Three faculty members receive grants from National Endowment for the Humanities
MIDDLEBURY, Vt.—Three Middlebury College faculty members have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an unusually large number of awards for a single academic year.
Jennifer Heuer, an assistant professor of history, has been awarded an NEH fellowship for a project titled, "Our sons married ninety-year olds": War and Family in the Napoleonic Empire. This project will combine tools of social, cultural, and gender history to reveal the vital and complex interactions of famly and war during the Napoleonic period.
Kirsten Hoving, a professor in the department of history of art and architecture, received an NEH grant for her project, "Joseph Cornell and Astronomy." Cornell, one of the most important 20th-century masters of collage, is known for shallow boxes filled with text, pictures and small objects, works that combine factual information with imaginary elements. Hoving's study focuses on the more than 100 such boxes devoted to the planets and the stars.
And Anne Knowles, assistant professor of geography, received an NEH sabbatical fellowship for her project, "America's Iron Era: Labor and Technological Change in the Iron Industry, 1800-1868." Hers will be the first comprehensive study of the iron industry's transition from small-scale production to large-scale, modern manufacturing. It will incorporate a historical GIS analysis of iron works across the country.