Janet Snyder
Associate Professor
Awards and Grants
"Speaking with One Voice: The French Character of Norman Painting and Sculpture in Southern England during the Twelfth Century." West Virginia Humanities Council Fellowship, 2005-2006. ($2,500)
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, ‘St. Francis and the 13th century,’ with Bill Cook in Siena, Rome, and Assisi, 2003.
"Who Did That? The Production of Limestone Sculpture in Twelfth-Century France" West Virginia Humanities Council Fellowship, 2002. ($2,500)
Images as Ideas: Reading medieval sculpture, Study of twelfth- and thirteenth-century French sculpture and architecture in Paris, Chartres, Angers, Fontevrault, Étampes, Reims, Saint-Quentin, Laon, Dijon, and Autun. Partial support by WVU Senate Research Grant, West Virginia University. 2001. (Consultation with colleagues who study related sculpture, architecture and en-de-lit shafts. Extensive research in Reims and archaeological excavations in Autun. )
A study of twelfth-century French limestone tomb sculpture, Research and Travel Grant from WVU Faculty International Programs, 1999.
“The Hand of the Ymagier: a project to determine the location of French medieval limestone sculpture workshops” Senate Research Grant, West Virginia University. 1998. Based on this project proposal, the Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project was awarded support by the Kress Foundation ($19,000) for limestone sampling, testing and analysis.
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women, at Rice University, Jane Chance, director. 1997.
Chester Dale Fellowship Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. 1995-1996.
C.V.Starr Foundation Fellowship, Columbia University Traveling fellowship for dissertation research in France. 1994-1995.
The Edward Nason West Memorial Fellowship research and travel support from the Laymen's Club of Saint John the Divine, throughn Columbia University. 1993.
Summer Travel Grant, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University (preliminary dissertation research in France).
Peter Kreueger Fellow, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Nation Museum of Decorative Arts, Exhibitions Department, 1991.
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, ‘Gothic in the Île-de-France,’ with Stephen Murray, in Paris. 1989.
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, ‘Ritual and Theatre,’ with Richard Schechner at New York University. 1980.
