For his book entitled Translating the Garden (Univ of Texas Press), coupling the difficult work of Shahrokh Meskoob (Dialogue in the Garden) with a companion essay on translation.
Awardee Database
Awardees
France Camus‐Pichon
For her translations of Orphans and The Dead Fish Museum (Albin), both by Charles d’Ambrosio.
Joshua Coene
Travel funds for research on changes in penal policy and practices in New South Wales over the last four decades.
Abigail Sebaly
Project on dance forms and dance education. Sebaly, a Merce Cunnigham dancer and graduate of the University of Michigan, is now at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, continuing her research into methods of curating contemporary dance.
Thea Augustina Eck
Mixed-media arts project on the collision between Danish, Greenlandic and Arctic cultures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Margaret Haines
Research in the Italian Architectural Drawings and Photographic Collection to further work on a digital archive of documents being developed in Florence on the building of Brunelleschi’s cupola for Santa Maria del Fiore.
Mark McKnight
Photographic project on Finland’s bee populations and honey farmers
Deborah Turner
Project on orally-based information practices in Finnish information institutions. Turner holds a PhD from the University of Washington.
Sarah Salman
PhD research on the responses of American immigrant communities to 9/11, towards a doctorate at City University of New York
Rolf Steier
Project entitled “Designing for Learning,” which addresses the role that mobile telephone technologies play in children’s learning in public spaces. At the time, Steier was building on a Master’s degree from Stanford University.
Emma Abby
Project on environmental studies and sustainability science at Lund University
Bulgarian-English Writing Programs, 2009
Fellows: Jeremiah Chamberlin, Alexandra Chaushova, Evgeni Cherepov, Maria Doneva, Yanitza Radeva, Lana Santoni, Kodi Scheer, Alexander Shpatov, Maya Sloan, Steven Wingate
Victoria Sloan
In recognition of her work in Kazakhstan, with “significant contributions to educational and cultural diplomacy while leading and mentoring American and national colleagues.”
Deborah Jones
Awarded for her work in Uzbekistan, “maintaining educational cultural ties and staff morale in an openly hostile climate.”
Robert Persiko
In recognition of two decades as chief of ECA youth programs and his “leadership in developing and sustaining new models of youth exchange programs.”
Lyubomir Nikolov
For his translation of the The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.
Bulgarian-English Writing Programs, 2008
Fellows: DJ.T. Bushnel, Svetia Damyanovska, Travis Holland, Maria Karo, Mariko Nagai, Ereene Nealand, Sonia Nikolova, Dena Popova, Stoil Roshkev, Danielle Trusson
Jean Kjellstrand
Project on Child Resilience: Pathways to Health in Sweden and the U.S.
Farzaneh Milani
Joint award, with Kaveh Sava, for their translation of a collection of poems of Simin Behbehani, entitled Cups of Sin.
Kaveh Safa
Joint award, with Farzaneh Milani, for their translation of a collection of poems of Simin Behbehani, entitled Cups of Sin.
Agnès Desarthe
For her translation of Cynthia Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers.
*The Prix Coindreau Prize, The Jeanne Varnay Pleasants Prize for Language Teaching, and the CASVA-Henry & Judith Millon Award are currently inactive.