Former fellows Yoshiko Matsumoto and Michael Shanks have received 2009 grants from the Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities.
Matsumoto’s project, “Noun-Modifying Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Reshaping Theoretical and Geographical Boundaries” will bring together experts in Central and East Asian languages to investigate grammar.
Michael Shanks is collaborating with other Stanford scholars on a project called “Evoking Humanity Through Clay: A Replication Experience,” which investigates the development and transmission of pottery technology with a series of events and also an ethnographic study of the learning experience of making pottery.
Read more on the Stanford News Service: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/june3/innovate-060309.html
