Dr. Jenee Peter has been granted a research project by the United Board. This is the third consecutive project from the department of History to be funded by United Board, New York. The third project is on interreligious understanding and peace building and aims to empirically situate and understand how secularism and religious tolerance evolved in Kerala.
The second project was on weaving lives: Handloom of Kerala. This project report was presented in brief in the review meeting held at New Seminar Hall with Prof. Kano Yamamoto as chief guest on 12 August 2014. She discussed the antiquity of textiles in India, cotton and technology mainly loom, the traditional designs, government measures to promote handloom, on weaver communities, the role of women and marketing possibilities. Six weaving centres in Kerala were covered under the project and a few museums across India were visited. Photographs showcased hand looms from different parts of India apart from Kerala.
Her first project to be funded by United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia was a documentation of the cultural history of Lakshadweep Islands jointly with Dr. M.I. Punnoose from the department of Malayalam.
In 1996, a similar grant awarded to former faculty heralded the first taught course in archaeology in Kerala and helped to reinvent the concept of an archaeological museum in the department.
