Mellon Foundation Grant

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Benjamin Elman was selected by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its Distinguished Achievement Award in 2010. The awards have been bestowed annually on three to four scholars nationwide since 2001, and are intended to enable notable scholars in the humanities to work under especially favorable conditions and to underscore the decisive contributions the humanities make to the nation's intellectual life. Elman is the sixth long-term Princeton faculty member, and the first historian of China, to be accorded the honor.

Principal Investigator: Benjamin Elman, Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of East Asian Studies and History; Chair, East Asian Studies Department

Mellon Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow, 2011-2013: Mathias Vigouroux

Grant Coordinator: L. Kathleen Amon

Workshops

Comparative Project on China and India, May 4, 2012

Topics to be Covered:

1. Rulership, Courts and the State: Pamela Crossley (Dartmouth) and
Muzaffar Alam (Chicago)

2. Historiography From Within: Allison Busch (Columbia) and Cynthia Brokaw (Brown)

3. Languages and Literature: Stephen Owen (Harvard) and Sheldon Pollock

(Columbia)

4. Classical Learning/History of Science/Medicine: Christopher Minkowski (Oxford)

and Benjamin Elman (Princeton)

5. Art/Architecture/Visual Culture: Eugene Wang (Harvard) and Molly Aitken (CCNY)