PROFESSOR EARNS STIPEND FOR HUMANITIES AWARD – Mar. 3, 2009
Karin Roffman is the first West Point instructor to earn a NEH summer stipend, according to the academy’s Associate Dean for Academic Research Dr. Stephen Landowne.
Roughly 850 applicants from colleges and universities across the country, with a maximum of two applicants allowed per institution, compete for about 110 awards annually, he explained.
“It is truly a mark of national-level recognition in the Humanities,” Landowne said.
Karin Roffman, who did her undergraduate work at Stanford and earned her Ph. D. from Yale, will receive a $6,000 stipend to study the work of John Ashbery, one of the preeminent living poets in America today, according to West Point English Department Academy Professor Lt. Col. Brian Imiola.
Her project is titled "A Study of John Ashbery as a Poet and Collector in his Hudson Home."
"Professor Roffman is very excited about the opportunity to work closely with John Ashbery's poetry," Imiola explained.
The NEH program provides scholars with an opportunity to pursue research in the humanities that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public's understanding of the humanities.
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