Posted on 03/25/2016 3:13:55 PM PDT by kevcol
The National Endowment for the Humanities released its latest round of projects, which includes studies of the "history of French lesbian activism," and $20,000 for a new college course on "questions about neighborliness."
The projects are part of $21.1 million in grants announced this week for the federal agency's "Common Good" initiative.
Tamara Chaplin, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, received a $6,000 summer stipend for her project "Postwar French Media, and the Struggle for Gay Rights."
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history of French lesbian activism
I think the history of French Fur Trappers would be more relevant
They surely must be monitoring John Kerry then.
English Translation: Surfing the Internet for French lesbian porn.
That’s just one night at Madame Claude’s....
French fur trappers???
I see what you did there........
Does society and the world REALLY need to know that history? It has absolutely no value other than to the “dyke” professor making a buck. Another waste of tax payers money.
I would have done this study for $5,000.
Tamara Chaplin is Associate Professor of Modern European History, and has faculty affiliations in the Departments of French and Italian, and Gender and Women’s Studies.
She is also an associated faculty member of Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies, the European Union Center, and the Center for Global Studies. A scholar of contemporary France, Dr. Chaplin specializes in Modern European cultural and intellectual history, the histories of gender and sexuality, feminist and critical theory, queer studies, human rights, popular culture and the media.
Her first book, Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television (University of Chicago Press, 2007), argues that the history of the televising of philosophy in France is crucial to understanding the struggle over French national identity in the postwar period.
Dr. Chaplin is interested in the influence of mass media and globalization on the construction of national identities, on the links between high and popular culture, and on the relationship between politics, law, the media and the social institution of moral values.
New articles on the history of sex-education and a book-length manuscript on the history of lesbian life in postwar France extend these interests to new domains. Her work has been supported by fellowships from UIUC's Center for Advanced Study, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, the Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship for Research in Ethics and the Bourse Chateaubriand, among others.
Recipient in 2014 of the highest teaching awards delivered at this institution --both the Provost's Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching--as well as the Queen Teaching Prize for Instruction in History (2010), Dr. Chaplin teaches survey and special topics courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels on modern Europe, France, sexuality, the body, human rights, intellectuals, history and social theory, World War I, twentieth century revolutions, media and popular culture. Her courses reflect her commitment to the historical analysis of multiple media forms and often employ sources from film, music, art and television. A former professional ballet dancer, trained actor, and member of both the Screen Actor’s Guild and Canadian Actor’s Equity, Professor Chaplin received her doctorate in Modern European History from Rutgers University in 2002.
We are being governed by idiots.
Fur trappers and red snappers..
Who is the most famous person who came from “French Lick, Indiana”?
Here’s a hint.
He did NOT play for the team which accomplished the Three-peat.
One of these things is not like the others...
sounds like someone wants to get paid to watch porn.
Hell, I would have written an entire article on this subject for $175.
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