The Society for the Humanities has awarded 18 faculty grants for research and international collaboration, supporting ongoing projects in the 2009-10 academic year. The projects range from Greek archaeology and Assyrian cuneiform tablets to studies in early and contemporary Islam, modernist poetry and labor migration in Nepal.

Society director Timothy Murray said the international scope and disciplinary range of the grants "reflect the active engagement of our faculty in cutting-edge research across the broad spectrum of the humanities, and attests to Cornell's leadership in forging productive collaborations with international leaders in humanistic fields."

Grants will support the following projects:

• Annetta Alexandridis, history of art and visual studies, for "Shifting Species: The Iconography of Metamorphosis and Zoophilia in Ancient Greece."
• Bruno Bosteels, Romance studies, "The Age of the Poets: A Workshop on Literature and Philosophy After Heidegger."
• Kim Bowes, classics, for "Seeing the Unseen: Excavating the Roman Rural Poor."
• Jeremy Braddock, English, "Collecting as Modernist Practice."
• Holly Case, history, "Minority Rights and Ethnic Cleansing Revisited."
• Iftikhar Dadi, history of art and visual studies, "Cosmopolitan Modernism in the Art of Muslim South Asia."
• Cheryl Finley, history of art and visual studies, research in Havana for a monograph on Cuban-born artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons.
• Michael Fontaine, classics, "Recently Discovered Ancient Theater Masks in Naples."
• Kathryn Gleason, landscape architecture, "Viridarium at the Villa Arianna, Stabiae; and its Precedents at the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta."
• Tamara Loos, history, "Transnational Medicine in the Mission of Dr. Krisana Kraisintu."
• Jenny Mann, English, "Outlaw Rhetoric: Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Early Modern England."
• Kathryn March, anthropology, "Global Families: The Impact of International Wage Labor Migration on Domestic Political Economies and Gendered Subjectivities Among the Tamang of Highland Nepal."
• Lauren Monroe, Near Eastern studies, "Mari on the Euphrates and the Biblical World," a seminar and symposium.
• David Owen, Near Eastern studies, research on Cornell's collection of cuneiform tablets, for the university's studies in Assyriology and Sumerology.
• Sara Pritchard, science and technology studies, "Water Management Across the French Mediterranean."
• Annette Richards, music, "Charles Burney, Musical Travel and the Idea of Music History," a conference and concert festival.
• Shawkat Toorawa, Near Eastern studies, "Scholars and Scholarship in Early Islam."
• Dagmawi Woubshet, English, Addis Ababa conference, "(Black) Movements: Poetics and Praxis."

The grants, all funded through the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, are awarded annually to support faculty research in the humanities, with special emphasis on supporting scholarship by junior faculty.