Summer Research Grant Awards 2017
The Medieval Matrix: An Online Platform for Teaching the Medieval Globe (web-based collaborative space for pedagogical resources)
Danielle Callegari, UC Berkeley, & Akash Kumar, UC Santa Cruz
Saharan-Mediterranean Passages: Slave Trades of West Africa and the Mediterranean 1200-1600 (course materials on the medieval slave trade, particularly trans-Saharan networks linking West Africa to the Southern Mediterranean)
Lori De Lucia, UCLA
Classic Maya Cities in the UCSB Maya Forest GIS: Creating Access to Region, Local, and Site Scale Data for Comparative Research on the Middle Ages in the Wider World (model of digital data development and organization for comparative study of the Middle Ages)
Anabel Ford, UC Santa Barbara, & Keith Clarke, UC Santa Barbara
Medieval Japanese State Documents in a Western European Context (translations of Japanese Kamakura-era [1185-1333] texts with commentary referencing European comparanda)
Kaitlin G. Forgash, UC Berkeley
Of Saints and Rulers: The Ideology of Hagiography in Late Antiquity (comparative study of the function of hagiography in Sasanian Persia and Merovingian Gaul)
Cristina Politano, UCLA, & Ani Honarchian, UCLA
The Many Muslim Faces: 1200-1400 (web and pedagogical resources on race and the depiction of Muslims)
Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, UC Berkeley
Medieval Women’s Global Literature (a collaborative digital mapping project)
Alexandra Verini, UCLA; Drew K. Richardson, UC Santa Cruz; & Rebecca Hill, UCLA
European Demonology Viewed from the East (sylvan shrines in India and France)
David Gordon White, UC Santa Barbara