Recipients for 2006-2007
The Institute for European Studies congratulates Junior Faculty Travel Grant recipients! This competition promotes excellence in Europe-related scholarly research and/or artistic activity by assistant professors at Cornell who have not yet been granted tenure and must be used during academic year 2006-2007. Recipients are:

Holly Case (Assistant Professor, History). Professor Case’s research project studies “Between the Lines: Contested Boundaries and the Fate of the Jews and other Minorities in Eastern Europe during WWII.” She will conduct this research in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the summer of 2007.
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Andrew Chignell (Assistant Professor, Philosophy). Professor Chignell’s will travel to Berlin in the summer of 2007 to conduct research on “Kant and the Ethics of Taste.”
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Duane Corpis (Assistant Professor, History). Professor Corpis received funding to travel to Germany May-July of 2007. His research project will examine “Global Contexts of German Confessionalization: Rethinking the Meanings of Conversion and Religion in Early Modern German Print Culture.”
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Sabine Haenni (Assistant Professor, Theatre, Film & Dance). Professor Haenni was granted funding to travel to Germany in July 2007 to research
“Metropolitan Experiences: Berlin 1900,” an anthology project (co-edited with Peter Marx, University of Mainz) that examines the massive growth of Berlin in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--its rapid modernization--from various cultural and disciplinary perspectives.
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Jose Rodriguez-Garcia (Assistant Professor, Romance Studies). Professor Rodriguez-Garcia will conduct research in France on “Oscar Wilde in Early-Twentieth-Century Spain: The Trials of Translation” during the summer of 2007.
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Robert Weiner (Assistant Professor, Government). Professor Weiner's funding will enable travel to Britain to research “Why So Little Strategy? District-Level Electoral Entry in Theory and Practice” in March 2007.
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