Review

Oregon Historical Quarterly

Owl of Minerva

Pacific Affairs

Pacific Historical Review

Papers of the Bibliographical Society 

of America

Philosophical Review

Philosophy

Philosophy East and West

Political Communication 

Political Science Quarterly 

Political Theory

Population and Development Review

Public Historian

Publishers Weekly

Quarterly Review of Biology

Raritan: A Quarterly Review

Reason

Renaissance Quarterly 

Research in African Literatures 

Review of English Studies 

Review of Metaphysics 

Reviews in American History 

Rocky Mountain Review

Romantic Review 

Russian Review 

Sarmatian Review 

Saturday Evening Post 

Science News

SciTech Book News

Seventeenth-Century News 

Sewanee Review 

Shakespeare Quarterly 

Shakespeare Studies

Shofar

Signs

Sixteenth Century Journal

Slavic and East European Journal

Slavic Review

Slavonic and East European Review

Social Anthropology

Social Forces Social Justice 

Southeastern Geographer 

Southern Cultures

Southern Humanities Review

Spectator

Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

Studies in Romanticism 

Studies in the Novel 

Teaching Philosophy 

Technology and Culture 

The Nation

The New Republic

The New Yorker

Theatre History Studies

Theatre Journal 
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Theatre Survey 

Theological Studies 

Theology

Time Magazine

Times Higher Education Supplement

Times Literary Supplement

Trial

Tulsa Law Review

Twentieth Century Literature

University of Toronto Quarterly

USA Today

Victorian Studies

Virginia Quarterly Review

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

Washington Post Book World

Washington State Bar News

Weekly Standard

Western Folklore

Western Historical Quarterly 

William and Mary Quarterly 

Women: A Cultural Review 

Women’s History Review 

Women’s Review of Books 

Wordsworth Circle

World Affairs

World History Bulletin 

World Literature Today 

Yearbook of English Studies

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