Two faculty members win NEH fellowships

Dartmouth College Office of Public Affairs • Press Release
Posted 02/04/04 • Contact Tamara Steinert (603) 646-3661

Dartmouth professors Julia Driver and John Watanabe are among 180 scholars selected this year to each receive a $40,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The stipends, announced on Feb. 9, will allow the scholars to spend up to a year working on individual research projects that contribute to scholarly knowledge or improve the general public's understanding of the humanities.

Professor of Anthropology John Watanabe will complete a book about administering race, class, community and nation in 19th century Guatemala. A cultural anthropologist with a strong interest in questions of cultural evolution, Watanabe previously received fellowships from the Michigan Society of Fellows (1986-1989) and the National Humanities Center (1998-1999). He also received Dartmouth's Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement in 1993.

Driver, a professor of philosophy, studies ethical theory. She will use the fellowship to complete her book The Greatest Happiness Principle . Past awards include a Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellowship from Princeton University and a Young Scholar's Award from Cornell University's Program on Ethics and Public Life. Her first book, Uneasy Virtue , was published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. She also received a Jacobus Family Fellowship at Dartmouth in 2003.

The NEH received 1,289 fellowship applications for this year's fellowships, awarding a total of $3.3 million to scholars in 38 states and the District of Columbia