2023-2024 Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grants

Name, Title of Project, Library Unit(s), Funding Source. Unless otherwise noted, the funding source is the Friends of the Princeton University Library.

Arianna Afsari, “Toward a Third Poetry: Reflections on a Counterpoetry of Liberation and Anti-colonial Resistance through the Poetry of Juan Gelman,” Manuscripts Collection.

Saban Agalar, “Conceptions of Religion and the Religions in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire,” Manuscripts Collection.

Shuaib Ally, “Tracing the Use, Function and Spread of Supercommentary Writing through Paratexts: Balāgha and Tafsīr,” Manuscripts Collection.

Rubi Carreño, “The Diamela Eltit Archive as a Memory of Emancipation,” Manuscripts Collection.

Wai Yee Chiong, “Bound and Unbound: Examining Avian Picture Books in the Edo Period,” Marquand Art and Archaeology Library.

Isaura Contreras Rios, “The Writer’s Diary in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature,” Manuscripts Collection.

Louise de Mello, “The Living Memory of Brazil's National Museum: Rebuilding its Collections Through Historical Archives,” American West Collection, Historic Maps Collection, Manuscripts Collection, Rare Books Collection, Brazil LAB Fund and Maxwell Fund.

Scott Eaton, “Covenanting Scottish Women: Literature, Gender and Identity,” Manuscripts Collection.

Tian Gao, “Tiny Books for Little Hands? A Study of Japanese Miniature Picturebooks in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century,” Cotsen Children's Library, Cotsen Fund.

Alejandro García Lidón, “The Coinage of the Western Byzantine Empire in the Firestone Library,” Numismatics Collection.

Foteini Gazi, “Crossing Lines in the 20th Century: Empires, Wars, Nations,” Manuscripts Collection, Princeton University Archives, Hellenic Studies Fund.

Amin Ghadimi, “Leroy Lansing Janes and the Intellectual Origins of the 1877 Japanese Civil War,” Manuscripts Collection.

Jingya Guo, “Medical, Monstrous and Myriad: Controversial Bodies and Gender Politics in China, 1500-1890,” East Asian Library, Rare Books Division.

Taylor Hare, “The Sightless but Immortal Bard: Milton and the Nineteenth-Century Tactile Book,” Cotsen Children’s Library, Graphic Arts Collection, Rare Book Collection, Cotsen Fund.

Elsbeth Heaman, “A Biography of Jacob Viner,” Princeton University Archives.

Zoe Jaques, “Bookish Things: Pop-up, Movable, and Interactive Books for Children,” Cotsen Children’s Library, Cotsen Fund.

Rachael King, “Keeping an Account: Women’s Books and the Spaces of Self-Improvement,” Cotsen Children’s Library, Manuscripts Collection, Rare Books Collection, Sid Lapidus '59 Research Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World.

Kenneth Loiselle, “Revolutionary Transformations of Freemasonry in the French Atlantic, 1789-1804,” Manuscripts Collection.

Madelyn Lugli, “Foreign Affairs: The Interwar's Personal Interpretation of Internationalism,” Public Policy Papers.

Benjamin Marschall, “David Lewis’s Australian Correspondence and the Revival of Metaphysics,” Manuscripts Collection.

Shane Morrissy, “The Roots of the Postcard Craze: Advertising Sapolio Soap and the Construction of the Commodity Fetish in America (1870-1920),” Manuscripts Collection.

Ipek Sahinler, “El Medio Oriente de Severo Sarduy,” Manuscripts Collection, Princeton University Archives.

Janet Neary, “Speculative Life: Black Literature and Visual Culture of the Nineteenth-Century West,” American West Collection, Graphic Arts Collection, Historic Maps Collection, Marquand Art and Archaeology Library.

Ross Nedervelt, “Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution,” Historic Maps Collection, Manuscripts Collection, Rare Books Collection, Sid Lapidus '59 Research Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World.

Mónica Ni, “María Rosa Oliver and Ricardo Piglia: Interdictions Between Politics and Culture in the Making of Global Maoism (1952-1973),” Manuscripts Collection.

Caitlin O'Keefe, “Odéonia: Reading Feminist Internationalism and the Making of Interwar Paris,” Manuscripts Collection.

Sarath Pillai, “Federal Futures: Imagining Federation, Constitution, and World in Late Colonial India,” Rare Books Collection, Manuscripts Collection.

Ellen Pilsworth, “Early Warners: Publishing for English Readers by anti-Nazi Refugees in the Years of Appeasement and War (1933-45),” Manuscripts Collection.

Cassia Roth, “Birthing Abolition: Reproduction and the End of Slavery in Brazil,” Manuscripts Collection, Maxwell Fund.

Gina Saraceni, “Animals of the Archive: The Tearing of the Voice,” Manuscripts Collection, Princeton University Archives, Rare Books Division, Program in Latin American Studies Fund.

Warren Schultz, “Cataloguing Mamluk Coins: Incorporating the Antioch Hoard and Undeland Collection into Mamluk Monetary History,” Numismatics Collection.

Megan Swift, “Pages from the Past, Early Soviet Classics on the Post-Socialist Child’s Bookshelf,” Cotsen Children’s Library, Cotsen Fund.

Rodrigo Viqueira, “Archives of Labor: Álvaro Yunque and Left-Wing Print Culture in Argentina,” Manuscripts Collection, Rare Books Collection.

Jane Wessel, “Theatre and the Extra-Illustrated Book: Participatory Reading and Fandoms in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England,” Rare Books Collection.

Matthew Zipf, “The Speechwriter of the Inquiry: Renata Adler and the Impeachment of President Nixon,” Public Policy Papers, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library Fund.

Maria Zymara, “(Un)Real Athens, (Un)Νoticed Gender: A Feminist Reading of Greek Modernism,” Manuscripts Collection, Hellenic Studies Fund.