2024-2025 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Daniel Brunstetter
Daniel Brunstetter, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Title: Last Letters of the Executed in Nazi Occupied France: From World War II to the Twenty-First Century (book project)
Grantee: Ian Coller
Ian Coller, Professor, Department of the History, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Title: The Global Village: Refugees, Prisoners of War and Deserters in Rural Communities During the French Revolution
2023-2024 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Jason Glenn
Jason Glenn, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Project Title: Bishops and Kings: Adalbero of Laon (c. 950-c.1031) and Transformation of the West Frankish Polity (book project)
Grantee: Susan Laxton
Susan Laxton, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California
Project Title: Juxtographers: French Surrealism and the Politics of Photomontage, 1928-1936 (book project)
2022-2023 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Robert Cutietta
Robert Cutietta, Dean, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Project Title: (re)Vision 2020 (book project)
Grantee: Andrew Devereux
Andrew Devereux, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, San Diego, California
Project Title: Children of Adam: Gentiles, the Tropics, and Ethno-Religious Difference in the Early Modern Atlantic World (book project)
2021-2022 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Sabrina Strings
Sabrina Strings, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Title: Removing Fatness and Blackness from Beauty: Antoine Watteau and the Making of the Thin, White Belle (book project)
Grantee: Natania Meeker
Natania Meeker, Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Project Title: Illusion Without Error: The Matter of Gender in Eighteenth-Century France (book project)
2020-2021 Grant Recipients
Program postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic
2019-2020 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Sarah Farmer
Sarah Farmer, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Title: Between county and city: Photography and the emergence of peri-urban space in France, 1950-2018 (scholarly publication on Raymond Depardon and Lewis Baltz)
Grantee: Andrea Caban
Andrea Caban, Assistant Professor and Head of Voice and Speech, Theatre Arts, California State University, Long Beach, California
Project Title: Internationalizing actor speech training for the 21st century (book project which addresses speech training for actors from all racial, cultural, and gender backgrounds and identities and workshops)
2018-2019 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Margaret Waller
Margaret Waller, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Pomona College, Claremont, California
Project Title: The emperor, the priest, and the men who invested modern fashion (book project)
Grantee: Heather Blurton
Heather Blurton, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Project Title: Reading Ritual Murder: Anti-Semitism and Twelfth-Century Literary Culture (book project)
2017-2018 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Virginie Duzer
Virginie Duzer, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Pomona College, Claremont, California
Project Title: In search of the lost Jaune
Grantee: Jack Abecassis
Jack Abecassis, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Pomona College, Claremont, California
Project Title: Cognitive study of the essays of Michel de Montaigne
2016-2017 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Brandon Gaut
Brandon Gaut, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Title: Plant genome evolution: Benefitting from interactions in the French scientific community
Grantee: David Gerber
David Gerber, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Project Title: Descriptive surfaces, From Desargue to DeCasteljau and their mathematicalinfluence on instrumental and design knowledge in architecture
2015-2016 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Selma Holo
Selma Holo, Director, USC Fisher Museum of Art and Professor of Art History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Project Title: The smaller museums of France: A new bridge to the museum studies in the United States
Grantee: Kevin Olson
Kevin Olson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Title: Speaking truth to Power: The politics of the powerless in colonial France
2014-2015 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Andrea Denny-Brown
Andrea Denny-Brown, Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, University of California Riverside, California
Project Subject: English Aureation and the Arts de seconde rhétorique
Grantee: Sharon Salinger
Sharon Salinger, Professor and Dean, Department of History and Undergraduate Education, University of California Irvine, California
Project Subject: Early modern France imagines North American Indians
2013-2014 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Susan C Jarratt
Susan C Jarratt, Professor and Chair, Department. of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Subject: A French Sophistic: An Emerging Nexus of Scholarship in Rhetoric
Grantee: Anthony Long
Anthony Long, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Subject: Write a state of the art review of the "evolve and resequence" field
2012-2013 Grant Recipients
Grantee: M. Oreste Fiocco
M. Oreste Fiocco, Assistant Professor, Department. of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Subject: Research the relation between accounts of how the mind and language come to be about the world (how cognitive connections are established) and accounts of what the world is like in itself, independently of any mental activity
Grantee: Heidi Brevik-Zender
Heidi Brevik-Zender, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, University of California, Riverside, California
Project Subject: Examine the way in which authors based in Paris during the final three decades of the nineteenth-century wrote about fashion – gowns, accessories, suits, coats, and the like – as a way to describe the experience of living in Paris, a city that had just undergone intense urban modernization under the previous Empire as well as the extreme political up heaval of the Parisian Commune of 1871 (book-length project)
2011-12 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Virginie Pouzet-Duzet
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
Andrew Aisenberg, 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)
2010-2011 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Jay Bartroff
Jay Bartroff, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Project Title: Time-Sequential Statistical Tests of Multiple Hypotheses
Grantee: Mattanjah S. de Vries
Mattanjah S. de Vries, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Project Subject: Study a new field of study of “biomolecules in the gas phase” (Scholarly publication to come)
2009-2010 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Gail Borden
Gail Borden, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Project Subject: A focused material, cultural, and representational study of the architectural works of Claude-Nicholas Ledoux with a primary focus on his masterwork: the Saltworks at Chaux.
Grantee: W. Patrick McCray
W. Patrick McCray, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Project Title: Fusion: The Merging of French Politics and Culture in a Contemporary Mega-Science Project
2008-2009 Grant Recipients
Grantee: John Culbert
John Culbert, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Title: Peninsularity: French Identity, Culture and Transculturation (book project)
Grantee: Daniel Brunstetter
Daniel Brunstetter, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Subject: Examine the concept of Otherness from the birth of Modernity in the 16th century, through the golden age of the French Enlightment, to the modern day crisis in which the Other is frequently seen as inferior or 2nd class. (book-length project)
2007-2008 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Andrews Aisenberg
Andrews Aisenberg, Associate Professor, Dept. of Modern French History, Scripps College, Claremont, Califonia
Project Subject: Focus on French doctors in Algeria and their efforts to understand and combat malaria from the initial years of conquest in the 1830’s to the definitive adoption by the Third Republic of a policy of settlement in the 1870’s. (book-length project)
Grantee: Jen’nan Ghazal Read
Jen’nan Ghazal Read, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, California
Project Subject: Examine the factors that affect Muslim American political attitudes and behaviors (book project)
2006-2007 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Philippa Judith Levine
Philippa Judith Levine, Professor, Department of History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Project Subject: Research on the historical and intellectual connections between genetics, biology and history in the scientific concept of eugenics with attention to 18th and early 19th century French scientists and naturalists influential in the evolution of pre-eugenics in Europe.
Grantee: Margaret Waller
Margaret Waller, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Pomona College, Claremont, California
Project Title: Invisible Men: Fashioning Modern Masculinity in Post-Revolutionary France (Book Project).
2005-2006 Grant Recipients
Grantee: William J. Ashby
William J. Ashby, Provost, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Project Title: Language variation and change with a focus on French
Grantee: Karen Pinkus
Karen Pinkus, Professor and Chair, Department 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, 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, Department 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, Department of German, University of Wisconsin, 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, FAIA
John V. Mutlow, FAIA, 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, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Project Title: Reinventing Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Book project)
2001-2002 Grant Recipients
Grantee: Dalton Krauss, Ph.D.
Dalton Krauss, Ph.D., 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, FAIA
John V. Mutlow, FAIA, 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
Patricia Easton, Professor, Department 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, Ph.D.
Adrian Raine, Professor, Department 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 and Chair, Department of French and Italian, University of California, 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, Deptartment of French, University of California, 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, Department of French, California State University, 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, Department of French and Italian, University of California, 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
Allen J. Scott, Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Grantee: Marvin Corman
Marvin Corman, 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 Department, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Project Title: 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 Title: 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, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics, Whittier College, Whittier, California
1994-1995 Recipients
Grantee: Thomas Leabhart
Thomas Leabhart, Associate Professor, Department 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, Department of French and Italian, University of California, 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, Department of English, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
Grantee: Warren Hollister
Warren Hollister, Professor and Chair, Medieval Studies, University of California, 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, Department of French, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Project Title: French poetry of the 19th Century (Book project)
Grantee: James Fuller
James Fuller, Professor and Chair, Art Department, Scripps College, Claremont, California
Project Title: Watercolors from Brittany
1991-1992 Recipients
Grantee: Arden Reed
Arden Reed, Professor, Department of English, Pomona College, Claremont, California
Project Title: The relationship of painting and literature (Research focusing on 19th Century France)
Grantee: Kevin Robb
Kevin Robb, Professor, School of Philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
1990-1991 Recipients
Grantee: Theodore Berg, Jr.
Theodore Berg, Jr. 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, Los Angeles, 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
