Humanities Research Grant Recipients

Anne Adams (Africana Studies and Research Center) 
Toni Morrison: Literature and Public Life

Charles Brittain (Classics) 
Political Philosophy, Politics, and Society in the Hellenistic World

Debra Castillo (Comparative Literature) & Carolyn Fornoff (Romance Studies)
Mexican East 2024 Conference: Transit

Justin Clark (History) 
A Clockwork Republic

Michael Cook (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell Library)
Flat Duo Jet: The Life and Legends of John Michael “Dexter” Romweber II

Iftikhar Dadi (History of Art)
Translating Lahore Cinema

Mara Du (History)
Collective Liability in China: From the Qing (1644-1911) to the Present

Ambre Dromgoole (Africana Studies and Research Center)
"There's a Heaven Somewhere": A Sonic History of Black Womanhood

Oren Falk (History; Medieval Studies)
Un-Stated: Low-Authority Societies in Medieval Europe

Ishion Hutchinson (Literatures in English)
The Middle Passage Revisited

Ana Howie (History of Art and Visual Studies)
A Republic of Splendor: Rubens, van Dyck, and Women’s Agency in Early Modern Genoa

Mari Jarris (German Studies)
Lu Märten's Aesthetics of Reproduction

Ariana Kim (Music)
Common Threads: Exploring the Violin Through the 18th-century Keyboard and World Percussion

Alexandra Kleeman (Literatures in English)
The Taxon Cycle: A Novel in Five Islands

Jonny Lawrence (Near Eastern Studies)
Serious Laughter: Humor and its Uses in Arabic Literature and Islam

Renata Leitão (Human Centered Design)
Aspirations of Youth in Brazilian Amazon Forest

Alexander Livingston (Government)
Mohandas K. Gandhi: Political Writings (edited volume)

Shaoling Ma (Asian Studies)
Asia in Loops: Human-Natural Systems in the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration (LTMS PIP)

Natalie Melas (Comparative Literature) & Tao Dufor (Architecture)
Possible Landscapes: Documenting Environmental Experiences in Trinidad and Tobago

Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri (Music)
Music and Attributes: Optimal Performance in Music Composition and Collaboration

Ernesto Quiñonez (Literatures in English)
Notes from El Barrio

Jessica Rosenberg (Literatures in English)
Technique: Alternate Histories of Expertise and Experiment

Danielle Russo (Performing & Media Arts)
Since Thou Wast Precious in my Sight, VOL. 2

Shirley Samuels (Literatures in English)
Women and the Culture of Democracy

Rachel Sandwell (History)
Freedom Fighters, NGOs, and Church Men: Africa’s National Liberation Moment and the Politics of Solidarity

Suman Seth (Science and Technology Studies)
Medicine and Making a Difference

Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik (History)
 Translating Maghreb Noir and Reaching an International Audience

Irina Troconis (Romance Studies)
Archiving the Venezuelan Diaspora: Launch of TodoSomos

Parisa Vaziri (Comparative Literature; Near Eastern Studies)
Autopoiesis at the End of Worlds

Yu Wang (Science and Technology Studies)
The Moral Economy of Decibels: Space, Technologies, and Noise in China, 1949-2024

Ivana Yi (Asian Studies)
Multispecies Diaspora: More-than-Human Kinship in Korean Literature

Judith Byfield (History)
In the Crossfire of Empires: Africa and World War II

Julia Chang (Romance Studies)
Translation: Making Rice: Race, Gender, and Sexual Dissidence in Contemporary Spain

Chiara Formichi (Asian Studies) & Suyoung Son (Asian Studies)
Transforming Asia with Food: Women and Everyday Life

Carolyn Fornoff (Romance Studies)
In the Crossfire of Empires: Africa and World War II

Stacey Langwick (Anthropology)
Storywork as Groundwork: Land-based Teaching, Research, and Healing in Moshi, Tanzania

Tamara Loos (History)
Thailand’s Cultural Cold War: Gender, Sexuality and Exper/se

Juno Parreñas (Science & Technology Studies; Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Retirement on an Overworked Planet: The Case of Post-Industrial Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Verity Platt (Classics)
Epistemic Objects: Making and Mediating Classical Art and Text

Annette Richards (Music) & Richard Mosely (Music)
Keyboard Energies

Kristin Roebuck (History)
Remember Girl Zero: Trafficked Women, Imperial Men, and the Ends of Abolition

Dan Schwarz (Literatures in English)
The Power of Narrative: The Story in Fiction and Film of French Complicity in the Holocaust

Irina Troconis (Romance Studies)
The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

Sara Warner (Performing & Media Arts)
Lorraine & Jane: Lorraine Hansberry, Jane Chambers, and the Queer Culture Work of Lesbian Performance

Benjamin Anderson (Art History)
Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?

Timothy Campbell (Romance Studies)
Italian Thought Differently: ‘Instituting’ Public Health in Lombardy

Debra Castillo (Comparative Literature)
Community building for better living: Santa Martha, Berriozábal, Chiapas, Mexico

Tao Leigh Goffe (Africana Studies; Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies)
After Eden: Race, Natural History, and Climate Crisis

Noah Tamarkin (Anthropology; Science & Technology Studies)
Juridical Genetics as Carceral Science

Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Literatures in English)
Researching Global Blackness: A Long History of Resistance

Catherine Appert (Music)
Atlantic Currents: Music and Memory in the New African Diaspora

Durba Ghosh (History)
Monuments, Statues, and Commemorations: how to re-monumentalize now?

Rebecca Harris-Warrick (Music)
Bringing Innovative 18th-Century Operas to Cornell

Ishion Hutchinson (English)
Towards a Lighthouse

Alexander Livingston (Government)
James Tully: To Think and Act Differently

Kristin Roebuck (History)
JAPAN REBORN: Race, Nation, and Foreign Relations after World War II

Dan Schwarz (English)
The Power of Narrative: The Story in Fiction and Film of French Complicity in the Holocaust

Catherine Appert (Music)
Atlantic Currents: Music and Memory in the New African Diaspora

Caitlín Barrett (Classics)
Rethinking Pompeian Households: The Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) Project, Pompeii

Xak Bjerken (Music)
Ithaca Sounding 2020

Charles Brittain (Classics, Philosophy)
Workshop on Cicero’s Timaeus

Cheryl Finley (Art History)
Black Market: Inside the Art World

Chiara Formichi (Asian Studies)
Pious Moderns: Crafing Modern Muslims in Indonesia

Kim Haines-Eitzen (Near Eastern Studies)
A Natural History of Religion: The Case of Ethiopia

Rayna Kalas (English)
How to Frame Your Government

Jenny Mann (English)
The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime

Patchen Markell (Government)
Hannah Arendt and the Archives of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Shirley Samuels (English)
Cultural Testimony and the Civil War

Catherine Appert (Music)
Music and Memory in the New African Diaspora

Caitlín Barrett (Classics)
Identity and Performance in the Roman Garden: The Casa della Regina Carolina at Pompeii

Debra Castillo (Comparative Literature)
International Collaborative Performance Project with Debaroti Chakraborty

Alexandra Cirone (Government)
Bridging the Gap: Lottery-based Procedures in Early Parliamentarization

Raymond Craib (History)
Libertarian Noir: Unsettled histories of exit and enclosure

Brett de Bary (Asian Studies)
Tawada Yōko’s Translation, Fiction, Theory

Michael Fontaine (Classics)
Translating Vincent Obsopoeus' The Art of Drinking

Arnika Fuhrmann (Asian Studies)
In the Mood for Texture: Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Shanghai's Urban and Media Revivals of Chinese Colonial Modernity and New Transregional Imaginations of 'Asia'

Lori Khatchadourian (Near Eastern Studies)
Industrial Ruination: The Vibrant Afterlife of Socialist Modernity

Karen Jaime (Performing & Media Arts)
The Queer Loisaida: Performance Aesthetics at the Nuyorican Poets Café

Alejandro Madrid (Music)
Support for the Spanish Translation of In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13

Rebekah Maggor (Performing & Media Arts)
Playwright, Poet, and Scholar: Mas’ud Hamdan

Jenny Mann (English)
Orpheus on Trial: Renaissance Poetics and the History of Knowledge

Kate McCullough (English)
Never On Time, But Always in Time: Queer Temporalities and Narrative Form

Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri (Music)
Facing Sound

Jon Parmenter (History)
Lives on the Line: The Mohawk Community of Akwesasne and the International Boundary Across Four Centuries

Kristin Roebuck (History)
Japan Reborn: Race and Nation after World War II

Jeffrey Rusten (Classics)
An online lexicon to Thucydides

Dan Schwarz (English)
Understanding the Holocaust in the Twenty-First century: Major Memoirs, Fiction, and Films