Higher Education Project Awards, July 1999

HIGHER EDUCATION PROJECT AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 1999

ALASKA

Curriculum development
Anchorage, University of Alaska $24,944
PROJECT DIRECTOR: James Liszka, (907) 786-4457
TITLE: A Series of Seminars on Ethics in the Professions
DESCRIPTION: A series of seminars for faculty members at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, on ethical issues in public administration and engineering as a foundation for an ethics- across-the-curriculum program in the professions.

ARIZONA

Summer programs for college teachers
Tucson, University of Arizona $116,235
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Alvin I. Goldman, (520) 621-3120
TITLE: Philosophical Foundations of Social Epistemology
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

CALIFORNIA

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Berkeley, University of California $102,736
PROJECT DIRECTOR: David J. Cohen, (510) 642-1415
TITLE: Individual, State, and Law in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

San Francisco, San Francisco State University $164,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Paul Longmore, (415) 338-6498
TITLE: Disability Studies
DESCRIPTION: A five-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers exploring recent research on physical disability from the perspectives of humanities disciplines.

Curriculum development
Stockton, University of the Pacific $25,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Gregg Camfield, (209) 946-2610
TITLE: Building a Humanities Learning Community: Focus Grant
DESCRIPTION: A series of seminars for humanities faculty to explore the intellectual and structural changes needed to create new curriculum and interdisciplinary courses.

CONNECTICUT

Summer programs for higher education teachers
New Haven, Yale University $130,844
PROJECT DIRECTOR: R. Howard Bloch, (203) 432-4912
TITLE: The Arthurian Illuminated Manuscript and the Culture of the High Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Folger Shakespeare Library $158,500
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Kathleen A. Lynch, (202) 675-0346
TITLE: Texts of Imagination and Empire: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Founding of Jamestown
DESCRIPTION: A six-week national institute for 16 college and university teachers on the founding of the Virginia colony at Jamestown in its European and Native American contexts.

Curriculum development
Georgetown University $24,670
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Gerald M. Mara, (202) 687-5604
TITLE: Faculty Seminars on Social Theory and Culture Studies
DESCRIPTION: A series of eight workshops aimed at finding common ground and nourishing
intellectual connections between humanities and social sciences faculty at Georgetown University.

GEORGIA

Faculty graduate study at historically black colleges and universities
Atlanta, Morehouse College $30,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Michelle B. Douglas, (404) 215-2620
TITLE: Ph.D in Interdisciplinary Studies

HAWAII

Summer programs for college teachers
Honolulu, East-West Center $195,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Elizabeth B. Buck, (808) 944-7315
TITLE: Religion, Philosophies, and Culture in India: Conflicts and Negotiations
DESCRIPTION: A five-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers designed to strengthen the teaching of South Asian religion and philosophy and to infuse aspects of Indian culture into the undergraduate curriculum.

ILLINOIS

Summer programs for college teachers
Chicago, University of Chicago $129,602
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Fred M. Donner, (773) 702-9544
TITLE: Islamic Origins
DESCRIPTION: A five-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers to review a range of theories on the rise of Islam as a major phenomenon in world history.

INDIANA

Summer programs for college teachers
Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame $96,013
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Katherine O. O'Keeffe, (219) 631-7159
TITLE: Constructing Subjects in Anglo-Saxon England
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

MAINE

Curriculum development
Fairfield, Kennebec Valley Technical College $24,640
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Janet F. Tarbuck, (207) 453-5138
TITLE: Communities
DESCRIPTION: An interdisciplinary faculty-study project on Native American literature in its historical and cultural contexts.

Unity, Unity College $25,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: James Horan, (207) 948-3131
TITLE: Environmental Studies: An Integrative Humanities Curriculum
DESCRIPTION: A faculty-study project for the design and implementation of a new core humanities program on the environment.

MARYLAND

Curriculum development
Rockville, Montgomery College $25,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Dianne Ganz Scheper, (301) 251-7453
TITLE: Creating an Honors Humanities Learning Community for Montgomery College Scholars
DESCRIPTION: Implementation of a new team-taught, interdisciplinary world-cultures course as part of the honors program.

Baltimore, University of Maryland $22,933
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Alan S. Rosenthal, (410) 455-2109
TITLE: Caribbean Texts: An Exploration of Cultural History and Identity
DESCRIPTION: A faculty-study project on Caribbean literature, history, film, and culture.

MASSACHUSETTS

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Cambridge, President and Fellows of Harvard College $209,667
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Henry L. Gates, Jr., (617) 496-5468
TITLE: The Civil Rights Movement: History and Consequences
DESCRIPTION: A five-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers on the history of the civil rights movement.

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Cambridge, President and Fellows of Harvard College $115,214
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Susan Suleiman, (617) 495-1827
TITLE: War and Memory: Postwar Representations of the Occupation and World War II in French Literature, History, and Film
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

Boston, Boston University $93,918
PROJECT DIRECTOR: James W. Schmidt, (617) 353-4020
TITLE: Refugee Intellectuals: Adorno, Mann, and Schoenberg
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Curriculum Development
Rindge, Franklin Pierce College $24,500
PROJECT DIRECTOR: John R. Harris, (603) 899-4010
TITLE: Land, History, and a Sense of Place: A Collaborative Faculty Colloquium
DESCRIPTION: A colloquium for Franklin Pierce College and local high-school teachers on place as a topic of interdisciplinary study.

NEW JERSEY

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Newark, Community College Humanities Association $245,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: George L. Scheper, (410) 780-6539
TITLE: The Maya World: Cultural Traditions in Continuity and Change
DESCRIPTION: A six-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers combining field and academic study of Maya archaeological sites, colonial-era history, and contemporary Maya culture, to be held in Guatemala and Mexico.

Princeton, Princeton University $125,330
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Carolyn Abbate, (609) 258-4088
TITLE: Opera: Interpretation Between Disciplines
Description: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

NEW YORK

Summer programs for higher education faculty
American Academy in Rome $98,609
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Richard J. Talbert, (919) 962-3942
TITLE: Representing Geography and Community in the World of Imperial Rome
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

Curriculum development
Buffalo, Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society $25,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: William H. Siener, (716) 873-9644
TITLE: Creating a Multi-Instructional Consortium to Improve Humanities Education
DESCRIPTION: A faculty-study project on themes and issues growing out of the Pan American Exposition of 1901, in collaboration with a regional history museum, for a consortium of college humanities faculty in Buffalo.

Poughkeepsie, Marist College $24,973
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Robyn L. Rosen, (914) 575-3000
TITLE: Introducing Human Rights and the Humanities to First Year College Students
DESCRIPTION: A faculty study project on human rights.

New York, New School University $23,575
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Caroline Payson, (212) 229-8916
TITLE: Korean Art History Seminars for Parsons Faculty
DESCRIPTION: A series of seminars and workshops for faculty to develop the Parsons School of Design into a leading center for study of Korean art and design, from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

NORTH CAROLINA

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill $100,367
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Siegfried E. Mews, (919) 966-1641
TITLE: Berlin 2000: Literature, Culture, and Politics from "ZeroHour" to the "Berlin Republic"
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

Curriculum development
Greensboro, Guilford College $24,625
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Dorothy V. Borei, (336) 316-2219
TITLE: Historical Perspectives in the New Curriculum
DESCRIPTION: A series of workshops to prepare faculty to teach sections of "Historical Perspectives," a new required course for first-year students at Guilford College.

Faculty graduate study at historically black colleges and universities
Charlotte, Johnson C. Smith University $30,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Shanna G. Benjamin, (704) 378-1261
TITLE: Ph.D. in American Literature

OHIO

Faculty graduate study at historically black colleges and universities
Wilberforce, Wilberforce University $30,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Albertina L. Walker, (937) 376-2911
TITLE: Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies

PENNSYLVANIA

Summer programs for higher education faculty
University Park, Pennsylvania State University $99,111
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Robert R. Edwards, (814) 865-0495
TITLE: Chaucer Ancient and Modern
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

Faculty graduate study at historically black colleges and universities
Cheyney, Cheyney State University $30,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Frank Marotti, Jr., (610) 399-2136
TITLE: Ph.D. in History

RHODE ISLAND

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Providence, Brown University $90,217
PROJECT DIRECTOR: James L. Van Cleve, (401) 863-2718
TITLE: Thomas Reid on Perception, Knowledge, and Action
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

TENNESSEE

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Knoxville, University of Tennessee $84,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: James L. Nelson, (423) 974-7216
TITLE: Bioethics in Particular
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

TEXAS

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Austin, University of Texas at Austin $112,345
PROJECT DIRECTOR: W. Roger Louis, (512) 471-9274
TITLE: Decolonization of the British Empire
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

San Marcos, Southwest Texas State University $156,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Mark B. Busby, (512) 245-2232
TITLE: Traversing Borders: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute
DESCRIPTION: A four-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers on the history, natural environment, literature, and art of the American Southwest.

VIRGINIA

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Blacksburg, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University $88,300
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Roger Ariew, (540) 231-8490
TITLE: Descartes and His Contemporaries
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

WISCONSIN

Summer programs for higher education faculty
Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee $113,350
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Richard C. Monti, (414) 229-6859
TITLE: Campania Felix: Nature, Mythology, and the Works of Man
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.