James Stokes, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has received a $40,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship to complete a third book in the Records of Early English Drama series.

NEH is an independent federal agency that supports excellence in the humanities in an effort to serve and strengthen the United States through education. The agency, founded in 1965, boasts a nearly $140 million annual budget, making it the largest provider of funds for humanities programs in the country.

The book, "Traditional Drama, Music, and Custom in Early Suffolk," will present an exhaustive collection of the documented evidence of drama, music and customs in the English county of Suffolk up to the year 1642. The volume will also contain analyses, essays, and other information to create context for the documents. The book will be similar to the two-volume work, "The Dramatic Records of Somerset" that Stokes completed in 1996. He also recently submitted "The Dramatic Records of Lincolnshire" for publication.

Stokes came to UWSP in 1981. He was named a Eugene Katz Letters and Science Distinguished faculty member in 1999. Stokes also has been a member of the faculty at UW-Madison, the University of Hawaii, Washington State University, and the College of Great Falls. Originally from Great Falls Montana, he earned his bachelor�s and master�s degrees from San Francisco State University and his Ph.D. from Washington State University.

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