The Board of Administration of the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard has awarded eleven fellowships of $25,000 each for the academic year 2009-2010. The eleven recipients, representing the fields of History and Philosophy, were selected from this year's outstanding group of applicants by the Board of Administration of the Foundation. The 2009-2010 fellows and their projects are:
History
Markus Asper, Associate Professor of Classics, New York University, Narratives in (Ancient Greek) Science Writing.
Caroline Castiglione, Associate Professor of Italian Studies and History, Brown University, Accounting for Affection: Mothering and Politics in Rome, 1630-1730.
James Cook, Associate Professor of History and American Culture, University of Michigan, Master Juba, The King of All Dancers! A Fugitive Story from the Birth of Mass Culture.
Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages, Columbia University, Christian Hajjis: The Forgotten Pilgrims to Ottoman Jerusalem.
Laura McEnaney, Associate Professor of History and Nadine Austin Wood Chair in American History, Whittier College, World War II's "Postwar": A Social and Policy History of Peace, 1944-1953.
Mark Overmeyer-Velázquez, Associate Professor of History and Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Connecticut, "Bleeding Mexico White," Race, Nation, and the History of Mexico-US Migration.
Karl Qualls, Chair and Associate Professor of History, Dickinson College, and Director, Dickinson College Humanities Program, University of East Anglia, The Making of Soviet Niños: Raising Spanish Children in Stalin's USSR, 1937-51.
Manisha Sinha, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865.
Philosophy
Joshua Gert, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University, Value, Response-Dependence, and Secondary Qualities.
Amy Olberding, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Oklahama, Examplarism and the Analects.
Pavlos Sfyroeras, Associate Professor of Classics, Aristophanes Sophos: Comedy and Philosophy in the Late Fifth Century.