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HFF Recipients (FY20)
Recipients of Humanities Facilitating Fund awards in FY20
| Principal Investigator | Project Title | Department |
Paula Alonso-Gortari | Democracies of Clay Feet. Argentina, 1860-1930 | Elliott School of International Affairs |
Tyler Anbinder | Networks of Opportunity: How New York's Irish Famine Immigrants Survived, And Eventually Thrived, in New York City and Beyond | History |
Libby Anker | The Sweet Taste of Freedom: Barbados, Sugar, and The Origins of Modern Liberty | American Studies |
Masha Belenky | Beyond La Mode Illustree: The Fictiions of Emmeline Raymond & Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in 19th Century Paris | Romance, German & Slavic Languages |
Douglas Boyce | 'Partita: completion and recording' | Corcoran School of the Arts and Design |
Liana Chen | Staging the Empire: A History of Qing Court Theatre, 1662-1924 | East Asian Languages and Literatures |
Diane Cline | Dedications on the Athenian Acropolis: New Evidence | Classical and Near Eastern Languages |
Jamie Cohen-Cole | The Science of Children | American Studies |
Hongyuan Dong | Linguistic Nation-Building in Modern China (1728-Present) | East Asian Languages and Literatures |
Hope Harrison | After the Berlin Wall Book | Elliott School of International Affairs |
Trevor Jackson | Markets of Exception: An Economic History of Impunity in Britain and France 1720-1830 | History |
Cory Jorgensen | Reinterpreting Medieval Arabic Lampoon Poetry | Classical and Near Eastern Languages |
Melani McAllister | We Were the World: Tragedy and Humanitarian Desire in the Long 1970s | American Studies |
Rachel Riedner | Beyond Recovery: Toward a Critical Transnational Rhetorical Praxis | University Writing Program |
Christopher Rollston | Writing and Scribal Culture in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity | Classical and Near Eastern Languages |
Elizabeth Rule | Food Sovereignty in Native America: Feeding People, Nations, and Cultures | College of Professional Studies |
Francesco Sinatora | Monograph Publication: Language, Identity and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media | Classical and Near Eastern Languages |
Susan Sterner | Estoy por aquí / I am here Community Engagement | Corcoran School of the Arts and Design |
Lynn Westwater | Sarra Copia Sulam: A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice | Romance, German & Slavic Languages |