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Each year NEH offers teachers opportunities to study humanities
topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and Institutes. The dates
and duration of each project are listed under each title. The
application deadline is March 1, 2005.
Amount of Award
All teachers selected to participate in a seminar or institute will be awarded a fixed stipend of $3,000, $3,600, or $4,200 (depending on the length of the seminar or institute) to help cover the costs of travel, books and other research expenses, and living expenses.
Eligibility
For detailed eligibility requirements, applicants should consult the written application materials. Selection committees for seminars and institutes are directed to give first consideration to applicants who have not participated in an NEH supported seminar or institute in the last three years.
How to Apply
Please send or e-mail a request for application information and expanded project descriptions to the seminar and institute directors listed here. When doing so, please include your regular mailing address since directors may send application material through the mail. You may request information about as many projects as you like, but you may apply to no more than two projects. The application deadline is March 1, 2005 (postmark).
Information
Please direct all questions concerning individual seminars and institutes
as well as all requests for application materials to the appropriate
director. General questions concerning the National Endowment for
the Humanities' Seminars and Institutes Program may be directed
to 202-606-8463 or e-mail: sem-inst@neh.gov.
Equal Opportunity
NEH programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national
origin, sex, disability, or age. For further information, write
to the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer, National Endowment
for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
20506. TDD (for the hearing-impaired only) 1-866-372-2930.
Seminars
Each seminar includes fifteen participants working in collaboration with one or two leading scholars. Participants will have access to a major library collection, with time reserved to pursue individual research and study projects.
POLITICAL OBLIGATION, DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ISSUES
June 13-July 15, 2005 (5 weeks)
Andrew Altman, Georgia State University, and
Christopher Heath Wellman, Washington University-St. Louis
Information: Andrew Altman
Department of Philosophy
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4089
Atlanta, GA 30302-4089
404/651-1417
nehseminar@gsu.edu
http://www.gsu.edu/nehseminar
GENRE, DIALOGUE, AND COMMUNITY IN BRITISH ROMANTICISM
June 13-July 22, 2005 (6 weeks)
Stephen Behrendt
Department of English
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
402/472-1806
SBEHRENDT1@unl.edu
http://www.unl.edu/sbehrend/html/sbsite/sbhome.htm
TERROR AND CULTURE: REVISITING HANNAH ARENDT'S ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM
June 27-August 4, 2005 (6 weeks)
Russell A. Berman, Stanford University, and
Julia C. Hell, University of Michigan
Information: Russell A. Berman
Department of German Studies
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2030
650-723-1069
berman@stanford.edu
(Seminar Location: Stanford University, CA)
THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY AND THE MAKING OF THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD
June 27-August 5, 2005 (6 weeks)
R. Howard Bloch
c/o Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-6900 x 1246
howard.bloch@yale.edu
Seminar Location: Yale University, CT
EARLY AMERICAN MICROHISTORIES
June 6-July 1, 2005 (4 weeks)
Richard D. Brown
University of Connecticut
Humanities Institute
215 Glenbrook Rd., Unit 4234
Storrs, CT 06269-4234
860-486-9057
Information: Jo-Ann Waide
j.waide@uconn.edu
JOSEPH SMITH AND THE ORIGINS OF MORMONISM: BICENTENNIAL PERSPECTIVES
June 20-July 29, 2005 (6 weeks)
Richard Bushman, Columbia University, and
Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University
Information: Grant Underwood
Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
801-422-7522
gru2@byu.edu
(Institute Location: Brigham Young University)
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
June 20-July 29, 2005 (6 weeks)
William R. Cook
Department of History
1 College Circle
State University of New York, Geneseo
Geneseo, NY 14454
585-243-3139
fransem@geneseo.edu
(Seminar Locations: Siena, Rome, and Assisi, Italy)
FAULKNER AND SOUTHERN HISTORY
June 13-July 15, 2005 (5 weeks)
Don Doyle
University of South Carolina
Department of History
245 Gambrell Hall
Columbia, SC 29208
803-777-5195
don.doyle@sc.edu
ROMAN RELIGION IN ITS CULTURAL CONTEXT
June 27-August 5, 2005 (6 weeks)
Karl Galinsky
Department of Classics
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C3400
Austin, TX 78712
512-471-8504
galinsky@mail.utexas.edu
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~galinsky/NEH/
(Seminar Location: American Institute for Roman Culture, Rome, Italy)
READING EMERSON'S ESSAYS
June 6-July 2, 2005 (4 weeks)
Russell B. Goodman
Department of Philosophy
MSC 03 2140
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
505-277-2405
emerson@unm.edu
http://www.unm.edu/~emerson
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND ENGLISH POETRY, 1633-1985
June 20-July 21, 2005 (4 weeks)
Kevin J. Hart
Department of English
University of Notre Dame
356 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-631-4579
khart2@nd.edu
VISIONS OF FREEDOM FOR THE AMERICAS: EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS AND JOSÉ MARTÍ IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK
In Spanish and English
June 28-July 23, 2005 (4 weeks)
Orlando José Hernández and Lucinda Zoe
Information: Lucinda Zoe
Humanities and Library Department
CUNY, Hostos Community College
475 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10451
718-518-4211
LZOE@hostos.cuny.edu
THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC AND THE PROBLEM OF GOVERNANCE
June 6-July 1, 2005 (4 weeks)
John L. Larson and Michael A. Morrison
Purdue University
Information: John L. Larson
1810 Rittenhouse Square #1905
Philadelphia, PA 19103
765-412-9166
LARSONJL@sla.purdue.edu
(Seminar Location: Library Company of Philadelphia, PA)
ROOTS: AFRICAN DIMENSIONS OF THE EARLY HISTORY AND CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS
June 6-July 15, 2005 (6 weeks)
Joseph C. Miller
University of Virginia
Information: Carrie Janney
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
145 Ednam Dr.
Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629
434-924-6395
cej4b@virginia.edu
HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
June 13-July 22, 2005 (6 weeks)
Andrew J. Nathan
Information: Janice Duffin
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, MC 3333
Columbia University
420 West 118th St.
New York, NY 10027
212-854-4278
jd2085@columbia.edu
AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR: VIETNAM, 1945-1975
June 20-July 29, 2005 (6 weeks)
Charles E. Neu
Department of History
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33124-4620
305-668-7978
cneu@bellsouth.net
NARRATIVE THEORY: RHETORIC AND ETHICS IN FICTION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
June 20-July 29, 2005 (6 weeks)
James Phelan
Department of English
Ohio State University
164 W. 17th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
Information: Aaron McKain
614-292-2061
mckain.3@osu.edu
ITALIAN FASCISM: HISTORY AND INTERPRETATIONS
June 6-July 15, 2005 (6 weeks)
Frank M. Snowden
Department of History
Yale University
P.O. Box 208324
New Haven, CT 06520-8324
203-432-0507
frank.snowden@yale.edu
(Seminar Location: American Academy in Rome, Italy)
RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND THE COMMON GOOD
June 6-July 15, 2005 (6 weeks)
Alan Wolfe
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
Boston College
24 Quincy Rd.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Information: Thomas DeNardo
617-552-6362
publife@bc.edu
TRAVEL WRITING, SKEPTICISM, AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF IN RENAISSANCE FRANCE
July 11-August 5, 2005 (4 weeks)
Carla Zecher, The Newberry Library, and
George Hoffmann, University of Michigan
Information: Carla Zecher
Center for Renaissance Studies
The Newberry Library
60 West Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
312-255-3514
renaissance@newberry.org
(Seminar Location: The Newberry Library)
Institutes
Institutes provide intensive collaborative study of texts, topics, and ideas central to undergraduate teaching in the humanities under the guidance of faculties distinguished in their fields of scholarship. Institutes aim to prepare participants to return to their classrooms with a deeper knowledge of current scholarship in key fields of the humanities.
SOUTHEAST ASIA: THE INTERPLAY OF INDIGENOUS CULTURES AND OUTSIDE INFLUENCES
June 20-July 22, 2005 (5 weeks)
Leonard Andaya and Barbara Watson Andaya
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Faculty: Michael Feener, Kenneth George, Henk Maier, Juliane Schober, Jomo Sundaram
Information: Sandra Osaki
Asian Studies Development Program
East-West Center
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848
808-944-7337
808-944-7070 (fax)
OsakiS@EastWestCenter.org
http://www.eastwestcenter.org//edu-ct.asp
GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES IN THE U.S.: CHANGING WORLD, SHIFTING NARRATIVES
July 6-August 2, 2005 (4 weeks)
Barton Byg
Faculty: Sky Arndt-Briggs, Patricia Herminghouse, Sara Lennox, Thomas Lindenberger
Information: Barton Byg
Germanic Languages and Literatures
University of Massachusetts
Herter Hall
Amherst, MA 01003
413-545-6671
nehinst@german.umass.edu
INQUISITIONS AND PERSECUTIONS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS
June 13-July 15, 2005 (5 weeks)
Vincent Carey, SUNY Plattsburgh, and
Ralph Bauer and Adele Seeff, University of Maryland
Faculty: Georgina Dopico Black, Frances Dolan, Christopher Highley, Norman Jones, John King, Jessie Ann Owens, Carla Pestana
Information: Adele Seeff
Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
Room 0139 Taliaferro Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-6830
crbs@umail.umd.edu
(Institute Location: University of Maryland)
AFRICAN CINEMA
June 8-July 6, 2005 (4 weeks)
Mbye Cham and Manthia Diawara
Faculty: Moussa Sene Absa, Boubacar Barry, Ben Diogaye Beye, Boubacar Boris Diop, Samba Gadjigo, Siga Fatima Jagne, Gaston Kabore, Fatou Kande-Senghor, Koyo Kouoh, Adebay Olukoshi, Ousmane Sene, Fatou Sow, Khady Sylla, Clyde Taylor, Mansour Sora Wade
Information: Mbye Cham
Department of African Studies
Howard University
2225 Georgia Ave., N.W., Room 416
Washington, DC 20059
202-238-2355
africancinema@howard.edu
(Institute Location: Dakar, Senegal)
THE REDEMPTIVE WEST: NATIONHOOD AND HEALING IN THE POST-CIVIL WAR AMERICAN WEST
July 11-August 12, 2005 (5 weeks)
William Deverell, University of Southern California
Faculty: Douglas Flamming, Judith Jackson Fossett, Greg Hise, Elliott West, Richard White
Information: Robert Ritchie
Henry E. Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Rd.
San Marino, CA 91108
626-405-2194
rritchie@huntington.org
(Institute Location: Henry E. Huntington Library)
CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION IN THE PRE-MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD
June 20-July 29, 2005 (6 weeks)
Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago, and
Kenneth R. Hall, Ball State University
Faculty: Cornell Fleischer, Daniel Goffmann, Stewart Gordon, Jay Spaulding, Donald S. Whitcomb
Information: Fred M. Donner
The Oriental Institute
The University of Chicago
1155 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-9544 or 9512
f-donner@uchicago.edu
(Institute Location: University of Chicago)
ANDEAN WORLDS: NEW DIRECTIONS IN SCHOLARSHIP AND TEACHING
June 26-July 31, 2005 (5 weeks)
Laraine Fletcher, Adelphi University, and
George Scheper, Community College of Baltimore County-Essex
Faculty: Rolena Adorno, Walter Alva, Richard Burger, Tom Cummins, Sara Castro-Klarén,
Regina Harrison, Flores Ochoa, Frank Salomon, Charles Stanish
Information: David A. Berry, Executive Director
Community College Humanities Association
c/o Essex County College
303 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102-1798
973-877-3577
berry@essex.edu
http://www.ccha-assoc.org/andeanworld/index.html
(Institute Location: Lima, Pisac, Cusco, and Puno, Peru)
RETHINKING AMERICA IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
June 20-July 15, 2005 (4 weeks)
John R. Gillis, Rutgers University, and
Carl J. Guarneri, St. Mary's College of California
Faculty: Michael Adas, Thomas Bender, Victoria de Grazia, Michael Geyer, Eliga Gould, Karen Ordahl Kupperman, John R. McNeill, Neal Salisbury
Information: Debbie Ann Doyle
American Historical Association
400 A Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
202-544-2422 x104
ddoyle@historians.org
(Institute Location: Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
LATIN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: THE APPROPRIATION OF EUROPEAN THOUGHT IN LATIN AMERICA
June 6-June 30, 2005 (4 weeks)
Jorge J.E. Gracia, State University at Buffalo, and
Susana Nuccetelli, St Cloud State University
Faculty: Ivan Jaksic and Ofelia Schutte
Information: Leigh Duffy
Department of Philosophy
114 Park Hall
State University at Buffalo
Amherst, NY 14260-4150
716-645-2444 x 114
lduffy78@yahoo.com
(Institute Location: State University at Buffalo)
THE HANDWRITTEN WORLDS OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Dates: June 20-July 29, 2005 (6 weeks)
Steven W. May, Georgetown College, KY
Faculty: Julia Boffey, Victoria Burke, S. P. Cerasano, A.S.G. Edwards, Mary C. Erler, Margaret J.M. Ezell, Adam Fox, Laura Gowing, Harold Love, Alan Stewart, Paul Werstine, H. R. Woudhuysen
Information: Kathleen Lynch
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol St., SE
Washington, DC 20003-1094
202-675-0333
institute@folger.edu
A VOICE OF THEIR OWN: WOMEN WRITING--VENICE, LONDON, MADRID, PARIS--1550-1700
July 10-August 6, 2005 (4 weeks)
Albert Rabil
Faculty: Sharon Strocchia, Elissa Weaver; Vanessa Harding, Jean Howard; Michele Longino, Jay Smith; Jodi Bilinkoff, Margaret Greer
Information: Albert Rabil
2305 Honeysuckle Rd.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919-967-0231
arabil@nc.rr.com
(Institute Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
BRITISH AND INDIGENOUS CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICA: 1580-1785
July 11-August 12, 2005 (5 weeks)
Scott Manning Stevens, University at Buffalo
Faculty: Mary Fuller, Donald Grinde, Peter Mancall, Ann Marie Plane
Information: Scott Manning Stevens
Department of English
306 Clemens Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-4610
716-645-2575 x 1030
smsteven@buffalo.edu
(Institute Location: John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI)
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