Projects Recently Funded by the Peyser
Endowment
for the Study of New France
- Professor Michael Nassaney, Anthropology, Western Michigan University
Support to Carbon-14 date a sample of carbonized corn cobs from a feature cluster at the Lyne site (20BE10) related to Fort St. Joseph.
- Support the Fort Inc., a private not-for-profit reenactors' organization
Support to offer a series of "Education Days" related to Fort St. Joseph to elementary schools in the Niles, Michigan, area.
- Adam Stueck, doctoral student, History, Marquette University
Support to consult the French Michilimackinac Research Project Collection for a dissertation titled "A Place Under Heaven: Amerindian Torture in Seventeenth Century New France."
- Professor Sophie White, American Studies, University of Notre Dame
Support to consult the French Michilimackinac Research Project Collection for a book project, Trading Looks: Dress, Culture and Racialization in French Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley, 1673-1769.
- Professor Mary Ann Levine, Anthropology, Franklin and Marshall College
Support to consult the French Michilimackinac Research Project Collection for an archaeological investigation and book project on frontier diplomat Madame Montour.