Humanities Fellowships

FAIN: RA-20231-02

John Carter Brown Library (Providence, RI 02906)
Norman Fiering (Project Director: September 2001 to November 2012)
Margot M. Nishimura (Project Director: November 2012 to November 2007)

The equivalent of two full-year fellowships for each of three years.

Associated Products

Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans (Book)
Title: Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans
Author: Carina L. Johnson
Abstract: This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation. The author chronicles the resultant creation of cultural hierarchy. Starting at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when ideas of European superiority were not fixed, this book traces the formation of those ideas through proto-ethnographies, news pamphlets, Habsburg court culture, gifts of treasure, and the organization of collections.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://http://www.worldcat.org/title/cultural-hierarchy-in-sixteenth-century-europe-the-ottomans-and-aztecs/oclc/715286431&referer=brief_results
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780521769273

Relacion del festejo que a los Marqueses de las Amarillas les hicieron las Senoras Religiosas del Convento de San Jeronimo Mexico, 1756 (Book)
Title: Relacion del festejo que a los Marqueses de las Amarillas les hicieron las Senoras Religiosas del Convento de San Jeronimo Mexico, 1756
Author: Joaquin Barruchi y Arana
Editor: Frederick Luciani
Abstract: In August of 1756, the nuns of the Convent of San Jerónimo in Mexico City celebrated the Viceroys of New Spain with plays, music, and dance pieces. This edition includes the full text of the celebration, carefully annotated, with an introduction that provides contextualization and analysis.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/relacion-del-festejo-que-a-los-marqueses-de-las-amarillas-les-hicieron-las-senoras-religiosas-del-convento-de-san-jeronimo-mexico-1756/oclc/759152697&referer=brief_results
Publisher: Biblioteca Indiana
Type: Translation
ISBN: 9788484895831

Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru (Book)
Title: Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru
Author: Rachel Sarah O'Toole
Abstract: This volume chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era, and examines how Andeans and Africans negotiated and employed casta and, in doing so, constructed these racial categories.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/bound-lives-africans-indians-and-the-making-of-race-in-colonial-peru/oclc/754713689&referer=brief_results
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780822961932

Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and Its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671 (Book)
Title: Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and Its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671
Author: John Charles
Abstract: Focusing on the highland parishes of the Lima archdiocese, John Charles explores the vital, often conflictive role indigenous agents played in the creation of Andean Christian society. Torn between their obligation to enforce colonial laws and their customary obligation to protect native communities from the colonizers' abuses, indios ladinos used the Spanish language to complicate the Church's efforts to evangelize on its own terms. Utilizing a vast body of literary activity, Allies at Odds provides perspective on the Spanish cultural values that shaped the literary activity of native Andeans and that native Andeans had a part in shaping.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://http://www.worldcat.org/title/allies-at-odds-the-andean-church-and-its-indigenous-agents-1583-1671/oclc/759158380&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry.
Secondary URL: http://http://www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=12338571007613&Page=book
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's description.
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780826348326

Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem (Book)
Title: Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem
Author: Carol Delaney
Abstract: An assessment of the character and motivations of Christopher Columbus reveals the passionate religious beliefs that motivated his famous voyages, and claims how he sought gold to finance a new crusade to restore Jerusalem to Christian control.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://http://www.worldcat.org/title/columbus-and-the-quest-for-jerusalem/oclc/709673135&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry.
Secondary URL: http://http://books.simonandschuster.com/Columbus-and-the-Quest-for-Jerusalem/Carol-Delaney/9781439102374
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's website.
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: Free Press (New York, NY)
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781439102329

Prizes

Best Books of 2011
Date: 12/2/2011
Organization: Times Literary Supplement

Britain's Oceanic Empire: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 1550-1850 (Book)
Title: Britain's Oceanic Empire: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 1550-1850
Editor: Elizabeth Mancke
Editor: H.V. Bowen
Editor: John G. Reid
Abstract: This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities in the legal and economic regimes that allowed Britain to project imperium across the globe. They explore the nature of sovereignty and law, governance and regulation, diplomacy, military relations and commerce, shedding new light on the processes of expansion that influenced the making of empire. While acknowledging the distinctions and divergences in imperial endeavours in Asia and the Americas - not least in terms of the size of indigenous populations, technical and cultural differences, and approaches to indigenous polities - this book argues that these differences must be seen in the context of what Britons overseas shared, including constitutional principles, claims of sovereignty, disciplinary regimes and military attitudes
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/britains-oceanic-empire-atlantic-and-indian-ocean-worlds-c-1550-1850/oclc/786002578&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Secondary URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/british-history-after-1450/britains-oceanic-empire-atlantic-and-indian-ocean-worlds-c15501850?format=HB
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's website.
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: Cambridge University Press US
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781107020146

The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 (Book)
Title: The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763
Author: Paul Mapp
Abstract: The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus on the Atlantic world, Paul W. Mapp demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions to early American history and shows that a Pacific focus is crucial to understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the Seven Years' War.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/elusive-west-and-the-contest-for-empire-1713-1763/oclc/646630204&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry.
Secondary URL: http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-7161.html
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's website.
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-8078-339

Prizes

W. Turrentine-Jackson Prize
Date: 10/11/2013
Organization: Western History Association

The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico (Book)
Title: The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico
Author: Matthew O'Hara
Abstract: Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. O’Hara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover a history of “futuremaking.” While historians and historical anthropologists of Latin America have long focused on historical memory, O’Hara—a Rockefeller Foundation grantee and the award-winning author of A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico—rejects this approach and its assumptions about time experience. Ranging widely across economic, political, and cultural practices, O’Hara reveals how colonial subjects used the resources of tradition and Catholicism to craft new futures. An intriguing, innovative work, this volume will be widely read by scholars of Latin American history, religious studies, and historical methodology.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Single author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Indigenous Intellectuals in Colonial Latin America (Book Section)
Title: Indigenous Intellectuals in Colonial Latin America
Author: David Tavárez
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Title: xford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History

Refraining Idolatry in Zapotec: Dominican Translations of the Christian Doctrine in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca (Book Section)
Title: Refraining Idolatry in Zapotec: Dominican Translations of the Christian Doctrine in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca
Author: David Tavárez
Editor: Andrea Rizzi
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2018
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Trust and Proof: Translators in Renaissance Print Culture

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