Project on Scandinavian literature. At the time, Webb was at UCLA.
Awardee Database
Awardees
Georgia Hubert
In recognition of her excellence in carrying out the merging of the US Information Service into the State Department her USIA-State merger and training State officers to take over the simple grant-making activities formerly carried out by USIA.
Jean Pavrans
For his translation of Edith Wharton’s autobiography, A Backward Glance (published as Les Chemins parvenus)
Bernard Hoepffner
For his translation into French of Red the Fiend, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Asher Cutter
Project on ants as indicators of habitat disturbance and biodiversity. At the time, Cutter was at Tufts University.
Kelly Amis
Project on educational excellence and diversity in Australia. At the time, Amis was at Stanford University.
Andrew Buckser
Supplementary support for an ethnographic study of the Jewish community in Copenhagen. At the time, Buckser was an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue. His research resulted in the 2003 publication, After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark.
Nicholas Hill
Project on the sociological history of the Finnish army from 1918 to 1926
Sara A. Peterson
Project on the influence of Norwegian health and social policies on adolescent reproductive health. At the time, Peterson was in Public Health at UC Berkeley.
Eric W. Banks
Project on contemporary choral theory and practice in Sweden. At the time, Banks was a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin.
Matthew Roy
Project on theoretical perspectives and representations of homosexuality in Swedish literature. At the time, Roy was a PhD candidate at the University of Washington.
Mary Lou Edmondson
In recognition of her work as a mainstay in the New York press center of the US Information Agency
Anne Wicke
For her translation into French of The Same River Twice, by Chris Offutt
Adrienne O’Neal
In recognition of her service in Rio de Janiero.
Mark Harman
Harman’s new translation of The Castle, by Franz Kafka, updates the 1930 Edwin Muir version and, in the words of the MLA citation, ensures “that its influence … will in the next century be as powerful as it has in this.” At the time, Harman was at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.
Jason Pierce
Project on Australia’s High Court, as Australian political and judiciary elements re-evaluate the judicial system. At the time, Pierce was at the University of Texas.
Karen Anderson
Project on the international economy and the welfare state.
*The Prix Coindreau Prize, The Jeanne Varnay Pleasants Prize for Language Teaching, and the CASVA-Henry & Judith Millon Award are currently inactive.