Denison professor awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Date of Event: December 13, 2012
Posted: December 13, 2012
GRANVILLE, Ohio—Adam Davis, an associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Denison University, has just been awarded a fellowship in the amount of $50,400 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The fellowship will provide Davis with a year’s leave from teaching duties to write his book, “The Rise of the Medieval Hospital and the Formation of a Charitable Society in 12th and 13th-Century Champagne, France.”
Beginning in the 12th and 13th centuries, hundreds of hospitals were founded to provide for Europe’s poor and sick. Davis’ study will analyze the complex and overlapping motives that led women and men to support hospitals, particularly hospitals in Champagne. His book will probe what charity meant to medieval people and will provide a window into a pivotal moment in European history, when care for the sick and poor became popularized and institutionalized.
Denison is one of only three colleges and universities in Ohio with an NEH fellowship awardee this year. This also marks the second consecutive year that the NEH has granted this very competitive national fellowship to a faculty member at Denison.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States. NEH serves and strengthens our republic by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history to all Americans. The Endowment accomplishes this mission by awarding grants for top-rated proposals examined by panels of independent, external reviewers.
About Denison:
Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.
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