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VU humanities scholars win a number of research awards

Posted 4/21/2008

This year, Vanderbilt’s humanities scholars have had unprecedented success in competitions for some of the most prestigious research awards in the U.S.

Faculty members have won two Guggenheim Fellowships and awards in three different programs from the ACLS, as well as an assortment of other major and highly competitive grants.

Congratulations to the following faculty members:

Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History
Guggenheim Fellowship and ACLS Fellowship

Jay Bloom, Assistant Professor of History of Art
ACLS Fellowship

William Caferro, Associate Professor of History
Otto Grundler Prize from the Medieval Academy, Best Book in Medieval Studies, all fields and languages, for his book, John Hawkwood:  An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy

Joy Calico, Associate Professor of Musicology
ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship and Howard Fellowship

Anastasia Curwood, Assistant Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies
Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty

Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor of German
Guggenheim Fellowship

Larry Isaac, Professor of Sociology
NEH Fellowship

John Janusek, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies

Dana Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies
elected to American Antiquarian Society

Allison Schachter, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and English
NEH Summer Fellowship

Contact: Carolyn Dever, (615)322.7360
Carolyn.dever@vanderbilt.edu

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