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University of Richmond Professor Awarded ACLS Fellowship

October 19, 2004

Jane Geaney, a University of Richmond religion professor, has received an award from the American Council of Learned Societies' Fellowship Program for research on the meaning of writing and language in China.

Chosen from over a thousand applicants, Geaney was one of 37 women to receive awards for research lasting six months to a year. She will receive the equivalent of half her normal salary. Geaney's study covers Chinese philosophy, literary criticism, Warring States history and grammatology-utilizing traditional sources and transcripts of recovered archaeological texts. It investigates the Warring States' period's conceptions of writing, speech and the philosophy of language.

ACLS has awarded over $2.6 million to 79 scholars for post-doctoral research in the humanities and social sciences. It is a private, non-profit federation of 68 scholarly associations devoted to humanistic studies in all fields of learning.