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Grants

Re-Centering the Humanities Project

No current calls for proposals.

 

All Re-Centering the Humanities grant proposals are reviewed by the oversight committee:

Dan Terkla, Project Director; Joanne Diaz; Emily Kelahan; Kristine Nielsen; Becky Roesner; and William Munro.

Grants Awarded:

Student (Research) Assistants, $500.00 to employ student assistant/s for research endeavors.

  • Prof. Carolyn Nadeau (Hispanic Studies) and Nathan Douglas: 鈥淎ccessing Francisco Mart铆nez Monti帽o鈥檚 Arte de cozina, pasteler铆a, vizcocher铆a y conserver铆a鈥� (The art of cooking, pie making, pastry making and preserving, 1611).
  • Prof. Mike Theune (English) and Erica Kucharski: Voltage Poetry, Plus.
  • Prof. Marcia Thomas (Ames Library) and Lydia Hartlaub: 鈥淭ranscription of a Manuscript Collection: Letters Received by John Wesley Powell, Director of the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, 1869-79.鈥�
  • Prof. Carmela Ferrad谩ns (Hispanic Studies); "A Digital Library of Bilingual Poetry Podcasts".
  • Prof. Carolyn Nadeau; 鈥淔ood Matters in/of Cervantes鈥�.
  • Prof. Marcia Thomas and Tia Sprengel; 鈥淭ranscription of a Manuscript Collection: Letters Received by John Wesley Powell, Director of the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, 1869-79鈥�.
  • Prof. Sonja Fritzsche (German, Russian and Asian Languages) for creating an index for the collection Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film (due to appear in April 2014) with Michaela Wilson and Annika Ewaldz.
  • Prof. Christina Isabelli (Hispanic Studies), to hire a student research assistant for work on the project, Language Learning and Social Networks, a research study on the role of social networks (a social science phenomenon) in promoting/inhibiting second language development.  

  • Prof. Carmela Ferrad谩ns, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Bullfighting: A Teaching Module: The student research assistant will develop a self-contained teaching module for iTunes University.

  • Dr. Michael Theune for essay: 鈥淭he Structure-Form Distinction: An Empirical Approach,鈥� examining the distinction between structure and form in poetry and some of its sister arts.

Speaker-and-Performance Series grants: Ideally, these events will inspire IWU faculty, staff, and students to collaborate on re-imagining artistic production, interdisciplinary pedagogy, research, or community-based learning. The following series are set for academic year 2013-2014.

  • Profs. Wendy Kooken and Rebecca Gearhart - Visit by music therapist Deforia Lane with public lecture "An Unfinished Symphony: Reaching the Underserved through Music Therapy".
  • University Chaplain Elyse Nelson Winger and Profs. Adriana Ponce and William Hudson - "Hildegard's Light: Women, Religion and Music in Twelfth-Century Germany" covering several events in November 2013 including a performance by LIBER and a lecture by Margot Fassler.
  • Prof. Meg Miner and Prof. and University Librarian Karen Schmidt - "Boundless Spirit: William Morris for the 21st Century" for fall semester 2014.
  • Prof. Alan Shapiro鈥檚 visit to campus on the topic of 鈥淭ranslating the Oresteia: The Theory of what Translation Should Be鈥�; hosted by Profs. Nancy Sultan, Joanne Diaz and Mike Theune.
  • Prof. Sebastiaan Faber's visit to campus on the topic of the Spanish Civil War, hosted by Prof. Carmela Ferrad谩ns.

Academic year 2014-2015:

  • Profs. Marina Balina and Scott Sheridan, 鈥淭he Freedom to Speak, Create, and Dream: A Symposium Examining 25 Years of Human Experience after the Fall of the Iron Curtain.鈥�
  • Assistant Dean of Students Matt Damschroder, Associate Dean of Students Darcy Greder, and McFee Professor of Religion and Director of Womens and Gender studies, Carole Myscofski; Sponsored event series with Christina Kahrl, a sportswriter and editor for ESPN and advocate for LGBTQ issues, most specifically trans-rights. Ms. Kahrl met with Women's and Gender Studies faculty and students, the Student Athletic Advisory Committee and coaches, the Safe Zone Steering Committee, other faculty guests and students and ended her visit by presenting, "Becoming a Woman in a Man's World" at Hansen Student Center. 
  • Profs. Crystal Boyce, Gabe Spalding, and Karen Schmidt, 鈥淭hrough the Looking Glass: The Science of Art 鈥� or the Art of Science鈥�

Awarded September, 2014:

  • Prof. Carolyn Nadeau, to host campus lecture and class visit by Dr. Jennifer McCoy, Director, Americas Program, The Carter Center Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University. Dr. McCoy is a recognized scholar and expert in Venezuelan politics and democratization in Latin America.  Her research agenda and work at the Carter Center will appeal to students (and scholars) within the humanities, particularly those who focus on issues of social justice.

Awarded December, 2014:

  • Selected members of the Center for Human Rights and Social Justice, and faculty in the History Department, the Department of Theatre Arts, the English Department, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Department of Business Administration, the Literature and Culture program, and the Philosophy Department were awarded funding to bring independent film director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi to Illinois Wesleyan University.  Sayles is one of the most acclaimed independent film directors and screenwriters of our time, having been nominated twice for an Academy Award for best original screenplay for Passion Fish and Lone Star. Maggie Renzi, his longtime collaborator and partner, is an acclaimed actor and producer in her own right. In addition to producing and co-producing most of Sayles鈥� films while also having acted in a number of them, she co-produced the award winning film Girlflight (Grand Jury Prize winner at the Sundance Festival) and also produced Bruce Springsteen鈥檚 videos 鈥淏orn in the USA,鈥� 鈥淚鈥檓 on Fire,鈥� and 鈥淕lory Days.鈥�

Awarded April, 2015:

  • Dr. Illia Radoslavov: A series of lectures and performances by Zanta Hofmeyr, a prominent violinist from South Africa. Ms. Hofmeyr鈥檚 visit will include presenting a lecture, visiting literature and humanities classes, participating in the International Studies Colloquium series, and conducting master classes for music majors.

  • A collaborative performer and speaker series coalescing around the idea of 鈥淨ueer Lives鈥� for 2015-2016 will provide opportunities for students to interact with LGBTQ people whose lives are models of lived experience, passion ignited, democratic citizenship and social justice activism. This series is spearheaded by Student Affairs and involves:

    School of Music 

    Ames Library 

    Athletics and Physical Education 

    Office of Diversity and Inclusion 

    Evelyn Chapel 

    Office of Residential Life 

    LGBTQ+ Student Life 

    Dean of Students Office 

    Office of Student Activities and Leadership Programs

    Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life 

    Alumni Relations 

    Hart Career Center 

    IWU Pride Alliance

  •  an exhibit of paintings by American portraitist William Utermohlen presenting paintings created before and after his diagnosis of Alzheimer鈥檚 Dementia (AD). This event is a collaborative, interdisciplinary program, with School of Nursing, School of Art and Psychology department faculty involved in bringing the exhibit to campus and incorporating it into their courses before and during the exhibit, 11/6-12/11/2015.
  • Environmental Studies, Religion, Asian Studies (IS), Development Studies (IS), Sociology and Anthropology, the Center for Human Rights and Social Justice, the Chaplain鈥檚 Office, and the Sierra Student Coalition partnered to bring Wendy J.N. Lee, director of Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey to 91黑料专区 from October 21-23, 2015, for a public screening of her film, followed by a presentation by Ms. Lee about making the film and a question and answer opportunity with the audience. 
  • Acclaimed Chilean director will visit campus as part of the Human Rights and Social Justice 
    Center film series and the campus wide "A Nation/s Divided?" theme. A trio of Guzman's films will be shown on campus, with him visiting and moderating discussions at the showing of the final film. Special interest to students in Theatre Arts, History, Hispanic Studies, Political Science. 
  • Support for "New Frontiers in Colorblind Racism" Speaker TBA, for May term Summit involving faculty and student scholars and community leaders. 

Mellon Humanities Fellows: Faculty receive $1,500 to support work on scholarly or artistic projects that re-center the Humanities and cross-disciplinary boundaries. Humanities Fellows for the 2013-2014 academic year:

  • Prof. Carmela Ferrad谩ns; "A Digital Library of Bilingual Poetry Podcasts"
  • Prof. Carolyn Nadeau; "The physical senses in early modern Galenism debates and prescriptive domestic literature"
  • Prof. Mike Theune; "Keats鈥檚 Negative Capability and Hobbes鈥檚 Natural Capacity"
  • Prof. Brandi Reissenweber; research for novel

2014-2015

  • Prof. Amy Coles; "Mapping the Locations and Temporal Development of Roman Military Campaigns, Roads and Colonies"
  • Prof. Christina Isabelli; "Language Learning and Social Networks"
  • Prof. Emily Kelahan; "David Hume and Buddhist Thought"
  • Prof. James Simeone; "Realism in Thucydides and Joyce"

Awarded September, 2014:

  • Prof. Carolyn Nadeau, to support the research and writing of the article, 鈥淔rom Bad Breath to the Plague: the Kitchen as a Space for Controlling Disease in Early Modern Spain and England,鈥� for publication.
  • For Prof. Bob Erlewine鈥檚 project, 鈥淧rophets, Pathos and The Comparative Study of Religion: Abraham Joshua Heschel鈥檚 Die Prophetie.鈥� an essay to be developed then presented in lecture form on campus for the Religion Colloquium in October of 2015.

Awarded December, 2014:

  • Prof. Molly Robey, Assistant Professor of English, for Evangelical Empire: John Lloyd Stephens, Religious Experience, and the Invention of Central America.This chapter will analyze the travel narratives of the popular nineteenth-century U.S. adventurer and writer, John Lloyd Stephens, showing how Stephens鈥檚 exploration of the Near East as documented in Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land (1838) shaped his subsequent representations of Central America in Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucat谩n (1841) and Incidents of Travel in Yucat谩n (1843).
  • Prof. Joanne Diaz, Associate Professor of English, forThe Archival Turn in Martha Collins鈥檚 Blue Front and White Papers, a scholarly article in which she will analyze Martha Collins鈥檚 use of archival materials in two of her poetry collections: Blue Front (2006) and White Papers (2012). This article will eventually become part of a larger project to investigate how twentieth- and twenty-first century American poets use archival materials in order to exhume difficult truths about the past and consider the value of poetic expression in the face of such truths.
  • Prof. Carmela Ferrad谩ns, Professor of Hispanic Studies, for Bullfighting: A Teaching Module.This fellowship was awarded to develop content for an intermediate Spanish teaching module on bullfighting. The final product will be a self-contained teaching module in two platforms: a printable 25-30 page PDF file for IWU Digital Commons, and a digital version for iTunes University. This will serve as a as a complement to the textbook we use for Spanish 203: Intermediate Conversation and Composition (G).

Awarded April, 2015:

  • Prof. Marina Balina: 鈥淭ranslating Ideology through Image and Text: Soviet Era Children鈥檚 Picture Books, 1920s-1930s鈥�
  • Prof. Kristine Nielsen: 鈥淩epresenting the Sami: Two Contemporary Artistic Approaches鈥�
  • Prof. Cesar Valverde: 鈥淗umanism in Vargas Llosa鈥檚 El sue帽o del Celta (The Dream of the Celt): Race, Colonialism and Sexuality鈥�
  • Prof. Adam Woodis: analysis of two literary works by Friedrich D眉rrenmatt, a play, Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit, 1956), and a novel, Grieche sucht Griechin (Greek Seeking Greek, 1955).
  • Prof. Michael Theune: 鈥淪trophe, Fulcrum, Torque, Swerve, Center, Volta: Terms for the Turn鈥�

Undergraduate Conferences/Workshops, $3,000.00

  • Prof. Irv Epstein (Educational Studies): 鈥淧rotecting Free Expression鈥� workshop, Fall 2014.
  • Profs. Sonja Fritzsche (MCLL), and Adam Woodis (MCLL): German Undergraduate Research Conference, April 4-5, 2014 and Spring 2015.
  • To Profs. Carmela Ferrad谩ns and Mark Criley to fund a Liberal Arts Course Cluster Closing Workshop in December 2014.  
  • To Prof. Sonja Fritzsche for support of the German Undergraduate Conference, 2016. 
  • Prof. Mark Criley on behalf of the Center for Human Rights and Social Justice for the CHRSJ Undergraduate Human Rights Workshop, an interdisciplinary undergraduate liberal arts workshop focusing upon the theme Inequality and Inequity, with an emphasis on the economic, social, and political senses of those terms.
  • Profs. Sonja Fritzsche (MCLL), and Adam Woodis (MCLL): German Undergraduate Research Conference, Spring 2017.

Faculty Workshops for 2014-2015

  • Prof. Carmela Ferrad谩ns, 鈥淓xploring Models for Faculty Collaboration Across Disciplines鈥�
  • Prof. Irv Epstein, Suhad Babba, Director of Programming for Just Vision (workshop participant)
  • Profs. Amanda Hopkins and Carolyn Nadeau, HEALE Speakers
  • Prof. Diego Mendez-Carbajo  workshop provisionally entitled 'Digital Humanities and the Flipped Pedagogy at IWU: a Workshop in Three Acts'

Team Taught Courses (2015-2018)

  • Profs. Carmela Ferrad谩ns and Kathleen Montgomery: PSC 212: "Surviving Dictatorship: A Comparison of Spain and Hungary"
  • Profs. Scott Sheridan and Linda Farquharson: HUM 270: 鈥淗umanities Texts in Transition: Opera Libretti and the Original Works that Inspired Them鈥�
  • Prof. Ellen Furlong, Ape Sapiens: Wild Minds, Captive Dignity: A Team-Taught May Term experience, with Dr. Jack Furlong, Professor of Philosophy, Transylvania University. This course will be team-taught across two campuses, IWU鈥檚 and Transylvania University's, and is especially recommended for psychology, biology, pre-vet, and philosophy majors.
  • Profs. Kevin Strandberg and Bruno deHarak were awarded funding for a team taught course combining science and art for the creation of images. In Fiat Lux Semper Scientific and Artistic Experiments in Light Imaging, students will work with images, some based in reality, others not. What it means to 鈥渟ee鈥� something depends on one鈥檚 perspective 鈥� artists, philosophers, and scientists are unlikely to give the same definition.
  • Profs. Chris Callahan (French and Italian Studies) and Christina Isabelli (Hispanic Studies) were awarded funding in December 2014 for LC 270 Special Topics: Introduction to Romance Linguistics 

  • Profs. Amy Coles (GRS & History) and Mike Weis (History & International Studies) ewre awarded funding for their course on Issues of imperialism and colonialism as they develop from the earliest colonization in Roman Italy, through Roman Hispania, and into Spanish America and Portuguese Brazil. [Tentative course number and title]: HIST 370: Conquerors and Colonies: Ancient Rome to Modern Brazil

  • Prof. Mark Criley and Prof. Ellen Furlong:  a 300-level course tentatively entitled Intuitions, Concepts, and Judgments (ICJ). Course will be cross-listed in the psychology and philosophy departments.
  • Prof. Chris Callahan and Prof. Tina Isabelli: LC 270 Special Topics: Introduction to Romance Linguistics

  • Profs. Adriana Ponce and Carmela Ferrad谩ns: HUM 270, Andaluc铆a: A Merging of Tradition & Modernity 

Mellon Summer Humanities Scholars, Student Summer Research, sponsored by Faculty Advisor

Summer 2013:

  • Mallika Kavadi's project, entitled "The Dialectic Evolution of The Two Cultures", explored the epistemological consequences of social, scientific, technological, economic, cultural, and historical change over the last fifty years on the sciences and the humanities.  With Prof. Meghan Burke (Sociology) advising.
  • Joe O'Brien's project, "Red is Like a Trumpet: An Investigation of Qualeic Sensation and Visual Connections", investigated qualeic sensations (sensations not completely defined without experience) associated with attempted recall of episodic memories, and evoking those sensations through visual media. The project was grounded in a philosophical investigation of qualia and memory, but used the disciplines of cognitive science (memory mechanics) and photographic art. Advisers were Profs. Emily Kelahan (Philosophy) and Kevin Strandberg (Art).

Summer 2014:

  • Tim McDunn, with Profs. Andy Engen and Amy Coles as faculty advisors; Christian Humanism in the Commedia
  • Lisa Mishra, with Elyse Nelson-Winger and Prof. Nawaraj Chaulagain as faculty advisors; 鈥淚cons & Images, Texts & Traditions: Towards the Development of An Interfaith Prayer Space at 91黑料专区鈥�
  • Colleen O鈥機onnor with Prof. Amanda Vicary, faculty advisor; 鈥淐reative Writing as an Affordable Mental Health Intervention鈥�
  • Nathan Douglas with Prof. Carmela Ferrad谩ns, faculty advisor; 鈥�Y no me esperaba nadie: Lugar y espacio en la Catalunya de la posguerra y del posfranquismo鈥� [鈥淎nd no one was waiting for me: Place and space in post-war and post-Franco Catalunya鈥漖

Summer 2015:

  • Lydia Hartlaub, with Prof. Alison Sainsbury; Dickens Universe conference in Santa Cruz, CA. For the 2015 conference the Dickens novels to be read are his two texts concerning America, Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes, which Lydia will read and supplement with critical articles from the conference.
  • Nicholas Berardelli, with Prof. Tao Jin: 鈥淒hamma and the Hard Problem: A Neurophenomenological Approach to Consciousness鈥�.
  • Anna Lowenthal, with Prof. Molly Robey: 鈥淔rom Chains to 2 Chainz: Slavery and Black Masculinity in Contemporary American Rap Culture鈥�

 

For additional information, please contact Dan Terkla, terkla@iwu.edu.