Professors awarded CEAH summer grants
 
Three professors in the Department of History have been awarded a Summer 2005 grant from the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities at Iowa State

Those faculty receiving the grants were:

Michael Bailey
Assistant Professor

Project: "Magic and Superstition in European History": Funds time to complete a book manuscript under contract. The book presents an overview of the nature of magic and superstition as culturally constructed categories and focuses primarily on the historical development of beliefs and practices in medieval and early-modern Europe.

Amy Bix
Associate Professor

Project: "American Engineering Education for Women": Funds time to complete two final chapters of a book manuscript that traces the history of engineering education for women in the United States from 1860-1980. These chapters will focus on engineering coeducation at MIT and the evolution of the Society of Women Engineers since the 1970s.

Christopher Curtis
Assistant Professor

Project: "'Jefferson's Chosen People: Freeholders and the Politics of Land Ownership in the Old Dominion, 1776-1860": Funds time to revise dissertation for publication. The study examines the political consequences of nineteenth-century land-law reforms in Virginia, which research suggests placed an increased emphasis on the political status of slaveholding.

One history professor also received a Research/Creative Activity Grant from the CEAH for 2004-05.

David Hollander
Assistant Professor

Project: "Self-Sufficiency and Agriculture in the Roman Economy": Funds travel to Italy to conduct research at archives, archaeological sites, and museums. The research will form the nucleus of a book about the economic behavior of farmers in Italy during the late Republic and early Roman Empire (200 BCE–200 CE).