Stephanie Cobb Awarded NEH Summer Stipend
April 15, 2014
Dr. Stephanie Cobb, George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, has been awarded a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr. Cobb will receive $6000 for summer work devoted to her forthcoming book, “Divine Analgesia: Discourses of Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts.” As she stated in her proposal, “[A]lthough early Christian martyr texts graphically describe the torture of Christian bodies, they simultaneously claim that faithful Christians experience analgesia during persecution.” The book will explore why the Christian body was shielded from the experience of pain, and how the texts engaged the reader’s empathy and influenced the understanding of power structures.
Having taught at the University of Richmond since 2011, Dr. Cobb formerly taught at Hofstra University. She received her Ph.D. in religious studies from UNC-Chapel Hill after obtaining her B.A. from Baylor and her M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School.
The National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends provide two months of full time summer support for individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that is of value to scholars and/or general audiences. The program is highly competitive with an average of about 7% of applications funded each year. (The overall NEH funding rate for all programs is 16%.)
Dr. Cobb will receive $6000 for summer work devoted to her forthcoming book, “Divine Analgesia: Discourses of Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts.” As she stated in her proposal, “[A]lthough early Christian martyr texts graphically describe the torture of Christian bodies, they simultaneously claim that faithful Christians experience analgesia during persecution.” The book will explore why the Christian body was shielded from the experience of pain, and how the texts engaged the reader’s empathy and influenced the understanding of power structures.
Having taught at the University of Richmond since 2011, Dr. Cobb formerly taught at Hofstra University. She received her Ph.D. in religious studies from UNC-Chapel Hill after obtaining her B.A. from Baylor and her M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School.
The National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends provide two months of full time summer support for individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that is of value to scholars and/or general audiences. The program is highly competitive with an average of about 7% of applications funded each year. (The overall NEH funding rate for all programs is 16%.)