from: The Source
Tili Boon Cuillé, associate professor of French and of comparative literature in Arts & Sciences, will receive $50,400 to support “Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France.” The book will explore important innovations in 18th-century opera, poetry and visual art in order to demonstrate the deep continuities — and to challenge conventional wisdom about the supposed rifts — between Enlightenment art, religion and science.
Lerone A. Martin, associate professor in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics and in Arts & Sciences, will receive $50,400 to support “J. Edgar Hoover’s Stained Glass Window: The FBI, Religion, and National Security in American History, 1935–72”. Currently under contract to Princeton University Press, the book will investigate the complex relationship between religious institutions and the FBI under Hoover’s directorship.
