NEH Grantees

The North American Conference on British Studies congratulates the following individuals and organizations announced as National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grantees for their projects in fields related to British Studies.

• David Chan Smith (Northeastern University) "STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books"

• Carmen Nocentelli (University of New Mexico) "Black Legends and the Invention of Europe"

• Lucy Mookerjee (Johns Hopkins University) "The Forme of Cury: A New Critical Edition of a 14th-Century Cookbook"

• Lise Sanders (Hampshire College) "Working Women and the Modern Romance in Britain, 1900-1939: Reading for Pleasure"

• Marcy Lascano (University of Kansas, Lawrence) "A Guide to Cavendish's Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and Blazing World"

• Frances Botkin (Towson University) "Black Marketeering: Representations of Jamaican Higglers from the Plantation to the Present Day"

• Rachel Buurma (Swarthmore) "The History of Omniscience: social life, narrative form, and the literary-critical invention of the Victorian novel"

• Nicholas Watson (Harvard University) "Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation, Volume 2: French, 1100-1400, English 1250-1540"

• Tehila Sasson (Emory University) "Discredited: Race and the Politics of Financial Capitalism in Britain, 1930s-2000s"

Congratulations!