HUMANITIES FOCUS GRANT AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 2001

ALABAMA

Miles College, Birmingham (Outright: $11,912)
Contact: Robert Cassanello, (205) 929-1674
Project: Incorporating Global History
Description: A planning effort involving faculty members in the Division of Social and Behavioral Science to infuse the history curriculum with global themes and topics.

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (Outright: $24,857)
Contacts: B. Joyce Stallworth and Elizabeth K. Wilson, (205) 348-1415
Project: Alabama: Focus on Civil Rights
Description: A professional and curriculum development for teachers from a high school in Holt, Alabama, concentrating on the history of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact on the state of Alabama and the nation.

CALIFORNIA

California State University, Dominguez Hills (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Joyce Johnson, (310) 243-3935
Project: A Centennial Celebration of Black Arts and Culture: The Harlem Renaissance Revisited
Description: A project including two symposia on the Harlem Renaissance and a yearlong series of faculty meetings to develop diaspora-related curricula.

California State University, Northridge (Outright: $25,000)
Contacts: Lisa Abend and Jeffrey Auerbach, (818) 677-2577
Project: Global Encounters: Introducing World History to California State University, Northridge
Description: A series of workshops and related activities designed to support the development of new survey course on modern world history.

Claremont Graduate University, Claremont (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Ann Taves, (909) 626-3521
Project: Understanding Islam
Description: A series of three workshops (comprised of guest lecturers, faculty seminars, and assigned readings) aimed at enhancing faculty knowledge of Islam.

San Francisco State University, San Francisco (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Paul K. Longmore, (415) 338-3382
Project: Greater San Francisco Bay Area Inter-University Consortium on Disability Studies
Description: A consortium among three San Francisco Bay Area universities as a first step in the creation of cooperative Disabilities Studies programs.

University of Judaism, Los Angeles (Outright: $24,999)
Contact: Lois Oppenheim, (310) 440-1256
Project: Integrating the Jewish Perspective in a Liberal Arts Core Curriculum
Description: The development of three new courses integrating Jewish perspectives into the institution’s Liberal Arts core curriculum.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Gallaudet University, Washington, DC (Outright: $24,985)
Contact: Dirksen Bauman, (202) 651-5401
Project: Deaf Studies Curriculum Development Project
Description: A series of panel discussions and follow-up sessions among Gallaudet faculty and outside scholars to prepare for the launching of a graduate program in Deaf Studies.

FLORIDA

School District of Lee County, Fort Myers (Outright: $24,952)
Contact: Brenda Sims Palmer, (941) 461-5322
Project: Dunbar: A Microcosm of Communities in Transition
Description: A series of five seminars and a summer institute on communities in transition for eleven language arts and social studies teachers at Dunbar High School.

ILLINOIS

DePaul University, Chicago (Outright: $24,900)
Contact: Jacqueline Taylor, (773) 325-4580
Project: Critical Race Theory in the Humanities
Description: A seminar on critical race theory which will engage faculty drawn from across DePaul University in reading and discussion designed to challenge unexamined assumptions about race and the humanities.

Newberry Library, Chicago (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Tobias Higbie, (312) 255-3568
Project: Work and Community History Workshop
Description: A workshop on work and community history for secondary school teachers and librarians at the Newberry Library’s Scholl Center for Community and Family History.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Peter Fritzche, (217) 244-2075
Project: The Undergraduate History Core in a Global Age
Description: A yearlong faculty seminar series on nine themes in global and transnational history.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Outright: $24,998)
Contact: Paul Zeleza, (217) 333-6335
Project: Curricular Development Seminar in African Studies
Description: A faculty study program focusing on African studies and the changing intellectual and disciplinary contexts for research and teaching in the field.

INDIANA

Ball State University, Muncie (Outright: $24,701)
Contact: Kenneth Hall, (765) 285-8709
Project: World History Community Outreach Project
Description: A series of professional development seminars and curriculum development workshops on world civilizations for twelve teachers from Indiana.

IOWA

Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids (Outright: $24,986)
Contact: John Wortman, (319) 398-5411
Project: Journey to the East: Encounters with Chinese Philosophy, Film, and Fiction
Description: A one-year faculty development project engaging Kirkwood faculty with visiting scholars to explore the conflicts between tradition and modernism in China through the lenses of film, literature, and philosophy.

MARYLAND

Community College of Baltimore, Baltimore (Outright: $24,339)
Contact: Linda Zeidman, (410) 780-6392
Project: Women’s Studies in Community Colleges
Description: A faculty study project for thirteen faculty members on the three campuses of the Community College of Baltimore County to recent scholarship in women’s studies.

Prince George’s Community College, Largo (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Alicia Juarrero, (301) 322-0948
Project: Aristotle and a World of Wonder
Description: A yearlong faculty seminar to explore Aristotle’s works and contributions to Western thought.

MASSACHUSETTS

Five Colleges, Inc., Amherst (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Neal Salisbury, (413) 585-3726
Project: The American Revolution and American Peoples: A Comparative Inquiry
Description: A series of workshops for teachers from four western Massachusetts school districts on new approaches to the American Revolution.

MONTANA

Montana State University, Billings (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: St. John Robinson, (406) 657-2966
Project: Cultural Survival of Native Americans Through Religion, Art and Story
Description: A series of faculty seminars on Native American cultural survival in North America and Latin America.

Piegan Institute, Browning (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Lori Falcon, (406) 338-3518
Project: Blackfeet Language and History
Description: A series of seminars and discussion sessions identifying up-to-date humanities resources to be integrated into an experimental language immersion program on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

Salish Kootenai College, Pablo (Outright: $24,590)
Contact: Gerald D. Slater, (406) 675-4800
Project: Salish Culture Leadership Project
Description: A four-quarter Salish Cultural Leadership training program to educate twelve new cultural leaders in Salish language, culture, and customs.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

University of New Hampshire, Durham (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Brigette Bailey, (603) 862-3795
Project: American Studies Focus Grants
Description: A faculty study project with visiting scholars to explore new scholarship and to develop a new American studies major.

NEW YORK

Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, (212) 501-3064
Project: Landscape as Cultural Expression
Description: Planning activities aimed at identifying strategies and resources for strengthening the humanities content of a new program in Garden History and Landscape Studies at the Bard Graduate Center.

Theatre for a New Audience, New York (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Jennifer Donello, (212) 229-2819
Project: Scholars and Teachers: In-Depth Staff Development on Teaching Shakespeare
Description: A series of six workshops on Shakespeare's Cymbeline for thirty teachers at Meyer Levin Intermediate School, a performing arts middle school in Brooklyn.

University of Rochester, Rochester (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Nancy P. Chin, (716) 275-9780
Project: Narrative in Medical Education: Integrating Humanities Understanding in the Patient Interview
Description: The re-design of a core introductory course in clinical medicine at the institution’s medical school in order to integrate humanistic texts and methods of narrative analysis.

NORTH CAROLINA

Davidson College, Davidson (Outright: $24,500)
Contact: Jonathan Berkey, (704) 894-2529
Project: Cultures and Civilizations
Description: A faculty development seminar to involve a group of teachers in the introduction of a new two-semester sequential course on history and civilizations to be offered in the Humanities Program at Davidson College.

Mars Hill College, Mars Hill (Outright: $24,959)
Contact: Carol B. Boggess, (828) 689-1189
Project: Rethinking Regionalism and Regional Studies at Mars Hill College
Description: A series of seminars and workshops designed to explore new interdisciplinary approaches to regionalism, particularly in southern Appalachia, and to review and revise the Regional Studies Program.

NORTH DAKOTA

Lake Region State College, Devil’s Lake (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Sam A. Johnson, (701) 662-1527
Project: Native Voices: A Study of Native American Life and Literature
Description: A yearlong exploration of Native American works of literature, undertaken by school teachers in Devil’s Lake, with faculty members at nearby Lake Region State College and several guest authors.

OHIO

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Lucy Long, (419) 372-7862
Project: Food and Food Traditions: A Humanities Perspective
Description: A faculty study project of a variety of humanities perspectives on food and foodways.

RHODE ISLAND

Brown University, Providence (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Wanni W. Anderson, (401) 863-7588
Project: Northwest Alaska High School Development Project
Description: Workshops for Inupiaq Eskimo teachers and Euro-American teachers from the Northwest Arctic School District to introduce a new collection of regional folktales as high school instructional materials.

UTAH

University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Outright: $24,993)
Contact: Rebecca Horn, (801) 581-5294
Project: The Reorientation of Latin American Studies at the University of Utah
Description: A yearlong faculty seminar to study Latin America diaspora communities and future institutional directions for Latin American studies.

VIRGINIA

George Mason University, Fairfax (Outright: $24,596)
Contact: Marion Deshmukh, (703) 993-2149
Project: Teaching Historical Literacies: Using Primary Sources as Learning Tools in Western Civilization
Description: A faculty development project to consider how best to teach the discovery, analysis, and interpretation of primary sources as part of a redesigned Western Civilization core course.

University of Virgnia, Charlottesville (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Johanna Drucker, (804) 243-8861
Project: Digital Humanities Curriculum Development
Description: A series of faculty seminars to develop a Masters of Arts degree in Digital Humanities.