Current & Past Grant Recipients

2011-12 Grant Recipients

Grantee: Virginie Pouzet-Duzet, PhD

Virginie Pouzet-Duzer, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Pomona College, Claremont, California

Project Title: Literary Impressionism: Seizing the Elusive (Book project to give a coherent overview and definition of impressionnisme litteraire, and to reveal what relationship this –ism from the years of 1870-1914 had with romanticism, realism, naturalism and sympolism).

Grantee: Andrew Aisenberg, PhD

Andrew Aisenberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of French, Scripps College, Claremont, California

Project Title: Fever: An Alternative History of Medicine and Social Organization in French-occupied Algeria, 1830-1870 (Book project)

2005-2006 Grant Recipients

Grantee:  William J. Ashby

William J. Ashby, Provost, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Project Title:  Language variation and change with a focus on French

Grantee:  Karen Pinkus

Karen Pinkus, Professor and Chair, Dept. of French and Italian, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 

Project Title:  Alchemy: Real forms of production of gold, alongside the "fictions" of "magical transformation"  (Book project)

2004-2005 Grant Recipients

Grantee:  Susan Rankaitis

Susan Rankaitis, Fletcher Jones Chair in Art, Scripps College, Claremont, California

Project Title:  Art and photography of France (Sketches and photographic negatives created to enable large-scale works)

Grantee:  James Steintrager

James Steintrager, Professor, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California

Project Title:  The Autonomy of Pleasure (Book project discussing sexual liberation in the 1960's)

2003-2004 Grant Recipients

Grantee:  Chandra Mukerji

Chandra Mukerji, Professor, Dept. of Communication, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

Project Title:  Intelligent Landscapes and Political Power  (Book project on the Canal du Midi)

Grantee:  Marc Silberman

Marc Silberman, Professor, Dept. of German, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Project Title:  French-East German Film Co-productions: Entertainment and Education in the Cold War (Research to lead to a book-length study on GDR genre cinema in the cold-war context)

2002-2003 Grant Recipients

Grantee:  John V. Mutlow

John V. Mutlow, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Project:  Research social and physical conditions of elderly housing, family housing, and special needs housing (Scholarly report)

Grantee:  Richard Helgerson

Richard Helgerson, Professor, Dept. of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Project Title:  Reinventing Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Book project)

2001-2002 Grant Recipients

Grantee:  Dalton Krauss

Dalton Krauss, Professor, Dept of French, Scripps College, Claremont, California

Project Title:  Gender questions in recent French cinema (Manuscript on gender questions in recent French cinema; Article on "Jane B. par Agnes V.")

Grantee:  John V. Mutlow

John V. Mutlow, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Project:  Research social and physical conditions of elderly housing, family housing, and special needs housing (Scholarly report)

2000-2001 Grant Recipients

Grantee:  Patricia Easton, Ph.D.

Patricia Easton, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

Project Title:  The life, writings, and philosophy of 17th-century Cartesian, Robert Desgabets (Book project)

Grantee:  Adrian Raine

Adrian Raine, Professor, Dept. Of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Project Title: Biosocial bases of violence (Book project on research of causes of violence); Mauritius aggression intervention project (Journal article on how early intervention can reduce antisocial behavior in teenagers based on research in Mauritius)

1999-2000 Recipients

Grantee:  Catherine Nesci

Catherine Nesci, Professor, Dept. of French and Italian, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Project Title: Wandering Genders: Representation and the City in France (1780-1920) (Book length study addressing the ways women became more visible as city dwellers in Paris in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century)

Grantee:  Andrea Loselle

Andrea Loselle, Professor, Dept. of French, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Project Title:  Singular Collections and Serial Reproductions in Modern French Literature (Book-length study of the narrative treatment of objects and their collections)

1998-1999 Recipients

Grantee:  Aurora Wolfgang

Aurora Wolfgang, Assistant Professor, Dept. of French, California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California

Project Title:  Furiously Female: The Novel and Feminine-Voice Narratives of France, 1730-1782 (Book project)

Grantee:  Cynthia Brown

Cynthia Brown, Professor, Dept. of French and Italian, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Project Title:  Female Sovereignty in Late Medieval Europe: Public and Private Images (Book project focusing on Anne of Brittany, Margaret of Austria, and their models)

1997-1998 Recipients

Grantee:  Allen J. Scott, Ph.D.

Allen J. Scott, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean, Dept. of Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Grantee:  Marvin Corman, M.D.

Marvin Corman, M.D., Professor and Chair, Division of General Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine,  Los Angeles, California

1996-1997 Recipients

Grantee:  Ann Marie Karlsen

Ann Marie Karlsen, Professor, Art Dept., University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Project:  Mixed media collage art (Create bodies of work including  drawings and paintings from life, still life, landscape, or historical studies utilizing materials collected in France)

Grantee: Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan, Professor, English and Creative Writing, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California

Project:  Novel about an American man and French woman with intrinsic cultural differences (Book Project)

1995-1996 Recipients

Grantee:  John E. Bowlt

John E. Bowlt, Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Project Title:  The Russian Decorative Arts: The Silver Age (1881-1914)  (Book project on the Russian decorative arts of the Art Nouveau period)

Grantee:  Stephen Overturf

Stephen Overturf, Professor, Dept.of Economics, Whittier College, Whittier, California

1994-1995 Recipients

Grantee:  Thomas Leabhart

Thomas Leabhart, Associate Professor, Dept. of Theater for Claremont Colleges, Pomona College, Claremont, California

Project:  Research French theater Director Jaques Copeau (Biographical Book Project) 

Grantee:  Jean-Jacques Courtine

Jean-Jacques Courtine, Professor, Dept. of French and Italian, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Project Title:  The Civilization of the Body (A study of the cultural construction of the human appearances in France from the 16th century to present)

1993-1994 Recipients

Grantee: Marc Redfield

Marc Redfield, Professor, Dept. of English, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

Grantee:  Warren Hollister

Warren Hollister, Professor and Chair, Medieval Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Project Title:  Anglo-Norman Political Culture and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (Research on the subject of war and peace in the Anglo-Norman World, A.D. 1066-1154

1992-1993 Recipients

Grantee:  Eric Gans

Eric Gans,  Professor, Dept. of French, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Project Title: French poetry of the 19th Century (Book project)

Grantee:  James Fuller

James Fuller, Professor, Art Department, Scripps College and Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California; Chair, Art Department, Scripps College, Claremont, California

Project Title: Watercolors from Brittany

1991-1992 Recipients

Grantee:  Arden Reed

Arden Reed, Professor, Dept. of English, Pomona College, Claremont, California

Project Title: The relationship of painting and literature (Research focusing on 19th Century France)

Grantee:  Kevin Robb, Ph.D.

Kevin Robb, Ph.D., Professor, School of Philosophy, University of Southern California

1990-1991 Recipients

Grantee:  Theodore Berg, Jr., D.D.S.

Theodore Berg, Jr., D.D.S., Professor, School of Dentristry, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Project:  Study of precision attachments in both a biologic and mechanical sense for replacing missing teeth

1989-1990 Recipients:

Grantee:  Gerald G. Purdy

Gerald G. Purdy, Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California

Project Title:  Watercolors

Grantee:  Dalton Krauss

Dalton Krauss, Professor, Modern Languages and Literature, Scripps College, Claremont, California

Project:  Book project regarding the relationship between language and contracts in Denis Diderot's work

1988-1989 Recipients:

Grantee: Bob Privitt

Bob Privitt, Professor and Director, University Art Gallery, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California