HUMANITIES FOCUS GRANT AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 2002

CALIFORNIA

University of California, Los Angeles (Outright: $24,537)
Contact: Duane W. Champagne, (310) 825-7315
Project: Southern California Tribal Cultural Resources
Description: A yearlong series of presentations and seminars aimed at fostering collaboration between UCLA faculty and Native American communities in the greater Los Angeles area.

University of California, Los Angeles (Outright: $24,345)
Contact: Olga Kagan, (310) 825-2510
Project: Curriculum Guidelines for Heritage Language Classrooms
Description: The development of curriculum guidelines for heritage language instruction in the University of California system, to be disseminated nationally by language resource centers.

Regis University, Denver (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Mark J. Bruhn, (303) 458-3500
Project: Integrated Humanities Teaching and Learning in the Regis College Core
Description: The development of new interdisciplinary core courses by pairs of teachers from different disciplines working to institute a planned core education curriculum.

University of Colorado, Boulder (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Erik Fisher, (303) 492-3883
Project: Dialogues Between Two Cultures
Description: An academic dialogue among nine faculty members drawn from the humanities and from engineering to explore, in monthly meetings and additional activities, the differences and commonalties in the ways the “two cultures” of the sciences and the humanities interpret knowledge and inquiry.

University of Florida, Gainesville (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Matthew F. Jacobs, (352) 392-0271
Project: Globalizing History at the University of Florida
Description: Activities associated with the development of a global history initiative at the University of Florida.

College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn (Outright: $14,548)
Contact: Amy Olberding, (630) 942-3937
Project: East Asian Traditions and Human Mortality: A Faculty Seminar
Description: A project for fifteen humanities faculty members to study Chinese and Japanese texts focusing on issues of mortality.

Butler University, Indianapolis (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Michelle Mannering, (317) 940-9268
Project: Exploring the Islamic Middle East in the Core Curriculum
Description: One year of faculty and curriculum development activities for faculty to work with visiting scholars and to update the sections of the core curriculum focused on the Islamic Middle East.

Purdue University, West Lafayette (Outright: $23,313)
Contact: Kristina Bross, (765) 494-3745
Project: Making History: Partnerships in Archival Preservation and Pedagogy
Description: A project to develop a collaboration between Purdue University and the Tippecanoe County Historical Association that will lead to the creation of an undergraduate curriculum in archival research.

Olathe School District, Olathe (Outright: $24,900)
Contact: Jan Heinen, (913) 780-8027
Project: East Asian Studies Course Development
Description: A project for faculty and staff from the Olathe School District in a year-long study of East Asian cultures mentored by University of Kansas faculty and leading to an East Asian studies course available to all district high school students in their own schools.

University of Kansas, Lawrence (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Maryemma Graham, (785) 864-2557
Project: Language Matters: Reading and Teaching Morrison
Description: A series of workshops for school teachers in the Washington, DC, area on Toni Morrison's novels and literary criticism.

University of Kentucky, Lexington (Outright: $24,890)
Contact: Randall Roorda, (859) 257-1033
Project: Summer Environmental Writing Program
Description: To support a group of faculty members in the study of writing about nature and the environment, in preparation for a summer program for teachers and advanced students.

Louisiana Alliance for Arts Education, Baton Rouge (Outright: $24,948)
Contact: Nalini Raghavan, (225) 267-5746
Project: Folklife Studies for Louisiana Schools
Description: Four two-day “ mini-institutes ” for twelve middle and high school teachers that would explore Louisiana folklife traditions through literature, film, field trips, lectures, and discussions.

Louisiana State University and A & M College, Baton Rouge (Outright: $23,961)
Contact: Maribel Dietz, (225) 578-1141
Project: Development of Medieval and Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies at LSU
Description: A series of faculty development activities including lectures, workshops, and seminars with outside scholars, to develop a Medieval and Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies program.

Saginaw Valley State University, University Center (Outright: $22,494)
Contact: Paul E. Teed, (989) 791-7753
Project: Re-Examining the American Civil War: A Teacher Institute at Saginaw Valley State University
Description: A two-week summer workshop on the United States Civil War for local secondary school teachers to be led by faculty from Saginaw Valley State University.

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Margaret Jacobs, (505) 646-4409
Project: Creating Connections: Developing a Thematic Graduate Program Description: A project designed to realign the graduate history curriculum by focusing on thematic approaches to teaching.

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces (Outright: $24,944)
Contact: Margaret I. Malamud, (505) 646-4310
Project: Understanding Islam: Infusing Islamic Studies into the Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum
Description: A series of faculty and curriculum development workshops led by distinguished scholars of Islamic Studies.

East Meadow Union Free School District, East Meadow (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Lynne Manouvrier, (516) 228-5234
Project: Shakespeare and the Family
Description: A series of workshops for district teachers in collaboration with scholars from Shakespeare and Company to study family dynamics in the plays of Shakespeare.

SUNY, College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: E. Thomas Moran, (518) 564-3018
Project: Reexamining the Foundations of Civic Responsibility
Description: A series of seminars and follow-up activities to improve the teaching of the ethics of civic responsibility at SUNY, Plattsburgh, and Dartmouth College.

Appalachian State University, Boone (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Richard M. Carp, (828) 262-3177
Project: Integrating Freshman Humanities General Education in a Learning Communities Context: English and World Civilization
Description: A six-member team effort to develop an interdisciplinary curriculum for college freshman that integrates writing courses with the study of world civilization.

Miami University, Oxford (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Marguerite S. Shaffer, (513) 529-7527
Project: Diversity, Identity, and Public Culture: Rethinking the American Studies Curriculum
Description: A series of seminars and faculty development activities aimed at a revision of the university's American Studies curriculum around the themes of diversity, identity, and public culture.

Cabrini College, Radnor (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Catherine O'Connell, (610) 902-8302
Project: Integrating New Interdisciplinary Curricula and the Humanities Freshman Seminar
Description: A series of faculty workshops to incorporate new interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities into the college's core curriculum.

Pennsylvania State University, University Park (Outright: $24,995)
Contact: Caroline D. Eckhardt, (814) 863-0589
Project: Literatures of the Asian Diaspora
Description: To convene faculty from five Pennsylvania State University campuses to integrate Asian diasporic literature into the curriculum.

College of Charleston, Charleston (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Mary Beth Heston, (843) 953-6313
Project: Rethinking “ Asia ” in the Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum at the College of Charleston
Description: A series of faculty seminars devoted to the re-alignment of the undergraduate curriculum on the study of Asia.

West Virginia University, Morgantown (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Barbara J. Howe, (304) 293-2339
Project: Women in Islam
Description: A year-long faculty and curriculum development project enabling college teachers from across West Virginia to study “ the ways in which Islamic women's lives have been informed by their religion ” with noted scholars and to revise the curriculum for students in many settings.