Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden

Faculty Award

Dr. Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden received two nationally competitive awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An NEH Summer Stipend will support her research for a project entitled Stories of Music, Luxury, and Loss in the Age of Revolutions (1760s–1820s). The NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society will allow Dr. Geoffroy-Schwinden to carry out eight months of archival research at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. This research will culminate in a book about the musical and sonic world of the du Pont women's community from the French Revolution to the American Civil War.