2023-24 Publication Support Grant Awardees

Publication: Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State (2024) 

Truffles and Trash examines the political and ethical problem of food waste. The grant was used for professional indexing, graduate student assistant, and image rights. 

Publication: “Xenophon’s Women: Friendship, Economics, and War” 

The forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press analyzes the Xenophon’s historical writings, Socratic dialogues, and treatises to examine gender portrayal in fourth-century Athens. The grant supported funding for professional indexing.  

Publication: Preaching Prevention: Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of Aids in Uganda  

The grant defrayed publication costs for The African Studies Bookstore, a Ugandan press, to release an edition of Boyd’s 2015 monograph in East Africa.  

Neal Caren, Sociology 

Publication: “Dare You Fight: WEB DuBois in The Crisis” 

The grant supported funding for graduate and undergraduate student assistance in annotating W.E.B. DuBois’ articles to produce an online digital archive of the journalist’s contributions to The Crisis.  

Al Duncan, Classics

Publication: Ugly Productions: An Aesthetics of Greek Drama (2025) 

Ugly Productions offers detailed analyses of the various ways ugliness was produced in performance. The grant funds were used for professional indexing.  

Evelyne Huber (ALP ’17), Political Science

Publication: Challenging Inequality (2024) 

In Challenging Inequality, Huber examines how policies, parties, and labor strength affect inequality in post-industrial societies. The grant supported funding for professional indexing. 

Michelle King (FFP ’23), History 

Publication: Modern Chinese Foodways (2025) 

Modern Chinese Foodways defines the major processes by which Chinese food and foodways have become modern. The grant supported indexing, map making, and bibliographic assistance. 

Suzanne Lye (FFP ’24), Classics

Publication: Life/Afterlife: Revolution and Reflection in Ancient Greek Underworlds from Homer to Lucian (2024) 

Funds from the grant were used for professional indexing. Lye worked on Life/Afterlife during her Faculty Fellowship in spring 2023.  

Shannon McGregor, Hussman School of Journalism and Media

Publication: “Social Media Policy in Two Dimensions: Understanding the Role of Anti-establishment Beliefs and Political Ideology in Americans’ Attribution of Responsibility regarding Online Content”(2023) 

The grant allowed for this article to be published with open access. 

Michele Rivkin-Fish (FFP ’13), Anthropology

Publication: Unmaking Russia’s Abortion Culture: Family Planning and the Struggle for a Liberal Biopolitics (2024) 

The grant supported funding for professional indexing, proofreading, and publication subvention. 

Daniel Sherman (FFP ’17), Art and Art History/History

Publication: Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940 (2025) 

The grant supported publication subvention with the University of Chicago Press to print the book on coated paper to ensure high quality illustrations.  

Angela Stuesse (ALP ’23), Anthropology

Publication: “#FreeDany”  

Stuesse co-authors the book with Daniela A. Vargas. The grant supported the publication by funding a professional editor.