Prof Doug Howard Receives NEH Summer Research Grant
Says Prof Howard, "The research project is for a chapter of a book that I am writing called Amid the Ruins: A History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1924.
<p>The main theme of the book is what I would call the paradox of Ottoman history—an early modern empire of immense power and prosperity, yet with a pervasive cultural melancholia. The book uses insights gained from emotions history, environmental history, migrations history, and related recent research to get at the role of an Ottoman worldview in a history of the Ottoman Empire. My plan is that the book will have seven chapters. The project is a little more than half done. The NEH summer stipend will support the research and writing of chapter five." <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/news/archive/researching-ottoman-worldviews-in-tu… more</a>.</p>
<p>The NEH summer stipends program supports individual research of value to scholars in the humanities, general audiences, or both. The support is for two consecutive months of full-time research.</p>