HUMANITIES FOCUS GRANT
AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 2003
Illinois
Chicago Metro History Education Center, Chicago (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Lisa Oppenheim, (312) 255-3652
Project: Chicago's Stockyards and America's History
Description: A project consisting of four workshops for school teachers on the history of the stockyards industry in Chicago.
Newberry Library, Chicago (Outright: $24,985)
Contact: James Akerman, (312) 255-3523
Project: Exploration: A Professional and Curriculum Development Program
Description: A collaborative project of the Newberry Library and Walter Payton Preparatory High School to develop materials and teaching strategies that use Newberry Library books, manuscripts, and visual materials to teach the theme of exploration in high school humanities courses.
Kansas
Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK), Hutchinson (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Glenn Weibe, (620) 663-9566
Project: Brown Then and Now: Impact on Human Rights
Description: A seminar for eight middle and high school teachers in Kansas on the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
Louisiana
Tulane University, New Orleans (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Raymond Taras, (504) 862-8302
Project: Global Texts and Cultural Contexts
Description: Three semester-long seminars for eight faculty members to develop curriculum and materials in three new areas of world literature: Japanese, Russian, and Arabic.
Maine
University of Maine, Orono (Outright: $24,984)
Contact: Susan Pinette, (207) 581-3791
Project: Franco American Studies at the University of Maine
Description: A yearlong faculty reading group and two week-long seminars to create an interdisciplinary curriculum in Franco-American Studies.
Massachusetts
National Heritage Museum, Lexington (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Cynthia Robinson, (781) 861-6559 x156
Project: Colonial Life and the American Revolution: A Curriculum Development Project
Description: The creation of a new elementary school curriculum on colonial life and the American Revolution for teachers and students in the Lexington, Massachusetts, area.
Bentley College, Waltham (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Marylee Crofts, (781) 891-2646
Project: Buying into the Humanities: Engaging the Liberal Arts at a Business University
Description: The development of a curricular model that integrates the humanities into the business and pre-professional programs of Bentley College.
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester (Outright: $24,999)
Contact: Mark Lincicome, (508) 829-7277
Project: The Historical and Cultural Backgrounds of the Medieval Japanese Garden
Description: A yearlong seminar for university faculty and local school teachers on the historical and cultural context of the medieval Japanese garden.
Minnesota
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis (Outright: $24,880)
Contact: Susan Henderson, (612) 625-6361
Project: Contextualizing Native American Literature
Description: A series of one-day sessions on Native American literature and culture for ten high school literature teachers, followed by a week-long seminar to develop classroom materials.
Missouri
University of Missouri, Rolla (Outright: $24,912)
Contact: Kathleen Drowne, (573) 341-4685
Project: Literature, History and Culture of the Ozarks: An Interdisciplinary Faculty Enrichment Program
Description: A series of eight faculty workshops and college-wide presentations on the history, literature, and culture of the Ozarks.
Nevada
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Janet Ward, (702) 895-4961
Project: Asia and America/Asia and the World: Asian Studies at the University of Nevada Las Vegas
Description: Two faculty seminars, on current topics and issues in Asian Studies, aimed at fostering the creation of an interdisciplinary Asian Studies Center on campus.
New York
Mercantile Library of New York, New York (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Harold Augenbraum, (212) 755-6710
Project: The Latino Cultural Thread: 500 Years of Latino Culture and Literature
Description: A yearlong series of sessions on U.S. Latino literature and culture for fifteen high school humanities teachers who teach in New York City.
CUNY Research Foundation, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City (Outright: $24,576)
Contact: Ana Maria Hernandez, (718) 482-5697
Project: The African Roots of Latin Music
Description: The development of curricular modules that explore the integration of African musical traditions into Caribbean culture and their influences on American music in the twentieth century.
Theatre for a New Audience, New York (Outright: $23,898)
Contact: Joseph Giardina, (212) 229-2819 x12
Project: Scholars and Teachers
Description: A series of six workshops on Shakespeare's Pericles for twenty-seven teachers in four middle schools in District 18, Brooklyn.
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (Outright: $23,823)
Contact: Teresa Vilardi, (845) 758-7432
Project: Human Rights, Ideas, Politics, Case Study
Description: A collaborative study project enabling fifteen teachers of literature, history, and global studies in three high schools in the state of New York to take part in nine seminars on the evolution of human rights doctrines and on specific cases studies in India and Africa.
North Carolina
University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Outright: $24,968)
Contact: John Smail, (704) 687-4646
Project: The Making of African-American Identity: A Professional Development Seminar for Teachers
Description: The creation of an on-line "toolbox" of historical materials related to the lives of African-Americans during the period 1865-1915, followed by a week-long professional development seminar for twenty high school teachers.
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc., Charlotte (Outright: $24,926)
Contact: Susan Miville, (704) 972-2003
Project: Music and Human Conflict: World War II
Description: A collaborative project between the Charlotte Symphony and Randolph Middle School to engage scholars with teachers to study and design curriculum on the defining political, social, and cultural issues of the 1930s, World War II, and the Holocaust as they were shaped by and reflected in music.
North Dakota
Lake Region State College, Devils Lake (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Sam Johnson, (701) 662-1600
Project: An American Sojourn: An Integrated Study of American Literature with American History
Description: A faculty study project for school and college teachers in central North Dakota on the intersections of American literature and early American history.
Ohio
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Hilda Smith, (513) 556-2173
Project: European Studies: Planning for the Undergraduate Curriculum
Description: Faculty study with visiting scholars leading to the development of an undergraduate curriculum in European studies.
Pennsylvania
Juniata College, Huntingdon (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: James Roney, (814) 641-3493
Project: The Role of Film in International Studies
Description: An interdisciplinary faculty team to confer with visiting scholars and to study printed texts and international films preparatory to designing a course and, ultimately, a minor in international film.
South Carolina
Trident Technical College, Charleston (Outright: $24,978)
Contact: Timothy Brown, (843) 574-6424
Project: Lasting Vestiges of West African Culture and Their Defining Influences on the Culture of the Lowcountry
Description: A project for fourteen faculty members to conduct an intensive two-semester study of West African (Gullah) influences on the culture of the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry.
Texas
San Antonio College, San Antonio (Outright: $24,985)
Contact: Carol Keller, (210) 733-2566
Project: Web Mapping Services for the Humanities
Description: A project to enable faculty at a large community college in Texas to develop expertise with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and to use it to integrate interactive maps and other historical and cultural data into humanities courses.
Utah
University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Outright: $24,504)
Contact: Esther Rashkin, (801) 587-9285
Project: What is Europe? Europe and European Studies in World Context
Description: A yearlong faculty study project for faculty members to examine how basic concepts such as citizenship and the state are shifting as the borders of contemporary "Europe" are now changing.
Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City (Outright: $23,200)
Contact: Paul Allen, (801) 957-4320
Project: Engaging the Teaching and Learning of the Humanities at Salt Lake Community College
Description: A faculty professional development program for a restructured introductory humanities course to fulfill general education requirements.