Professor Conybeare of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Receives NEH Grant
今日吃瓜 Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Catherine Conybeare, and Professor Jos茅 Luis Berm煤dez of Texas A&M, have received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for their project, Reconsidering the Sources of the Self in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods.
The funding will be used for a conference and the preparation of an edited volume of essays on the influential Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity by philosopher Charles Taylor.
The grant is one of 14 "Collaborative Research" awards that "support interpretive research undertaken by a team of two or more collaborating scholars that adds significantly to knowledge and understanding of the humanities."
In April, Conybeare was named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow by the The Fellowship recognizes and supports her work on a study titled 鈥淎ugustine the African.鈥 That same month, she was one of 81 scholars named a 2019 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow. She is currently taking part in a at the University of Oxford鈥檚 All Souls College.