{"id":5765,"date":"2015-04-09T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2022-03-23T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:44:34","slug":"kalamazoo-college-professor-awarded-neh-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/kalamazoo-college-professor-awarded-neh-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalamazoo College Professor Awarded NEH Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dennis Frost<\/strong>, the Wen Chao Chen Associate Professor of East Asian Social Sciences, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to support his project titled &#8220;The Paralympic Movement, Sports, and Disability in Postwar Japan.&#8221; His was one 232 humanities projects in the country to receive NEH funding. Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Professor Frost earned his B.A. at Wittenberg University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He completed research programs at University of the Ryukyus (Okinawa, Japan) and Iwate University (Iwate, Japan). He is the author of <em>Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan<\/em>. In addition to his study of the Paralympic Movement, sports, and disability in postwar Japan, his current research interests include a comparative exploration of military &#8220;base towns\u2019 in Okinawa and mainland Japan. Said NEH Chairman William Adams: &#8220;The grants announced continue the Endowment\u2019s tradition of supporting excellence in the humanities by funding far-reaching research, preservation projects, and public programs.&#8221;Congratulations to Professor Frost!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Frost, the Wen Chao Chen Associate Professor of East Asian Social Sciences, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to support his project titled &#8220;The Paralympic Movement, Sports, and Disability in Postwar Japan.&#8221; His was one 232 humanities projects in the country to receive NEH funding. 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Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Professor Frost earned his B.A. at Wittenberg University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He completed research programs at University of the Ryukyus (Okinawa, Japan) and Iwate University (Iwate, Japan). He is the author of <em>Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan<\/em>. In addition to his study of the Paralympic Movement, sports, and disability in postwar Japan, his current research interests include a comparative exploration of military &#8220;base towns\u2019 in Okinawa and mainland Japan. Said NEH Chairman William Adams: &#8220;The grants announced continue the Endowment\u2019s tradition of supporting excellence in the humanities by funding far-reaching research, preservation projects, and public programs.&#8221;Congratulations to Professor Frost!<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5766,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/5766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}