HUMANITIES FOCUS GRANT AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 2000

CALIFORNIA

University of California, Irvine (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Robert G. Moeller, (949) 824-5132
Project: World History in the Schools
Description: A series of seminars and workshops, with supporting curricular materials, designed to promote the study of world history in the Santa Ana Unified School District.

ILLINOIS

Rochelle Lee Fund, Chicago (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Michelle Rosenthal, (773) 989-8582
Project: Developing Readers: Teachers and Their Students II
Description: A series of eight reading and discussion sessions for twenty Chicago public school teachers built around selected adult and children’s literature and the theme, “The Journey.”

IOWA

Grinnell College, Grinnell (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Tyler T. Roberts, (515) 269-4472
Project: Revisioning the Introduction to Religious Studies
Description: A faculty study project aimed at reassessing and revamping Grinnell College’s undergraduate curriculum in Religious Studies.

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston Latin Academy, Boston (Outright: $22,332)
Contact: Robert Largess and Caroline Caswell (617) 635-9957
Project: A Comparative Study of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty
Description: A series of seminars to enable faculty at Boston Latin Academy to introduce a comparative study of the classical civilization of Rome and China into the school curriculum.

Five Colleges, Inc., Amherst (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Robert Schwartzwald, (413) 585-3755
Project: Rethinking the Americas: Creating a Trans-disciplinary Foundational Course at the Five Colleges
Description: A series of seminars and workshops to rethink the teaching of history and culture of the Americas at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

MAINE

University of Southern Maine, Portland (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Janice L. Thompson, (207) 780-4331
Project: Course Development in the Honors Program at the University of Southern Maine
Description: A project to design two new interdisciplinary courses incorporating contemporary scholarship on diaspora and human rights.

MINNESOTA

Carleton College, Northfield (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Dana Strand, (507) 646-4126
Project: Individual and Community: A Faculty Seminar at Carleton College
Description: Faculty seminars aimed at rethinking the place of European studies in the curriculum of Carleton College.

MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Dearborn (Outright: $24,370)
Contact: Jonathan Smith, (313) 436-9187
Project: Science and Technology Studies of the Automobile
Description: A study project for faculty from the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and engineering departments of the University of Michigan at Dearborn on the implications of science and technology on American society with a particular focus on the impact of the automobile.

Wayne State University, Detroit (Outright: $24,998)
Contact: Gwen A. Gorzelsky, (313) 577-2965
Project: English Studies Internship Exchanges: Teaching Language and Literature in Diverse Contexts
Description: A program of reading and discussion among participants from five collaborating institutions in Detroit to design internships for graduate students in English studies.

NEW JERSEY

Montclair State University, Upper Montclair (Outright: $24,089)
Contact: Timothy Watson, (973) 655-7960
Project: Integrating Cultural Studies into the Public Teaching University Curriculum
Description: A faculty study project focusing on cultural studies, which would lead to a revised general education curriculum at Montclair State University.

New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Trenton (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Elissa A. Greenwald and Ellen Friedman, (609) 695-4838
Project: Women and the Holocaust
Description: A faculty study group for fifteen New Jersey teachers on women’s experiences during and after the Holocaust.

NEW YORK

City Museum of New York, New York City (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Kathy Benson, (212) 534-1672
Project: Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City
Description: A study project for twenty teachers from Community School District 20 in Brooklyn, exploring the history and culture in Arab Americans in New York City.

Daniel Webster Magnet School, New Rochelle (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Senta F. Stich, (914) 576-4460
Project: Humanities for the New Millennium
Description: A series of seminars and workshops on jurisprudence, philosophy, and historical perspectives in literature for faculty at Daniel Webster Magnet School.

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester (Outright: $24,552)
Contact: Wade Robison, (716) 475-6643
Project: Philosophy in Technology
Description: A faculty development project to plan for a new undergraduate degree program in “applied philosophy” at Rochester Institute of Technology.

State University of New York, Purchase (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: John R. Howard, (914) 251-6615
Project: Integrating African-American Arts into Social Studies Curricula
Description: A series of nine workshops for sixteen high school teachers, primarily from the Westchester County area, focusing on the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s, the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, and the New Black Renaissance Movement of the 1980s through the present.

University of Rochester, Rochester (Outright: $24,998)
Contact: Linda Ware, (716) 275-3010
Project: A Collaboration Inquiry on Understanding Disability
Description: A program for local high teachers and faculty members from the University of Rochester in medicine, education and the humanities to develop a humanities- based disability studies curriculum in secondary and post-secondary school settings.

NORTH CAROLINA

Greensboro College, Greensboro (Outright: $24,994)
Contact: Nancy McElveen, (336) 272-7102, ext. 310
Project: Faculty Development in Women’s Studies
Description: A faculty development seminar and workshop for ten faculty members in nine disciplines to prepare them to team-teach a new interdisciplinary course in women’s studies at North Carolina’s Greensboro College.

North Carolina Humanities Council, Greensboro (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Lynn Wright-Kernodle, (336) 334-4769
Project: Voices of Democracy and Dissent
Description: A project bringing together university scholars and North Carolina public school teachers to explore and discuss the ways in which historians “make history.”

UTAH

Utah Valley State College, Orem (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: G. Eugene England, (801) 222-8280
Project: Enriching Humanities Curricula: Mormon Studies
Description: Seminars, conferences, and lectures to aid in the development of a program in Mormon Studies at Utah Valley State College.

VIRGINIA

Ferrum College, Ferrum (Outright: $24,996)
Contact: Bettina L. Hanlon, (540) 365-4327
Project: Teaching Appalachian Literature
Description: A program of reading, electronic-mail discussion, and a summer workshop on Appalachian literature and its teaching for school and college faculty, primarily from western Virginia.

WISCONSIN

University of Wisconsin, Madison (Outright: $24,975)
Contact: Steven M. Nadler, (608) 263-3741
Project: Expanding the Humanities: University and High School Workshops
Description: A project bringing together University of Wisconsin scholars and Madison-area high school teachers for three “Workshops in the Humanities,” on the themes of ideas and values; gender, race, and ethnicity; and art, culture, and society.