Humanities Research Grants are generously funded by Cornell’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI).
2024-2025
Debra Castillo (Comparative Literature) & Carolyn Fornoff (Romance Studies)
Mexican East 2024 Conference: Transit
Iftikhar Dadi (History of Art)
Translating Lahore Cinema
Mara Du (History)
Collective Liability in China: From the Qing (1644-1911) to the Present
Oren Falk (History; Medieval Studies)
Un-Stated: Low-Authority Societies in Medieval Europe
Ishion Hutchinson (Literatures in English)
The Middle Passage Revisited
Mari Jarris (German Studies)
Lu Märten's Aesthetics of Reproduction
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
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
Irina Troconis (Romance Studies)
Archiving the Venezuelan Diaspora: Launch of TodoSomos
Parisa Vaziri (Comparative Literature; Near Eastern Studies)
Autopoiesis at the End of Worlds
2023-2024
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
2022-2023
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
2021-2022
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
2019-2020
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
2018-2019
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