DeLauro Applauds National Endowment for the Humanities Grants for Wesleyan University

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) today released the following statement applauding two new National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants for Wesleyan University in Middletown.

“I am delighted to extend my congratulations to Wesleyan University and its accomplished educators," said DeLauro. "The awarding of these competitive grants is a testament to the college’s fine educational work in our community. I am grateful to the NEH for continuing to support research and public engagement around the humanities. I look forward to the great successes that will be born out of both of these awards.”

The grants are as follows:

$50,400 for the Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars project Modality and Logic in Early Analytic Philosophy

$33,600 for the Fellowships for Advanced Research on Japan project Environmental Politics in East Asia: Strategies that Work

“We are delighted that the NEH has recognized the work of Professors Shieh and Haddad with these highly prestigious fellowships,” said Wesleyan’s President Michael Roth. “The NEH is an important source of support for the advanced research done by our scholar-teachers here at Wesleyan, and we are thrilled with this good news.”

Mary Alice Haddad, Associate Professor of Government and recipient of the Fellowships for Advanced Research on Japan grant, said: “Japan has experienced some of the world’s most intense environmental crises and taken leadership roles in finding solutions. The NEH Fellowship for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan will enable me to examine the ways that Japan’s experience has served as a model for encouraging better environmental behavior among individuals, corporations, and governments in East Asia and the world.”

Sanford Shieh, Associate Professor of Philosophy and recipient of the Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars grant, said: “The modal concepts of necessity and possibility are deeply entrenched in contemporary analytic philosophy, as are the methods and theories of modern logic. The NEH Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars will enable me to provide a re-examination of the philosophical status of modality and logic, by investigating their historical roots in the origins of the analytic tradition. I am extremely grateful to the NEH for making it possible for me to bring this project to completion, and to Wesleyan for affording the wonderful environment in which I could nurture it for the past seven years.


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