Summer Seminars and Institutes: College and University Teachers

Each year the NEH’s Division of Education Programs offers teachers opportunities to study a variety of humanities topics in Summer Seminars and Institutes. Please contact the specific projects listed below for more information about the programs and the application process.

Amount of Award
NEH Summer Scholars are awarded fixed stipends to help cover travel costs, books and other research expenses, and living expenses. Stipend amounts are based on the length of the NEH Summer Seminar or Institute: $2,100 (2 weeks), $2,700 (3 weeks), $3,300 (4 weeks), or $3,900 (5 weeks).

Eligibility
NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes are designed primarily for teachers of American undergraduate students. Qualified independent scholars and those employed by museums, libraries, historical societies, and other organizations may be eligible to compete, provided they can effectively advance the teaching and research goals of the project.

You may request information about as many projects as you like, but you may apply to no more than two NEH Summer Programs (seminars, institutes, or Landmarks Workshops) and you may attend only one.

Adjunct faculty, community college faculty, and first-time participants are encouraged to apply.

Up to two spaces in each seminar and three spaces in each institute are reserved for current full-time graduate students in the humanities.

Each NEH Summer Seminar includes sixteen participants working in collaboration with one or two leading scholars. Seminars examine important texts and authors or review significant scholarship on an important historical period or event. Participants have access to a major research collection, with time reserved to pursue individual projects.

Communication, Empire, and the City of Rome
Rome, Italy: June 25-July 27 (5 weeks)
Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Michael Maas, Rice University
Information:
Shawn Miller
Program Director
American Academy in Rome
7 East 60 Street
New York, NY 10022-1001
212/751-7200 ext. 344
s.miller@aarome.org
www.aarome.org

France's Haunting Past: Recent Debates on Twentieth-Century French History and National Identity
Paris, France: June 5-July 5 (5 weeks)
Richard J. Golsan, Texas A&M University, and Henry Rousso, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Present, Paris
Information:
Richard J. Golsan or Nancy Golsan
Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures
205 Academic Building
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-4215
979/845-8328, 979/845-8329, or 979/324-5522
rjgolsan@tamu.edu ; i-golsan@tamu.edu
http://glasscock.tamu.edu/NEHSS2012

Health and Disease in the Middle Ages
London, UK: June 24-July 28 (5 weeks)
Monica H. Green and Rachel E. Scott, Arizona State University
Information:
William Gentrup
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Lattie F. Coor Hall, 4th Floor
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 874402
Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
480/965-4661
healthanddisease2012@acmrs.org
acmrs.org/healthanddisease2012

James Joyce’s Ulysses: Text and Contexts
Dublin, Ireland: June 18-July 20, 2012 (5 weeks)
Kevin J.H. Dettmar, Pomona College, and Paul K. Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania
Information:
Kevin J. H. Dettmar
W.M. Keck Professor & Chair
Department of English, Pomona College
140 West Sixth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
909/607-8032 or 215/746-3529
kevin.dettmar@pomona.edu or psain@english.upenn.edu
http://research.pomona.edu/kevin-dettmar/ulysses/

Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries
Columbia, MO: June 18-July 20 (5 weeks)
Devoney Looser, University of Missouri, Columbia
Information:
Devoney Looser, Professor
Department of English
107 Tate Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211-1500
573/884-7791
looserd@missouri.edu
http://nehseminar.missouri.edu/

Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Philosophical Problems in Domestic and Global Contexts
St. Louis, MO: June 4-29 (4 weeks)
Christopher Heath Wellman, Washington University, St. Louis, and Andrew Altman, Georgia State University
Information:
Christopher Heath Wellman
Washington University
Department of Philosophy
Campus Box 1073
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
314/935-7147
kwellman@wustl.edu or aaltman@gsu.edu
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~neh12/

Oscar Wilde and His Circle
Los Angeles, CA: June 25-July 27 (5 weeks)
Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles
Information:
Fritze Rodic
Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
310 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Plaza
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1404
310/206-8552
c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/neh-sum12/

Tudor Books and Readers: 1485-1603
London and Oxford, UK; Antwerp, Belgium:
June 18-July 20 (5 weeks)
John N. King, Ohio State University, and Mark Rankin, James Madison University
Information:
Mark Rankin
Assistant Professor of English
James Madison University
MSC 1801
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
330/814-7028
rankinmc@jmu.edu
www.jmu.edu/english/Tudor_Books_and_Readers/

World War I in the Middle East
Washington, DC: June 9-July 6 (4 weeks)
Mustafa Aksakal, American University, and Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia
Information:
Mustafa Aksakal, Associate Professor
Department of History
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016-8038
202/885-2412
aksakal@american.edu
https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/world-war-i-in-the-middle-east/

Under the guidance of distinguished scholars, NEH Summer Institutes provide intensive collaborative study of texts, topics, and ideas central to undergraduate teaching in the humanities. NEH Summer Institutes aim to prepare NEH Summer Scholars to return to their classrooms with a deeper knowledge of current scholarship in key fields of the humanities.

The American Maritime People
Mystic, CT: June 25-July 27 (5 weeks)
Glenn S. Gordinier, Munson Institute, and Eric Paul Roorda, Bellarmine University
Faculty: W. Jeffrey Bolster, James T. Carlton, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, John B. Hattendorf, John Odin Jensen, I. Roderick Mather, Lisa Norling, Marcus Rediker, Helen Rozwadowski, Daniel Vickers
Information:
Dr. Glenn S. Gordinier
Munson Institute
Mystic Seaport
P.O. Box 6000
75 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic, CT 06355-0990
860/572-0711 ext. 5049
Munson@mysticseaport.org
www.mysticseaport.org/munsoninstitute

Contemporary African American Literature
University Park, PA: July 9-27, 2012 (3 weeks)
Lovalerie King, Pennsylvania State University
Faculty: Greg Carr, Eve Dunbar, Maryemma Graham, Trudier Harris, Shirley Moody-Turner, Howard Rambsy, Evie Shockley, L.H. Stallings, Dana Williams
Information:
Lovalerie King, Director of the Africana Research Center and Professor
Pennsylvania State University
217 Willard Building
University Park, PA 16802-0000
814/865-6482
luk13@psu.edu
http://arc.psu.edu/neh-institute/

Experimental Philosophy
Tucson, AZ: July 2-27 (4 weeks)
Shaun Nichols, University of Arizona, and Ron Mallon, University of Utah
Faculty: Helen Beebee, Michael Devitt, John Doris, Alvin Goldman, Joshua Knobe, Tania Lombrozo, Edouard Machery, Jennifer Nagel, Eddy Nahmias, Ram Neta, Ernest Sosa, Stephen Stich, Jonathan Weinberg
Information:
Debbie Jackson
Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210027
1145 East South Campus Drive
Tucson, AZ 85721
520/621-1491
epiarizona@gmail.com
http://epi.arizona.edu

Investigating Consciousness: Buddhist and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives
Charleston, SC: May 21-June 2 (2 weeks)
Christian Coseru, College of Charleston; Jay Garfield, Smith College; and Evan Thompson, University of Toronto
Faculty: Miri Albahari, Dan Arnold, Katalin Balog, David Chalmers, Shaun Gallagher, Jonardon Ganeri, Uriah Kriegel, Shaun Nichols, Alva Noë, Mark Siderits, Susanna Siegel, Charles Siewert, William Waldron, Dan Zahavi
Information:
Christian Coseru, Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424-0001
843/953-1935
coseruc@cofc.edu
http://coseruc.people.cofc.edu/investigatingconsciousness/

The Legacy of Ancient Italy: The Etruscan and Early Roman City
Rome and other sites in Italy: June 5-25 (3 weeks)
Gregory Warden, Southern Methodist University, and Carole Lester, Richland College
Faculty: Claudio Bizzarri, Luca Fedeli, Andrea Galdy, Mario Iozzo, Stephan Steingräber, Michael Thomas, Anthony Tuck
Information:
David A. Berry, Executive Director
Community College Humanities Association
c/o Essex County College
303 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102-1798
973/877-3577
berry@essex.edu
http://legacyofancientitaly.net/

Leonardo da Vinci: Between Art and Science
Florence, Italy: June 25-July 13 (3 weeks)
Francesca Fiorani, University of Virginia, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz / Max-Planck-Institut
Faculty: Sven Dupré, Marzia Faietti, Frank Fehrenbach, Cecilia Frosinini, Paolo Galluzzi, Martin Kemp, Domenico Laurenza,
Pietro Marani, Antonio Natali, Jonathan Nelson, Alessandro Nova,
Carlo Vecce
Information:
Francesca Fiorani
Department of Art
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400130
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4130
434/243-8649
ff6f@virginia.edu
http://faculty.virginia.edu/Fiorani/NEH-Institute

Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land
Mexico City, Arizona, and New Mexico: June 17-July 23 (5 weeks)
Laraine Fletcher, Adelphi University, and George Scheper, Johns Hopkins University and Community College of Baltimore County
Faculty: Donna Glowacki, Ramón Gutiérrez, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Stephen Lekson, Fran Levine, John Pohl, Eloise Quiñones Keber, F. Kent Reilly, Alan Sandstrom, Karl Taube
Information:
David A. Berry, Executive Director
Community College Humanities Association
c/o Essex County College
303 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102-1798
973/877-3204
berry@essex.edu
http://www.ccha-assoc.org/MesoSW12/index.html

Networks and Knowledge in the Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean
Barcelona, Spain: July 2-27 (4 weeks)
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Brian Catlos, University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Colorado, Boulder
Faculty: Charles Burnett, Olivia Remie Constable, Peregrine Horden, Karla Mallette, George Saliba, Fernando Salmón
Information:
The Mediterranean Seminar
Institute for Humanities Research
Humanities 1, Suite 515
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Attn: Michael Ursell
831/459-1780
mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org
http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/projects/neh2012/

Re-envisioning Asian American Art History
New York City, NY: July 9-28 (3 weeks)
John Kuo Wei Tchen, Alexandra Chang, New York University, and Margo Machida, University of Connecticut
Faculty: Sergio Bessa, Melissa Chiu, Dipti Desai, Karin Higa, Mark Johnson, Marvin Taylor, Jeffrey Wechsler, Tom Wolf, Midori Yoshimoto
Information:
Alexandra Chang, Research Manager
Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University
41-51 East 11 Street, 7 FL
New York, NY 10003
212/992-9651
apa.neh@nyu.edu
http://www.apa.nyu.edu/arts_research/NEH

Roman Comedy in Performance
Chapel Hill, NC: June 24-July 20 (4 weeks)
Sharon L. James, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Timothy J. Moore, University of Texas, Austin
Faculty: George Franko, Mary-Kay Gamel, T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Sander Goldberg, Anne Groton, C. W. Marshall, Amy Richlin, Niall Slater, John Starks
Information:
Sharon Lynn James
Associate Professor
Department of Classics, Campus Box 3145
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145
919/696-0901
sljames@email.unc.edu
http://nehsummer2012romancomedy.web.unc.edu/

The Visual Culture of the American Civil War
New York, NY: July 9-20 (2 weeks)
Donna Thompson Ray, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Faculty: Jeanie Attie, Georgia Barnhill, Joshua Brown, Sarah Burns, Gregory Downs, Alice Fahs, Harold Holzer, David Jaffee, Anthony Lee, Bruce Levine, Cynthia Mills, Michael Sappol, Richard Samuel West, Deborah Willis, and Peter H. Wood
Information:
Donna Thompson Ray, Project Director
American Social History Project
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
Room 7389
New York, NY 10016-4309
212/817-1963
dthompson@gc.cuny.edu
http://ashp.cuny.edu/civil-war-150/nehinstitute/

NEH Information
General questions concerning the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Seminars and Institutes Program may be directed to
202-606-8463 or sem-inst@neh.gov.

for College and University Teachers Summer 2012