Two UC Santa Barbara faculty members are among the 195 scholars nationwide to receive prestigious fellowships this year from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Eileen Boris, Hull Professor in the Women’s Studies Program, and Sharon Farmer, professor of history, will each receive a stipend of $40,000 over a 9- to 12-month period to further their respective research.

Boris, who came to UCSB in 2001 to hold the only endowed chair in women’s studies in the UC system, will pursue research into the history of housekeepers, health aides, and personal attendants in the American home workplace.

Farmer, a UCSB faculty member since 1986, will continue to study oriental luxuries, Parisian crafts, and the transformation of Paris into Europe’s fashion capital.

A leading medievalist, Farmer’s last book was “Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Life of the Poor.”

NEH fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that will contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public’s understanding of the humanities.