Lending and Borrowing Across the Color Line in the Antebellum American South – Kimberly Welch (History)
Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1875-1920 – Ariell Zimran (Economics)
The Transient Renaissance: Contagion, Communion, and Ethical Risk – Kathryn Schwarz (English)
Twenty-First Century Climate Fiction – Teresa Goddu (English)
“Vernacular English” Book Project and “A Postcolonial Aesthetic” Essay – Akshya Saxena (English)
When the Good Life Goes Bad: Examining the Seven Deadly Sins in the Trump Era – Stacey Floyd-Thomas (Divinity)

Faculty Development Grant

Blair Woodwind Quintet Audio/Visual Recording Project – Molly Barth (Woodwinds)
Finding Family, Finding Home: Forensic and Isotopic Studies to Identify Genocide Victims in Peru – Tiffany Tung (Anthropology)
Fostering New Works for Percussion by Women Composers – Ji Hye Jung (Brass & Percussion)
Publication of The Sovereign Street – Carwil Bjork-James (Anthropology)

Lecture/Symposia

Da Abertura à Crise: contemporary Brazilian literature and socio-political change – Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte (Spanish & Portuguese)

Summer Stipend

Building Resilience into the Water Treatment Process – Janey Camp (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
City of Zanatany: Built Space and Urban Belonging in Mahajanga, Madagascar – Tasha Rijke-Epstein (History)
Exploring Intersex in Science, Law, Culture, and Theology – Stephanie Budwey (Divinity)
The Judgment of the Provinces: Law, Culture, and Empire in the Roman East – Ari Bryen (History)
Sourcing ancient Maya petrified wood – Markus Eberl (Anthropology)

2018

The 19 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2018 are listed below.

Research Scholar Fellowship

Troubled Teens: Psychiatry and the Shaping of Adolescence in the Wake of Brazil’s New Democracy – Dominique Behague (Psychology)
Lucretian Poetics Book Project Completion and Second Book Research – Jessie Hock (English)
Islam through American Eyes: Examining How Postwar Anthropologists Created Knowledge of Islamic Communities through the Case of Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) – Laura Stark (Medicine, Health & Society)
Reflections on Ancient Greek Mirrors: An Object-Biographical Approach – Mireille Lee (History of Art)
Stagecraft / Art History Archive: Memory and Photographic Obsolescence – Vesna Pavlovic (Art)
Marriage Markets and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the Early 20th Century – Frederico Gutierrez (Economics)
Atlantic Transformations: The Many Lives of Captain Francisco Menendez and his ‘Subjects’ – Jane Landers (History)
LGBT Rights, Organizing and Health in Criminalized Contexts – Tara McKay (Medicine, Health & Society)
The Making of Kings: African Sovereignty in the British Atlantic World – Catherine Molineux (History)

Faculty Development Grant

Invention and Imagination: Broadening Skills for the Classical Musician – Jared Hauser (Woodwinds)
Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra, Recording of New Works – Ryan Middagh (Composition/Theory)

Lecture/Symposia

Parthenon^2: Digital Approaches to Architectural Archaeology – Betsey Robinson (History of Art)
Reactive Lipids in Biology and Disease: The 10th Biennial Meeting of the International 4-Hydroxynonenal (HNE) Club – Sean Davies (Pharmacology)
From MLK to BLM: A Half Century of Struggle – Phillis Sheppard (Divinity School)

Summer Stipend

Black Moneylenders in the Antebellum U.S. South – Kimberly Welch (History)
Burn Pit Exposure, Diagnostic Dilemmas and Toxic War – Ken MacLeish (Medicine, Health & Society)
Challenging the Racist Right – Sophie Bjork-James (Anthropology)
German Idealism and the Future of Political Theology: Kant to Marx – Alex Dubilet (English)

2017

The 19 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2017 are listed below.

LGBT Rights and Health in Mozambique – Tara McKay (Medicine, Health & Society)
The Wiley-Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology – Bonnie Miller-McLemore (Divinity School)
Vanderbilt Symposium on Cell Dynamics – Jason MacGurn (Cell & Developmental Biology)
The Palimpsest of Justice: Legal Trials and Romantic Print Culture, 1770–1835 (partial) – Mark Schoenfield (English)
Space and Territory in Socio-Environmental Conflicts/The Sovereign Street – Carwil Bjork-James (Anthropology)
Punish Liars, Not Free-Riders: The Role of Communication in Collective Action – Brenton Kenkel (Political Science)
From Dams to Temples: Infrastructure, Ecology and the Religious Landscapes of Delhi – Anand Taneja (Religious Studies)
The Trans-American Repertoires of Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Celso Castilho (History)
Species-Being: The Normative Foundations of Ethical Life – Karen Ng (Philosophy)
The Marginal Congestion of a Taxi in New York City – Alejandro Molnar (Economics)
Precarious Forms: Performance and Politics in the Neoliberal Americas – Candice Amich (English)
Lallubhai: An Alternative History of Indian Capitalism – Samira Sheikh (History)
The Lucretian Imagination ~ Book Project – Jessie Hock (English)
The Hollys: Migration, Family and the Forging of Diaspora – Brandon Byrd (History)
U.S. Women’s Legal Activism in the Judicial Arena – Holly McCammon (Sociology)
Black Women in Tennessee, from Slavery to Freedom – Brandon Byrd (History)
Urban Community Health in the Ancient Wari Empire of Peru – Tiffany Tung (Anthropology)
Islamic Juristic Competition in North America – Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman (Jewish Studies)

2016

The 27 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2016 are listed below.

The Sound of Africa in the Caribbean: Tambu Drumming in the Netherlands Antilles (Aruba) – Gregory Barz (Blair School of Music)
Retention of Minority Students in Secondary Music Programs – Tucker Biddlecombe (Blair School of Music)
The Blakemore Trio Records Music of Adam Schoenberg – Carolyn Huebl (Blair School of Music)
Oriental by Design: Ottoman Jews and the Stuff of Empire – Julia Philips Cohen (Jewish Studies)
Land Tenure at the Ancient Maya Capital of Tamarindito, Guatemala – Markus Eberl (Anthropology)
Tiwanaku Stone Sculptures: Research in European Collections and Institutes – John Wayne Janusek (Anthropology)
Research and Development of a Program in Cultural Heritage at Vanderbilt University – Mireille Lee (History of Art)
Mannered Monks and Model Kings: Worldly Buddhists in Early Modern Tibet – Nancy Lin (Religious Studies)
Problematizing Health and Compliance in a Veteran Treatment Court – Kenneth MacLeish (Medicine, Health & Society)
American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson, Painter and Educator – Kevin Murphy (History of Art)
Immersive Video Games for Learning Medieval Language and Culture: Theory and Practice – Lynn Tarte Ramey (French & Italian)
Alaskan Film Project – Jonathan Rattner (Cinema and Media Arts)
A New History of Human ‘Guinea Pigs’: Creating the Postwar Market for Human Subjects – Laura Stark (Medicine, Health & Society)
Identifying the Childhood Homelands of the Enslaved Community at the Grassmere Plantation, Nashville: A Bioarchaeological and Isotopic Approach – Tiffany Tung (Anthropology)
Negotiating Traditions: Lois Mailou Jones, Africa and the Composite Aesthetics of Blackness – Rebecca Kegan VanDiver (History of Art)
Rusted Stories – Melvin Ziegler (Art)
An Epistemic Theory of Argument – Scott Aikin (Philosophy)
Public Bodies/Health Spaces – Mozhdeh Amelia Hamraie (Medicine, Health & Society)
Kidney Exchange with Immunosuppressants – Eun Jeong Heo (Economics)
Itinerant Preachers and Non-Sectarian Spaces: A Reassessment of Buddhism in Ancient Japan – Bryan Lowe (Religious Studies)
Agency vs. Structure: Investigating the Political Donations of Corporate Directors and Political Action Committees, 1980-2014 – Joshua Murray (Sociology)
From ‘La trata de blancas’ [‘The White Slave Trade’] to ‘Enslaved’ Immigrants: Race, Representation and Prostitution in Spain – Neica Michelle Murray (Spanish & Portuguese)
A Spectral Dialectic: The Ontology of Telepresence Technololgy – Haerin Shin (English)
New Forms of Home, New Forms of Work: Changes in the Organization of Aging – LaTonya Trotter (Sociology)
The Library of Eden: A History of Syriac Monastic Readers – David Michelson (Divinity School)
An Empirical Study of Federal Class Action Settlements, 2005-2015 – Brian Fitzpatrick (Law School)
Derivation of Multilevel Reliability Measures for Complex Multilevel Designs – Sun-Joo Cho (Peabody College)

2015

The 23 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2015 are listed below.

Baroque to Modern, Applying Historically Informed Performance Practice to the Modern Oboe – Jared Hauser (Blair School of Music)
Granada’s Lead Books and their Intellectual Impact: Pedro DE Castro and his Network of Moorish, Mestizo and Old Christian Scholars – Jose Cardenas Bunsen (Spanish & Portuguese)
Senior Academics Forum on Traditional Chinese Architectural History: Academic Workshop and Exhibition of Architectural Photography – Tracy Miller (History of Art)
Climate, Land and Sea: Fourteen Millennia of Human History and the North Coast of Peru – Tom Dillehay (Anthropology)
Cinema and the Inhospitable World: A Monograph on Film Theory, Cinema Production and Environmental Criticism – Jennifer Fay (Cinema & Media Arts)
The Florentine Conspiracy (1360-61) – Elsa Filosa (French & Italian)
Lost Voices from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement: The Women of Selma – Edward Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
Critical Participatory Action Research – Lisa Guenther (Philosophy)
Screen Printing: Framing and Supply Costs – Mark Hosford (Art)
Mapping the Stars: Celebrity and the Politics of Identity – Claire Sisco King (Communication Studies)
Research on Ancient Greek Bronze Mirrors at Isthmia and Athens, Greece – Mireille Lee (History of Art)
“What We Have Here” a Novel about a Metal Refinisher who Accompanies his Ex-wife and her Children on a Journey along El Camino Real through the California Mission Valley – Lorraine Lopez (English)
Beyond Sects and Founders: A New Ground-Level Approach to Buddhism – Bryan Lowe (Religious Studies)
Project I. Cultivating Democratic Citizenship: Evidence from Teach for All. Project II. Human Trafficking Vulnerability: An Experimental Intervention Using Mass Media to Change Norms and Behaviors in Nepal – Cecilia Mo (Political Science)
Lost Art: Obsolescence of Photographic Slides: Project Research and Development – Vesna Pavlovic (Art)
(Book Project) Orientations, Opportunities and Outcomes of Religion Entrepreneurship – Richard Pitt (Sociology)
Divine Prospects: Mounts Helicon and Parnassus in Ancient Experience and Imagination (research, writing and completion of scholarly monograph) – Betsey Ann Robinson (History of Art)
Alternative Qi: Science and Spirit in the Making of Global Chinese Medicine – Ruth Rogaski (History)
Business and Religion in 18th Century Gujarat – Samira Sheikh (History)
Subventions for two publication projects: 1) Houses of Ill Repute: Houses, Brothels and Taverns in the Greek War; 2) Morgantina Studies, Vol. 7, Houses and Households – Barbara Tsakigis (Classical & Mediterranean Studies)
The Cambridge Kant Lexicon – Julian Wuerth (Philosophy)
Liberation as Communion: Reformation Theologies in Historical Context – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
Convergence: U.S. Education Policy 50 Years after ESEA and HEA of 1965 – Christopher Loss (Peabody College)

2014

The 17 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2014 are listed below.

Globalization, Psychiatry and the Politics of Global Mental Health – Dominique Behague (Medicine, Health & Society)
Agricultural Terraces and the Power at the Ancient Maya Capital of Tamarindito, Guatemala – Mark Eberl (Anthropology)
Understanding Content Exposure in Reading and Mathematics During Kindergarten: A Cross-Cohort Analysis – Mimi Engel (Leadership, Policy & Organizations)
Don Quixote at 400 Years, Part II: A Symposium – Ed Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
Romanticism Re-Oriented: Indian Authors and English Literary Culture, 1770-1830 – Humberto Garcia (English)
Symposium on Contemporary Hispanic Theater: Enhancing Spanish-Language Proficiency & Community Engagement through Theater – Ruth Hill (Spanish & Portuguese)
Pan-Africanism & Decolonization: The Life and Work of George Padmore – Peter Hudson (History)
Professor Bil Jackson’s Recording of Kevin Puts’s Clarinet Concerto – Bil Jackson (Blair School of Music)
To Heal the World: The Poetry of Juan Gelman and the Rabbinic Tradition of Tikkun Olam – Cathy Jrade (Spanish & Portuguese)
Research for “Grisaille Manuscripts,” Essay Commissioned for the Exhibition Catalogue, COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts, for the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge – Elizabeth Moody (History of Art)
Minority Patient Perspectives on Trust and Privacy Regarding DNA Samples Collected for Vanderbilt’s BioVU Biorepository – Amy Non (Anthropology)
Jim Crow Meets Racial Democracy: Indelible Memories, Shifting Identities and Changing Vocabularies in the Shadow of the Panama Canal – Ifeoma Nwankwo (English)
Gold Coast to Petro State: Sovereignty, Globalization and Resource Extraction in Ghana, West Africa – Jemima Pierre (African American & Diaspora Studies)
Trios from the Romantic to Avant-Garde – Melissa Rose (Blair School of Music)
Social Inequalities and their Effects on Diet in the Aftermath of Wari State Collapse: A Bioarchaeological and Isotopic Investigation – Tiffiny Tung (Anthropology)
Recovering the Lost Aristotle: Gersonides’ Silence About Aristotle’s Ethics/Politics – Idit Dobbs-Weinstein (Philosophy)
Robotic Archaeology: Toward a Comprehensive Semiautonomous Aerial Mapping System – Steve Wernke (Anthropology)

2013

The 18 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2013 are listed below.

The AmeriQuests Portal: Border-Crossing through the Americas – Bob Barsky (French & Italian)
Commissioning a Piano Reduction of Joan Tower’s Bassoon Concerto – Peter Kolkay (Blair School of Music)
Mobilizing the Law: Legal Activism in the U.S. Women’s Movement – Holly McCammon (Sociology)
Houses and Households around the Athenian Agora, 600-86 BCE – Barbara Tsakirgis (Classics)
Iconography of Spectacle – Vesna Pavlovic (Art)
African Sovereignty in the British Atlantic World, 1580-1815 – Catherine Molineux (History)
Jews and Romanies: An Entangled History – Ari Joskowicz (Jewish Studies)
Warren Center 25th Anniversary Prog – Ed Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
Preliminary Research on Aphrodite and Miorros in Corinth and Athens, Greece – Mireille Lee (History of Art)
Markets for Small Arms and the International Political Economy of Civil War – Brett Benson (Political Science)
Iceland Cinematic Haiku – Jonathan Rattner (Film Studies)
Albert Camus, Israel and Terrorism – Natalie Debrauwere-Miller (French & Italian)
The Painter Frida Kahlo – Leonard Folgarait (History of Art)
John Dewey and Social Justice – Robert Talisse (Philosophy)
Cardinal Virtues: Democracy, Human Rights and Liberation Theology – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
Religion Entrepreneurship: The Origins and Negotiation of a Church-Founder Identity – Richard Pitt (Sociology)
Epigenetic Consequences of Extreme Social Deprivation in Romanian Children – Amy Non (Anthropology)
Improvised Order? Architectural Survey of a Planned Colonial Town in Highland Peru – Steve Wernke (Anthropology)

2012

The 27 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2012 are listed below.

The Cassandra Project – Michael Aurbach (Art)
The Prime Minister’s Perspective on Brazilian Abolition: Joao Alfredo Correia and the Links to Pernambuco – Celso Castilho (History)
Aim High: The Life of Shirley Chisholm – Anastasia Curwood (African American & Diaspora Studies)
Theorizing Prisons from the Inside Out – Lisa Guenther (Philosophy)
Large Format Screenprinting at Vanderbilt – Mark Hosford (Art)
An Analysis of the Ancient Inscriptions at Johns Hopkins University and the National Museum of Rome – Michael Johnson (Classical Studies)
Effects of Low Vitamin C Levels on the Sensory Nerves, the Memory and the Temperament of Scorbutic Victims, and how these account for Disturbances of Mood in Maritime History and Literature – Jonathan Lamb (English)
Revolutionary Horizons – Paul Miller (French & Italian)
Archival Research for Black Kinship in the Atlantic World: Encountering African Sovereignty around the Slave Trade – Catherine Molineux (History)
Governing Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern British Political Thought – Emily Nacol (Political Science)
Voices from Panama: History and Heritage from the City to the Canal Zone and Beyond, and Writing to Remember Ourselves: Intergenerational Perspectives on West Indian Heritage in Panama – Ifeoma Nwankwo (English)
Photographic Installation: Light-box and Acrylic Dome as a Display Technique – Vesna Pavlovic (Art)
African Migrations, African Returns: The Making of Modern Diasporas – Jemima Pierre (African American & Diaspora Studies)
Discoveries of the Americas Portal: Project Development – Lynn Ramey (French & Italian)
Sephardim in Merchant Empires: Evidence from the Portuguese Factory in Antwerp – Claudia Rei (Economics)
Gender, Secularism and Jewish Modernity: Jewish Women’s First-Person Narratives of Secular Modernity – Allison Schachter (Jewish Studies)
Aesthetic Networks: Victorian New Media and the Idea of Art – Rachel Tuekolsky (English)
Guillotine: Medicine and Terror in the French Revolution – Holly Tucker (French & Italian)
18th-Century Wax Anatomy – Holly Tucker (French & Italian)
Archaeological Survey of … – Steve Wernke (Anthropology)
Development of Hip Hop Medical Intervention in Local South African Health Clinics – Greg Barz (Blair School of Music)
New Horizons for the Oboe: Commission and Recording of New Works by Libby Larson – Jared Hauser (Blair School of Music)
Silenced Author: The Writings of the Cuban Slave Poet Juan Francisco Manzano – William Luis (Spanish & Portuguese)
Economies of Conversion: Vaishnavism and Religious Change in Early Modern Gujarat, Western India, 1650-1800 – Samira Sheikh (History)
The Caliphate’s Burden: Hausa-Fulani Sub-Colonialism and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria –Moses Ochonu (History)
Artist in Residency at the School of Visual and Performing Arts, Tasmania Australia – Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Art)
Blinding Landscapes – Mel Ziegler (Art)

2011

The 23 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2011 are listed below.

Old Music, New Instrument: The Influences of Historically Informed Performance – Jared Hauser (Blair School of Music)
The American Horn Trio: The Commissioning and Recording of 21st Century Works for Horn, Violin and Piano – Leslie Norton (Blair School of Music)
British Studies Digital Archives Project – James Epstein (History)
Souvenir Yugoslavia Tourism Representation as a National Identity – Vesna Pavlovic (Art)
Documenting Avukah: Language Theory, Policy and Zionism – Bob Barsky (French & Italian)
Spanish Theater: Text and Performance – Ed Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
God’s Problems: Revelations, Strange Providence and the Religious “Other” in Enlightenment England – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
Diabetes Types: Cultural History of a Chronic Disease – Arleen Tuchman (History)
The Epistemology of Extremism – Robert Talisse (Philosophy)
Advertising the Romantic Book: John Murray and the Profession of Letters – Dahlia Porter (English)
In the Caliphate’s Shadow: Hausa-Fulani Sub-Colonialism in the Nigerian Middle Belt – Moses Ochuno (History)
The Body, Dress and Identity in Early Greece – Mireille Lee (History of Art)
Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsawin Postwar Europe: The Czech Case Study, 1960-1968 – Joy Calico (Blair School of Music)
Dark Finance: Wall Street and the West Indies, 1873-1933 – Peter Hudson (History)
(Anti)Blackness Matters in Contemporary France – Trica Keaton (African American & Diaspora Studies)
Review of the Uncatalogued Papers of Oscar Hammerstein 2nd at the Library of Congress – James Lovensheimer (Blair School of Music)
Kenchreai Excavations 2011: Understanding Life and Death at a Port in Roman Greece – Joseph Rife (Classical Studies)
Power, Ethnicity and Honorific Address among the Highland Maya – Sergio Romero (Anthropology)
Study and Reproduction of Previously Inaccessible Documents, from 1650-1820, of the Bohra Muslim Community in Western India – Samira Sheikh (History)
A Medical Ethnomusicology Study of Popular Music as HIV/AIDS Intervention Among Youth in Lesotho (Southern Africa) – Greg Barz (Blair School of Music)
Documenting the Descendants of the Panama Canal Builders through Film – Ifeoma Nwankwo (English)
Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Belonging – Julia Phillips Cohen (Jewish Studies)
On the Limits of Christian Ethics – Ted Smith (Divinity School)

2010

The 14 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2010 are listed below.

Fashioning Imperial Citizens: Sephardi Jews and the Late Ottoman State – Julia Phillips Cohen (Jewish Studies)
Photographs as Objects, Large Format Scanning and Ink-Jet Printing – Vesna Pavlovic (Blair School of Music)
Finishing of the Book Manuscript Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of Trinitarianism in 17th Century England (Oxford, 2011) – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
Does the Health Effect of Social Capital Vary with Age – Lijun Song (Sociology)
Trios for Oboe, Horn and Piano – Jared Hauser (Blair School of Music)
Jewish Anticlericalism and Anti-Catholicism in Alsace since the French Revolution – Alexander Joskowicz (Jewish Studies)
Invisible Women: Female Patronage of Buddhist Artistic Productions in Medieval Eastern India – Jinha Kim (History of Art)
A World Premiere Recording by the Blakemore Trio: Gates of Silence, by Susan Botti – Carolyn Huebl (Blair School of Music)
Claiming and Framing: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts in the Mammography Screening Debate – Juleigh Petty (Medicine, Health & Society)
Preventing the Return of Disgust in Humans: A Learning-Based Approach – Bunmi Olatunji (Psychology)
Rapid Social Perception and Social Judgment Processes in Schizophrenia – Sohee Park (Psychology)
Constructs of Masculinity in Cold War Era American Musicals – Jim Lovensheimer (Blair School of Music)
Region and Locality in the Temple Architecture of the Central Yellow River Valley During China’s Middle Period – Tracy Miller (History of Art)
Danielle Kruglak: Early Midwifery, Bourgeois-Guillemeau Controversy Student-Faculty Research in Paris – Holly Tucker (French & Italian)

2009

The 19 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2009 are listed below.

The Object of Study: Theory, Interdisciplinary and the State of the Humanities – Frederick Friedman (Robert Penn Warren Center)
Musical Remigration: Schoenberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw” in Postwar Europe – Joy Calico (Blair School of Music)
Investigating Ceremonial and Domestic Practices in the Terminal Prehispanic and Early Colonial Andes through Archaeological Ceramic Analysis – Steve Wernke (Anthropology)
Diet, Nutritional Status and Dental Health: A Bioarchaeological Study of Ancient Food Practices and their Health Effects in the Wari Empire of the Andes (AD 600-1000) – Tiffany Tung (Anthropology)
The Link between Perspective Taking and Deficient Empathy in Psychopathy – Stephen Benning (Psychology)
Songs of Reconciliation: Music and Genocide in Rwanda (Central Africa) – Greg Barz (Blair School of Music)
Epic Manipulations: The Tabulae Iliacae in their Roman Context – David Petrain (Classical Studeies)
What Modern Was, What Modern Is: A Recorded Survey of Post 1950 Modern American Works for the Oboe, and the Commissioning of New Works – Jared Hauser (Blair School of Music)
Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book-Cult in South Asia – Jinah Kim (History of Art)
Large Format Screenprinting at Vanderbilt – Mark Hosford (History)
Contesting Widowhood: Southern Black Women and the Post Emancipation State – Brandi Brimmer (History)
Aesthetics and Media: Word and Image in the Long 19th Century – Rachel Teukolsky (English)
New Book Project: Aesthetic Encounters in the British Atlantic World – Catherine Molineux (History)
Mehinaku Art: Social Change and the Evolution of an Aesthetic Tradition – Thomas Gregor (Anthropology)
Race, Ethnicity and Immigrant Acculturation in a New Immigrant Gateway – Katherine Donato (Sociology)
The Nashville Crucible: Out of the Workshops and into the Streets – Daniel Cornfield (Sociology)
Music, Authority, Community – Jennifer Lena (Sociology)
Two Studies of Greek Religion: Architectural Innovation and Cult Importation in Classical Greece –Bronwen Wickkiser (Classical Studies)
Funds to Cover Travel Expenses During Leave – Edward Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)

2008

The 16 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2008 are listed below.

Realities and Representations: The 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign – Bonnie Dow (Communication Studies)
Zellig Harris’s America: Linguistics, Zionism and Radical Politics – Bob Barsky (French & Italian)
Large Format Screenprinting at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgiium – Mark Hosford (Art)
A Linguistic Study of the Toponymy of Northern Catalonia (Roussillon): Joan Coromines’ Fieldbook XXV (1959-1960) of the Onomasticon Cataloniae – Philip Rasico (Spanish & Portuguese)
Antique Highway – Michael Aurbach (Art)
Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language – William Franke (French & Italian)
The Birth of the Middle Class and the Rise of the Painted Panel in Early Modern Flanders – Jay Bloom (History of Art)
Publication of a Collection of Articles: Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult: Context-Ritual-Iconography – Bronwen Wickkiser (Classical Studies)
The Function of Tholoi at Delphi, Olympia, and Epidauros – Bronwen Wickkiser (Classical Studies)
Musical Remigration: Schoenberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw” in Postwar Europe – Joy Calico (Blair School of Music)
Islamic Republicanism in the English Imagination, 1660-1830 – Humberto Garcia (English)
The Troublesome Verse: The Gospel of John in 17th Century English Religious Culture from Anthony Wotton to John Locke – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
Animal Pedagogy: The Role of Animals in the Philosophy of “Man” – Kelly Oliver (Philosophy)
Singularity and Feminist Philosophy – Lisa Guenther (Philosophy)
Beyond our Beginnings: An Anthology of Essay and Memoir by Women Writers from Lower and Working Class Backgrounds – Lorraine Lopez (English)
God’s Other Life: A Study in the Doctrine of The Trinity, with Special Reference to Schleiermacher – Paul DeHart (Divinity School)

2007

The 14 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2007 are listed below.

Time After Time – David Wood (Philosophy)
Max Dellbury Centenary Celebration – John Wikswo (Physics & Astronomy)
Symposium Marking the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the RPWC for the Humanities – Helmut Smith (History)
Archival Research in Four Presidential Libraries to Support Music and the Modern American Presidency – Melanie Lowe (Blair School of Music)
Music and the Performance of Manhood: Adult-Male Circumcision Rituals and HIV/AIDS in Uganda and South Africa – Greg Barz (Blair School of Music)
Getting Back on Track: Complete Work-in-Progress, Exhibitory Support and Documentation of Work – Michael Aurbach (Art)
The Ghetto Tax: The Redistribution of Wealth in Modern Society, 1974-2000 – Devin Fergus (History)
Understanding Latin America’s Subnational Transitions, 1980-2005 – Jonathan Hiskey (Political Science)
In Search of a New Identity: The Russian Intelligentsia and America in Post-Totalitarian Russia – Konstantin Kustanovich (German)
Q’Eqchi’ and Linguistic Diversity in Mayan: A Story on the Rise of New Dialects – Sergio Romero (Anthropology)
The Paris of Bricktop’s: African American Women in the City of Light – Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (African American & Diaspora Studies)
The Role of Scandal in Constructing Diva Personas: The Women of Salome (1905) and Elektra (1909) – Joy Calico (Blair School of Music)
Images of Women, Female Deities and the Buddhist Book-Cult – Jinah Kim (Art)
Use of Reason, Revelation and Tradition in Anti-Trinitarian Debates of the 17th Century England – Paul Lim (Divinity School)

2006

The 15 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2006 are listed below.

The Cinema Dreams its Rivals: Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet – Paul Young (English)
Modernism, Media and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1950 – Mark Wollaeger (English)
Envisager Dieuavec Edmond Jabe’s – Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller (French & Italian)
The Color of Crime: Delinquency and Representation of Race in Brazilian Popular Culture – Emanuelle Oliveira (Spanish & Portuguese)
Yemen Language School Tuition – Beverly Moran (Law School)
Pablo Picasso and Cubism in 1909 – Leonard Folgarait (History of Art)
Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Vision, Shrine and Society in Oaaca, 1887-1934 – Edward Wright-Rios (History)
Postwar Japan and Visions of Mass Consumer Society – Yoshikuni Igarashi (History)
Feminist Art and Sexual Trauma: Ending the Silence in Contemporary American Art – Vivien Fryd (History of Art)
Aesthetics of Violence: Representations of Authenticity in 20th Century German Literature – Christoph Zeller (German & Slavic Studies)
Sweet Sand of Time: A Culture History of Diabetes in the U.S. – Arleen Tuchman (History)
Writing in the Humanities – Helmut Smith (History)
A Native American Peace System and Continuing Research in Brazil’s Upper Xingu – Thomas Gregor (Anthropology)
Juan Bautista Witten, Former Known as Big Prince: An African in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions – Jane Landers (History)
W.B. Yeats and the Idea of Democracy – Vereen Bell (English)

2005

The 10 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2005 are listed below.

Between Fact and Fiction: The 1930s Hollywood Chronicles of Israel Chas de Cruz and Olympio Guilherme – Jason Borge (Spanish & Portuguese)
Barriers and Bridges: Immigrant Women and Work in Tennessee – Ronnie Steinberg (Sociology)
Songs of Imbalu: HIV and Adult-Male Circumcision Rituals in Uganda, East Africa – Greg Barz (Blair School of Music)
Sor Juana Inese de la Cruz and the Politics of Gender and Identity in the Baroque Culture of New Spain – Carlos Jauregui (Spanish & Portuguese)
Brain Imaging of Adult Second Language Learners During Lexical Processing – Virginia Scott (French & Italian)
Do Micro-Credit Borrowing Groups Self-Segregate, and Along Which Dimensions – Christian Ahlin (Economics)
Writing the Metropole: Northern Nigerian Muslim Tourists in Britain and the Politics of Experiential Narration – Moses Ochonu (History)
Settlers, Creoles and the Re-enactment of History (conference) – Jonathan Lamb (English)
Brecht at the Opera – Joy Calico (Blair School of Music)
Science has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska – Arlene Tuchman (History)

2004

The 12 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2004 are listed below.

Suspended Animation: The Art of Marilyn Murphy; a Mid-Career Survey Exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts – Marilyn Murphy (Art)
The Requirements of Kinship, German Enlightenment and the Nature of Community – Sara Eigen-Figal (Germanic & Slavic Languages)
Free Speech and Expression in the Work Place – Bruce Barry (Owen Graduate School of Management)
Fieldwork and the Jinci Shrine Complex for Book Manuscript Completion – Tracy Miller (Art & Art History)
Femininity and Intention in Early Modern England – Kathryn Schwarz (English)
Rebellion or Reform? The Critical Reception of the Sturm und Drang – John McCarthy (Germanic & Slavic Languages)
Hot Quarks 2004: Workshop for Young Scientists on the Physics of Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collision (conference) – Julia Velkovska (Physics & Astronomy)
Von Neumann Algebras and Applications (conference) – Dietmar Bisch (Mathematics)
Maimonides and his Milieu (conference) – Lenn Goodman & Idit Dobbs-Weinstein (Philosophy)
Interpreting African American Life at Southern Historic Sites: Workshop on Belle Meade Plantation – Don Doyle & Richard Blackett (History)
Don Quixote: An Anniversary Celebration – Frederick Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
Book Subvention: Beatriz Viterbo Editora – Jason Borge (Spanish & Portuguese)

2003

The 17 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2003 are listed below.

International Conference and Spring School on Noncommutative Geometry and Applications – Dietmar Bisch (Mathematics)
Muckraking in America, 1900-2000 – Cecelia Tichi (English)
Artist Book Project: A Museum Catalog of the Works of Marilyn Murphy to Accompany Survey Exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts – Marilyn Murphy (Art)
Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture – John Sloop (Communication Studies)
Queer Domesticities: Fiction, Form and Eros in Victorian Britain – Carolyn Dever (English)
Women’s Rights Activism and the Dismantling of the Patriarchal State – Holly McCammon (Sociology)
Sweet Sand of Time: A Cultural History of Diabetes in the U.S., 1922-present – Arleen Tuchman (History)
Imitating Schoolboys: An Essay in Shakespeare’s Emotions – Lynn Enterline (English)
Gender Under the Lens: Women, Literature and Early Modern Microscopy – Holly Tucker (French & Italian)
Nam, Nam: Paranoid Nationalism and the Dominican “Man-Eating Negro” – Carlos Jauregui (Spanish & Portuguese)
The Color of Crime: Afro-Brazilians’ Struggle from Social Criminality to Racial Awareness – Emanuelle Oliveira (Spanish & Portuguese)
Journalism: Shaping Knowledge in the Information Age – Cecelia Tichi (English)
Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Community-Based Research (conference) – Douglas Perkins (Human & Organizational Development
The Varieties of Pluralism – Robert Talisse (Philosophy)
Stakeholding at the Grassroots: Culture, Economy and Politics in Germany, Guatemala and the U.S. –Edward Fischer (Anthropology)
International Symposium on the Reception of George Buchner – Dieter Sevin (German & Slavic Languages)
Conference on Nationalism in the Atlantic World: The Americas and Europe, 1776-1919 – Don Doyle (History)