Medieval Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Political Advice

Funding Source: National Endowment for the Humanities – ‘Mirrors for princes’ – writings that offer advice to rulers on their governance and comportment – are attested for virtually all pre-modern agrarian societies. Pre-modern Muslim societies produced numerous examples of the … Continue reading Medieval Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Political Advice

At Home Abroad: Anne Whitney and American Women Artists in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

Funding Source: American Philosophical Society/British Academy Fellowship (2014); Friends of the Princeton University Library ( 2014); Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (2018); Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library (2018) – In the late nineteenth century regular and affordable … Continue reading At Home Abroad: Anne Whitney and American Women Artists in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

Using Organic Synthesis and Natural Product-derived Scaffolds to Identify Novel Anticancer Agents

A distinctive feature of pancreatic cancer cells is their tolerance to nutrient- and oxygen-deprivation. Pancreatic cancer cells, including PANC-1, can survive for 48 hours in the absence of essential amino acids, glucose, and serum, whereas normal cells die within 24 … Continue reading Using Organic Synthesis and Natural Product-derived Scaffolds to Identify Novel Anticancer Agents

Characterization and Design of Histone-Derived Antimicrobial Peptides

Funding Source: NIH R15/AREA (2R15AI079685); Previously funded by a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and by Research Corporation – Bacteria that have developed antibiotic resistance pose an increasing health risk. Antimicrobial peptides are small proteins produced by a wide variety of … Continue reading Characterization and Design of Histone-Derived Antimicrobial Peptides

Rhythms of Grease, Grime, Glass, and Glitter: The Body in Contemporary Black Art

Funding Source: Richard D. Cohen Fellowship. W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute. Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Harvard University. 2016-17. Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. 2016-2017 – In Rhythms of Grease, Grime, Glass, and Glitter: The Body … Continue reading Rhythms of Grease, Grime, Glass, and Glitter: The Body in Contemporary Black Art

Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings and the Creation of New Kin

Funding Source: National Science Foundation – This research is about unprecedented families … networks of strangers linked by genes, medical technology and the human desire for affinity and identity. It chronicles the chain of choices that couples and single moms … Continue reading Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings and the Creation of New Kin

Faith in Pakistan: Muslim Charity and the Islamic Welfare State

Funding Source: American Institute of Pakistan Studies, the East West Center, Wellesley College, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars – Why are Islamic charities in Pakistan building a parallel state? Faculty: Christopher Candland Department: Political Science Funding Source: American Institute of Pakistan Studies, … Continue reading Faith in Pakistan: Muslim Charity and the Islamic Welfare State

Investigating Air-Sea Gas Exchange in the SUSTAIN wind-wave tank National Science Foundation and internal student support

Funding Source: National Science Foundation and internal student support – The ocean takes up about 25% of the carbon dioxide that is emitted by fossil fuel burning – so without the ocean, the atmosphere would be heating up even more quickly. … Continue reading Investigating Air-Sea Gas Exchange in the SUSTAIN wind-wave tank National Science Foundation and internal student support